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This user lives in Australia.

This user was born in The United Kingdom.

This user is a Yorkshireman.

This user is an administrator on the English Wikipedia (verify).

This administrator will consider reasonable requests to provide copies of deleted articles.

My full name is Brian Salter-Duke, although I was earlier called just Brian Duke, and it is with that name that I publish in scientific journals. I was born in Sheffield, England. I am a retired academic now living in Melbourne, Australia, where the time is 13:39 (AEST). I am still active in research in the fields of computational chemistry, theoretical chemistry and quantum chemistry. I am an author of the Valence Bond program, VB2000.

I contribute to Wikipedia in these areas of computational, theoretical and quantum chemistry. Other areas are other chemistry topics, including chemistry journals and chemist biographies, Australian topics and Scouting topics. See below for a list of articles I have created. Scattered about are many userboxes, which show where I am coming from and what I am doing on Wikipedia. They do not express my political or religious views.

I have made more than 18,000 edits, including over 6000 edits in the main article space, over 130 new articles and a bunch of other stuff.

I became on administrator on 16 August, 2007. I use an alternative account, User:Bduke second account, when I am on a less secure computer. Note that Bduke2 is not me. I confirm I am Bduke on IRC. I have an account on Scoutwiki, where I am also User:Bduke, and I am moving some material from here that is more appropriate there.

However User:Bduke on the Chinese Wikipedia is not me.

[edit] Chemistry and Science WikiLinks

This user contributes to the Wikiproject Chemistry.

This user contributes to the Physical Chemistry Wikiproject

This user edits the List of scientific journals in chemistry.

This user coordinates the Chemistry part of WikiProject Science pearls.

This user is a participant of WikiProject Physics.

Portal:Chemistry     Talk page

WikiProject Chemistry     Talk page

WikiProject Physical Chemistry     Talk page

Chemistry collaboration     Science collaboration

WikiProject Molecular and Cellular Biology

Computational chemistry     Talk page     Watch

Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Science and medicine

Commons:Wikiproject Chemistry

Jmol to display molecular models     Talk page

[edit] Australia, Melanesia, Oceania

Melbourne Meetup Next: 9th August, 11am Previous: Wikipedia:Meetup/Melbourne 13, April 2009 This box: view • talk • edit

This user is a member of WikiProject Australia.

This user is a member of WikiProject Melbourne.

This user is a member of WikiProject Victoria.

This user is a member of WikiProject Northern Territory.

This user is a member of WikiProject Melanesia.

   Portal:Australia     Talk page

   Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia     Talk page

   Wikipedia:Australian Wikipedians' notice board     /AfD.

   Wikipedia:Australian Collaboration of the Fortnight

   Wikipedia:New articles (Australia)     Talk page

   Wikipedia:WikiProject Melbourne     Talk page

   Wikipedia:WikiProject Victoria     Talk page

   Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian politics     Talk page

   Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Oceania

   Portal:Oceania     Talk page

   Wikipedia:WikiProject Melanesia     Talk page

   Wikipedia:WikiProject Fiji     Talk page

[edit] Scouting Wikilinks

This user is a former member of the worldwide family of Scouts.

This user is a member of the Scouting WikiProject.

This user is a Wood Badger.

This user is a UK Queen's Scout.

Portal:Scouting     Talk page

Wikipedia:WikiProject Scouting     Talk page

Scouts Australia     Talk page

Scouting in Victoria     Talk:Scouting in Victoria

The Scout Association     Talk page

Wikipedia:WikiProject Scouting/Article names

[edit] General Wikipedia links and other WikiProjects

This user is a 70 year old geriatric Linux enthusiast		@ This user can be reached by email.
This user tries to do the right thing. If they make a mistake please let them know.		18,000+ This user has made over 18,000 contributions to Wikipedia.
The English Wikipedia has 3,130,004 articles.		My contributions
This user is a member of WikiProject Wine.		This user is a member of WikiProject Nigeria.
This user is a member of WikiProject University of Oxford.		This editor participates in the WikiProject Council.
This user is a member of WikiProject Yorkshire.		This user is a member of WikiProject Universities.

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• For the discussion on Wikipedia:Notability
• For Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies)
• For Wikipedia:Attribution
• For the Recent changes patrol
• For the New pages patrol
• For Wikipedia:Requested moves
• For WikiProject Pseudoscience
• For Skeptic watchlists     Watch
• For Scientific citation guidelines, WP:CITE and Citation templates
• For WikiProject Academics
• For Wikipedia in academic studies
• For Wiki Research Bibliography

[edit] Academic record

This user holds a D. Phil. degree in Chemistry.		MA This user has a Master of Arts degree in Chemistry.		OX This user studied at The Queen's College, Oxford QU
This user graduated from the University of Oxford in Chemistry.		This user is an Open University graduate		This user has had a sabbatical at the University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA.
This user has had a sabbatical at the Australian National University.		This user is an Honorary Research Fellow at Monash University.		This user has worked at the University of Reading and Newcastle University.
This user has worked at Lancaster University.		This user has worked at Bayero University Kano and University of PNG.		This user has worked at Northern Territory University.

[edit] Article recovery

If you need access to a Wikipedia article that has been deleted, ask me. If it's not a copyright violation, libel, or personal information, and has not been deleted as a suspected biographies of living persons violation, I will userfy the article for you.

Note that using the text to recreate any deleted article may automatically qualify them for speedy deletion, and copies of previously deleted content that are being used solely for long-term archival purposes may be subject to deletion as Wikipedia is not a free web host. The MediaWiki website has a list of wiki sites which may be used to host your content.

[edit] Other Wikimedia activities

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fr-1 Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau élémentaire de français.
Wikipedia history
This user has been on Wikipedia for 4 years,  1 month, and 18 days.
This user has been an admin for 2 years, 4 months, and 3 days.
Wikimedia matters
This user has created a global account and the main one is User:Bduke.
This user is Public Officer and committee member of Wikimedia Australia.

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This user has a page on Wikiversity.

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This page is a disclosure of my occupational and avocational associations and interests in the context of editing Wikipedia. I understand Wikipedia's guidelines on conflict of interest and I pledge to advance the aims of Wikipedia over my own interests.

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