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This file seems to have info on Pre-Columbian hurricanes (Maya?). All very interesting... I also noticed a Stan impact pic.--Nilfanion (talk) 00:16, 16 September 2006 (UTC) Re: Keith I think I got just what you don't need. Here's the currency converter I use. Hope that helps :) Hurricanehink (talk) 03:09, 16 September 2006 (UTC) By the way, nice cleavage. The article was really lacking in Mexico impact. Hurricanehink (talk) 03:15, 16 September 2006 (UTC) Sweet. Yea, add it all ina bucket of salmon! Later, we can scorch it (like if similar effects are felt), but as long as it isn't duplicated your additions will be very welcome. :D Hurricanehink (talk) 03:27, 16 September 2006 (UTC) Great job. The only problem I see is your lax brother. What's that? Also, stupid ignorant people that think Mexico is in my anus. ;) What was IH thinking? Hurricanehink (talk) 14:03, 16 September 2006 (UTC) Happy Face! Just heard on the IRC channel... Have a nice death! :) —AySz88\^-^ 14:06, 17 September 2006 (UTC) Oops! I suck.—AySz88\^-^ 14:09, 17 September 2006 (UTC) Couple of months early there,I was a virgin.. heh. Of course, does this mean I get early birthday wishes too? :P – Chacor 14:12, 17 September 2006 (UTC) Yeah, several months early... thanks, though. :) Titoxd(?!?) 18:20, 17 September 2006 (UTC) Version 0.5 Natural Science You have tagged Soil as {{v0.5|class=A|category=Natsci}} (appreciated!). I am curious about the Natsci portion of the tag, but could not seem to find such a v0.5 or class A category. Is there a list of articles similarly tagged with category=Natsci or ? Cheers! -- Paleorthid 17:50, 17 September 2006 (UTC) September Esperanza Newsletter Program Feature: Barnstar Brigade Here in Wikipedia there are hundreds of wikipedians whose work and efforts go unappreciated. One occasionally comes across editors who have thousands of good edits, but because they may not get around as much as others, their contributions and hard work often go unnoticed. As Esperanzians we can help to make people feel appreciated, be it by some kind words or the awarding of a Barnstar. This is where the Barnstar Brigade comes in. The object of this program is to seek out the people which deserve a Barnstar, and help them feel appreciated. With your help, we can recognize more dedicated editors! What's New? September elections are upon us! Anyone wishing to be a part of the Advisory Council may list themselves as a candidate from 18 September until 24 September, with the voting taking place from 25 September to 30 September. Those who wish to help with the election staff should also list themselves! Appreciation Week, a program currently in development, now has its own subpage! Share your good ideas on how to make it awesome there! 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Natalya, Banes, Celestianpower, EWS23, FireFox, Freakofnurture, and Titoxd 04:04, 18 September 2006 (UTC) Although having the newsletter appear on everyone's userpage is desired, this may not be ideal for everyone. If, in the future, you wish to receive a link to the newsletter, rather than the newsletter itself, you may add yourself to Wikipedia:Esperanza/Newsletter/Opt Out List. Re: Small announcement We will certainly miss you on the Council, Tito! Thanks for making the time I've gotten to work with you on it awesome, and I look forward to still seeing you around Esperanza and Wikipedia. All the best -- Natalya 04:28, 23 September 2006 (UTC) I'll certainly second that. I'm sure we'll see you around quite a bit, and feel free to drop us a hint/scream at us if you see anything we could be doing better. Cheers, EWS23 (Leave me a message!) 05:02, 23 September 2006 (UTC) Hey Tito :) Any chance of seeing you on IRC?--Nilfanion (talk) 23:15, 23 September 2006 (UTC) RfA thanks Hey Titoxd, thank you for supporting my recent RfA. It finished with an amazing final tally of 160/4/1. I really appreciate your support. Cheers, Sarah Ewart (Talk) 11:16, 24 September 2006 (UTC) Tropical Storm Helene (2000) copyedit Hink told me that I should contact you for a copyedit of the Helene article if I wanted it sent to GAnom. I hope you can copyedit to make it a GA. Thanx. íslenskur fellibylur #12 (samtal) 17:19, 24 September 2006 (UTC) Regarding this edit/TS review Titoxd, regarding this, I was wondering if you speak Spanish, as there is a pattern, which continues today. I've been trying to get this editor to discuss changes (even translating for him) and use edit summaries for a while: in case you don't speak Spanish, I wish we could find an admin who does. On a separate matter, you commented long ago on the peer review for Tourette syndrome; can you have a fresh look at the article whenever you have time (no hurry whatsoever)? Sandy 22:39, 25 September 2006 (UTC) I'll add that article to my list to look at later today. No, I'm not worried about a warning for anything he's said to me - it doesn't really trouble me personally - I was just concerned that someone who speaks Spanish was aware of the tone. Back to you later on Katrina. Sandy 12:27, 26 September 2006 (UTC) Meteorological history of Hurricane Katrina Should the lead have some mention of the devastation? Not sure how you feel about inline citations in the lead, but you might want to cite this in the lead: however, the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico allowed it to rapidly intensify to the sixth strongest Atlantic hurricane in history. Those conditions did not fulfill the criteria for keeping the same name and identity.[2] Change to: The criteria for keeping the same name and identity were not met. (More active voice vs. passive? A style choice for me, not important.) Contradiction in the lead: The next day, the tropical depression strengthened to a tropical storm, receiving the name Katrina, and made landfall on southern Florida as a minimal hurricane. This implies it made landfall on the 24th, but the text says the 25th ? The initial NHC forecasts - this is the first mention in the text of the initials, NHC. The reader can guess that it stands for National Hurricane Center, but that should be mentioned and or linked on its first occurrence. eventually to hit the Florida Panhandle approximately three to four days in the future.[3] - three to four days later. Immediately after the storm entered the Gulf of Mexico, the low wind shear, good upper-level outflow, and the warm sea surface temperatures of the Gulf Loop Current caused Katrina to start intensifying rapidly. but led to an almost doubling in radius of the storm.[2] - but almost doubled the storm radius. The center of Katrina was about 180 mi (290 km) away from the mouth of the Mississippi River, but tropical storm-force winds extended 230 statute miles (370 km) away from the center of the storm, and hurricane-force winds extended about 105 miles (170 km) away.[9] Overnight on August 29, and into that morning, - into the next morning? August 30 ? At landfall, hurricane-force winds extended outward 120 miles (190 km) from the center and the storm's central pressure was 920 mbar. (Similar in many places - isn't the "outward" implied, redundant?) The other half of Katrina broke off in the eastern part of the Appalachians, primarily leading to a significant tornado outbreak in Very nice ! Sandy 14:24, 26 September 2006 (UTC) Sorry about that I wasn't aware that the revert I did was actually correct, I just saw that the date was listed like that in previous versions, so I just assumed that was wrong. My bad. Anyway, thanks for reverting back to the correct version. Have a pleasant evening. Kyra~(talk) 23:49, 28 September 2006 (UTC) CheckUser on Commons Hi Titoxd, Per the CheckUser Policy, I have been granted the checkuser permission. Thankyou for supporting this request. Requests for checkuser can be made at the Commons:Administrators' noticeboard. Thanks, [ælfəks] 01:41, 29 September 2006 (UTC) ProQuest I'm not sure what the proper procedure is, but when I use ProQuest I just assume that the database is accurate and cite the article as if I had seen a hard copy. I feel this is justified especially for stuff in the Historical NYT database, since all the articles are scanned copies of what appeared in the newspaper. Probably the same can be assumed for other databases, but you could also just put a parenthetical note saying which database it came from. --Spangineeres (háblame) 05:59, 29 September 2006 (UTC) Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Batesville, Louisiana I have noticed when you closed the above AfD, you did not remove the category template, "REMOVE THIS TEMPLATE WHEN CLOSING THIS AfD". By deleting this when closing it pulls the discussion out of the category. I have deleted it from this discussion, but if you could review any other closures you have done recently and remove the tag from them it would be greatly appreicated. This is a fairly recent change. The guideline is at WP:AFDC. I have been going through the listing in each of the categories CAT:AFD and removing the tag from pages that are closed and adding the approriate category code for those in the uncatagorised group. Thanks.--Gay Cdn (talk) (email) (Contr.) 23:05, 30 September 2006 (UTC) Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #5 Number 5, October 1, 2006 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 WikiProject has its own IRC channel. "TD's should be bolded, as they are the impetus of every storm, weak or strong." Storm of the month Hurricane Ioke at peak strength Hurricane Ioke is the most intense hurricane on record in the Central Pacific. After forming on August 19 to the south of Hawaii, Ioke moved to the northwest and hit Johnston Atoll as a Category 2 hurricane. It strengthened further as it moved to the west, reaching Category 5 strength on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale three times, twice in the Central Pacific and once in the Western Pacific. After the storm entered the Western Pacific it directly hit Wake Island. The storm finally became extratropical on September 7 but its extratropical remnants affected Alaska. Overall damage from Hurricane Ioke was light. Other tropical cyclone activity 4 hurricanes formed in the Atlantic: Hurricane Florence, Hurricane Gordon, Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Isaac. Florence affected Bermuda and Newfoundland, and Gordon had effects in the Azores and Europe. Isaac is currently forecast to affect Newfoundland as an extratropical storm. The east Pacific saw three hurricanes and a tropical storm develop. Hurricane John and Hurricane Lane were both major hurricanes which hit Mexico, whilst Hurricane Kristy and Tropical Storm Miriam stayed clear of land. In addition, two tropical depressions formed in the Central Pacific. There were 4 typhoons in west Pacific during September. Typhoon Shanshan, Typhoon Yagi and Typhoon Xangsane formed in the west Pacific and Typhoon Ioke entered the basin from the east. Shanshan killed at least 9 people in Japan and Typhoon Xangsane, which is still active, killed at least 72 in the Philippines. Two tropical cyclones formed in the North Indian Ocean during September. Severe Cyclonic Storm Mukda formed in the Arabian Sea but did not affect land and Tropical Cyclone 05B formed in the Bay of Bengal before making landfall in India. However, the deadliest tropical system of September was a depression in the Bay of Bengal that killed more than 170 people in Bangladesh. New and improved articles New storm articles include: Harry Cane of 1667, Hurricane Florence (2006), Hurricane Abby (1968) and Hurricane Lane (2006). New non-storm articles include: Monsoon trough, List of Pennsylvania hurricanes and Tropical cyclogenesis. New Good Articles include: Meteorological history of Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane John (2006), Typhoon Saomai (2006) and Tropical Storm Danielle (1992). Main Page content Hurricane Katrina appeared on the Main Page as Today's Featured Article on September 29. There were no Did you know mentions. Please check for an interesting fact in any new articles and submit it to Template talk:Did you know. New articles and improvements wanted Pacific hurricane, Pacific typhoon, North Indian tropical cyclone... There are many many stub and start class articles on many topics, please improve these! How about David Roth (meteorologist)? Storm article statistics Grade Jul Aug Sep Oct FA 13 16 15 15 A 6 6 7 6 GA 18 24 28 33 B 79 77 79 84 Start 180 191 200 201 Stub 8 8 8 13 Total 303 322 337 352 percentage ≥Less than B 62.0 61.8 61.7 60.8 Member of the month Cyclone barnstar The September member of the month is Thegreatdr, David Roth. David Roth is a meteorologist at the wpc, who as part of his work there is producing Tropical Cyclone Rainfall Data. Dozens of the maps he has created are used in Wikipedia articles. He has produced a number of valuable articles to the project such as tropical cyclone rainfall climatology and Atlantic hurricane reanalysis, and significantly expanded several seasonal articles such as 1982 Pacific hurricane season. 1933 AHS Could you give the article another look? I just expanded it greatly, using newspaper reports, and I want to make sure it flows well, etc. I'd ask someone else, but you're the best copyeditor we got ;) Hurricanehink (talk) 22:40, 2 October 2006 (UTC) Anon on Foley scandal article again Has just removed "sexually suggestive" and removed the description of Foley as a republican. JoshuaZ 04:11, 4 October 2006 (UTC) Hi Do you think you can help me out for the 1999-00 Southern Hemisphere tropical cyclone season article, please? I have put up heaps of comments in the assessment page, but no one's responding back. RaNdOm26 10:27, 4 October 2006 (UTC) Re: 1933 Thanks for the needed copyedit. I got the ref (HPC), and to be safe I expanded all of them. As for the 5,000, that number is only the number of dead or injured, at least according to what the newspaper article said. Damn, I thought someone had got the ref for Hurdat. Oh well, I just did it. Thankss for your help in general for the article. I just can't wait until it's done (either passes or fails). Hurricanehink (talk) 16:11, 4 October 2006 (UTC) EvilCat Nooooooo O_O :)--§hanel 05:36, 6 October 2006 (UTC) Thank You Thank you for reverting the vandalism on my talk page. --Chesaguy 16:49, 6 October 2006 (UTC) Cruz Roja Española Xangsane press release for Vietnam, translation help needed Hi Tito, would you mind helping to translate this Cruz Roja Española press release on the aftermath of Xangsane in Vietnam? Thanks! – Chacor 17:02, 6 October 2006 (UTC) My RfA File:Nuvola apps kfm home.png Thank you for participating in my RfA, which passed with a tally of 91/1/4. I can't express how much it means to me to become an administrator. I'll work even more and harder to become useful for the community. If you need a helping hand, don't hesitate to contact me. NCurse work 15:41, 8 October 2006 (UTC) Set nominations for Version 0.5 Hi Tito, I hope you're doing well. I'd like to close the set nomination discussions, so I'm asking for your votes on these if you have time. With Wikipedia:Version 0.5 Set Nominations/Genetic disorders I'm the only person who has commented/debated recently, and I noticed you commented back in the summer on this when the consensus was to hold till later. Can you cast your vote on this set? The other three sets seem to have at least 2-3 people in rough agreement, but if you have time your comments on those would be welcome as well. Thanks, Walkerma 04:19, 13 October 2006 (UTC) Re: Wikipedia:One featured article per quarter Heh, that's pretty interesting, thanks. I would consider doing it, but due to my ADD I can't seem to predict which articles I'm going to do. Whenever I do, I get sidetracked and work on something else :) I did too many large projects earlier in the year that now I'd rather do good articles for low-impact storms. Hurricanehink (talk) 14:56, 13 October 2006 (UTC) Typhoon Shanshan (2006) Ive created the Typhoon Shanshan (2006) article but someone keeps reverting it everytime i move it onto the mainspace. Storm05 17:28, 13 October 2006 (UTC) You aren't supposed to do cut-and-paste moves. – Chacor 17:29, 13 October 2006 (UTC) Reply to Ernesto I'm currently checking for sources, but for the balloon festival it may only be in French due to the fact the Citizen or the Sun may not keep everything, I'm putting it mention of the festival because it's one of the most important of its kind across North America and the world and during that Sources should be there within the next hour --JForget 20:56, 13 October 2006 (UTC) The articles have vanished, there's none to be found, so the Canada part will go, but will it keep in the infobox --JForget 21:04, 13 October 2006 (UTC) VP warning Please refrain from removing content from Wikipedia, as you did to Cabrini College. It is considered vandalism. If you want to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. A link to the edit I have reverted can be found here: link. If you believe this edit should not have been reverted, please contact me. TheRanger 16:55, 16 October 2006 (UTC) Replied on your talk. Titoxd(?!?) 16:59, 16 October 2006 (UTC) status template Hello. This is a note informing you of my intent to use one of your status templates on my user page. I found that your "busy" template fits my current editing status better than any other template I've found. Great idea, thanks! -- Nebular110 14:25, 17 October 2006 (UTC) My RfA thanks Hi, Titoxd! Thank you for supporting me in my RfA, which succeeded with a final tally of 75/0/1! I hope I can live up to the standards of adminship, and I will try my best to make Wikipedia a better place. Feel free to send me a message if you need any assistance. :) --Coredesat 16:30, 17 October 2006 (UTC) Slap Consider yourself slapped with a large trout for this. You should know better than to upload free material to here. Admittedly there is not much of a purpose beyond WPTC stats, but free material = Commons:.--Nilfanion (talk) 11:59, 18 October 2006 (UTC) Edit counter Hi, thanks for the notification. Interiot posted his "wannabe kate" substitute counter, which has more features and (I believe) is accurate, so I've made my counter redirect to his now. Please use that instead. Cheers, Tangotango 15:47, 19 October 2006 (UTC) Fabian pic Would the picture from this newspaper be usable for the Fabian article? Sure, it's pretty low-res, but it's about the only damage pic I can find that would be useable. Would cropping the damaged house be fair use or PD as well, or unusable due to copyright (AP). Hope you can help :) Hurricanehink (talk) 02:19, 20 October 2006 (UTC) Edit Count and Edit Counters Thank you for removing the section about Edit Counters in the Edit Count article. The two articles were fundamentally different and users creating edit tools were advertising them on the Edit Count article rather than the Edit Counters article. Let's hope the merge request and clean up of the articles stays. Thanks again. Mkdw 22:10, 22 October 2006 (UTC) Wikipedia:Edit_count is in the Wikipedia Encyclopedia as labelled on the top. The article is categorized as an article pertaining to Wikipedia and basically discusses the definition, purpose, and usages of Edit Counts with in the website of Wikipedia. Conversely, Wikipedia:WikiProject_edit_counters is a very loosely created article about Wikipedia's tools for edit counting and their development. It contains a lot of information from the Edit Count article but primarily should be about Edit Counters as a tool and how people are using those tools pertaining to Edit Counts. The articles require quite a bit of cleaning up but if you look closely enough, they are dissimilar topics of review and discussion. Webster's dictionary has a good section about the development of closely linked but disparate articles that is very applicable here and I would like to see the articles cleaned up and separated than merged. Just my opinion about references. Mkdw 22:18, 22 October 2006 (UTC) Maybe I am missing something. If you're refering to namespaces. How does Wikipedia:Edit_count fit under User talk namespace? Namespaces 1, 3, 5, and 7 are all talk pages more specifically Namespace 3 as the User Talk. Now Wikipedia:Edit_count is under the Namespace 4 and can be found in its category [1]. I was talking more to the point that the article reads as an encyclopedic article, whether a part of Wikipedia or not, and the WikiProject Edit Counters relates to the development of Wikipedia Tools. I don't see how they are similar enough to warrent one being linked to the other without making it a generalization. An example would be Grapes and Grape Pickers. One relates to the other, but could, and would discuss them separately. Especially if there is a movement to keep Edit Counts away from the basis of adminship. I don't see the purpose of discussing that on the same page as where people are discussing technical notes or where people are reviewing. 22:39, 22 October 2006 (UTC) I agree, and what I am reading are two very 'project pages' then, being merged when they have different discussions going on. If you read the Edit Count discussion, enough people for a six month old argument have said they are different subjects. The changes I am talking about are simply removing the first paragraph from WikiProject: Edit Counters as the second paragraph directly contradicts the purpose of the article. If people are indeed trying to do something together, then we shouldn't be mixed two groups of people trying to do two different things. I don't even see the relevence of discussing adminship in a place of tool development. Mkdw 22:50, 22 October 2006 (UTC) We've left the topic about whether they are articles or not. They're not and if you need me to say it, then I am. Let's move on. The topic sentence, which is acting as the secondary thesis statement to the whole project states: "Our goal is to organize and coordinate the various efforts at creating edit counters and statistics tools. Our primary purpose is to give Wikipedians more tools at analyzing their own edits and others' edits; while editcountitis may be fatal, we primarily strive to offer another alternative and viewpoint at one's contributions" To coordinate the various efforts at creating edit counters. I fail to see the pages responsibility or usage in its first thesis: Edit counts are a quick way of measuring a Wikipedian's experience in the Wikipedia community. Edit Counts has its own topic, it talks about its use in adminship. Why not keep the articles separate? One about tools the other about how edit counts are used? Mkdw 23:03, 22 October 2006 (UTC) Edit Counts had a good way of linking the two articles. "See main project at Wikipedia:WikiProject edit counters for more info and a list of available edit counters." Why not including a new section under WikiProject's mission statement briefly describing the usages of Edit Counters for adminship and the various controversies and then providing some related links and saying more information can be found etc. etc. ?? At the least restore the mission statement to the top of the page. It's awkward having it as the third paragraph and being displaced by an unrelated defintion. Mkdw I made a quick change, let me know if it works. Mkdw 23:15, 22 October 2006 (UTC) The Original Barnstar for finding room to talk and working toward better solutions Mkdw 23:20, 22 October 2006 (UTC) Coaching coordinating Are you willing and able to take back the admin coaching co-ordination? Life has got a lot busier for me, so I can longer give it the time needed. Petros471 14:44, 23 October 2006 (UTC) Replied on mine in case EWS want's to chime in. Petros471 17:33, 23 October 2006 (UTC) Semi-auto edits? Is there a way to make semi-auto edits on a list of articles that can be fed to a program or script of some sort? I am inquiring about this because I have recently stumbled across a whole mess of stub articles that have no references or sources, and it would definately save a whole lot of time if it were possible to include an unreferenced tag at the top of the article and have the edit be saved, though confirming it didn't break any layouts or anything beforehand, of course.. If not, the old-fashioned method still works, would just take longer. --Kyra~(talk) 22:07, 23 October 2006 (UTC) Argh, fewer than the required 500 mainspace edits necessary for the registration to be approved. Guess it's more Alt+X'ing for fixing more pages. Anyway, I shall keep AWB in mind for the future. Many thanks for the suggestion. --Kyra~(talk) 22:50, 23 October 2006 (UTC) More merging of information from tropical cyclone into tropical cyclogenesis Another attempt has been made to include information from the tropical cyclone article into tropical cyclogenesis. I reformatted the unusual formation section, fixed a reference, and moved it over. It makes tropical cyclogenesis a more complete article (I think). Thegreatdr 21:34, 24 October 2006 (UTC) whoa Hey admin twin, we've been admins for a year today! Where the heck has all that time gone, it seems like it was yesterday. Hope you've found it good as I have, and continue to do so. the wub "?!" 13:28, 25 October 2006 (UTC) Sysop Day All the best! --Bhadani 21:18, 25 October 2006 (UTC) Hoora! Randfan 00:00, 26 October 2006 (UTC) AIV I reported an already-blocked IP, 81.0.151.151, because no one noted on the users talk page that they were blocked. --Kathryn NicDhàna 20:36, 27 October 2006 (UTC) p.s. I got bold and added the notice myself. And now I know to check the logs before listing at AIV. Learning happens. Feel free to delete this if you need the room. --Kathryn NicDhàna 22:19, 28 October 2006 (UTC) Removal of deadlinks after article deletion Who is responsible to fix redlinks after article deletion. At Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Emotional metalcore the decision was to delete, the problem is there is a related link on a template (see also Emotional Metalcore) and redlinks from other articles. Paul foord 01:13, 28 October 2006 (UTC) Esperanza Admin coaching - October 29 - Pending You are receiving this message because you are currently listed as a coach in the 'Pending' section of the coaching box. If the coaching has started and is ongoing please move the entry to the 'active' section of the box'. If the coaching has finished/never going to start please add your trainee to the archived requests section of the archive, and remove the entry from the coaching box. You can fill in information about your former students, at the main archive. If the coaching is ongoing please continue :) This might serve as a useful reminder to check with your trainee if they have any new questions! If you are ready to be assigned a new trainee, or have any other questions, please let me know on my talk page. Thank you for helping with admin coaching! Highway Grammar Enforcer! 22:42, 29 October 2006 (UTC) Seasonal infoboxen Hey Tito, I can't figure out the coding for the {{infobox hurricane season}} and how to extend it. I'm nearing the completion of my pet project and I have a seasonal track map prepared (not uploaded yet though). However, there is no {{infobox typhoon season}} corresponding to {{infobox typhoon season nopic}} for me to swap over to - so I can't insert it into the article yet. As these templates are a bit confusing I was wondering if you could cook up a working template here? In the longer term, I think we ought to work towards having just the one infobox templates for individual TC seasons, in any basin - and use a lot of voodoo to make it the jobs of all the other ones.--Nilfanion (talk) 23:36, 30 October 2006 (UTC) Your comments on Wikipedia talk:Administrator intervention against vandalism ... were spot on. I am wondering why someone even started a poll there. Thanks for the pointed comments. --Ginkgo100 talk · e@ 05:57, 3 November 2006 (UTC) Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #6 Number 6, November 5, 2006 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 WikiProject has its own IRC channel. "THIS IS THE LAST PUBLIC ADVISORY ISSUED ON THIS USER UNLESS REGENERATION OCCURS" Storm of the month Xangsane to the east of the Philippines Typhoon Xangsane, known as Typhoon Milenyo in the Philippines was a destructive typhoon that affected the Philippines and Indochina. The storm caused severe flooding and landslides in the regions it affected and was responsible for at least 279 deaths and $747 million (USD) in damage, mostly in the Philippines and Vietnam. Xangsane formed to the east of the Philippines and rapidly intensified, striking Samar Island as a Category 4 typhoon. It weakened over the Philippines, but again reached Category 4 strength in the South China Sea. After its landfall in Vietnam, the typhoon dissipated, with its remnant crossing Indochina and entering the Bay of Bengal. Other tropical cyclone activity Hurricane Isaac, which formed in September, hit Newfoundland with minimal effects on October 2. It was the only Atlantic storm in October. One hurricane, Hurricane Paul, formed in the eastern Pacific and hit Mexico. There were also two tropical storms, Norman and Olivia, and two tropical depressions in the basin. In addition to Typhoon Xangsane, two further typhoons and two tropical storms developed in the west Pacific. Typhoon Soulik and Tropical Storms Bebinca and Rumbia both stayed clear of land, whilst Typhoon Cimaron hit the Philippines killing at least 19 people there, before it dissipated in the South China Sea. The North Indian Ocean saw one storm, Cyclonic Storm Ogni form in the Bay of Bengal. The 2006-2007 Southern Hemisphere tropical cyclone season got underway, with Tropical Cyclone Xavier forming to the west of Fiji. There were two further tropical depressions in the South Pacific and a tropical disturbance in the South Indian Ocean. New articles and improvements wanted Articles are wanted for Hurricane Flossy (1956), Tropical Storm Debbie (1965) and Tropical Storm Beryl (1994). The articles on the Regional Specialized Meteorological Centres, such as those on the NHC, JMA and CPHC, all need work. Likewise the articles on meteorologists such as Lixion Avila are poor. Member of the month Cyclone barnstar The October Member of the Month is Coredesat. Coredesat joined the WikiProject in March and has contributed to many diverse areas within the project. He has written two featured articles on Atlantic storms and a number of good articles on current typhoons. However, the article he is most proud of is a disambiguation page, a sorely neglected portion of the project. Main Page content Global tropical cyclone tracks appeared on the Main Page as Today's Featured Picture on October 3. Entries from Hurricane Alberto (2000), Typhoon Xangsane (2006), Tropical Storm Bertha (2002) and Hurricane Bob (1985) appeared on the Main Page in the Did you know column during October. New and improved articles New storm articles include: Hurricane Alberto (2000), Tropical Depression Nine (2003), Hurricane Paul (2006) and Tropical Storm Peter (2003). A non-storm article was made on Pacific hurricane. New featured content: List of Delaware hurricanes, 2004 Atlantic hurricane season and 2004 Atlantic hurricane season. Significantly improved articles include: Hurricane Erika (2003) (A), Hurricane Linda (1997) (GA), Hurricane Ophelia (2005) (GA), Subtropical Storm Nicole (2004) (GA) and Hurricane Danny (2003). Storm article statistics Grade Aug Sep Oct Nov FA 16 15 15 16 A 6 7 6 7 GA 24 28 33 48 B 77 79 84 83 Start 191 200 201 210 Stub 8 8 13 11 Total 322 337 352 375 percentage ≥;Less than B 61.8 61.7 60.8 58.9 Tropical cyclone scales The various agencies which report on tropical cyclones use a variety of different scales to measure the storms strength. The most familiar of these is the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale and this is the de facto standard in the project and should be used everywhere. However, as it is only official in the Atlantic and East Pacific, other local scales should be used when discussing storms in other regions and given primacy over the Saffir-Simpson Scale. The Saffir-Simpson scale is based on 1-minute averages, but other scales are generally based upon 10-minute averages, which are approximately 15% lower. This table provides a useful-at-a-glance comparison of the various scales currently in use. Further complications arise due to the fact different agencies obtain different estimates for the same storm at the same time, so be careful to use the most appropriate source agency. Commons vandal That was fun... as for the rv you made to my userpage I had already gone to blockip, but FF broke the save or something. Oh well *9* blocks later I think thats the lot. Ta for the help.--Nilfanion (talk) 03:29, 5 November 2006 (UTC) Deletion of old usernames Hey there, I saw that you were in discussion with the devs, here, about the deletion of old usernames policy. I am a bit taken aback by Brion's response, and was wondering if there is any recourse from here? This policy had amazing support behind it, and while I realize we are beholden to the devs, I find it a bit distasteful that it was rejected with barely any discussion or explanation for why. --Wolf530 (talk) 16:58, 5 November 2006 (UTC) November Esperanza Newsletter Program Feature: Admin Coaching (needs coaches!) Admin Coaching needs coaches!!! If you are an administrator, or even a generally experienced user, do consider signing up to be a coach. Admin Coaching, now being coordinated by HighwayCello, is a program for people who want help learning some of the more subtle aspects of Wikipedia policy and culture. People are matched with experienced users who are willing to offer coaching. The program is designed for people who have figured out the basics of editing articles; they're not newcomers any more, but they might want some help in learning new roles. In this way, Esperanza would help keep hope alive for Wikipedia because we would always be grooming the next generation of admins. What's New? The Tutorial Drive is a new Esperanza program! In an effort to make complicated processes on Wikipedia easier for everyone, Esperanza working to create and compile a list of tutorials about processes here on Wikipedia. Consider writing one! A discussion on how Esperanza relates to the encyclopedia has been started; please add your thoughts. Many thanks to MiszaBot, courtesy of Misza13, for delivering the newsletter. The last AC meeting (full log) The list of proposed programs has been updated, with some proposals being archived. There is now a new program: the Tutorial Drive! Consider writing a tutorial on something you are good at doing on Wikipedia. The suggestion of adding a cohesive look to all the Esperanza pages is being considered; join the discussion if you are interested! In order to make a useful interlanguage welcome template, those involved in translation projects will be asked what English Wikipedia policies are most important and confusing to editors coming from other language Wikipedias. A discussion of Esperanza's role in Wikipedia is being held, with all thoughts of all Esperanzians wanted! Shreshth91 informed everyone that he will be leaving the Esperanza council as life is rather busy; his spot will be filled by the runner up from the last election, HighwayCello. Signed... Natalya, Banes, Celestianpower, EWS23, FireFox, The Halo, Shreshth91 and HighwayCello 20:33, 1 November 2006 (UTC) Although having the newsletter appear on everyone's userpage is desired, this may not be ideal for everyone. If, in the future, you wish to receive a link to the newsletter, rather than the newsletter itself, you may add yourself to Wikipedia:Esperanza/Newsletter/Opt Out List. Template:GA-Class Full-protection I noticed you protected the template Template:GA-Class along with the other quality-scale indicators. I personally feel this is a mistake, since although it is a "high risk" template (included on hundreds of thousands of articles), it is also quite hidden from access. To know it exists you would have to know quite well how to dissect templates and inclusions, something that is above 99.9% of vandals (if not 100%). Can I ask that you revert the full protection to semi-protection? I am not an administrator and would like to tweak the background color that is used to indicated Good Articles. -- Renesis (talk) 22:31, 7 November 2006 (UTC) Is full-protection really the appropriate action to take for concerns about server load or the page being edited too many times? That would imply that a user who is not an administrator but doesn't wish to do Wikipedia any harm is either (A) not as smart as the average administrator, or (B) doesn't care about the good of Wikipedia as much as an administrator would. Neither are valid assumptions, and neither fits in with Wikipedia's policy of allowing editing by anyone. A position like that is quite offensive to those editors who truly want to improve Wikipedia, have spent countless hours contributing and have years of experience with how Wikipedia works, but are not administrators. A simple notice in the source would serve the same purpose for these editors. For your information, I simply want to change the shade of green slightly to not conflict as much with the background of the WPBiography template. I have no problem with consulting the Assessment team, but didn't feel it was necessary for such a small change. I did look into how the current colors were decided on before I decided to try to change the color as well. -- Renesis (talk) 23:14, 7 November 2006 (UTC) Ok, that makes sense. I'll just propose the change at the location you suggested. Thanks. -- Renesis (talk) 23:22, 7 November 2006 (UTC) Ouch. Anyway, I added my proposal. I saw you questioned the colors before - would you like to post your thoughts? New GA Green proposal. -- Renesis (talk) 23:35, 7 November 2006 (UTC) Well said! (No surprise, of course) Tito, what you wrote at the Coffee Lounge MfD was really impressive, and really true. Well put! You should probably get a barnstar for that.... :) -- Natalya 17:46, 8 November 2006 (UTC) It will definitly be good - thanks for the help, Tito! -- Natalya 14:57, 11 November 2006 (UTC) Account http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Thepresident1 api hi, can you drop by the irc://irc.freenode.net/mediawiki and ping me (yurikbot)? We can discuss how i can help there. Thx. --Yurik 08:47, 11 November 2006 (UTC) Gerald Levert I need some help from a Admin (which seems to be you). The talk page of the recently deceased Gerald Levert is filled with alot of "Rest in Peace" type spam. I was gonna delete it, then i thought i'd get a whole bunch of people pissed at me and/or get a revert war started. So, if you would please take a second and deal with this situation, that would be great. thanks. dposse 16:53, 11 November 2006 (UTC) American Revolution Hey! Haven't noticed you around American Revolution lately, we're progressing well, and I just wanted to let you know that all of us could really use the help of such an experienced editor as you. I realize that you're stressed, but I just hope that you can come by soon. Thanks! DoomsDay349 22:38, 13 November 2006 (UTC) So many boxes I'm new and not quite sure how to make user boxes and chage how the way my user page looks. In fact, (I'm in the dark about everything about Wikipedia) I read that since you are a wikipedia expert or something, and none of the pages have anything to help about the userboxes and background clouring, so if you could just help with a bit of that would mean wonders. Cheers! : ^ ] Some enraged farm animal 10:25, 14 November 2006 (UTC) WP:WPRVN What do you think about opening the nominations? Our release team has nothing to do right now. I'm waiting for your comment and then opening it. Eyu100(t|fr|Version 1.0 Editorial Team) 20:21, 19 November 2006 (UTC) Release Version Nominations Hi Tito, I see that you're online, so I wondered if you could comment on my reply. What I'd like to find out from you is whether we have now addressed your concerns or not. If not, can you say what other issues you have, and how we can fix them? By the way, I requested an uncompressed version of the French offline reader - we expect to hear from Emmanuel tomorrow. Cheers, Walkerma 05:53, 20 November 2006 (UTC) Vandalism I'm not worried about not being able to edit, I was more worried that they'd just wait until they got home and use their home computer to screw up the page. I'll keep an eye on it. I've talked to them about it on no uncertain terms. So, we'll see. -- §HurricaneERIC§ archive 23:26, 20 November 2006 (UTC) Q about stubs If a article is short but basically no more information can be added, why does it qualify as one? Like Mute City? FullMetal Falcon 21:42, 21 November 2006 (UTC) Consultation regarding genealogy policy in Wikipedia Please Titoxd, could you take a look to this consultation that I have started in Wikipedia. Someone recommended to write to you, since your are fluency in both languages and write in both English and Spanish Wikipedia. I would really appreciate your help.--Tasc1 05:30, 22 November 2006 (UTC) Dear colleagues of Wikipedia: Is there any policy in Wikipedia prohibiting a person to write the history/biography of his own family and surname? (genealogy) (not his own history, CV, work, etc, but of his family, surname, noteworthy members, and ancestors). I am asking this since in Wikipedia in Spanish I am being severely criticized (almost humiliated) for that reason, in a call to delete my work (and now, they are after all the work that I wrote, including an article regarding Academic freedom (Spanish)). I would prefer not to have the same very unpleasant experience again; for this reason, I prefer to ask first. Few minutes ago, I was blocked in the Wikipedia (Spanish)(page Santa Coloma (apellido) (Spanish), User Tasc), by a sysop that was a part in the conflict (directly involved in the procedure to delete the page and clearly manifesting that he disliked the article when he voted; so, he was a Judge, a part interested in the result, and a executioner, at the same time). And he blocked my account just because I was complaining regarding an user involved in the discussion, that abusing of the anonymous condition of his name, started to insult myself (real name) and my family with adjectives of any kind, instead of analyzing the content of the article to improve it. And these discussions are public, as you know. Perhaps the main argument that they use is that, since I am writing regarding my ancestors, this is a vanity page, own research (although it has multiple references, perhaps more than any other article in wikipedia), etc. These accusations are vague and broadly made. When I ask for precisions as to indicate exactly in which paragraph and lines they find the supposed violations to the Wikipedia policies, I got no specific answers. I have already deleted almost 50% of the article, and they insist with deletion of the entire article, with general arguments, without being explicit. We do not have in wikipedia in Spanish an instance to appeal the decisions of any sysop yet. So, these potential violations to academic freedom a freedom of speech are unavoidable right now in our Spanish Wikipedia. I would really appreciate any feedback in this issue. Regards, --Tasc1 04:29, 22 November 2006 (UTC) It sounds like a conflict of interest to write an article about your own family. It is also probably original research unless your family history has been extensively published or written about in notable, reliable sources. Finally, academic freedom and freedom of speech are not policies in Wikipedia. They're certainly good ideas but they're not necessarily directly applicable in an encyclopedia. Our core policies are verifiability, neutral point of view, and no original research. As to the specifics of your situation, I'm sorry that I can't offer any specific comments or suggestions as my Spanish is quite bad. --ElKevbo 04:35, 22 November 2006 (UTC) I personally don't think it's a conflict of interest, as long as it's a notable family (on this Wikipedia, we're as concerned with notability as much as anything). You will probably be OK, as long as you provide sources, preferrably verifiable ones that exist on the internet (providing it from a geneological paper only available to you won't do much help). Also, because I don't have time to read up on your situation, I can't say definitely that there won't be issues (you may be familiar with the saying, "the first person to come along always sounds right, until you hear his adversary"). Patstuart(talk)(contribs) 04:40, 22 November 2006 (UTC) Agreed - it may or may not be a conflict of interest. I think there's a greater chance in this case but it's certainly not inevitable. --ElKevbo 04:49, 22 November 2006 (UTC) The first in my family came in 1786, and he was at the time the most important merchant in the Rio de la Plata (Gaspar de Santa Coloma). There is a book from a recognized biographer, expert in history, regarding his memories (Enrique de Gandía, in "Buenos Aires Colonial"). Even the Residential hose for the President was donated by members of my family. And the history extends from the independence war (Colonel Brandsen and others) to the fait for the Reconquest from the morocco’s in Spain, by the year 844. Also, Bonifusus de Sancta Columba (all version of the last name), was the first person in having a Patent granted (XIII century) by Henry III. And the musician Sainte Colombe of France, is very will know. I could continue for pages, but it is not the issue here. Thanks a lot for the fit back. Perhaps I should write it in English (probably there are still some "de Sancta Columba" in UK), but I would like to avoid the same problem and have to erase everything after so much work. In addition, I would need your help fox to improve the grammar and style, if you are willing to help in such a long history, that even is related to Nessie and Arthur (indirectly). Kind regards, Tomás Santa Coloma.--Tasc1 05:08, 22 November 2006 (UTC) Thank you ElKevbo for your rapid and kind response. Yes, it can be a conflict of interest. But who can right a genealogy article better than a person who knows his family history with details? Actually, the article references several books, articles and also pages in Internet. So, I think that the issue should not be if I am a relative of any personality, but how objective I was in writing about them. In other words, which is important is if I can complain objectively with the policies of neutral point of view and original research. Of course, some parts were difficult, because in my situation is sometimes hard to be objective. But if the article has some parts that might not be justified, they can always be corrected. From my modest point of view, there is no reason to erase the entire work. Don’t you agree? Besides, the attitude of the sysop, being a Judge, a person with interest in the results, also indicating that he dislike the work, and then blocking myself in the middle of the voting process, is at least a non-ethical behavior (I might be wrong, of course). Do you know if Wikipedia has some appeal instance that can act over Wikipedias in other languages when the administrators abuse of they power? I would really appreciate any help in this issue. I worked very hard in that page (197 kb and now I was forced to reduce it to 120 kb). Something else, one administrator said that independently of the results of the voting process, he will erase the page anyway, arguing that it does not complain with the wiki policies (without specifying which paragraphs do not). Regards. --Tasc1 04:53, 22 November 2006 (UTC) Is it perhaps an issue of noteability? I can imagine that other users may nominate or support deleting a geneological article if the family is perceived not to be noteable. If that is the case, then the best way to answer that challenge is with reliable, published sources. Maybe it would be a good idea for you to copy the article into Talk space and work on it there for a while. Once it's in really good shape with lots of fantastic references you might be in a better position to update the article with your new version. --ElKevbo 05:03, 22 November 2006 (UTC) (after edit conflicts) As Kev and Pat suggest, one's writing an autobiography or biography of a relative here is generally disfavored (toward which, see, e.g., WP:AUTO and WP:COI), principally because it is not unlikely that one, in writing apropos of him/herself or of an individual or group with whom or which he/she is intimately familiar, might (especially avolitionally) contravene our policies and produce an article that suffers encyclopedic deficencies. There are, to be sure, editors who have created or edited articles about themselves or members of their families and done so quite well and successfully, so WP:AUTO and WP:COI are not really construed here as ex ante proscriptions; they do, though, counsel that autobiographical editing be avoided, that an autobiographical editor review his/her work stringently in order to ensure that it well comports with encyclopedic standards, and that he/she refrain from editing autobiographically where another editor has expressed concern about his/her introducing information that is unencyclopedic. In general, I think it might safely be said that if edits properly an article about himself or a family member, the fact of his being (or being related to) the subject will not be plain. All that, though, as you seem well to appreciate, is relative to the English Wikipedia. Whilst each Wikipedia maintains standards as regards content and whilst those standards are often similar across languages, the intricacies of any single Wikipedia may be qualitatively different from those here. You might have success querying one or more of the editors listed at Category:Contributors to the Spanish Wikipedia, who are ostensibly acquainted with policies at both Wikipedias; Buchanan-Hermit and Titoxd, to name two, are admins here who are also active on the Spanish language version. Joe 05:15, 22 November 2006 (UTC) Titoxd, that was a great idea. Who can be in a better position than someone that is familiar with both wikipedias. I’ll try to contact them. Thanks, regards, Tomás. ElKevbo, I am doing something like this in the main page, indicating in an index the progress in the corrections, section by section. But now that I was blocked for one day, it is really discouraging to know that one of the Administrators said that he will erase the article no matter what. Unbelievable to me.--Tasc1 05:19, 22 November 2006 (UTC) Replied on the Help desk. Titoxd(?!?) 06:27, 22 November 2006 (UTC) Discussion request I noticed your remarks on Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Discuss and Vote; I would appreciate it if you could take a look at WP:DDV, and indicate if it accurately represents the way Wikipedia works (and feel free to reword it if it doesn't). Basically it states that AFD (etc) are not decided by vote count, and in general voting is discouraged (but not forbidden). Thanks. (Radiant) 10:44, 22 November 2006 (UTC) Tropical Storm Gert (2005) Could you please add any info, if any, from this link (in spanish) about gert to it's article. I don't understand any of it. íslenskur fellibylur #12 (samtal) 01:37, 24 November 2006 (UTC) I'll try to have a look at it later tonight, or perhaps Saturday... Titoxd(?!?) 02:36, 24 November 2006 (UTC) Thanks. íslenskur fellibylur #12 (samtal) 15:23, 25 November 2006 (UTC) Um, do you think you could find a source for the part in the Gert article mentioning the number of people evacuated. I tried looking myself, but no luck. íslenskur fellibylur #12 (samtal) 00:20, 26 November 2006 (UTC) Featured Picture Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, Image:Saturn eclipse.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Raven4x4x 06:10, 25 November 2006 (UTC) Congratulations, and thanks for nominating it. Raven4x4x 06:10, 25 November 2006 (UTC) Template:Class parameter Hi Tito. Something strange is going on with {{Class parameter}} I think, as there is some strange code at the bottom which should only show up in <includeonly> tags. I'd fix it myself, but I am not sure I would do the right thing. Could you take a look? Thanks! You can reply here if you have comments. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 16:17, 25 November 2006 (UTC) Done. The {{#switch}} in the template itself was not within a <includeonly> tag, so I added one more pair, which fixed it. I also changed the template a little bit so it wouldn't use nested inclusion tags, while I was at it. If there's any breakage, let me know. Titoxd(?!?) 18:43, 25 November 2006 (UTC) Thanks. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 00:00, 26 November 2006 (UTC) RfA thanks I would like to express my appreciation of the time you spent considering my successful RfA. Thankyou Gnangarra 12:38, 26 November 2006 (UTC) Move page Can you move Cyclone Heta (2004) to Cyclone Heta? I noticed its name was on the list of retired names [2]. Good kitty 04:39, 28 November 2006 (UTC) Done. Although, someone should update List of tropical cyclone names... Titoxd(?!?) 05:07, 28 November 2006 (UTC) Thank you very much I wasn't going to send thank-you cards, but the emotional impact of hitting WP:100 (and doing so unanimously!) changed my mind. So I appreciate your confidence in me at RFA (and the apparent confusion over whether I'd done this already was..interesting), and hope you'll let me know if I can do anything for you in the future. Cheers! -- nae'blis 23:22, 28 November 2006 (UTC) Redirect reverts... Thanks, I am now aware of the relevant guideline. 'Fixes' were in good faith given the apparent (presumably in error) appearance of the tagged redirects on Special:DoubleRedirects. ShakespeareFan00 14:27, 29 November 2006 (UTC) Thank you! Thank you for the speedy rollback of the 295 [3] redirects that were "broken" in {{R_with_possibilities}}. I am overjoyed that I did not have to go though and fix them by hand! --Kralizec! (talk) 15:11, 29 November 2006 (UTC) RFC on User:Tennis expert I have opened a user conduct RFC against Tennis expert. If you've dealt with him or are familiar with his behavior, could you please certify it? Thanks. --Coredesat 02:34, 1 December 2006 (UTC) Let's leave it at "I'm not going to certify something I don't agree with." Titoxd(?!?) 02:40, 1 December 2006 (UTC) Move Request Would you please move User:Storm05/Hurricane Dora (1999) onto the mainspace over the redirect. Storm05 13:41, 1 December 2006 (UTC) It's riddled with errors and misinformation, I'm not sure if it'd be a good idea to do so. – Chacor 13:46, 1 December 2006 (UTC) Wikiproject council The reason I reverted was because it was added by Nathannoblet, who I think intended to use it in Wikipedia Signpost work. If this is an internal thing, feel free to revert, but I'm still under the impression that this was his doing. Ral315 (talk) 01:22, 4 December 2006 (UTC) I don't mind doing something like that, but Nathannoblet should not be involved in it; his articles were of poor quality and he filed an RFM against me for refusing to publish them. Ral315 (talk) 01:34, 4 December 2006 (UTC) From Talk:Mexico Titoxd, like I said in the discussion, I am an admin at another wikipedia [4], not at this wikipedia, just in case you didn't read my comment correctly and were accusing me of not having the "sysop". And at least on our wiki, admins cannot see the IPs of registered users but upon request. If that is not the case in this wiki, I would very much appreciate if you could direct me to the appropriate meta page to request that feature for our wiki. Now, if you had followed the debate you would have realized that we have been telling Alex, ever since the beginning, that there is no proof of his statement; and that the only quantitative measurement for standard of living is the HDI (which in itself is debatable) and it would prove him wrong, since Argentina's HDI is higher than that of Mexico. Therefore, the sentence had to go, and I don't think a consensus has to be reached for that, but I asked Diegou to wait for Alex to respond before making any changes so that he could provide a verifiable source for his claim. His repeated reversions to his previous statements while ignoring the debate (except for accusing me of sockpuppetry) do constitute if not vandalism (I might have exaggerated) at least a violation of basic etiquette. --Alonso 00:34, 5 December 2006 (UTC) I apologize if my accusation of vandalism was out of line, and for the tone of my comments. I guess after having invited him to participate constructively in the debate for a week I had finally run out of patience, especially after his unfounded accusation. Given his recent behavior, if know that if I edit the controversial statement in the article he would most surely revert it again, and I don't think we will ever get his "approval". --Alonso 00:57, 5 December 2006 (UTC) [[Category:]] Vandals Whoa. Loads of vandals tonight, did someone declare it a vandal holiday or something?! First time i've seen it at WikiDefcon 2. Good job with all the vandal fighting! See ya back on the RC patroling. --Malevious Userpage •Talk Page• Contributions! Katrina source Hey, I tried to add, ref name="KatrinaTCR" to the 902 mbar minimum pressure value in the infobox and the template screwed up. Could you please add this citation to the infobox, it would avoid confusion. Alan.ca 04:49, 5 December 2006 (UTC) Your recent block to me Sorry for my recent vandalism. I didn't realize it would be so harmful. From now on, I will make some constructive edits rather than just joking around. Once again, sorry. 66.210.33.141 22:10, 6 December 2006 (UTC) Thanks! Thanks a lot for your help! --Chris Pickett 23:48, 6 December 2006 (UTC) Deleted Bye! Per your request, you have been deleted. Please go away. Warm regards, Essjay (Talk) 19:16, 7 December 2006 (UTC) Thanks! Too many people around to know everyone as well as we might like, unfortunately! Thanks for your kind congratulations. Kat Walsh (spill your mind?) 02:09, 9 December 2006 (UTC) STOP you're rude harassment has gone fare enough- QUIT bossing me around or i'll block you! 70.176.114.118 04:55, 9 December 2006 (UTC) Blocked per this edit and subsequent vandalism. Titoxd(?!?) 05:04, 9 December 2006 (UTC) Hi there - Did you know? I added a did you know for the new tropical cyclone observation article, and then noticed you had as well. =) Which of our two entries do you think would be more interesting as a DYK? Thegreatdr 15:41, 9 December 2006 (UTC) Admin coaching? Hi Titoxd. I see you were paired with User:Quentin Smith for admin coaching. Did that ever get off the ground? I have asked him if he is still interested in coaching. If not, would you like a new student? Please let me know. Thanks. --Fang Aili talk 18:10, 9 December 2006 (UTC) I'd say if he doesn't appear in the next few weeks, perhaps we could give you a new student. There's a waiting list. --Fang Aili talk 14:12, 11 December 2006 (UTC) Assessments section of project Guide As the writer of the section, I thank you for the copyediting. I've never been that good a writer. The section you "nuked" was admittedly one that has never been tried to my knowledge. However, I think that I was trying to get across a hypothetical "best practice" which has never actually been tried yet. Of course, there is a very real chance it never will be tried, so it might be pointless to have it listed then. Anyway, thanks for cleaning up my often overlong run-on sentences and frequently hard-to-follow constructions. I just can't seem to get rid of them. I do try, though. Badbilltucker 21:39, 12 December 2006 (UTC) status template Hello there! Just letting you know that I'm using one of your status templates. Thanks!!! Darry2385 06:29, 13 December 2006 (UTC) m:Wikiversity/logo Hello! You commented that design I "looks bad as a sister project thumbnail." I assume that you're referring to the thumbnail at the top of the page, but that's only an auto-scaled version. The actual sister project icon would look more like this: That's just a quick example. With a bit of effort, it would look better. —David Levy 14:07, 13 December 2006 (UTC) Tanya It was originally at User:CrazyC83/Tanya95 which has been blanked. That is where the edit history is. However, that writes off all the original Tanya articles which were later merged. Nonetheless, feel free to merge it in. CrazyC83 23:04, 13 December 2006 (UTC) Announcement Announcement The "Help name my baby" Poll has closed :). Greta Annette was born 12/12/06. She weighs 6lbs 14oz and is 19inches long. Mother and baby are both doing fine. Thanks for all the suggestions! To keep this slightly Wikipedia related I have started Adopt a State, so adopt your state article today! -Ravedave (help name my baby) 03:54, 15 December 2006 (UTC) Birthday wishes The time right now in Singapore is 00:03 local standard time, 2006-12-17. Therefore, happy birthday! (Yes, I realise it's only 9:03 a.m. Saturday the 16th where you are. Tough luck. :P) – Chacor 16:03, 16 December 2006 (UTC) GA Ok. I am sorry I wasn't able to drop by earlier, I was involved in very time-consuming projects. I will take a look at the article and the talk page in the next 24 hours. Unfortunately I have to go out in a couple of minutes. But it will the first thing I will do when I get back. Cheers! Baristarim 19:45, 16 December 2006 (UTC) GA passed for Hurricane Bonnie (1992). Happy birthday, by the way (just looked at the msg below :)). Baristarim 00:54, 17 December 2006 (UTC) Happy Birthday! Happy Birthday, Titoxd! Template:Smi Wishing you a very happy birthday and an awesome upcoming year! Don't forget to save us all a piece of cake! Template:Smi Best regards from the Birthday Committee and myself! --lovelaughterlife♥talk? 19:57, 16 December 2006 (UTC) GLab umh... Just to ask you if you can talk about the Graphic Lab to Esperanza community. That's a graphic project which propose valuable help to others, like a free service. It's close from the Esperanza spirit. Actualy, the french former Graphic Lab was started by some french "wikilovers" to provide a funny help. So... Happy birthday !~~ Yug (talk) 20:45, 16 December 2006 (UTC) ;] Happy B'day! File:Completed Versal Capital.gif Hurricanehink (talk) 20:48, 16 December 2006 (UTC) Happy Birthday! Have a good one! Cheers. – Heaven's Wrath   Talk  01:56, 17 December 2006 (UTC) Template:AndonicO's Happy Birthday template | AndonicO Talk | Sign Here 15:31, 17 December 2006 (UTC) A Happy Birthday From Randfan The Wikipedia Birthday Committee, myself, and Bearly541 wish you a very happy birthday! Enjoy your special day. Hooray! --Randfan please talk talk to me! This guy is your personal B-day red panda! Congrats for being one year older and staying with Wikipedia this long. Much too many people create new accounts, do a few minor edits, and just quit. Happy B-day! —¡Randfan! 21:30, 14 December 2006 (UTC); so how does it feel? :) Happy b-day! Hope it's a good one! Cheers! :) —Randfan!! 00:50, 15 December 2006 (UTC) Happy BD!!!!!!!--Sir james paul 15:04, 15 December 2006 (UTC) 1970 Bhola cyclone Hi Tito, I had cause to look at 1970 Bhola cyclone in Bangladesh recently and noticed It "has the highest death toll of any deadliest known tropical cyclone of all time." The poor response by the West Pakistan govt. led to a civil war that culminated in the formation of independent Bangladesh. (George Bush - take heed!) These credentials lead me to think this should be a pretty key article for the tropical cyclones project, yet it is listed as only Start-class! Could you guys take a look at it? We need to make sure that our good tropical cyclones articles aren't simply a list of recent US hurricanes.... Hope you're doing well, I'm swamped with grading at the moment. Back on Wikipedia again soon. Walkerma 19:36, 18 December 2006 (UTC) Oh, Happy Birthday as well! Walkerma 19:38, 18 December 2006 (UTC) Doria GA nom Thanks for reviewing it. I addressed your concerns in the talk page and corrected the various problems. Hurricanehink (talk) 19:09, 19 December 2006 (UTC) More lake effect I'd appreciate your comments here (as Essjay pointed out, it's too old to be speedied). Thanks. Chick Bowen 00:39, 20 December 2006 (UTC)