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Article formatting

Just curious, do you think we should send a message to all tropical cyclone users about the proper formatting for an article? If we explain clearly how to better existing articles, maybe people would know more of what to do. Simply having it on the Wikiproject page might not have enough of an audience. I was thinking something like this. Some things might be debatable, like the dissipation box on the infobox, so feel free to tweak it.

Dear Tropical cyclone editor,
As a member of the Tropical Cyclone Wikiproject, you are receiving this message to describe how you can better tropical cyclone articles. There are hundreds of tropical cyclone articles, though many of them are poorly organized and lacking in information. Using the existing featured articles as a guide line, here is the basic format for the ideal tropical cyclone article.
  1. Infobox- Whenever possible, the infobox should have a picture for the tropical cyclone. The picture can be any uploaded picture about the storm, though ideally it should be a satellite shot of the system. If that is not available, damage pictures, either during the storm or after the storm, are suitable. In the area that says Formed, indicate the date on which the storm first developed into a tropical depression. In the area that says Dissipated, indicate the date on which the storm lost its tropical characteristics. This includes when the storm became extratropical, or if it dissipated. If the storm dissipated and reformed, include the original start date and the final end date. Highest winds should be the local unit of measurement for speed (mph in non-metric countries, km/h in metric countries), with the other unit in parenthesis. The lowest pressure should be in mbars. Damages should, when available, be in the year of impact, then the present year. The unit of currency can be at your discretion, though typically it should be in USD. Fatalities indicate direct deaths first, then indirect deaths. Areas affected should only be major areas of impact. Specific islands or cities should only be mentioned if majority of the cyclone's effects occurred there.
  2. Intro- The intro for every article should be, at a minimum, 2 paragraphs. For more impacting hurricanes, it should be 3 or more. The first should describe the storm in general, including a link to the seasonal article, its number in the season, and other statistics. The second should include a brief storm history, while the third should be impact.
  3. Storm history- The storm history should be a decent length, relatively proportional to the longevity of the storm. Generally speaking, the first paragraph should be the origins of the storm, leading to the system reaching tropical storm status. The second should be the storm reaching its peak. The third should be post-peak until landfall and dissipation. This section is very flexable, depending on meteorological conditions, but it should generally be over 3. Additional pictures are useful here. If the picture in the infobox is of the storm at its peak, use a landfall picture in the storm history. If the picture in the infobox is of the storm at its landfall, use the peak. If the landfall is its peak, use a secondary peak, or even a random point in the storm's history.
  4. Preparations- The preparations section can be any length, depending on the amount of preparations taken by people for the storm. Hurricane watches and warnings need to be mentioned here, as well as the number of people evacuated from the coast. Include numbers of shelters, and other info you can find on how people prepared for the storm.
  5. Impact- For landfalling storms, the impact section should be the majority of the article. First, if the storm caused deaths in multiple areas, a death table would work well in the top level impact section. A paragraph of the general effects of the storm is also needed. After the intro paragraph, impact should be broken up by each major area. It depends on the information, but sections should be at least one paragraph, if not more. In the major impact areas, the first paragraph should be devoted to meteorological statistics, including rainfall totals, peak wind gusts on land, storm surge, wave heights, beach erosion, and tornadoes. The second should be actual damage. Possible additional paragraphs could be detailed information on crop damage or specifics. Death and damage tolls should be at the end. Pictures are needed, as well. Ideally, there would be at least one picture for each sub-section in the impact, though this sometimes can't happen. For storms that impact the United States or United States territories, this site can be used for rainfall data, including an image of rainfall totals.
  6. Aftermath- The aftermath section should describe foreign aid, national aid, reconstruction, short-term and long-term environmental effects, and disease. Also, the storm's retirement information, whether it happened or not, should be mentioned here.
  7. Records- This is optional, but can't hurt to be included.
  8. Other- The ideal article should have inline sourcing, with the {{cite web}}: Empty citation (help) formatting being preferable. Always double check your writing and make sure it makes sense.
Good luck with future writing, and if you have a question about the above, don't hesitate to ask.

Does something like that work? Hurricanehink (talk) 03:17, 12 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds good. I was just curious if something like this would work. I'll bring it up there. Hurricanehink (talk) 15:02, 15 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ivan

My intent over on Ivan past few edits was to split it up into every conceivable section- to make sure when the editing to reduce the storm section occurs no content is lost. Obviously the article is far too split up at the moment - a lot of the sections will go, but when they get remerged we know the content is in the right sections. How long do you think the storm history should be and should those subsections of it go? --Nilfanion (talk) 23:40, 12 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Just so you know I've done some major trimming of the storms section and removed also records/naming per your suggestions (the wave record is commented out currently - can remove or reinstate easily enough from there). The storm history needs a copyedit to make it less repetitive, but the length is sensible now. Its just the impact now, I'm not sure if we need seperate sections for the US states, but I favor that for the work in progress, it shows where there is a lack of information (Alabama is really stubby currently).--Nilfanion (talk) 21:10, 21 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

User:Yagrebu roevert

User:Yagrebu roevert has again commited vandalism by clearing his talk page, which contained warnings. I suggest a ban. --Bayyoc 02:16, 13 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Highway's RfA

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Me relaxing...
Request for Adminship
Thank you for supporting/objecting/tropicanising me in my request for Adminship. Although I wasn't promoted to admin status, with a final vote count of 14/27/12, I am very happy with the response I received from my fellow Wikipedians. I was pleasantly suprised at the support, and was touched by it. I will also work harder on preventing disputes and boosting my edit count (which is on the up), so thank you to all your objectors. Hopefully I will re-apply soon and try again for the mop. Thanks again, Highway Rainbow Sneakers

Anti-Vandalism

Thanks for reverting my userpage! The vandals must really like me. :P Excuse me now while I enlarge my ego. Cheers and thanks again, Mopper Speak! 05:39, 17 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

from my userpage as well. ←Humus sapiens ну? 06:44, 19 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

FIcelloguyTool

Hi Titoxd, remember me? We had a conversation on IRC, at #editcounters about FIcelloguyTool and another Java application (my project). You mentioned that there was someone already working on the SOAP API, but I forgot his name. Could you remember me, please? Best regards, Nuno Tavares 13:41, 18 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Roger that. Forwarding..... Thanks! Nuno Tavares 21:43, 18 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

RfA Thank You!

Thanks Titoxd,

I am honored by your support in my recent successful request for adminship. As an administrator, I am your servant, ready to help however I can. (In your case, since you've had the tools longer than I, my best use might be menial labor!) My talk page is always open; should you need anything, or should you see me making a mistake -- probably a common occurrence -- please do let me know. I will depend on the good sense of the community to keep me from making a complete fool of myself! :) In gratitude, Xoloz 17:12, 18 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

PS. If I can be of any help in urging Mr. Parham to the RfA gauntlet, let me know -- I've already offered to nominate him myself, as has just about everybody, I think!

See User talk:Interiot#Toolserver corruption... I implemented the search idea... let me know if that's what you were looking for. --Interiot 20:50, 18 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

PD or fair use?

I'm still new to the fair use idea, but would images at this site qualify as fair use, PD, or are they not even allowed? They are part of the National Weather Service site, which would make them PD, though they are taken by a fireman (US employee=PD) and 2 other people. What would the copyright status be on one of those tornado images? Thanks for the anticipated help. Hurricanehink (talk) 19:07, 19 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. That's what I figured, but it didn't hurt to ask. Hurricanehink (talk) 20:41, 22 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Esperanza

I have just joined the group, and are glad that you are one of the leading lights. I can remember you saying something about Mexicans being called vandals, when I was whinging on about being called one myself. That gave me a good laugh. I think we are probably on a similar wavelength, and I would like to help out. I see a few other level headed types there too. Wallie 17:41, 20 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

A smile for you

More Smiling

G.He 23:19, 20 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ayuda

Hola, te he visto activo en w:es, y me di cuenta que eras administrador, y me podías ayudar con algo, (espero que así sea), mi problema es trasladar esta plantilla Template:Harvard reference, ya que en w:es no existe una plantilla especial para colocar fuentes provenientes de Internet, pero allí esta el problema, no se por donde comenzar, le doy editar y pienso que será pan comido pero ya tengo 30 minutos tratando de que “encaje” allá, lo cual me ha sido imposible, me preguntaba si es que este es tu campo, que la trasladaras para w:es, como Plantilla:Ref-internet, ¿Qué dices?. Saludos --Oscar 07:09, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Esta bien, desde ya ¡Gracias! --Oscar 07:14, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
Todo genial, gracias por atender tan rápido mi solicitud ;-). Saludos Oscar

Wikificar

Tome en cuenta tu sugerencia de redireccionar el articulo es:Wikificar a es:Wikipedia:Wikificar, y aun pienso que debe borrarse el articulo es:Wikificar. Habiendo hecho eso, espero que reconsideres tu voto. Saludos --Icoyocayan 10:56, 23 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]


Please help on Mathematics

Thank you for your support of the Article Improvement Drive.
This week Mathematics was selected to be improved to featured article status.
Hope you can help…

Posted by Pruneau 21:49, 23 May 2006 (UTC), on behalf of the AID Maintenance Team[reply]

Merci beaucoup!

Thank you, Titoxd!
Thank you for voting for my recent RfA, which passed (to my extreme surprise and shock) with a total tally of 66/15/2. For that, I would like to thank you and offer a helping hand in any admin-related tasks that may be required -- it's as simple as leaving a message on my talkpage. Thanks again! -→Buchanan-Hermit/!? 22:21, 23 May 2006 (UTC) [reply]
No problem, you deserve it. {{PAGENAME}} 22:24, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Re: What's going on in here?

OK, here's the story. About a week ago, Icelandic Hurricane took a page Hurricanecraze32 was working on in his user space and published it without Hurricanecraze's permission. (The article was Matthew). Hurricanecraze got angry at Icelandic Hurricane, and Icelandic Hurricane said he would change it to make it look different. Then, yesterday (or 2 days ago), Icelandic Hurricane took another page Hurricanecraze32 was working on in craze's userspace and published it, again without his permission. The article was Bonnie (1986). I told Icelandic hurricane that was mean. He said to me that he would change it. Hurricanecraze wanted the article to be merged and for Icelandic hurricane to be punished. I said it shouldn't be merged, as you don't own articles. And that's where we are right now. I think the whole thing is childish, and both should apologize for being childish about it. Hopefully you can push some sense into them. Hurricanehink (talk) 00:48, 24 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I have Titoxd's page watched. I did stumble onto this mess near the start but didn't look further into it. It seems to have gotten slightly out-of-hand. However, the moment Hurricanecraze posted the stuff onto his userspace (AKA, Wikipedia), he effectively gave up his rights to them, as far as I am aware. I do not see any problem. Just get HurricaneCraze to improve on the article while in mainspace. NSLE (T+C) at 00:50 UTC (2006-05-24)
The problem is, I doubt they would agree. Icelandic hurricane thinks he did nothing, while Craze is furious. However, good luck if you do mediation. Hurricanehink (talk) 11:31, 24 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not sure why I'm commenting on a super old discussion, but since it has to do with me, whatever. I would just like to say that I never stole the Matthew article from HurricaneCraze; I didn't even know he had a draft of it til after I revived Matthew. I just decided to revive the Matthew article that I think Storm05 wrote and then expand on it. And as far as I know, Craze didn't get mad at that. So I guess that clears up half of it. íslenska hurikein #12 (samtal) 13:09, 29 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Opening up WP:V0.5N

Hi Tito,

I submit my final grades tonight, so my teaching commitments are formally over till July (summer school) and I will have a bit more time for Wikipedia. I was thinking of opening up WP:V0.5N (and therefore WP:V0.5) on Thursday, what do you think? Will you be around to help if we get any problems? I will contact Maurreen and Wizzy directly as well. Cheers, Walkerma 02:34, 24 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hello again, thanks as usual for your prompt reply. By all means submit a nomination! I have a couple of detail questions about the templates we'll be using with V0.5.

  • I changed Template:V0.5 so that it puts things into Category:Wikipedia:Version 0.5 Articles rather than Category:Wikipedia:Version 0.5. Is that OK? I was thinking that we may need a general category for non-articles, and if we end up (as I think we may) with 2-5000 or so articles in there, the general pages may get lost. I don't have strong views if you need to revert this.
  • Do you know if it's easy for us to get Mathbot to work on this project? Do you think it's appropriate? If so, what forms of data do we want? Do we want something (like GAAuto?) to check that our approved articles list at WP:V0.5 matches with the template-generated list? Thanks, Walkerma 03:24, 24 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, I definitely wouldn't want articles added to V0.5 by a bot either, I simply meant something equivalent to the log that could list any discrepancies. A human could then make adjustments to the main list as needed (as Cedars does at GA). I suspect for that aspect we don't need make big changes to Mathbot, we could approach the GA folks (specifically User:Cedars) to see if they could adapt GAAuto (which I think may be this perl script) to generate a log for us. I don't think we need do this immediately, in fact we probably only really need it to be done once after nominations have closed.

For Mathbot, I'm most interested in it generating statistics, a log, and "by quality" tables. I realise that many articles may be unassessed, but with WVWP we will be pushing the idea of using the bot assessments anyway, so hopefully we can get at least 1000 or so of the articles carrying assessments in their banners (mostly A or FA class, probably, though some B-Class too if they are decent and very important topics). I think it would be useful to flag any quality changes on the V0.5 articles after inclusion, for example if an article goes from A down to B we may want to re-evaluate it, or opt to use an older version. I'm also thinking to the future - I am still hoping we can get Mathbot to generate some trees with a huge amount of metadata on one screen (e.g., instead of the ubiquitous blue article link, the links could be colored based on their assessment, with automatic updating by Mathbot). This could be invaluable once we start having to browse through tens of thousands of articles for WP1.1 (next year?). By that time it may be that many articles will have been assessed using the S/S/B/A scheme. I think we may as well start using the bot early on. What do you think? Walkerma 03:56, 24 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

EWS23's RfA and a barnstar for you!

I, EWS23, hereby award TitoXD this Original Barnstar for his dedication toward grooming the next generation of administrators. Keep up the good work! 04:06, 24 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Tito! Thank you for your strong support of my requests for adminship. I realize we didn't get a chance to do much admin coaching, but it's been a pleasure getting to know you, and I hope we get to work together more in the future. Through your actions and your words, you've been highly dedicated to helping future admins on their path. For that, I award you this barnstar. Thanks, and if you ever see anything that I could be doing better, please let me know! EWS23 | (Leave me a message!) 04:06, 24 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

AOL IP block

Is it possible to unblock just 152.163.100.199 ? Amongst all the recent vandalism, I've seen just this IP making good edits. Kevin 04:33, 24 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, person who was at the top of Special:Logs

I've placed two civility warning on a user's talk page *cough* Tony *cough* and he's removed them as "trolling" and "silliness," although I also used the "please don't remove warnings" template.

There's some discussion at my talk about it if you'd care to look, but the short version is I'd prefer the warnings to be replaced. Same reason we always want warnings to stay: They are for everyone else as well as the person who's been warned.

Conversly, if you look it over and tell me I'm just being a pain, I'll listen.

brenneman {L} 04:38, 24 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, as always. - brenneman {L} 06:44, 24 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
(Note to self: Next time go for person number two on the log.)

Sanity check request

This is the price you pay for being reasonable. Am I being monomaniacal in this thread? - brenneman {L} 02:41, 26 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Vandal Block

Hello, I was wondering if you can block User:144.132.169.197 again because they keep on vandalisng the Nikki Webster article. They have gotten the vandalism warnings because in one of the edits to Nikki Webster they said "I'm not scared of not editing haha, I'm doing this for a good reason". Please block this user again. :). Lillygirl 8:20, 24 May 2006

Thanks

Thanks Titoxd for reverting the vandalism on my RfA. Regards, Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 04:30, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you.

Thanks, Highway Rainbow Sneakers 22:04, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

IPs at hurricane articles

I see you've noticed the IPs at the hurricane talk pages too. I s-protected the Pacific page yesterday. These IPs don't even go to the extent of including a "User:" in their sigs, how unprofessional :P NSLE (T+C) at 03:09 UTC (2006-05-27)

Arquites

Hola amigo Titoxd, me permito escribirte porque he reeditado totalmente el articulo Arquites, sobre el cual existe una consulta de borrado, me gustaría invitarte a leer los cambios para que en el caso de que te parezcan bien, reconsideraras tu voto. Gracias--81.0.33.141 18:22, 27 May 2006 (UTC) Firmado Clarasemp en la wiki en español[reply]

Thanks!

For working wonders at WP:1.0 and 0.5

Hi Tito, I just wanted to take a few moments to thank you for all of your hard work at Wikipedia 1.0 that has made everything run more smoothly. Your work at WP:WVWP, help with organising the bot, setting up the V0.5 pages, and countless other things has made life a lot easier for all of us associated with the project. I honestly think that without your help we couldn't even have considered getting WP:V0.5 started. Thanks a lot! Walkerma 05:08, 28 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your comments in Lar's RfA!

We are here to build an encyclopedia!

Hi Tito, and thank you for your (quick and kind) comments in my request for adminship! With a final tally of (109/5/1), I have been entrusted with adminship. It's been several weeks since the conclusion of the process, so hopefully you've had a chance to see me in action. Please let me know what you think! Thanks again and I look forward to working on WP 1.0 with you! ++Lar: t/c 03:25, 28 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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New Idea for 0.5 Version Nominations reviewing

Hey, I made a layout for my idea of reviewing at User:Chcknwnm/Sandbox. If you think it's appropriate it should probably go to Wikipedia:Version 0.5 Nominations/Reviews. Anyway, let me know what you think, and feel free to say that it will cause too much extra work or isn't appropriate for this project...just looking for feedback. I'll send this message to all the current reviewers to get their imput. Later, Chuck(척뉴넘) 06:18, 29 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Please ban vandals!

It would be a great help if you could ban people(their IPs are obviously seen in the page history) that keep vandalising my userpage. Thanks,  Earth KIN (Talk) 23:28, 29 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks.

Thanks for fixing my logic error. I felt kind of funny for a while... Ral315 (talk) 01:20, 30 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry for not posting anything, especially on something linked to from the main page, but I've never seen the job que at anything other than 0. It would seem to me that if it was ever utilized, we'd all be swamped in things to do. But I don't know. Is there something I don't know? -Mysekurity [m!] 02:35, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Gotcha. That would explain it. What exactly does it show? I thought the job que was supposed to be for a lot of things, and not just the defcon thing...(?) -Mysekurity [m!] 03:00, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

About {{hurricane}}

Sorry, didn't mean to cause any trouble. But it might happen again(not by me) because it looks redundant. Thanks. TimL 04:33, 30 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

wtf - I'm the juggernaut bitch

that article is not afd, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_review#The_Juggernaut_Bitch

That's exactly why it should be there, it was undeleted to be resent there. Either way, I don't have an opinion on the subject, so feel free to fight it there. Titoxd(?!? - help us) 05:50, 30 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
You can not nominate it for afd until the deletion review completes, I asked tawker to revert it for now while I work on the article 72.145.155.253 05:58, 30 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
he said 'it is currently under another AfD' -- that was not the case and you knew it but you opened another rfa either way 72.145.155.253 07:12, 30 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

An article can not be on afd and drv at the same time Mineralè 06:59, 30 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

From what I was reading in the DRV it was re-re nominated for deletion. I was approaced by an editor who wanted to improve the article a bit, I guess the AfD I thought was there (and I guess I didn't check being a tad tired) - thanks for re-opening the AfD - it just seemed to need some second looks -- Tawker 06:12, 30 May 2006 (UTC) (now that I've found the correct page I'll repost here :) -- Tawker 07:44, 30 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Article formatting

Dear Tropical cyclone editor,

As a member of the Tropical Cyclone Wikiproject, you are receiving this message to describe how you can better tropical cyclone articles. There are hundreds of tropical cyclone articles, though many of them are poorly organized and lacking in information. Using the existing featured articles as a guide line, here is the basic format for the ideal tropical cyclone article.

  1. Infobox- Whenever possible, the infobox should have a picture for the tropical cyclone. The picture can be any uploaded picture about the storm, though ideally it should be a satellite shot of the system. If that is not available, damage pictures, either during the storm or after the storm, are suitable. In the area that says Formed, indicate the date on which the storm first developed into a tropical depression. In the area that says Dissipated, indicate the date on which the storm lost its tropical characteristics. This includes when the storm became extratropical, or if it dissipated. If the storm dissipated and reformed, include the original start date and the final end date. Highest winds should be the local unit of measurement for speed (mph in non-metric countries, km/h in metric countries), with the other unit in parenthesis. The lowest pressure should be in mbars. Damages should, when available, be in the year of impact, then the present year. The unit of currency can be at your discretion, though typically it should be in USD. Fatalities indicate direct deaths first, then indirect deaths. Areas affected should only be major areas of impact. Specific islands or cities should only be mentioned if majority of the cyclone's effects occurred there.
  2. Intro- The intro for every article should be, at a minimum, 2 paragraphs. For more impacting hurricanes, it should be 3. The first should describe the storm in general, including a link to the seasonal article, its number in the season, and other statistics. The second should include a brief storm history, while the third should be impact.
  3. Storm history- The storm history should be a decent length, relatively proportional to the longevity of the storm. Generally speaking, the first paragraph should be the origins of the storm, leading to the system reaching tropical storm status. The second should be the storm reaching its peak. The third should be post-peak until landfall and dissipation. This section is very flexible, depending on meteorological conditions, but it should generally be around 3. Storm histories can be longer than three paragraphs, though they should be less than five. Anything more becomes excessive. Remember, all storm impacts, preparations, and records can go elsewhere. Additional pictures are useful here. If the picture in the infobox is of the storm at its peak, use a landfall picture in the storm history. If the picture in the infobox is of the storm at its landfall, use the peak. If the landfall is its peak, use a secondary peak, or even a random point in the storm's history.
  4. Preparations- The preparations section can be any length, depending on the amount of preparations taken by people for the storm. Hurricane watches and warnings need to be mentioned here, as well as the number of people evacuated from the coast. Include numbers of shelters, and other info you can find on how people prepared for the storm.
  5. Impact- For landfalling storms, the impact section should be the majority of the article. First, if the storm caused deaths in multiple areas, a death table would work well in the top level impact section. A paragraph of the general effects of the storm is also needed. After the intro paragraph, impact should be broken up by each major area. It depends on the information, but sections should be at least one paragraph, if not more. In the major impact areas, the first paragraph should be devoted to meteorological statistics, including rainfall totals, peak wind gusts on land, storm surge, wave heights, beach erosion, and tornadoes. The second should be actual damage. Possible additional paragraphs could be detailed information on crop damage or specifics. Death and damage tolls should be at the end. Pictures are needed, as well. Ideally, there would be at least one picture for each sub-section in the impact, though this sometimes can't happen. For storms that impact the United States or United States territories, this site can be used for rainfall data, including an image of rainfall totals.
  6. Aftermath- The aftermath section should describe foreign aid, national aid, reconstruction, short-term and long-term environmental effects, and disease. Also, the storm's retirement information, whether it happened or not, should be mentioned here.
  7. Records- This is optional, but can't hurt to be included.
  8. Other- The ideal article should have inline sourcing, with the {{cite web}} formatting being preferable. Always double check your writing and make sure it makes sense.

Good luck with future writing, and if you have a question about the above, don't hesitate to ask.

Hurricanehink (talk) 19:53, 30 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

RE: FW Barnstar

Thanks for that! I always try my hardest. Hurricanehink (talk) 11:41, 31 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

ATLAS 0.5 nom

Hi Titoxd. If you'll forgive me for having a bit of ego wrapped up in a main page article that I wrote almost all of by myself, can I ask why you removed ATLAS experiment from the 0.5 nomination list? It didn't fail the "significant topics" criterion, did it? ;-) Maybe what I ought to say is that if there are any concrete suggestions on the article I'd be happy to work on them. -- SCZenz 15:38, 31 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Technicalities of edit conflicts

...is something I have never quite grasped. You just said they only occur when two people edit the same line. So why do we conflict if two people try to add a comment to the same section on e.g. a popular thread on AN/I? Or do we only conflict when two people try to add a new comment to the bottom, thus editing the same, if non-existent 'next' line? -Splashtalk 23:53, 31 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I see. That's interesting. Someone should write edit conflict code that actually does what people think it does! I saw te v0.5 thing, and it looks interesting. I'd (vainly) submit one or two of my own articles, but they'd fail the Wikipedia:Does it contain an equals sign? test. Good work though, and interesting to see how it proceeds. -Splashtalk 00:07, 1 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Physics and Vital articles, Wikipedia 0.5/1.0, etc.

Hi Titoxd. Your comments have inspired me to look around a little bit at the various suggestions for fundamental articles in physics, and although I support projects like this I have a problem I wanted to run by you... Many of our physics editors are professional physicists, and most of those who aren't are still interested primarily in current research topics. You might be able to imagine that bringing an article like weight up to featured status is a lot less interesting to most of us than something that relates to our current research. Wikipedia:Vital articles has no topics that I'd consider even close to current research; it doesn't even include basic areas of physics with a fair amount of popular awareness, like General Relativity, String theory, particle physics, or most other topics found in {{Physics-footer}}. Do you think it's the vital lists that need to be expanded, or is the 2nd half of the 20th century just not core encyclopedia material? -- SCZenz 07:36, 1 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The overlapping terminology for all this stuff confuses the heck out of me, so I missed key articles entirely. That seems like an area that WikiProject Physics could help with, so (going along with an earlier query I made) I've created Wikipedia:WikiProject Physics/Key articles. We'll see what happens with it. I might look at some 0.5 Nat Sci articles if I have time. -- SCZenz 07:58, 1 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

A haiku of thanks

Thanks for your support
In my RfA, which passed!
Wise I'll try to be.

You are an editor that I respect the highest amount, and I am really honored to have your support. Thanks for all your nice comments in your support vote, and thanks again!

-- Natalya 03:38, 3 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #1

Number 1, June 4, 2006

The Hurricane Herald

This is the monthly newsletter of WikiProject Tropical Cyclones. The Hurricane Herald aims to give a summary of the activities of the WikiProject over the past month and upcoming events over the next month. In addition monthly tropical cyclone activity will be summarized.

You have received this as you are a member of the WikiProject, please add your username in the appropriate section on the mailing list. If you do not add your name to that list, the WikiProject will assume you do not wish to receive future versions of The Hurricane Herald.

Storm of the month

Typhoon Chanchu near its peak intensity
Typhoon Chanchu near its peak intensity
Typhoon Chanchu was the first typhoon and first super typhoon of the 2006 Pacific typhoon season. Forming on May 9 over the open western Pacific Ocean, Chanchu moved over the Philippines on the 11th. There, it dropped heavy rainfall, causing mudslides, crop damage, and 41 deaths. It moved into the South China Sea, where it rapidly strengthened to a super typhoon on May 14, one of only two super typhoons recorded in the sea. It turned to the north, weakened, and struck the Fujian province of China as a minimal typhoon on the 17th. The typhoon flooded 192 houses, while heavy rainfall caused deadly mudslides. In China, Chanchu caused at least 25 deaths and $480 million in damage (2006 USD). Elsewhere on its path, strong waves from the typhoon sank eleven Vietnamese ships, killing at least 44 people. In Taiwan, heavy rainfall killed two people, while in Japan, severe waves killed one person and injured another.

Other tropical cyclone activity

New articles and improvements wanted

Member of the month

This isn't the generic barnstar, we just don't have a WPTC star yet…
This isn't the generic barnstar, we just don't have a WPTC star yet…

The May member of the month is TitoXD. The WikiProject awards this to him for his brilliant work in improving articles. TitoXD joined the WikiProject in October just after it had been founded. Since then he has contributed substantially to many articles, for example Hurricane Nora (1997), which is currently a Featured Article Candidate. He is also actively involved in the assessment of articles and so helps to improve many more articles.

Explanation of content

If you have a topic which is not directly related to any specific article but is relevant to the WikiProject bring it up on the Newsletters talk page, and it will probably be included in a future edition of The Hurricane Herald.

These two sections are decided by the community on the newsletter's talk page:

  • Storm of the month: This is determined by a straw poll on the page. While all storms will be mentioned on the newsletter, the selected storm will be described in more detail.
  • Member of the month: Nominations are made on the talk page, voting is by secret ballot; read the talk page for details. The winner receives the WikiProject's barnstar (when we make it).

Main Page content

Storm article statistics

Grade April May June
FA 7 7 10
A 4 5 7
GA 0 3 5
B 62 66 82
Start 154 177 168
Stub 13 12 10
Total 240 263 282
percentage
Less than B
69.6 71.6 63.1

The assessment scale

  • The cyclone assessment scale is one of the bases of the new assessment scale for Version 1.0 of Wikipedia. It splits articles into several categories by quality, to identify which articles are "finished" and which ones still need to be improved.
  • The assessment scale by itself counts of several grades:
    • FA: reserved for articles that have been identified as featured content only.
    • A: this grade is given to articles that are considered ready for Wikipedia:peer review. The way to get this grade assigned to an article is by asking other cyclone editors at the WikiProject's assessment page.
    • GA: reserved for articles that have passed a good article nomination.
    • B: these articles are "halfway there", and have most of the details of a complete article, yet it still has significant gaps in its coverage.
    • Start: articles that fall in this category have a decent amount of content, yet it is weak in many areas. Be bold and feel free to improve them!
    • Stub: these articles are mostly placeholders, and may in some cases be useless for the reader. It needs a lot of work to be brought to A-Class level.
  • The way to use these assessments is by adding a parameter to the WikiProject template on the articles talk page ({{hurricane|class=B}} as an example). This feeds the article into a category which is read and parsed to create an assessment table, summary and log.

Congratulations

Congrats, Mr. WPTC Member of the Month. :P NSLE (T+C) at 00:55 UTC (2006-06-04)

:O I'm really going to need a place to hide for a bit... :P Titoxd(?!? - help us) 00:58, 4 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

V0.5 article reviews, and WVWP

Hi, I'm back from CIT, it went well, we had around 80 attendees for our panel on Wikis. I agree that this idea is nice, but I think we need to clarify who will assess what. At present I assess things I feel I can, or things I like, and that doesn't always fit with what people may think I can do. I want to make sure we get articles assessed at a decent rate - but then again having a specific list may actually encourage some to review more, I don't know. I certainly think it would be nice to set up:

  • A "second opinion" review page, along the lines of this sandbox page, for those articles the reviewer feels are outside his/her area of expertise.
  • A "disputed" page for cases where the nominee has a strong disagreement with the reviewer.

What do you think?

I'm going to bed now, but I'd like to start contacting WikiProjects for a second time this week. Can you think how to word the message, and I'll also give my views on it tomorrow night, at Wikipedia_talk:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Work_via_Wikiprojects#The_next_postings. Walkerma 06:55, 5 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, the disputes page should certainly do that too. What should be done if someone gets upset about their nomination being rejected - just say, "Judges decision is final," or "Send it to the Second Opinion page" or "Discuss it on the Disputed page?" What system (if any) should we have for such appeals? Oh, and I meant to say, for 0.5 I think it should be fine for us to review outside our areas of expertise, we can put in more formal requirements for V1.0 (for which the review process is much more rigorous). The second opinion page would be a simple way to handle our apprehension on this for now. Thanks, Walkerma 07:10, 5 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'd put Sandy on hold. I hate to put FAs like this on hold, but this isn't Babe Ruth or Jackie Robinson, who perhaps do deserve to sit alongside Wayne Gretsky on the CD. Perhaps I'm not the best choice for second opinion, though - if I'm wrong and Sandy is in the most notable 6 or so baseball players of all time, and an FA, then he should go in. I suspect he will get on a later version. Walkerma 05:52, 6 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

AA + quality of article scale

Thanks for the idea ... would you help me in tweaking the data. Maybe like 0-3, start ... 3-5, stub ... 5-7, b-class ... 7-8, GA ... 8-10 a-class or it just can't be used that way. Lincher 03:54, 6 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Perfect. Thanks for the addition to the AA project, will try to add it in the next week. Lincher 04:34, 6 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Question answered

Hi. I've answered your question. In it, I assumed you meant "non-Bureaucrats" where you wrote "non-admins". And sorry for the long statement :) Cheers, Redux 12:30, 6 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

My RFA

Thanks
Thanks
Titoxd, thank you for participating in my RfA. It passed with an amazingly unopposed 77/0/1. Thanks for the support everybody! If you see me doing anything wrong, want to ask me something, or just want to yell in my general direction, leave me a note on my talk page. I promise to try and knock out Wikipedia's problems wherever I may find them!

Staxringold talkcontribs 20:50, 6 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Want to ask you rather than publicly. I think I'm getting to the point where I could coach others. Is it presumptuous of me, do you think, to remove my name from the coachee list and add it to coach even though I was never coached? (and am I wrong to think I am getting to that point?) Thoughts? Thanks! ++Lar: t/c 22:28, 6 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Found Something or just to let you know

The word neglection exists, I found it in the dictionary. http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=neglection 24.188.203.181 03:53, 9 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Poll on footnotes

You are right. I posted my rsp and modified the proposal accordingly. I don't consider it a procedural vio since it is a trivial issue, and since the same end result will be feasible by your global variable proposal. Actually, personally I wouldn't mind if it was dropped alltogether. If you have no other objections, I'd appreciate changing your vote. Thanks for the input and the global idea of working around this detail!  NikoSilver  (T) @ (C) 10:09, 9 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

WPTC importance cats

As I commented on the WPTC talk page I noted Mathbot was noting importance now, so I expanded the hurricane template and made cats for it. However thinking about it now, I am not sure if I got the cats right. I put them in as extra sub-cats of Category:Tropical cyclone articles by quality. Seeing as you are an admin with intimate knowledge of both WPTC and 1.0, it seems obvious to ask you to double check to see if I got the layout right (and correct if I haven't). I suppose we will know for sure if tomorrows log shows Mathbot noticing that Top-Class has been assigned to talk:Tropical cyclone.--Nilfanion (talk) 14:47, 9 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Oh well I did get it wrong... still its correct now isn't it?--Nilfanion (talk) 11:25, 10 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Time for another to coach

Now that EivindFOyangen is basically gaining more experience, I think I can take on someone else for admin coaching. I think there are a few admins on the coaches list not assigned, and might be an idea to start 'pruning' the requests list using the new rules, to try and get this moving a little bit. I can help out if you want with that, but as you're officially the coordinator I'll let you have the first bash if you want :) Petros471 16:00, 10 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, is there any special requirements to take note of? Like for example I notice the top request is from an existing admin, is that treated in the same way as the others? Petros471 21:14, 10 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Destruction

Vandal that you are, I have of course indefinitely blocked you for this edit. So you might want to make a second attempt at it... :) Splash - tk 05:11, 11 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ack... Titoxd(?!?) 06:22, 11 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I am guessing that the barnstar on this user page, which claims to have been awarded by you, is a fake. Just thought you might want to know. Cheers TigerShark 18:59, 11 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

All the awards on his page were stolen from fuddlemark. Oh, and to Titoxd, just saying it's been a pleasure to work with you, but I'm going on extended wikibreak, and I may or may not be back under this username. NSLE 09:43, 12 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Protection of cite web

Hi Titoxid. May I ask you to unprotect {{cite web}}? Semi-protection is sufficient. I would agree to a hard move protection. But there is currently no need to protect that from editing by established accounts. We had some forths and backs recently but that has been settled. There are a whole bunch of good contributors there which are not admins (erm, including me). Please do not prevent us from maintaining this template. Thank you for your consideration. --Ligulem 09:35, 12 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I appreciate the link, but there is no rainfall information at that site. =( Thanks for trying to help though. Thegreatdr 22:57, 12 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Template:infobox hurricane small

I was thinking the exact same thing just an hour or so before you added it to Alberto, with the projected track instead of the final track. This makes me think of the time we both uploaded a high-resolution version of Image:2005 Atlantic hurricane season map.png. I guess we think alike. :) --tomf688 (talk - email) 00:35, 13 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Us folks are evil

Heh. I'm sorry if I offended anyone by that, believe me I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings. I'll be blunt. The main reason I suggested an expansion to Simple was so some of the contributors who like to create articles, including those who don't write particularly well, are able to make articles and write with the lower quality of grammar they typically use. Wikinews needs help as well, definetly, but those users I mentioned on my talk page would probably continue the simple writing, copy and pasting, and spelling errors they use here. In short, we should expand to both. Hurricanehink (talk) 22:46, 13 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Oh wow, I thought I was in trouble :) I wasn't sure of the meaning of the smilie, though now I understand. If that's the format for Wikinews, then that would be perfect. Yea, both should definetly be expanded. It's just a matter of who wants to abandon the mother land and spend most of their time in faraway territories. I for one prefer the safety net of the mother land. (Hope you got the analogy). Hurricanehink (talk) 00:33, 14 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Really? That's good to know, then. Wikinews sounds very easy, and I might help out if I have time as the season progresses. Spanish does sound hard, though. Hurricanehink (talk) 01:02, 14 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I blocked this guy because he kept recreating Tkendi but only for an hour because he vandalised my user page (thanks for the revert) and I didn't want it to look like revenge. Please review. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 07:45, 14 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

An hours OK, he might have cooled off and I'll still be here. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 07:50, 14 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Inupiaq

An anonymous user created the legitimate text in ik:Iqsrabutilik within the last little bit, meaning that there is indeed potential users. Does this effect your view of the project? -- Zanimum 14:53, 14 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Katrina

Thank you for answering my comment in the Katrina FAC. But now I have another question. Go to this page to see my question. Remember, feel free to answer it. juan andrés 17:57, 14 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Current Events

A Barnstar!
The Current Events Barnstar

For your outstanding contributions to current-event related articles, I hereby award you The Current Events Barnstar. Raichu 22:42, 14 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Zeta

Where did the Zeta agreement occur, I can't seem to find it. TimL 00:57, 15 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Barnstar

Thanks for that! Great job on the design. It looks awesome :) Hurricanehink (talk) 12:55, 15 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

WWE roster Vandals

You can rest assured that the 3 vandals to the WWE roster page have been blocked. --JFred 02:50, 16 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Revert

Thank you for the revert of that. --Dakota ~ 02:56, 16 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I was going through List of storms in the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season today, and noticed that the tracks were missing on the TDs/USTS; turns out you modified the Infobox hurricane small template. Anyway, there's a problem, at least on my end. Take a look at the TD10 section. Does its satellite image appear for you? It doesn't for me. I strongly believe this to be a result of your modification. Any idea how to fix it? -- RattleMan 04:20, 17 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I temporarily reverted your edit at that template, and the problem disappears. However, I did read your comment at WP:VPT and it seems that you had the same problem with TD2-E on the 2K6PHS page, when the image was a PNG. As CesarB said, this problem is in the fact that it's a PNG. Should we convert it to a JPG and reupload? -- RattleMan 04:35, 17 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Converting an image to JPG doesn't neccessary lower its quality, if done correctly. I just converted a JPG at the highest quality setting and there is no noticable difference, even at 5x zoom. Anyway, I guess I can just wait for this to be fixed. Thanks! -- RattleMan 04:48, 17 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Consulta de borrado

Hola. El artículo es:Canal 5 creo que ha sido suficientemente contextualizado y mejorado, y la entrada trasladada a Canal 5 de Rosario. Consulto si estás de acuerdo en cambiar tu voto para archivar la consulta. Saludos 190.49.211.9 06:47, 17 June 2006 (UTC) (Usuario: Antur - de la wiki en español ) - no estoy registrado aquí[reply]

SarahVulva

Hey, thanks for stepping in to remove the image. I wasn't going to bed until I felt I could drop out of the hunt. Now I'm going to sleep. Thanks a lot! Good luck!

Regards, --Alphachimp talk 07:28, 17 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your support

Dear Titoxd,
Thank you very much for your support on my recent RfA. I am pleased to announce that it passed with a tally of 72/11/1, and I am now an administrator. I'll be taking things slowly at first and getting used to the tools, but please let me know if there are any admin jobs I can do to help you, now or in the future. —Cuiviénen 02:24, 18 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Atom

Could you please review atom as the antimatter section is clearer. Rex the first talk | contribs 17:21, 18 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Katrina

I'll try, but I, too, am really busy in real life. I've been working double shifts since Saturday, and have to until Wednesday, so I don't have a lot of time on here. I'll try and keep an eye on things, but you should ask someone else who would probably have more time. Nilfanion maybe? He did rewrite much of that article. Hurricanehink (talk) 12:56, 19 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

RfA thanks!

File:FA-22 Raptor.jpg Thanks for voting!
Hello Titoxd, and thank you so much for voting in my recent RfA. I am pleased to inform you that it passed with a final tally of (119/1/3), into the WP:100, so I have now been cleared for adminship and will soon be soaring above the clouds. I was overjoyed, shocked, and humbled by the tally, and, most importantly, all the support. Thank you. If there is ever anything you need, you know where you can find me. Take care.

--Pilot|guy 22:49, 19 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Please help on William Shakespeare

Thank you for your support of the Article Improvement Drive.
This week William Shakespeare was selected to be improved to featured article status.
Hope you can help…

Posted by PruneauT 01:07, 20 June 2006 (UTC) on behalf of the AID maintenance team.[reply]

TfD nomination of Template:Delete

Template:Delete has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. Wisden17 19:40, 20 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I am sending this message to serious contributors who may be interested in articles related to U.S. politics. I believe I am receiving an unreasonable response-- and at times insulting and rude-- from the editors of Norm Coleman article, who refuse to remove a section that may offer some interesting trivia for Wikipeidia users, but is irrelevant to people interested in reading an encyclopedia article on a member of U.S. Senate. If you have time, please take a look at the article. Regards. 172 | Talk 03:22, 21 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Earthimpact lmb.jpg

Image:Earthimpact lmb.jpg "NASA Spacelink has Moved" - please specify the source of the image. (SEWilco 04:00, 22 June 2006 (UTC))[reply]

Copyvio? Image is at the bottom of the artist's Moon gallery page: http://www.psi.edu/hartmann/pic-cat/moon.html and the preceding page says "All Content Copyright William K. Hartmann". (SEWilco 04:03, 23 June 2006 (UTC))[reply]
An image that you uploaded, Image:Earthimpact lmb.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Copyright problems because it is a suspected copyright violation. Please look there if you know that the image is legally usable on Wikipedia (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), and then provide the necessary information there and on its page, if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you.
SEWilco 04:28, 23 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

A short Esperanzial update

As you may have gathered, discussions have been raging for about a week on the Esperanza talk page as to the future direction of Esperanza. Some of these are still ongoing and warrant more input (such as the idea to scrap the members list altogether). However, some decisions have been made and the charter has hence been amended. See what happened. Basically, the whole leadership has had a reshuffle, so please review the new, improved charter.

As a result, we are electing 4 people this month. They will replace JoanneB and Pschemp and form a new tranche A, serving until December. Elections will begin on 2006-07-02 and last until 2006-07-09. If you wish to run for a Council position, add your name to the list before 2006-07-02. For more details, see Wikipedia:Esperanza/June 2006 elections.

Thanks and kind, Esperanzial regards, —Celestianpower háblame 16:00, 23 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Katrina revert

Thanks, I was looking at an old version of the article and didn't realize it. (for some reason the big banner at the top didn't register) TimL 03:41, 24 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Away and tool stuff

I'm going to be off to China for about 3 weeks starting Monday, so happy editing in the meantime! I committed some new improvements into the tool, in case you haven't seen them already. Hope things go smoothly while I'm away! See you soon, —AySz88\^-^ 08:21, 25 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

10,000

I award you this Barnstar of Diligence in recognition of your efforts towards creating a working system of article assessment for Wikipedia. Kirill Lokshin 05:22, 26 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
It seems we've finally broken past 10,000 assessed articles. We have—thanks, in no small part, to your own creative ingenuity in devising the use of distributed rating for this project—achieved the first steps of what may become the semi-mythical article validation system that everyone always talks about. More than that, your efforts have spurred furious activity on the part of many formerly lethargic WikiProjects. We—as Wikipedians—are all in your debt. Kirill Lokshin 05:22, 26 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Work via WikiProjects

Hi Tito,

Haven't heard from you in a while, I hope things are going well with you. Congratulations on your Barnstar! I have been trying to contact WikiProjects in a second round using these possible postings and this list as a template. Since there are now so many WikiProjects, I'm using our ten categories to organise things now, so they match with our categories in the V0.5 template, etc. The problem is, there is a huge amount to be done and I'm currently the only one working on it. It seems to be very fruitful - several of the postings have resulted in groups adding themselves to the bot (Films, Simpsons, Japan). I'd like to get all the projects re-contacted this summer if possible. If you have any time either to contact the Language & literature projects (next group on the list once I get through the Arts) or to update one of the listings (Science or Places would be simplest), it would be a great help. Thanks! Walkerma 04:28, 27 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the reply, I'd guessed life just got busy. Would you prefer to focus on contacts/followups only, or on updating/reformatting listings, or can you manage both? I'm thinking of a timetable of Science in July, Places in August (or vice versa). What would you like to do? Thanks, Walkerma 22:57, 30 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I would be EXTREMELY grateful if you could help out with the infrastructure stuff, you & I are about the only people familiar enough with the intricacies of the work. Currently I am switching tables from our original format over to the {{assessment}} format you wrote (including "importance"), you can see my start at Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/WPArts. The WVWP work is slow right now because it involves three stages before we can even contact groups. However it's VERY fruitful once contacts are made, just last night two more projects (trains and novels) added themselves to the bot list, I can see us breaking the 100,000 article barrier by fall (for articles read by the bot). Think what we can do with that level of metadata, especially once the assessments get done! Here are the three pre-contact stages:

  1. Write the appropriate section for the master list, showing status of old contacts and to include all of the new projects. (If you'd prefer, I can do this step for you). With so many projects now to keep track of, I am finding this new WVWP master list to be very useful for seeing the big picture. To look for new projects you can use your download of Interiot's list, but also I have found the official list to be much more up-to-date than it used to be.
  2. Using the master list to guide you, update the old page to include the new project listings.
  3. Switch over old tables to the new format.

Then, we're ready for contacting! The category changeover doesn't affect Science or Places, that's one hassle you can ignore. I had someone offer to help in contacting Science projects, it would be good to get someone new "trained" in this. If you could get those two sections updated and formatted, I'd be forever in your debt. Let me know if this is OK for you. Once again, MANY thanks, Walkerma 23:22, 30 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Help required

Hi Tito,

I am looking for help and hopefully have reached the right person. I need help with the Indian Institutes of Technology article. The article has recently achieved FA status. Within weeks of getting the FA status, Tony brought the article to Featured article review over concerns of quality of writing and use of citations, specifically Criterion 2(a) and 2(d). In the past few weeks, I tried to improve the article myself so as to take care of all the objections, however few editors are still unconvinced. Tony suggested that I contact a member of Version 1.0 Editorial Team. After going through the list of members of the team, and your own userpage, I feel that you will be perfect person to help me. Thanks, — Ambuj Saxena (talk) 14:56, 30 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi,
Thanks for the copyedits. I am in no hurry. I will look into your suggestions regarding citations and weasel words. — Ambuj Saxena (talk) 06:36, 1 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Update:I have provided references wherever asked for. I have also copyedit the section about reservation to eradicate as many weasel words as I could find. — Ambuj Saxena (talk) 09:36, 1 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hope you have not forgotton the request. Voting has started on the article's FARC. — Ambuj Saxena (talk) 05:05, 3 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Tito and thanks for the image. I have a suggestion though. I think it would be good if the fonts were say three-five times as big, and the lines thicker, say twice as thick. That way the picture will look better as a thumb I would think. Wonder what you think about that. You can reply here. Thanks. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 06:40, 1 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, it was just my first attempt at an SVG image, though. I'll try to make one later today that looks better. Titoxd(?!?) 15:10, 1 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Ok, how does it look now? Titoxd(?!?) 17:20, 1 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, looks good now! Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 17:26, 1 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Static content, WP 0.5, et al

Hi Titoxd,

We're looking into various static content projects already underway over at the static content subcom, and would appreciate input. What would make your life easier in working on WP 1.0 and related projects? What sister projects have you encountered but not had time (or language skills) to coordinate with? &c. Please leave comments on the subcom's talk page.

All the best, +sj + 15:18, 1 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've replied there, but Martin most likely will comment about things I may have not covered. Titoxd(?!?) 16:38, 1 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #2

Number 2, July 2, 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.

Storm of the month

Tropical Storm Alberto near peak intensity
Tropical Storm Alberto near peak intensity
Tropical Storm Alberto was the first tropical storm of the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season. Forming on June 10 over the western Caribbean Sea, the system moved northwestward as a disorganized tropical depression due to dry air and wind shear. It passed to the west of Cuba, bringing heavy rainfall to Cuba and Grand Cayman. The rainfall damaged 37 homes and destroyed 3 in Havana. It strengthened over the Gulf of Mexico and became a tropical storm on June 11. The center reformed to the northeast near its deep convection, and Alberto reached a peak intensity of 70 mph (110 km/h) before weakening and hitting the Florida Panhandle on June 13. Alberto brought heavy rainfall to the southeastern United States, peaking at 7.16 inches in Raleigh, North Carolina. The rainfall in Florida was beneficial in places as it alleviated drought conditions. The storm indirectly caused two deaths: A pilot who crashed near Tampa due to poor conditions and a boy who drowned in the flooding in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Other tropical cyclone activity

New articles and improvements wanted

Member of the month

Cyclone barnstar
Cyclone barnstar

The June member of the month is Jdorje. The WikiProject awards this to him for his many contributions to the coverage of tropical cyclones on Wikipedia. Jdorje founded the WikiProject in October 2005 and established much of the categorizations the project depends on. His most significant contributions include the Featured article 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane and his track map generator with which he has created hundreds of track maps.

Storm article statistics

Grade April May June July
FA 7 7 10 13
A 4 5 7 6
GA 0 3 5 18
B 62 66 82 79
Start 154 177 168 180
Stub 13 12 10 8
Total 240 263 282 303
percentage
Less than B
69.6 71.6 63.1 62.0

WikiProject subpages

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Thanks to Hurricanehink to maintaining the stats table and producing the storm summaries. Nilfanion (talk)

Personal

DA se esta metiendo personalmente conmigo:

Tenga razon o no, es obvio que en estos primeros dos ejemplos solo actua por molestarme en mala fe,[1], [2].

Aqui me isnsulta Minor changes with ofensive summary

Aqui modifica una pagina mia sabiendo que me va a molestar, vandalismo disfrazado: He know he is not welcomed yet he insisted

El tipo no deja pasar ni 20 minutos para cambiar lo que sea que hago, nunca. Tienes idea? no te exagero, no hay pagina que haga o edite sin que el deshaga de 30 min a 12 hrs. despues. Ya admitio monitorearme y hay evidencia de que lo haga en mala fe. Aqui la tienes, con esto ya puedes obligarlo a dejarme en paz.

  • "User:Dyslexic agnostic appears unable to assume good faith with regards User:T-man, the Wise Scarecrow, and appears to have formed himself into a one man T-Man correction squad, note [51]. I'm also concerned by the comments expressed in this diff, [52], which indicate some level of keeping an eye on T-Man. User:T-man, the Wise Scarecrow seems incapable of keeping his temper with regards Dyslexic agnostic". -Steve Block ( Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Dyslexic Agnostic/Evidence ).

Previous cases:

  • WARNING READ THIS NEXT ONE CAREFULLY 5 TIMES: In the matter of Cool Cat (talk • contribs) (aka User:Coolcat) — a case decided on October 5, 2005 — the ArbCom voted that wikistalking was unacceptable in the following circumstances: It is not acceptable to stalk another editor who is editing in good faith. (Note that everyone is expected to assume good faith in the absence of definite evidence to the contrary.) Once an editor has given reason to suspect bad faith, monitoring is appropriate, but constantly nit-picking is always a violation of required courtesy. There are hundreds of administrators available to monitor problem users...Following an editor to another article to continue disruption (also known as wikistalking)'. The term "wiki-stalking" has been coined to describe following a contributor around the wiki, editing the same articles as the target, with the intent of causing annoyance or distress to another contributor.
  • In the matter of Skyring — a separate case decided August 12, 2005 — a user was found by the Arbitration Committee to have committed "wikistalking". The committee voted 5-0 that:

The term "wiki-stalking" has been coined to describe following a contributor around the wiki, editing the same articles as the target, with the intent of causing annoyance or distress to another contributor. This is distinct from following a contributor in order to clear repeated errors.

On 13 June User:Skyring followed User:Jtdirl, editing a large set of articles that had recently been edited by Jtdirl (see contributions for 13 June). While it is not possible to fully assess intent, this action, and some of the edit summaries used, seem designed to provoke: "enfeebled minds", "Some professional standards, please!", "A common pattern for this editor to produce poor English", "Low quality of Irish editor"

Some interesting pages:

Bullies mainly use a combination of intimidation and humiliation to torment others. The following are some examples of bullying techniques:

  • Getting a victim into trouble with someone (usually an authority figure), or incurring disciplinary action against the victim, for an indiscretion either not committed by the victim or for one that is exaggerated by the bully.
  • Using blatant sarcasm to appear as friendly (to an outsider) while asserting control and status over the victim. (This often occurs directly after the bully has deemed the person as a "worthy victim")
  • Calling the victim names; accusing the victim of uselessness in all of his or her pursuits.
  • Interfering with the personal property of a person, school books or materials, clothes, etc damaging same, or making fun of an individual through them in any way. (in this case vandalism on this page of keep posting against my will]]
  • Social isolation of the victim. See also clique.
  • Cyberbullying through the use of various information technologies.
  • Making the victim do what he or she does not want to do, using threats to ensure that the victim follows orders.
  • Demoting the victim without just cause.
  • Spreading negative rumours and gossip about the victim. In business, this may include false documentation. He achieves this by always supporting who ever might say something negative about me on talk pages.

Te equivocas:

In the matter of Cool Cat (talk • contribs) (aka User:Coolcat) — a case decided on October 5, 2005 — the ArbCom voted that wikistalking was unacceptable in the following circumstances:

  • It is not acceptable to stalk another editor who is editing in good faith. (Note that everyone is expected to assume good faith in the absence of definite evidence to the contrary.) *Once an editor has given reason to suspect bad faith, monitoring is appropriate, but constantly nit-picking is always a violation of required courtesy.
  • There are hundreds of administrators available to monitor problem users...Following an editor to another article to continue disruption (also known as wikistalking)'.
  • The term "wiki-stalking" has been coined to describe following a contributor around the wiki, editing the same articles as the target, with the intent of causing annoyance or distress to another contributor.

Alguna duda?

El comportamiento de DA no es permitido. DA llamo la atencion de Bennon y Shanel para el caso de arbitracion, no yo. Lo que estoy pidiendote es perfectamente legal. CovenantD y Grisworld no me conocian ni sabian de DA, dieron luz verde para el proyecto (logica: si existe todo un wikiproyecto acerca de como hacer articulos de episodios, categorias, categorias para shows animados y todos los ejemplos que he mencionado en la pagina de duialogo en cuestion estos articulos de episodios son perfectamente legales). Cuando DA los comenzo a revertir a lo wey, dio la impresion a los reservados editores de que estoy mal.

El caso coolcat claramente identifica a DA, quien, ya me ha vandalizado mas de cuatro veces, me insulto incluso recientemente, y quien ya ha admitido varias veces monitorearme, como alguien que merece ser bloqueado por in año.

Tu dime el tipo de pruebas que quieras y yo te las presento.

Mejoras en mi comportamiento desde la arbitracion:

  • Ya no insulto a DA
  • Ya no entablo discusiones con el.
  • Ya no lo ataco
  • No he tocado su pagina desde que el caso termino.
  • Sigo sin seguirlo a otras paginas.

Sin embargo el no ha cambiado el comportamiento que genero el proceso en lo mas minimo.

Nota como 3 de 4 veces que fui bloqueado fue por razones sin precedentes o buena justificacion. Ahora mismo podira revertir los q DA me ha revertido y causar que cuando el revierta por tercera vez, sea bloqueado.

Al no castigarlo lo alientas, 100% de los problemas que "te doy" tienen su razon y justificacion en DA. Su mala fe ya se ha puesto en evidencia.

--T-man, the wise 03:03, 2 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No, me ha vandalizado 6 veces, incluyendo una de hoy. Se mete con mis imagenes, todo lo que me edita encima es encontra de mi movimiento, sabe q me molesta que se meta en mi pagina y lo sigue haciendo. Continuar discuciones en otras paginas no esta permitido. me ha vandalizado 6 veces. No es buena fe, te cite varios otros usuarios admitiendolo. Me haces pensar que solo tienes miedo de confrontarte. No se porque t cierrastanto a algo tan evidente. Sabes lo que es editar lo que sea dondesea sabiendo que un desgraciiado lo va a deshacer en mala fe a lo wey? te puedo hacer lo mismo para que veas que se siente (hablo retoricamente)? Tienes idea de como me hace sentir no poder hacer nada sin que el lo deshaga? Por que te parece justo? el no es nadie oficial para monitorearme, si quieres monitoreame tu o alguen chingon, qunque no sepas de los temas, despues de todo el ya admitio que no solo me monitorea sino que no sabe de muchos de los temad que edito y ya lo ha admitido ampliamente(por ejemplo, el no ha visto ninguna de las series animadas). De nuevo, si quieres, como experimento t puedo hacer lo mismo, igualito, aparentando buena fe. Si dices que es perfectamente inocente, entonces probablemente tener tu propio parasito acosador de seguro no te molestaria.

Cool cat me dijo que no es facil identificar a los acosadores, mucho menos con administradores que prefieren hacerse a los ciegos que hacer justicia--T-man, the wise 04:11, 2 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Titoxd, por lo menos deberias haber puesto un poco mas de atencion. Lleva diciendo esas mamadas de "let's be buds" desde que me conoce. Sabe que me encabrona y por eso lo hace. Si DA realmente quisiera paz me daria espacio.

Tambien si hubieses puesto atencion sabrias que originalmente yo no uqeria que sea castigado. Si, ya no lo aguanto, quiero su cabeza. Yo cambie mi comportamiento despues de la arbitracion, DA sigue jodiendo exactamente igual y recuerda el caso se abrio por el, no por mi. ¿Que es tan dicicil de entender? De verdad me haces pensar q le tienes miedo a tu trabajo. Lo sigues consintiendo y el problema se hace mayor. Prefieres bloquearme a mi por cualquier detallito al que nadie mas bloquean que encararlo.

¿Por que putamadre se mete con mis imagenes o sigue escribiendo en mi pagina si sabe que me recontra caga la madre? Analiza las evidencias haciendote la gran predunta por que?. Me ha vandalizado 6 veces. Aunque 5 sean en el pasado es demasiada prueba de su mala fe.

Ya te dije lee las paginas que te dije antes de responder, checa la evidencia, checa las citas de otros usuarios, responsabilizate, tu pediste encargarte. Si tengo derecho de no ser monitoreado por DA.--T-man, the wise 06:08, 2 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]


Volvi a escribir porque note que minorizaste lo q DA hace, como puedo hacerte entender?

Paginas que yo edito sin que DA me siga y las cambie en 30min a 12hrs. aprox= 10%. Da en cambio puede hacer lo q se le de la gana y yo no lo sigo y ni me entero.

Cuando dices "solo por que DA deshizo unas ediciones tuyas de tal pagina" me queda claro que no te has dado cuenta de la magnitud del problema. Asi como esa, pasa lo mismo con TODO (literalmente todo!!! no es una exageracion figurada!!) lo que edito.

Lo siento, pero de nuevo, ponte en mis zapatos, si yo estoy seguro de que DA es una vandalo acosador. que edita en mala fe, y seguro de que por alguna misteriosa razon no te puedes dar cuenta(esto reconozco que puede ser mi culpa por no saberme explicar), que otra cosa puedo hacer sino insistir??

Pide que te presente la evidencia como quieras, yo te lo hago. Mas que nada te pido ayuda, como puedes decir que me vas a castigar por eso?

Si, es cierto, pero yo fui el que pedi los mentores!!! Y la idea era tenerlos en lugar de DA. Y no es irelevante, significa que aparte de las citas que te digo de Rowe y Steve Block y no c quien mas, DA incorrecta conducta llamo la atencion.

Tambien te confunde el porque fui castigado mas, porque hasta el ultimo dia de la arbitracion, mi comprension de que cosas cuentan como ataque eran muy limitados... tanto que mis argumentos de defensa en el fueron considerados un ataque. Eso distrajo mucho la atencion de los que tomaron decisiones. La cita del caso Cool Cat, estaba en el tope de la pagina y de algun modo todos se olvidaron. Como puedes juzgarme tanto si no te metes a fondo al caso?--T-man, the wise 06:45, 2 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

this is the wrong time to add something like this...

Could you please elaborate? When would be a right time? --  Netsnipe  CVU (Talk)  06:40, 2 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Vofoy afa efedifitarar mufuchafas pafagifinafas defe tefemafas quefe nofe mefe ifinteferefesafan, pafarafa quefe vefeafas cofomofo mefe sifiguefe. --T-man, the wise 07:12, 2 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

RFA thanks

Ok, aqui tienes, observa como edite once veces en 20 horas y nueve me siguio... ya me siguio a la mayoria de mis contribs en menos de un dia. Ademas, en dos casos ya rompio la regla de no revertir mas de 3 veces. Ahi tienes, minimo para sacarlo una semana y prohibirle que me siga, pero por favor bloquealo de una vez por todas para siempre.

lo mismo, que la anterior, todavía no hay cizaña, pero me molesta mucho que me siga

Observa como no edite nada sin que me siga el desgraciado, todo mi trabajo fue alterado o borrado, por un tipo que ya admitio que nisiquiera ve estas series.

--T-man, the wise 02:37, 3 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Consensus and reversion

If my reversions of T-Man are justified how can I be banned for making them? The consensus is refer to is that of new pages for JLU episodes when the need to do so has not yet arisen... why wouldn't that extend to Batman animated episodes as well? Confused... -- Dyslexic agnostic 06:18, 3 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I will try very hard to back away from him for a while. -- Dyslexic agnostic 06:22, 3 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

User:Dyslexic agnostic appears unable to assume good faith with regards User:T-man, the Wise Scarecrow, and appears to have formed himself into a one man T-Man correction squad, note [51]. I'm also concerned by the comments expressed in this diff, [52], which indicate some level of keeping an eye on T-Man. User:T-man, the Wise Scarecrow seems incapable of keeping his temper with regards Dyslexic agnostic". -Steve Block ( Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Dyslexic Agnostic/Evidence ).

Bueno, que esta pasando? el tipo rompio 3RR 2 veces en un dia, me ofendio en los resumenes, me siguio a ahora a 13 de 14 paginas y todavia no lo ves??? como es eso posible 13 d 14+ 3RR(x2)!

Y no solo eso, sino que ademas me has bloqueado a mi por mucho menos!! Yo pedi los mentores para que me sigan en lugar de DA! Ahora tengo doble carga!!

Tambien simplifique y mejore las tablas de vandalismo al principio de mis mensajes. checala aver si asi te cae el 20 de su mala fe contra mi persona. Nota los tiempos que tarda en editar en cada caso despues de mi, y el numoro de editores en medio. No es logico pensar que eso es justo o normal.

Si no puedes o no quieres leer y checar las cosas (hey, todos tenemos cosas que hacer), pasa le mi caso a alguien que te lata. Robert Mclenon me ayudo bastante en el caso de arbitracion y pidio ser mi mentor, pero c v muy ocupado tambien.--T-man, the wise 07:24, 3 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

JLU eps

En este parrafo mucho antes de que me bloquees injustificadamente, cedi y deje de tratar de crear los articulos

"Ok, this page some how, is different from all the other sharing the same format. I actually created the separeted articles because previous editors refused to expand it here, because they were also ignoring the list of lists of pisodes above. The guy that redirected the articles is a vandal who has chased, vandalized my page (erasing it all, moving it to T-man the stupid, etc.) and insulted me and you changed your mind because of his edits. Fine whatever, we will follow the now two-men-and-a-stalker-concensus. After all the unavoidable pages per episode will be sooner or later re-opened. And you will have contributed to nothing useful. What have you done anyways?--T-man, the wise 06:31, 2 July 2006 (UTC)"

Decirle silly a alguien no es buen motivo. Si te dicen "tontito" no significa mucho. Ademas, checaste lo que Chrisworld hizo para recibir ese comentario?... no lo creo [4], [5], y lo iba a hacer en todas las paginas donde estaba reclutando. El mismo pregunto si seria acoso y yo le puse el caso de referencia que te da la pauta de la definicion. Y si, no solo es desagradable lo que hizo sino totalmente inecesario (desde el punto d vista a su favor)--T-man, the wise 07:40, 3 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I Have no warnings on my talk page except for dumb comments i am trying to clean up

read the content of my page... I have a few people harrassing me. ER MD 08:25, 3 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]