Talk:Valence bond programs

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I have tried to be even-handed here, but I am the author of one of these programs. I am also not familiar with all of them and therefore can not summarise their capabilities. Please modify it to make it more even-handed. Have I missed any? Bduke 02:57, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

Hmm...I think the article should be moved to a different title. The first time I came across it, I thought "VB" stood for "Visual Basic", where here, it is "Valence Bond". Would it be a good idea to move this to a more general title such as "List of programs used in computational chemistry" instead? --HappyCamper 00:51, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

The only link to this page is from the Modern valence bond theory page, so I did not think the name was confusing. However, I will try to move it to "Valence bond programs". There is already a table of computational chemistry programs in Computational chemistry#Software packages, but these are the big ab initio and semi-empirical codes, and the columns do not really apply to VB codes. I do not think it is helpfull at this stage to add the VB codes to that table and give them each a separate page, particularly as that will lose the information about VB in the GAMESS(US) and GAMESS(UK) codes. Bduke 02:47, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Ah, okay, that makes sense! Thanks. --HappyCamper 03:07, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

First three references are now broken. Final one is a paid access paper. --paulrho 09:50, 10 November 2017 (UTC)

I have fixed all the references as best I can. Note that I have a COI as an author of VB2000, but I have not referenced myself and done my best to treat all the programs on an equal footing as an experienced wikipedia editor. Note that references do not have to be free. Journal articles can be used and these are not always free. Bduke (Discussion) 03:15, 11 November 2017 (UTC)