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Sunil Kumar Verma: Good Article Nomination
Hi Phill88. I had completed all tasks at my end on Sunil Kumar Verma. Article really looks good now with brief about work and multidimensional contributions of Verma for Indian Science and Technology as well as Society. Can it make a "Good Article" now on Wiki? Views?? Educationtemple (talk) 12:37, 29 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Hello ! You need to submit the article for review at the appropriate page. Good luck! Philg88 ♦talk 16:51, 29 December 2014 (UTC)

✅! If successful, it would give me a great confidence as an editor...! If not, it would give an opportunity to learn new things and improve upon. Cheers! Educationtemple (talk) 17:32, 29 December 2014 (UTC)

The play button on the video on Sunil Kumar Verma is showing in a corner of thumbnail image for this video. Can it go in the center of the video thumb? Educationtemple (talk) 17:56, 29 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure how to do that as I've never used video in articles. Maybe a friendly talk page stalker knows the answer. Philg88 ♦talk 19:05, 29 December 2014 (UTC)


 * One Stalker as ordered! I've looked at some other pages with videos and it seems like the corner-placing is default and should not be messed with. I also took another swing at the article, comment at your talk page. w.carter  -Talk  19:16, 29 December 2014 (UTC)

Great! Cheers!! Educationtemple (talk) 19:33, 29 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks ! I knew I could count on you. Philg88 ♦talk 20:27, 29 December 2014 (UTC)

Dear Philg88, hope you are doing great and keeping great health and spirit in New Year 2015 too. told me a lot about you that you are a great teacher! I too admire you!!

Article on Sunil Kumar Verma is on GA review now. helped me a lot to improve this! Can you also participate in GA review? I am leaving for Delhi after 2 hrs from now and will have limited access to net for next 3-4 days! In the mean times, I just convey to you my regards and three cheers for a great new year ahead! Educationtemple (talk) 20:33, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
 * The process doesn't work like that—an uninvolved editor will take care of the review. Meanwhile, enjoy Delhi! Philg88 ♦talk 22:04, 2 January 2015 (UTC)

Dear the GA review for Sunil Kumar Verma failed at present. The reviewer has raised some points, which I am convinced with and I am willing to work on all of them since they are not quite serious one and can be resolved with little more in depth research. Just thought to update you on this - if you have anything to point out, please do that, it will help me to work further on the matter.

Note: the DYK for Lalji Singh seems to have passed in DYK review. Am I right? rgds... Educationtemple (talk) 13:55, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
 * @Educationtemple:  Yes, it passed and will soon appear on the main page. Congratulations!  Philg88 ♦talk 14:45, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

Seal of Haikou
Could you shed some light? ? Derivative of something official? Anna Frodesiak (talk) 07:42, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
 * @Anna Frodesiak:  Doesn't look very official to me. The "source reference" is a site selling stamps, medals etc, a bit like a Chinese Franklin Mint. In all my time with the Haikou government, I never saw or heard any mention of this. In a nutshell, IMHO it's original research and in no way official. Hope that helps! Cheers,  Philg88 ♦talk 07:56, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the feedback. I posted here. Happy Spring Vegetable and "Xin Nian Kuai Zou". Best, Anna Frodesiak (talk) 08:54, 28 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Please see here and comment if you can. Sorry to bother you with this. :) Anna Frodesiak (talk) 12:35, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
 * No bother . I've commented accordingly. It's fairly obvious this is completely bogus. Cheers, Philg88 ♦talk 16:02, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
 * [[Image:Smile.svg]] Anna Frodesiak (talk) 20:38, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

Adjusting pilot start date - WP:Co-op
Hello  Philg88 ,

I'll be putting out a formal update sometime soon, but I wanted to inform you that I've decided to push our start date back to mid-February rather than in January. There are number of reasons for this, but the biggest factor is that we are now facing the hard work of implementing our designs on the Mediawiki interface. It's a limiting environment to work with from a web-building perspective, and the team that worked on the Teahouse can offer similar testimonials to these challenges. We also want to make sure there is time for us and for you to test the environment out, ask questions at our project's talk page, and give us a little time to make any last changes before we start inviting editors to the space. If some of you know you will be unavailable during this time, it's totally fine if you need to bow out for the pilot. But we do need all the mentors we can get, so even if you can take the time to mentor just one or two editors, that would be fantastic. Thanks a bunch, I, JethroBT drop me a line on behalf of Wikipedia:Co-op.

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Europe's Asian Centuries: Trading Eurasia 1600-1830
Hi there! This data base just popped up on my radar. I will certainly add the Sales Catalogues from the Swedish East India Company 1733-1759 somewhere, but there are also some nice English things (plus some other companies) if you are interested. Cheers, w.carter -Talk  16:23, 1 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks . Interesting, although I'm not sure how we use the data. I'll wait and see what you do.  Philg88 ♦talk 05:46, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Neither do I. ;) I also just found it "interesting". Maybe just an external link. All the best, w.carter -Talk  08:39, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

Semihemidemibarnstar
--Lineagegeek (talk) 22:52, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Philg88 ♦talk 05:55, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

Request
If you have the time and feel inclined to do so, do you think you can do some copy editing on this my latest article? I may do some more tweaking, but I think I'm done with most of it. Cheers, w.carter -Talk  01:17, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
 * ✅ There you go . Nice article! Philg88 ♦talk 06:30, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Thank you ever so much! A special delivery with several jerrycans is on its way. w.carter  -Talk  08:46, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
 * You're welcome. From the sound of it, you might be better off shipping the stuff in the type of container normally used for radioactive waste.  Philg88 ♦talk 10:06, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
 * LOL!! w.carter -Talk  10:10, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

Actually, you've solved a mystery for me. We have a ship, the MS Sigyn, to handle things like that. I see her in the harbor every Almedalen Week, and I've always wondered what she was doing there. Now I know, contraband is being shipped. w.carter -Talk  10:13, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Phil = Sherlock Holmes. :)  Jim Car ter  11:06, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Elementary, my dear Watson Jim.  Philg88 ♦talk 15:28, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Being your good friend, assistant and biographer, I'm planning to get your article to GA standard but unfortunately I can't ask you to copyedit this article, as you're having WP:COI. Maybe  can help.  Jim Car ter  17:10, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
 * My dear Watson. If you are serious, I, being an old Baker Street Irregular, will of course help in any way I can. (Glad you didn't dub me Moriarty. Xb) Just ping me if/when you start something and I'll hover and make a nuisance of myself. I have just finished doing the same thing at Carl Michael Bellman. We got it to GA on his 275:th birthday no less! :) And I'm sure that if Mr. Holmes should feel so inclined, he will show up in one of his master disguises, unrecognizable, and do some tweaks. The Game's Afoot! <em style="font-family:Verdana;color:DarkBlue">w.carter <em style="font-family:Verdana;color:DarkBlue">-Talk  18:58, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Well, yes, I'm serious. I will start working on it in the next few weeks. I will inform you when I'm done. I hope this "Adventure of improving Sherlock Holmes article" will be one of the favourite short story of Arthur Conan Doyle. Cheers,   Jim Car ter  08:18, 7 February 2015 (UTC)

February 2015 GOCE newsletter
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GA nomination Sunil Kumar Verma part II
Dear, I have finished editing in Sunil Kumar Verma as per GA review suggestions. has also checked and done CE. May I now request you to have a look when you have some time, please so that I could again send it for GA re-consideration. Educationtemple (talk) 10:29, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
 * ✅. Philg88 ♦talk 06:49, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

Amazing! Thank you. I checked all the edits one by one by comparing and all of them were great! A lot to learn from you! Thank you once again! Educationtemple (talk) 08:29, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

Dear, I have tried to initiate a reassessment process for Sunil Kumar Verma, added all templated etc, but could not add the GA2 page on the talk page of [Sunil Kumar Verma] Dont know how to do this! I created template for the individual assessment. Was it OK? or I should have gone for community assessment template ? Educationtemple (talk) 14:31, 1 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Looks OK to me. It's there at the top of the talk page. Cheers, Philg88 ♦talk 14:38, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

OK. tc Educationtemple (talk) 16:14, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

I did a mistake while renominating Sunil Kumar Verma. Corrected now! Thanks to for suggestion (here) on my mistake. Hope things are fine now and will move. Educationtemple (talk) 16:36, 7 February 2015 (UTC)

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copy-editing question
Hi: I'm a journalist with the Boston Globe interested in interviewing some members of the Wikipedia copy-editing guild -- if you're available in the next couple of days, want to email me? thanks, Brittpeterson (talk) 01:46, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Sure. Philg88 ♦talk 06:17, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

Update to CTBTO page
Dear Philg88,

I saw you made an infomed update to the CTBTO page. I work for the CTBTO and in keeping with Wikipedia's policy to declare vested interest and instead use the talk pages to suggest edits, I've written some information and provided reference links on three areas (detection of North Korean test in 2013, the Chelyabinski meteor and On-Site Inspection) that provides useful information to update the Wikipedia entry on the The Prepartory Commission of CTBTO: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprehensive_Nuclear-Test-Ban_Treaty_Organisation_Preparatory_Commission. I hope you might have the time to take a look and adapt as you see fit. Best wishes, KNGH

2013 Nuclear Test by North Korea http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_North_Korean_nuclear_test

At 02.57.51 (UTC) on 12 February 2013, the CTBTO seismic network detected an unusual seismic event in North Korea, which measured 4.9 in magnitude. Later that morning, North Korea announced that it had conducted a nuclear test. The event was registered by 94 seismic stations and two infrasound stations in the CTBTO’s network.

The analysed data showed the event’s location (with a certainty of about +/- 8.1 km) was largely identical with the two previous nuclear tests (Lat.: 41.313 degrees north; long.: 129.101 degrees east). As with the two previous nuclear tests, the signal was emitted from close to the surface.

REFERENCES: Update on CTBTO findings related to the announced nuclear test by North Korea, http://www.ctbto.org/press-centre/highlights/2013/update-on-ctbto-findings-related-to-the-announced-nuclear-test-by-north-korea/ Nuclear detectives sniff out North Korea, http://www.nature.com/news/nuclear-detectives-sniff-out-north-korea-1.12422 SIPRI YEARBOOK 2014 - Armaments, Disarmament and International Security, by Vitaly Fedchenko (SIPRI) http://www.sipri.org/yearbook/2014/files/sipri-yearbook-2014-chapter-6-section-xi North Korea explosion twice the magnitude of 2009 test, says monitoring agency. http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2013/02/12/north_korea_nuclear_blast_twice_2009_size_says_monitoring_agency.html

At the time, CTBTO Executive Secretary Tibor Tóth, strongly condemned DPRK’s action as “a clear threat to international peace and security.” http://www.ctbto.org/press-centre/press-releases/2013/ctbto-executive-secretary-tibor-toth-condemns-declared-north-korean-nuclear-test/

The CTBTO radionuclide network later made a significant detection of radioactive noble gases that could be attributed to the nuclear test announced by North Korea, the CTBTO said in a statement released 23 April 2013. http://www.ctbto.org/press-centre/press-releases/2013/ctbto-detects-radioactivity-consistent-with-12-february-announced-north-korean-nuclear-test/

The detection was made at the radionuclide station in Takasaki, Japan, located at around 1,000 kilometres, or 620 miles, from the North Korean test site. Lower levels were picked up at another station in Ussuriysk, Russia. Two radioactive isotopes of the noble gas xenon were identified, xenon-131m and xenon-133, which provide reliable information on the nuclear nature of the source.

The ratio of the detected xenon isotopes is consistent with a nuclear fission event occurring more than 50 days before the detection (nuclear fission can occur in both nuclear explosions and nuclear energy production). This coincided well with the announced nuclear test by North Korea, on 12 February 2013, some 55 days before the measurement. References: Gases "consistent with" North Korea's February test found: nuclear body, Reuters http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/23/us-korea-north-nuclear-idUSBRE93M0B820130423

Radioxenon detections in the CTBT international monitoring system likely related to the announced nuclear test in North Korea on February 12, 2013, by A. Ringboma, A. Axelssona, M. Aldenera, M. Auerb, T.W. Bowyerc, T. Fritioffa, I. Hoffmand, K. Khrustalevb, M. Nikkinenb, V. Popove, Y. Popove, K. Ungard, G. Wotawaf (Journal of Environmental Radioactivity) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0265931X13002427

Using Atmospheric Transport Modelling, which calculates the three-dimensional travel path of airborne radioactivity on the basis of weather data, the DPRK test site was identified as a possible source for the emission. Watch a video showing this.

Reference: U.N. detects possible signs of past North Korea nuclear test (CBS News) http://www.cbsnews.com/news/un-detects-possible-signs-of-past-north-korea-nuclear-test/

Civil and Scientific Uses of CTBTO Data The Chelyabinski meteor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelyabinsk_meteor Infrasonic waves from the meteor that broke up over Russia's Ural mountains on 15 February 2013 were the largest ever recorded by the CTBTO's International Monitoring System. The blast was detected by 20 infrasound stations in the CTBTO's network.

Russian Fireball Largest Ever Detected by CTBTO's Infrasound Sensors https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-8ij80vs1E

References: ‘Russian meteor blast was the largest ever recorded by CTBTO,’ Nature Blog http://blogs.nature.com/news/2013/06/russian-meteor-blast-was-the-largest-ever-recorded.html

Suggested additional sentence under the On Site Inspection heading.

….From 10 November to 9 December 2014, a full-scale exercise of an on-site inspection (known as the Integrated Field Exercise 2014 or IFE14) was carried out in Jordan and Austria. It involved four years of preparation, 150 tonnes of specialized equipment and over 200 international experts.

References: On Site Inspection IFE14 Jordan http://www.ctbto.org/specials/integrated-field-exercise-2014/ Major nuclear inspection under way in Jordan (Aljazeera)http://www.aljazeera.com/video/americas/2014/11/major-nuclear-inspection-under-way-jordan-20141117103757770673.html Chilling radiation exercises by the Dead Sea (The Independent)http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/chilling-radiation-exercises-by-the-dead-sea-9863426.html Middle East Extra – Jordan Nuclear Exercise, Jordan (Associated Press) http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/Middle-East-Extra-Jordan-Nuclear-Exercise/2880897e1dee05915091f2d9714331bd?query=ife14&current=1&orderBy=Relevance&hits=1&referrer=search&search=%2fsearch%3fstartd%3d%26endd%3d%26allFilters%3d%26query%3dife14%26advsearchStartDateFilter%3d%26advsearchEndDateFilter%3d%26searchFilterHdSDFormat%3dAll%26searchFilterDigitized%3dAll%26searchFiltercolorFormat%3dAll%26searchFilteraspectratioFormat%3dAll&allFilters=&productType=IncludedProducts&page=1&b=4331bd — Preceding unsigned comment added by KNGH (talk • contribs) 15:36, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Hi there and thanks for the message. I'm afraid that all I did on the CTBTO article was to move it following a request. I don't really know enough about this topic area to do your excellent research justice so I'll recuse myself from carrying out the requested addition. I don't see that WP:COI applies here—you would be adding referenced material from a non-partisan source, which is not an area that the policy is designed to cover. Please let me know if the addition is still an issue for you and I will come up with an alternative. Best,  Philg88 ♦talk 06:26, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

WP:Co-op news for December 2014 – Feburary 2015
Hey, it's been a while. The Co-op team has been hard at work during over the winter, so let's get right into what's been happening: Thanks to all of the new mentors who have joined over the past few months. Big thanks to to posting about our little project here to the gendergap-l mailing list. <b style="font-family:Candara;color:green">I, JethroBT</b> drop me a line 00:47, 13 February 2015 (UTC) on behalf of Wikipedia:Co-op.
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 * We've finished up a survey for newer editors to assess their experiences of using existing help spaces (e.g. Reference Desk, Teahouse, IRC, The Wikipedia Adventure) on en.wikipedia.  is putting together a summary of that survey, and in the meantime, some findings from that survey of 45 newer editors include:
 * On average, editors found contributing to Wikipedia to be easier after using the help space compared to before.
 * However, after using one or more help spaces, only half of editors reported that editing, addressing social challenges, and resolving technical issues were easy or very easy. The other half of editors were either neutral, or reported that these matters were difficult or very difficult.
 * Just under 30% (11 of 38 editors) of newer editors said they probably would have stopped editing entirely had they not received support from the help space they used.
 * Editors frequently reported either 1) that they would not have been learn what they needed without the help space, or 2) That they could have found it, but admitted that it would have been difficult or taken much longer.
 * We will be making one final move of the pilot start date to March 4th, 2015. This is the last move (I promise), because we can't afford to run the pilot any later than that.  So there it is:  March 4th or bust!  But we won't bust, because there are just a few things left on our plate before we can run our pilot successfully.  I'll be alerting you about when you will be able to make mentor profiles soon, so when you get a message about that, please take a minute or two to create your profile here (otherwise, you won't get matched to any editors!).

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EVINE Live
Move edit: (06:34) "Philg88 moved page EVine Live to EVINE Live: Requested at WP:RM as uncontroversial." Well if you check the talk page contested the move there 3 minutes (06:31) before you made the move. I just recently found the whole name change business Evine/ShopHQ through a Navbox and would have contested the move too. Can not seem to contest it at WP:RM. You can read my reasons for contesting and what it should be at the talk page. --Spshu (talk) 22:57, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
 * I have reverted the move: EVINE Live to EVine Live. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 23:04, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks . Philg88 ♦talk 09:15, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

Notability
Dear Mr. Holmes, I need some help with this article. Is the subject notable? The sources are in Chinese, which is acceptable but I can't verify. It also needs some work. So I need some help. Thanks, Dr. Watson aka  Jim  Car  ter  05:34, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
 * @Jim Carter:  It appears to have been deleted???  Philg88 ♦talk 05:44, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes, I just now noticed. It was a wrong deletion. The deletion reason is unacceptable per WP:HANDLE. I have left a message on the deleting admin's talk page to restore it immediately. Recently, an admin was de-sysop'd after an Arbcom case for this sort of deletion.  Jim  Car  ter  05:50, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
 * OK, let me know if and when it's back then I'll take a look. Philg88 ♦talk 08:37, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
 * It's back here. Looking forward to fix the mess and make a DYK. What you say?  Jim  Car  ter  05:50, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

He's certainly notable. I've added the appropriate interwiki link and his Chinese name. The article requires a lot of work, which really needs someone who understands Chinese and this period of history. Right now, I am quite busy with off-Wiki partnership projects for the Wikipedia Library so I don't have time to do the clean up. Philg88 ♦talk 06:05, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
 * I will go ahead and will do general clean up. If you get some time please try to do some work. No rush. I will ask Zanhe to add some English sources.  Jim Car ter  06:15, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Sure. Philg88 ♦talk 09:16, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

Please type your message title here
Thanks for moving my page! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ward2022 (talk • contribs) 09:53, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
 * @Ward2022:  You're welcome. Next time, please submit your article via articles for creation, not requested moves. Thanks and happy editing!  Philg88 ♦talk 09:56, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

The past is a different country.
"The past is a different country."

Best. RFA vote. Ever.

That is all. Begoon &thinsp; talk 13:49, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
 * ... Um ... Thank, but I'm afraid it's lifted from The Go-Between (I had to look that up :-) ). Philg88 ♦talk 17:37, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

CE
Copyedit please. Thanks!  Jim Car ter  12:08, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
 * ✅ Philg88 ♦talk 05:53, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

RE: ANI closure
You have closed this, you may want to correct because one editor is blocked for 24 hours and other editor is blocked for a week. I would've surely commented there. I believe that issue is not really ending here. Раціональне анархіст had removed comments before as well after mislabeling them as WP:NPA.  Occult Zone  (Talk • Contributions • Log) 10:17, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
 * @OccultZone:  Thanks for the correction, it was early. As for the closure, as a distinct incident it is resolved. ANI is not the forum to speculate on what may or may not happen in the future-if a problem arises subsequently then it can be dealt with in a separate report. Cheers,  Philg88 ♦talk 13:01, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * That's kind of you, Jim, thanks. Content is and always will be at the heart of Wikipedia. The admin stuff is a necessary adjunct to keep things running smoothly. Best, Philg88 ♦talk 18:08, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes, after all we are here to build the encyclopedia.  Jim Car ter  05:07, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
 * YGM.  Jim Car  ter  05:09, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
 * No I haven't. Please check it went through OK. Philg88 ♦talk 06:54, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
 * I've replied. Cheers, Philg88 ♦talk 07:51, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
 * You received my mail which I send earlier today?  Jim Car  ter  10:20, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes, and I replied. Do you want me to resend? Cheers, Philg88 ♦talk 16:53, 21 February 2015 (UTC)