User talk:Verrai/Archive11/Archive10
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Hey, sorry i took off somethin about a buissness woman on the N.J 2008 senate election. Please include a source. Thanks
Hey again, Thank you! the point i was getting at was that there was no wikipedia page on her. If you could create one, or give me some facts and i will. I just wanted to make sure she was real! lol thanks
Just to let you know, there is already an article on Hurricane Emmy (1976). Your sandbox is currently showing up in a category, so I was wondering whether you would be willing to either redirect it or delete it to prevent it from showing up in there. Thanks. Hurricanehink (talk) 16:39, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
- I've deleted it. I just never got around to finishing the article, and now there's a real one. Oh well. —Cuiviénen 20:11, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
Huh[edit]
I know i have hit on this issue before, but Estabrooks in the N.J senate elections, could you create a page on her?? The people should no more! Politics rule 8:20pm EST.- 4/17/2007
- Note: I just want to direct your attention to this comment by that originally placed by User:Politics rule in your archived talk page (diff) - apparently the user was not aware that it was an archive. +A.0u 05:25, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
- Thank you :) —Cuiviénen 23:04, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
Usurpation[edit]
Hi, on the 20th you filed a request to usurp the account Verily (talk · contribs). I'm sorry to say that Verily has since posted to say that he/she objects to their account being usurped [1]. As such it is no longer possible for you to usurp that account. WjBscribe 23:51, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
Happy Birthday!![edit]
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Happy Birthday, Verrai/Archive11/Archive10, from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! |
disagree[edit]
I 100% disagree with what you did on the "Massachettchs 2008 Senate Election". I understand why you took out some of the other stuff, but why the poll that tells that he may face a difficult re-election? Politics rule 06:03 3 May 2007 (UTC) P.S. Please respond!
Idea[edit]
I am starting a commitee called "Wikipedian for Republicans". The group would make endorsements, and hope that they win. I was wondering if you would like to join? Please respond on my talk page! Politics rulePolitics rule 00:20, 7 May 2007 (UTC) 5/6/2007
Edited an image[edit]
Hey. Just thought I should let you know: I edited your Image:Religions_of_the_US.PNG image so that Methodism is easier to tell apart. Notapipe 11:57, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
Thanks[edit]
Thank you for fixing the Vermont 2010 senate election! Politics rule 00:36, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
Problem page[edit]
I was wondering if you could semi-protect the page In This Moment--it's been repeatedly vandalized by IPs, including (if I'm reading this right) an edit war over which vandalism should be on the page. Somebody Else's Problem(aka Alethiophile)Ask me why 22:27, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
WikiProject Harry Potter roll-call[edit]
{{User WP Harry Potter}} to your userpage, if you haven't done so already. Conversely, if you do not wish to be considered a member of the WikiProject, leave your name where it is and it will be moved to the Inactive Contributors section. If you wish to make a clean break with the Project you may move your name to the Known to have left section. Many thanks.Frescoes[edit]
Noticed you moved the page! 'Nother little problem.... Stained glass is being repeatedly vandalised by a commercial interest. It's just going on every time we turn our backs. Can something be done? Amandajm 08:51, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for correcting my MP alternative[edit]
Thanks for correcting the Main Page Alternative that I created. I was rather busy with userboxes (and work), and didn't have time to correct the errors. Thanks, The UserboxerComplain/ubx 15:41, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
Free advice[edit]
Being a jerk to total strangers for no reason is, in my experience, a bad way to go through life. --Dante Alighieri | Talk 22:58, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
- My comment was not "being a jerk", it was a legitimate complaint: don't bring up articles on AfD for lack of notability without making at least a cursory effort to determine their notability. This was a case in which even the simplest Google search would have rendered the need to create a new AfD unnecessary. Please try not to take offense at criticism in the future. —Verrai 02:04, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
- If it had been a politely worded suggestion or request, then yes... it would have been "criticism" not worthy of offense. Rather, it was a brusquely worded command which, yes, did constitute you "being a jerk". --Dante Alighieri | Talk 15:40, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
AfD Closure[edit]
Hi, in light of the recent closure of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Singapore Airlines fleet (2nd nomination), there are two other articles which are linked to it, but has remained opened, namely Malaysia Airlines Fleet and Thai Airways International fleet. For your consideration, thank you!--Huaiwei 10:56, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
- Thanks for pointing that out, my mistake. It's been fixed now. —Verrai 17:47, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
AfD Review[edit]
An editor has asked for a deletion review of Gay and lesbian retirement. Since you closed the deletion discussion for this article or speedy-deleted it, you might want to participate in the deletion review. -- ALLSTAR ECHO 03:44, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
List of political slurs[edit]
I almost did that myself, but lacked cojones I guess. I wish there was a quick way to get a second admin opinion and just know that 2 pairs of eyes saw it and both said: speedy that sucker. Thanks Carlossuarez46 04:40, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
- Never hurts to bring up questionable speedies on AfD. —Verrai 05:07, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
Deletion of MOIST[edit]
Hi, just wondering why you deleted the MOIST (Marinos Official International Supporters Team) page? It seems you say they have "no notability" but here in Japan they are quite well known in soccer circles. I'd appreciate if you could let me know the reason the page was deleted. Thanks
Yokofoxes —Preceding comment was added at 13:59, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
- Please read Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/MOIST (Marinos Official International Supporters Team). —Verrai 17:03, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
Vote[edit]
Template Bloodsports —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.64.160.46 (talk) 12:22, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
- I'd rather not, thanks. —Verrai 06:11, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
Featured List of the Day Experiment[edit]
There have been a series of proposals to initiate a Featured List of the Day on the main page. Numerous proposals have been put forth. After the third one failed, I audited all WP:FL's in order to begin an experiment in my own user space that will hopefully get it going. Today, it commences at WP:LOTD. Afterwards I created my experimental page, a new proposal was set forth to do a featured list that is strikingly similar to my own which is to do a user page experimental featured list, but no format has been confirmed and mechanism set in place. I continue to be willing to do the experiment myself and with this posting it commences. Please submit any list that you would like to have considered for list of the day in the month of January 2008 by the end of this month to WP:LOTD and its subpages. You may submit multiple lists for consideration.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:LOTD) 15:49, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
Replied to your comments there. Titoxd(?!? - cool stuff) 07:04, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
- Nice to see you around, by the way... Titoxd(?!? - cool stuff) 07:14, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
WPTC Active Members[edit]
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I am leaving you this message because recent events have given me concern. When Aaron Brenneman and I, and others, first developed this category well over a year ago, we visualized it as a simple idea. A low hassle, low bureaucracy process. We also visualized it as a process that people would come to trust, in fact as a way of increasing trust in those admins who chose to subscribe to the notion of recall. The very informal approach to who is qualified to recall, what happens during it, and the process in general were all part of that approach. But recent events have suggested that this low structure approach may not be entirely effective. More than one of the recent recalls we have seen have been marred by controversy around what was going to happen, and when. Worse, they were marred by some folk having the perception, rightly or wrongly, that the admin being recalled was trying to change the rules, avoid the process, or in other ways somehow go back on their word. This is bad. It's bad for you the admin, bad for the trust in the process, and bad for the community as a whole. I think a way to address this issue is to increase the predictability of the process in advance. I have tried to do that for myself. In my User:Lar/Accountability page, I have given pretty concrete definitions of the criteria for recall, and of the choices I can make, and of the process for the petition, and of the process for other choices I might make (the modified RfC or the RfAr). I think it would be very helpful if other admins who have voluntarily made themselves subject to recall went to similar detail. It is not necessary to adopt the exact same conditions, steps, criteria, etc. It's just helpful to have SOME. Those are mine, fashion yours as you see fit, I would not be so presumptuous as to say mine are right for you. In fact I urge you not to just adopt mine, as I do change them from time to time without notice, but instead develop your own. You are very welcome to start with mine if you so wish, though. But do something. If you have not already, I urge you to make your process more concrete, now, while there is no pressure and you can think clearly about what you want. Do it now rather than later, during a recall when folk may not react well to perceived changes in process or commitment. Further, I suggest that after you document your process, that you give a reference to it for the benefit of other admins who may want to see what others have done. List it in this table as a resource for the benefit of all. If you use someone else's by reference rather than copy, I suggest you might want to do as Cacharoth did, and give a link to a specific version. Do you have to do these things? Not at all. These are suggestions from me, and me alone, and are entirely up to you to embrace or ignore. I just think that doing this now, thinking now, documenting now, will save you trouble later, if you should for whatever reason happen to be recalled. I apologise if this message seems impersonal, but with over 130 members in the category, leaving a personal message for each of you might not have been feasible, and I feel this is important enough to violate social norms a bit. I hope that's OK. Thanks for your time and consideration, and best wishes. Larry Pieniazek NOTE: You are receiving this message because you are listed in the Wikipedia administrators open to recall category. This is a voluntary category, and you should not be in it if you do not want to be. If you did not list yourself, you may want to review the change records to determine who added you, and ask them why they added you. |
...My guinea pigs and the "A"s through "S"s having felt this message was OK to go forward with (or at least not complained bitterly to me about it :) ), today it's the turn of the "T"s through "Z"s (and beyond, apparently)! I'm hoping that more of you chaps/chapettes will point to their own criteria instead of mine :)... it's flattering but a bit scary! :) Also, you may want to check back to the table periodically, someone later than you in the alphabet may have come up with a nifty new idea. ++Lar: t/c 20:54, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #13[edit]
Number 13, February 2, 2008
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. This newsletter covers all of January 2008.
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Storm of the month
Cyclone Gene formed on January 26 over the open south Pacific Ocean. It drifted southward, and strengthened into Tropical Storm Gene on January 28 as it moved across the Fijian archipelago. There, it brought heavy rainfall, which caused the worst flooding in several years. Half of the country was left without power, and the cyclone killed seven people in Fiji. The storm turned southwestward, developing a cloud-filled eye and quickly strengthening by the end of the month.
Other tropical cyclone activity
- One tropical cyclone formed in the Western North Pacific Ocean west of The Philippines, which was analyzed by Japan Meteorological Agency as a depression; it tracked southwestward and did not significantly affect any land areas.
- In addition to Cyclone Gene, Tropical Storm Elisa and Cyclone Fuma occurred in the South Pacific ocean during the month, along with three tropical depressions.
- The only tropical cyclone in Australian region during the month was Tropical Cyclone Helen, which struck Australia.
- Four tropical cyclones, three of which named, existed in the Southwest Indian Ocean during the month. The most notable was Cyclone Fame, which caused twelve deaths after striking Madagascar.
Member of the month
The January member of the month is Ajm81. A tropical cyclone editor since he first joined in October 2005, Ajm81 plays a vital role in the project. Unlike other editors, who mainly edit articles, Ajm81 maintains and updates the track maps across the project. We thank Ajm81 for his timely contributions, and may he have some well-deserved downtime after the last tropical cyclone report is released.
New and improved articles
- There were six new pieces of Featured content : 2003 Atlantic hurricane season, List of storms in the 2003 Atlantic hurricane season, List of North Carolina hurricanes (pre-1900), 1983 Atlantic hurricane season, 1988 Atlantic hurricane season, and Hurricane Lane (2006)
- New Good articles include: Hurricane Cleo, Hurricane Gracie, 1821 Norfolk and Long Island hurricane
- New storm articles include: Tropical Storm Danielle (1980), Hurricane Elida (2002), Cyclone Elita, Cyclone Indlala
- New non-storm articles include: 2006 central Pacific cyclone, List of United States hurricanes
Main Page content
- Entries from 8 articles: Hurricane Ava (1973), Cyclone Inigo, Hurricane Greg (1999), Hurricane Henri (1979), Hurricane Kenneth (2005), Hurricane Elida (2002), Cyclone Elita, and Hurricane Naomi (1968) appeared on the Main Page in the Did you know column during January.
Storm article statistics
| Grade | Oct | Nov | Dec | Jan |
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 FA
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30 | 31 | 33 | 33 |
 A
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9 | 8 | 9 | 9 |
 GA
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106 | 109 | 112 | 114 |
| B | 78 | 82 | 86 | 99 |
| Start | 212 | 211 | 208 | 214 |
| Stub | 5 | 6 | 6 | 3 |
| Total | 440 | 447 | 454 | 472 |
| ω | 3.02 | 3.01 | 2.98 | 2.98 |
| percentage Less than B |
49.3 | 48.5 | 47.1 | 46.0 |
Wikiwork and 1000 articles In January 2008, the WikiProject began using a system called Wikiwork, or ω. It weighs the overall quality of the project's articles, and a lower number means a greater total quality. The weighed ω, as used above, is a relative number that can be used to compare groups of this article. As of this publication, the relative ω of the project is 3.404, corresponding to between Start and B class. However, when limiting it solely to storm articles, the number drops to 2.98, which is slightly better than B class. During the month, a new statistics page was created.
Additionally, during the month, Mitchazenia pointed out that we received our 1,000th article with the creation of Cyclone Elita.
♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 16:44, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
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Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #14[edit]
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. This newsletter covers all of February 2008.
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Storm of the month
Cyclone Ivan formed on February 7 and subsequently executed a loop to the west-southwest. Encountering favorable conditions, it strengthened to attain peak winds on February 17 before striking northeastern Madagascar. It degenerated into a remnant low pressure area as it crossed the island, and briefly re-organized into a weak tropical depression before dissipating on February 22. Ivan caused heavy damage in Madagascar, leaving 190,000 people homeless and causing over 83 deaths.
Other tropical cyclone activity
- In the South Pacific ocean, Cyclone Gene persisted from the previous month; a tropical depression also occurred in the month.
- Tropical Cyclone Nicholas was the only named storm during the month in the Australian region, which struck Western Australia. Two tropical lows occurred during the month, the latter of which later formed into Tropical Cyclone Ophelia.
- Four storms occurred in the Southwest Indian Ocean, including two from the previous month and the aforementioned Cyclone Ivan. Cyclone Hondo became the strongest cyclone worldwide in the month, and after becoming extratropical it regenerated over ten days later about 1750 miles (2800 km) to its west-northwest.
Member of the month
The February member of the month is RattleMan, for his lasting dedication and continual support of the project. During February, the user worked on improving the timeline articles for the previous season. RattleMan often updates the sections on storms in season articles, and helps to maintain the southern hemisphere articles.
New and improved articles
- There were 6 new pieces of Featured content : Hurricane Felix (featured picture), Hurricane Isis (1998), Tropical Storm Alberto (2006), Hurricane John (2006), Tropical cyclone, and Hurricane Isabel (featured picture)
- New Good articles include: Hurricane Gracie, Hurricane Ava (1973), Hurricane Flossy (1956)
- New storm articles include: 1935 Yankee hurricane, Hurricane Ginny, Cyclone Agni, 1917 Pinar del Río hurricane
- New non-storm articles include: List of North Carolina hurricanes (1950-1979)
Main Page content
- Today's Featured Article: Hurricane Isis (1998) appeared on the Main Page in the Today's Featured Article on February 15
- Entries from 3 articles: Hurricane Naomi (1968), Hurricane Darby (1992), and Hurricane Hernan (2002) appeared on the Main Page in the Did you know column during February.
Storm article statistics
| Grade | Nov | Dec | Jan | Feb |
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31 | 33 | 33 | 36 |
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8 | 9 | 9 | 8 |
| GA
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109 | 112 | 114 | 123 |
| B | 82 | 86 | 99 | 96 |
| Start | 211 | 208 | 214 | 216 |
| Stub | 6 | 6 | 3 | 6 |
| Total | 447 | 454 | 472 | 485 |
| ω | 3.01 | 2.98 | 2.98 | 2.96 |
| percentage Less than B |
48.5 | 47.1 | 46.0 | 45.8 |
| percentage GA or better |
33.1 | 33.9 | 33.1 | 34.3 |
Improvements During the month, a total of 15 new articles were added, though the net increase in start or stub articles was only three. The highest quality set of articles for a basin is for the Eastern Pacific Ocean, of which half of its articles are either a good article or better; all of its retired storm articles are good or better. However, the basin has a lower total number of articles, and the Atlantic basin has a higher overall total of good articles.
There is a drive to increase the number of featured topics, which is located on the project talk page.
♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 05:05, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
WP:LOTD[edit]
Congratulations! List of storms in the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was selected as a List of the Day for April. Let me know if you have a strong preference for a date.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 07:38, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #15[edit]
The Hurricane Herald
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Storm of the month
Cyclone Jokwe was the first tropical cyclone to make landfall in Mozambique since Cyclone Favio struck in the previous year. The tenth named storm of the 2007-08 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season, Jokwe was first classified as a tropical depression on March 2 over the open Southwest Indian Ocean. It tracked west-southwest, crossing northern Madagascar as a tropical storm on March 5 before intensifying into a tropical cyclone on March 6. Jokwe rapidly intensified to reach peak winds of 195 km/h (120 mph), before weakening slightly and striking Nampula Province in northeastern Mozambique. It quickly weakened while paralleling the coastline, though the storm restrengthened as it turned southward in the Mozambique Channel. Late in its duration, it remained nearly stationary for several days, and steadily weakened due to wind shear before dissipating on March 16.
The storm caused minor damage in northern Madagascar. In Mozambique, the cyclone affected 165,000 people, and left at least sixteen fatalities. Cyclone Jokwe destroyed over 9,000 houses and damaged over 3,000 more, with the heaviest damage in Angoche and the Island of Mozambique in Nampula Province. The storm also caused widespread power outages and crop damages.
Other tropical cyclone activity
- There were no named tropical cyclones in the South Pacific ocean, though a tropical depression developed near Vanuatu in the third week of the month.
- Late in the month, Cyclone Pancho developed in the Australian region, reaching peak winds of 90 knots. In addition, Cyclone Ophelia lasted from late February through early March.
- In addition to Cyclone Jokwe, there were two named tropical cyclones in the Southwest Indian Ocean; Cyclone Kamba became an Intense Tropical Cyclone over open waters, and Tropical Storm Lola formed and dissipated near Mauritius late in the month.
Member of the month
The March member of the month is CapeVerdeWave, whose first edit was to a tropical cyclone article, back in January 2006. CapeVerdeWave has been a steady and active member of the project, writing several articles on Category 5 hurricanes as well as working on the often forgotten older hurricanes. The user also has contributed to some older season articles, and recently helped update the project after the recent hurricane re-analysis. We thank him for his continued dedication.
New members
New and improved articles
- There were 6 new pieces of Featured content : Typhoon Paka, List of wettest tropical cyclones in the United States, Effects of Hurricane Ivan in the Lesser Antilles and South America, List of retired Pacific typhoon names (JMA), Tropical Storm Vamei, and List of New York hurricanes
- New Good articles include: Hurricane Beulah, Hurricane Ione, Hurricane Isidore
- New storm articles include: 1945 Southeast Florida hurricane, Hurricane Fox (1952)
- New non-storm articles include: Effects of Hurricane Dennis in Florida, List of North Carolina hurricanes (1900-1949)
Main Page content
- Today's Featured Article: 1933 Atlantic hurricane season appeared on the Main Page in the Today's Featured Article on March 27
- Entries from 1 article: 1917 Pinar del Río hurricane appeared on the Main Page in the Did you know column during March.
Storm article statistics
| Grade | Dec | Jan | Feb | Mar |
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| FA
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33 | 33 | 36 | 38 |
| A
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9 | 9 | 8 | 8 |
| GA
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112 | 114 | 123 | 130 |
| B | 86 | 99 | 96 | 91 |
| Start | 208 | 214 | 216 | 211 |
| Stub | 6 | 3 | 6 | 9 |
| Total | 454 | 472 | 485 | 487 |
| ω | 2.98 | 2.98 | 2.96 | 2.94 |
| percentage Less than B |
47.1 | 46.0 | 45.8 | 45.2 |
| percentage GA or better |
33.9 | 33.1 | 34.3 | 36.1 |
Project News: Updates on the Best Track - Atlantic and North Indian Ocean, and more
In February, the Hurricane Research Division released its reanalysis for the Atlantic Ocean from 1915 to 1920. Highlights include the addition of eight storms, as well as the removal of one storm. The winds in the 1919 Florida Keys Hurricane were increased to 130 knots, and the 1916 Texas hurricane was increased to a Category 4 hurricane.
According to an email sent to the India Meteorological Department, there will be an online version of the North Indian Ocean best track from 1877 to 2006, scheduled to be released in two months; it is unknown if it will cost money to access.
In unrelated news, the project was featured on the Signpost; Mitchazenia was interviewed, and talked about the past, present, and future of the project.
At the end of the month, there were five different Featured content candidates (FXC's) by five different editors; two were featured article candidates, two were featured list candidates, and one was a featured picture candidate. The have been a few times in which there were four FXC's from four different editors, most recently in February and early March of 2008.
♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 02:45, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
Happy Birthday![edit]
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Hungry? Here's a little snack for you on your birthday, from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day, Verrai/Archive11/Archive10! |
It's my birthday, too, we should have a combined party:)
Lunakeet 12:51, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #16[edit]
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. This newsletter covers all of April 2008.
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Storm of the month
Typhoon Neoguri was the earliest tropical cyclone on record to strike China. It formed on April 13 to the east of the Philippines, and once entering the South China Sea, environmental conditions allowed for quick strengthening. Neoguri attained its peak intensity of 150 km/h (90 mph) as it approached the island of Hainan, though rapidly weakened due to unfavorable conditions. The system made landfall in southern China on April 19, causing three deaths and moderate damage totaling over ¥296 million (2008 RMB, $42 million 2008 USD). The typhoon left 40 fishermen missing in the South China Sea.
Other tropical cyclone activity
- A weak tropical depression formed near New Caledonia in the South Pacific ocean early in the month, and another tropical depression developed in the basin later in the month.
- Two named storms formed in the Australian region during the month, including Tropical Cyclone Durga, which was the first ever cyclone named by the Tropical Cyclone Warning Centre in Jakarta, Indonesia. Tropical Cyclone Rosie co-existed with Durga for much of its duration.
- Cyclone Nargis developed in the North Indian Ocean late in the month, and reached its peak intensity early in May; further details will be covered in the next newsletter.
Member of the month
The April member of the month is VOFFA. Though not officially a project member, VOFFA is an important user to the project, having maintained and updated the talk page archives on tropical cyclones worldwide; activity includes adding warnings and discussions for all storms. The user is particularly active during the off-season of the Atlantic basin, when article activity on tropical cyclones typically declines.
New members
New and improved articles
- There were six new pieces of Featured content : Cyclone Elita, List of North Carolina hurricanes (1900-1949), Tropical Storm Barry (2007), List of North Carolina hurricanes, Lists of North Carolina hurricanes (FT), and Image:KatrinaNewOrleansFlooded edit2.jpg
- New Good articles include: Tropical Storm Fay (2002), 2006 Atlantic hurricane season, 1939 California tropical storm
- New storm articles include: Hurricane Ileana (2006), Hurricane Madeline (1998), Hurricane Lester (1998)
- New non-storm articles include: Hurricane Ivan tornado outbreak, Timeline of the 2008 Pacific typhoon season
Main Page content
- Entries from 9 articles: Effects of Hurricane Dennis in Alabama, Effects of Hurricane Dennis in Georgia, Cyclone Jokwe, Effects of Hurricane Dennis in Mississippi, Tropical Storm Arthur (1996), Cyclone Gamede, Cyclone Glenda, Hurricane Cosme (2007), and Typhoon Neoguri (2008) appeared on the Main Page in the Did you know column during April.
Storm article statistics
| Grade | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr |
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| FA
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33 | 36 | 38 | 40 |
| A
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9 | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| GA
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114 | 123 | 130 | 131 |
| B | 99 | 96 | 91 | 103 |
| Start | 214 | 216 | 211 | 208 |
| Stub | 3 | 6 | 9 | 9 |
| Total | 472 | 485 | 487 | 499 |
| ω | 2.98 | 2.96 | 2.94 | 2.92 |
| percentage Less than B |
46.0 | 45.8 | 45.2 | 43.5 |
| percentage GA or better |
33.1 | 34.3 | 36.1 | 35.9 |
Project News
There is discussion on the status of articles on non-notable storms in the Merging page of the project. Comments are welcome.
A Wikipedia traffic counter was launched earlier this year. In the month of February, the article on Hurricane Katrina was viewed just over 200,000 times, making the article the 496th most viewed article on the English Wikipedia during the month.
During the month, Hurricane Camille was demoted from GA status, continuing the trend of good articles degrading in status on notable storms; other occurrences include the FA removal of Cyclone Tracy and 1900 Galveston Hurricane. If anyone has any ideas how to fix the problem, feedback and ideas are appreciated.
♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 04:01, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
FAR[edit]
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask is under FAR. Buc (talk) 21:12, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #17[edit]
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. This newsletter covers all of May 2008.
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Storm of the month
Cyclone Nargis was the costliest and deadliest natural disaster in the history of Burma (Myanmar). It formed on April 27 in the central Bay of Bengal, and after initially tracking north-northwestward it turned to the east. Quickly strengthening to reach peak winds of at least 165 km/h (105 mph), Nargis made landfall in the Ayeyarwady Division of Burma on May 2 near peak intensity. The cyclone killed at least 80,000 people and potentially over 300,000. Passing near the metropolis of Yangon, the cyclone destroyed thousands of buildings, and damage was estimated at over $10 billion (USD). In the wake of the storm, the ruling military junta of Burma initially refused foreign aid, and after they allowed foreign assistance, the government was criticized for its poor handling of the aftermath of the storm.
Other tropical cyclone activity
- Northwestern Pacific Ocean – Typhoon Rammasun was the strongest tropical cyclone worldwide during the month, though it did not affect land. Tropical Storm Matmo formed east of Luzon in the middle of the month and lasted for three days. Severe Tropical Storm Halong (Cosme) was the deadliest storm in the Pacific basin, causing 58 deaths and $94 million (USD) in damage after hitting Luzon on May 17. At the end of the month, Typhoon Nakri formed and reached peak intensity over open waters before becoming extratropical in early June.
- Eastern Pacific Ocean – Tropical Storm Alma was was the easternmost forming Pacific tropical cyclone on record. Forming from a trough on May 29, it became a strong tropical storm before making landfall near León, Nicaragua, killing at least two people.
- 2008 Atlantic hurricane season– Tropical Storm Arthur formed from the remnants of Tropical Storm Alma as it made landfall on Belize, causing flash flooding and at least nine fatalities.
New and improved articles
- There were three new pieces of Featured content : 2006 Atlantic hurricane season, List of United States hurricanes, Tropical Depression Ten (2007)
- New Good articles include: Cyclone Gamede, Effects of Hurricane Dennis in Georgia, 1987 Atlantic hurricane season, Hurricane Lili, 1959 Mexico Hurricane
- New storm articles include: Hurricane Alma (1996), Hurricane Gladys (1975), Hurricane Liza (1968)
- New non-storm articles include: Hurricane Frances tornado outbreak, List of Maryland and Washington, D.C. hurricanes (1980–present), 1851 Atlantic hurricane season
Project News
Several other languages are active in the realm of tropical cyclone articles, though as much as ours. The French Wikipedia has 76 storm articles, the Spanish Wikipedia has 99 storm articles, and the Portuguese Wikipedia has 116 storm articles. Each of the projects have several storm articles we do not have, and the coverage on non-notable storms outside of the Atlantic is better, particularly in the Southern Hemisphere.
During the month, User:Potapych finished working on Template:Infobox Hurricane Small, which is used for the small Infoboxes in season articles; he has updated several season article already with the changes.
Main Page content
- Cyclone Nargis appeared early in the month in the In the news column
- Entries from three articles: Hurricane Madeline (1998), Hurricane Alma (1996), and Hurricane Liza (1968) appeared on the Main Page in the Did you know column during May.
Storm article statistics
| Grade | Feb | Mar | Apr | May |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FA
|
36 | 38 | 40 | 41 |
| A
|
8 | 8 | 8 | 17 |
| GA
|
123 | 130 | 131 | 129 |
| B | 96 | 91 | 103 | 101 |
| Start | 216 | 211 | 208 | 209 |
| Stub | 7 | 9 | 9 | 9 |
| Total | 487 | 487 | 499 | 506 |
| ω | 2.96 | 2.94 | 2.92 | 2.88 |
| percentage ≥Less than B |
45.8 | 45.2 | 43.5 | 43.1 |
| percentage ≥GA or better |
34.3 | 36.1 | 35.9 | 367.0 |
Member of the month
The May member of the month is Juliancolton. Joining the project in November 2007, Julian has become an active member of the project, working on new articles in the Atlantic basin. He has created two featured lists (List of Maryland and Washington, D.C. hurricanes (1980–present) and List of New York hurricanes), and rewrote the article on 2006 Atlantic hurricane season, which became featured during May. Juliancolton is currently working on a featured topic for Hurricane Dennis and its effects by region.
New members
♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 02:49, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #18[edit]
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. This newsletter covers all of June 2008.
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Storm of the month
Typhoon Fengshen was the deadliest Pacific typhoon since Typhoon Durian in November of 2006. The sixth named storm of the 2008 Pacific typhoon season, Fengshen developed on June 18 to the east of the Philippines, and after attaining typhoon status it stuck the island of Samar. It intensified while passing through the archipelago, reaching winds of over 175 km/h (110 mph) before passing near Metro Manila. Fengshen later weakened in the South China Sea, and it dissipated on June 26 after moving ashore in China.
The typhoon killed over 1,300 people, including 800 when the MV Princess of the Stars capsized during the storm. Damage totaled $247 million (USD), with over 300,000 houses damaged or destroyed. The damage total included $70 million (USD) in crop damage.
Other tropical cyclone activity
- 2008 North Indian Ocean cyclone season — Two tropical depressions form during the month, including one in each sub-basin. The second depression hit Bangladesh, which added to flooding and damage across the area.
- Northwestern Pacific Ocean – In addition to Fengshen, Typhoon Nakri became extratropical early in the month.
- Eastern Pacific Ocean – Hurricane Boris and Tropical Storm Cristina form and co-exist well to the southwest of Mexico in the last week of the month through early July.
- 2008 Atlantic hurricane season– Tropical Storm Arthur dissipates over the Yucatán Peninsula early in the month.
New and improved articles
- There was one new piece of Featured content : List of Maryland and Washington, D.C. hurricanes (1980–present)
- New Good articles include: Hurricane Kyle (2002), Cyclone Bola, Hurricane Guillermo (1997)
- New storm articles include: Hurricane Jimena (2003), Hurricane Huko (2002)
- New non-storm articles include: 1968 Atlantic hurricane season, 1999 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Effects of Hurricane Charley in South Carolina, List of unnamed tropical cyclones
Addition of C-class
During the month, C-class was added to the assessment scheme. The project has begun the process of integrating C-class, though as of this publication only 8 articles in the project are at that level. A preliminary solution would be to very strictly define B-class with six criteria, with one proposal to automatically re-assess all B-class articles as C-class until they are confirmed to have passed the criteria. Discussion and participation are welcome on the issue.
As a result of the addition of C-class, the ω (WikiWork) rating for C-class is now 3.5, to keep in line with the previous system we used.
During the month, the project published a page on its style for articles. The purpose for the page, as quoted from the top of the page, is to document a few existing unwritten guidelines for Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones.
Main Page content
- 2006 Atlantic hurricane season appeared as Today's Featured Article on June 10
- Typhoon Fengshen (2008) appeared early in the month in the In the news column
- Entries from articles: 1851 Atlantic hurricane season, Hurricane Patsy (1959), Effects of Hurricane Charley in South Carolina, 1968 Pacific hurricane season, Hurricane Huko (2002), Hurricane Ivo (2007) appeared on the Main Page in the Did you know column during June.
Storm article statistics
| Grade | Mar | Apr | May | Jun |
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| FA
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38 | 40 | 41 | 41 |
| A
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8 | 8 | 17 | 18 |
| GA
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130 | 131 | 129 | 135 |
| B | 91 | 103 | 101 | 96 |
| C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Start | 211 | 208 | 209 | 208 |
| Stub | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 |
| Total | 487 | 499 | 506 | 510 |
| ω | 2.94 | 2.92 | 2.88 | 2.87 |
| percentage ≥Less than C |
45.2 | 43.5 | 43.1 | 42.5 |
| percentage ≥GA or better |
36.1 | 35.9 | 37.0 | 38.0 |
Member of the month
The June member of the month is User:Potapych. Though not officially a member of the project, Potapych is active on hurricane pages, having developed the new small infobox template introduced last month. After developing the new template, Potapych updated season articles across the board to accommodate the new template.
New members
♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 03:40, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #19[edit]
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. This newsletter covers all of July 2008.
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Storm of the month
Hurricane Bertha was a rare early season Cape Verde-type hurricane and the easternmost forming July tropical storm on record. Bertha became the longest-lived pre-August Atlantic tropical cyclone on record and the longest-lived tropical cyclone in the Atlantic Basin since Ivan in 2004. The second named storm of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season, Bertha developed from a tropical wave that emerged off the coast of Africa on July 1. After initially remaining weak while tracking westward, Bertha began to strengthen on July 6, and the next day it quickly intensified to reach peak winds of 120 mph (195 km/h). The hurricane weakened during the day on July 8, and after turning to a northwest drift, it passed within 40 miles (64 km) of Bermuda on July 14 before moving northeast away from the island. Bertha became extratropical on July 20 to the east of Newfoundland, after causing minimal damage and three indirect drowning deaths.
Other tropical cyclone activity
- Northwestern Pacific Ocean – After several weeks of no activity, Typhoon Kalmaegi developed in the middle of the month, passing near northern Luzon before turning to the north and making landfalls on Taiwan and China; the typhoon caused heavy crop damage and 18 deaths. Later in the month, Typhoon Fung-Wong caused further flooding in Taiwan and China. In addition to the two named typhoons, PAGASA issued advisories on Tropical Depression Gener early in the month.
- Eastern Pacific Ocean – Four named storms developed in the basin during the month, of which three became hurricanes; Hurricanes Elida, Fausto, and Genevieve, as well as Tropical Storm Douglas, all remained offshore, though in the middle of the month a tropical depression brought rainfall to Mexico after hitting near Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán. Hurricane Boris and Tropical Storm Cristina continued from the previous month.
- Atlantic Ocean– In addition to Hurricane Bertha, two other tropical cyclones developed in the month. Tropical Storm Cristobal formed off the coast of Florida, bringing rainfall and gusty winds to coastal North Carolina and later Nova Scotia. The most damaging Atlantic tropical cyclone during the month was Hurricane Dolly, which formed on July 20 in the western Caribbean Sea. After tracking northwestward through the Gulf of Mexico, it reached peak winds of 100 mph (155 km/h) before moving ashore on South Padre Island, Texas. The hurricane caused flash flooding from heavy rainfall, with damage in the United States estimated at $1.2 billion; across its path Dolly caused 21 deaths, including 17 from landslides in Guademala, as well as two indirect fatalities.
Member of the month
The July member of the month is User:Plasticup. Joining the project in August of 2007, Plasticup first became an asset in working on the active article series on Hurricane Dean. After a period of inactivity, the user returned to produce two featured articles this month, both interesting meteorological histories. Additionally, Plasticup has focused some attention to articles in the 2005 season. Keep up the good work!
New members
New and improved articles
- There were five new pieces of Featured content : 1998 Pacific hurricane season (FT), Tropical Storm Chantal (2001), Meteorological history of Hurricane Dean, 2007 Atlantic hurricane season, and Meteorological history of Hurricane Gordon (1994)
- New Good articles include: Atlantic tropical cyclone, Cyclone Bola, Maximum sustained wind, Hurricane Henriette (2007)
- New storm articles include: Great Barbados hurricane, 2002 Oman cyclone, Tropical Storm Kiko (2007)
- New non-storm articles include: Meteorological history of Hurricane Jeanne, Maximum potential intensity
Main Page content
- Typhoon Paka appeared as Today's Featured Article on July 5
- Typhoon Kalmaegi and Hurricane Dolly appeared in the In the news column during the month
- Entries from 2 articles: Meteorological history of Hurricane Gordon (1994) and 1891 Martinique hurricane, appeared on the Main Page in the Did you know column during July.
Storm article statistics </noinclude>
| Grade | Apr | May | Jun | Jul |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FA
|
40 | 41 | 41 | 42 |
| A
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8 | 17 | 18 | 18 |
| GA
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131 | 129 | 135 | 139 |
| B | 103 | 101 | 96 | 15 |
| C | 0 | 0 | 3 | 98 |
| Start | 208 | 209 | 208 | 202 |
| Stub | 9 | 9 | 9 | 10 |
| Total | 499 | 506 | 510 | 524 |
| ω | 2.92 | 2.88 | 2.87 | 2.94 |
| percentage ≥Less than C |
43.5 | 43.1 | 42.5 | 40.5 |
| percentage ≥GA or better |
35.9 | 37.0 | 38.0 | 38.0 |
Project News
During July, there were two large changes to the operations of the WikiProject. First, WPTC adopted and helped develop the WP 1.0 B-Class criteria, and was among the first projects to use a "forced" B-Class rubric as part of their assessment schemes. This means that all the articles tagged with {{hurricane|class=B|...}} are automatically reassessed as {{C-Class}}, unless all the values in the checklist are marked as passed. In other words, to mark an article as B-Class, the banner needs to be changed to
{{hurricane |class=B |B1=yes |B2=yes |B3=yes |B4=yes |B5=yes |B6=yes | ... }}
B1, B2, B3, B4, B5 and B6 stand for each of the six points in the WikiProject's rubric. The banner also has the capability to mark why an article doesn't meet the new B-Class standards: Typing the following in an article's talk page
{{hurricane |class=B |B1=no |B2=yes |B3=yes |B4=yes |B5=yes |B6=yes | ... }}
will assess an article as C-Class, and mark that the article is not a B because of bad references.
Articles assessed as B's before the introduction of the forced checklist were automatically reassessed as C's, but they're awaiting new reviews to check if they still meet the new B criteria. These articles are listed on Category:Tropical cyclone articles with incomplete B-Class checklists. Currently, there's 117 articles in the category—let's try to shrink that number to zero before the next edition of the Herald!
The other major change to the WikiProject was the addition of three task forces: the storm articles task force, season articles task force, and the tropical meteorology articles task force. These three task forces allow WPTC to see the progress of the different areas of the WikiProject. Currently, all 1,076 WPTC articles have been assigned to one of the three task forces, but any unsorted articles will be placed in Category:Unsorted tropical cyclone articles as they're tagged with {{hurricane}}.
In order to categorize an article, the banner needs to be modified from {{hurricane|...}} to:
{{hurricane |storms-task-force=yes | ... }}
{{hurricane |seasons-task-force=yes | ... }}
{{hurricane |meteo-task-force=yes | ... }}
which will sort the pages into the storms, seasons, and tropical meteorology task forces, respectively.
♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 03:35, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
WikiProject New Jersey advisory[edit]
Help Wanted! Articles are languishing, categories are stagnating, assessments are missing, the portal is static, and you can help.
You are cordially invited to visit the redesigned WikiProject New Jersey and invite others to do the same.
You are receiving this message as a member of WikiProject New Jersey. You can remove yourself from the mailing list here.
- Notice delivery by xenobot 01:09, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
WikiProject New Jersey Newsletter (August 2008)[edit]
 The WikiProject New Jersey Newsletter | |||
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| Project News | Article Alerts | ||
| The Reboot of Wikiproject New Jersey has certainly stirred up some new activity at the project. Discussion on several improvements and new initiatives have been going on at the talk page. There has been an involved discussion regarding our 88 unassessed articles, especially those on municipalities. The current goal is to review and assess all 566 New Jersey muncipality articles by September 30. A suggestion has been made to intiate Wikipedia Takes New Jersey to begin clearing the large backlog of articles needing photos. Let's all grab our cameras and head out into the vast wilds of the Garden State. Town Halls, High Schools, Historic Places - every article deserves a picture. |
The following articles may be in need of attention:
Featured Article candidates:
Good Article nominees: | ||
| New Jersey Collaboration news | New WPNJ members | ||
| WPNJ member Mm40 has volunteered to coordinate a new WPNJ Collaboration project. It's been a while since we used the NJCOTW and new volunteers are needed. Join the discussion to volunteer.
Battle of Trenton was recently proposed as a Featured Article candidate. It was not promoted, but has now been nominated for A-Class review through the Military History WikiProject. Take a look at their A-Class FAQ. As we need to set up our own process for reviewing A-Class articles, it may be worth watching the process. |
Please welcome the following new members to WikiProject New Jersey:
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| Reboot progress report | Help Wanted | ||
| The redesign has been well received. There are still some things left to do. This newsletter was one big check mark off the list. Hopefully this can be continued on a regular basis. There are literally thousands of articles in Category:New Jersey that have not been tagged as part of the project, and stub sorting hasn't been run in 10 months. We will need to identify some friendly bot operators to help with these projects. An outreach department (which includes the newsletter) needs to be formalized. Creating an invitation template for easy placement on userpages will also be part of that effort.
There are lots of best practices described at the WikiProject Council with ideas of how to make our project more responsive, welcoming, active, and effective. Task forces? Peer review? Other ideas welcome! |
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| Editor's Notes | |||
| I just wanted to say that the response to my bold makeover of WPNJ has been gratifying, but nothing will improve the project as much as more activity, and that means more members. There are lots of things to do in this new setup, and everyone with an interest should be able to find a way to contribute to the collaboration. I want to thank you all for the patience, the appreciation, and the effort. - Jim Miller | |||
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- Newsletter delivery by xenobot 18:42, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #20[edit]
Number 20, September 6, 2008
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. This newsletter covers all of August 2008.
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Storm of the month
Hurricane Gustav was a deadly and damaging hurricane which formed late in the month in the Caribbean Sea. It first struck Haiti on August 26 as a minimal hurricane, where it killed 76 people and damaged or destroyed over 10,000 houses. Gustav turned to the southwest, moving over Jamaica where it killed 11 people. The hurricane rapidly intensified to reach peak winds of 150 mph (240 km/h) before making landfall on western Cuba; in the country, Gustav damaged or destroyed over 100,000 houses, though no deaths were reported due to well-executed evacuations. In the Gulf of Mexico, Gustav weakened due to its previous land interaction, and on September 1 it made landfall in south-central Louisiana as a Category 2 hurricane, where it caused heavy damage. Across its path, the hurricane caused 101 deaths, with an initial damage total of $20 billion.
Other tropical cyclone activity
- Atlantic Ocean– In addition to Gustav, three other tropical cyclones formed. Early in the month, Tropical Storm Edouard caused light damage when it moved ashore along Texas. In the middle of the month, Tropical Storm Fay formed over Hispaniola and later crossed over Cuba into the Gulf of Mexico; throughout the Caribbean it caused 25 deaths. Fay struck southwestern Florida, moved across the state, turned to the west, and moved across the Florida panhandle, making a record four landfalls on the state. The storm dropped 27.65 inches (702.1 mm) of rain in Melbourne, making Fay the fourth wettest Florida tropical cyclone. In the end of the month, Hurricane Hanna formed northeast of the Lesser Antilles; its impact will be covered in the next month's summary.
- Eastern Pacific Ocean – Four named storms developed in the basin during the month, including Tropical Storm Kika, which was the first Central Pacific tropical cyclone since Ioke in 2006. Hurricane Hernan was the strongest hurricane of the month in the basin, reaching Category 3 status while remaining away from land. Tropical Storm Iselle lasted for a few days, but did not affect land. Tropical Storm Julio made landfall on Baja California Sur, producing heavy rainfall and causing two deaths.
- Northwestern Pacific Ocean – The month began with Tropical Storm Kammuri forming and hitting southern China; the storm killed 140 people, mostly in neighboring Vietnam, and damage totaled $120 million (USD). Tropical Storms Phanfone and Vongfone lasted for a few days out at sea, before Typhoon Nuri formed and struck northern Luzon, causing 12 deaths.
- 2008 North Indian Ocean cyclone season – A depression formed and struck Odisha.
Member of the month
The August member of the month is Cyclonebiskit, who has been on Wikipedia since April. The user helped maintain the current season articles as well as storm articles. Cyclonebiskit has written one GA, and wrote much of one of the recent tropical cyclone articles.
New members
New and improved articles
- There were eight new pieces of Featured content : Hurricane Vince (2005), Meteorological history of Hurricane Jeanne, 2005 Azores subtropical storm, Timeline of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, Timeline of the 2004 Atlantic hurricane season, Tropical Storm Barry (2001), Timeline of the 2007 Atlantic hurricane season, and Hurricane Kyle (2002)
- New Good articles include: Effects of Hurricane Charley in South Carolina, Tropical cyclone rainfall forecasting
- New storm articles include: Tropical Storm Andrew (1986), Tropical Depression Nine (2000), Tropical Storm Norman (2006)
- New non-storm articles include: List of off-season Atlantic hurricanes, Meteorological history of Tropical Storm Allison, 1967 Pacific hurricane season, List of Maryland hurricanes (1950–1979), and Effects of Hurricane Noel in the United States
Main Page content
- Hurricane Gloria appeared as Today's Featured Article on August 13
- Tropical Storm Kammuri (2008) and Hurricane Gustav appeared on In the news during August.
- Entries from articles: Tropical Storm Kiko (2007), List of off-season Atlantic hurricanes, Tropical Storm Andrew (1986), and Meteorological history of Tropical Storm Allison appeared on the Main Page in the Did you know column during August.
Storm article statistics
| Grade | May | Jun | Jul | Aug |
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| FA
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41 | 41 | 42 | 46 |
| A
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17 | 18 | 18 | 18 |
| GA
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129 | 135 | 139 | 147 |
| B | 101 | 96 | 15 | 15 |
| C | 0 | 3 | 98 | 99 |
| Start | 209 | 208 | 202 | 197 |
| Stub | 9 | 9 | 10 | 15 |
| Total | 506 | 510 | 524 | 537 |
| ω | 2.88 | 2.87 | 2.94 | 2.92 |
| percentage ≥Less than C |
43.1 | 42.5 | 40.5 | 39.5 |
| percentage ≥GA or better |
37.0 | 38.0 | 38.0 | 39.3 |
Version 0.7
This month, several of the WikiProject's articles were selected for the Version 1.0 Editorial Team's Version 0.7 static release. The article selection occurs using an automated process using WikiProjects' quality and importance assessments. For WPTC, this means that 29 articles will be part of this release, an increase from 13 in the previous release. It should be noted that these numbers are based on preliminary data that can change based on updates to the database and corrections to the selection algorithm and WP:1.0's cut-off score.
The list of articles chosen for the release can be seen here. Of the selection, almost half of the articles are already featured, and eleven are good articles. There one B-Class article (1970 Bhola cyclone, two C-Class articles (Hurricane Andrew, Cyclone Nargis), and two Start-Class articles (Pacific typhoon, Hurricane Rita). As these articles will be published in a CD, it is imperative that the project improve them quickly.
The full list of all the WikiProject's articles is also available here. According to that list, WPTC's highest-scoring article—Tropical cyclone—has a score of 1969, which is very good as Canada, the selection's highest-scoring article, has a score of 2,409. That said, Extreme wind warning is the least important article we have, with a score of 227, so we may have to improve it a little bit so it isn't that low...
♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 05:16, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
Portal:Current events/2008 September 25[edit]
Hello, I just wanted you to be aware that your edit to Portal:Current events/2008 September 25 was not in line with the current event page’s style guidelines. No entries are in bold and at least one source must be cited. You also signed the entry, which was probably an error. I just wanted you to know in case you ever find some interesting news again. – Zntrip 05:13, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
WikiProject New Jersey Newsletter (September 2008)[edit]
| The WikiProject New Jersey Newsletter | |||
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| Project News | Article Alerts | ||
| The Maryland WikiProject has put together a great chart comparing the growth of several state WikiProjects, including WPNJ. Take a look at the chart to see how the growth of WPNJ compares to some of our peer projects. Please remember to place the {{WikiProject New Jersey}} tag on the talk pages of any New Jersey related articles you create or come across. You can also add the new articles page to your watchlist. Some updates have been made to the NJ Portal, but much more needs to be done. If a few volunteers can put together Featured Article summmaries, we can automate rotating the portal content. The same can be done for DYK items. Please take a look and see if you can assist. |
The following articles may be in need of attention:
Featured Article candidates:
Good Article nominees:
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| Wikipedia Release version 0.7 | New WPNJ members | ||
| The Wikipedia 0.7 project team has chosen the New Jersey related articles that will be included in the next downloadable version of Wikipedia. You can review the list of selected WPNJ articles, check the articles tagged for cleanup, or nominate additional articles for inclusion.
Selection is an automated process based on article assessments. To help avoid vandalism and POV concerns, specific versions of articles can be tagged for inclusion in the downloadable release. See the New Jersey section of the bot results to recommend a production version. The process ends on October 20, and then a bot will select an appropriate version if none has been recommended. |
Please welcome the following new members to WikiProject New Jersey:
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| Article News | Help Wanted | ||
| Both Jon Corzine and The Sopranos were promoted to Good Article status in the past month. No WikiProject New Jersey articles were promoted to Featured article status. Battle of Trenton was not listed as a Featured Article, and may need more editors to complete the remaining work to be promoted. Also, in an item that was missed last month, Thomas Edison was delisted as a Good Article in July.
The WPNJ Assessment Drive is ongoing. Please help assess all of the articles about places in New Jersey. There are currently 88 articles that have not been assessed. |
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| Fall has arrived, and with it will come a rush of new Wikipedians. Inviting new editors to join WPNJ is easy to do, and can help us improve our New Jersey articles. Keep an eye out for editors who work on NJ articles who can help the project. The Wikipedia Release version project is in its final stages for the next version. Take a look at the article lists, cleanup where you can, and nominate articles that should be included on the DVD version of WP. Lets make sure that those who end up with a downloaded copy of WP get solid articles about New Jersey. - Jim Miller | |||
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- Newsletter delivery by xenobot 16:24, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #21[edit]
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. This newsletter covers all of September 2008.
Please visit this page and bookmark any suggestions of interest to you. This will help improve monitoring of the WikiProject's articles.
As a result of an extended Wikibreak, I will not be able to work on the next month's newsletter. Other users are welcome to get it together. ♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 03:53, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
Storm of the month
Hurricane Ike was among the costliest Atlantic hurricanes on record, based on a preliminary damage estimate of $31.5 billion (USD). The ninth named storm, fifth hurricane, and third major hurricane of the 2008 season, Ike developed on September 1 in the tropical Atlantic Ocean. Maintaining a generally westward track throughout its duration, Ike reached Category 4 status on the Saffir-Simpson scale, moving across the Turks and Caicos Islands at that intensity before weakening and crossing Cuba; heavy damage was reported in Cuba, which was still recovering from Hurricane Gustav just weeks prior. Gustav later moved across the Gulf of Mexico and struck near Galveston, Texas, where its effects were estimated as the costliest hurricane in Texas history. Further inland, the storm brought high winds and widespread damage, and its impact reached as far as Canada. Throughout its path, Gustav caused over 100 deaths, mostly in Texas and Haiti, and several hundred remain missing.
Other tropical cyclone activity
- Atlantic Ocean– In addition to Ike, two hurricanes from the previous month, Gustav and Hanna, lasted into September, both striking the United States. Tropical Storm Josephine formed while Ike and Hanna were active; it remained away from land and dissipated four days after forming. The tropics were quiet in the Atlantic for about 10 days after Ike dissipated, until Hurricane Kyle formed north of Hispaniola; its precursor brought heavy rains to the Greater Antilles, and Kyle ultimately became extratropical as it moved into Atlantic Canada. At the end of the month, Tropical Storm Laura formed from a subtropical cyclone far away from land; it persisted until early October, when it lost tropical characteristics to the southeast of Newfoundland.
- Eastern Pacific Ocean– The month in the eastern Pacific Ocean was the quietest on record, in terms of ACE index. Early in the month, Tropical Storm Karina lasted for two days without affecting land. A few days later, Tropical Storm Lowell formed and later affected the Baja California peninsula and mainland Mexico as a tropical depression; its remnants merged with the remnants of Ike.
- Western Pacific Ocean– Five named storms developed in the western Pacific, beginning with Typhoon Sinlaku which became a powerful cyclone before weakening and bringing heavy rainfall to Taiwan; there, it caused 11 deaths and heavy damage, and it later affected Japan. The second storm of the month was Typhoon Hagupit, which caused $1 billion (USD) in damage and 68 deaths when it struck China. Typhoon Jangmi was next, which brought further damage and deaths to Taiwan. Two more tropical storms developed during the month; Mekkhala formed in the South China Sea and caused heavy damage in Vietnam, while Higos moved across the Philippines and later struck China.
- North Indian Ocean– One deep depression formed during the month, which moved ashore in the Indian province of Odisha; it caused 25 deaths from heavy rainfall.
Member of the month
The September member of the month is CrazyC83, who has been a steady editor within the project for the past few years. Lately, the user's contributions include maintaining the current season articles, which is the biggest workload for the project. In the past, however, CrazyC83 was very active in writing articles, and was a proponent for all storms in the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season getting articles. Of note was his contributions to Hurricane Juan, which brought it to featured status and later to the main page.
New and improved articles
- There were six new pieces of Featured content : Meteorological history of Tropical Storm Allison, 1997 Pacific hurricane season (FT), 2002 Atlantic hurricane season, Image:Hurricane Isabel eye from ISS (edit 1).jpg, Category 5 Pacific hurricanes (FT), and Hurricane Dean
- New Good articles include: 2002 Pacific hurricane season, Tropical Depression Seven (2003), Hurricane Ekeka (1992), Tropical Storm Emilia (2006), Tropical Storm Hanna (2002), Tropical Storm Erick (2007)
- New storm articles include: Typhoon Pabuk (2007), Typhoon Angela (1995), Hurricane Fausto (2002), Cyclone Graham, Tropical Storm Josephine (2002), Tropical Storm Miriam (2006)
- New non-storm articles include: Ocean Prediction Center, Effects of Hurricane Katrina in Florida
Main Page content
- Image:Hurricane Isabel 18 sept 2003 1555Z.jpg appeared as the picture of the day on September 18
- Hurricane Gustav, Hurricane Hanna (2008), Hurricane Ike, and Typhoon Hagupit (2008) appeared on In the news during September.
- Entries from 7 articles: Effects of Hurricane Noel in the United States, Effects of Tropical Storm Allison in Texas, Cyclone Graham, List of storms in the 2001 Atlantic hurricane season, Tropical Storm Gilma (2006), Hurricane Joyce (2000), and Hurricane Bonnie (1998) appeared on the Main Page in the Did you know column during September.
Storm article statistics
| Grade | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep |
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| FA
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41 | 42 | 46 | 47 |
| A
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18 | 18 | 18 | 19 |
| GA
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135 | 139 | 147 | 161 |
| B | 96 | 15 | 15 | 17 |
| C | 3 | 98 | 99 | 107 |
| Start | 208 | 202 | 197 | 201 |
| Stub | 9 | 10 | 15 | 19 |
| Total | 510 | 524 | 537 | 571 |
| ω | 2.87 | 2.94 | 2.92 | 2.92 |
| percentage ≥Less than C |
42.5 | 40.5 | 39.5 | 38.5 |
| percentage ≥GA or better |
38.0 | 38.0 | 39.3 | 39.8 |
Project News
Overall, the project has had a relatively uneventful month. One of the most noteworthy events was the selection of 32 tropical cyclone-related articles, that were chosen as part of Wikipedia 0.7. Wikipedia 0.7 is a collection of English Wikipedia articles due to be released on DVD, and available for free download, later this year. While many of the selected articles are of featured or good quality, several require substantial cleanup and expansion.
In other news, a handful of changes to project standards have taken place. Per a consensus on the project's talk page, the section of each tropical cyclone article previously entitled "Storm history" has been changed to "Meteorological history", thanks in part to Plasticup's bot which preformed the hundreds of edits to execute the change. In addition, a discussion is ongoing regarding the necessity of List of storms in the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, and similar articles for other seasons.
New members
♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 03:59, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
WikiProject New Jersey Newsletter (October 2008)[edit]
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| A new bot is patrolling Wikipedia workflows to let WPNJ members know when any of our articles may be in need of attention. Any article tagged with the WPNJ banner that has been added to one of the major workflows (AfD, FAC, GAN, etc.) will be added to a new project page. The bot runs daily, so add the new Article Alerts page to your watchlist, or just check the main project page to see the updates. See the Article Alerts project page for details on how the bot works and which processes it covers. | The following articles may be in need of attention:
Featured Article/List candidates: Good Article nominees:
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| Cross-Project Collaboration Request | New WPNJ members | ||
| WPNJ received the following request for assistance with New Jersey Devils articles: "The WikiProject Ice Hockey is currently looking for editors to help update team articles about the 2008-09 NHL season. If you are interested in the NHL, please consider helping us keep these article current. To sign up, go to this page and add your name beside the team or teams you wish to particpate in." See the WPNJ talk page for more information. |
Please welcome the following new members to WikiProject New Jersey:
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| New Jersey on the Main Page | Help Wanted | ||
| No, not the state - the battleship! On October 15, USS New Jersey (BB-62) was the Featured Article on the Wikipedia main page. Featured articles receive heavier traffic when they are on the main page. Improving WPNJ articles to featured status can help drive more editors to our project. |
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| Seems like a pretty light month in terms of activity at WPNJ. Personally, your editor was doing a lot of travelling and went on a wiki-free vacation for nine days. Time to dive back in and create some new NJ articles. - Jim Miller See me | Touch me | |||
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Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #22[edit]
Number 22, November 2, 2008
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. This newsletter covers all of October 2008.
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Storm of the month
Deep Depression ARB 02 caused the 2008 Yemen floods. On October 19 the IMD noted that an area of low pressure which located to the south east of Salalah, Oman had intensifed in to a tropical depression and was assigned the number ARB 02. On October 21 IMD updated the system to a Deep Depression while it lay 700 km south of Salalah, Oman near the east coast of Somalia. It lost its strength while crossing the Gulf of Aden due to entry of dry air and land interaction as it passed close to the northeastern coast of Somalia. It later was downgraded to a Depression, named TC 03B by the JTWC. On October 24 it made landfall on the south-eastern coast of Yemen, leaving at least 26 civilians and six soldiers dead while trapping hundreds of people due to flooding and torrential rainfalls. The latest figure of casualties is of 184 persons dead and 100 others missing, mostly from the region of Hadhramawt, where the storm made landfall. A total of 733 houses were destroyed in the governorates of Hadhramaut and Al Mahrah, while 22,000 people were displaced. The Yemeni Government declared the two aforementioned governorates as disaster zones.
Other tropical cyclone activity
- Atlantic Ocean– In the Atlantic, four tropical cyclones formed this October. Tropical Storm Marco formed in the Bay of Campeche on October 6. It made landfall on October 8 and is one of the smallest Atlantic tropical cyclones since 1988. Tropical Storm Nana formed October 12 in the middle of the open Atlantic. It had no impact anywhere and dissipated October 14. Hurricane Omar formed October 13 and dissipated October 18. Eventually peaking as a Category 4 hurricane, Omar passed through the Lesser Antilles twice, including once near peak intensity. Fortunately, it caused only one indirect death. Tropical Depression Sixteen formed on October 16 and dissipated two days later after making landfall. It killed 16 to 20 people in Central America.
- Eastern Pacific Ocean– In the eastern north Pacific, three tropical cyclones formed this October. Hurricane Norbert formed October 3 and dissipated October 12. The strongest storm thus far this season, Norbert is the first hurricane to strike the west coast of the Baja California Peninsula since 1968. Eight deaths have been blamed on the hurricane.. Tropical Storm Odile formed October 8 and paralleled the coast of Mexico before dissipating on October 12. Tropical Depression Seventeen-E formed on October 23 and dissipated the next day without impacting land.
- Western Pacific Ocean– In the western north Pacific, two tropical cyclones formed. Tropical Storm Bavi formed October 18 in the open Pacific. It never came near land and dissipated three days later. Tropical Depression Twenty Two-W formed on October 13 in the Gulf of Tonkin and made landfall on October 15. It dissipated inland the next day.
- North Indian– In the northern Indian Ocean, two cyclones formed. Besides Deep Depression ARB 02, which caused flooding that killed 184 people in Yemen, Cyclonic Storm Rashmi formed October 25 and made landfall three days later. It killed two people.
- South-West Indian – The 2008-09 South West Indian Ocean Season got off to an early start with two pre season zones of disturbed weather. The first zone of disturbed weather formed on October 6 and did not develop any further. Whilst the second zone of disturbed weather formed on October 16 and developed in to Moderate Tropical Storm Asma.
Member of the month
The October member of the month is Hurricanehink. Since joining the project near its inception, Hurricanehink has been involved in bringing forty two articles, eighteen lists and six topics to featured status. Just this month, Hurricanehink was mentioned in the Signpost Dispatch. Hurricanehink has also been the regular distributor for this newsletter.
New members
New and improved articles
- There were new pieces of Featured content : Hurricane Dean (FT), Timeline of the 2007 Pacific hurricane season, Tropical Storm Hanna (2002), Timeline of the 2006 Pacific hurricane season
- New Good articles include: Hurricane Hernan (2008), Effects of Tropical Storm Allison in Texas, Hurricane Frances, Hurricane Joyce (2000), Hurricane Elida (2008), Tropical Storm Lester (2004), Tropical Storm Arlene (1959), Tropical Storm Rosa (2006), Cyclone Daman, Hurricane Donna, Hurricane Rosa (1994), 1994 Pacific hurricane season, Hurricane Fern (1971), Tropical Storm Frances (1998), and 1982 Pacific typhoon season
- New storm articles include: Hurricane Marie (2008) Tropical Storm Dora (2005), Tropical Storm Karina (2008), Hurricane Norbert (2008), Cyclone Cliff, Tropical Storm Arlene (1959), Tropical Storm Rosa (2006), Hurricane Otis (2005), Tropical Storm Kika (2008), Cyclone Elisa (2008), Tropical Storm Lidia (2005), Tropical Depression Fifteen (2007), Tropical Depression Seven (2002)
- New non-storm articles include: 1966 Pacific hurricane season, 1854 Atlantic hurricane season, Timeline of the 2003 Pacific hurricane season, 2009 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
Main Page content
- Entries from articles: Tropical Storm Lester (2004), Hurricane Rosa (1994), Tropical Storm Kirsten (1966), 1854 Atlantic hurricane season appeared on the Main Page in the Did you know column during October.
- Meteorological History of Hurricane Wilma appeared as Today's Featured Article on October 26.
- 2008 Yemen floods, caused by Deep Depression ARB 02, appeared on the Main Page in the In the News section.
Storm article statistics
| Grade | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FA
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42 | 46 | 47 | 48 |
| A
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18 | 18 | 19 | 19 |
| GA
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139 | 145 | 161 | 187 |
| B | 15 | 14 | 17 | 12 |
| C | 98 | 99 | 107 | 113 |
| Start | 202 | 197 | 201 | 201 |
| Stub | 10 | 15 | 19 | 20 |
| Total | 524 | 537 | 571 | 600 |
| ω | 2.94 | 2.92 | 2.92 | 2.88 |
| percentage ≥Less than C |
40.5 | 39.5 | 38.5 | 36.8 |
| percentage ≥GA or better |
38.0 | 39.3 | 39.8 | 42.3 |
Project News
A discussion concerning sandboxes for next year's articles has begun. Please consider working on sandboxes so they will be ready to publish. As tropical cyclones can form at any time in the western Pacific and northern Indian Oceans, these two season's should be made ready for cyclones by December. Ideally, due to the possibility of pre-season storms, the eastern Pacific and Atlantic seasons should also be ready by then, but they should at least be ready by the northern-Hemisphere antipeak in late February and early March. Seasons for the years 2010 to 2015 should be given the name "Post-2009 {ocean name} {cyclone term} seasons", as in "Post 2009 Atlantic hurricane seasons".
A category for tropical cyclone articles of very-low importance has been introduced. Although discussion is still ongoing, a rating of very-low-importance will generally be given to weak cyclones that do not have impact or set any sort of record.
Editorial
This month, our usual editor, Hurricanehink, has been on a semi-wikibreak until further notice. I am filling in as editor and distributor on an interim basis. The newsletter will continue as normal during that time. Thank you. Miss Madeline | Talk to Madeline 00:49, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
Miss Madeline | Talk to Madeline 01:49, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #23[edit]
Number 23,
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. This newsletter covers all of November & December 2008.
Please visit this page and bookmark any suggestions of interest to you. This will help improve monitoring of the WikiProject's articles.
Storm of the month
Hurricane Paloma
Hurricane Paloma was the second most powerful November hurricane on record in the Atlantic Basin, behind Hurricane Lenny in 1999. It was the third and final major hurricane to hit Cuba in 2008, being the first time that three major hurricanes have struck Cuba in one season. It also marked the first time that at least one major hurricane formed in every month of the hurricane season from July to November, with only June not having a major hurricane this season.
Hurricane Paloma was also the last Tropical Depression of the 2008 season, and caused at least $1.4 billion in damage and was responsible for at least one direct death.
Other tropical cyclone activity
- Eastern Pacific Ocean– Tropical Storm Polo was the only Tropical Storm to form during November and December.
- Western Pacific Ocean – There were five tropical depressions during the last two months of the 2008 Pacific typhoon season. Though only four of them developed into Tropical storms with only Dolphin becoming a Typhoon.
- North Indian– There were three Tropical Depressions during the last two months of the 2008 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, however there were only two that officially became Tropical Storms being named Khai-Muk and Nisha.
- South Indian– Cyclone Bernard was the first cyclone of the year to move into the Australian Region from the Southwest Indian Ocean. Forming on early on November 19 it quickly intensified into a Moderate Tropical Storm the next day, however as it moved westward it weakened into a Tropical Depression and moved into Australia's Bureau of Meteorology's area of responsibility and dissipated later on November 21.
- Australian - There were four tropical lows during November and December with Tropical Low ex Bernard moving into the Australian Region from the South-West Indian Ocean. Two of the Lows developed into Tropical Cyclones being named Anika and Billy respectively. Anika intensified into a category two cyclone whilst Cyclone Billy became a Severe Tropical Cyclone after it had affected Northern Australia.
- The 2008–09 South Pacific cyclone season got off to an slow start during November and December, with three Tropical Disturbances forming during December. Only one of the tropical disturbances developed into a tropical depression.
Member of the month
The November/December member of the month is Thegreatdr, who has been a steady editor within the project for the past few years. Lately, the user's contributions include improving some of the Pacific Typhoon season articles from the 1980s. Thegreatdr has also tipped us off about going on's at the National Hurricane Center and the Hydrometeorological Prediction Center.
New members
- Aquamelli * DavidWS * Ramisses * Renereynoso * VeronicaPR * Neutralhomer * VOFFA * Catalan * HurricaneSpin * HERB * NuclearWarfare
New and improved articles
- There were new pieces of Featured content : Timeline of the 2005 Pacific hurricane season, Tropical Storm Erick (2007), Tropical Storm Gabrielle (2007), Timeline of the 2003 Atlantic hurricane season, Timeline of the 1983 Atlantic hurricane season, Timeline of the 1982 Atlantic hurricane season
- 1994 Pacific hurricane season became the project's first Good topic.
- New Good articles include: 1981 Pacific typhoon season, 1983 Pacific typhoon season, 1994 Pacific typhoon season, Hurricane Karl (1998), Tropical Depression One-C (2005), Tropical Storm Dorothy (1970), Tropical Storm Hermine (1998), Cyclone Gene
- New storm articles include: Tropical Storm Guchol (2005), Hurricane Paloma (2008), Hurricane Douglas (2002), Hurricane Florence (1994), Tropical Storm Vongfong (2008), Cyclone Rosie (2008), Tropical Storm Becky (1970), Hurricane Hector (2006), Hurricane Karl (1998)
- New non-storm articles include: Timeline of the 2003 Atlantic hurricane season, Timeline of the 1995 Atlantic hurricane season, Timeline of the 1983 Atlantic hurricane season, Timeline of the 1982 Atlantic hurricane season, 2009 Pacific typhoon season, Timeline of the 2001 Atlantic hurricane season
Main Page content
- Facts from 2008's Cyclone Rosie, 1970's Tropical Storm Becky, 2005's Tropical Depression One-C & 1998's Hurricane Lisa appeared in the Did You Know? section of the Main Page during November.
- Hurricane Paloma appeared on the Main Page in the In the News section.
- Facts from 1998's Hurricane Karl, 2006's Tropical Storm Olivia & 1969's Hurricane Holly appeared in the Did You Know? section of the Main Page during December.
Storm article statistics
| Grade | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FA
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47 | 49 | 49 | 50 |
| A
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19 | 19 | 19 | 19 |
| GA
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161 | 187 | 198 | 202 |
| B | 17 | 13 | 21 | 22 |
| C | 107 | 119 | 118 | 122 |
| Start | 201 | 204 | 210 | 210 |
| Stub | 19 | 19 | 16 | 17 |
| Total | 571 | 613 | 631 | 642 |
| ω | 2.92 | 2.88 | 2.87 | 2.87 |
| percentage ≥Less than C |
38.5 | 36.4 | 35.8 | 35.4 |
| percentage ≥GA or better |
39.8 | 42.1 | 42.2 | 42.2 |
Project News
During the last two months there have been several important discussions of which some are still seeking contributions from members. These include discussions about:
- Project Importance - Is it better to rate Storm Importance by basin or by overall importance? - There seems to be a consensus to rate storm importance on a case by case basis, though there still needs to be a bit more discussion on this matter.
- Prominent units within TC articles: Imperial or SI? - Which should be the prominent unit outside the Atlantic and Eastern Pacific Basins, Knots or MPH? Generally people think that Knots should not be used except in the general science articles and infoboxes.
- ACE - Where and how, should it be used? - We have decided that it should not be used outside the Atlantic or the Eastern Pacific hurricane Seasons. A debate is still ongoing with a view too get rid of it all together.
- JMA Tropical Depressions Should we include them with the season articles or not? - The general consensus so far seems to be that we should include them in the season articles though this debate is still ongoing.
We discovered during December that the Australian Bureau of Meteorology have started to designate the Tropical Lows that form within their region with letter U. It is unclear whether either TCWC Jakarta or TCWC Port Moresby assign any designations to lows that form within their Area of Responsibility.
–Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 03:04, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
Hi Verrai, I'm working on Vandalism Detection in Wikipedia. While processing blocked users data I saw your name as an active admin who does vandalism elimination. I have some questions it would be great if I can contact you (or any other admin that you suggest) through email. Here is mine, sjavanma@uci.edu.
-- Thanks in Advance —Preceding unsigned comment added by 169.234.117.50 (talk) 03:29, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
Assist America page deleted[edit]
Hello Verrai,
Just curious as to why the Assist America page I created was deleted for "blatant advertising". I actually tried to keep it as non promotional as possible and simply stuck to the history of their company as well as listed some of the services that they provide.
I did some further research and found this page as well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europ_Assistance_USA. This page seems to be related to the same industry and is much more promotional than my page. I also find the sources on this page to be somewhat bogus.
Can you please explain to me what changes I can make to my article, so that I am within the guidelines of Wikipedia?
Thank you in advance.
GB80 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gb80 (talk • contribs) 17:50, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
- Any article about a corporation which spends most of its time discussing the services of that company and how they may acquired would be considered advertising. In any case, a company with an article on Wikipedia is required to meet WP:CORP standards of notability, which the article did not (and thus could have been deleted instead for failing to assert notability; see WP:CSD). You are correct that there are hundreds of Wikipedia articles which do not meet these standards which are not deleted immediately; this is because they slip through the cracks upon creation, and, if they are obscure topics, are rarely turned up by editors searching for problematic articles. The article you linked to I have tagged as advertising to allow a second pair of admin eyes to look at to consider if it would fall under our deletion standards, as someone had done with your article. If you would like more information on how to write a good article on Wikipedia, please visit WP:FIRST. —Verrai 18:00, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
"CEREMONIE-YAM" PAGE WHICH YOU DELETED[edit]
The page was not a 'blatant violation of copyright' - i am the author and i actually write that way. Open letter:
Hi - I’m User:CCFSDCA (Christopher Corbett-Fiacco). I must respond to concerns expressed regarding articles I’ve posted at Wikipedia the past week or so, as I am in fact the author of The Whole World Calendar Book of Holidays Around the World 2010-2015, as stated in reference (an as-yet unpublished book which is based upon the self-published The Whole World Calendar 2008 [and 2009; email me at wholeworldcalendar@gmail.com and I’ll be glad to send you a sample page and info on ordering, if interested]). I have sent Wikipedia its permissions grant for using copyrighted material as requested and assure you that I am not self-promoting. My mistake is in not yet spending the time to figure out exactly how to cite the book as the reference for the articles, which I’ll do as soon as I have the time. My intent in adding the articles is that they are actual national/religious/cultural holidays and festivals, are therefore ‘newsworthy’ if not particularly important, and, having spent two years researching the topic, I can assure you that it is quite difficult at times to find such information -- try to find out what the Ceremonie-Yam is (which I’d posted but was deleted by you for “blatant copyright infringement”) and you’ll see what I mean. It is my intent to self-publish the book within 6 months if I cannot find a publisher. Meanwhile, feel free to delete my articles as desired. I’ll revisit the subject at a later date and repost them only after I’ve ascertained that I am, in fact, doing it right. Meanwhile, I’m not copying from somebody else -- those articles are my own -- that’s the way I write. Thanks much. CCFSDCA (talk) 21:30, 6 February 2009 (UTC)Chris Corbett-Fiacco
Article from new users[edit]
It seems like you deleted the article Article 1: by User:Cellular Biochemistry II. It seems like there was a misunderstanding about Wikipedia namespace and User namespace since the user wanted to create pages in his user namespace. Maybe you could try to talk to the user first and explain what he did wrong so he can do better next time? The user was very confused and didn't know what he did wrong, this seems to me quite a hard start into Wikipedia. Thanks a lot --hroest 20:09, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
- It had already been explained by User:Tckma that such articles were inappropriate; surely there was no need to be repetitive. (In any case, the articles were blank and thus it would have served no function to move them into userspace.) —Verrai 03:07, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
Philosophical Practice[edit]
Hello there. I am writing to you concerning the deletion of a page entitled 'Philosophical Practice' a collegue of mine recently tried to published. I am author, of and hold copywright to, the web page he copied material from. He has my express consent for doing so. I sent a mail from my website highlighting this fact, but to no avail. I logged on to Wikipedia with an e-mail address linked to my website also and it is from this wikipedia account I am writing to you.
Perhaps you could let me know how either myself or my collegue can go about publishing this article. thank you for your time,
Peace,
Micheál —Preceding unsigned comment added by Micheallacey (talk • contribs) 22:12, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
I fully understand. I will think about rewriting the page. Thank you for your precise response.
Peace,
Micheál —Preceding unsigned comment added by Micheallacey (talk • contribs) 11:10, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
Temsuyanger Longkumer[edit]
As if there weren't enough wrong with it already, Temsuyanger Longkumer (which you recently tidied, of course in good faith and all that) may well be a copyright violation (frankly I didn't bother to look) and was probably written by Temsuyanger Longkumer himself: see its talk page. AfD? -- Hoary (talk) 15:34, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #24[edit]
Number 24, March 7
The Hurricane Herald
This is the bi-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. This newsletter covers all of January 2009 and February 2009.
Please visit this page and bookmark any suggestions of interest to you. This will help improve monitoring of the WikiProject's articles.
Storm of the month
Cyclone Fanele was the first cyclone of tropical cyclone status to strike western Madagascar since Cyclone Fame one year prior. It formed on January 18 in the Mozambique Channel, and rapidly organized, reaching peak winds of 185 km/h (115 mph). It weakened before moving ashore in Menabe Region southwest of Morondava, and rapidly deteriorated over land. Fanele briefly re-intensified after reaching open waters, only to become an extratropical cyclone by January 23. The cyclone caused heavy damage near where it moved ashore and along its path, resulting in at least eight deaths. Fanele struck Madagascar just two days after Tropical Storm Eric brushed the northeastern portion of the country. The two storms affected over 50,000 people, of which at least 4,000 were left homeless. Fanele struck the country during a series of government protests, and consequentially relief efforts were hindered.
Other tropical cyclone activity
- Western Pacific Ocean– The first tropical cyclone of the season was Tropical Depression Auring, as designated by PAGASA. It formed on January 3 to the east of the Philippines, producing heavy rainfall and flooding on Mindanao island. Never organizing much, the depression dissipated a few days after forming, causing one death and destroying 305 houses. The next month, Tropical Depression Bising formed near Palau and, moving westward, later passed through the Philippines as a remnant low; rainfall from the system produced mudslides, though no major damage was reported.
- South-West Indian– Tropical Storm Dongo was the first storm of January in the basin, and it remained over open waters without affecting landmasses throughout its duration. In the middle of the month along with Cyclone Fanele, Tropical Storm Eric developed and moved near Madagascar, killing one and producing heavy rainfall in the northeastern portion of the country. Later, Cyclone Gael killed two people on Réunion while tracking for ten days east of Madagascar; at the time it was the 2nd strongest cyclone of the season. Lastly, Tropical Storm Hina persisted for about five days, nearly reaching tropical cyclone status before weakening.
- Australia- During the previous two months their have been nine Tropical Lows with four of them becoming a Tropical Cyclone whilst the remants of Cyclone Innis briefly moved into the Australian Region from the South Pacific. Cyclones Charlotte, Dominic, Ellie, and Freddy all caused damage to Australia and or the Indonesia Islands.
- South Pacific- During the last two months the south Pacific has come alive with six depressions forming in January and February. The most significant depression was Tropical Depression 04F which brought heavy rainfall to Fiji and caused widespread flooding and killing at least 11 people. The first two named storms, Hettie and Innis also developed, each having minor effects on land.
Member of the month
The member of the month is... HurricaneSpin HurricaneSpin is a relativly new member of the project who has helped the project out by finding photos of Tropical Cyclones and uploading them to Commons. He is still getting to grips with the project but is coming on in leaps and bounds thus we have decided to make him the Member of the Month, for January and February 2009.
New members
New and improved articles
- There were 12 new pieces of Featured content: Typhoon Tip, Hurricane Linda (1997), Tropical Storm Keith (1988), Tropical Storm Kiko (2007), Hurricane Daniel (2006), Timeline of the 1972 Atlantic hurricane season, Timeline of the 1992 Atlantic hurricane season, Timeline of the 1994 Atlantic hurricane season, Timeline of the 1997 Pacific hurricane season, Timeline of the 2005 Pacific hurricane season, Timeline of the 2006 Pacific hurricane season, Timeline of the 2007 Pacific hurricane season
- New Good articles include: Tropical cyclone scales, Rainband, Cyclone Agni, Hurricane Barry (1983), Hurricane Ileana (2006), Hurricane Beta (2005), 1952 Groundhog Day tropical storm
- New storm articles include: Hurricane Bonnie (1986), Hurricane Henriette (1995), Hurricane Howard (2004), Typhoon Conson (2004), Typhoon Prapiroon (2006), Typhoon Yagi (2006), and Cyclone Cliff
- New non-storm articles include: 1854 Atlantic hurricane season
Main Page content
- Entries from several articles, including Tropical Storm Kay (2004), Typhoon Wayne (1986), Effects of Hurricane Ivan in Jamaica, Tropical Depression Ten (2005), 1941 Florida hurricane, Hurricane Darby (2004), Typhoon Olive (1952), and Cyclone Arthur (2007) appeared in the Did You Know? section of the Main Page during January and February.
- Hurricane Dog (1950) appeared as Today's Featured Article on January 27.
- 2009 Fiji floods appeared on the Main Page in the In the News section.
Storm article statistics
| Grade | Oct | Nov | Dec | Feb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FA
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49 | 50 | 50 | 56 |
| A
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19 | 19 | 19 | 17 |
| GA
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190 | 198 | 202 | 239 |
| B | 13 | 21 | 22 | 14 |
| C | 119 | 118 | 122 | 122 |
| Start | 204 | 210 | 210 | 198 |
| Stub | 19 | 16 | 17 | 28 |
| Total | 613 | 631 | 642 | 669 |
| ω | 2.88 | 2.87 | 2.87 | 2.80 |
| percentage ≥Less than C |
36.4 | 35.8 | 35.4 | 33.0 |
| percentage ≥GA or better |
42.1 | 42.2 | 42.2 | 46.6 |
Project News
The project reached a milestone in the last two months in terms of article quality for all articles within the project. For the first time, the percentage of Good articles or better reached more than 1/3, and at the same time, the percentage of Start or Stub articles totaled less than 50%. In the previous twelve months, the overall project grew by 262 articles, of which 204, or 78%, were GA or better. Additionally, in terms of only storm articles, the project now has 46.6% of its articles as GA or better, and only 1/3 are Start or Stub. Unfortunately, much of that is due to newly-created articles easily attaining GA status. For storm articles, the total number of Start or Stub articles, currently 226, is about the same as it was a year ago. The lack of work on older articles is especially noticeable on season articles, where more than 75% of articles are still Stub or Start.
In an attempt to improve articles, there is talk of forming a collaboration between a few Wikipedians. The current project is to improve Hurricane Camille to FA status in time for its 40th anniversary this August. There is still plenty of work to be done, so if you're interested, any help would be appreciated.
Additionally, there is a recent discussion on the WPTC talk page about establishing a notability criteria. There was talk in the past of instating one, although this time the proposal is backed up by interpretations of existing Wikipedia policy. The proposal would limit articles to tropical cyclones that have at least one independent, reliable source other than any warning centers. Excluding cross-basin, off-season, or 64+ knot cyclones, the proposal would affect 26 articles, none of which affected land or lasted for an appreciable amount of time.
Jason Rees (talk) 01:12, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #25[edit]
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Number 25, April 4 The Hurricane Herald This is the monthly newsletter of WikiProject Tropical Cyclones. The Hurricane Herald aims to provide a summary of both the activities of the WikiProject and global tropical cyclones. 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. This newsletter covers March 2009. Please visit this page and bookmark any suggestions of interest to you. This will help improve monitoring of the WikiProject's articles.  Storm of the month Hamish indirectly caused a major environmental disaster along the Queensland coastline, when strong waves from the cyclone damaged the hull of a cargo ship, spilling 260 tonnes of fuel and oil into the ocean. The oil washed onto the coastline, endangering the environment prompting a costly cleanup. Offshore, the fishermen went missing after the boat was lost; one person was found, although the other two remained missing and were presumed dead. As the storm remained offshore, overall damage directly from the storm was minor, primarily from strong waves. Other tropical cyclone activity
Member of the month The member of the month is... Ramisses, has been a member of the Project since January 2008. He is a usefull editor who helps to make the trackmaps for the current season articles, as well as numerous other storms, from previous seasons. We just hope he is able to keep on top of the trackmaps when the busy part of the year comes! New members New and improved articles
Main Page content
Storm article statistics
Project News As part of the above discussion, there is a request for all active members to sign a list to affirm they are still active members in the project. If you don't sign the list, or if you don't consider yourself active anymore, your name will be placed on the inactive members list on May 1st. Hurricanehink has organised a challenge to try and improve some of the Tropical cyclone articles. The rules are that you must take either an seasonal or a storm article from one of the eight basins we have, that is either a Stub, Start class or a brand new article and improve it to at least GA status. However to avoid several articles on cyclones that did not affect land, Hurricanehink has limited the challenge to storms/seasonal articles of Mid-importance or higher. Their is an exception to this rule for the Central Pacific as Cyclones rarely form in this basin. - For full details of the challenge see the Project's Talkpage Project member list |
Jason Rees (talk) 01:32, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
Discussion at WikiProject New Jersey[edit]
Hi, Verrai, User:Nightscream and I had a disagreement over certain parts of NJ municipality articles; because the discussion could potentially affect hundreds of articles, we decided to bring the discussion to WikiProject New Jersey. I would value your input in the discussion, which you can find here. Thanks, A Stop at Willoughby (talk) 14:52, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
Happy First Edit Day![edit]
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WikiProject New Jersey Newsletter (January 2010)[edit]
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| New Statistics Table There has been an upgrade to the WP 1.0 bot that updates our project's summary table. The new table lists all page classes including Portal-class, Redirect-class, and Disambig-class. We now have a better picture of the scope of the WikiProject and the pages that we cover. New York Times to charge for access The New York Times is an invaluable resource for properly referencing articles, but especially due to its extensive archives and coverage of New Jersey issues. The announcement that metered content will be started in 2011 has the potential to make article sourcing much more difficult. It also causes a need to update linked sources in articles before all of the NYT links go dead. Any link can be archived on demand by using WebCite. We can help avoid dead links by archiving any article sources from the NYT. |
The following articles may be in need of attention:
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| All BLP, All the Time | New WPNJ members | ||
| BLP Issue Boils Over There are discussions all over the 'pedia about deleting close to 50,000 unreferenced Biographies of Living People. We won't get into a rehash here, but let's just look at what we can do. There is a new item on the project task list for sourcing BLPs. All articles that are in both Category:People from New Jersey and Category:All unreferenced BLPs are now available on this work list. These articles need to be sourced, PRODded, or sent to AfD. An ounce of prevention Unreferenced BLPs are one of the catgories regularly listed in the WPNJ Cleanup listing. New articles are also a prime location to find articles that do not yet have references. You can keep an eye on the New Articles list to help prevent the workload from getting any larger. Can we do more? There are bots that will automatically add the WPNJ Project Banner to all articles in our designated categories if we have consensus to request it. Join the discussion here. |
Please welcome the following new members to WikiProject New Jersey:
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| In NJ, politics means article updates | Help Wanted | ||
| New Leaders in NJ Government Over the past 2 weeks, new legislators have been sworn in, the legislature has new leadership, the 55th Governor of New Jersey has been inaugurated, and we have our first Lt. Governor. All new members of the Legislature have at least stub articles, and many of the templates have been updated. Updating templates Many New Jersey articles utilize stadardized templates to convey information. With elections happening as often as they do in this state, January is always a good time to review these templates and update them with new information. Does your town or county have new elected officials? It's maintainance time on many of our articles on municipalities and counties as well. |
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| Editor's news Must have been some winter holiday season in New Jersey, because the project talk page has been unusually quiet. I thought with all that snow, many of us would be inside and doing things here at WP. I hope you all had a wonderful holiday season and are enjoying a healthy and happy 2010!! - Jim Miller See me | Touch me | |||
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- Newsletter delivery by xenobot 13:46, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
Happy birthday![edit]
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Hey, Verrai. Just stopping by to wish you a Happy Birthday from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day!-- Hi878 (talk) 23:14, 3 May 2010 (UTC) |
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The WikiProject Tropical Cyclones Newsletter#32B[edit]
Number 32B, October 20, 2010
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. This newsletter covers all project related events of September 2010 and some events of October 2010
Please visit this page and bookmark any suggestions of interest to you. This will help improve monitoring of the WikiProject's articles.
Storm of the month
'Typhoon Fanapi' is Storm of the Month
Early on September 14, the JMA reported that a tropical depression had formed east of Taiwan. The Joint Typhoon Warning Center soon designated the depression as 12W with PAGASA naming it Inday shortly thereafter. Later on the same day, the tropical depression was upgraded to a tropical storm and was officially given the name Fanapi by the JMA. On September 16, the storm further intensified into a severe tropical storm. That same day, the JMA further upgraded it into a typhoon. Fanapi turned west and intensified into a category 1 typhoon that night. On the following day, the storm further intensified into a category 2 typhoon. On September 18, the storm further intensified to a Category 3 typhoon and moved straight into Taiwan. It made landfall in Hualien County at 8:40 a.m. (10.40am AEST) on September 19, with winds of 162 kilometres (101 mi) and across the island at a speed of 20km/h. Shortly after its landfall, it moved south and again turned east and rapidly weakened into a Severe Tropical Storm. It had a Category 1 equivalent strength at that time. At 06:00 PM (Local time), the typhoon went back into the ocean. Post Storm Analysis proved that the system stayed on land for 9 hours approximately. The storm made its second landfall at Zhangpu County, Zhangzhou, Fujian province, China, at a Category 1 Typhoon intensity. The Storm caused a large scale damage to Taiwan. In the early hours of September 21, Fanapi weakened into a tropical depression over Guangdong province, China. On Septemner 22, Fanapi dissipated completely.
Other tropical cyclone activity
- Tropical Storm Fiona
- Tropical Storm Gaston
- Tropical Storm Hermine
- Hurricane Igor
- Hurricane Julia
- Hurricane Karl
- Tropical Storm Lisa
- Tropical Storm Matthew
- Tropical Storm Nicole
- Hurricane Otto
- Hurricane Paula
- Tropical Depression Ten-E
- Tropical Depression Eleven-E
- Tropical Storm Georgette
- Severe Tropical Storm Malou (Henry)
- Tropical Storm Meranti
- Typhoon Fanapi (Inday)
- Typhoon Malakas
- Tropical Depression #22
- Tropical Depression 14W
- Typhoon Megi (Juan)
- Depression BOB 02
- Deep Depression BOB 03
New members
Articles Requiring Help
- Typhoon Keith (1997) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
- Cyclone Gwenda (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
- Hurricane Olaf (2003) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
- Typhoon Sudal (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
- Typhoon Roy (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Main and Important Articles
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Member of the month
Jason Rees is the member of the month - October 2010
- Jason is been awarded the member of the month - October 2010 for his excellent work at the construction of Tropical cyclone related articles. He is excellent when it comes to referencing. His work at the article Typhoon Fanapi (2010) is remarkable.
To do
- Improve the 14 WPTC core articles to FA status
- Finish List of Pacific typhoon seasons
- Expand every season article worldwide to mention every storm in the season
- Expand the articles in Category:Tropical cyclone articles to be expanded
- Get every article on the vital articles list to GA status
Storm article statistics
| Tropical cyclone articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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| Top | High | Mid | Low | Other | ??? | Total | |
| FA
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6 | 12 | 64 | 66 | 148 | ||
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1 | 1 | 9 | 16 | 27 | ||
| GA
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8 | 22 | 126 | 259 | 415 | ||
| B | 3 | 6 | 21 | 23 | 53 | ||
| C | 5 | 23 | 87 | 97 | 212 | ||
| Start | 5 | 58 | 232 | 239 | 4 | 538 | |
| Stub | 1 | 17 | 94 | 59 | 171 | ||
| Current | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | |||
| Future | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| Category | 524 | 1 | 525 | ||||
| Disambig | 7 | 581 | 588 | ||||
| Template | 167 | 1 | 168 | ||||
| Assessed | 29 | 141 | 637 | 770 | 1,294 | 27 | 2,898 |
| Unassessed | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| Total | 29 | 141 | 637 | 771 | 1,294 | 29 | 2,901 |
Project News
- The 2011 Northern Hemisphere cyclone season articles are awaiting creation.
- A replacement for Template:Infobox hurricane current has been discussed.
- Hurricane Earl (2010) dab issue solved.
- List of tornadoes spawned by Hurricane Earl (1998) being discussed for deletion.
- Flattening MODIS real time images discussed.
- List of Tropical Storms David, Hurricane Humberto, Tropical Storm Alex discussed.
- NASA GRIP (Genesis and Rapid Intensification Project) explained.
- Book:Greatest Category 5 Hurricanes, which is related to this project, has been nominated for deletion.
- Early hurricane season names brought up a large discussion.
- Format for season articles discussed
- Use of colour in charts on season articles duscussed
- new map icon discussed
- Lists on Cyclones, Hurricanes, and Typhoons discussed
- several of our SWIO categories have been nominated for CFD
- moving of storm articles and the year in retired storm articles decided
- Storm Article titles discussed
--Anirudh Emani (talk) 10:12, 21 October 2010 (UTC)