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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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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! Dooms Day34 9 22:38, 13 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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. -- §Hurricane E RIC § archive 23:26, 20 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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. Tito xd^(?!?) 06:27, 22 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

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 fel lib ylur #12 _(samtal) 01:37, 24 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'll try to have a look at it later tonight, or perhaps Saturday... Tito xd^(?!?) 02:36, 24 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. íslenskur fel lib ylur #12 _(samtal) 15:23, 25 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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 fel lib ylur #12 _(samtal) 00:20, 26 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

Congratulations, and thanks for nominating it. Raven4x4x 06:10, 25 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

POTD

Hi Titoxd,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:Saturn eclipse.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on March 14, 2007. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2007-03-14. howcheng {chat} 17:28, 12 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

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. Tito xd^(?!?) 18:43, 25 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 00:00, 26 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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) [reply]

Move page

Can you move Cyclone Heta (2004) to Cyclone Heta? I noticed its name was on the list of retired names [1]. Good kitty 04:39, 28 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Although, someone should update List of tropical cyclone names... Tito xd^(?!?) 05:07, 28 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

Thank you!

Thank you for the speedy rollback of the 295 [2] 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)[reply]

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. --Core desat 02:34, 1 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Let's leave it at "I'm not going to certify something I don't agree with." Tito xd^(?!?) 02:40, 1 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Move Request

Would you please move User:Storm05/Hurricane Dora (1999) onto the mainspace over the redirect. Storm05 13:41, 1 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It's riddled with errors and misinformation, I'm not sure if it'd be a good idea to do so. – Ch acor 13:46, 1 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

From Talk:Mexico

Titoxd, like I said in the discussion, I am an admin at another wikipedia [3], 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)[reply]

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)[reply]

[[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)[reply]

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)[reply]

Thanks!

Thanks a lot for your help! --Chris Pickett 23:48, 6 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted

Bye!

Per your request, you have been deleted. Please go away. Warm regards, Essjay (Talk) 19:16, 7 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

Blocked per this edit and subsequent vandalism. Tito xd^(?!?) 05:04, 9 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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) – Ch acor 16:03, 16 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

GA passed for Hurricane Bonnie (1992). Happy birthday, by the way (just looked at the msg below :)). Baristarim 00:54, 17 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday, Titoxd! Wishing you a very happy birthday and an awesome upcoming year! Don't forget to save us all a piece of cake!

Best regards from the Birthday Committee and myself! --lov e laughterlife♥^talk? 19:57, 16 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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) ;][reply]

Happy B'day!

File:Completed Versal Capital.gif Hurricanehink (talk) 20:48, 16 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Birthday! Have a good one! Cheers. – Heave n's Wrath ^Talk 01:56, 17 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Birthday Titoxd! · AndonicO ^Talk

I wish you a Happy Birthday! I hope you have a magnificent day! You are a year older now, enjoy it! · AndonicO ^Talk

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| AndonicO ^{Talk | Sign Here} 15:31, 17 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

A Happy Birthday From Randfan

The Wikipedia Birthday Committee, myself, and B e a rly 541 wish you a very happy birthday! Enjoy your special day. Hooray! --Randfan _{please talk talk to me!}

Happy b-day! Hope it's a good one! Cheers! :) —Rand fan!! 00:50, 15 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Happy BD!!!!!!!--Sir james paul 15:04, 15 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

Oh, Happy Birthday as well! Walkerma 19:38, 18 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

Empty summary warnings and edit conflicts

I can't reproduce the problem I told you about in IRC. Maybe what I was experiencing were cache problems or something like that (or there was really a bug and now it's fixed). Here is one of the last times I remember it happening: trying to do this, I did this. If you think there can still be a bug, and can think of a series of tests to find it, I'll perform them with the help of my newly created sockpuppet. Greetings. --Angus 16:09, 20 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #7

Number 7, December 22, 2006

The Hurricane Herald

This is the monthly newsletter of WikiProject Tropical Cyclones. This shortened late issue covers just global tropical cyclone activity in November, to prevent the next newsletter from being too large.

Tropical cyclone activity

One hurricane, Hurricane Sergio, formed in the eastern Pacific. Sergio was the longest lasting November Pacific hurricane recorded. Two other tropical cyclones, Tropical Storm Rosa and a tropical depression formed in the basin. None of the systems affected land.
An unusual extratropical cyclone developed in the northern central Pacific, resembling a subtropical cyclone at its peak.
A total of three typhoons formed in the western Pacific, and all the storms followed a similar track across the Philippines. Typhoon Cimaron formed at the end of October and lasted into November, killing 19 people. Typhoon Chebi existed during the middle of the month and was the weakest of the three causing minor damages. The most devastating storm of the month, Typhoon Durian hit the Philippines on November 30, killing at least 720 people in the island nation.
Two named cyclones developed in the Southern Hemisphere, Tropical Cyclone Yani in the South Pacific and Moderate Tropical Storm Anita in the Southwest Indian Ocean. Two unnamed depression also formed in the South Pacific. None of these storms affected land.

Editorial

The lateness of this edition is due to me being on an wikibreak and no-one taking up the slack. My wikibreak was the result of a lightning strike damaging my internet connection and frying my router, and the time taken for the replacement to arrive. As this issue is almost 3 weeks later than planned, only the monthly cyclone activity for November has been included. The next letter will be produced for January 7, 2006 and will be larger than normal to cover both month's Wikipedia news and December's tropical activity. There will be no Member or Storm of the month in January, to reduce the length; and the newsletter will return to normal in February.--Nilf anion (talk) 21:59, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

AWB Access

Would you mind specifying exactly what edits you are referring to and explaining exactly what I am doing wrong? I have had no warning that I have been misusing the tool and I'm not actually using it for anything other then list sorting - I'm making manual judgements in more or less every case. May I ask what drew your attention to this? --Spartaz 09:14, 23 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Please see my comments on the talk page. I'm not using AWB for anything other than list sorting and I don't understand what a regex is. The complaints do not specify what edits have been incorrect and I think that its not fair to block my work without first explaining to me exactly what the problem is. Its not controversial to remove copyvios from external links. ps. why does my comment appear at the top of your talk page? I pressed the plus button and it should appear at the bottom. Were you aware the J.smith is an admin?--Spartaz 09:33, 23 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ummmm I haven't used AWB in more then a week. What is going on? ---J.S ^(T/C) 17:03, 23 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. Everything is sorted out now I guess. ---J.S ^(T/C) 00:32, 24 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

If you want to see the Regex we are useing, feel free to ask. ---J.S ^(T/C) 00:33, 24 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Your DYK nomination for Payaos was successful

Did you know? was updated. On December 23, 2006, a fact from the article Payaos, which you recently nominated, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Thanks for your contributions! ++Lar: t/c 14:13, 23 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]