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April 2007
About that...
Ah ha! Our first victim is one of our own! See Wikipedia:Motto of the day/April 1, 2007. Happy April Fools' Day! --Tewy 00:15, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
- Ha, or was I the intended victim... --Tewy 00:24, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #11
The Hurricane Herald
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Storm of the month
Hurricane Will developed from a tropical wave to the east of the Caribbean Sea and intensified. It crossed over Jamaica and re-emerged over water a few days later. The storm intensified into a hurricane and an eye began to develop. Will became a major hurricane over the Gulf of Mexico and made landfall on the vulnerable Gulf Coast of the United States soon after. To date, Hurricane Will has claimed over 350 lives and is directly responsible for about $5 billion of damages; of which an unknown amount was insured. Despite the damage, it is not expected that the name will be retired by WMO.
Other tropical cyclone activity
- After threatening the Eastern Seaboard for some time, Hurricane Hink has turned away and the NHC has cancelled all warnings associated with the storm.
- The 2007 Pacific typhoon season began with Tropical Storm Kong-rey forming on March 31.
- There were a total of 7 cyclones in the southern hemisphere: Becky in the South Pacific, Indlala and Jaya in the Southwestern Indian Ocean and Odette, George, Jacob and Kara in the Australian region. Indlala killed at least 80 and left over 100,000 homeless; whilst Cyclone George was the worst storm to affect Port Hedland in over 30 years.
Member of the month
The April member of the month is HurricaneIrene. Irene began contributing to tropical cyclone articles on Wikipedia in August 2005, but ran out of steam and left after barely 2 weeks. However, Irene's influence on the project has been wide-reaching. Her efforts led directly to two articles attaining featured status and her legacy inspired many of our most active editors to write a plethora of good articles on a wide range of storms.
New and improved articles
- The was one new featured article: Hurricane Kenna
- New Good articles include: Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale, Hurricane Florence (1988), Tropical cyclone observation and 1996 Pacific hurricane season.
- New storm articles include: Hurricane Lili (1990), Tropical Storm Alberto (1988), Cyclone George and Typhoon Durian.
- New non-storm articles include: Tropical cyclone naming, list of cyclones in Western Australia, Hurricane evacuation route and Tropical cyclone rainfall forecasting.
Main Page content
- Hurricane Iniki appeared on the Main Page as Today's featured article on March 15.
- Entries from 2 articles: Hurricane Katrina (1981) and Hurricane Guillermo (1997) appeared on the Main Page in the Did you know column during March.
Storm article statistics
| Grade | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 FA
|
23 | 25 | 28 | 29 |
 A
|
2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
 GA
|
74 | 75 | 80 | 82 |
| B | 71 | 76 | 78 | 80 |
| Start | 193 | 195 | 194 | 209 |
| Stub | 16 | 16 | 16 | 17 |
| Total | 379 | 389 | 398 | 419 |
| percentage Less than B |
55.1 | 54.2 | 52.8 | 53.9 |
The Main Page
The WikiProject has a narrow scope, so it is not surprising that our articles are not frequently selected for Today's featured article. Most destructive cyclones are likely to be mentioned on the In the news column. We have no real control over that, but we should submit suggestions when appropriate.
However, we can do a more lot more to place our content in the other major section of the main page: The Did you know column. In the past month we created over 30 articles. Of these only 2 were even submitted as suggestions for DYK. We can do much better, please submit DYK entries for new articles when you do the initial assessment.
Re:please decide on it soon!
- Hi. It wasn't meant to be a joke on my part. I only remebered that there was a motto like that after you showed it to me. I was wondering where the April fools' nominations had gone, I couldn't find it in the history. Also, I see you turned your page into AAAAAAAAAA! Why not add the diagonal banner at the top? Thanks. AstroHurricane001(Talk+Contribs+Ubx) 14:34, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
Re: Sponge quotes
- See: Wikipedia:Quotations. -AMK152(Talk • Contributions • Send message) 19:33, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
The Motto
I want to post this motto @ MOTD if you like it:
Over the river and through the woods to editing Wikipedia I go!
If I nominate I'll be sure to format it like this: AstroHUrricane001 proposed it; motivation from Squeak (see User talk:Steptrip#That Box for further information). Tell me if you like it. ~Steptrip 23:47, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
RFB vote
Ah, that's great. I hope I didn't jump in too early... by the way, I have answered your question at the help desk about popups... or at least, I think that I answered it (correctly, that is). Happy editing, GracenotesT § 01:31, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
Nesolagus
AstroHurricane, Most times when ecologists and biologists don't know why an organism is exceptionally rare they say it "may be habitat loss." That's all the reference said. [Mαc Δαvιs] (How's my driving?) ❖ 00:39, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
- Since that's what the source said, I don't see why we can't say it, too. Instead of removing the content, find a better source that explains it better. - UtherSRG (talk) 01:08, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
- The only thing is that there are not many sources period. On Google Scholar the relevant sources start falling off by the second page. I suppose my argument doesn't look so good, but I still believe "may be due to habitat loss" should be removed because the answer is not known. [Mαc Δαvιs] (How's my driving?) ❖ 01:19, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
By the way AstroHurricane, I think it was exceptionally good of you to notify each of us of the happenings and get us to talk about it. I personally believe it is from to recent speciation due to habitat bubbling from sea level rise after the Pliocene epoch. The sea level rose (and ironically) this cut off the ancestor(s) of the Nesolagus from each other and put them in their own separate bubbles; they turned into their own species (plural), but there were only few of them in each bubble, and they weren't that suited to begin with in the new native land.[1][2]
During glacial maxima, sea levels over the Sunda shelf were almost 150 metres lower than today, connecting Sumatra, Java and Borneo to the Asian mainland7. The ancestral Nesolagus may have been distributed over areas of this region at a time of lower sea level in the Pliocene, and its range would have been repeatedly dissected by periodic changes in both sea level and forest habitat.
The contraction and expansion of ranges in and out of such allopatric refugia can generate divergence, with the sister genomes being protected by hybrid zones if they make contact, leading to speciation9. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mac Davis (talk • contribs) 03:17, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
Thank you/It's a pleasure
Thanks for signing my page, and for caring about my sig being there (most people would have relished the chance to mercilessly delete something). And: it's a pleasure, signing yours. Happy Editing! Goldfritter 08:57, 18 April 2007 (UTC)