User talk:Bduke

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Bduke, my response today to your query on the computational chemistry introduction page:

My suggestion is work with the other science, computing, information technology and engineering areas to establish a Wikiversity Distributed Virtual Supercomputer. Such a grid like beast should be developed to support large and small projects on some appropriate job scheduling algorythms. Much potential research areas of interest to computer scientists, engineers and sociologists or business pychologists in running our own resources efficiently to keep most people somewhat satisfied. Mirwin 17:45, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

p.s. If a person of your qualifications were to found a wikiversity.org team at a computational chemistry project and endorse the idea of a longterm project to build Wikiversity's distributed supercomputing resources it would give it quite a boost.

Hello BDuke, I am also a retired quantum chemist and I have begun to put my old molecular modelling and mathematics notes on wikibooks, it is accessible from the computational chemistry pages. I am thinking about a small educational modelling project involving modelling of wood, lignite and coal, initially just to get display pictures..... MartinY 11:38, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

Glad to see you over here. Just to say hi! :-) --HappyCamper 21:59, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Hola! You should help me fight vandalism! -- drini 22:02, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Hello this is Martin Grayson here - I tried to EMail you but without success. (E-mail addresses deleted as requested. --Bduke 23:03, 19 November 2006 (UTC)). Please delete this after you have read it, though the university EMails are now so infected with spam that it makes little difference who gets to know them.

Chemisty web stuff

I saw your note on the Sandbox Server page, and I was wondering how we could help. Please feel free to drop me a note on my User Talk:Historybuff page to discuss this. Thanks. Historybuff 16:09, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

Apologies for the slow response, I've been doing off-wiki WV work. Do you ever drop into IRC, or is e-mail/talk pages the best way to chat? Historybuff 14:51, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

e-mail is probably the best way. I have e-mail authenticated here. Talk pages are OK, but sometimes it is a few days between me checking my watchlist here (as you see from this response!). --Bduke 00:22, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

Image deletion request

Hi, I deleted your image as requested, treating akin to a copyright violation (as you stated it is probably not PD). Thanks Historybuff 04:57, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. It was just a mistake. The photo may be so old that it is in the PD. If I want to bring it back, I will research it properly. --Bduke 09:49, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Mentorship, etc.

Hi Bduke. I (and a couple others) are hoping to address the mentorship issues once we're settled on the structure of the debate. Personally I'd rather not see it chucked entirely, but I don't think we should start any new mentorships until we have that discussion. We badly need fresh opinions and approaches, so please consider chipping in rather than waiting for the more entrenched among us to leave the trenches (it's a bit of a chicken and egg problem). --SB_Johnny ^talk 12:49, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

Regarding en:WP block of Thekohser

Bduke, you made a comment here that strikes me as antagonistic. Could you please spell out for me which specific policies and guidelines User:Thekohser did not follow on the English Wikipedia to earn a block there? I have found that most people are ill-informed about the actual political reasons why that account was blocked (and unblocked, and reblocked, and banned, and unbanned, and rebanned, etc.). --Thekohser 14:14, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

No, I am not going to argue it out here. You were well and truly blocked on wikipedia, and I would not support you here as a custodian. --Bduke 12:12, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

I will thus interpret your refusal to support your claim as an absence of any evidence to support your claim. Thank you. -- Thekohser 17:28, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

Abd's nomination for full custodianship

Discussion re-opened on this nomination, November 16. You commented in the original discussion, but have not commented in the current one, which might close on November 21. The current discussion is at Wikiversity:Candidates for Custodianship/Abd (full custodian)#Re-opening_community_discussion. --Abd 20:28, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

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