SkoreKeep

Third Sweep completed

9/1/14

I just completed the third sweep of all the List of Nuclear Weapons Tests pages with the latest contents of the testing database and the latest formatting. As is normal for such work, as I have discovered, BattyBot immediately edited every page with two kinds of corrections: change in my date formats, and rearranging the references for each of the tests. I have discovered, alas, after finishing, that I have been incorrect in what I thought was the correct date format. I'd been using yyyy mmmmm dd, instead of the proper dd mmmmm yyyy, and so Batty is entirely within his rights to hang me out to dry. I went into the database and manually changed all the incorrect dates I could find, but that doesn't fix them on the pages until the next sweep is done, perhaps in the dead of winter. As for the reference order, I have found that since I only supply the infobox and the table (and a short text if nothing else exists), I cannot predict the correct order, and so BattyBot need not worry about incipient underemployment.

I also see that there has been some problems with the use of the n-dash in the titles of the Soviet and French test pages. I've essayed some corrected code, but again, it won't show up until the next sweep.

In addition, all talk pages now contain a declaration about the fact of the automatic generation of the infobox and table on each page from a database. So far, no one else has commented.

9/15/14

Uh-oh, they don't like me using collapse tag on the table notes. They suggest minimizing the notes (of course), and then made some specific suggestions. I combined the UT and local times, so needn't explain how to do it (Yeah, obvious, I know.) Separate notes on the Names column per country. Eliminate Fallout, Notes and/or Device columns if there are no entries in them for a particular page. Notes are a little shorter. Need to automate Pakistan, India and NK pages for more than one table on these pages; they're too error prone doing it manually.