User talk:Wxtrackercody

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For the WC2017 the prizes will be as follows (amounts are based in US$ and will be awarded in the form of an online Amazon gift certificate): First place – $200 Second & Third place – $50 each Category prizes – $25 per category (which will be limited to FA, FL, FP, GA, and DYK for 2017). Winning a category prize does not require making it to the final round. Note: Monetary prizes are a one-year experiment for 2017 and may or may not be continued in the future. In order to be eligible to receive any of the prizes above, the competing Wikipedia account must have a valid/active email address. After two years as a WikiCup judge, Figureskatingfan is stepping down. We thank her for her contributions as a WikiCup judge. We are pleased to announce that our newest judge is two-time WikiCup champion Cwmhiraeth. The judges for the 2017 WikiCup are Godot13 (talk · contribs · email), Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs), and Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email). Signups are open now and will remain open until 5 February 2017. You can sign up here. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:03, 14 December 2016 (UTC) Help with draft for April 2014 tornado Hey, since I saw you make the article for the 2015 Rochelle–Fairdale, Illinois tornado, I think maybe you can help in creating the draft and eventual article for the EF4 tornado that struck Mayflower and Vilonia in April of 2014. The draft is over at Draft:2014 Mayflower–Vilonia, Arkansas tornado if you want to help. --MarioProtIV (talk/contribs) 01:48, 2 February 2017 (UTC) Sure. I'll work on the Meteorological synopsis tonight and tomorrow. TropicalAnalystwx13 (talk · contributions) 02:48, 2 February 2017 (UTC) 2015-16 swio Hi, if you plan on doing the review I felt like I should let you know that I'm planning on adding this link that JR had on the talkpage that I literally just noticed, to the seasonal outlook section. It's really late right now though so I'll have to do that in the afternoon tomorrow. atomic7732 12:23, 26 February 2017 (UTC) March 2017 WikiCup newsletter And so ends the first round of the competition, with 4 points required to qualify for round 2. It would have been 5 points, but when a late entrant was permitted to join the contest in February, a promise was made that his inclusion would not result in the exclusion of any other competitor. To achieve this, the six entrants that had the lowest positive score of 4 points have been added to the 64 people who otherwise would have qualified. As a result, some of the groups have nine contestants rather than eight. 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Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth 13:52, 1 March 2017 (UTC) March 2017 nor'easter Do you think you can help (with some other editors as well) expand March 2017 nor'easter? It looks to be quite a big storm for the Northeast and it will definitely need an article at some point. --MarioProtIV (talk/contribs) 14:33, 12 March 2017 (UTC) @TropicalAnalystwx13: any response? would like one soon IMO (too pushy? whoops :P) --MarioProtIV (talk/contribs) 12:16, 13 March 2017 (UTC) @MarioProtIV: Sorry! Missed this yesterday. I'll see what I can add even though winter storm articles aren't my forte. TropicalAnalystwx13 (talk · contributions) 19:28, 13 March 2017 (UTC) @TropicalAnalystwx13: mind uploading a more recent nighttime IR of the storm (similar to what you did here)? Can't find any besides the one NOAA has (which was when it was still forming and disorganized). --MarioProtIV (talk/contribs) 01:55, 14 March 2017 (UTC) Conversion of time to date in old tornado articles (e.g., this one) Hello. I originally queried United States Man about this issue. Do you care to address it? I am trying to revise the 1974 article above and would appreciate clarification on this matter. Thanks! CapeVerdeWave (talk) 16:50, 12 March 2017 (UTC) @CapeVerdeWave: All tornadoes are listed in UTC for consistency (since some tornadoes touch down in EDT, others in CDT, more in PDT, etc). However, midnight central time is the cut-off for tornadoes of a particular day, something started by NOAA. During daylight saving time, that means a tornado at 05:00 UTC falls under the subsequent day. Outside of daylight saving time (like for these past few outbreaks), it's 06:00 UTC. TropicalAnalystwx13 (talk · contributions) 17:53, 12 March 2017 (UTC) @TropicalAnalystwx13: Oh, I am familiar with that. My main issue, highlighted in bold, is this: "In 1974, as today, several states—and even metropolitan areas, as this case illustrates—either used daylight saving or standard time, and different areas of a state often varied in usage. Furthermore, the boundaries of time zones in some states changed between 1974 and today, or are still in flux. When listing the dates of tornadoes that occurred after midnight in the same outbreak, should I base the date on local standard or (seasonally) daylight saving time, depending on which was locally in effect at the time a tornado affected a particular area, and should this depend on which time zone crossed the area in 1974 or currently? Finding out all the local situations in 1974 would be time-consuming, but I do not wish to add inconsistency to the article(s)." CapeVerdeWave (talk) 18:41, 12 March 2017 (UTC) @CapeVerdeWave: Looking into your post more, I have a few things. One, although useful, Tornado History Project is not the official source and typically doesn't update post-season changes. When working on an article, you want to use the NCEI's Storm Events Database. Just leave the state/area as is, choose your dates, search for "tornado" under event types. Here is April 1-2, 1974's for example. I'm pretty sure NCEI already handles the times for states that have DST vs. ones that don't, and they're all standardized. The dates are still listed in CST, however, so you'll have to convert to UTC based on the time zone. CST to UTC is 6 hours (so, for the first tornado, 15:10 CST + 6hr = 21:10 UTC), CDT to UTC is 5 hours, EST to UTC is 5 hours, EDT to UTC is 4 hours, etc. (google these as needed). Luckily this isn't an issue for modern outbreaks since NCEI provides the number to be added, but it definitely makes early outbreaks more complicated. TropicalAnalystwx13 (talk · contributions) 19:35, 12 March 2017 (UTC) @TropicalAnalystwx13: Thank you for clarifying. However, what if some parts of a state used DST in 1974 but not others? For example, Indiana as a state did not use DST in 1974, but some cities and communities in the state did so voluntarily at the time. Concerning the April 1–2 outbreak, should I convert to DST for the entire state or just the areas of the state that used it, even if only some cities, towns, and/or counties utilized DST? If I understand correctly, then I should just use DST or standard time based on whether the state as a whole (not cities, towns, or counties) used it at the time of the outbreak—right? And I should use current time-zone borders as well, since I can't find maps of the time zones for 1974? CapeVerdeWave (talk) 20:58, 12 March 2017 (UTC) @CapeVerdeWave: As I said above, all that should have been handled by NCEI before they converted all the entries to CST. Just add 6 hours to each entry for your article and you should be good! I can email NCEI for clarification since this hasn't been brought up by a project member before. TropicalAnalystwx13 (talk · contributions) 00:39, 13 March 2017 (UTC) Autopatrolled Hi TropicalAnalystwx13, I just wanted to let you know that I have added the "autopatrolled" permission to your account, as you have created numerous, valid articles. This feature will have no effect on your editing, and is simply intended to reduce the workload on new page patrollers. For more information on the patroller right, see Wikipedia:Autopatrolled. Feel free to leave me a message if you have any questions. Happy editing! Ks0stm (T•C•G•E) 06:26, 16 March 2017 (UTC) Draft on outbreak Can you help with expanding the meteorological synopsis (or the entire article) on the draft for the tornado outbreak that's expected to occur today? You seem really good at expanding other tornado-related stuff so... --MarioProtIV (talk/contribs) 17:16, 2 April 2017 (UTC) Draft thing Can you add more to the synopsis on your draft for the 4/2–4/3 tornado outbreak? You seem good at doing such summaries, like you did for the 2/28–3/1 and 3/6–3/7 outbreaks. I got a little bit of a head start so yeah. --MarioProtIV (talk/contribs) 18:32, 15 April 2017 (UTC) I'll write the section tomorrow night or Monday. TropicalAnalystwx13 (talk · contributions) 02:38, 16 April 2017 (UTC) Arlene geo image Thank you for your response and ok I agree with that. But what do you mean by "not updated for one"? Typhoon2013 (talk) 21:47, 20 April 2017 (UTC) When I clicked on it, the most recent image was from 6z yesterday. I see someone updated it a few minutes ago. TropicalAnalystwx13 (talk · contributions) 22:08, 20 April 2017 (UTC) May 2017 WikiCup newsletter The second round of the competition has now closed, with just under 100 points being required to qualify for round 3. YellowEvan just scraped into the next round with 98 points but we have to say goodbye to the thirty or so competitors who didn't achieve this threshold; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia. Our top scorers in round 2 were: Cas Liber, led the field with five featured articles, four on birds and one on astronomy, and a total score of 2049, half of which came from bonus points. 1989 was in second place with 826 points, 466 of which were bonus points. 1989 has claimed points mostly relating to anime and Japanese-related articles. Peacemaker67 took third place with two FAs, one GA and seven GARs, mostly on naval vessels or military personnel, scoring 543 points. Other contestants who scored over 400 points were Freikorp, Carbrera, and Czar. Of course all these points are now wiped out and the 32 remaining contestants start again from zero in round 3. Vivvt submitted the largest number of DYKs (30), and MBlaze Lightning achieved 13 articles at ITN. Carbrera claimed for 11 GAs and Argento Surfer performed the most GARs, having reviewed 11. So far we have achieved 38 featured articles and a splendid 132 good articles. Commendably, 279 GARs have been achieved so far, more than double the number of GAs. So, on to the third round. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed in round 3. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points equally. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth 13:16, 1 May 2017 (UTC) 4/28–5/1 tornado outbreak thing When you can, could you make the meteorological synopsis for the tornado outbreak that just occurred over the weekend? Not in a rush or anything but the current one got messed up since I had to move the page, so yeah lol. I'll probably upload a few images and possibly get a head start on it though. --MarioProtIV (talk/contribs) 00:39, 2 May 2017 (UTC) You've got mail! Hello, Wxtrackercody. Please check your email; you've got mail! The subject is Newspapers.com The Wikipedia Library. Message added 16:24, 3 May 2017 (UTC). It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{ygm}} template. --Cameron11598 (Talk) 16:24, 3 May 2017 (UTC) Your GA nomination of 1945 Atlantic hurricane season The article 1945 Atlantic hurricane season you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:1945 Atlantic hurricane season for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Juliancolton -- Juliancolton (talk) 18:00, 7 May 2017 (UTC) Just a note... ...on updating + uploading Geostationary images (as you did to Adrian), please name the file right, which now I have requested it to rename the image. Also when updating, put the full date of the image because adding something like 0045Z does not help as the date is unknown. Just copy my guidelines as I did to the SHem ones. And I'm sorry I have not been updating much, I am literally busy with a lot of stuff atm and I appreciate the help by you and other people too. Typhoon2013 (talk) 08:28, 11 May 2017 (UTC) Your GA nomination of 1943 Atlantic hurricane season Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article 1943 Atlantic hurricane season you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of 12george1 -- 12george1 (talk) 05:00, 29 May 2017 (UTC) Copyright problem on List of United States tornadoes from March to April 2008 Hi TropicalAnalystwx13. Copying description material from the NOAA website is ok, but you have to give attribution so that our readers are made aware that you copied the prose rather than wrote it yourself. I've added the attribution for this particular article. If you could do the same in the future that would be perfect. Thanks, — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:52, 29 May 2017 (UTC) @Diannaa: - Hi, those are actually my own written summaries. Some of them may be similar because there's only so many ways to write "trees were snapped or uprooted" and "outbuildings were damaged or destroyed," but there are certainly not copied strictly from NOAA. CopyVio has a 21% (violation unlikely) because of one link, with 2% or less for the other 300 odd references. :) TropicalAnalystwx13 (talk · contributions) 21:53, 29 May 2017 (UTC) Some of your additions are being flagged as copyvio by the CopyPatrol bot. Please see this report and this one for example. If you click on the iThenticate link you can view the overlapping content. I agree this is not a serious issue, but if the content is super similar the attribution should be given, either a general statement at the bottom of the article like I did, or by using the {{PD-notice}} template. Thanks, — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 22:02, 29 May 2017 (UTC) Your GA nomination of 1943 Atlantic hurricane season The article 1943 Atlantic hurricane season you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:1943 Atlantic hurricane season for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of 12george1 -- 12george1 (talk) 01:21, 3 June 2017 (UTC) The WikiCup Just a reminder, DYKs should not be claimed until they appear on the front page, at which time you should get a notification on your talk page. You need take no further action about the 1827 North Carolina hurricane submission, and I will approve it when appropriate (should be in two days time). For the WikiCup judges, Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:56, 4 June 2017 (UTC) Your GA nomination of 1827 North Carolina hurricane Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article 1827 North Carolina hurricane you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Yellow Evan -- Yellow Evan (talk) 23:21, 4 June 2017 (UTC) DYK for 1827 North Carolina hurricane On 6 June 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article 1827 North Carolina hurricane, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Andrew Jackson's objection to a renewed embargo between the United States and West Indies in the wake of the 1827 North Carolina hurricane helped him win the presidency a year later? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/1827 North Carolina hurricane. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, 1827 North Carolina hurricane), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. Mifter (talk) 00:04, 6 June 2017 (UTC) Bret formation date Hi TropicalAnalystwx13. I have a query regarding your reversion of my edit about Tropical Storm Bret's formation date. Why should we only say that a tropical cyclone has formed when it intensifies into a storm? This would mean that any tropical depression that does not strengthen into a cyclone would never have a formation date. This is clearly incorrect, as the system obviously would have existed. Tropical storm Arlene only intensified into a tropical storm three hours before 21 April, and yet its formation date is listed as 19 April - in accordance with the NHC's first advisory on the system. Even if it is termed a 'potential tropical cyclone', the system has clearly already formed if the NHC has begun issuing advisories on it. It may not be a tropical storm yet, but the system itself has still formed, and that is what the 'formation date' refers to. Although my Wikipedia account is only slightly over 2 months old, there have been multiple cyclone systems that I have involved myself with, and I am almost certain that the formation dates we gave to the systems have coincided with the first advisory from the basin's meteorological organisation. I think it would be improper for us to decide ourselves by our own arbitrary criteria whether or not the system has formed or not. The fact that the NHC issued an advisory means that the system exists (otherwise they wouldn't be issuing an advisory) and it is significant enough to warrant their time and effort in publishing information solely regarding that particular system. Consequently, we should use 18 June as the formation date for the sake of proper conduct regarding the use of sourced information rather than our own assessment of the system, and additionally for continuity within the article, across other articles from the same basin, and across other basins as well. I'd love to hear your thoughts on this. ChocolateTrain (talk) 03:09, 21 June 2017 (UTC) @ChocolateTrain: - The new system NHC is using is different to other basins, and I think there's still a lot of people confused about it. A potential tropical cyclone is not the same as a tropical depression or tropical storm. It's still a tropical disturbance. NHC started this new system so that tropical storm watches and warnings could be issued for coastlines where the current disturbance *is expected to* organize into a tropical cyclone (either a tropical depression or storm). No other basin does this. So while NHC began advisories on June 18 for the wave so that they could issue warnings for the Windward Islands, it did not officially met the criteria of a tropical cyclone until the following day. From the 21z advisory yesterday, "An Air Force WC-130 invest mission this afternoon into the disturbance was able - after much effort - to find a well-defined closed circulation...Because the system has developed a well-defined center, it is now considered a tropical storm and has been named Bret." This was a vigorous wave, hence why it went from disturbance to tropical storm. If it only possessed 30kt winds yesterday, it would have gone from Potential Tropical Cyclone Two to Tropical Depression Two. It still would not have been considered a tropical cyclone until that point. TropicalAnalystwx13 (talk · contributions) 03:34, 21 June 2017 (UTC) Thanks a lot for the clarification. You've been very helpful. :) ChocolateTrain (talk) 03:49, 21 June 2017 (UTC) Your GA nomination of 1827 North Carolina hurricane The article 1827 North Carolina hurricane you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:1827 North Carolina hurricane for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Yellow Evan -- Yellow Evan (talk) 01:21, 24 June 2017 (UTC) Your GA nomination of Hurricane Adrian (1999) Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Hurricane Adrian (1999) you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Yellow Evan -- Yellow Evan (talk) 21:01, 28 June 2017 (UTC) Your GA nomination of Hurricane Adrian (1999) The article Hurricane Adrian (1999) you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Hurricane Adrian (1999) for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Yellow Evan -- Yellow Evan (talk) 22:41, 28 June 2017 (UTC) WikiCup 2017 July newsletter The third round of the competition has finished in a flurry of last minute activity, with 288 points being required to qualify for round 4. It was a hotly competitive round with all but four of the contestants exceeding the 106 points that was necessary to proceed to round 4 last year. Coemgenus and Freikorp tied on 288, and both have been allowed to proceed, so round 4 now has one pool of eight competitors and one of nine. Round 3 saw the achievement of a 26-topic Featured topic by MPJ-DK as well as 5 featured lists and 13 featured articles. PanagiotisZois and SounderBruce achieved their first ever featured articles. Carbrera led the GA score with 10, Tachs achieved 17 DYKs and MBlaze Lightning 10 In the news items. There were 167 DYKs, 93 GARs and 82 GAs overall, this last figure being higher than the number of GAs in round 2, when twice as many people were taking part. Even though contestants performed more GARs than they achieved GAs, there was still some frustration at the length of time taken to get articles reviewed. As we start round 4, we say goodbye to the fifteen or so competitors who didn't quite make it; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them (some people have fallen foul of this rule and the points have been removed). If you are concerned that your nomination, whether it be for a good article, a featured process, or anything else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. It would be helpful if this list could be cleared of any items no longer relevant. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth 05:38, 30 June 2017 (UTC) TFL notification Hi, TropicalAnalystwx13. I'm just posting to let you know that Timeline of the 2011 Atlantic hurricane season – a list that you have been heavily involved with – has been chosen to appear on the Main Page as Today's featured list for July 28. The TFL blurb can be seen here. If you have any thoughts on the selection, please post them on my talk page or at TFL talk. Regards, Giants2008 (Talk) 23:20, 3 July 2017 (UTC) Thank you Thank you for your thorough good article review and useful notes of 5 July 2017. The issues have been addressed. Do you have additional comments? Thank you again. 13.54.152.171 (talk) 17:30, 9 July 2017 (UTC)