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February 2007

Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #9

Number 9, February 4, 2007

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."The NHC is the official basin for the Atlantic."^[1]

Storm of the month

Cyclone Clovis was named late on December 31 near to Tromelin Island. Clovis strengthened as it moved to the southwest reaching its peak the same day with 60 knot winds (according to Météo-France). The JTWC intensified Clovis more slowly, and assessed that it reached its peak with 65 knot winds on January 2, as it was nearing the Madagascar coast. The JTWC maintained this strength until it made landfall on the island on January 3. The resulting floods damaged a number of structures in Mananjary and about 1,500 people had to be evacuated.^[2]

Other tropical cyclone activity
The only activity during January was in the Southern Hemisphere, with a total of 5 cyclones existing throughout the month.

Dora, the second cyclone the Southwest Indian Ocean formed late in January well to the east of Réunion; and reached tropical cyclone strength at the start of February.
The two storms in the South Pacific, Zita and Arthur followed very similar tracks to the east of the Dateline. The JTWC estimated that Zita reached its peak on January 23 and Arthur briefly had hurricane force winds two days later.
Cyclone Isobel formed between Indonesia and Australia late in December and headed south, making landfall in Western Australia on January 3 as a minimal Tropical Cyclone.

New articles and improvements wanted

Articles are wanted for each of the tropical cyclone breakpoints (see this list).
An article is wanted for Tropical Storm Debbie (1965).
The Southern Hemisphere tropical cyclone seasons articles need splitting into the 3 component basins.
This sandbox for Typhoon Durian badly needs completion, please help.
Large chunks of the project's imagery needs proper categorization.
The number of stubs has markedly increased in the past few months, please improve them.

Member of the month

Cyclone barnstar

The January member of the month is Chacor, formerly known as NSLE. Chacor joined the project in November 2005, and has contributed to a wide variety of articles across the project. Recently he has generally focussed on the West Pacific and did most of the work on the first Good article in that basin: Typhoon Ewiniar (2006). He has also started the much needed process of splitting the Southern Hemisphere seasonal articles. Finally, Chacor is probably the user who maintains the quality of the most visible part of the project, the current activity.

Main Page content

Hurricane Juan appeared on the Main Page as Today's Featured Article on January 29.
Entries from 3 articles: 2000 Sri Lanka Cyclone, Hurricane Ignacio (2003) and Hurricane Bob (1979) appeared on the Main Page in the Did you know column during June.

New and improved articles

The WikiProject has its first Featured topic on Retired Pacific hurricanes.
New Featured articles: Hurricane Ismael, Hurricane Juan and the Effects of Hurricane Isabel in Delaware and Maryland and Washington D.C..
New Wikipedia:Good articles: 2000 Sri Lanka Cyclone, Hurricane Iwa, Hurricane Alice, Hurricane Kenna and 1936 Atlantic hurricane season.
New articles include: Hurricane Ignacio (2003), Hurricane Cindy (1963), Hurricane Isaac (2006) and Chris Landsea.

Storm article statistics

Grade	Nov	Dec	Jan	Feb
FA	16	19	23	25
A	7	6	2	2
GA	48	57	74	75
B	83	78	71	76
Start	210	200	193	195
Stub	11	15	16	16
Total	375	375	379	389
percentage Less than B	58.9	57.3	55.1	54.2

A quick note: When you create a new article please list it in the appropriate section on the project's page and add a fact from the article to the Portal. Thanks.

Double Redirects

You recently requested a doubleredirect bot.

Please Vote here: http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8799 ;

Then the page will start to update again: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:DoubleRedirects

thnx. --Parker007 05:06, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Thank You!

Thank You for the barn star! It's my first one! :D ->AMK152^{(Talk • Contributions • Send message)} 00:41, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!

I appreciate that barn star. :) :: Colin Keigher (Talk) 18:28, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Top 20

I linked it wrong, sorry. Thanks for telling me, though.

Thanks

Thank you for signing my autograph book! · AndonicO ^{Talk · Sign Here} 00:20, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Front page protection

Hi. You wrote:

Don't one of those guidelines state that all images and articles that link from the main page should be semi-protected?

I'm quite sure this is mistaken. The Wikipedia:Protection policy states:

It is not appropriate to fully protect the day's Featured Article except in extraordinary cases. For a rationale of this, see Wikipedia:Main Page featured article protection. Other pages linked from the Main Page may be semi or fully protected if under attack, though more leeway should be given with these than with most articles.

In general, it is acceptable to protect main-page articles in extreme cases, but this is by no means the norm; a higher standard should be required. Let me know if you have other questions. Thanks.

--Ryan Delaney ^talk 23:36, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Indeed, WP:NOPRO is for the main page featured article. I should have referred to the protection policy in my unprotection of the article, which I quoted above. --Ryan Delaney ^talk 21:05, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Thank you

Awww...my first barnstar...thanks! --Tewy 00:37, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Zog-Zog

Sorry about that.. it looked to me like the article was about a specific monkey, not a new species of monkey(zog-zog also sounded like a cute monkey name to me I guess). Perhaps you can clarify the article by stating that the monkey discovered is of a newly discovered species, thereby establishing the notability. Danski14 00:38, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

My quotes, BJAODN

So you took the quote that I gathered, and put it in BJAODN, eh? That's perfectly fine! It's the funniest unblock reasons I've seen... and how stoically Pilotguy refused it! Glad that you got a laugh out of it. Gracenotes ^T § 05:08, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

?'s

on ur main page u said u wer makeing user boxes at that sand box thing wat is that and how do u make them thx --Rsivad 22:54, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Just a note...

As of the last build of Wiki, you can't do a cross-name space redirect (IE: To meta.) that will work. Wikipedia uses "Soft Redirects" to make it work. Logical2u_Talk 21:56, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

I'm vague; I guess what I meant to say is that a cross-name space redirect won't work (yet). Soft-redirects are weird, here's the guide page on'em : Wikipedia:Soft redirect. Hope it explains it better than I can. Logical2u_Talk 22:03, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Hmm, I didn't know that. You learn something new everyday. Thanks! Logical2u_Talk 22:22, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

ya i understand wat u mean

i no wat u mean about the table but those things on my table are the things u make the code with. lol ive been studying lol. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Rsivad (talk • contribs) 23:27, 22 February 2007 (UTC).

another ?

do u no wow to make a link where i can experument with out messing up my other things —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rsivad (talk • contribs)

Thanks

Thank you for signing my Autograph Book!!! Leor Natanov 16:24, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you for signing my Autograph Book!!! --Cremepuff222 (talk, sign book) 00:05, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

Userpage protection

One of the newer admins denied the protection, but then I saw it and accepted the protection and left a note at the admin's user talk page.

If you think the vandalism is still going to be a problem, do you want me to fully protect the page? If I do that, then even you can't edit your userpage. Nishkid 64 21:37, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Your sigs page

Thanks for letting me know about that. He he he... I read what the guy wrote. Actually I kind of like it. O well. Thanks for removing it. Captain panda In vino veritas 03:29, 27 February 2007 (UTC)