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I acknowledge the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which I live and edit, and pay my respects to Elders past, present and emerging.

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:that until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned;

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Why do we, in Australia, or indeed in the United Kingdom (I am a citizen of both), put up with the totally utter complete nonsense of the monarchy? If we were starting from scratch, would we even get close to the idea of a hereditary monarchy? Answer, clearly, No! We would not touch it with a barge pole, as they said where I was brought up in Yorkshire. The King celebrates his official birthday in June when he was born in December. It is clearly totally utterly insane. Let me add that earlier in my life, as Principal of County College at Lancaster University in Lancaster, Lancashire in the UK, I welcomed Queen Elizabeth from her car and lead her into the College, where she officially opened the building, in her role as Duke of Lancaster. I found her to be charming and intelligent, but the role should just not exist. I assume Charles is also charming and intelligent, but his role should just not exist. If we in Australia or indeed in the United Kingdom got rid of the King and became a republic, nothing really would change. The Commonwealth would continue - it already has republics. Each country would have an elected President.

I have made over 34,800 edits, including over 10,000 edits in the main article space, 155 new articles and a bunch of other stuff. I have been less active in the last year or so, but I still check my very long watchlist usually several times every day, and make a few minor edits. This paragraph is now quite a bit out of date, so let me say, as they would in the Northern Territory of Australia where I used to live, that I have made "big mobs" of articles.

I am not as active as I used to be, but I still look at my watchlist several times almost every day. However, I have not written a new article for a long while.

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| nomination_page = }} Born in Sheffield, England in 1939 and lived there until aged 18, and partly there while at Oxford University until aged 24. Has lived in Sheffield, Oxford, Reading, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Lancaster: United Kingdom, Kano: Nigeria, Port Moresby: Papua New Guinea, Darwin and now Melbourne: Australia, and briefly on sabbatical leave in Birmingham, Alabama, USA, and Canberra, Australia. Retired. Oxford M A in Chemistry. Oxford D Phil in Chemistry. Open University B A in Mathematics. Loves taking ideas like this from other users.

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|employer = Reading University, Newcastle University, Lancaster University, England; Bayero University Kano, Nigeria; University of Papua New Guinea, Papua New Guinea; Northern Territory University, Charles Darwin University, Australia.

|education = MA(Oxon), D Phil(Oxon) in Chemistry from Oxford University and BA in Mathematics from the Open University

|college = The Queen's College, Oxford University. Howard Florey was Provost in my last year. Jack Linnett was my main tutor for Physical and Inorganic Chemistry, and my supervisor for Chemistry Part II and my D. Phil. R. M. Acheson was my tutor for Organic Chemistry.

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|hobbies = Walking and Wikipedia

|religion = None and people in Australia are increasingly rejecting any kind of religion

|politics = Supporter and member of the Australian Labor Party for many years

|interests = Scientific skepticism, watching Rowing races, reading detective stories, editing Wikipedia, walking, drinking nice red or white wines

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I was born in the United Kingdom My name is Brian Salter-Duke, although I was earlier called just Brian Duke, and it is with that name that I have published in scientific journals. I changed my name when I married Linden Salter, who has unfortunately died. I am a retired academic, now living in Melbourne, Australia. Earlier I have lived in many places including in the United Kingdom - Sheffield, Oxford, Reading, Newcastle upon Tyne, Lancaster; in Nigeria - Kano; in Papua New Guinea - Port Moresby; and in Australia - Darwin, Northern Territory.

At Reading, I was an Assistant Lecturer in Chemistry at Reading University. In 1963, my fondest memory is of computerizing the results of the Reading University Head of the River rowing race on the only computer at the university, which I had totally to myself on the appropriate Saturday afternoon. I was filling in for a year for someone who was on sabbatical leave and he had done this for the Reading Head for several years. As a rowing man earlier as a member of the Queen's College Boat Club at the Queen's College, Oxford, who had rowed in the Reading Head, I was delighted to do it.

At Newcastle upon Tyne I worked in Computers Services at what is now Newcastle University intending to move into computer science, but it turned out that most of my work was supporting users from the Chemistry Department which lead to collaborative work with them so I continued to do computational chemistry research, and then decided to return fully to chemistry. While there I walked Hadrian's Wall.

At Lancaster, I was a Lecturer and then Senior Lecturer in Chemistry at Lancaster University. I had a term as the first Principal of County College after the building opened. Earlier, I was the first Senior Tutor in the two years when the College had students but no building. While there I added to the walks in the Lake District that I had previously done from Ennerdale Water with the Oxford University Rover Crew every Easter and every September while at Oxford University.

In Nigeria I was Professor of Chemistry at Bayero University in Kano, a frequent visitor to Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, at one point weekly as I taught a course there, and external examiner at Ibadan University and the University of Benin.

In Papua New Guinea I was Professor of Chemistry at the University of Papua New Guinea in Port Moresby and a member of the Academic Board of the Papua New Guinea University of Technology in Lae.

In Darwin, Australia {{flagicon|Australia}}, I was the first Senior Lecturer in the University College of the Northern Territory which, with the Dawkins Report, was then quickly forced to merge with the Darwin Community College to form the Northern Territory University later renamed Charles Darwin University. I became an Associate Professor. Linden and I lived in Humpty Doo, 30 minute drive south from Darwin on a 2 Hectare block. The Humpty Doo Hotel, is one of the most fascinating pubs in at least Australia.

When I moved to Victoria, I lived in Spotswood, later I lived at the edge of Carnegie close to Glenhuntly, but now live in Arcare Carnegie, 47 Rosanna St, Carnegie, VIC, 3163 a care home in Carnegie. This means that others could be using the same internet access as I am.

I acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the lands upon which I have lived, worked and shared knowledge.

Although now 85, I still take an interest in a very minor way in research in the fields of computational chemistry, theoretical chemistry, and quantum chemistry. I first started computing on a Ferranti Mercury in 1960 at Oxford University, where I gained a D. Phil., supervised by Jack Linnett, partly in computational chemistry. I had two very successful sabbatical leaves, the first with Henry F. Schaefer III at the Center for Computational Chemistry at the University of Georgia at Athens, Georgia, and the second with Charles Coulson at Oxford University, both highly successful computational chemists. I am an author of the Valence Bond program, VB2000. I continue to contribute in a minor way to Wikipedia in these areas of computational, theoretical, and quantum chemistry, along with other areas such as general chemistry topics, including chemistry journals, and chemist biographies, Australian topics, and Scouting topics. Scattered about are many userboxes, which show where I am coming from and what I am doing on Wikipedia.

As of 29 May 2024, The English Wikipedia has over 47 million registered users, 120,065 active editors in the last month, and 859 administrators. All of these figures are lower that a few years ago. Together we have made more than 1,000,000,000 edits, created more than 55,000,000 pages of all kinds, and created more than 6,500,000 articles. That is more than 14 million edits per month (about 5.2 edits per second on average).

I became an administrator on 16 August, 2007. I am over 80 and resigned as an admin on 5 October, 2020. I had made 892 actions as an admin. I intend to keep on editing WP. I am not certain that the data below is correct, as I am no longer an admin.

★ {{purple|What happens when a Wikipedian dies?}} He or she just doesn't show up to edit anymore! Does anybody notice? Does anybody really even care? To all those Wikipedians, who may have died and been forgotten here — {{green|thank you}} — for your tireless contributions.

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I have been editing Wikipedia since late 2005, and have averaged about 5 edits per day since then. I have edited over 9500 pages. It seems I am about the 3500th most active Wikipedian! It varies of course from day to day. Is it worthwhile? Yes, Wikipedia is one of the wonders of the modern world, and has made all other encyclopedia`s irrelevant. I am proud to have been a very small part of it. I have been awarded my own day, October 23!! I think I have started about 155 articles on Wikipedia.

"The problem with Wikipedia is that it only works in practice". "In theory, it can never work".

Articles I have started: https://xtools.wmflabs.org/pages/en.wikipedia.org/Bduke Click on "Main" to see them currently: 155.

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I came across the poem below, which strongly resonated with me because from 1945 to 1960 as a child and later a university student, the rooks passed over my house in Sheffield in the morning to feed in the fields and then return to their rookery in the evening. I walked on a path through their rookery on the way to church and Sunday school.

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Over the land freckled with snow half-thawed

The speculating rooks at their nests cawed

And saw from elm-tops, delicate as flowers of grass,

What we below could not see, Winter pass.

— Edward Thomas

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I have used an alternative account, User:Bduke second account, when I was on a less secure computer, but not recently and I doubt that I will ever use it again. 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 have moved some material from here that is more appropriate there. I have not been active there recently and, indeed, Scoutwiki seems to have been almost dead for many years, but there has been some edits in 2024. It was always bound to be fairly unreliable, while Scouting topics on Wikipedia will just have very many more readers and editors and be more reliable.

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Erdős number

Some people may be surprised by my link to the Erdős number of 5, but I am, or rather was, a theoretical chemist, who used a lot of mathematics. I once had leave from my university with Charles Coulson at Oxford University. He was a mathematician who had made some very interesting mathematical insights into chemistry. Publishing with Charles lead me to having an Erdős number. Quite odd really!

A small gripe

I keep seeing "This user is a donor to the Wikimedia Foundation. You can be one, too." and I find it rather irritating. It is easy if you live in the USA, where the Wikimedia Foundation is, but it is much more difficult if you do not live in the USA. I wonder what proportion of donations are from the US or from people who have a US bank account?

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As you see some of these are "former", and it is highly likely that the others are also former as I rarely go into the city, and when I do it is with visiting sons or daughters.

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In 1950, in Sheffield, I passed the notorious "11 plus" examination in the United Kingdom gaining a place at King Edward VII School. By 1950, it was fully linked to the Eleven-plus examination. That is how I got in, but it still had the earlier reputation as a private school and when I first got there, the prefects were from the private school and it still had a strong ability to prepare students for the Oxford and Cambridge entrance examinations. It had three excellent Scout Troops and I was in the "B" troop until my final year when I moved up to the Rover Crew that took members from all three troops. It was considered to be the top school in Sheffield, but in hindsight I think it was rather narrow in some respects. For example, in English Literature "O" level, I studied "Memoirs of a Fox Hunting Man", but it was studied in isolation with no acknowledgement that it was the first of three books by Siegfried Sassoon:-

:Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man (Faber & Gwyer: 1928)

:Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (Faber and Faber: 1930)

:Sherston's Progress (Faber and Faber: 1936)

and that it was written to contrast the easy life that the rich had prior to the first World War that is described in the second book, followed by how he recovered from the horrors of the war described in the third book. They satirised the patriotic pretensions of those who, in Sassoon's view, were responsible for a jingoism-fuelled war. Only later did I read all three books. I recommend that anyone who reads one of the books and enjoys it, reads all three to get the full picture.

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In late 1956, I won a Hastings Scholarship to the Queen's College at Oxford, and went there in September 1957. I owe a lot to my time at King Edward VII School and the Queen's College, Oxford. I was a Taberdar, to use the jargon, at the college. See https://jcr.queens.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/JCR-Constitution-Nov-22.pdf for more details. The room called the Junior Common Room in other Colleges was the Taberdar's Room in Queen's. Collins Dictionary defines it as "noun - education - a holder of a scholarship at Queen's College, Oxford" so it seems to be unique to Queen's. See King Edward VII School, Sheffield and List of Old Edwardians (Sheffield) to see why the Hastings Scholarship was so important to me and fellow students at that time.

At Oxford I made good use of my membership of the Oxford Union and the library there, but I attended hardly any debates. While in Oxford, I lived in College, then in Jericho, which is an interesting area, and then as a graduate student, I was the senior student in the Queen's College annex overlooking the university athletics ground where the first four minute mile was run a few years earlier in 1954 at Oxford University's Iffley Road Track, by Roger Bannister. The annex was run by Mrs G, who cleaned the 20+ rooms and served the students and my breakfast. The only comment the Dean made to me about my role was "Make sure the students do not annoy Mrs G as she then annoys Mr G who badly serves the food and wine to dons on the high table in College!". Very Oxford!

File:Oxford inorganic chemistry building.jpg My degrees are mainly in Chemistry with my D. Phil., carried out in the Inorganic Chemistry Building (pictured below to the right where I worked behind the ground floor window immediately to the left of the archway entrance) in two distinct parts of experimental reaction kinetics in the gas phase of diborane with alcohols, and quantum chemistry computational calculations on diborane. The latter was the basis for my research after my D. Phil. I have worked in University Chemistry Departments except for two years in the Computer Department at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. From there I moved to the Chemistry Department at the University of Lancaster from 1966 to 1977 initially based in St Leonard's Gate in the city centre before the university moved to Bailrigg. In the early days there, I was Senior Tutor and then Principal of County College.

My Open University degree is in mathematics. It is only a pass degree, but I moved to what is now Bayero University, Nigeria from 1977 to 1981 and could not progress to the honours year. I then briefly returned to Lancaster, and in 1983 I moved to be Professor of Chemistry at the University of Papua New Guinea. I was at the University College of the Northern Territory, later the Northern Territory University, then Charles Darwin University, from 1986 to 2004. After retiring, I had an adjunct position as Associate Professor at Monash University Faculty of Pharmacy close to the centre of Melbourne and visited there frequently for many years, but no longer go there. I have a Graduate Certificate in Tertiary Teaching from the Northern Territory University.

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| {{userbox|blue|white|40px| This user had a sabbatical at the University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA.}}

| {{userbox|blue|white|40px| This user had a sabbatical at the University of Oxford.}}

| {{userbox|blue|white|40px| This user was an Adjunct Associate Professor at Monash University, Parkville campus.}}

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To put all this by the starting year:-
1939 Born, Sheffield, UK
1944 Lydgate Lane Primary School, Sheffield, UK
1950 King Edward VII School, Sheffield, UK
1957 Oxford University, MA & D Phil
1963 Reading University, UK, Assistant Lecturer
1964 Computer Department, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
1966 Lecturer, University of Lancaster, UK
1977 Professor, Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria
1981 Senior Lecturer, University of Lancaster, UK
1983 Professor, University of Papua New Guinea
1986 Professor, Charles Darwin University, Northern Territory, Australia
2004 Retired to Melbourne, Australia

Religion

This user was brought up in a Methodist family, with an uncle who was a Methodist Minister. At Oxford University, I became an Anglican and worshipped at several places including the Queen's College Chapel and Pusey House, but shortly after I moved to Lancaster in 1963 I came to the conclusion that religion is just nonsense. There is just no real evidence for any of it, in spite of many excellent people at the University of Oxford who argued otherwise. There was so much religious activity at Oxford, when I was there, that people were tempted to believe it is important, but none of it is really important. Now in Australia, 39% of the population have no religion. This percentage has more than doubled in the last 20 years. I have not altered my view for more than 60 years. I broadly agree with Peter Atkins:-

"Give me your views on the existence, or otherwise, of God." Peter Atkins replied: "Well, it's fairly straightforward: There isn't one. And there's no evidence for one, no reason to believe that there is one, and so I don't believe that there is one. And I think that it is rather foolish that people do think that there is one."

"Imagine there's no heaven. It's easy if you try. No hell below us. Above us, only sky." So, I am an atheist, not an agnostic.

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Wise comments, that should be widely known

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" A lie can travel around the world and back again while the truth is lacing up its boots.” Mark Twain

"One can't be angry when one looks at a penguin.” John Ruskin

"The problem with quotes on the Internet is that they are often not true." Abraham Lincoln

"Neutrality is not the average between bollocks and reality. In science, any compromise between a correct statement and an incorrect statement, is an incorrect statement." User:JzG, November 2019, on Talk:Craniosacral therapy.

"A reader is someone who simply visits Wikipedia to read articles, not to edit or create them. They are the sole reason for which Wikipedia exists".

"There are people who have good sense. There are idiots. A consensus of idiots does not override good sense. Wikipedia is not a democracy." Jimbo Waleshttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC/Quotes/archives/2006

"Wikipedia is first and foremost an effort to create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language.” Jimmy Wales, March 2005

"Don't you believe in flying saucers, they ask me? Don't you believe in telepathy? — in ancient astronauts? — in the Bermuda triangle? — in life after death? No, I reply. No, no, no, no, and again no. One person recently, goaded into desperation by the litany of unrelieved negation, burst out "Don't you believe in anything?" "Yes", I said. "I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be." Isaac Asimov

"It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance." Thomas Sowell

"There is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong". H. L. Mencken

"You’re entitled to your own opinions. You’re not entitled to your own facts." Daniel Patrick Moynihan

"Someone asked my maths professor why numbers exist and she said "One day, for whatever reason, someone decided they wanted to count things and it's been a major inconvenience for everybody ever since".

"Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That’s our commitment."

"You'd be amazed at the number of times I've been with top professors in the field and I've asked them a question and they've said, 'I'm not too sure about that, let me check', and gone straight to Wikipedia." Brady Haran

"This thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down." Mary Pickford

"The chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost maniacal impulse to seek their pleasures amongst smoke and vapour, soot and flames, poisons and poverty – yet amongst all these evils I seem to live so sweetly that I would rather die than change places with the King of Persia." Johann Joachim Becher, Physica Subterranea (1667), translated by Paul Strathern in Mendeleyev's Dream (2001).

"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil." Hannah Arendt

"Wikipedia editor (n.) Someone who will not leave a burning building until you show them the newspaper article documenting how many people were killed by the fire."

"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Phillip K. Dick

"To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer." Paul R. Ehrlich

"Never spend 6 minutes doing something by hand when you can spend 6 hours failing to automate it." Zhuowei Zhang

"A nation is a group of people united by a mistaken view of their past and hostility toward their neighbors." Karl Deutsch

"It's important to realise that our mission is not to make a website, but to share knowledge, freely available for reuse". Posted by User:Pigsonthewing and retweeted by Jimmy Wales; quoted at Wikimania 2014 by Bill Thompson.

"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity".

"We make the internet not suck", Jimbo Wales.

"There's nowt so queer as folk." Yorkshire saying.

"It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most sceptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us and at the same time a great openness to new ideas … If you are only sceptical, then no new ideas make it through to you … On the other hand, if you are open to the point of gullibility and have not an ounce of sceptical sense in you, then you cannot distinguish the useful ideas from the worthless ones". Carl Sagan, "The Burden of Skepticism".

"The human eye is a wonderful device. With a little effort, it can fail to see even the most glaring injustice." User:Gog the Mild.

"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." An African Proverb.

"We are not the internet, we are an encyclopaedia. The difference being: we select, organise, and explain." User:SilkTork

"Wikipedia: Don't call it 'Wiki' - People who do are usually trouble".

"Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted” - Ralph Waldo Emerson.

"If you want something done right, do it yourself." Napoleon Bonaparte.

"I was born not knowing and have only had a little time to change that here and there" Richard Feynman.

"Mr. Rnddude: What is Wikipedia? Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia, if we define encyclopaedia as a compendium of all significant subjects, and most insignificant ones, authored collectively by vicious typewriter bashing primates of moderate intellect and little direction."

"We're not out to write a mediocre encyclopaedia here. This is a resource the whole world employs, and it is not merely our duty, but our privilege to get it right. We should all be "elitists" on Wikipedia, and we should be proud to use the appellation." User:Ravenswing

"Two things are infinite, as far as we know: the universe and human stupidity and I am not yet completely sure about the universe." Albert Einstein, 1879 - 1955.

"The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it." George Orwell

"Tell people there is an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them that the paint is wet and they have to touch it to be sure" George Carlin.

"In life you should never trust a person who doesn't like dogs. But always trust a dog who doesn't like a person." - unknown.

"My dear Rikki," Karellen retorted, "it's only by not taking the human race seriously that I retain what fragments of my once considerable mental powers I still possess!" Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood's End

"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here -- this is the War Room!" President Merkin Muffley, Stanley Kubrick's Dr Strangelove

A lovely story

An old man lived alone in a village. He wanted to spade his potato garden, but it was very hard work. His only son, who would have helped him, was in prison.

The old man wrote a letter to his son and mentioned his situation:

Dear Son,

I am feeling pretty bad because it looks like I won’t be able to plant my potato garden this year. I hate to miss doing the garden, because your mother always loved planting time. I’m just getting too old to be digging up a garden plot. If you were here, all my troubles would be over. I know you would dig the plot for me, if you weren’t in prison.

Love,

Dad.

Shortly, the old man received this telegram: ‘For Heaven’s sake, Dad, don’t dig up the garden!! That’s where I buried the GUNS!!’ At 4 a.m. the next morning, a dozen FBI agents and local police officers showed up and dug up the entire garden without finding any guns.

Confused, the old man wrote another note to his son telling him what happened, and asked him what to do next.

His son’s reply was: ‘Go ahead and plant your potatoes, Dad.. It’s the best I could do for you from here.’

Sport and Rowing

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Rowing is the only sport that has ever really interested me, unless you consider Fell Walking, Peak bagging, Rock Climbing and Caving as sports, as I do. At school I hated soccer and cricket and attempted to do cross-country running whenever I could as an alternative, although I never considered it to be competitive, just good exercise. Nobody should be forced to do sport, or even pressured into doing it. At Oxford University, in 1959, I rowed in the Queen's College first Eight in the bumps races, Torpids and Eights, and in the Reading and Thames Head of the River Races. The crews that year were very lightweight, and we were not very successful. We started Head of the River in Torpids and second in Division 1 in Eights, but we went down 4 and 3 places respectively. Queen's has not been Head of the River in either Eights or Torpids since then. I had rowed in the second Torpid and second Eight in 1958, and in the 4 years after 1959 I rowed in various "gentlemen's eights", where if you had even practised once before Eights or Torpids started you were ahead of most of the other boats. I still have an interest in rowing, and have watched, going back in time, a few regattas on the Yarra River in Melbourne, on the Tyne in Newcastle upon Tyne and on the Lune in Lancaster in UK.

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I was a keen Scout in my youth. At the age of 18 I became an Assistant Scout Leader of the 259th Sheffield Scout Group in Sheffield, where I had been a Cub Scout, not the 167th Sheffield (King Edward VII School) Group where I was a Rover Scout after being in their "B" Scout Troop for 6 years. In 1957, I attended the 6th World Rover Moot held at Sutton Park, West Midlands along with the 9th World Scout Jamboree, and the 2nd World Scout Indaba, the only time, I think, that these events have been held together, although they were in quite separate places in the large park. I continued as a Rover Scout in Sheffield, and in the Oxford University Rover Scout Crew, where as a post-grad student I became Assistant Rover Scout Leader. The Oxford University Rover Crew, and later also the Oxford University Scout and Guide Club, every year went to the West Cumberland Ennerdale Scout Camp at Easter and then in September. At Easter they prepared the site for the forthcoming summer and in September they cleaned up the mess from the summer season. They also walked the fells and rock climbed on Pillar Rock. This started after the Second World War and continued every year until quite recently. I think I did 6 Easter trips and 6 September trips to Ennerdale. I walked past the site a few years ago and it was still much the same lovely place as it was way back. In the term we also spend a lot of time in the weekends at the Youlbury Scout Activity Centre which was just outside Oxford in Berkshire.

I think it has been a great mistake, first to have an upper age limit of 25 years and then to get rid of Rover Scouts in many countries. When I first became a Rover Scout there was no upper limit and we had a crew member in the Sheffield Crew in his 70s. He did not join us on outdoor events but his presence on Fridays in the Rover Den was of great help to the young Rovers like myself. His advice was always highly valuable. The sections that have replaced Rovers do not have the same great story and image. I was one of many Scouts and Guides in universities in the UK to campaign in the 1960s and 1970s for joint Scout/Guide activities, and a merger of Scouts and Guides. This was strongly supported by the Scout and Guide Graduate Association (SAGGA), of which I was an active member. In the end the Scouts admitted girls, and Guides carried on as a girls-only organisation. In 2019, there were more than 197,000 Girl Scouts and more than 300,000 Girl Guides in UK. As a Senior Scout and then Rover Scout I was a member of one of the 4 South Yorkshire Scout County Hesley Wood Camp Site Service Crews, being there every 4th weekend of the month when not at university - see Scouting in Yorkshire and the Humber. In Lancaster, I became the Assistant District Commissioner for Leader Training, and was briefly on the UK National Leader Training Board. However I gave up being a christian, and became an atheist. I took the religious policy of Scouting seriously, although few others did, and resigned from all my Scouting positions. Perhaps I should just have continued and if ever pressed about my duty to god. I should have said that I did my duty which was nothing as god did not exist. I certainly knew many Scout Leaders who were not serious believers in any religion. However, here on Wikipedia, I have been very active improving Scouting articles. As a Scout I did a lot of fell walking, rock climbing, and caving. I once saw a discussion about people losing their lives in the Pennine Fells in England because they were hiking alone, and remember someone 60 or so years ago saying "If you want to hike alone in the Fells, take someone with you" - very Yorkshire. I have been around on WP for a long time. Let me know if you need help. I am getting old and in a care home, but I have plenty of time and will do my best to help you.

Barnstar Userboxes

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The 11, now from a long time ago, are:-

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Chemistry and Science WikiLinks

Portal:Chemistry Talk page

List of important publications in chemistry

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Computational chemistry Talk page [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Recentchangeslinked/Computational_chemistry Watch]

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Jmol to display molecular models Talk page

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I have lived in the first of the boxes below earlier in Darwin and now in Melbourne, was born and lived for decades in the second, have lived for three years in the next two, for a few months in the fifth one, extensively visited the next two, and just visited all the others for a few days or weeks, or even a few hours, or less.

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I have a box above saying I remember punch cards, but I actually did not meet punch cards for the first years of my computing in UK. The early UK computers used paper tape, but some used 5 hole tape, some used 7 hole tape, and some used 8 hole tape, so in the end they used cards like the US did! I think I used all three tapes at different times.

I have programmed in many languages as indicated below, and probably others that I have now long forgotten. The most beautiful was ALGOL 60, but it never really got going, so I was left to use Fortran, which is a mess, but there are lots of quantum chemistry Fortran programs, such as GAMESS (US), that I could build on (for example by incorporating VB2000), or just use. It is, however, about 20 years since I retired and I have done little programming since then and that little was closer to my retirement than to now.

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Generalized valence bond
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Conflict of interest

King Edward VII School, Sheffield; University of Oxford and the Queen's College, Oxford where I studied and more recently had a sabbatical leave; Valence bond programs, where I am one of the three authors of VB2000; The County College, Lancaster and Lancaster University, Charles Darwin University, University of Papua New Guinea and Bayero University Kano where I have worked; Australian National University and University of Georgia where I have had a sabbatical leave; and the National Tertiary Education Union in Australia, where I was a very active member for many years and was made an Honorary Life Member. Monash University; Reading University; since I studied or worked in those institutions over the years; Valence bond programs, where I am one of the three authors of VB2000; and the National Tertiary Education Union in Australia, where I was a very active member for many years and was made an Honorary Life Member.

Wikipedia rights

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My other wiki activities

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Invitation to Wikiprojects

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Wikipedia in general

File:Wikipe-tan trifecta sign.png"I think that Wikipedia is a wonderful project, which, however, has many weaknesses: It tends to entropy, as it is taken by many non-scrupulous contributors as a repository of anything one may find in the Internet, thus not as an encyclopedia but as a sort of "sandbox game"; well-written articles are rare, and most articles are instead filled with poorly written content, either without sources or sourced with chaotic webs of links which ultimately do not support the content itself; articles are constantly vandalised, and vandalism often remains unchecked. The Wikimedia organisation seems to be more concerned with changing the interface for improving "users' experience" than with establishing better methods aimed at improving the quality of the encyclopaedic contents."

"We're not out to write a mediocre encyclopaedia here. This is a resource the whole world employs, and it is not merely our duty, but our privilege to get it right ... We should all be "elitists" on Wikipedia, and we should be proud to use the appellation." -- User:Ravenswing

I understand that Wikipedia has essentially put all other encyclopaedia's out of business. That makes it all the more important that we get it right.

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Sister Projects

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What matters

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Wikipedia Foundation

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Wikimania 2014, the tenth Wikimania conference, was held from 8 to 10 August 2014{{cite web|url=https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page|title=Wikimania 2014 London|access-date=May 25, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130620114350/http://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_page|archive-date=June 20, 2013|url-status = live|df=mdy-all}} at the Barbican Centre in London. Bidding officially opened in December 2012. London was chosen in May 2013 as the host city{{cite web |url=http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimania-l/2013-May/004640.html |title=Announcement on Wikimania-l mailing list |publisher=Lists.wikimedia.org |access-date=2014-08-08 |archive-date=June 17, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140617151958/http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimania-l/2013-May/004640.html |url-status=live }} with the only other bid coming from Arusha (Tanzania).{{Cite web|url=https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page|title=Wikimania 2014 London|access-date=May 25, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130620114350/http://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_page|archive-date=June 20, 2013|url-status = live|df=mdy-all}}{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/jul/23/wikipedia-jimmy-wales-open-data |title=Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales explains its mission to be mainstream |work=The Guardian |date=23 July 2013 |access-date=4 November 2013 |last=Kiss |first=Jemima |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130823201347/http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/jul/23/wikipedia-jimmy-wales-open-data |archive-date=August 23, 2013 |url-status = live|df=mdy-all }} The keynote address was given by Salil Shetty, Secretary General of Amnesty International.{{cite web|url=https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Programme|title=Programme – Wikimania 2014 in London|work=Wikimedia Foundation|access-date=12 August 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140814182417/https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Programme|archive-date=August 14, 2014|url-status = live|df=mdy-all}} The event was the first Wikimania addressed by the Wikimedia Foundation's new executive director Lila Tretikov, and was preceded by a two-day hackathon, and a series of fringe events. The conference was documented by the television program 60 Minutes in a program titled 'Wikimania'.{{cite web|url=http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/wikimania/|title=Wikimania|work=cbsnews.com|access-date=September 10, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150915044849/http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/wikimania/|archive-date=September 15, 2015|url-status = live|df=mdy-all}} I attended along with a very large number of others.

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Much earlier Wikimedia activities

I still have these accounts but have not edited any of them for some time.

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Drinking habits

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The above pretty well indicates what I now drink in my 80s, while those below are in the past.

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I was a strong supporter of CAMRA from shortly after it was founded in 1971 and I am still a member, but now in Australia I am out of touch, and the CAMRA information goes to my daughters in UK. However, it is still real ale when in the UK, at least when there is a nearby pub that serves real ale, but wine when in Australia as Australian beer is nothing like real ale, although something like real ale can be found in a very few places, but not near where I now live. However, it is unlikely now that I will ever go back to UK. Pinot Gris and Pinot Grigio are both made from the same grape variety, but they are produced in different styles. Pinot Gris is usually richer and fuller-bodied, while Pinot Grigio is lighter and crisper. I am currently drinking Pinot Grigio, but like both.

A terrible chemistry joke

Two scientists walk into a bar. “I’ll have H2O,” says the first. The other says, “I’ll have H2O, too.”

The second one dies.

Countries lived in

Image: Flag of Australia.svg

By lived in, I mean about 6 months for Alabama, 3 years in Nigeria and Papua New Guinea and many years in the United Kingdom (Sheffield, Oxford, Newcastle upon Tyne and Lancaster) and Australia (Darwin and Melbourne}. That is at least enough to get beyond initial impressions.

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Countries visited

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|Full list of my travels below.

Australian States/Territories that I've visited or lived in for a few months or more

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My travels

::Europe

{{Flagicon|Belgium}} Belgium
{{Flagicon|Croatia}} Croatia
{{Flagicon|Czech Republic}} Czech Republic
{{Flagicon|Denmark}} Denmark
{{Flagicon|Estonia}} Estonia
{{Flagicon|Finland}} Finland
{{Flagicon|France}} France
{{Flagicon|Germany}} Germany
{{Flagicon|Gibraltar}} Gibraltar
{{Flagicon|Greece}} Greece
{{Flagicon|Guernsey}} Guernsey
{{Flagicon|Italy}} Italy
{{Flagicon|Jersey}} Jersey
{{Flagicon|Malta}} Malta
{{Flagicon|Norway}} Norway
{{Flagicon|Portugal}} Portugal
{{Flagicon|Madeira}} Madeira
{{Flagicon|Spain}} Spain
{{Flagicon|Sweden}} Sweden
{{Flagicon|Switzerland}} Switzerland
{{Flagicon|Turkey}} Turkey
{{Flagicon|United Kingdom}} United Kingdom
{{Flagicon|England}} England
{{Flagicon|Scotland}} Scotland
{{Flagicon|Wales}} Wales
{{Flagicon|Northern Ireland}} Northern Ireland

::Americas

{{Flagicon|Mexico}} Mexico
{{Flagicon|United States}} United States
{{Flagicon|Florida}} Florida
{{Flagicon|Mississippi}} Mississippi
{{Flagicon|Utah}} Utar
{{Flagicon|New Mexico}} New Mexico
{{Flagicon|New Hampshire}} New Hampshire
{{Flagicon|Alabama}} Alabama
{{Flagicon|Georgia}} Georgia
{{Flagicon|New Jersey}} New Jersey
{{Flagicon|Texas}} Texas
{{Flagicon|Arizona}} Arizona
{{Flagicon|California}} California
{{Flagicon|Louisiana}} Louisiana
{{Flagicon|New York}} New York
{{Flagicon|North Carolina}} North Carolina
{{Flagicon|Rhode Island}} Rhode Island
{{Flagicon|Connecticut}} Connecticut
{{Flagicon|Massachusetts}} Massachusetts

::Oceania

{{Flagicon|Australia}} Australia
{{Flagicon|Northern Territory}} Northern Territory
{{Flagicon|Victoria}} Victoria
{{Flagicon|Queensland}} Queensland
{{Flagicon|South Australia}} South Australia
{{Flagicon|Western Australia}} Western Australia
{{Flagicon|Tasmania}} Tasmania
{{Flagicon|New South Wales}} New South Wales
{{Flagicon|New Zealand}} New Zealand

::Asia

{{Flagicon|Singapore}} Singapore
{{Flagicon|India}} India
{{Flagicon|Pakistan}} Pakistan
{{Flagicon|Thailand}} Thailand
{{Flagicon|Afghanistan}} Afghanistan
{{Flagicon|Malaysia}} Malaysia
{{Flagicon|Indonesia}} Indonesia
{{Flagicon|Philippines}} Philippines
{{Flagicon|Nepal}} Nepal

::Africa

{{Flagicon|Nigeria}} Nigeria
{{Flagicon|Cameroon}} Cameroon
{{Flagicon|Togo}} Togo
{{Flagicon|Ghana}} Ghana
{{Flagicon|Ivory Coast}} Ivory Coast
{{Flagicon|Liberia}} Liberia
{{Flagicon|Sierra Leone}} Sierra Leone
{{Flagicon|Niger}} Niger
{{Flagicon|Egypt}} Egypt

Time I have spent in various countries

|Spent Years:

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Months:

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Weeks, days or hours - as section above

Fell walking and hiking

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and many others.

Photos of Melbourne Wikipedia meetings with Jimmy Wales present in the second (2006, 2007, 2008)

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File:Melbourne_meetup_9.jpg at Errol's in North Melbourne]]

War

Interesting conversations:-

"Hawkeye: War isn’t Hell. War is war, and Hell is Hell. And of the two, war is a lot worse.

Father Mulcahy: How do you figure that, Hawkeye?

Hawkeye: Easy, Father. Tell me, who goes to Hell?

Father Mulcahy: Sinners, I believe.

Hawkeye: Exactly. There are no innocent bystanders in Hell. War is chock full of them — little kids, cripples, old ladies. In fact, except for some of the brass, almost everybody involved is an innocent bystander."

"England has been offered a choice between war and shame. She has chosen shame, and will get war." -- Winston Churchill on the Munich Agreement in 1938.

My involvement with war:-

I was involved as an innocent bystander towards the end of the World War in 1944, aged 5. A bomb dropped just outside our house in Sheffield, but it did not go off. As a result we moved into a house in a much safer place in the country on the edge of the city.

I avoided National Service as my Oxford University College took people after they had done National Service. When it was announced that National Service was ending the College realised that they had to reverse this so I was one who entered directly after leaving school. By the time I left Oxford, National Service had ended.

Photos of places I like

File:Headingtonsharkfront.jpg

The first is the Headington Shark before the refurbishment in 2009 - only in Oxford, England!! When I have visited Oxford, it is often been by getting the bus from London and getting off at Headington, and then walking down past this to my daughter's house in Wood Farm, but it has been quite a while since I was in UK. There is a more recent and better image in the link above, but I can not get it to be on the left and smaller.{{-}}

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The second was one my favourite places as a boy in Sheffield, England, viewed from the crags above Bell Hagg. The road is the A57, which eventually becomes the Snake Pass running from Sheffield to Manchester. I often walked along the top of the crags which are off the photo to the left, continuing right to the hills in the distance or even further into Hathersage, via Stanage Edge a notable rock climbing area in Derbyshire, returning by bus.{{-}}

File:Wharfedale near Buckden (7860).jpg

The third is Wharfedale near Buckden, another of my favourite places in England. I have frequently stayed at the George Inn in Hubberholme about a mile up the dale from Buckden - a great British Pub. Earlier I stayed with my parents in Buckden House, then a Cooperative Society Holiday Home and did my first serious fell walks. The photo shows looking back to Buckden as you walk up the side of the dale.{{-}}

File:Houses near the river at Litton.jpg

The forth shows houses near the river at Litton, in Littondale. One summer I was the leader of a group of Senior Scouts who cycled all the way from Sheffield with heavy packs to Litton. We camped on the lower slope of Pen-y-ghent. We did many walks and drank much beer in the pub in Grassington after cycling from the camp site. One evening the landlord said "You are all darn near too young to be served", as indeed we were, but he still served us, and we still managed to cycle back.{{-}}

File:Pen-y-ghent 2.jpg

The fifth shows Pen-y-ghent which is one of the Yorkshire Three Peaks and we climbed all three while there. The other two are Whernside and Ingleborough. The tops of all three are really quite flat but you are constantly having to drop into a narrow channel (called a "peat grough") and then get out of it. Walking all three in the same day is one of the challenges of fell walking in England.{{-}}

File:Rosstown sugarworks - Melbourne.jpg

The sixth shows an artist's impression of the Rosstown sugar beet mill and railway in Melbourne. In 1876, Ross, built a mill and a storage building, which he planned to link by a railway. However, he went broke. The railway was never fully built and his buildings were destroyed. What remains is a lovely walk, the Rosstown Railway Heritage Trail, which I walked when I lived in Spotswood, but rarely since then.{{-}}

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