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thanks for the heads up, I didn't realise that. Sorry for any inconvenience if I caused it. (Added by User:Codingmasters June 1, 2006, Bduke 22:32, 6 June 2006 (UTC))
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Yes I agree with you although I do not intend to write detailed articles for every county/area. However I feel if a basic page with the structure of the areas is there then local people involved can edit it themselves. Lists are better than nothing. (Added by User:EnglishScout in response to my comment on User talk:EnglishScout. June 7, 2006. Bduke 22:32, 6 June 2006 (UTC))
Hi Bduke. Type in BPSA in the search box and see what happens. :) (Although I should have been more clear in the edit summary. Sorry for the confusion.) Cheers.-- Bookandcoffee 09:41, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
That is a fantastic idea, replacing the symbols with images. Viridae 03:20, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
I thought you might be interested to know that, historically, the British spelling is actually 'organization' (and is preferred by the OED, if I remember correctly). In any case, both are acceptable in the UK. I won't change it back on the Oxford article, as it's really not worth getting into an edit war about :-) Nomist 23:38, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
Hello Brian. I think you are definitely capable and ready to become an admin. I would be happy to write a nomination for you. Are you interested? Regards, Blnguyen | rant-line 06:07, 5 July 2006 (UTC).
Check out my comments here, Wikipedia awards committee. Thanks! -- evrik 17:25, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
Your point about our behavior being out of line was well taken (the edit war). I take no joy in conflict of that sort. I'm very new to Wikipedia and one of the things that does give me joy is see what an extraordinary structure is emerging from the cooperation of complete strangers. I'm a psychologist but have long enjoyed epistemology. Unlike your field of expertise, both philosopy and psychology have yet to find a common ground and remain divided into different schools of thought. Most of the time its not a problem. But sometimes people get irrational in their passions for or against a point of view. There are proponents of Objectivism that behave in a cult-like fashion and there are individuals who feel compelled to attack anything associated with Ayn Rand. All that I did was include her work on epistemology in the epistemology category. After a few 'reverts' I might have given up, but I kept thinking that it is so wrong for people to do that. Honest disagreements are different. They are healthy for the culture and for Wikipedia because each side makes their points, everyone can read both sides and be that much more informed. The alternative is to let those whose edits are born of a dislike for an idea or a person carry out what is really a kind of censorship. Sorry about this lengthy diatribe. But there ought to be a way to stop that kind of thing. Otherwise all of the areas susceptible to any controversy will be vulnerable and Wikipedia will fall short of what it could have been. You obviously care about Wikipedia, I'd love to hear your thoughts on this. SteveWolfer 08:06, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
Steve, thank you for your considered views. I watch the lists of publications in X because I appear to have become the organiser of the chemistry one. There we subject each new entry such as yours to a 10 day debate on the talk page. I organise that at the moment. After 10 days I leave the new entry or I delete it, depending on the debate. All recent ones have been kept, although when we started the process back in January we did debate most of the then present entries and deleted some. The problem is that it is very easy for these articles to just become a selection of different people's POV views on what books are important. Philosophy is sort of a hobby with me, but really only philosophy of science, although my wife has a MA in philosophy and a BA in Philosophy/English. We discuss philosophy quite a bit, although her interests have moved elsewhere. On Rand I have no real opinion. I tend to think she is not mainstream enough, but I could be wrong. I'm not going to get into your debate. I think you should allow it to be deleted, argue your case carefully on the talk page, go to the Wikipedia:WikiProject Philosophy talk page and argue your case there, asking for people to go and comment on the debate on the list of pubs talk page. Then you may have to accept that there is no consensus to include it or you may be successfull. But you will have followed the Wikipedia way. You win some and you lose some. -- Bduke 11:07, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
Brian, I will follow your advice. But, sadly, I predict that remedy will be inadequate for the underlying problem. Some people place their personal likes and dislikes above the guiding purpose of Wikipedia. By itself that's not a problem if they are open, honest and transparent in their actions. The problem is that some people believe a degree of deception is acceptable if it is in pursuit of their values. I predict that under current policies and practices a vocal and slightly deceptive minority will effectively censor views in all areas of controvery. Those people who attempted to represent opposing views, honestly, will lose and leave the community. Over time Wikipedia will become know as a valuable resource, but only in non-controversial areas - in those areas it will be seen as biased and less than honest.
Ayn Rand is not main stream in the sense of being accepted by most of philosophy's academic crowd. She had a very sharp tongue, disagreed with main stream academics' approach and was very vocal in her disagreements. If academic philosophy sets the standards for inclusion, then her work will be marginalized. And that would be a shame because all serious thoughts and serious thinkers need to be represented inorder to build a stronger knowledge base in the future. Thank you for time and the suggestions. SteveWolfer 17:22, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
I know there are difficulties but I not accept that the mainstream of wikipedia is suppressing the "truth". The reality is that there are a lot of single issue POV pushers with an agenda to include complete nonsense into Wikipedia. I am not including you in their number. Where people disagree we have difficulty reaching the correct consensus or indeed know what is correct.
If Rand is not main stream then I do not think her book should be listed in the list of publications in philosophy. These articles in the Science pearls project are intended for books that are really non-controversal and have an importance throughout the field. However, there should be NPOV articles on Rand and there should be proper NPOV references to her work in many articles on philosophy. I have no idea whether there are. As I said it is not my area. -- Bduke 23:07, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
I desperately wish that you, with your skill, experience and background, plus 5 or 6 from the Chemistry ?Group? or some interested chemists would curb the control of these 2 or 3 information 'entropy' guys! Is there no editorial supervision? (Guess that's a dumb question...!) No authority who can evaluate...? Thermodynamic entropy is FAR more a topic of intense concern to beginning chemistry students -- whether or not they go on in chem -- than it is to physics majors. Why aren't chemists participating in restraining those who so insistently focus on 'disorder'.?!!
I know that you are terribly busy, but is there any more central concept to chem than entropy??!!
THANKS for any aid!! I'm exhausted after 60 or more hours just on this...:-) My email is [email protected] . My CV is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ FrankLambert 21:35, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
I discovered the Chemistry group and also saw your 9 July message re phys chem and the entropy article. You're ahead of me :-)
I left a long message there for chemists about the sad state of affairs on Entropy -- no word of chemistry at the outset and little thereafter, but plenty of 'disorder' and information "entropy"!
Hope that they will bestir themselves just a bit -- at least to express their discontent, unhappiness about their youthful introduction to entroy via such an unscientific term as 'disorder'. This strangely simple request (that a number of chemists, and not just I, SAY 'disorder' did not help them -- or maybe confused them) may well be news to the info guys running the Entropy article. They are absolutely fixed and adamant about saying how essential it is not to discredit 'disorder', (After all the confusion it has caused in the past 100 years among hundreds of thousands of chemists and millions of students!!)
Hope I am not diverting people from your goals! Frank FrankLambert 21:38, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
Sir Alan - provost of my old college, Queen's, Oxford - is a Knight Bachelor, not a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath. As such, he is correctly styled simply "Sir Alan (Peter) Budd" with no post-nominal letters. Although senior civil servants are commonly given KCBs, Sir Alan's position as one of the "seven wise men" was semi-official and for this reason he got an ordinary knighthood (also, the number of KCBs are limited, so they restrict recipients).
With your agreement, can we delete the KCB ? Added by User:Dcrossle.
I see you have/someone has found the year of his knighthood. I had asked my friend who is still at Queen's to find out - he pointed out that he has in fact met you. His name is Chris Ballinger. Just thought I'd mention it - hope you don't mind.
Samsara ( talk • contribs) 21:24, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
I started this project quite possibly too hastly. However, I also feel that I will continue to be involved in many levels with this technology for many years. On a different note, I am interested in educating myself more in computational chemistry. So if you would like to talk off wiki, my email is thomas.robison@gmail. -- Tjr9898 03:48, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
I would welcome any input/comments/criticisms you could make on this article, especially as it was mostly writeen from memory without being checked against secondary sources! Best wishes, Physchim62 (talk) 14:59, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
There was a merge tag on this and the vote was 2:1, to do the merge. Ardenn closed it and removed the merge tag claiming "no consensus" and Chris wants to still merge it. That's what the debate is about. My guess is Ardenn was in this group or at least supports their cause. Rlevse 16:47, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
Birds to RAOU or RAOU to Birds? SatuSuro 03:28, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
The latter as is suggested with the merge tags. RAOU should be a redirect, in part because it is linked from German and Spanish WP articles on RAOU. -- Bduke 04:57, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
One problems seems to be a lack of historical importance of the RAOU in its day if it gets absorbed, headings and other things should not let the current identity swamp the earlier stages of the organisation IMHO :) SatuSuro 07:03, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
I understand your concerns but think they can be addressed in the way the introduction is written and then perhaps by a paragraph about the RAOU days. Are there any Australians birders who might have an opinion? Would it help if we copy this to the talk page the merge tags point ot and continue the discussion there? It might draw more people in. -- Bduke 08:44, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
Glad to see all that work has been done on the Australia articles, that you're keeping an eye on it, and updated the Todo page. YIS, Randy Rlevse 16:52, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
I replied on my talk page and posted an explanation on Talk:University of Oxford#Oxford in literature and other media where I also raised a more general question which I would be pleased to have a discussion on. Is the book good? I have only read Five Red Herrings in the series and that was a long time ago. Stefán Ingi 00:05, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
I've rewritten the articles 13th Dublin, 14th Dublin and Scouting in Rathfarnham in a way that (I hope) all of us can live with. Jorgenpfhartogs 06:19, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
You have done a good job, but I have doubts that all are viable. The 13th has a good history and may be viable. The 14th is no different from 100s of Troops and I doubt it is viable. There are very few individual Troop/Group articles from the whole world. Rathfarnham has, as far as I can see, a rather odd scope. It is between a Group and a County, but I do understand that parts of it are in different counties. I'd prefer to see this deleted and articles for the whole of the two Counties written, but I'm happy to be guided by Irish Scouting Wikipedians. -- Bduke 07:45, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
Would you be so kind as to go to the discussion about the Islamic Wikiproject Award? This has been a proposal that has lingered for donkey's yonks. I think the image is acceptable as a WP:PUA, but don't think the image is in line with most of the images at Wikipedia:Wikiproject awards. The design is not well supported, and right before I was going to archive the debate for lack of support, someone else moved it to the Wikiproject awards page.
The current discussion is going on here: Wikipedia:Barnstar_and_award_proposals/New_Proposals#Another_image. Your input is appreciated. -- evrik 03:15, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi. Thanks for the note. I am the guy who wrote the article on pi-electron theory, When you get back you can drop me a line at [email protected] or here. I am kind-of new to this... Charles.
Hi, Charles. I have not actually gone yet, but the planning is largely keeping me off WP so I thought I would put the wikibreak tags up. I have cleaned up you comments. Please add ~~~~ at the end to sign your comments. I never did get around to doing anything about your additions to Semi-empirical quantum chemistry methods. They are valuable additions. My concern was that this article is fairly general and your comments are rather specific. I would prefer your discussion on PPP to be in the Pariser-Parr-Pople method (PPP) article and your comments on ZINDO to be in the ZINDO article. I think that is where they belong. What do you think? -- Bduke 23:57, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
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Hello, Bduke, and thank you for the support on my recent RfA. The final tally was 72/1/0, and I have now been entrusted with the mop. I'll be tentative with the new buttons for a while, and certainly welcome any and all feedback on how I might be able to use them to help the project. All the best, and thanks again! — Deville ( Talk) 03:00, 25 August 2006 (UTC) |
Would you please comment?
Hey Brian, thank you for supporting my recent RfA. It passed with an amazing final tally of 160/4/1. It was fantastic having the support of so many awesome Aussie editors. I hope you have a safe and enjoyable holiday. Cheers, Sarah Ewart ( Talk) 04:56, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi, just wanted to stop by and invite you to contribute to the Mass-to-charge ratio page that you previously showed interest in now that Kehrli has been banned from the article.-- Nick Y. 00:04, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi Brian, would you weigh in on this discussion? Chris 22:28, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
Hello. Just letting you know that I've replied to your question on User talk:Mike Peel my talk page, as per your request at the top of this page. Thanks. Mike Peel 07:22, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
Since you commented freely before, I thought you may want to check out Wikipedia:Requests_for_mediation/Boy_Scout. Rlevse 13:13, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
Hi Bduke,
Just letting you know that I replied to your comment on Template talk:Infobox Journal#Problem with ISSN part with a suggestion. Cheers, Colin MacLaurin 13:49, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
I've been working on Explorer Scouts, trying to clear the points on a peer review I made last week and get the article past its "start" status. I was just wondering if you could pass over and see what you think, cheers, Horus Kol 11:39, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the comments about the article - yeah, we camp near Hathersage every May to climb Stanage Edge and some of the local millstone quarries. About the peer review - I have already run the review script and posted the results on the article's Talk:Explorer_Scouts#Peer_Review discussion page. I've checked off most of it - just need someone else to check if the last three comments are satisfied and help upgrade the class of the article. Cheers, Horus Kol 11:44, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
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Thanks for coming in on the current Talk:Entropy discussions. I too have been trying to think of improvements to the article, and have added my ideas for the introduction to Introduction to entropy – hope that's of some assistance! .. dave souza, talk 12:45, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
Do you have ideas for next month's portal features? I'm having trouble coming up with good articles, etc to feature. Happy Thanksgiving! Do you do that in Oz? I know they have it in Canada, but in Oct not Nov. Rlevse 12:09, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
Many thanks for the welcome! I see you have put a lot of time into Chemistry on wikipedia - thank you very much for that! Monaco10 20:05, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
Here I'm lecturing you on how wikipedia works, and looking at your user page, you're fully aware of how the place works. SOFIXIT on the main chem bond page. Just leave out the math for this general article, is all I personally ask as a fellow editor for this page. Ruthlessly fix and replace any qualitative judgements you don't like and think are unjustified. Don't delete unless it's just plain WRONG, as we need the material and can't get people to write it (yeah that includes you). Replace POV opinions you don't like with you consider a more balanced set of view. It's impossible of course to avoid some POV in any article, as we all know. See other comments I left on the TALK page there, before I came here. S B H arris 05:30, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
I am - or was - the one pushing the MO thing, but you seem to know more, so indeed please make the required corrections to get the dispute tag off. Readers need to find an undisputed article on bonding! Or a relatively undisputed one.
Thanks and best wishes, -- Smokefoot 06:52, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
To both Sbharris and Smokefoot, I will try to fix this tomorrow. I happen to one of those who think that the way people think about MO and VB theory to make compounds, i.e. qualitative theory, should be by using theories, however simple, that are in accordance with conclusions from calculations. Feel free to improve my grammer etc., when I do enter the fray here. -- Bduke 07:01, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
Hi Brian, could you take a look at (living chemist) Steven Boone and the recent discussion on Talk:Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search#Boone and Cooper AfD regarding an old AfD, and cast your eye over the Google Scholar search results for author:sr-boone to double check that this biography article isnt notable. Cheers, John Vandenberg 09:38, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
Bduke has offered to be the Scouting WikiProject mediator and accept this as his first case on these conditions: 1. All parties must agree to his mediating. 2. All parties must not move any articles until the mediation is completed. 3. If consensus is not reached they must let User:Rlevse as the project coordinator decide whether to implement my final conclusions.
(3) means that Bduke will make a final recommendation if there is no consensus and User:Rlevse can accept it or reject it. Either way, the decision is final and all parties are bound by Scout's honor to follow it.
I am posting this on everyone's ( Evrik, Jergen, Cpt. Morgan (Reinoutr)) talk page so they will not miss the offer. Failure to respond with a 'accept' or 'not accept' on the Translations talk page will be taken as an 'accept'. This offer will last until 2400 UTC Dec 2, 2006. Keep in mind that we live all over the world and users need time to respond---specifically, Bduke lives in Australia. DO NOT make any moves until at least 24 hours have passed since his last posting on an issue. Rlevse 01:52, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
As far as I can see, Category:Guiding is a parental category to Category:WAGGGS member organizations. Do we really need this double categorization? To me this seems quite unnecessary. -- jergen 23:06, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
I've looked at this to see what your guys are talking about. What's odd is that WAGGGS is both on the same level as Guiding (both as a sub of Scouting, as is WOSM) and also a sub of Guiding. If we make WAGGGS only a sub of Guiding, some GG/GS may say why isn't WAGGGS at the same level as WOSM? I have a suggestion that I think will meet both your concerns and also follow wiki policy on categories: Put WAGGGS, WOSM, and the non-aligned cat all under "Scouting related associations" and put WAGGGS under Guiding also. Thoughts? I've put this on both your talk pages. Rlevse 12:45, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
Hello, you've indicated that you're interested in future Meetups in Melbourne on this list, so I'm giving you this message to remind you that Melbounre meetup number four is currently in planning. If you haven't already, please go to Wikipedia:Meetup/Melbourne to suggest possible dates, times and locations. Thanks -- Michael Billington ( talk • contribs) 02:51, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
Just thought I'd drop you a note to tell you you've both supported and opposed this user for the arbcom on the same page (probably) by mistake. Cheers Michael Billington ( talk • contribs) 11:25, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
Can you determine which part is copyvio and remove it? (I doubt that was the concern given the edit summaries and other issues). Incidentally, the new account was a sockpuppet as confirmed by checkuser. I'm therefore blocking it and asking him to return to the main account. JoshuaZ 22:14, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
It is not there right now. It was the mass of career stuff, awards etc that was reverted. I have just heard from him by e-mail and was replying when I noticed this. I hope my advice to him will sort it all out. -- Bduke 22:19, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
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Hi Bduke. A lot of articles (and not just Australian content) exists at Wikipedia containing only a primary source, or no sources at all. The Scouts Australia article would benefit from external sources to bring the article from a showpiece for the Scouts, to a well balanced article presenting all views. Articles on the various Scouting organisations in Australia are likely to have made local newspapers in times gone by.
As SatuSuro notes on my talk page, "absolutely no one writes about scouts outside of the organisation these days - between the 1930's and 1950's there were always plenty of stories in the australian media - anybody would be really struggling to find anything for current media", and I somewhat accept this as being true. The Scouts aren't just what they used to be and the number of kids particpating these days is a lot lower than was the norm during the first half of the century. Why? Does anybody apart from the Scouting organisations themselves care, and has anybody bothered to write about it that we can use as another source? We may need to do our searching offline for some external sources on this topic to bring the article to a fine balance representing all views. -- Longhair\ talk 08:05, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
I do not disagree. I added something today about the decline in numbers from the Scouts Australia's own annual reports. Note the number of Groups has declined as well as number of members. This goes along with a view that people no longer have the time to volunteer for such tasks as running Scout Troops. I lot of other organisations, including political parties, have the same problem. Just a couple of points further at this stage. First, I have no connection with Scouts Australia. I have not been a Scout Leader since 1970 and that was in UK. I have a soft spot for them however, and work on Wikipedia:WikiProject Scouting with Scout articles on UK, PNG and many other places, as well as Australia. Second, I doubt that the Australian Scout editors will be active for now as I'm sure that they are all going to the Jamboree in January - the first in the world to celebrate 100 years of Scouting. Also all the various State Scout Heritage centres are being moved to be all together at the Jamboree and these are a good source of information. Back to the article, there are now some non-Scout links and the collaborative international projects are supported by links to Scout links in the other countries involved. The Jamboree BTW is at Elmore, Victoria from 2 - 13 Jan. If you see any press reports please let me know. It might encourage the press to ask the questions you raise. -- Bduke 08:42, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
Greetings, person who is listed as being interested in future meetups in Melbourne. The fourth meetup will be held on 18 December, at Lower House in Fed Square (in the Alfred Deaking building, Flinders Street end near the Atrium: map), starting from 7pm. We don't currently have a separate location for discussion beforehand, but there'll be plenty of time to talk wiki over dinner. -- bainer ( talk) 14:58, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
So...Bduke, can we nominate you to be our ambassador to Wikipedia:Scientific citation guidelines? Not sure what the other WikiChemists think, but I'm sure they won't mind at all... -- HappyCamper 18:24, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi Sadi, please see what I am about to put on the talk page for this article. -- Bduke 00:02, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
I left a message about the email on Talk:Valence bond theory, but in case you didn't get that here's my crude table thus far (I'm only up to about the 1920s presently): table. -- Sadi Carnot 19:17, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi, long time no speak (aka vcxlor) just snooping and saw this - does this proposal mean you disencourage individual troop articles? The parent article looks like all current wa articles minimalist and poorly done. I would think that if youre going to merge that nonone wil even know - there seem to be so many articles written and not maintaind these days - they just drop and run it seems. BUT I would be concerned that such a merge happens if the parent article remains as poorly. For the main scouting article here in wa - it reflects what I pickup about the organisation in general - however I keep my counsel here on wikipedia- anyway have a good christmas - please dont reply on my talk till I'm back thanks SatuSuro 00:03, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
The National and the Papua New Guinea Post-Courier, Tuesday, 30 January 1996: front page stories in both national newspapers. The Somares at no time disputed the reports, nor did they threaten libel. The stories were not followed up and no editorial commentary or letters to the editor were published; however, this was due to private threats made against the owners and management of the papers by members of the Somare family rather than any threat of legal action to vindicate the integrity of Sir Michael. Masalai 05:13, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
I'm afraid that your disquiet is somewhat nervous-nelly-ish. Truth is always an absolute defence in a libel suit, and in any event the bar is considerably higher in the USA than in English common law jurisdictions: in US law one must prove actual malice. Masalai 19:35, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
"...a Fijian skirt, known in Papua New Guinea as a laplap." Nogat tru ia. Turangu, dispela kainkain samting i no laplap; em i sulu bilong ol man bilong Fiji. Masalai 01:36, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
It might originate in Fiji (I do not know), but it is still called a laplap in PNG. Perhaps you would care to source your edits on this topic also. Is it notable that Somare wears one? -- Bduke 01:42, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
Yeah, i was reading around it and it's pretty bad as is.. as i see it, the Physical Chemistry article should be a similar kind of article as the Thermodynamics article is; an overview of the key principles included in the actual thing itself as well as the foundation of it. I've not got too many books on physical chemistry -- on the article itself, i've only got about 4 of those mentioned.
The majority of the books i have featuring physical chemistry tell me also that chemical physics seem to be some forms of misprints, or so -- there was a story on how someone published the name incorrectly due to the fact they thought it was mostly based in chemistry, so therefore it was chemistry with physics in it; chemical physics. Not too sure about it though.. chemical physics could be a pseudonym for thermodynamics of activation or something similar; who knows? The books, i guess! :-) James S 22:05, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
I've added the "{{ prod}}" template to the article Vanuatu branch of The Scout Association, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but I don't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and I've explained why in the deletion notice (see also " What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, or, if you disagree with the notice, discuss the issues at Talk:Vanuatu branch of The Scout Association. Removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, but the article may still be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached, or if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria. Oo7565 19:50, 31 December 2006 (UTC)