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User:Philcha

I've been asked by my good friend, Mattisse, to inform the Wikipedia community of Philcha's death on June 4, 2012. I really didn't know Philcha well, he was one of those editors who was always there, always helping, with very little drama. I've just spent the last few minutes looking over Philcha's talk page. His interests were broad, from science fiction to zoology. While our loss is not as great as that of the wife he leaves behind him, it is still considerable.

While Mattisse is not able to edit directly, I think I can do no better than quoting what she says in her email to me.

Philcha struggled for three years with his aggressive brain tumor, always continuing to try to edit wikipedia. Others knew of his struggles and were kind about his obviously failing abilities. He kept in regular contact with me. I can't write this without becoming overwhelmed with a painful sorrow. He was so upbeat and special and above all, kind. He had just written me that he had already lived two years beyond the one year he was given after diagnosis, but his deterioration was evident. He never complained.

--Wehwalt (talk) 21:23, 10 June 2012 (UTC)



Philip Chalmers, called Philcha at Wikipedia, was taken ill on 3 December 2009 and diagnosed as having a brain tumour – a grade 4 glioblastoma multiforme. Following a debulking operation in Kings College Hospital, London, on 31 December 2009 (cutting out the inside of the tumour), Philip has received radiotherapy and chemotherapy at Maidstone Hospital from mid-February to the end of March 2010, and courses of chemotherapy at times later.

The average life expectancy for patients with grade 4 primary brain cancers is 1 year. To date Philip has survived for 2¼ years and is hoping to have several more productive years.

Please mention no names!


Things I've done

I don't do Featured Articles, as I reckon I can do at least 2 Good Articles in the same time, which is better for readers. This and the first paragraph of this are good examples of the extra work required for FAs.

Improved and got passed as GA

Arts and literature
Dragon's Egg — Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets — Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone — James White (author) — Robert Rossen — Sector General
Chess
Alexander Alekhine — Adolf Anderssen — Emanuel Lasker — Howard Staunton — Wilhelm Steinitz
Video games
4X (with Randomran) — Master of Orion II: Battle at Antares — Warcraft: Orcs & Humans
Paleontology
Evolutionary history of life — Fossils of the Burgess Shale (with Smith609) — Kimberella (with Smith609) — Opabinia — Paleontology (with Smith609) — Small shelly fauna
Sport
Jim Baxter — Master of Orion II: Battle at Antares — Warcraft: Orcs & Humans
Zoology
Annelid — Arthropod — Brachiopod — Bryozoa — Chelicerata — Cnidaria — Ctenophora (phylum) — Entoprocta — Flatworm — Maevia inclemens — Mollusca — Nemertea — Phaeacius — Phoronid — Portia fimbriata — Portia labiata — Portia schultzi — Spider (GA reassessment) — Sponge

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Philcha/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Video_games/Reference_library

DYKs that appeared on the Main Page

Agronomic revolution — Jim Baxter — Halofolliculina corallasia — Maevia inclemens — Microbial mat — Phaeacius — Phidippus clarus — Portia fimbriata — Portia labiata — Phylactolaemata — Precambrian rabbit — Turbellaria

New articles

Arts
Culture series — Mambo (film)
Natural sciences
Ausktribosphenidae — Carrier's constraint — Chancelloriidae — Coracoid — Crurotarsal — Dead Clade Walking — Debate about Cambrian Lophotrochozoans if not merged later — Epipubic bone — Evolution of mammals — End-Botomian mass extinction — Epidermis (zoology) — Follicle (anatomy) — Gut (zoology) — Interclavicle — Kuehneotheriidae — Meckelian groove — Microbial mat — Operculum (animal) — Pedicel (spider) — Portia schultzi — Sinotubulites — Suture (anatomical)
Everyday life
Alan Emrich — Development of the World Chess Championship if not merged later — Staunton–Morphy controversy
Engineering and technology
History of IBM mainframe operating systems — OS/360 and successors
Social sciences and society
Memory confusion protocol

GAs I've reviewed and passed

Arts & entertainment
Homer the Moe — Phineas and Ferb — The Rejected — Rocket Science (film)
Botany and mycology
Amanita abrupta — Augustin Pyramus de Candolle
History
Battle of Carillon
Music
His Band and the Street Choir — Mr. Tambourine Man
Paleontology
Tyrannosauridae
Society and business
Great Southern Group
Sport
Ashot Nadanian — Field lacrosse — Lisa Moretti — Milo of Croton — York Park
Zoology
American White Ibis - Blotchy swell shark — Golden White-eye — Northern Bald Ibis — Potcake dog — Rufous-crowned Sparrow — Sperm Whale — Varanus salvadorii

DYKs I've reviewed

Ashot Nadanian — California On-Road Heavy-Duty Diesel Vehicles Regulation — Russell and Sigurd Varian — Spelling of Shakespeare's name


Contributed to FAs

Tyrannosaurus

Contributed to FA reviews

Fertilisation of Orchids — Corn Crake

Projects

Awards I have given

Nice things people have said to me