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List of Florida hurricanes (2000–present)

Hello,

I've reverted your renaming of List of Florida hurricanes (2000–present). Except for glaring errors, page moves should generally be discussed on the talk page ahead of time. In this case, finalizing the list, so to speak, requires that we start a new one with just a handful of sentences later this year, and I feel this is not a workable solution. – Juliancolton | ^Talk 15:10, 26 February 2020 (UTC)

Got it. Chicdat (talk) 13:06, 28 February 2020

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Page moves

My above message remains true. The title of Tropical Storm Doria was determined by a move request discussion and should not have been changed without consensus to do so. – Juliancolton | ^Talk 14:59, 29 February 2020 (UTC)

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March 2020

Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you tried to give a page a different title by copying its content and pasting either the same content, or an edited version of it, into Cyclone Herold. This is known as a "cut-and-paste move", and it is undesirable because it splits the page history, which is legally required for attribution. Instead, the software used by Wikipedia has a feature that allows pages to be moved to a new title together with their edit history.

In most cases, once your account is four days old and has ten edits, you should be able to move an article yourself using the "Move" tab at the top of the page (the tab may be hidden in a dropdown menu for you). This both preserves the page history intact and automatically creates a redirect from the old title to the new. If you cannot perform a particular page move yourself this way (e.g. because a page already exists at the target title), please follow the instructions at requested moves to have it moved by someone else. Also, if there are any other pages that you moved by copying and pasting, even if it was a long time ago, please list them at Wikipedia:Requests for history merge. In this case, it is fine as you are the sole author of the content. However, in the future, when you cannot move a page due to an existing redirect, you must instead request speedy deletion (specifically under criterion G6) of the existing redirect. Jasper Deng (talk) 22:09, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

I tried moving the page, but it wouldn't let me; there was already a redirect in place titled Cyclone Herold. What can I do?? 🐔Chicdat (talk) 22:12, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

Did you read the last sentence of my comment?--Jasper Deng (talk) 22:13, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

OK, I'll request speedy deletion! Which page?? 🐔Chicdat (talk) 22:14, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

Like I said it is fine in this instance for now, but in the future, you should request speedy deletion of the existing redirect. Here, that would've been Cyclone Herold (before you copied the content over).--Jasper Deng (talk) 22:24, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

Got it. 🐔Chicdat (talk) 23:47, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

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I got it. 🐔Chicdat (talk) 19:01, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

Discord

Are you in the project discord? Noah^Talk 14:30, 2 April 2020 (UTC)

No, I'm not. Why do you ask? 🐔Chicdat (talk) 15:08, 2 April 2020 (UTC)

I just wanted to know if you would like to join. Noah^Talk 17:11, 2 April 2020 (UTC)

What is it? 🐔Chicdat (talk) 18:01, 2 April 2020 (UTC)

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Erroneous warnings

Hey there, I undid a few of your recent talkpage changes. Most notably, it looks like you gave 137.52.212.154 a warning for their edits in 2007. Not sure how you got to doing that, but there's nothing to be gained there. If you're interested in such things, you might want to check out Wikipedia:WikiProject User warnings. ~ Amory (u • t • c) 11:36, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

I'm sorry. 🐔Chicdat ^ChickenDatabase 11:48, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

RfA

Hi! I hope you are well. I see you've attempted to do an RfA today. You are of course completely free to ignore this message, but it's a very good idea not to do this at this time. It takes years of tenure to have a good chance of passing a RfA, as well as a very good knowledge of our policies and guidelines.

RfAs can be brutal, if you think you still want to go ahead - be warned it won't be universally positive. I passed my RfA around a month ago with 98% support, but even with three years of experience and 30,000 edits, and no history of abuse or warnings, there were still those who did not think I could handle the toolset.

Just wanted a quick, friendly chat to keep to what you are doing, and learn Wikipedia a bit more, if you are still interested in the long term, drop me a message and I'll let you know what I think of your chances. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 14:02, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

Newsletter

Hiya Chicdat! I saw your edit to the upcoming newsletter page for the project. I was curious - would you be interested in writing an opinion piece for the newsletter? It would be useful to get your perspective as a new user, as I know everything here on Wikipedia can be a bit overwhelming. No pressure if you don't want to do it, I was just curious. Hope you're well - ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 14:32, 17 April 2020 (UTC)

Absolutely!! Thank you for asking me! 🐔Chicdat ^ChickenDatabase 10:00, 18 April 2020 (UTC)

What are the expectations in length, content, and stuff like that? 🐔Chicdat ^ChickenDatabase 11:55, 18 April 2020 (UTC)

No expectations, that's a good writeup :) Thanks a lot Chicdat! I think it's important for new users to be able to see the experience of other new users. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 14:21, 18 April 2020 (UTC)

Awesome! 🐔Chicdat ^ChickenDatabase 16:51, 18 April 2020 (UTC)

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The 40th Edition of The Hurricane Herald

Volume XL, Issue 40, May 1, 2020 The Hurricane Herald is the semi-regular newsletter of WikiProject Tropical Cyclones. The newsletter aims to provide in summary the recent activities and developments of the WikiProject, in addition to global tropical cyclone activity. The Hurricane Herald has been running since its first edition ran on June 4, 2006. If you wish to receive or discontinue subscription to this newsletter, please visit the mailing list. This issue of The Hurricane Herald covers all project related events from March 17 to April 30, 2020. This edition's editor and author is Hurricanehink. Please visit this page and bookmark any suggestions of interest to you. This will help improve the newsletter and other cyclone-related articles. Past editions can be viewed here. From the Main Page ← 37 · 38 · 39 · 40 · 41 →

WikiProject Tropical Cyclones: News & Developments There is a proposal to redo the tropical cyclone maps. The new maps will be zoomable, include intermediate advisory points (the current map only lists six-hour positions), and information on intensity and date when you hover over the location. There is a discussion on how to implement different scales from around the world, which would replace the current model of using JTWC data, with coloring from the Saffir-Simpson scale. There has been an increase in editor activity lately (perhaps because we're all stuck inside), resulting in a significant number of new featured and good articles. Editors with good or featured articles since the last newsletter include 12george1, ‎Cyclonebiskit, Hurricanehink, Hurricane Noah, Jo-Jo Eumerus, Juliancolton, Nova Crystallis, TropicalAnalystwx13, and Yellow Evan. We thank these editors, and for everyone else who contributes positively to Wikipedia's coverage of tropical cyclones. An awards program for the project began last year. It involves 25 levels that may be gained by earning points for completing various actions such as getting good or featured articles. Additional awards will be added in the future. In April 2020, the most popular article in the project was the Hurricane Katrina, with about 3,399 daily views, followed by tropical cyclone with 2,097 daily views, and Beaufort scale, with 1,685 daily views. Hurricane Dorian remains popularly viewed, six months after it devastated the Bahamas, as is the 2019 Atlantic hurricane season. Rounding out the top 10 are March TFA Hurricane Hattie (and the season article); Coriolis force, the mechanism for storms having their spin; El Niño, and Hurricane Sandy. There is still an ongoing featured article review for the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, which recently was reformatted to look like the every other season article. There is a discussion about getting rid of redirect and list-class, replacing the latter with the assessment we use for all other articles. New articles since the last newsletter include: 1973 Flores cyclone List of Alabama hurricanes (first WPTC article written by new-ish member Chicdat!) List of Category 1 Australian region tropical cyclones List of Category 2 Australian region tropical cyclones List of Category 3 Australian region severe tropical cyclones List of South-West Indian Ocean intense tropical cyclones New GA's include: 1893 San Roque hurricane 1916 Pensacola hurricane 1916 Virgin Islands hurricane 1929 Bahamas hurricane 1923 Atlantic hurricane season 1934 Atlantic hurricane season 1938 Atlantic hurricane season 2006–07 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season‎ 2018 Atlantic hurricane season Cyclone Indlala Effects of Hurricane Dorian in the Caribbean Effects of Hurricane Wilma in Mexico Hurricane Audrey Hurricane Willa Meteorological history of Hurricane Florence Paleotempestology Tropical Storm Olga (2019) Tropical Storm Vicente (2018) Typhoon Amy (1991) Typhoon Cecil (1985) Typhoon Yunya (1991) Typhoon Zeke WikiProject To-Do Here are some tasks you can do: Requests: 1936 Mid-Atlantic hurricane, List of Eastern Pacific tropical depressions and other intensity lists, Typhoon Yancy (1990), 1971 Odisha cyclone, Cyclone Gervaise, Cyclone Uma, more Wikify: Make sure tropical cyclone lists, such as List of Texas hurricanes, have storm articles properly linked Cleanup: Hurricane Rita, Hurricane Wilma, Tropical Storm Fay (2002), Tropical cyclones in 2017 Expand: Indianola Hurricane of 1886, Typhoon Nina (1975), Typhoon Durian, Tropical cyclones in 2016/2015/2014, List of Eastern Pacific tropical storms, Pacific hurricane season timelines Stubs: 1876 Bengal cyclone, 1978 Sri Lanka cyclone, Cyclone Prema, List of off-season Australian region tropical cyclones, List of Texas hurricanes (pre-1900), Typhoon Fred (1994), more... WPTC 15th Anniversary push: some goals for the 15th year of WPTC include the creation or improvement of many other articles listed in the first section on the WPTC talk page. Project Goals & Progress The following is the current progress on the three milestone goals set by the WikiProject as of this publishing. They can be found, updated, at the main WikiProject page. 250 featured pages: 91.2% complete 150 featured articles: 79.5% complete 1500 good articles: 73.1% complete Storms of the month over the last year Month Storm February 2020 Cyclone Damien January 2020 Cyclone Tino December 2019 Cyclone Ambali November 2019 Cyclone Bulbul October 2019 Typhoon Hagibis September 2019 Hurricane Dorian August 2019 Typhoon Lekima (2019) July 2019 Hurricane Barry (2019) June 2019 Cyclone Kenneth May 2019 Cyclone Idai Storm of the month and other tropical activity for March Cyclone Herold (not to be confused with April's storm of the month) was an intense tropical cyclone in the southwest Indian Ocean. It formed near northeastern Madagascar, where its flooding killed five people. Herold later passed between the islands of Mauritius and Rodrigues before becoming extratropical. Special thanks to Chicdat for helping write this newsletter's storm of the month! Australia - the month began with Cyclone Ferdinand dissipating off northwest Australia. Several days later, a tropical low struck Western Australia, and Tropical Cyclone Gretel formed northeast of Queensland, later exiting into the South Pacific. There, the storm brushed New Caledonia with gusty winds and locally heavy rainfall. The month ended with another tropical low near Papua New Guinea. Member of the month (edition) – TropicalAnalystwx13 TropicalAnalystwx13 first joined Wikipedia in September 2010. A long-time writer, TropicalAnalystwx13 (or TAWX13) is a prolific writer about tropical cyclones and tornadoes. Since the last newsletter, he worked on Hurricane Humberto (2019), now a featured article, as well as good articles for Tropical Storm Olga (2019), 1938 Atlantic hurricane season, and 1934 Atlantic hurricane season. We thank TropicalAnalystwx13 for his many edits, and hope he keeps up the good work! New WikiProject Members since the last newsletter More information can be found here. This list lists members who have joined/rejoined the WikiProject since the release of the last issue. Sorted chronologically. Rd003 (talk · contribs) Hurricaneboy23 To our new members: welcome to the project, and happy editing! Feel free to check the to-do list at the bottom right of the newsletter for things that you might want to work on. To our veteran members: thank you for your edits and your tireless contributions! Featured Content Lithograph by Nathaniel Currier depicting the loss of the SS Home on the Outer Banks during Racer's hurricane, one of five recent featured articles. From March 17 to present, five featured articles were promoted: Cyclone Chapala Hurricane Humberto (2019) Racer's hurricane Tropical Storm Ileana (2018) Tropical Storm Zelda (1991) There are currently three featured article candidates: 1916 Texas hurricane Effects of Hurricane Wilma in Mexico Hurricane Lane (2018) From the Main Page documents WikiProject related materials that have appeared on the main page from March 17–April 30, 2020 in chronological order. Did you know...? April 3 - Typhoon Emma (1959) April 4 - Paleotempestology Storms around the world, by Jason Rees Over the last few months, the project has started to dip its toe into several other types of articles away from the traditional season, storm and timeline articles. These articles include lists on what tropical cyclones existed in which year, tropical cyclone by intensity and tropical cyclones affecting a certain territory, island nation etc. The hope is that these articles will be developed over the next few months to the point, where they get used by the international community. We have had some early success with this goal with information from Category 5 South Pacific severe tropical cyclones being used by a Facebook page after Cyclone Harold. However, we need help developing these articles since there are approximately 150 countries impacted by tropical cyclones and there are approximately 15 tropical cyclones off all intensities per basin per year. You can help by finding resources for us to use, going through IBTRACS and the various databases published by the warning centres or even helping to expand the various articles. ''Opinion piece - , by Chicdat As a reader: I first became interested in hurricanes when the buzz on Hurricane Dorian making landfall in the Bahamas came out at the end of August 2019. I was interested to know more about Dorian, but not too much. I went onto the solution page: 2019 Atlantic hurricane season, one of the first pages I saw on Wikipedia (that's where I got my signature, 🐔Chicdat ChickenDatabase, the Chicken links to 2019 AHS). As hurricane season continued, I "experienced" every single storm from Dorian to Sebastien. After hurricane season in the Atlantic ended, I turned my eyes to the Southern Hemisphere. By the beginning of 2020, I was even delving into FAs, GAs, and stubs. As an IP: By late January 2020, I began questioning sharing my knowledge with the rest of Wikipedia, and on February 3, me my IP made what I believe was my first Wikipedia edit as an IP. However, many users were following the "All IPs are vandals, so let's revert their edits!" rule (e.g. here). Any coincidence that just 5 hours later...? As Chicdat: Five hours after I was given a violation of the WP:IPs are humans too rule, I decided to create an account. I like chickens, and I had a database that I used for their egg production, which I call CHICDAT (Chicken Database), so I chose the username Chicdat. Not long after that, I made my first edit as Chicdat. On March 18, I created my first article, List of Alabama hurricanes. On February 24, I became an autoconfirmed user, and on March 19, I became extended confirmed. In late March, I created my first userspace draft, User:Chicdat/Cyclone Herold. In other words, that is how I became a Wikipedia user! 🐔Chicdat ChickenDatabase Current assessment table Assessments valid as of this printing. Depending on when you may be viewing this newsletter, the table may be outdated. See here for the latest, most up to date statistics. As of this issue, there are 157 featured articles and 70 featured lists. There are 135 A-class articles, and 996 good articles. There are only 65 B-class articles, perhaps because because most articles of that quality already passed a GA review. There are 369 C-class articles, 736 start-class articles, and 151 stub-class articles, with 31 lists, and 8 current articles. These figures mean that slightly more than half of the project is rated a GA or better. About the assessment scale → Storm of the month and other tropical activity for April Cyclone Harold was a Category 5 storm on both the Saffir-Simpson and the Australian scale. The storm formed near the Solomon Islands on April 1, where high waves drowned 27 people on the MV Taimareho ferry. Near peak intensity, Harold struck the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu, causing widespread damage and disruptions amid the ongoing pandemic, as well as two deaths. Harold later passed south of the main island of Fiji, resulting in power outages and one fatality. The storm subsequently passed just south of Tonga, causing power outages and high tides. Special thanks to Hurricaneboy23, Jason Rees, and TheAustinMan for helping write 94% of this newsletter's storm of the month! Eastern Pacific - Tropical Depression One-E formed on April 25 southwest of Mexico, becoming the earliest tropical cyclone in the basin (east of 140°W and north of the equator). The depression dissipated a day after formation. South-west Indian - toward the beginning of April, Cyclone Irondro formed southwest of Diego Garcia and moved to the southeast, becoming an intense tropical cyclone before weakening and becoming extratropical near the boundary with the Australian basin. In the middle of the month, Tropical Storm Jeruto originated in the Australian basin and took a southwest trajectory over open waters, dissipating on April 16. Write the next issue of The Hurricane Herald →

Rollback granted

Hi Chicdat. After reviewing your request for "rollbacker", I have temporarily enabled rollback on your account until 2020-05-15. Keep in mind these things when going to use rollback:

• Getting rollback is no more momentous than installing Twinkle.
• Rollback should be used to revert clear cases of vandalism only, and not good faith edits.
• Rollback should never be used to edit war.
• If abused, rollback rights can be revoked.
• Use common sense.

If you no longer want rollback, contact me and I'll remove it. Also, for some more information on how to use rollback, see Wikipedia:Administrators' guide/Rollback (even though you're not an admin). I'm sure you'll do great with rollback, but feel free to leave me a message on my talk page if you run into troubles or have any questions about appropriate/inappropriate use of rollback. Thank you for helping to reduce vandalism. Happy editing! Kevin (aka L235 · t · c) 19:19, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

Thanks!! 🐔Chicdat ^ChickenDatabase 22:32, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

User contributions for Chicdat deleted

Hey, I just wanted to let you know that the redirect you created, User contributions for Chicdat, goes against speedy deletion criterion R2, and as a result I had to delete it. Cross-namespace redirects are only allowed for a small set of namespace pairs, and Special: is not one of them. Even for allowed namespace pairs, like Main --> Category, such redirects are discouraged and only used in narrow cases where there is a clear, broad benefit to the redirect. _signed, Rosguill ^talk 18:11, 13 May 2020 (UTC)

A user...

You probably already know and that's why I came to you instead because you have left this user a message in his/her talk page. I am a little bit annoyed and somewhat creeped out about this user's behaviour in my talk pages and some of his editing. And calling me "New Zealand boy" I find it a bit odd where yes I am a kiwi but not even NZ-born? Typhoon2013 (talk) 07:38, 14 May 2020 (UTC)

Excuse me? I'm getting kind of fed up with this "Vala keep" anyway (I'd like you to know, Ambo formed on May 9 not May 10). Someone report this guy to an admin! 🐔Chicdat ^ChickenDatabase 10:06, 14 May 2020 (UTC)

Regarding a list of Atlantic Category 2 hurricanes I heard you were planning to undertake </veryverbosesubjectheadline>

Hello @Chicdat:

I was asked by @Hurricanehink: if I could help you undertake a list of Category 2 Atlantic hurricanes— and since I said I could take up on that offer; I was then told to come to your talk page regarding this.

and I did.

since I am interested in at least a small upkeep in this list, I have decided to apply, in this here talk page, to assist in the creation of this list.

I also in this provide a few C2's I can name right now: Arthur 2004, Jerry 2019, and Greta 1956.

~ AC5230 talk 22:20, 13 May 2020 (UTC)

Sure! 🐔Chicdat ^ChickenDatabase 10:41, 14 May 2020 (UTC)

Note

Hi Chicdat. I hope you're doing well. Thank you for your contributions – I can tell you've been putting in a lot of hard work over the last three months, and I'm really happy to see your enthusiasm. I remember how excited I was in the first few months of my time here; it really is a special experience.

Following your talk page message asking me to renew the probationary rollback grant, I've looked over your contributions. Unfortunately, I am going to remove the page mover group and I am not going to renew the rollback group.

• Since I granted rollback for a probationary period of two weeks, I have seen misuse of the rollback tool in a content dispute ([1]) in which you breached 3RR ([2][3][4][5]) in the space of less than one hour. If you're still interested in Huggle and the rollback tool, if you wait a month I would seriously consider a new request for rollback (and/or I wouldn't object if another admin considered a request for rollback).
• Page mover is a tool that requires a high level of continuing trust from the community. Because it allows you to suppress redirects, which is tantamount to deletion, access is tightly controlled and use of the suppressredirect tool must comply with the criteria at WP:PMRC. Acting outside of that is equivalent to if an administrator abused speedy deletion. I see in the logs a number of questionable suppressed redirects, including most blatantly this move, which isn't even close to a suppressable redirect. Because your actions, including these ones and the 3RR violation referenced above, are inconsistent with the level of trust necessary for the page mover group, I am removing it; if you are still interested in having access to the group, I would ask that you reapply after a minimum of six months.

I'm sorry to be taking these actions, and I want to assure you that this is not a negative reflection of your enthusiasm or good faith. Instead, it's simply a consequence of the fact that Wikipedia policies are dense and complicated, and it takes anyone a long time to really understand them. Three or even six months into my time on Wikipedia, I would be making the same mistakes. If you are upset with me, I understand completely, and if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to let me know. Best, Kevin (aka L235 · t · c) 17:44, 15 May 2020 (UTC)

Another thing

When you get a moment, I'd appreciate if you could take a moment to review WP:SOCK. As far as I can tell, your editing while logged out stopped a couple weeks ago, which is good – we don't want to give the impression of evading community scrutiny and responsibility for edits. Best, Kevin (aka L235 · t · c) 18:24, 15 May 2020 (UTC)

Note about warning users

There's generally no need to escalate warnings (e.g. here) when the user hasn't created any further disruption. In this case the user hadn't edited in the 5 minutes before JavaHurricane placed {{uw-error3}} and hasn't edited since, so there's nothing that warranted an additional {{uw-error4}} or {{uw-vandalism4}}, in fact the user may have seen the earlier message and decided to stop. To assume good faith, changing storm intensities is not immediately considered vandalism unless it's obvious trolling - new users may not be aware of WPTC's convention of prioritising RSMC data. ~ KN2731 {talk · contribs} 07:18, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

Also, some advice as someone who was once a new user (albeit someone who's stayed out of trouble): be bold, but be careful. Enthusiasm is always welcome, but jumping the gun and breaching policies can lead to sanctions that can appear harsh or upsetting. Take time to familiarise yourself with our policies and feel free to ask around if you have questions or are undecided over a course of action. I'd recommend the Wikipedia:Teahouse as a friendly place where you can ask pretty much anything. ~ KN2731 {talk · contribs} 07:18, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

Sorry. I didn't know that. Guess I'm going to have to reread Wikipedia's 27 million policies and guidelines. 🐔Chicdat ^ChickenDatabase 10:02, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

Regarding this revert

Since you might not be aware of the policy here: Users are permitted to remove most warnings from their talk page. If they do remove a warning, then that is considered to be an acknowledgement that they have read and understood the message (so if they remove a level 3 warning, they may still be given a level 4 warning as escalation despite the level 3 not showing on their talk page). creffett (talk) 19:56, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

An Invitation

Hello Chicdat! I am JavaHurricane, another member of the WikiProject Tropical cyclones! I would like to take this opportunity to invite you to WPTC's own Discord server, where you can discuss things in real time. The invite is this. I look forward to you joining!

Thanks and have a good day!

JavaHurricane 15:19, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

For the future...

... please use the RSMC (the JMA) when regarding the dissipation of systems. I found out that you have reverted my edit minutes after mine declaring that Vongfong had dissipated when in that time, it hadn't yet. Just to keep note on that please. Thanks. Typhoon2013 (talk) 20:48, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

I'm sorry. When will I start doing things right, anyway? 🐔Chicdat ^ChickenDatabase 09:58, 19 May 2020 (UTC)

Hi Chicdat, wherever you are, I hope you are staying well and safe. I saw your reply above and just wanted to offer a word of encouragement - Wikipedia has a steep learning curve, which you right now are climbing. It's a hard slope to get up, but take it from me, (who isn't even at the top yet) once you conquer the initial curve and learn more about policy, Wikipedia becomes more enjoyable - almost fun! It's become cliche, but still - you learn by mistakes, and I do hope that, instead of leaving becuase of the mistakes, you do learn from them and have fun editing wikipedia. If you have any questions at all, please don't hesitate to drop a note on my talk page, I'm always open to those who are in need of help. I don't know if your still interested in anti-vandalism, but if you are, I'm an instructor over at CVUA and would love to take you on a course - I completely understand if this isn't something you want to do, it's an offer though. Again - stay well and have fun. All the best, -- puddleglum^2.0 02:57, 25 May 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for this advice!! 🐔Chicdat ^ChickenDatabase 19:21, 25 May 2020 (UTC)

Oh, my. Sorry for the late reply. No worries! I believe you are a new user so I'll let that slide hehe. Also I recently have seen that you made the 2020-21 SWio article already, which was quicker than expected. My advice is to wait till June to make it as it is like a month before the start of the 2020-21 season (unofficially July marks the start of any Shem seasons). Just because in the past there has been a lot of edit wars and conflicts regarding when we should make the next season article. Kind regards, :) Typhoon2013 (talk) 09:09, 31 May 2020 (UTC)

Non-Breaking Spaces

Hi,

I just saw this edit here. Essentially the   is called a non-breaking space and is used so that if the phrase occurs at the end of a line (on the screen), it won't be split—the entire phrase will be moved to the new line. Ex: 30&nbsp;May is used so that "30 May" won't be split across two lines. On Wikipedia, its usage is recommended for dates and for numbers+units (ex: 45&nbsp;mph). Just wanted to let you know why this character is used. :) — Iunetalk 21:40, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

@Iune: I came here to trout Chicdat for this, but now I won't because my mind has now been blown with the revelation that is what the non-breaking space is for within articles. –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 06:42, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

Cyclone Nisarga

Cyclone Nisarga is an upcoming cyclone in the North Indian Ocean, expected to hit Maharashtra coastline tomorrow. Its a stub right now and I'm working on streamlining the article. Hence request you to remove the speedy deletion tag. Appreciate your assistance. -- ♪Karthik♫ ♪Nadar♫ 16:09, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Tropical cyclones in 2011 (June 5)

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Robert McClenon (talk) 03:17, 5 June 2020 (UTC)

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Tropical cyclones in 2011 (June 5)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Robert McClenon was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

• If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Tropical cyclones in 2011 and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
• If you now believe the draft cannot meet Wikipedia's standards or do not wish to progress it further, you may request deletion. Please go to Draft:Tropical cyclones in 2011, click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window, add "{{Db-g7}}" at the top of the draft text and click the blue "publish changes" button to save this edit.
• If you do not make any further changes to your draft, in 6 months, it will be considered abandoned and may be deleted.
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Robert McClenon (talk) 17:09, 5 June 2020 (UTC)

Deletion review for Tropical cyclones in 2010

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Tropical cyclones in 2010. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Robert McClenon (talk) 04:24, 7 June 2020 (UTC)

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