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Plasticup, hi! Thank you for your message on my talk page here. I am happy to alter Image:Area preparations for Hurricane Dean August 19 2007.png to include Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Tabasco and Campeche, but I will need sources that state they did undergo preparations before Dean struck and sources for the date on which those preparations started. If those states did not in fact undergo preparations but were caught unprepared, then what you are asking for is a map of affected areas. It's equally easy (well, having to fill in all the islands is time-consuming but no real problem) for me to do a map of either, but either way I will need sources.
Incidentally, if you really want to go to town, then if you could give me sources for each prepared area and the dates they were prepared on, then I could do you a nice choropleth with each area colorcoded depending on when they prepared. If you mean affected instead of prepared, then same difference, but either way, sources are required.
On an associated note, thank you for taking the time to polish the hurricane articles: I know the effort required to bring a suite of articles up to a given standard, so congrats on your diligence.
Hope that helps, regards, Anameofmyveryown ( talk) 02:17, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
You were selected as the Member of the Month in the July issue of the WikiProject Tropical cyclones newsletter. Congratulations! ♬♩ Hurricanehink ( talk) 03:28, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
The Hurricane Herald
This is the monthly newsletter of WikiProject Tropical Cyclones. The Hurricane Herald aims to give a summary, both of the activities of the WikiProject and global tropical cyclone activity. If you wish to change how you receive this newsletter, or no longer wish to receive it, please add your username to the appropriate section on the mailing list. This newsletter covers all of July 2008.
Please visit this page and bookmark any suggestions of interest to you. This will help improve monitoring of the WikiProject's articles.
Storm of the month
Hurricane Bertha was a rare early season Cape Verde-type hurricane and the easternmost forming July tropical storm on record. Bertha became the longest-lived pre-August Atlantic tropical cyclone on record and the longest-lived tropical cyclone in the Atlantic Basin since Ivan in 2004. The second named storm of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season, Bertha developed from a tropical wave that emerged off the coast of Africa on July 1. After initially remaining weak while tracking westward, Bertha began to strengthen on July 6, and the next day it quickly intensified to reach peak winds of 120 mph (195 km/h). The hurricane weakened during the day on July 8, and after turning to a northwest drift, it passed within 40 miles (64 km) of Bermuda on July 14 before moving northeast away from the island. Bertha became extratropical on July 20 to the east of Newfoundland, after causing minimal damage and three indirect drowning deaths.
Other tropical cyclone activity
Member of the month
The July member of the month is User:Plasticup. Joining the project in August of 2007, Plasticup first became an asset in working on the active article series on Hurricane Dean. After a period of inactivity, the user returned to produce two featured articles this month, both interesting meteorological histories. Additionally, Plasticup has focused some attention to articles in the 2005 season. Keep up the good work!
New members
New and improved articles
Main Page content
Storm article statistics </noinclude>
Grade | Apr | May | Jun | Jul |
---|---|---|---|---|
FA | 40 | 41 | 41 | 42 |
A | 8 | 17 | 18 | 18 |
GA | 131 | 129 | 135 | 139 |
B | 103 | 101 | 96 | 15 |
C | 0 | 0 | 3 | 98 |
Start | 208 | 209 | 208 | 202 |
Stub | 9 | 9 | 9 | 10 |
Total | 499 | 506 | 510 | 524 |
ω | 2.92 | 2.88 | 2.87 | 2.94 |
percentage ≥Less than C |
43.5 | 43.1 | 42.5 | 40.5 |
percentage ≥GA or better |
35.9 | 37.0 | 38.0 | 38.0 |
Project News
During July, there were two large changes to the operations of the WikiProject. First, WPTC adopted and helped develop the
WP 1.0 B-Class criteria, and was among the first projects to use a "forced" B-Class rubric as part of their assessment schemes. This means that all the articles tagged with {{hurricane|class=B|...}}
are automatically reassessed as {{
C-Class}}, unless all the values in the
checklist are marked as passed. In other words, to mark an article as B-Class, the banner needs to be changed to
{{ hurricane |class=B |B1=yes |B2=yes |B3=yes |B4=yes |B5=yes |B6=yes | ... }}
B1, B2, B3, B4, B5 and B6 stand for each of the six points in the WikiProject's rubric. The banner also has the capability to mark why an article doesn't meet the new B-Class standards: Typing the following in an article's talk page
{{ hurricane |class=B |B1=no |B2=yes |B3=yes |B4=yes |B5=yes |B6=yes | ... }}
will assess an article as C-Class, and mark that the article is not a B because of bad references.
Articles assessed as B's before the introduction of the forced checklist were automatically reassessed as C's, but they're awaiting new reviews to check if they still meet the new B criteria. These articles are listed on Category:Tropical cyclone articles with incomplete B-Class checklists. Currently, there's 117 articles in the category—let's try to shrink that number to zero before the next edition of the Herald!
The other major change to the WikiProject was the addition of three
task forces: the
storm articles task force,
season articles task force, and the
tropical meteorology articles task force. These three task forces allow WPTC to see the progress of the different areas of the WikiProject. Currently, all 1,076 WPTC articles have been assigned to one of the three task forces, but any unsorted articles will be placed in
Category:Unsorted tropical cyclone articles as they're tagged with {{
hurricane}}
.
In order to categorize an article, the banner needs to be modified from {{hurricane|...}}
to:
{{ hurricane |storms-task-force=yes | ... }} {{ hurricane |seasons-task-force=yes | ... }} {{ hurricane |meteo-task-force=yes | ... }}
which will sort the pages into the storms, seasons, and tropical meteorology task forces, respectively.
Your recent bot approvals request has been denied. Please see the request page for details. – Quadell ( talk) 13:46, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
I also wanted to call to your attention to an item in the Rules of use for AWB that caution to:
Avoid making insignificant or inconsequential edits such as only adding or removing some white space, moving a stub tag, converting some HTML to Unicode, removing underscores from links (unless they are bad links), or something equally trivial. This is because it wastes resources and clogs up watch lists.
(Emphasis as in the original.) Your edits of numerous aviation articles would certainly seem to fit the exact type of edit AWB users are to avoid. Please watch use of it to avoid edits like this in the future. FWiW Bzuk ( talk) 04:06, 10 August 2008 (UTC).
Sure, I'd encourage wikiproject input. Good luck! The Rambling Man ( talk) 06:52, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
Hallo, Plasticbot got it wrong here by "correcting" deliberately incorrect spellings. Worth looking out for examples like that - I regularly clean up "should of" etc, but I watch out for when it's in a quote or album title etc so needs to be left alone! PamD ( talk) 07:15, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the follow up. Everything was fine with how you fixed my concerns. ♬♩ Hurricanehink ( talk) 16:32, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar | ||
I award you this barnstar for two things. First for producing a seemingly endless stream of quality content, including two pieces of featured content in one day! And second for being bold enough to FAC 2005 Azores subtropical storm, an article which I never thought would reach GA given it's former length. – Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 17:09, 18 August 2008 (UTC) |
I am reviewing your article for GA status. Of course I think it is a very good, well-written article and have mentioned only a few things on the comment page. — Mattisse ( Talk) 21:48, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi! I have completed the GA review of Tropical Storm Alpha (2005), with the full review located at Talk:Tropical Storm Alpha (2005)/GA1. There are just a few minor concerns that I would like you to address before I pass the article. I have put the article on hold for seven days in order to give you time to do this. If you have questions, you can ask them on the review page or on my talk page. Dana boomer ( talk) 01:39, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
ToneDef Dancer ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log) is a sockpuppet of banned user Wiki brah ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log) who adds malicious misinformation to FLa related articles. Please do not re-revert the removal of his "contributions". – iride scent 22:36, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
Wrt this comment: Please see my stance on the issue and try to understand why I think that your comment is not a good idea. Believe me when I say that I can totally relate and fully agree in spirit with your comment. But it isn't directly related to the discussion at hand and therefore shouldn't be posted to the RfA page. user: Everyme 19:05, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I'm wondering what you used to create the gif from the satellite animation for Fay. Could you tell me what you used to create it? I would possibly use it for similar purposes on Wikipedia. Thanks. Hello32020 ( talk) 20:10, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
Thanks, and thanks for the note. I hadn't even noticed it was promoted. – Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 21:06, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
Hello, I was wondering how I might be able to join the Tropical Cyclone Wikiproject. If you have any information please contact me on my user page. I am very interested in tropical cyclones and would love to lend a helping hand. Thanks! ( Hurricaneguy ( talk) 21:58, 24 August 2008 (UTC))
Hi,
I was just wondering, did I resolve all of the issues you raised in the FAC? could you please respond at the peer review I set up.
Thank you for your time,
-- Jeremy ( Blah blah...) 21:08, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
This page is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Plasticup, hi! Thank you for your message on my talk page here. I am happy to alter Image:Area preparations for Hurricane Dean August 19 2007.png to include Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Tabasco and Campeche, but I will need sources that state they did undergo preparations before Dean struck and sources for the date on which those preparations started. If those states did not in fact undergo preparations but were caught unprepared, then what you are asking for is a map of affected areas. It's equally easy (well, having to fill in all the islands is time-consuming but no real problem) for me to do a map of either, but either way I will need sources.
Incidentally, if you really want to go to town, then if you could give me sources for each prepared area and the dates they were prepared on, then I could do you a nice choropleth with each area colorcoded depending on when they prepared. If you mean affected instead of prepared, then same difference, but either way, sources are required.
On an associated note, thank you for taking the time to polish the hurricane articles: I know the effort required to bring a suite of articles up to a given standard, so congrats on your diligence.
Hope that helps, regards, Anameofmyveryown ( talk) 02:17, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
You were selected as the Member of the Month in the July issue of the WikiProject Tropical cyclones newsletter. Congratulations! ♬♩ Hurricanehink ( talk) 03:28, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
The Hurricane Herald
This is the monthly newsletter of WikiProject Tropical Cyclones. The Hurricane Herald aims to give a summary, both of the activities of the WikiProject and global tropical cyclone activity. If you wish to change how you receive this newsletter, or no longer wish to receive it, please add your username to the appropriate section on the mailing list. This newsletter covers all of July 2008.
Please visit this page and bookmark any suggestions of interest to you. This will help improve monitoring of the WikiProject's articles.
Storm of the month
Hurricane Bertha was a rare early season Cape Verde-type hurricane and the easternmost forming July tropical storm on record. Bertha became the longest-lived pre-August Atlantic tropical cyclone on record and the longest-lived tropical cyclone in the Atlantic Basin since Ivan in 2004. The second named storm of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season, Bertha developed from a tropical wave that emerged off the coast of Africa on July 1. After initially remaining weak while tracking westward, Bertha began to strengthen on July 6, and the next day it quickly intensified to reach peak winds of 120 mph (195 km/h). The hurricane weakened during the day on July 8, and after turning to a northwest drift, it passed within 40 miles (64 km) of Bermuda on July 14 before moving northeast away from the island. Bertha became extratropical on July 20 to the east of Newfoundland, after causing minimal damage and three indirect drowning deaths.
Other tropical cyclone activity
Member of the month
The July member of the month is User:Plasticup. Joining the project in August of 2007, Plasticup first became an asset in working on the active article series on Hurricane Dean. After a period of inactivity, the user returned to produce two featured articles this month, both interesting meteorological histories. Additionally, Plasticup has focused some attention to articles in the 2005 season. Keep up the good work!
New members
New and improved articles
Main Page content
Storm article statistics </noinclude>
Grade | Apr | May | Jun | Jul |
---|---|---|---|---|
FA | 40 | 41 | 41 | 42 |
A | 8 | 17 | 18 | 18 |
GA | 131 | 129 | 135 | 139 |
B | 103 | 101 | 96 | 15 |
C | 0 | 0 | 3 | 98 |
Start | 208 | 209 | 208 | 202 |
Stub | 9 | 9 | 9 | 10 |
Total | 499 | 506 | 510 | 524 |
ω | 2.92 | 2.88 | 2.87 | 2.94 |
percentage ≥Less than C |
43.5 | 43.1 | 42.5 | 40.5 |
percentage ≥GA or better |
35.9 | 37.0 | 38.0 | 38.0 |
Project News
During July, there were two large changes to the operations of the WikiProject. First, WPTC adopted and helped develop the
WP 1.0 B-Class criteria, and was among the first projects to use a "forced" B-Class rubric as part of their assessment schemes. This means that all the articles tagged with {{hurricane|class=B|...}}
are automatically reassessed as {{
C-Class}}, unless all the values in the
checklist are marked as passed. In other words, to mark an article as B-Class, the banner needs to be changed to
{{ hurricane |class=B |B1=yes |B2=yes |B3=yes |B4=yes |B5=yes |B6=yes | ... }}
B1, B2, B3, B4, B5 and B6 stand for each of the six points in the WikiProject's rubric. The banner also has the capability to mark why an article doesn't meet the new B-Class standards: Typing the following in an article's talk page
{{ hurricane |class=B |B1=no |B2=yes |B3=yes |B4=yes |B5=yes |B6=yes | ... }}
will assess an article as C-Class, and mark that the article is not a B because of bad references.
Articles assessed as B's before the introduction of the forced checklist were automatically reassessed as C's, but they're awaiting new reviews to check if they still meet the new B criteria. These articles are listed on Category:Tropical cyclone articles with incomplete B-Class checklists. Currently, there's 117 articles in the category—let's try to shrink that number to zero before the next edition of the Herald!
The other major change to the WikiProject was the addition of three
task forces: the
storm articles task force,
season articles task force, and the
tropical meteorology articles task force. These three task forces allow WPTC to see the progress of the different areas of the WikiProject. Currently, all 1,076 WPTC articles have been assigned to one of the three task forces, but any unsorted articles will be placed in
Category:Unsorted tropical cyclone articles as they're tagged with {{
hurricane}}
.
In order to categorize an article, the banner needs to be modified from {{hurricane|...}}
to:
{{ hurricane |storms-task-force=yes | ... }} {{ hurricane |seasons-task-force=yes | ... }} {{ hurricane |meteo-task-force=yes | ... }}
which will sort the pages into the storms, seasons, and tropical meteorology task forces, respectively.
Your recent bot approvals request has been denied. Please see the request page for details. – Quadell ( talk) 13:46, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
I also wanted to call to your attention to an item in the Rules of use for AWB that caution to:
Avoid making insignificant or inconsequential edits such as only adding or removing some white space, moving a stub tag, converting some HTML to Unicode, removing underscores from links (unless they are bad links), or something equally trivial. This is because it wastes resources and clogs up watch lists.
(Emphasis as in the original.) Your edits of numerous aviation articles would certainly seem to fit the exact type of edit AWB users are to avoid. Please watch use of it to avoid edits like this in the future. FWiW Bzuk ( talk) 04:06, 10 August 2008 (UTC).
Sure, I'd encourage wikiproject input. Good luck! The Rambling Man ( talk) 06:52, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
Hallo, Plasticbot got it wrong here by "correcting" deliberately incorrect spellings. Worth looking out for examples like that - I regularly clean up "should of" etc, but I watch out for when it's in a quote or album title etc so needs to be left alone! PamD ( talk) 07:15, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the follow up. Everything was fine with how you fixed my concerns. ♬♩ Hurricanehink ( talk) 16:32, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar | ||
I award you this barnstar for two things. First for producing a seemingly endless stream of quality content, including two pieces of featured content in one day! And second for being bold enough to FAC 2005 Azores subtropical storm, an article which I never thought would reach GA given it's former length. – Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 17:09, 18 August 2008 (UTC) |
I am reviewing your article for GA status. Of course I think it is a very good, well-written article and have mentioned only a few things on the comment page. — Mattisse ( Talk) 21:48, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi! I have completed the GA review of Tropical Storm Alpha (2005), with the full review located at Talk:Tropical Storm Alpha (2005)/GA1. There are just a few minor concerns that I would like you to address before I pass the article. I have put the article on hold for seven days in order to give you time to do this. If you have questions, you can ask them on the review page or on my talk page. Dana boomer ( talk) 01:39, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
ToneDef Dancer ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log) is a sockpuppet of banned user Wiki brah ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log) who adds malicious misinformation to FLa related articles. Please do not re-revert the removal of his "contributions". – iride scent 22:36, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
Wrt this comment: Please see my stance on the issue and try to understand why I think that your comment is not a good idea. Believe me when I say that I can totally relate and fully agree in spirit with your comment. But it isn't directly related to the discussion at hand and therefore shouldn't be posted to the RfA page. user: Everyme 19:05, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I'm wondering what you used to create the gif from the satellite animation for Fay. Could you tell me what you used to create it? I would possibly use it for similar purposes on Wikipedia. Thanks. Hello32020 ( talk) 20:10, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
Thanks, and thanks for the note. I hadn't even noticed it was promoted. – Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 21:06, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
Hello, I was wondering how I might be able to join the Tropical Cyclone Wikiproject. If you have any information please contact me on my user page. I am very interested in tropical cyclones and would love to lend a helping hand. Thanks! ( Hurricaneguy ( talk) 21:58, 24 August 2008 (UTC))
Hi,
I was just wondering, did I resolve all of the issues you raised in the FAC? could you please respond at the peer review I set up.
Thank you for your time,
-- Jeremy ( Blah blah...) 21:08, 27 August 2008 (UTC)