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June 2006 - October 2006

Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #1

Number 1, June 4, 2006

The Hurricane Herald

This is the monthly newsletter of WikiProject Tropical Cyclones. The Hurricane Herald aims to give a summary of the activities of the WikiProject over the past month and upcoming events over the next month. In addition monthly tropical cyclone activity will be summarized.

You have received this as you are a member of the WikiProject, please add your username in the appropriate section on the mailing list. If you do not add your name to that list, the WikiProject will assume you do not wish to receive future versions of The Hurricane Herald. Sorry if the newsletter breaks your talk page formatting.

Storm of the month

Typhoon Chanchu was the first typhoon and first super typhoon of the 2006 Pacific typhoon season. Forming on May 9 over the open western Pacific Ocean, Chanchu moved over the Philippines on the 11th. There, it dropped heavy rainfall, causing mudslides, crop damage, and 41 deaths. It moved into the South China Sea, where it rapidly strengthened to a super typhoon on May 14, one of only two super typhoons recorded in the sea. It turned to the north, weakened, and struck the Fujian province of China as a minimal typhoon on the 17th. The typhoon flooded 192 houses, while heavy rainfall caused deadly mudslides. In China, Chanchu caused at least 25 deaths and $480 million in damage (2006 USD). Elsewhere on its path, strong waves from the typhoon sank eleven Vietnamese ships, killing at least 44 people. In Taiwan, heavy rainfall killed two people, while in Japan, severe waves killed one person and injured another.

Other tropical cyclone activity

Tropical Storm Aletta existed in the eastern Pacific Ocean from May 25 to May 29, peaking as a 45 mph tropical storm.

New and improved articles

New storm articles include: Typhoon Joan (1970), Hurricane Bonnie (1986), Tropical Storm Matthew (2004), Storm of October 1804, Typhoon Chanchu (2006) and Cyclone Olaf.

New non-storm articles include: Tropical cyclone rainfall climatology, Dvorak technique and List of Bangladesh tropical cyclones.

New Featured articles: 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, Hurricane Mitch, Hurricane Irene (2005) and Hurricane Claudette (2003)

Articles which became A/GA class: Hurricane Katrina (A), Effect of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans (A), Hurricane Felix (1995) (GA), Cyclone Percy (A), Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 (A), List of New Jersey hurricanes (A), Hurricane John (1994) (A), Tropical Storm Isabel (1985) (GA), Tropical Storm Odette (2003) (GA)

New articles and improvements wanted

An article is requested on subtropical ridge
The current collaboration of the fortnight is Hurricane Gilbert, please help improve this article.
Improvements are requested to Indianola Hurricane of 1886, Hurricane Camille and Hurricane Andrew.
The WikiProject is likely to submit Hurricane John (1994) and Hurricane Katrina to Featured Article Candidates in the near future, so please help improve them to featured standard.

Member of the month

This isn't the generic barnstar, we just don't have a WPTC star yet…

The May member of the month is TitoXD. The WikiProject awards this to him for his brilliant work in improving articles. TitoXD joined the WikiProject in October just after it had been founded. Since then he has contributed substantially to many articles, for example Hurricane Nora (1997), which is currently a Featured Article Candidate. He is also actively involved in the assessment of articles and so helps to improve many more articles.

Explanation of content

If you have a topic which is not directly related to any specific article but is relevant to the WikiProject bring it up on the Newsletters talk page, and it will probably be included in a future edition of The Hurricane Herald.

These two sections are decided by the community on the newsletter's talk page:

Storm of the month: This is determined by a straw poll on the page. While all storms will be mentioned on the newsletter, the selected storm will be described in more detail.
Member of the month: Nominations are made on the talk page, voting is by secret ballot; read the talk page for details. The winner receives the WikiProject's barnstar (when we make it).

Main Page content

2005 Atlantic hurricane season appeared on the Main Page as Today's Featured Article on June 1.
Hurricane Floyd will appear on the Main Page as Today's Featured Article on June 17.
Entries from Dvorak technique, Typhoon Joan (1970), Typhoon Chanchu (2006), and Storm of October 1804 appeared on the Main Page in the Did you know column during May.
Entries from 5 other articles relating to tropical cyclones had appeared in the Did you know column earlier in 2006.

Storm article statistics

Grade	April	May	June
FA	7	7	10
A	4	5	7
GA	0	3	5
B	62	66	82
Start	154	177	168
Stub	13	12	10
Total	240	263	282
percentage ≥Less than B	69.6	71.6	63.1

The assessment scale

The cyclone assessment scale is one of the bases of the new assessment scale for Version 1.0 of Wikipedia. It splits articles into several categories by quality, to identify which articles are "finished" and which ones still need to be improved.
The assessment scale by itself counts of several grades:
- FA: reserved for articles that have been identified as featured content only.
- A: this grade is given to articles that are considered ready for Wikipedia:peer review. The way to get this grade assigned to an article is by asking other cyclone editors at the WikiProject's assessment page.
- GA: reserved for articles that have passed a good article nomination.
- B: these articles are "halfway there", and have most of the details of a complete article, yet it still has significant gaps in its coverage.
- Start: articles that fall in this category have a decent amount of content, yet it is weak in many areas. Be bold and feel free to improve them!
- Stub: these articles are mostly placeholders, and may in some cases be useless for the reader. It needs a lot of work to be brought to A-Class level.
The way to use these assessments is by adding a parameter to the WikiProject template on the articles talk page ({{hurricane|class=B}} as an example). This feeds the article into a category which is read and parsed to create an assessment table, summary and log.

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Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #2

The July issue of the WikiProject Tropical cyclones newsletter is now available. If you wish to receive the full newsletter or no longer be informed of the release of future editions, please add your username to the appropriate section on the mailing list.--Nilfanion (talk) 00:46, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

Unspecified source for Image:Barrty.jpg

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O-TOWN'S AT

This is my offical intro to the world of the wikipedia hurricane freaks so whats up. I also would like to give you my e-mail address, act32701@hotmail.com

I am 18 live in Orlando and have extensive knowledege of Atlantic Storms 1998-present. Oh and i love George W. Bush

Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #3

The August issue of the WikiProject Tropical cyclones newsletter is now available. If you wish to receive the full newsletter or no longer be informed of the release of future editions, please add your username to the appropriate section on the mailing list.--Nilfanion (talk) 00:22, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

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Heart singles

Hey, I noticed youre creating articles to Heart songs.... thanks. Just wanted to direct your attention to WP:SONGS pertaining to formatting: song titles in Wikipedia are "quoted" and album titles are italicized. Also per MoS there's no need for repeat-wikilinking on a page... once is all that is needed (i.e. "Crazy on You" re-issue on the discography page). Thanks! -- eo 19:10, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

No problem.... in the coming weeks (unless you already plan to) I'll browse thru them and expand what I can and add infoboxes, etc. P.S. You may want a third archive for your talk page... that "This may be longer than is preferable..." thingy shows up at the top when I add comments. See ya! -- eo 19:17, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

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Failure

You are an idiot and a douchebag. Look at your history. Does it have record of me tampering with your user page? I didn't think so. Also I'm a high school student so is it really necessary to make suggestions of me living in my mother's basement? The only thing that comes close to relating to my mother in that basement is her picture on the wall and her ashes in a green and blue urn. How about you go burn in hell instead? Thanks for being a prick. --SOLVE INFERNIS

Would like to add that this user did in fact vandalize my page, and after retaliating with this message saying he would never do such a thing, he proceeded to vandalize my page for a second time. Weatherman90 23:00, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Re:Greetings

Nice to here from you again. And actually, yeah, I did here about Maria's death. Poor Maria. Well, my grandma's 91 and still lives by herself and has a liscense. Maybe she'll be the world's oldest woman eventually. My family seems to live long. My great-grandfather died at 92 1/2, yet he drank, mined coal, and had some disease. Weird, huh. íslenskur fellibylur #12 _(samtal) 00:29, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

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Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #4

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Copyright Dean Koontz book articles

Hi, I saw the articles you created on books from Dean Koontz like Cold Fire (Koontz novel). The plot summary in that case was a direct copy and paste from the publishing company. Which is protected by their copyright (not released under a free license) and is not useable for Wikipedia articles. I removed all copyrighted content from a lot of books in Category:Dean Koontz novels. If you read the books maybe you can add something in your own words to the articles. Garion96 (talk) 00:48, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Chris prediction

I just noticed you nearly hit the nail on the head with your prediction for Chris. Ernesto, you came close... but way off on intensity. Nice predictions, and good to see that you're back. →Cyclone1→ 21:26, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

That's okay, your colors don't have to match. They didn't really match in the first palce, so nothin to worry about, IMO. →Cyclone1→ 21:39, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

WPND AFD Alert: Hawktree Golf Club

Hawktree Golf Club is up at AFD. Please vote to keep this North Dakota related article. --AlexWCovington (talk) 02:17, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your quick reaction. I know WPND hasn't been the best organized project so far, but with this kind of teamwork I'm sure the future will bring better things. --AlexWCovington (talk) 02:41, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

WPND Alert: Grand Cities Mall

Grand Cities Mall is on AfD. Can't we get a break? --AlexWCovington (talk) 15:08, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

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Grand Cities Mall AfD

Sorry, but I don't personally consider the fact that it was the first enclosed mall in ND to be a sufficient claim of notability (you can see my resoning right above your keep vote on the AfD page). Regardless, I'm going to predict this will be kept on a no consensus based on the current opinions that have been rendered, so I don't think you have to worry about this article being removed.--Isotope23 20:15, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

Looking at an IP

From my understanding, you are only supposed to view the IP of a user if there is a severe problem on the wikipedia server, and you appear to disregard this rule. if a person vandalises your user page, what makes that more important than mine? Just because you have certain powers doesn't mean you can just go to town with them. Daniel_123 ► ► 01:25, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

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Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #5

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Image removed per WP:FU

Hello, I removed Image:BusterPoindexter.gif you had at User:Weatherman90/Music under the fair use policy (point 9) which says "Fair use images may be used only in the article namespace. Used outside article space, they are not covered under the fair use doctrine. They should never be used on templates (including stub templates and navigation boxes) or on user pages." Sorry. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 08:04, 2 October 2006 (UTC)