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The Signpost: 9 June 2017

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Precious five years!

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Bret track

This may seem like a straightforward and/or dumb question, but when you make the track for Bret, can you just start it from when NHC initiated advisories on it as a potential tropical cyclone? --MarioProtIV (talk/contribs) 00:28, 20 June 2017 (UTC)

@MarioProtIV: For consistency I'm just using whatever they place in the ATCF track. It'll almost certainly be shortened in post-storm analysis. ~ Cyclonebiskit (chat) 00:42, 20 June 2017 (UTC)
Fair enough. I would just put up the track with the ATCF data you said just so it's done (and possibly saved for later uses) :P --MarioProtIV (talk/contribs) 01:15, 20 June 2017 (UTC)

The Signpost: 23 June 2017

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Page move thing

Do you mind moving this draft of TS Bret me and some other members of WPTC have worked on to the mainspace? It looks as detailed as I (and the others) could possibly make it. Also I would've asked Hink but he seems to be away or something so I've come to ask you instead :P --MarioProtIV (talk/contribs) 20:55, 25 June 2017 (UTC)

@MarioProtIV: I've moved the page into the mainspace. Also marked the flooding image as speedy delete on the commons as there's no indication it is not copyrighted. ~ Cyclonebiskit (chat) 00:38, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

Joaquin Bahamas track

Please update the File:Joaquin 2015 Bahamas track.png with the best track, thanks. --219.79.127.186 (talk) 09:02, 27 June 2017 (UTC)

WikiCup 2017 July newsletter

The third round of the competition has finished in a flurry of last minute activity, with 288 points being required to qualify for round 4. It was a hotly competitive round with all but four of the contestants exceeding the 106 points that was necessary to proceed to round 4 last year. Coemgenus and Freikorp tied on 288, and both have been allowed to proceed, so round 4 now has one pool of eight competitors and one of nine.

Round 3 saw the achievement of a 26-topic Featured topic by MPJ-DK as well as 5 featured lists and 13 featured articles. PanagiotisZois and SounderBruce achieved their first ever featured articles. Carbrera led the GA score with 10, Tachs achieved 17 DYKs and MBlaze Lightning 10 In the news items. There were 167 DYKs, 93 GARs and 82 GAs overall, this last figure being higher than the number of GAs in round 2, when twice as many people were taking part. Even though contestants performed more GARs than they achieved GAs, there was still some frustration at the length of time taken to get articles reviewed.

As we start round 4, we say goodbye to the fifteen or so competitors who didn't quite make it; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them (some people have fallen foul of this rule and the points have been removed).

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Matthew Florida effects

Are you planning at some point to finish the draft you made on the effects of Matthew in Florida? You seemed to have abandoned it after late March and the last edit on there was by an IP on 7 April. Would love to see it finished so it can go live. --MarioProtIV (talk/contribs) 23:32, 3 July 2017 (UTC)

FLC review trade

Hi, I have the other video game-related FLC currently up on the list, a few below yours (List of Enix games) - would you like to trade reviews? --PresN 17:42, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

@PresN: Sounds like a fair deal to me! ~ Cyclonebiskit (chat) 13:49, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

The Signpost: 15 July 2017

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Saladin1987

Hi, Cyclonebiskit. You blocked this user for making constant disruptive edits back in 2015. Bishonen, who dealt with him in 2016, will be off for a few days. Unfortunately, literally about every single edit this user makes, falls under the definition of pure disruption. The only reason why "Saladin1987" has managed to jump the gun so often, is because he edits irregularly, and with many of the targeted articles being low-profile ones.

I'm convinced that another topic ban won't be able to fix this issue. When he got topic banned in September 2016, he just "waited" for the months to expire (March/April 2017), and then just went at it again, straight ahead.[1][2][3][4][5] Unfortunately, being disruptive, is something that is very deeply embedded in the user's editorial pattern, and I'm afraid that its the only conclusion that one can form here. Basic examples of the past few weeks;

  • Changes "Turkmen" into "Azerbaijani" without providing a source, and using a fake edit summary[6]
  • Changes Turkmen into Turkic without any reason, even though the source literally states "Turkmen".[7]
  • Removes "ethnic Turkmen people" category for no reason.[8]
  • More disruptive, unsourced and unreasoned editing.[9]
  • Here he removes references to actor being of Pashtun ancestry, even though there is a source in the article ("The son of Zakira Khan, a Pathan from the North-West Frontier Province....")
  • Here, he removes Pashto, even though it's a sourced statement.
  • Here he gives no reason in the edit summary for changing "Afghanistan" to "Kabul". The source of the photo says "Findplace: Afghanistan/Gandhara".
  • Changing the word "Afghanistan" into "Pakistan".[10]
  • More unsourced info.[11]

And that's literally the tip of the iceberg. - LouisAragon (talk) 12:21, 19 July 2017 (UTC)

Omais and 17W BT tracks

Hi, Cyclonebiskit and thanks for updating the 2016 typhoon tracks from the JTWC BT. I haven't seen the files yet from JTWC, though, JD updated that Omais was a cat1 typhoon and 17W was a TS. Could you update these too? Also the season summary track map, so we can fully finish up the 2016 season. Thanks so much and keep up the great work in TC tracks. Typhoon2013 (talk) 07:21, 20 July 2017 (UTC)

CPHC Rebest

Hi Cyclonebiskit, any news about the CPHC Rebest update into HURDAT? Sorry to bother you again about this question. ABC paulista (talk) 16:03, 23 July 2017 (UTC)

96W

I am sorry to say this. I am aware of 96W and its characteristics, but the basin does not recognise subtropical systems. Moreover, there is already a section about that system as JMA has monitored it for many days. Again, I feel sorry to say, but I need to revert what you added. 🐱💬 15:00, 29 July 2017 (UTC)

@Meow: If it's the same as 93W, that's fine to remove it and have it mentioned within the appropriate section. If it's a separate system, it warrants inclusion as an unofficial system. ~ Cyclonebiskit (chat) 16:59, 29 July 2017 (UTC)
93W and 96W are exactly the same system as the JMA kept monitoring it during the period when the JTWC stopped monitoring, and advisories from JMA can prove that. It is just ironic that JTWC gave a new temporary designation when JMA declared it extratropical... Thus, it should be moved to the “Other storms” section. 🐱💬 17:12, 29 July 2017 (UTC)
If it's the same system then it doesn't need mention anywhere else other than within 93W's section. Thanks for clarifying! ~ Cyclonebiskit (chat) 17:22, 29 July 2017 (UTC)

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2017 Atlantic hurricane season summary map

I would Like to request that you please update File:2017 Atlantic hurricane season summary map.png that you created to include the full track of Hurricane Franklin.

Update : and the current track of TS Gert and full track of Gert when in Dissipates

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Satellite image of Hurricane Harvey in the news page

Recently you swapped the satellite image from the track image, okay? You put the 2230z, which i think is bad, badder than 2231z, which is more modern and better. Reason why i think 2230z is bad because it looks like a past storms on 1980 to 1990's while 2231z is good because it looks like a modern one as i said before. Could you please replace the 2230z with 2231z? Though 2231z is darker as i know i can say that i fear the most of other Wikipedia projects will be influenced by this image (2230z), even though this will appear for short time. I hope you'll change that. Anyways, thanks! --SMB99thx XD (contribs) 07:15, 28 August 2017 (UTC)

@SMB99thx: The images convey the exact same information and there's no real need to swap them. The 2230z one works better for main page purposes since it's cropped closer to the storm and the features are more prominent. ~ Cyclonebiskit (chat) 12:43, 28 August 2017 (UTC)
Got it. I will try to prevent 2230z instances happening in future after this, despite that 2230z will appear in the main page for a while. I'll watch it on Wikimedia Commons to see how it goes.--SMB99thx XD (contribs) 12:51, 28 August 2017 (UTC)

WikiCup 2017 September newsletter

Round 4 of the WikiCup has ended and we move forward into the final round. In round 4, a total of 12 FAs, 3 FLs, 44 GAs, 3 FLs, 79 DYKs, 1 ITN and 42 GARs was achieved, with no FPs or FTs this time. Congratulations to Peacemaker67 on the Royal Yugoslav Navy Good Topic of 36 items, and the 12 featured articles achieved by Cas Liber (5), Vanamonde93 (3), Peacemaker67 (2), Adityavagarwal (1) and 12george1 (1). With a FA scoring 200 points, and bonus points available on top of this, FAs are likely to feature heavily in the final round. Meanwhile Yellow Evan, a typhoon specialist, was contributing 12 DYKs and 10 GAs, while Adityavagarwal and Freikorp topped the GAR list with 8 reviews each. As we enter the final round, we are down to eight contestants, and we would like to thank those of you who have been eliminated for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia. The lowest score needed to reach round 5 was 305, and I think we can expect a highly competitive final round.

Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. It would be helpful if this list could be cleared of any items no longer relevant. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to reduce the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck, and let the best man (or woman) win! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth 06:26, 1 September 2017 (UTC)

Four award nominations

Could I trouble you to take a squiz at the Wikipedia:Four Award nominations? Hawkeye7 (talk) 04:06, 2 September 2017 (UTC)

Irma

Do you mind moving my draft for Irma to mainspace? Considering it may be the worst the Northern Leeward Islands have seen since Luis 1995, it should be out there. MH is already halfway finished, up to the point where it first became a C3. Prep/impacts are also beginning to be worked on and main space would attract more editors to add stuff to this. --MarioProtIV (talk/contribs) 02:19, 5 September 2017 (UTC)

@MarioProtIV: done ~ Cyclonebiskit (chat) 03:42, 5 September 2017 (UTC)

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Prayers

Unsure why others haven't realized this yet, but wishing you the best of luck and thoughts and prayers since Irma appears to be making a beeline towards Florida... --MarioProtIV (talk/contribs) 23:05, 7 September 2017 (UTC)

MarioProtIV Much appreciated man. Not looking good for my area, but hoping for the best. ~ Cyclonebiskit (chat) 16:09, 8 September 2017 (UTC)

Re

I think you went too far with your arguments, just counting it was 16:10, and there were some very oddish comments. Anyway, thanks for having the guts to make a decision. And maybe comment here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Hurricane_Katrina_and_global_warming#Merger_proposal Cheers. prokaryotes (talk) 18:57, 13 September 2017 (UTC)

Close at Hurricane Irma

Hi, Two thoughts. (A) Since you are involved at that talk page, I don't think you should have closed it. (B) FYI, as you may know, the bit about discretionary sanctions is sort of extra but not really enforceable. DS rules require, as a precondition for imposing such sanctions, a showing that one of the "awareness" criteria have been met. These criteria are listed at WP:Discretionary_sanctions#Awareness. Although text on talk pages, like your reminder in the close statement, can be useful to help remind people, there is presently no recognition (at least in the written rules) that text on article talk pages can make an ed subject to DS. One of other criteria must be met. (C) Your close is overly broad, in my opinion, because its logic notes the tangential nature of the current text but you have threatened holy thunder about anyone trying to add Irma specific climate change discussion without clambering over the barred gates at the talk page first. We should be preventing problems and obstacles not making new ones. But life is short and I don't plan to pursue a formal challenge. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 00:27, 14 September 2017 (UTC)

Maria

Do you mind moving my draft for Maria to mainspace? It'll be needed very soon tbh. --MarioProtIV (talk/contribs) 21:00, 17 September 2017 (UTC)

@MarioProtIV: There is already an older draft at Draft:Hurricane Maria (2017). Master of Time (talk) 21:31, 17 September 2017 (UTC)
@Master of Time: Oh. Didn't realise :P I'll just merge whatever info I can in there. --MarioProtIV (talk/contribs) 22:36, 17 September 2017 (UTC)

TFL notification

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Notice

Please rule here (merge, no merge, or move for new dedicated article) Also, users at related Irma and Harvey discussions suggested a dedicated article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Hurricane_Katrina_and_global_warming#Merger_proposal prokaryotes (talk) 14:45, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

Matthew in Florida article

Are you still going to finish the draft you started on the impacts of Matthew in Florida? You haven’t touched it in like 6 months and I think perhaps moving it to main space might help it get finished or so. Your call. --MarioProtIV (talk/contribs) 18:31, 3 October 2017 (UTC)

Bumping this about a week later. --MarioProtIV (talk/contribs) 16:59, 11 October 2017 (UTC)
Would appreciate a response soon imo but given your recent twitter update I'd understand if this takes longer. --MarioProtIV (talk/contribs) 15:59, 12 October 2017 (UTC)
MarioProtIV Sorry I keep forgetting to reply! I'm not really sure what I want to do with this article now. It's still severely lacking in multiple areas and incomplete... ~ Cyclonebiskit (chat) 16:00, 12 October 2017 (UTC)
Huh. IMO you could either move it to draft space or main space - either one could and probably would speed up completion. --MarioProtIV (talk/contribs) 16:03, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

Irma

You Survived a Major Hurricane (Irma)!
This is probably a tad bit late, but I didn't realize until mid-September that Hurricane Irma gave a direct hit on your home turf. It's been a few weeks since that landfall, but I've heard about the other tropical flooding in the area, and then Nate. I've actually lived through a number of hurricanes/tropical storms in my lifetime (like Hurricane Isabel), but I've never gone through anything close to a Major hurricane landfall. Hope you're doing alright. (Hopefully your power is back on and working...hopefully. Heat + humidity makes a terrible combo.) . BTW, thanks for the excellent storm tracks! LightandDark2000 (talk) 07:38, 10 October 2017 (UTC)

ITN recognition for Tropical Depression 23W (2017)

On 12 October 2017, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Tropical Depression 23W (2017), which you nominated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Stephen 22:06, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

"A Pacific Basin Sub-Tropical Cyclone off the Chilean Coast”in 2014/2015 South Pacific Tropical Cyclone Season.

Hello, I have been interested in the development of a sub-tropical cyclone system near Easter Islands off the Chilean Coast in 2014–15 South Pacific cyclone season. According to online information, it seems like you were going to submit an article titled “A Pacific Basin Sub-Tropical Cyclone off the Chilean Coast” to Nature. However, after searching in Google Scholar and Nature's site, it doesn't seems like the article have been indexed on those places. Was the article eventurally submitted under different name or to different place, and could you grant me access to the article? C933103 (talk) 10:23, 14 October 2017 (UTC)

I think that there should be an article for this storm, given its unique nature (similar to 2006 Central Pacific cyclone and 1996 Lake Huron cyclone). Perhaps you should move it to draft space, and some other editors could come in and expand it, before moving it to mainspace. The system is notable enough, and there is research on the system out there. LightandDark2000 (talk) 04:13, 15 October 2017 (UTC)

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Question

Hi,

I left a question at the tropical cyclone portal but I am not sure that I wil get an answer I juge by the last item date. Maybe you can tell me or know a refence I can use. So here is my question:

In the tropical season articles, the begining of a tropical cyclone is when it becomes at least a Tropical depression (not counting the time of the tropical wave before). In the case of the end, I always was under the impression it was when it was declared post-tropical, not counting the further time as extra-tropical storm. In the case of Ophelia, the article set the end 3 days after the NHC has declared it post-tropical, counting the mid-latitude storm time. What was the reason for this?

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Hurricane Flora GAR

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1992 Pacific hurricane season summary map

I would like to request that you... Please update an another new File:1992 Pacific hurricane season summary map.png that you created to include the full track of that.

Update: Full tracks from storms and new summary map PNG-format. --FrancoLeymas (talk) 22:00, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

WikiCup 2017 November newsletter: Final results

The final round of the 2017 WikiCup is over. Congratulations to the 2017 WikiCup top three finalists:

In addition to recognizing the achievements of the top finishers and everyone who worked hard to make it to the final round, we also want to recognize those participants who were most productive in each of the WikiCup scoring categories:

  • Featured Article – Cas Liber (actually a two-way tie with themselves for an astonishing five FAs in R2 and R4).
  • Good Article – Adityavagarwal had 14 GAs promoted in R5.
  • Featured List – Canada Bloom6132 (submissions) and Japan 1989 (submissions) both produced 2 FLs in R2
  • Featured Pictures – Cascadia SounderBruce (submissions) improved an image to FP status in R5, the only FP this year.
  • Featured Topic – Denmark MPJ-DK (submissions) has the only FT of the Cup in R3.
  • Good Topic – Four different editors created a GT in R2, R3 and R4.
  • Did You Know – Adityavagarwal had 22 DYKs on the main page in R5.
  • In The News – India MBlaze Lightning (submissions) had 14 ITN on the main page in R2.
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Over the course of the 2017 WikiCup the following content was added or improved on Wikipedia: 51 Featured Articles, 292 Good Articles, 18 Featured Lists, 1 Featured Picture, 1 Featured Topics, 4 Good Topics, around 400 Did You Knows, 75 In The News, and 442 Good Article Reviews. Thank you to all the competitors for your hard work and what you have done to improve Wikipedia.

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2017 Atlantic hurricane season summary map request

Can you remove the precursor points for the storms except the POTC ones? It makes it look cluttered especially with the long tracked invests that later became storms (like Gert). --MarioProtIV (talk/contribs) 16:18, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

MarioProtIV  Done ~ Cyclonebiskit (chat) 16:42, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

WikiCup 2018

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Last cyclone updates

Hi, Cyclonebiskit. Just before the first cyclone develops for the upcoming cyclone season, would you be able to finally update the summary track maps for the 2016-17 SWio and AusR articles? Thanks. This is just to complete last season's tracks and to move on to the next. :) Typhoon2013 (talk) 09:13, 18 November 2017 (UTC)

Otto and Irma images

Do you mind colorizing these images of Otto from last year on November 24 and Irma from this year on September 6 (both are at peak intensities)? Thanks. --MarioProtIV (talk/contribs) 20:34, 19 November 2017 (UTC)

I don't know how to colorize images. I believe Supportstorm is the person to go to for that. ~ Cyclonebiskit (chat) 14:19, 20 November 2017 (UTC)
Oops I forgot that! :P Sorry I thought for a sec you did know. My bad! --MarioProtIV (talk/contribs) 16:16, 20 November 2017 (UTC)

Numa track

Can you upload the track you made of Numa so I can add it to its page? --MarioProtIV (talk/contribs) 17:12, 22 November 2017 (UTC)

MarioProtIV I can't as it violates WP:OR. ~ Cyclonebiskit (chat) 17:24, 22 November 2017 (UTC)
Oh right...since it’s not confirmed it was actually tropical...whoops. --MarioProtIV (talk/contribs) 17:39, 22 November 2017 (UTC)
Cyclonebiskit, well then can you please let me upload the track maps for both Numa and 90M (last year)? I can label them as "Unofficial" and attribute the author to you, which would mitigate any Licensing issues on Commons (I only have the annotated track maps, though ;)). They really help in depicting the storm paths, and we already have a few of these "unofficial" storm track on Commons. Of course, if did obtain the track data from another agency or source, then it really wouldn't be OR, just "unofficial." Actually, your track isn't entirely OR. Your storm track is nearly identical to one in a diagram on this page, though it seems that researchers have yet to release specific track points for this storm (probably 'cause no one has written a report for Numa yet). LightandDark2000 (talk) 02:13, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
BTW, the NOAA called it a "hybrid" (between being fully tropical and subtropical, technically subtropical), and Meteo-France called it a subtropical system. And then, you have the satellite analysis depicting the warm-core and closed LLC, so... The storm's status is not entirely unofficial even in this regard. LightandDark2000 (talk) 02:15, 2 December 2017 (UTC)

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HURDAT and WPTC

Hi there! Just a quick question to ask if you could tell me how to run a HURDAT2 file format on WPTC? I can only run it on ATCF at the moment and feel more comfortable if I could run the HURDAT format. Thanks. Layten (talk) 18:57, 16 December 2017 (UTC)

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Wettest tropical cyclones in Honduras

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ITN recognition for Cyclone Gita

On 14 February 2018, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Cyclone Gita, which you nominated and updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. SpencerT♦C 00:25, 14 February 2018 (UTC)

ITN recognition for Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting

On 15 February 2018, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, which you nominated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. — xaosflux Talk 01:04, 15 February 2018 (UTC)

ITN

With this edit you have made the main page out of synch with the very article it points to. Could you either undo your change or fix the article per your assertion (which is disputed in the article, along with references.....) As the top story and getting hundreds of thousands of hits, we should avoid such discrepancies. The Rambling Man (talk) 16:22, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

@The Rambling Man: went ahead and reverted myself. The article is continually going back and forth between 14 and 15, including the shooter and not including the shooter. It's a mess so I guess leaving it at 15 is easier. ~ Cyclonebiskit (chat) 16:25, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

Effects of Hurricane Matthew in Florida

Should User:Cyclonebiskit/Effects of Hurricane Matthew in Florida move to article namespace? --B dash (talk) 09:44, 20 February 2018 (UTC)

@B dash: No, it's still largely incomplete. ~ Cyclonebiskit (chat) 21:57, 20 February 2018 (UTC)

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Suggestion on Non-tropical storms talk page

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WikiCup 2018 March newsletter

And so ends the first round of the competition, with 4 points required to qualify for round 2. With 53 contestants qualifying, the groups for round 2 are slightly smaller than usual, with the two leaders from each group due to qualify for round 3 as well as the top sixteen remaining users.

Our top scorers in round 1 were:

  • United States Aoba47 led the field with a featured article, 8 good articles and 42 GARs, giving a total of 666 points.
  • Germany FrB.TG , a WikiCup newcomer, came next with 600 points, gained from a featured article and masses of bonus points.
  • India Ssven2, another WikiCup newcomer, was in third place with 403 points, garnered from a featured article, a featured list, a good article and twelve GARs.
  • United States Ceranthor, India Numerounovedant, Minnesota Carbrera, Netherlands Farang Rak Tham and Romania Cartoon network freak all had over 200 points, but like all the other contestants, now have to start again from scratch. A good achievement was the 193 GARs performed by WikiCup contestants, comparing very favourably with the 54 GAs they achieved.

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Proposed merger of Mesoscale convective vortex into Mesovortices

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Hurricane Max (2017)

Would you be interested in helping me draft an article for Hurricane Max (2017)? I have it here. And my apologies for reverting your edit. I'm sure a former NHC student intern would know more about tropical cyclones than I would ever know. Cooper 20:38, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

Cyclone Gita tracking data

I see you have managed to extend the post-tropical track for Gita another couple of days beyond the JTWC and NOAA data. Could you possibly add your data to the entry at Talk:2017–18 South Pacific cyclone season/tracks, so I can include it in future updates to the season summary map? Alternatively point me to the original source of the data, if it's still available.--Keith Edkins ( Talk ) 13:02, 13 April 2018 (UTC)

Hurricane Carmen scheduled for TFA

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2002 Pacific hurricane season summary map.png

I just made that summary map of the season. But the bad news has a bad quality that I did from PowerPoint 2013. It makes a new PNG format for the tracks. As you did the 2017 season in the Eastern Pacific with the last update of Kenneth and others. --Liam Betancourt 19:59, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

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The second round of the 2018 WikiCup has now finished. Most contestants who advanced to the next round scored upwards of 100 points, but two with just 10 points managed to scrape through into round 3. Our top scorers in the last round were:

  • Scotland Cas Liber, our winner in 2016, with three featured articles
  • Republic of Texas Iazyges, with nine good articles and lots of bonus points
  • India Yashthepunisher, a first time contestant, with two featured lists
  • Cascadia (independence movement) SounderBruce, a finalist last year, with seventeen good topic articles
  • United States Usernameunique, a first time contestant, with fourteen DYKs
  • San Francisco Muboshgu, a seasoned competitor, with three ITNs and
  • South Carolina Courcelles, another first time contestant, with twenty-seven GARs

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What im i doing wrong

Hello i am using the wptc track maker and i have it installed properly i closed out of it and now the track wont load after i reopend it can you help me



This appears $ ./track --input TC-1.txt --format atcf --extra -bash: ./track: No such file or directory







thanks Douglas the Fun Cake or aka TheLunar2 17:21, 19 May 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fun Cake (talk • contribs)

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The third round of the 2018 WikiCup has now come to an end. The 16 users who made it to the fourth round had at least 227 points. Our top scorers in round 3 were:

  • South Carolina Courcelles, a first time contestant, with 1756 points, a tally built largely on 27 GAs related to the Olympics
  • Scotland Cas Liber, our winner in 2016, with two featured articles and three GAs on natural history and astronomy topics
  • Cascadia (independence movement) SounderBruce, a finalist last year, with a variety of submissions related to transport in the state of Washington

Contestants managed 7 featured articles, 4 featured lists, 120 good articles, 1 good topic, 124 DYK entries, 15 ITN entries, and 132 good article reviews. Over the course of the competition, contestants have completed 458 GA reviews, in comparison to 244 good articles submitted for review and promoted. As we enter the fourth round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met. Please also remember that all submissions must meet core Wikipedia policies, regardless of the review process; several submissions, particularly in abstruse or technical areas, have needed additional work to make them completely verifiable.

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Question

Just out of curiosity, do you know where the hurricane information for ATCF is found? FigfiresSend me a message! 01:51, 11 July 2018 (UTC)

Retired names on EPac tracks



Add at overall including Hurricane Ioke for extratropical cyclone TCR and all Hazel, Adele, Knut, Iva, Ismael, Adolph, Alma, Manuel, Odile and Patricia on that map of the retired hurricanes in the Eastern Pacific. If you do not do it, I don't care, I'll do it myself. --IanBrendan1 02:34, 19 July 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by IanBrendan1 (talk • contribs)

Hurricane Bret scheduled for TFA

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Nomination of Hurricane Hector (2018) for deletion

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Maria in Puerto Rico draft

I was wondering if your planning on expanding the effects of Maria in PR draft since you originally created it and it’s been sitting relatively unchanged for several months now. Just kinda curious. --MarioProtIV (talk/contribs) 14:59, 31 August 2018 (UTC)

WikiCup 2018 September newsletter

The fourth round of the 2018 WikiCup has now come to an end. The eight users who made it to the final round had to score a minimum of 422 points to qualify, with the top score in the round being 4869 points. The leaders in round 4 were:

  • South Carolina Courcelles scored a magnificent 4869 points, with 92 good articles on Olympics-related themes. Courcelles' bonus points alone exceeded the total score of any of the other contestants!
  • Hel, Poland Kees08 was second with 1155 points, including a high-scoring featured article for Neil Armstrong, two good topics and some Olympics-related good articles.
  • Scotland Cas Liber, with 1066 points, was in third place this round, with two featured articles and a good article, all on natural history topics.
  • Other contestants who qualified for the final round were Marshall Islands Nova Crystallis, Republic of Texas Iazyges, Cascadia (independence movement) SounderBruce, Wales Kosack and United States Ceranthor.

During round four, 6 featured articles and 164 good articles were promoted by WikiCup contestants, 13 articles were included in good topics and 143 good article reviews were performed. There were also 10 "in the news" contributions on the main page and 53 "did you knows". Congratulations to all who participated! It was a generally high-scoring and productive round and I think we can expect a highly competitive finish to the competition.

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Irma

where are your sources for IRMA's wind speed??????? Do you even know what you are talking about??????????? — Preceding unsigned comment added by TruthHurts2018 (talk • contribs) 00:10, 2 September 2018 (UTC)

@TruthHurts2018: The Tropical Cyclone Report from the NHC. Winds were lowered to 155 knots in post-storm assessment. ~ Cyclonebiskit (chat) 01:24, 2 September 2018 (UTC)

Hurricane Ivan retirement

What do you mean by that. I just want to add more relevant information. Igor did get retired in the 2010 season. They are some articles that uses the same thing. Look at the retirement sections of Hurricanes Allen and Mitch. They both talk about retired names. Allen was replaced with Andrew with Andrew being retired in the 1992 season. Mitch was replaced with Matthew which was replaced with Martin. So none of the information is irrelevant.Flasty Jam 2 (talk) 18:10, 7 September 2018 (UTC)

Spaghetti

Talk about perfect timing. I saw that the lede of Hurricane Florence was unreferenced. Well, of course it is. It's the lede. As I removed the tag I got an edit conflict.

Meteorologists are referring to the predicted paths as "spaghetti". I'm wondering if the term is documented anywhere on Wikipedia or where I might suggest it.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 15:29, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

@Vchimpanzee: We have an article on Spaghetti plots that may help explain it. They're an output of ensemble forecasting that depicts various potential outputs. It doesn't show a forecast track, just possibilities. ~ Cyclonebiskit (chat) 15:31, 10 September 2018 (UTC)
I added that to Spaghetti (disambiguation). It looks like the topic is covered briefly. There are lot of different types of spaghetti plots.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 15:58, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

Tropical Cyclones in 2018

Hey, just wanted to see what your opinion is on the Tropical cyclones in 2018 article so far. I decided to work on something I was more familiar with at first before focusing on past years. FigfiresSend me a message! 23:32, 13 September 2018 (UTC)

ITN for Florence?

Downgraded to a TS, still stalled over the Carolinas, is it time to nominate yet? --LaserLegs (talk) 19:24, 15 September 2018 (UTC)

@LaserLegs: It's right on the border of what I think ITN/C would let pass. Could be construed as US-centric bias with the low death toll, especially with Mangkhut occurring simultaneously. I'm personally waiting for more of the inland flooding event to unfold, but if you think it's ready go for it. ~ Cyclonebiskit (chat) 19:26, 15 September 2018 (UTC)

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Hurricane Maria protection

Hello, I don't think your protection of Hurricane Maria is appropriate per WP:INVOLVED, since you've participated in reverting the very edit being edit warred upon and have expressed opinions on the dispute. Also reverting just before protecting the article makes it seem, even if you don't intend to, like you're using your tools to protect your preferred version. While protection for edit warring may be appropriate, I'd strongly ask that you remove your own protection and request it from an uninvolved admin at WP:RPP or another venue. Galobtter (pingó mió) 18:55, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

@Galobtter: My understanding of page protection is to restore the last stable version before the edit warring began which is the reason for that final revert before protection. However, I'll yield to involved and remove the protection momentarily. ~ Cyclonebiskit (chat) 19:02, 24 September 2018 (UTC)
Thanks! AFAIK most sysops generally protect whatever version is there when they get to it unless there are major and blatant issues (such as with WP:BLP) per meta:The Wrong Version Galobtter (pingó mió) 19:09, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

MaYbE bAnNed FRoM wiKIpeDIa

Now why did i do it? Well let me see, scrapiron has been doing this for the last 3-4 months and it's getting quite ridiculous and childish. If he doesn't like the fact that we have told him multiple times to stop and he still doesn't stop attacking my edits and other's edits as well (pullchain123 bless his heart). He is nothing but an inconvenience, no matter how much unsourced or I'm being mr professional garbage he can throw at us, we will fight back, it doesn't matter how unsourced it is on wikipedia, as long as others can believe it, that's what matters. And isn't this THE PEOPLE'S encyclopedia? Furthermore, what makes him so special as to go in and delete everything in there just because it's unsourced, if he had contacted me through wikipedia and told me what he was going to change, that's fine, but he goes behind my back when I'm not looking and does this stupid shit, that's some seven year old doing it behind the teacher's back bullshit. Does he even know what a mall is? Because he must be old and useless if he is scrapiron.

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Michael preps and impact

Can you help with expanding the preps and impact section on Hurricane Michael? It’s really lacking in detail rn which is bad considering it’s hours away from landfall as a C4. --MarioProtIV (talk/contribs) 14:02, 10 October 2018 (UTC)

Good article reassessment

1939 California tropical storm, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article.

I opened a discussion, as I didn't find that the article quite met GA status. Hdjensofjfnen (If you want to trout me, go ahead!) 04:31, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

Tracks for List of Category 5 Pacific hurricanes

The track thumbnail needs to be updated on the page above, can you do it? Thanks! Hdjensofjfnen (♪ Oh, can I get a connection? Alternatively, trout me.) 16:57, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

Vicente

Thank you for expanding the impact section. I had intended to do that myself, but I had internet problems yesterday and today that prohibited me from doing so. I might add some other items in tomorrow.

One other thing... could you please move User:CooperScience/Hurricane John to Hurricane John (2018)? FigfiresSend me a message! 02:57, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

@Figfires and CooperScience: moved it to the mainspace for you. Regarding the fatalities, I believe only 4 are attributable to John and the other 3 (Chiapas) are from Ileana. ~ Cyclonebiskit (chat) 03:40, 27 October 2018 (UTC)
Thanks. The source has attributed seven deaths to John. Unless something else contradicts this, we should leave it as seven. Appears multiple other sources are claiming John and Ileana together caused the same deaths, others claim John solely caused them, and yet another bunch claim Ileana caused them. I guess it will be impossible to tell due to them being so close together. I can add notes to the season articles and the page for John to clarify this.FigfiresSend me a message! 13:38, 27 October 2018 (UTC)
Thanks CB for both the publication and clarification! Cooper 03:58, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

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ITN recognition for Hurricane Willa

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WikiCup 2018 November newsletter

The WikiCup is over for another year! Our Champion this year is South Carolina Courcelles (submissions), who over the course of the competition has amassed 147 GAs, 111 GARs, 9 DYKs, 4 FLs and 1 ITN. Our finalists were as follows:

  1. South Carolina Courcelles (submissions)
  2. Wales Kosack (submissions)
  3. Hel, Poland Kees08 (submissions)
  4. SounderBruce (submissions)
  5. Scotland Cas Liber (submissions)
  6. Marshall Islands Nova Crystallis (submissions)
  7. Republic of Texas Iazyges (submissions)
  8. United States Ceranthor (submissions)


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List of Pokémon page

Yeah, definitely made a mistake there. Think I got really confused. Sorry for the mess. TardisTybort (talk) 21:52, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

@TardisTybort: No worries ~ Cyclonebiskit (chat) 21:52, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

Updating track summary

Can you update the summary map for 2018-19 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season? Thanks! Hdjensofjfnen (♪ Oh, can I get a connection? Alternatively, trout me.)

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Are you still working on Draft:Effects of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico or can it be moved to main namespace? Kaldari (talk) 00:14, 14 December 2018 (UTC)

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CPHC Rebest

Hey Cyclonebiskit, any updates on the discussuion that we had some time ago? ABC paulista (talk) 16:22, 17 February 2019 (UTC)

@ABC paulista: I no longer work at the NHC, had a lot of changes in my personal life, so I don't have direct contact with the specialists. Would be best to recompile that list in an email to Chris Landsea and possibly the CPHC. ~ Cyclonebiskit (chat) 17:52, 17 February 2019 (UTC)
Oh, all right then. Thanks a lot for the responses and attention. ABC paulista (talk) 19:35, 17 February 2019 (UTC)

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And so ends the first round of the competition. Everyone with a positive score moves on to Round 2. With 56 contestants qualifying, each group in Round 2 contains seven contestants, with the two leaders from each group due to qualify for Round 3 as well as the top sixteen remaining contestants.

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  • United States L293D, a WikiCup newcomer, led the field with ten good articles on submarines for a total of 357 points.
  • Adam Cuerden, a WikiCup veteran, came next with 274 points, mostly from eight featured pictures, restorations of artwork.
  • Denmark MPJ-DK, a wrestling enthusiast, was in third place with 263 points, garnered from a featured list, five good articles, two DYKs and four GARs.
  • United States Usernameunique came next at 243, with a featured article and a good article, both on ancient helmets.
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Idai

I hope that I have done a decent job with Idai's article thus far. This is the first SHEM article that I have written. I archived all of the MH sources since they will be removed at some point (I think JTWC stuff is removed after a week). I hope to get impacts expanded tomorrow now that the MH will not require updating as often. NoahTalk 03:40, 15 March 2019 (UTC)

ITN recognition for Cyclone Idai

On 16 March 2019, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Cyclone Idai, which you nominated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. SpencerT•C 14:43, 16 March 2019 (UTC)

Idai deaths

552 is indeed the number... "The first landfall killed more than 120 people in Malawi, where drought conditions gave way to flooding. Malawi’s government has reported 56 additional deaths since Idai made landfall." 120 deaths and the 56 additional in Malawi are from https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/fears-of-massive-toll-as-mozambique-zimbabwe-survey-damage-of-cyclone-idai/2019/03/19/4d806ad2-4a4c-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.f77c5d0a8802 NoahTalk 00:51, 20 March 2019 (UTC)

@Hurricane Noah: no other sources corroborate this. It appears to be a mixup on the Washington Post with the various fatality reports. The total for the first wave of flooding between Mozambique and Malawi is over 120, with Malawi reporting 56 of these. ~ Cyclonebiskit (chat) 00:58, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
122 in Malawi mentioned here: https://www.thecitizen.co.tz/News/Tanzania-sends-relief-aid-to-flood-ravaged-Zimbabwe--Malawi-/1840340-5032530-3ni1u2/index.html NoahTalk 01:06, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
@Hurricane Noah: Still looks suspicious to me, especially with a quick google search not showing corroboration again. 122 is the total deaths between Mozambique and Malawi (66 and 56, respectively). A higher combined total would be mentioned explicitly somewhere if Malawi was significantly worse. Associated Press reiterated 56 death and 577 injuries today. CNN states this as well. ~ Cyclonebiskit (chat) 01:11, 20 March 2019 (UTC)

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ANI

The vandalism/unsourced content was reported at ANI for Es204L, but he never responded and left. The report auto-archived. Seems he is at it again. NoahTalk 03:06, 7 April 2019 (UTC)

@Hurricane Noah: for the record I left them a message on their talk page after reverting some of their edits to season death/damage statistics a few days ago. ~ KN2731 {t · c} 05:41, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
@KN2731: Keep in mind this individual was told to NOT edit any further and discuss the problems at ANI. He was told he would be blocked if he continued to edit. This never occurred because he "left" and the report auto-archived. He returned about 10 days later and began editing again. The fact that he has continued editing and continued to cause problems requiring several reverts is an issue. NoahTalk 21:36, 7 April 2019 (UTC)

User:Cyclonebiskit/Oma

Mind if I publish Oma's article? Your sandbox is in really good shape! ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 18:19, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

Tropical Low 22U

Hi Cyclonebiskit. I can see where you're coming from regarding not considering 22U a TD. However, if this system were in the western Pacific basin, cyclone warnings would already have been initiated on the system, with the classification of a tropical depression. It is inconsistent on the JTWC's behalf, but I expect that it is most probably because the JTWC exists primarily as a warning service for the US navy, and the US navy has many bases in the western Pacific. Notwithstanding this point, however, we have a reliable statistical source in the track file which informs us that this system is a tropical depression. It is not for us to decide whether or not it is actually a tropical depression, as we are not the people who should be deciding that. If it says TD, it is a TD. Additionally, regarding the point you made about defined circulations, the JTWC has just recently increased their outlook on tropical storm development for this system to medium due to its well-defined low level circulation with prevalent winds of 30 knots (with a few 35 knot areas as well, but predominantly 30 knots). There is no way that this system is just a disturbance or frontal low or otherwise non-cyclonic tropical system without a defined centre. ChocolateTrain (talk) 04:15, 13 April 2019 (UTC)

April 2019 Newsletter

Volume XIV, Issue 38, April 13, 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 February 26–April 13, 2019. This edition's editor and authors are Hurricanehink (talk · contribs) and KN2731 (talk · contribs).

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Storm of the month (Cyclone Idai) and other tropical activity

Cyclone Idai was the deadliest tropical cyclone in the southern hemisphere since 1975, leaving over 1,000 fatalities. It was also the costliest in the South-West cyclone basin, causing $1 billion in damage. Idai paralleled the disaster caused by Cyclone Leon-Eline in 2000, which killed about 700 people along with weeks of preceding floods. Similarly, Idai first struck Mozambique on March 4, moving over land for five days before emerging into the Mozambique Channel. It eventually struck near Beira, Mozambique as an intense tropical cyclone.

Idai was one of a record-breaking nine intense tropical cyclones in the 2018–19 season, four of which occurred since the last newsletter was released in February. The others include Cyclone Haleh, Savannah, and Joaninha. Only Joaninha affected land – the small island of Rodrigues. Savannah entered the basin from the adjacent Austrailan basin, having killed 12 people in Indonesia. In the Australian region, there were two tropical lows, cyclones Trevor and Veronica, as well as the presently active (but dissipating) Wallace. Cyclone Pola, active as of the publication of the previous newsletter, dissipated after affecting islands in the South Pacific. In the western Pacific Ocean, a tropical depression struck the Philippine island of Mindanao.

Outside of the Indian and Pacific Oceans, there was a rare South Atlantic tropical cyclone – Tropical Storm Iba, which lasted for five days off the coast of Brazil. Iba was the first fully tropical cyclone named by Brazilian Navy Hydrographic Center.

New WikiProject Members since the last newsletter in February 2019

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Editorial for welcoming new users, by Hurricanehink

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Member of the month (edition) – Cyclonebiskit

User:Cyclonebiskit has been editing Wikipedia since 2008, and currently has 28 featured articles or lists, of which 23 were related to tropical cyclones, including Cyclone Waka, Hurricane Katrina tornado outbreak, and the Meteorological history of Hurricane Patricia. Cyclonebiskit also wrote or contributed to 163 GA's. In March 2019, Cyclonebiskit worked alongside Hurricane Noah (the previous member of the month) and other editors to expand the article for Cyclone Idai. Cyclonebiskit logged 118 edits to the storm of the month, and added more than 35 kb of info to the article - together, Hurricane Noah and Cyclonebiskit wrote 71.5% of the article. Thank you Cyclonebiskit for your contributions - happy editing!

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Proposed deletion of Xerneas and Yveltal

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WikiCup 2019 May newsletter

The second round of the 2019 WikiCup has now finished. Contestants needed to scored 32 points to advance into round 3. Our top four scorers in round 2 all scored over 400 points and were:

  • Scotland Cas Liber (1210), our winner in 2016, with two featured articles and three DYKs. He also made good use of the bonus points available, more than doubling his score by choosing appropriate articles to work on.
  • Wales Kosack (750), last year's runner up, with an FA, a GA, two FLs, and five DYKs.
  • Adam Cuerden (480), a WikiCup veteran, with 16 featured pictures, mostly restorations.
  • Kingdom of Prussia Zwerg Nase (461), a seasoned competitor, with a FA, a GA and an ITN item.

Other notable performances were put in by Chicago Barkeep49 with six GAs, United States Ceranthor, England Lee Vilenski, and Saskatchewan Canada Hky, each with seven GARs, and Denmark MPJ-DK with a seven item GT.

So far contestants have achieved nine featured articles between them and a splendid 80 good articles. Commendably, 227 GARs have been completed during the course of the 2019 WikiCup, so the backlog of articles awaiting GA review has been reduced as a result of contestants' activities. The judges are pleased with the thorough GARs that are being performed, and have hardly had to reject any. As we enter the third round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed in round 3. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them.

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Since November 2018, six administrator accounts have been compromised and temporarily desysopped. In an effort to help improve account security, our intention was to remind administrators of existing policies on account security — that they are required to "have strong passwords and follow appropriate personal security practices." We have updated our procedures to ensure that we enforce these policies more strictly in the future. The policies themselves have not changed. In particular, two-factor authentication remains an optional means of adding extra security to your account. The choice not to enable 2FA will not be considered when deciding to restore sysop privileges to administrator accounts that were compromised.

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Your GA nomination of Xerneas and Yveltal

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Your GA nomination of Xerneas and Yveltal

The article Xerneas and Yveltal you nominated as a good article has failed ; see Talk:Xerneas and Yveltal for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of the article. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Abryn -- Abryn (talk) 17:02, 5 May 2019 (UTC)

Hey

Sorry for being so extra. Shouldn't have written you and the article off without giving it a proper review. - Bryn (talk) (contributions) 01:58, 6 May 2019 (UTC)

@Abryn: no harm, no foul I appreciate the additional comments and I'll get to them tomorrow after work. ~ Cyclonebiskit (chat) 04:30, 6 May 2019 (UTC)

Awards

Just wanted to let you know that the awards for WPTC are coming along and will be live soon. NoahTalk 20:24, 21 May 2019 (UTC)

DYK for 2019 Nepal tornado

On 27 May 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article 2019 Nepal tornado, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Nepal's first officially recorded tornado occurred in March 2019? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, 2019 Nepal tornado), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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Infobox storm

You are apparently clueless, so I guess hundreds of damn articles will have to be changed now for no reason. I don't know what necessitated this change. United States Man (talk) 19:52, 27 May 2019 (UTC)

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EF3+ tornadoes

News sources are saying THREE EF3+ tornadoes. https://www.daytondailynews.com/news/local/ef3-tornado-confirmed-beavercreek/vjklb2LUNZvmtyj78jNaZN/ NoahTalk 20:50, 28 May 2019 (UTC)

@Hurricane Noah: survey teams have identified three areas of EF3 damage, not three separate tornadoes, thus far: Celina, Trotwood, and Beavercreek. The latter two areas are along the same damage path caused by the first Dayton tornado. ~ Cyclonebiskit (chat) 20:53, 28 May 2019 (UTC)
Unless every media source is wrong, it is three tornadoes. The NWS source said a tornado of at least EF3 intensity for each one, not three areas of EF3+ damage. Here is a track. NoahTalk 21:02, 28 May 2019 (UTC)
@Hurricane Noah: they actually are all wrong. Refer to the preliminary tornado tracks. Trotwood and Beavercreek are along the same track with the first Dayton tornado. They're being reported as separate tornadoes because surveys are incomplete and NWS Wilmington has only released the information in three separate tweets, which is evidently creating confusion. ~ Cyclonebiskit (chat) 21:05, 28 May 2019 (UTC)
Turns out they just barely considered them separate tornadoes, so I was wrong. ~ Cyclonebiskit (chat) 01:12, 29 May 2019 (UTC)
There may have been more tornadoes than the seven we have. Depends on how the remaining four surveys go. NoahTalk 01:14, 29 May 2019 (UTC)
EDIT I just added a surprise EF0 tornado that was discovered. Just a question... what do you think about Cyclone Idai's chances with GAN? NoahTalk 01:42, 29 May 2019 (UTC)
@Hurricane Noah: Idai needs a massive amount of information added on impact and aftermath. There's more than two months of material from ReliefWeb to sift through. ~ Cyclonebiskit (chat) 01:47, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

I will see what I can do. NoahTalk 02:21, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

Is this level of tornado activity unprecedented? I know it is way above normal just looking at the last several years. NoahTalk 18:06, 29 May 2019 (UTC)
@Hurricane Noah: It's certainly unusually prolonged but numbers-wise it falls far short. April 2011 holds just about every record for numbers of tornadoes in one day to thirty days. The current outbreak falls short of the May 2003 tornado outbreak sequence as well. It seems extra active relative to the last few years as it's been relatively quiet up until this point. ~ Cyclonebiskit (chat) 18:10, 29 May 2019 (UTC)
Okay, thanks... Just so you know, I will be doing a MH split for Idai before the update on impacts and aftermath in order to keep the article at a decent, readable size... There is simply so much information to add as of now and there will be much more to add in the coming months. The article will be over 100k for sure. NoahTalk 19:25, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

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June 2019 WPTC Newsletter

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.




  • The Eastern Pacific hurricane season began on May 15.
  • The Atlantic hurricane season will begin at 2:00 AM EDT on June 1.
  • The Central Pacific hurricane season will begin sometime after 12:00 AM HST on June 1.
Recent storms of the month
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35 Typhoon Wutip (2019)

New WikiProject Members since the last newsletter in April 2019

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Editorial for welcoming new users, by Hurricanehink

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.

I also encourage that if you know any tropical cyclone researchers, please speak up and try recruiting them to edit. Veteran editors can't keep editing forever. Life gets busy, and the real world beckons!

Member of the month (edition) – Yellow Evan

Yellow Evan has been involved with WPTC since 2008. Since the last newsletter, Yellow Evan has taken 5 typhoon articles to good article status as well as created 2 more. Overall, he has created and/or significantly contributed to more than 130 good articles. Your work in the Western Pacific Basin is invaluable... Thank you for your contributions!

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WikiProject Tropical Cyclones: News & Developments

  • An awards program for the project began on May 31. It involves 25 levels that may be gained by earning points for completing various actions such as getting good or featured articles. Additional awards will be added in the future.
  • As of this news letter, there are more articles ranked a good article or better (1317) than articles ranked B-class or worse (1272), for the first time in the project's history.
  • Every Atlantic hurricane season from 1945 to 2007 is rated at least a GA. That is an impressive feat, and an incredibly body of work among many editors.
  • Cyclone Raja became the 150th featured article in the project. Thanks to all of the editors and their tireless edits for writing 2.7% of all of Wikipedia's featured articles.
  • In the 24 hours after Hurricane Michael's TCR was released, the article on the hurricane was edited 82 times by 18 different users.
  • In March 2019, the most popular article in the project was Cyclone Idai, viewed 231,969 times during the month. The generic cyclone was 2nd most popular, with 131,080 views. In 3rd place was Hurricane Katrina with 112,283 views. Included in the top 20 were the 2018 and 19 Atlantic hurricane seasons, hurricanes Michael, Florence, Irma, Maria, and Harvey, and the 1896 Cedar Keys hurricane, which was TFA on March 20th.

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As of this issue, there are 150 featured articles and 69 featured lists. There are 142 A-class articles, but that number is subject to change, depending if we mandate that all A-class articles have an A-class review first. There are 956 good articles, meaning it is possible we get to our 1000th GA by the end of the year. There are only 61 B-class articles, perhaps because because most articles of that quality already passed a GA review. There are 350 C-class articles, 720 start-class articles, and 141 stub-class articles, with 29 lists and 8 current articles. The number of lists may decrease further as the "Tropical cyclone X" articles continue to be reclassified as set index articles. These figures mean that nearly half of the project is rated a GA or better - including the lists/current/future articles, there are 1272 articles that are below GA status, versus 1317 that are GA or better.

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From the Main Page

From the Main Page documents WikiProject related materials that have appeared on the main page from April 14–May 31, 2019 in chronological order.

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Project Goals & Progress

The following is the current progress on the three milestone goals set by the WikiProject as of this publishing. They can be found, updated, at the main WikiProject page.

NoahTalk 22:14, 31 May 2019 (UTC)

Re:Talk:List of F5 and EF5 tornadoes

You might want to look at the Talk:List of F5 and EF5 tornadoes page (and the 3 new sections). Thanks.--Halls4521 (talk) 20:23, 4 June 2019 (UTC)

Halola

Would you be okay with a good article nomination for Typhoon Halola? NoahTalk 06:13, 8 June 2019 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

Precious
Seven years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:29, 9 June 2019 (UTC)

Thank you today for Tropical Storm Faxai (2007)! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:45, 30 August 2019 (UTC)

Merged 2019 Nepal tornado

I saw a merger tag placed on the article about the March 2019 southern Nepal tornado that I was working on. So, I completed the merge and also edited the resulting article extensively to make it stylistically consistent and to remove redundancies. But, I think the final article has more content from the source article than the destination. So, I am not sure if I did it right. Maybe, I should have merged it the other way? I just liked the title better for specificity purpose but I am not sure anymore. I think I misread the discussion on the source talk page, also. Would you please look at what I've done and see if I've made some mistakes in the merger process? I was not sure if I was supposed to copy the discussions on the talk page from source to destination as well because it doesn't say anything like that on the "How to merge" guidelines, so I left it in the source talk page for now. Thanks! Usedtobecool TALK 20:05, 18 June 2019 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2019 July newsletter

The third round of the 2019 WikiCup has now come to an end. The 16 users who made it to the fourth round needed to score at least 68 points, which is substantially lower than last year's 227 points. Our top scorers in round 3 were:

  • Norfolk Island Cas Liber, our winner in 2016, with 500 points derived mainly from a featured article and two GAs on natural history topics
  • South Carolina Adam Cuerden, with 480 points, a tally built on 16 featured pictures, the result of meticulous restoration work
  • Cascadia (independence movement) SounderBruce, a finalist in the last two years, with 306 points from a variety of submissions, mostly related to sport or the State of Washington
  • United States Usernameunique, with 305 points derived from a featured article and two GAs on archaeology and related topics

Contestants managed 4 (5) featured articles, 4 featured lists, 18 featured pictures, 29 good articles, 50 DYK entries, 9 ITN entries, and 39 good article reviews. As we enter the fourth round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them, and it is imperative to claim them in the correct round; one FA claim had to be rejected because it was incorrectly submitted (claimed in Round 3 when it qualified for Round 2), so be warned! When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk). MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:12, 2 July 2019 (UTC)

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Hurricane Lane

I was just wondering if you had any plans for Lane. I had been planning to get the article up to FA after the release of its CPAC TCR. NoahTalk 20:48, 25 July 2019 (UTC)

@Hurricane Noah: I usually take care of the EPac Cat 5s in the year after they occur. Once the pressure snafu is figured out with Lane it'll at least be going to GAN. Will be working on Willa later on. ~ Cyclonebiskit (chat) 01:37, 26 July 2019 (UTC)
Just note HH and I had started working on Willa a while back and do plan to take it to FAC. Willa will be my priority after I finish the Sergio update in the next couple days or so. If you do decide to pursue a FAC eventually, I would like to co-nominate as a significant editor of the article. I am pursuing a 2018 EPAC featured topic and it has a good chance of happening. NoahTalk 01:57, 26 July 2019 (UTC)
I just wanted to let you know that I am starting on Willa work. Since I did create a majority of the storm articles for 2018 EPAC (all except for Bud and Carlotta), I simply want to see them through. I intend to expand Willa significantly as the impact was quite severe. NoahTalk 17:00, 31 July 2019 (UTC)
@Hurricane Noah: Looking forward to your work on Willa! Featured topics take an incredible amount of work and you're well on your way to having the 2018 PHS be one. Glad to have you as part of WPTC; always wonderful to have new diligent and detailed writers. Keep up the awesome work! ~ Cyclonebiskit (chat)

I have Sergio up for review right now and hope to get most of the Willa work done this weekend. HH will make more additions once he gets some time. NoahTalk 01:10, 23 August 2019 (UTC)

Tropical Storm Faxai (2007) scheduled for TFA

This is to let you know that Tropical Storm Faxai (2007) has been scheduled as WP:TFA for 30 August 2019. Please check that the article needs no amendments. If you're interested in editing the main page text, you're welcome to do so at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/August 30, 2019. Thanks! Ealdgyth - Talk 17:31, 28 July 2019 (UTC)

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38th edition of The Hurricane Herald

Volume XIV, Issue 38, August 1, 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 June 1–July 31, 2019. This edition's editor and author is ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) .

Please visit this page and bookmark any suggestions of interest to you. This will help improve the newsletter and other cyclone-related articles. Past editions can be viewed here.

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Storm of the month and other tropical activity

Hurricane Barry was the wettest tropical storm on record in Arkansas, and one of only four hurricanes to strike Louisiana in July. Originating from a trough over the southeastern United States, Barry formed on July 11 off the southeast Louisiana coast. Despite wind shear and an asymmetrical structure, the storm intensified into a minimal hurricane before making landfall near Intracoastal City, Louisiana. Barry dropped heavy rainfall from the Gulf of Mexico to the Ohio Valley, peaking at 23.43 in (595 mm) near Ragley, Louisiana. The storm caused flooding rains, power outages, and one death due to rip currents. Damage totaled over US$500 million.

  • The Atlantic hurricane season, and the Central Pacific hurricane season, began on June 1. The 2019-20 tropical cyclone year in the Southern Hemisphere began on July 1 in the South-West Indian Ocean, Australian region, and South Pacific.
  • Since the last newsletter, 18 other systems have formed worldwide, in addition to Barry.
  • Western Pacific
    In the Western Pacific, Tropical Storm Sepat in June passed near Japan and was classified as a subtropical storm by the JTWC. In early July, Tropical Storm Mun killed two people when it struck Vietnam. Tropical Storm Danas formed near the Philippines and moved northward, later crossing the Korean peninsula. Toward the end of July, Tropical Storm Nari moved across Japan as a tropical depression, and Tropical Storm Wipha struck southern China. There were also three tropical depressions, one of which the JTWC classified as a tropical storm.
  • Eastern Pacific
    After the latest start of a hurricane season since 1971, activity in the basin began on June 25 when Hurricane Alvin formed off the southwest coast of Mexico. Hurricane Barbara became a strong Category 4 hurricane, and its remnants later caused power outages in Hawaii. Tropical Storm Cosme, Tropical Depression Four-E, Tropical Storm Dalila, and hurricanes Erick, and Flossie also formed in July southwest of Mexico.
  • Atlantic
    Short-lived Tropical Depression Three formed near the Bahamas and dissipated east of Florida in late July
  • North Indian Ocean
  • Cyclone Vayu was a powerful cyclone that threatened western India, but stalled and weakened significantly before moving ashore. The storm killed eight people, and lashed western India with heavy rainfall and high tides.
  • South-West Indian Ocean
Recent storms of the month
Edition Storm
37 Cyclone Kenneth
36 Cyclone Idai
35 Typhoon Wutip (2019)

Member of the month (edition) – TheAustinMan

TheAustinMan has been involved with WPTC since 2009. Since the last newsletter, TheAustinMan worked on the Storm of the Month (Barry), as well as 1915 Galveston hurricane, Typhoon Alice (1979), 1937 Atlantic hurricane season, 1944 Jamaica hurricane, and the 1944 Cuba–Florida hurricane. A prolific editor, TheAustinMan has contributed to three featured articles and 46 good articles. Thank you for your contributions!

New WikiProject Members since the last newsletter in June/July 2019

More information can be found here. This list lists members who have joined/rejoined the WikiProject since the release of the last issue in May 2019. Sorted chronologically. Struckout users denote users who have left or have been banned.

To our new members: welcome to the project, and happy editing! Feel free to check the to-do list at the bottom right of the newsletter for things that you might want to work on. To our veteran members: thank you for your edits and your tireless contributions!

Current assessment table

Assessments valid as of this printing. Depending on when you may be viewing this newsletter, the table may be outdated. See here for the latest, most up to date statistics.
As of this issue, there are 152 featured articles and 70 featured lists. There are 142 A-class articles, but that number is subject to change, depending if we mandate that all A-class articles have an A-class review first. There are 961 good articles, meaning it is possible we get to our 1000th GA by the end of the year. There are only 62 B-class articles, perhaps because because most articles of that quality already passed a GA review. There are 363 C-class articles, 717 start-class articles, and 141 stub-class articles, with 26 lists and 9 current articles. The number of lists may decrease further as the "Tropical cyclone X" articles continue to be reclassified as set index articles. These figures mean that more than half of the project is rated a GA or better - including the lists/current/future articles, there are 1283 articles that are below GA status, versus 1325 that are GA or better.

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Sourcing guidelines, by TheAustinMan

The core content policies on Wikipedia (neutral point of view, no original research, and verifiability) all apply to articles tagged by WikiProject Tropical cyclones. The project's style guidelines also provide information on how to cite sources effectively. Relevant guidelines discussing the WikiProject's tropical meteorology articles may also be found at WP:SCICITE and WP:SCIRS.

Reports, bulletins, and other products issued by Regional Specialized Meteorological Centers are the authoritative source on meteorological information pertaining to tropical cyclones in their respective basins. This includes both quantitative and qualitative information about a storm's characteristics, including intensities, durations, and locations. The most recent post-storm assessments take precedence over operational data. Thus, post-season revisions to a storm's "best track" file, new information presented in a tropical cyclone report, or official database adjustments made by the Atlantic hurricane reanalysis project, or other official reanalyses supersede operational information where they disagree. Data in operational RSMC products can still be used if later data does not dispute them. Information from other public agencies can also be used, but generally require in-text attribution. While the original best track data from meteorological agencies is a reliable source and can be referenced, readers often find difficulty interpreting them. Consider using IBTrACS, a more easily understandable track database, which is endorsed by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), for this information. Because the Automated Tropical Cyclone Forecasting System (ATCF) used by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center and National Hurricane Center is liable to change frequently in realtime, they should not be used for currently active storms. Forecasts from these agencies and RSMCs should only be used to cite the forecasts themselves; in other words, they can only be used to describe what was expected to occur, and never to describe what did occur.

Maps and other graphics published by meteorological agencies may be used to describe events (see the associated essay). However, they should only be referenced if they are explicit in conveying the supported information and do not require any rigorous meteorological interpretation (such as satellite analysis or drawing conclusions over what the arrangement of meteorological features represents). In general, self-published sources should not be used as sources for present or historical storm intensities. However, information contained in articles from reliable sources or commentary from established tropical cyclone experts can be used as sources for information not covered by WMO-endorsed agencies. If such sources dispute WMO-endorsed meteorological data, commentary on the disputed information may be used, making sure to attribute claims and giving due weight.

Storm effects are typically referenced with a wide array of published sources. These may include news organizations, risk assessment organizations, non-governmental organizations (NGO), government agencies, and impact databases. So long as they are reliable sources, they can be used as references for tropical cyclone impacts. Note that figures from early impact reports, often disseminated by the first NGO situation reports and news reports, may quickly be outdated in light of newer information. When sourcing damage totals or casualty figures, use the most recent value from a reliable source, as these values tend to be more stable and use more up-to-date information. If such figures are disputed by other reliable sources, this should be noted in the article, making sure to attribute claims and giving due weight. Routine calculations of damage and casualty figures (for instance, adding casualties from different countries) are acceptable as long as they arise from reliable sources.

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The following are the latest article developments as updated by AAlertBot, as of the publishing of this issue. Due to the bot workings, some of these updates may seem out of place; nonetheless, they are included here.

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History of WikiProject Tropical cyclones

The article for hurricane (tropical cyclone) was created on December 2, 2001. On October 3, 2002, User:Ed Poor created an article for Hurricane Lili while the storm was active and near peak intensity; since then, 163 other people have edited the article to help make it a . In March 2004, User:BigT27 created an article for the hyperactive 1995 Atlantic hurricane season, then the 3rd most-active Atlantic hurricane season on record. On August 14 of that year, an article was created for Hurricane Iniki, the first non-Atlantic storm, and on August 31, the 1900 Galveston hurricane became the first TC-related . On October 4, 2004, Cyclone Tracy became featured, which was the 2nd FA in the project. A week later, User:Golbez created the article for 2004 Pacific hurricane season, which was the first season article for the EPAC.

On May 19, 2005, User:Tom created Template:Infobox Hurricane, which standardized the infobox that appears in every storm article. On July 20, User:Skywayman created the article for the 2005 Pacific typhoon season, which became the third basin to get season articles. On July 31, User:Holderca1 created the article for 2004-05 Southern Hemisphere tropical cyclone season – for the first several years on Wikipedia, the SHEM was handled in a singular article, but was split into SWIO, AUS, and SPAC beginning on April 16, 2007, and finished on April 21, 2013. During the hyperactive 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, articles were created quickly for the most powerful storms, including Hurricane Dennis which quickly became an FA.

On August 26, 2005, User:CrazyC83 created an article for Hurricane Katrina after the legendary storm crossed over southern Florida. By two days later, there were 500 edits to the article, and the hurricane was threatening to hit New Orleans as a Category 4 or 5. We now know it was “only” a Category 3 at landfall. In the 14 years since Katrina, there have been 6,327 editors to the Hurricane Katrina article, along with 23 sub-articles. During the 2005 season, there were debates among editors whether lesser notable storms, like Hurricane Cindy (2005), should have articles. At one point in 2006, there were articles for every named storm during the 2005 AHS, but in the 13 years since then, articles for tropical storms Franklin, Harvey, and Lee, and Philippe were created and merged. As a way to coordinate edits among the tropical cyclone pages, User:Jdorje created Template:Hurricane on September 12, 2005. This is the same template that appears on the talk pages for every article in the WPTC. On October 5, Jdorje officially created WP:WPTC, the tropical cyclone WikiProject. That October, in quick succession, the Atlantic hurricane seasons reached back to the beginning of recordkeeping (before 1600s) due to a collaboration of several editors; User:RattleMan created the first season article for the North Indian Ocean; User:Miss Madeline successfully nominated List of California hurricanes for featured list; and Jdorje created a a standardized storm path template.

In 2006, a series of users improved articles worldwide to featured article status. Professional met David Roth joined the project, and in the same year, the NOAA and NHC copied some material from Wikipedia, including track maps, and the Tropical Cyclone Report for Tropical Storm Chris (2006). In June 2006, User:Nilfanion created the project assessment page, which documents the status of every article, organized by basin, the year, and storm shaded by the quality. On August 1, the chat room on IRC for the project was created, which allowed real-time communication among editors. There’s something special about conversing with fellow weather geeks during an epic storm, which seems to have become all the more common. On January 1, 2007, the number of good articles in the project reached 100. On January 29th, a collaboration of users made the List of retired Pacific hurricane names the first featured topic in the project. It was joined by the 2003 Atlantic hurricane season in March 2007.

In 2008, further collaborations helped make the article for tropical cyclone a featured article, one of 100 FA’s in the project. Notably among project members, Tropical Storm Erick (2007) became featured on December 14, 2008. The storm lasted for a short amount of time over open waters, and as such, it was the shortest featured article anywhere on Wikipedia. Users questioned whether the storm was notable enough to have such a detailed article, but the article described the storm in articulate detail. After an AFD and two featured article review (and a series of low-notability storms being merged), Erick was delisted as a featured article on March 2, 2013. In the period from 2008 to 2013, users created task forces for various basins, articles for all of the seasons in the Atlantic and EPAC, and enough high-quality articles that more than half of all storm/season articles were good or featured articles. In January 2008, there were 1000 articles in the entire project. On January 1, 2014, User:Yellow Evan created Typhoon Nancy (1982), which was the 2000th article in the project. In October 2008, there were 100 FA’s in the project, which reached 200 on November 28, 2015, with Hurricane Fay (2014). By March 2016, every basin had at least 100 storm articles, multiple featured articles, and season articles of various quality.

Featured Content

This section lists content that have become featured, articles and lists, since the past newsletter in mid-April 2019.
From June 1–July 31, 2019, one featured article and one featured list was promoted:

WikiProject Tropical Cyclones: News & Developments

New articles since the last newsletter include:

New GA's include:

WikiProject To-Do


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Project Goals & Progress

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WikiCup 2019 September newsletter

The fourth round of the competition has finished in a flurry of last minute activity, with 454 points being required to qualify for the final round. It was a hotly competitive round with two contestants with over 400 points being eliminated, and all but two of the finalists having achieved an FA during the round. Casliber, our 2016 winner, was the highest point-scorer, followed by Enwebb and Lee Vilenski, who are both new to the competition. In fourth place was SounderBruce, a finalist last year. But all those points are swept away as we start afresh for the final round.

Round 4 saw the achievement of 11 featured articles. In addition, Adam Cuerden scored with 18 FPs, Lee Vilenski led the GA score with 8 GAs while Kosack performed 15 GA reviews. There were around 40 DYKs, 40 GARs and 31 GAs overall during round 4. Even though contestants performed more GARs than they achieved GAs, there was still some frustration at the length of time taken to get articles reviewed.

As we start round 5, we say goodbye to the eight competitors who didn't quite make it; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia, and we hope you will join us again next year. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them (some people have fallen foul of this rule and the points have been removed).

If you are concerned that your nomination, whether it be for a good article, a featured process, or anything else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66, Vanamonde and Cwmhiraeth MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:44, 1 September 2019 (UTC)

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