Talk:List of nuclear weapons tests of North Korea

Separate pages
Separated India, Pakistan and North Korea testing and summaries to separate pages. Less confused. SkoreKeep (talk) 16:45, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

Change of Title
In the next few days I'll be changing the title of this page to "List of nuclear weapons tests of North Korea" in order to make the page titles consistent. SkoreKeep (talk) 06:30, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

Merging in "List of North Korean nuclear tests"
Done boldly. No solid information available to be copied over; speculation on a possible fusion test and a fourth test skipped. Talk page remains at Talk:List of North Korean nuclear tests. SkoreKeep (talk) 02:51, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

The table on this page is generated by database
The table on this page and the contents of any nuclear tests infobox are generated from a database of nuclear testing which I have maintained and researched for a number of years. The table is automatically generated from that database by a Visual Basic script, and then has, periodically, been inserted into the page manually. I began doing this in October of 2013.

Recently a user complained (politely) to me about the practice. It seems to him that it removes control from all editors besides myself over the content. He believes it is tantamount to WP:OWNED of the pages affected. He also points out that there is no public mention of the fact anywhere on wikipedia, and that is true, through my own oversight, until now.

There was no intent that the pages affected should be owned by myself; in fact, one of my reasons for building these pages was to solicit (in the wikipedia way) criticism and corrections to the data, perhaps additional references that I had been unable to locate. I have regenerated the tables twice in the days since they were originally placed. Each time I did so, I performed a diff between the current version and the version that I put up in the previous cycle; all corrections were then either entered into the database or corrected in the programming, as appropriate. As may be guessed, the programming corrections were frequent to start out as suggestions about the table formatting were raised, and most incorporated. I have not made judgements on the "usefulness" of corrections; all have been incorporated, or I have communicated directly with the editor to settle the matter. In fact it was in pursuing such a correction that this matter came up.

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SkoreKeep (talk) 04:19, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

Possible test September 9, 2016
USGS has reported a zero depth M5.3 explosion at 41.298°N 129.015°E at 2016-09-09 00:30:01 UTC. 167.123.240.35 (talk) 02:09, 9 September 2016 (UTC)

It is a confirmed one by North Korea, it claims a successful warhead test where the nukes can mount into the rockets. No information on exact intended yield, and whether if it is a uranium, plutonium or hydrogen bomb as well. The yield is confirmed by South Koreans as about 10kT and it is the largest of all 5 so far. Therefore, it cannot be a 6 to 10kT estimation which I have edited away. Meanwhile, a US expert suggested the yield is actually at 20 to 30kT instead. Sam 05:51, 9 September 2016 (UTC)

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ISC links -- a very useful resource
I have added some links to the International Seismological Centre using the new and easy-to-use template, EQ-isc-link. Do check the links! I think you all will find them very useful resources. Finding the event ids is quite simple, as on their event index page the ISC folks have kindly labeled the pertinent events with "NORTHKOREATEST". Enjoy! ~ J. Johnson (JJ) (talk) 21:46, 6 December 2017 (UTC)