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Hello, and welcome to my talk page. --Cade (talk) 04:21, 9 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Citing references - an experimental "simple guide"[edit]

Hi Cade, I saw you'd asked about how to cite things in articles. This is a slightly lengthy "simple" explanation.

Keeping track of where information comes from[edit]

First of all, keep track of where you get your information. It's very difficult, once you've written an article or section, to go back and remember where all the information came from. But if you made a few notes along the way, it's so much easier.

Since most of your information probably comes from the web, there are two easy way to keep track of this:

  • Bookmark each relevant web-page in your web browser. This also works for preview sections that you find in Google Books.
  • Create a Wordpad file and copy and paste the page URLs (links) into it. This is better once you start getting lots of references, because you can add a note after the URL saying what exactly it's about - that's better than having a huge list of web browser bookmarks with mostly similar titles, especially if you end up using the same reference for several different parts of several different articles.

The other way is to put the basics of the reference into the article the same moment you put the information into the article, but most people don't remember to do that :-)

Putting the inline citation into the article[edit]

This is just a simple guide to getting started; there are more complicated issues like what to do when you want to use the same source twice in one article. We can cover that when it happens.

Also, there are various tools that will do this "automatically", but I find it's just as easy to type it in, once you get used to it (especially since you can start by copy and pasting it and then filling in the right information).

First, for inline citations to work, the article needs {{reflist}} at or near the end. Most articles will already have it.

Then, two simple examples. First, for putting in a reference to a webpage;

<ref>{{cite web|title=New members honored in National Maritime Hall of Fame|work=Marine Log Magazine|url=http://www.marinelog.com/DOCS/NEWSMMIX/2009feb00061.html|date=February 6, 2009|accessdate=February 18, 2010}}</ref>

Second, for a book;

<ref>{{cite book|title=Our Merchant Marine Academy, Kings Point|last=Crump|first=Irving|publisher=Greenwood Press|isbn=9780837175119|page=220}}</ref>

Basically you just replace whichever item (the parts after the = sign) with the relevant information. Also, these templates are very flexible - so if you don't know the page number in the book, or the webpage doesn't have a date on it, you just miss those parts out entirely (in other words, you get rid of |page=220 or |date=February 6, 2009.)

In fact, the only thing you must have for "cite book" is the title; and the only thing you must have for "cite web" is the title and the url.

I think these citation templates also don't care what order you have the items in, so long as the <ref>{{cite web| or <ref>{{cite book| part is at the start and the }}</ref> part is at the end. That makes it easier because you can just type in the various items without needing to check the order.

There are also a lot more additional pieces of information you can put in these citation templates if you want. In particular, if a webpage has an author name listed on it, then "cite web" will accept "last=SomeName|first=SomeName" as well. For the complete list of possible entries for each, see near the end of WP:CITET.

There are lots of different ways of doing this, so do expect that eventually someone will complain about using a certain style of citation when the article is already using a different one. Equally, don't worry if you're unsure which part is the "work" and which is the "title" or whatever. That can always be fixed later.

One tip is to edit the entire article (by clicking Edit in the toolbar right at the top) and not edit an individual section, when adding references. That way, you'll see what the reference looks like when you click "Show preview" (since it's at the end of the article). If you get red error messages, good things to check are that the article has a {{reflist}} at the end; and check that you remembered to add all of the final }}</ref> for each reference. Also it's easy to sometimes type {{cite web| while forgetting that you need <ref> before it.

Give it a try once you have a reference to add, and we'll see how it goes. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 17:16, 18 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]


I never thanked you for this! Sorry, I know I'm 4 years late, but this really helps me a lot! Cade (talk) 04:39, 3 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Invitation to WikiProject Tropical cyclones[edit]

I noticed that you've been editing tropical cyclone-related articles during your Wikipedia tenure. Despite having been here for years, you haven't ever been invited to the project, so here you go! Dustin (talk) 20:49, 1 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]


Please accept this invitation to join the Tropical cyclones WikiProject (WPTC), a WikiProject dedicated to improving all articles associated with tropical cyclones. WPTC hosts some of Wikipedia's highest-viewed articles, and needs your help for the upcoming cyclone season. Simply click here to accept!

Reference errors on 8 August[edit]

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Regarding about your upload of the track image of Linda...[edit]

Hello Cade, Thank you for updating the track image of Linda. However, there is information that you want to regard about updating tracks...

First of all, there is already an image of the same track, and you may know it already. You don't need to upload the updated file separately; instead, you can go to the file details of the existing image you want to update and click View on Commons near the upper-right corner of the top of the page. From this page, scroll down to the bottom of the file history, and click Upload a new version of this file. From there, you can upload an updated version of the same file.

Second of all, the license of the image you uploaded is incorrect. The file you uploaded is not copyrighted; it is in the public domain because it is created by NOAA, of which is part of the U.S. government, and of which all works by the U.S. government and its subsidiaries are in the public domain. As said, government works such as these are in the public domain.

Thanks for reading this information if you can! Tinh1000000 (talk) 04:38, 8 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]


I forgot to tell you that I have already replaced the file you overlapped, this time in the current version. Tinh1000000 (talk) 04:42, 8 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom elections are now open![edit]

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Thank you. B dash (talk) 08:34, 11 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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June 2019 WPTC Newsletter[edit]

Volume XIV, Issue 39, May 31, 2019

The Hurricane Herald is the arbitrarily periodical newsletter of WikiProject Tropical Cyclones. The newsletter aims to provide in summary the recent activities and developments of the WikiProject, in addition to global tropical cyclone activity. The Hurricane Herald has been running since its first edition ran on June 4, 2006; it has been almost thirteen years since that time. If you wish to receive or discontinue subscription to this newsletter, please visit the mailing list. This issue of The Hurricane Herald covers all project related events from April 14–May 31, 2019. This edition's editor and author is Hurricane Noah (talk · contribs).

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Article of the month, by Jason Rees

History of tropical cyclone naming - The practice of using names to identify tropical cyclones goes back several centuries, with storms named after places, saints or things they hit before the formal start of naming in each basin. The credit for the first usage of personal names for weather systems is given to the Queensland Government Meteorologist Clement Wragge, who named tropical cyclones and anticyclones between 1887 and 1907. This system of naming fell into disuse for several years after Wragge retired, until it was revived in the latter part of World War II for the Western Pacific basin. Over the following decades, various naming schemes have been introduced for the world's oceans, including for parts of the Atlantic, Pacific and the Indian Ocean. The majority of these lists are compiled by the World Meteorological Organization's tropical cyclone committee for the region and include names from different cultures as well as languages. Over the years there has been controversy over the names used at various times, with names being dropped for religious and political reasons. For example, female names were exclusively used in the basins at various times between 1945 - 2000 and were the subject of several protests. The names of significant tropical cyclones in the North Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean and Australian region are retired from the naming lists and replaced with another name, at meetings of the various tropical cyclone committees.

Storm of the month and other tropical activity

Cyclone Fani was an extremely severe cyclonic storm that made landfall in Odisha, India on May 3. The storm achieved peak intensity as a near Category 5-equivalent cyclone with 3-minute sustained winds of 215 km/h (130 mph), 1-minute sustained winds of 250 km/h (155 mph), and a minimum central pressure of 937 hPa (mbar). Fani caused over $1.8 billion (2019 USD) in damage in India and Bangladesh and killed at least 89 people.

Since the last newsletter, twelve systems have formed.

  • Southwest Indian Ocean
    In the Southwest Indian Ocean, Cyclone Kenneth made landfall in Mozambique approximately 1 month after Cyclone Idai, causing widespread flooding and destruction. Overall, Kenneth killed at least 52 people and caused more than $100 million in damage. Additionally, Tropical Cyclone Lorna formed over the eastern portion of the basin in late April and dissipated in early May without affecting land.
  • Australian Region
    In the Australian Region, cyclones Lili and Ann formed in early May and both affected land. No deaths were reported, although Lili caused moderate damage in the Maluku Islands and East Timor.
  • South Pacific
    In the South Pacific, a tropical depression formed in mid-may, but failed to intensify and dissipated a few days later.
  • South Atlantic
    In the South Atlantic, Subtropical Storm Jaguar formed in late May and lasted for approximately two days before becoming extratropical.
  • Western Pacific
    In the Western Pacific, three weak tropical depressions existed during the first half of May.
  • North Atlantic
    In the North Atlantic, Subtropical Storm Andrea formed on the same day as Jaguar, but failed to intensify and dissipated on the next day.




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Every year, editors new and old help maintain the new season of season articles. The older users are likely used to the standards of the project, such as how to Wikilink and reference properly. Newer users might make mistakes, and they might make them over and over again if they don't know better. If anyone (who happens to read this) comes across a new user, please don't bite, because with enough pushback, they'll decide that this group of editors is too mean, and unfun. This is all a volunteer project; no one can force anyone to do anything. We're all on here because of our love of knowledge and tropical cyclones. If you find someone new, consider using the official WPTC welcome template - Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Welcome.

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