Talk:List of nuclear weapons tests of the Soviet Union

Years of no tests
That is correct; the Soviets did no testing in the years 1951, 1959, 1960, 1963 and 1986, and ended testing in 1990. SkoreKeep (talk) 20:14, 27 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 the Soviet Union" in order to make the page titles consistent. SkoreKeep (talk) 06:19, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: move all Anthony Appleyard (talk) 09:18, 21 May 2014 (UTC)

– Consistency in similar article names – SkoreKeep (talk) 22:38, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Soviet Union's nuclear testing series → List of nuclear weapons tests of the Soviet Union
 * United Kingdom's nuclear testing series → List of nuclear weapons tests of the United Kingdom
 * France's nuclear testing series → List of nuclear weapons tests of France
 * India's nuclear testing series → List of nuclear weapons tests of India
 * Pakistan's nuclear testing series → List of nuclear weapons tests of Pakistan
 * China's nuclear test series → List of nuclear weapons tests of China
 * This was [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Requested_moves/Technical_requests&diff=605671186&oldid=605669750 originally proposed at WP:RMTR] but has been brought here for discussion. EdJohnston (talk) 01:43, 25 April 2014 (UTC)


 * support. The US test list was merged into "List of nuclear weapons test of the United States"; these follow suit. It has been suggested the new titles are more descriptive of the content, more encyclopedic. SkoreKeep (talk) 02:04, 25 April 2014 (UTC)


 * Comment if this is supposed to be a multimove request, it is misformatted. -- 65.94.171.206 (talk) 05:09, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Format is now fixed. EdJohnston (talk) 02:39, 26 April 2014 (UTC)


 * Comment has existed as an article from 2011-2014, until it was redirected here, whereas this article was created in 2014 January. If we apply duplication rules, this article  should be deleted as a relatively newly created duplicate. -- 65.94.171.206 (talk) 23:22, 26 April 2014 (UTC)
 * If this is renamed, then the edit history at List of nuclear weapons tests of the Soviet Union could be displaced to List of Soviet nuclear weapons tests, and still point to this article -- 65.94.171.206 (talk) 23:23, 26 April 2014 (UTC)


 * Support. Names should respect guidelines and be consistent. Coreyemotela (talk) 12:54, 3 May 2014 (UTC).
 * Support I have actually moved one or more of these recently as they were new MH articles that needed assessment as lists, but the above are a good consistent set of titles. Peacemaker67 (send... over) 09:47, 6 May 2014 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

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) 04:15, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

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