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{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Newsletter/Archive 19}} ♬♩ [[User:Hurricanehink|Hurricanehink]] (<small>[[User_talk:Hurricanehink|talk]]</small>) 03:31, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Newsletter/Archive 19}} ♬♩ [[User:Hurricanehink|Hurricanehink]] (<small>[[User_talk:Hurricanehink|talk]]</small>) 03:31, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

== Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #20 ==

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Newsletter/Archive 20}} ♬♩ [[User:Hurricanehink|Hurricanehink]] (<small>[[User_talk:Hurricanehink|talk]]</small>) 05:12, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

Revision as of 05:12, 7 September 2008

After two comments, I now find it necessary to make this crystal clear right here at the top of my Talk Page. I am not an admin. I use the speedy tags because I neither have, nor want the admin power to speedily delete the pages. Also: I make mistakes. Such is the way of humanity. If I make a mistake, a kind note will go further than hate. One more thing, a comment was made as to the speed at which I tag things... Well, I use Special:Newpages to clear out the junk...and there are tons of junk new pages.

These are the talk articles from October 1, 2006 to the present.
All previous messages may be found here.


marist high school

this page is currently underconstruction, it was a fluke that it was like that, sorry about that.

Skyscrapercity.com

This article was requested. Besides, it is one of the most important internet forums dealing with the topic of skyscrapers, architecture and urbanism, so there is no reason to dismiss it as "non-notable". Uaxuctum 05:10, 11 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I've just read your justification. Anyway, I do not agree, I think you should change the speedy deletion into a Request for Deletion. SSC is a notable forum among those dealing with the topics it deals and has a wide worldwide user-base, so there are arguments in favor of keeping it that I think merit at least discussion. Uaxuctum 05:17, 11 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sanjeev Murali Mohan

Am creating this page and will be updating it shortly. Is meant to be humorous, but if its not suitable, kindly go ahead and delete the same. Ramanbnv

Joanie4Jackie

Dear Bladeswin:

I have just barely finished typing and you have already selected this article for deletion. It must have been up for all of ten seconds, I'm suprised you even had time to read it. I would object to your deleting this article on the grounds that several notable women filmmakers were involved with it: Miranda July, Sarah Jacobson, Lisa Hammer, G.B. Jones and Tammy Rae Carland. All these women have pages on Wikipedia: it follows that if they are notable, so is their work, especially on a collaborative project of this scope, ranging over a period of years.

I would like to know why you consider this page deleteable and I would also like the opinion of a few other administrators who, I believe, would find this subject notable.

Intheshadows 03:21, 12 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your reply. I appreciate your response and do understand that there must be many "junk" pages to edit on Wikipedia. I wasn't aware there was a 'New Pages' section, which explains a lot. Good luck with your work on Wikipedia!

Intheshadows 07:02, 12 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Psyber

Greetings Bladeswin

Responding to your request to delete the Psyber terminology that is a part of the Cyberpunk and online community terminology.

Being new here and seeing other terms here such as Cyber, Cyberspace, noobs and such, which is all tied in with the Cyberpunk and online community and subculture, I felt Psyber which is a structured term involved with this online society would be a valid input to be tied in with the Cyberpunk terminology and structure that exists here in the Wikipedia

I followed the instructions to contest deletion, however if I have “broken” any rules it is not intentionally.

Your original comment for deletion is, that this is not a dictionary, I have modified the Psyber to reflect how it is tied in with the Cyberpunk grouping so as to better fit your formatting requests, Though I am not completely sure what your formatting requirements are.

Any feed back on this would be helpful to help comply with your requirements for me to contribute to the Wikipedia. Thanks.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Psyberwolf (talk • contribs)

SmartDraw

I was wondering if you could clarify why you marked our SmartDraw article as not notable. I realize any editor at Wikipedia has to go through a lot of noise and junk to keep Wikipedia clean, but I don't think SmartDraw is any different than many other articles written about technical software. SmartDraw has been around for 12 years innovating different ways to allow regular business users to draw diagrams without technical or designer know how.

We've added references to some reviews of the older versions of the product and hopefully we will have some new reviews shortly. Just recently the US Department of Justice adopted SmartDraw Legal as their standard diagramming software. More than 10 million people have downloaded SmartDraw. SmartDraw's article is similar to pages like Visio and ConceptDraw as it discusses a specific software with its unique set of tools in a large and growing industry. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Egaal (talk • contribs)

Well...I'm no expert on notability but I suspect that it is not notable. I'm yet to find a single source that is not a secondary resource - with the exception of the smartdraw website and select few others with financial reasons to endorse and market this program. Everything seems to point back there. The point of origin for the statistics seems to be the smartdraw homepage's press releases. The US DOJ adopted Smartdraw Legal as their "standard diagramming software"? I'm not so sure as Egaal. Sure, they supposedly own a lot of licenses for it but who says they paid for them? Ten million product downloads. Free products are products too! Maybe that's 99.99% of their product downloads - upgrades, trial versions, compos etc. Ten million downloads doesn't mean ten million people have purchased licenses. "More than 10 million people" Why write this on your page? Because, you apparently marked the article as not notable and I think you were probably right. I've seen the work you've done on some other articles and I wonder if you have some brilliant idea about how to determine for once and for all... "Is Smartdraw notable? Is the smartdraw article written with a neutral point of view? Are the claims all verifiable?" and so on. Anyway thanks in advance. Really I don't have the commitment or motivation to work on wikipedia articles but this one is rather interesting. I look forward to hearing your thoughts. SneakyWho am i 07:45, 1 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Stubs (derived from Beau Taylor edit)

Hello,

Thank you for your stub submission. You may wish to note that it is preferable to use a stub template from Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types instead of using simply {{stub}}, if you can.

Thanks! Ksbrown 18:34, 17 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

User:Samsantiago

I saw that you prodded a number of articles by this fellow, all of which look to me like spam. Mind if I ask why you did not tag them db-spam? I started to, but you beat me to the punch. I think the prod is a waste of time, simply because the article's cannot be improved---they are just blatant advertising. ---Charles 05:29, 18 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

To be honest, I didn't think ad was appropriate. It wasn't advertisement for a book far as I could find (google searched one of the titles got nothing), and it wasn't a bio because of the byline. It was Original Research however, which is specifically mentioned in Criteria for Non-Speedying as not a reason for speedying, but prodding. Therefore since I had (in my mind) eliminated speedying as an option, all that was left was prod. - Jake - Bladeswin | Talk to me | 05:32, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
Ok, I guess it was just an assumption on my part that he was shilling for a book---those titles sound very much like book titles. I certainly meant no offense in asking the question. The sooner the articles are gone, the better. Thanks for your response. ---Charles 05:35, 18 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
No prob. I wanted them gone too. I patrol Newpages more recently than I used to. I still have to figure out the best was to deal with garbage. - Bladeswin | Talk to me | 05:36, 18 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
It can be damn frustrating, I will tell you that. I have been doing newpages patrol for quite some time now, and it can be infuriating. At other times, it is amusing. My advice would be not to lose your mind. Cheers! ---Charles 05:43, 18 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. Always is frustrating to get edit conflicts! But...at least it shows that others care about newpages too. - J - Bladeswin | Talk to me | 05:45, 18 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ice Hockey Project discussion of hockey player notability and project scope

Please come join the WikiProject Ice Hockey Notability standards for hockey players discussion. I'd like to see input from all our project members who have an opinion. Thanks! ColtsScore 00:19, 4 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Bladeswin

Dear Bladeswin, I commend your zeal when searching for possible Candidates for Speedy Deletion. I friendly, and kindly suggest you, tho, to be a little more careful by checking what links to a potential candidate. You tagged Portal:Caribbean/Selected music/Layout as a test page, and thus, Portal:Caribbean and all its Music subpages showed up at WP:CSD. Like I said, I truly, really thank you for your obvious enthusiasm and work, and this is just a friend's advice :) Keep up the good work! Regards, Phaedriel - 06:20, 4 May 2007 (UTC) [reply]

Ugh

Please stop tampering with the Senate elections in 2008 by calling them bias, or you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Politics rulePolitics rule 20:55, 4 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned non-free image (Image:FloridaEverbladesLogo.jpg)

Thanks for uploading Image:FloridaEverbladesLogo.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. fuzzy510 02:35, 16 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Message

Wow, I almost forgot you messaged me on here. I had no idea that the school uses the Wikipedia page. I have been doing ok. Classes are starting up once again and this semester is going to be a little tough for me but I'll survive. How have you been? Douglasr007 19:21, 27 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #16

Number 16, May 3, 2008

The Hurricane Herald

This is the monthly newsletter of WikiProject Tropical Cyclones. The Hurricane Herald aims to give a summary, both of the activities of the WikiProject and global tropical cyclone activity. If you wish to change how you receive this newsletter, or no longer wish to receive it, please add your username to the appropriate section on the mailing list. This newsletter covers all of April 2008.

Please visit this page and bookmark any suggestions of interest to you. This will help improve monitoring of the WikiProject's articles.

Storm of the month

Typhoon Neoguri on April 17
Typhoon Neoguri on April 17

Typhoon Neoguri was the earliest tropical cyclone on record to strike China. It formed on April 13 to the east of the Philippines, and once entering the South China Sea, environmental conditions allowed for quick strengthening. Neoguri attained its peak intensity of 150 km/h (90 mph) as it approached the island of Hainan, though rapidly weakened due to unfavorable conditions. The system made landfall in southern China on April 19, causing three deaths and moderate damage totaling over ¥296 million (2008 RMB, $42 million 2008 USD). The typhoon left 40 fishermen missing in the South China Sea.

Other tropical cyclone activity

  • A weak tropical depression formed near New Caledonia in the South Pacific ocean early in the month, and another tropical depression developed in the basin later in the month.
  • Two named storms formed in the Australian region during the month, including Tropical Cyclone Durga, which was the first ever cyclone named by the Tropical Cyclone Warning Centre in Jakarta, Indonesia. Tropical Cyclone Rosie co-existed with Durga for much of its duration.
  • Cyclone Nargis developed in the North Indian Ocean late in the month, and reached its peak intensity early in May; further details will be covered in the next newsletter.

Member of the month

Cyclone barnstar
Cyclone barnstar

The April member of the month is VOFFA. Though not officially a project member, VOFFA is an important user to the project, having maintained and updated the talk page archives on tropical cyclones worldwide; activity includes adding warnings and discussions for all storms. The user is particularly active during the off-season of the Atlantic basin, when article activity on tropical cyclones typically declines.

Storm article statistics

Grade Jan Feb Mar Apr
FA 33 36 38 40
A 9 8 8 8
GA 114 123 130 131
B 99 96 91 103
Start 214 216 211 208
Stub 3 6 9 9
Total 472 485 487 499
ω 2.98 2.96 2.94 2.92
percentage
Less than B 		46.0 45.8 45.2 43.5
percentage
GA or better 		33.1 34.3 36.1 35.9

Project News
There is discussion on the status of articles on non-notable storms in the Merging page of the project. Comments are welcome.

A Wikipedia traffic counter was launched earlier this year. In the month of February, the article on Hurricane Katrina was viewed just over 200,000 times, making the article the 496th most viewed article on the English Wikipedia during the month.

During the month, Hurricane Camille was demoted from GA status, continuing the trend of good articles degrading in status on notable storms; other occurrences include the FA removal of Cyclone Tracy and 1900 Galveston Hurricane. If anyone has any ideas how to fix the problem, feedback and ideas are appreciated.

♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 03:50, 4 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #17

Number 17, June 7, 2008

The Hurricane Herald

This is the monthly newsletter of WikiProject Tropical Cyclones. The Hurricane Herald aims to give a summary, both of the activities of the WikiProject and global tropical cyclone activity. If you wish to change how you receive this newsletter, or no longer wish to receive it, please add your username to the appropriate section on the mailing list. This newsletter covers all of May 2008.

Please visit this page and bookmark any suggestions of interest to you. This will help improve monitoring of the WikiProject's articles.

Storm of the month

Cyclone Nargis
Cyclone Nargis

Cyclone Nargis was the costliest and deadliest natural disaster in the history of Burma (Myanmar). It formed on April 27 in the central Bay of Bengal, and after initially tracking north-northwestward it turned to the east. Quickly strengthening to reach peak winds of at least 165 km/h (105 mph), Nargis made landfall in the Ayeyarwady Division of Burma on May 2 near peak intensity. The cyclone killed at least 80,000 people and potentially over 300,000. Passing near the metropolis of Yangon, the cyclone destroyed thousands of buildings, and damage was estimated at over $10 billion (USD). In the wake of the storm, the ruling military junta of Burma initially refused foreign aid, and after they allowed foreign assistance, the government was criticized for its poor handling of the aftermath of the storm.

Other tropical cyclone activity

  • Northwestern Pacific Ocean – Typhoon Rammasun was the strongest tropical cyclone worldwide during the month, though it did not affect land. Tropical Storm Matmo formed east of Luzon in the middle of the month and lasted for three days. Severe Tropical Storm Halong (Cosme) was the deadliest storm in the Pacific basin, causing 58 deaths and $94 million (USD) in damage after hitting Luzon on May 17. At the end of the month, Typhoon Nakri formed and reached peak intensity over open waters before becoming extratropical in early June.
  • Eastern Pacific Ocean – Tropical Storm Alma was was the easternmost forming Pacific tropical cyclone on record. Forming from a trough on May 29, it became a strong tropical storm before making landfall near León, Nicaragua, killing at least two people.
  • 2008 Atlantic hurricane season– Tropical Storm Arthur formed from the remnants of Tropical Storm Alma as it made landfall on Belize, causing flash flooding and at least nine fatalities.

Project News
Several other languages are active in the realm of tropical cyclone articles, though as much as ours. The French Wikipedia has 76 storm articles, the Spanish Wikipedia has 99 storm articles, and the Portuguese Wikipedia has 116 storm articles. Each of the projects have several storm articles we do not have, and the coverage on non-notable storms outside of the Atlantic is better, particularly in the Southern Hemisphere.

During the month, User:Potapych finished working on Template:Infobox Hurricane Small, which is used for the small Infoboxes in season articles; he has updated several season article already with the changes.

Main Page content

Storm article statistics

Grade Feb Mar Apr May
FA 36 38 40 41
A 8 8 8 17
GA 123 130 131 129
B 96 91 103 101
Start 216 211 208 209
Stub 7 9 9 9
Total 487 487 499 506
ω 2.96 2.94 2.92 2.88
percentage
≥Less than B 		45.8 45.2 43.5 43.1
percentage
≥GA or better 		34.3 36.1 35.9 367.0

Member of the month

Cyclone barnstar
Cyclone barnstar

The May member of the month is Juliancolton. Joining the project in November 2007, Julian has become an active member of the project, working on new articles in the Atlantic basin. He has created two featured lists (List of Maryland and Washington, D.C. hurricanes (1980–present) and List of New York hurricanes), and rewrote the article on 2006 Atlantic hurricane season, which became featured during May. Juliancolton is currently working on a featured topic for Hurricane Dennis and its effects by region.

♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 02:43, 8 June 2008 (UTC) [reply]

Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #18

Number 18, July 5, 2008

The Hurricane Herald

This is the monthly newsletter of WikiProject Tropical Cyclones. The Hurricane Herald aims to give a summary, both of the activities of the WikiProject and global tropical cyclone activity. If you wish to change how you receive this newsletter, or no longer wish to receive it, please add your username to the appropriate section on the mailing list. This newsletter covers all of June 2008.

Please visit this page and bookmark any suggestions of interest to you. This will help improve monitoring of the WikiProject's articles.

Storm of the month

Satellite image of Typhoon Fengshen
Satellite image of Typhoon Fengshen

Typhoon Fengshen was the deadliest Pacific typhoon since Typhoon Durian in November of 2006. The sixth named storm of the 2008 Pacific typhoon season, Fengshen developed on June 18 to the east of the Philippines, and after attaining typhoon status it stuck the island of Samar. It intensified while passing through the archipelago, reaching winds of over 175 km/h (110 mph) before passing near Metro Manila. Fengshen later weakened in the South China Sea, and it dissipated on June 26 after moving ashore in China.

The typhoon killed over 1,300 people, including 800 when the MV Princess of the Stars capsized during the storm. Damage totaled $247 million (USD), with over 300,000 houses damaged or destroyed. The damage total included $70 million (USD) in crop damage.

Other tropical cyclone activity

Addition of C-class
During the month, C-class was added to the assessment scheme. The project has begun the process of integrating C-class, though as of this publication only 8 articles in the project are at that level. A preliminary solution would be to very strictly define B-class with six criteria, with one proposal to automatically re-assess all B-class articles as C-class until they are confirmed to have passed the criteria. Discussion and participation are welcome on the issue.

As a result of the addition of C-class, the ω (WikiWork) rating for C-class is now 3.5, to keep in line with the previous system we used.

During the month, the project published a page on its style for articles. The purpose for the page, as quoted from the top of the page, is to document a few existing unwritten guidelines for Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones.

Storm article statistics

Grade Mar Apr May Jun
FA 38 40 41 41
A 8 8 17 18
GA 130 131 129 135
B 91 103 101 96
C 0 0 0 3
Start 211 208 209 208
Stub 9 9 9 9
Total 487 499 506 510
ω 2.94 2.92 2.88 2.87
percentage
≥Less than C 		45.2 43.5 43.1 42.5
percentage
≥GA or better 		36.1 35.9 37.0 38.0

Member of the month

Cyclone barnstar
Cyclone barnstar

The June member of the month is User:Potapych. Though not officially a member of the project, Potapych is active on hurricane pages, having developed the new small infobox template introduced last month. After developing the new template, Potapych updated season articles across the board to accommodate the new template.

New members

♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 03:32, 6 July 2008 (UTC) [reply]

Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #19

Number 19, August 2, 2008

The Hurricane Herald

This is the monthly newsletter of WikiProject Tropical Cyclones. The Hurricane Herald aims to give a summary, both of the activities of the WikiProject and global tropical cyclone activity. If you wish to change how you receive this newsletter, or no longer wish to receive it, please add your username to the appropriate section on the mailing list. This newsletter covers all of July 2008.

Please visit this page and bookmark any suggestions of interest to you. This will help improve monitoring of the WikiProject's articles.

Storm of the month

Hurricane Bertha near peak intensity
Hurricane Bertha near peak intensity

Hurricane Bertha was a rare early season Cape Verde-type hurricane and the easternmost forming July tropical storm on record. Bertha became the longest-lived pre-August Atlantic tropical cyclone on record and the longest-lived tropical cyclone in the Atlantic Basin since Ivan in 2004. The second named storm of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season, Bertha developed from a tropical wave that emerged off the coast of Africa on July 1. After initially remaining weak while tracking westward, Bertha began to strengthen on July 6, and the next day it quickly intensified to reach peak winds of 120 mph (195 km/h). The hurricane weakened during the day on July 8, and after turning to a northwest drift, it passed within 40 miles (64 km) of Bermuda on July 14 before moving northeast away from the island. Bertha became extratropical on July 20 to the east of Newfoundland, after causing minimal damage and three indirect drowning deaths.

Other tropical cyclone activity

  • Northwestern Pacific Ocean – After several weeks of no activity, Typhoon Kalmaegi developed in the middle of the month, passing near northern Luzon before turning to the north and making landfalls on Taiwan and China; the typhoon caused heavy crop damage and 18 deaths. Later in the month, Typhoon Fung-Wong caused further flooding in Taiwan and China. In addition to the two named typhoons, PAGASA issued advisories on Tropical Depression Gener early in the month.
  • Eastern Pacific Ocean – Four named storms developed in the basin during the month, of which three became hurricanes; Hurricanes Elida, Fausto, and Genevieve, as well as Tropical Storm Douglas, all remained offshore, though in the middle of the month a tropical depression brought rainfall to Mexico after hitting near Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán. Hurricane Boris and Tropical Storm Cristina continued from the previous month.
  • Atlantic Ocean– In addition to Hurricane Bertha, two other tropical cyclones developed in the month. Tropical Storm Cristobal formed off the coast of Florida, bringing rainfall and gusty winds to coastal North Carolina and later Nova Scotia. The most damaging Atlantic tropical cyclone during the month was Hurricane Dolly, which formed on July 20 in the western Caribbean Sea. After tracking northwestward through the Gulf of Mexico, it reached peak winds of 100 mph (155 km/h) before moving ashore on South Padre Island, Texas. The hurricane caused flash flooding from heavy rainfall, with damage in the United States estimated at $1.2 billion; across its path Dolly caused 21 deaths, including 17 from landslides in Guademala, as well as two indirect fatalities.

Member of the month

Cyclone barnstar
Cyclone barnstar

The July member of the month is User:Plasticup. Joining the project in August of 2007, Plasticup first became an asset in working on the active article series on Hurricane Dean. After a period of inactivity, the user returned to produce two featured articles this month, both interesting meteorological histories. Additionally, Plasticup has focused some attention to articles in the 2005 season. Keep up the good work!

New members

Main Page content

Storm article statistics </noinclude>

Grade Apr May Jun Jul
FA 40 41 41 42
A 8 17 18 18
GA 131 129 135 139
B 103 101 96 15
C 0 0 3 98
Start 208 209 208 202
Stub 9 9 9 10
Total 499 506 510 524
ω 2.92 2.88 2.87 2.94
percentage
≥Less than C 		43.5 43.1 42.5 40.5
percentage
≥GA or better 		35.9 37.0 38.0 38.0

Project News
During July, there were two large changes to the operations of the WikiProject. First, WPTC adopted and helped develop the WP 1.0 B-Class criteria, and was among the first projects to use a "forced" B-Class rubric as part of their assessment schemes. This means that all the articles tagged with {{hurricane|class=B|...}} are automatically reassessed as {{C-Class}}, unless all the values in the checklist are marked as passed. In other words, to mark an article as B-Class, the banner needs to be changed to 

{{hurricane |class=B |B1=yes |B2=yes  |B3=yes |B4=yes |B5=yes |B6=yes | ... }}

B1, B2, B3, B4, B5 and B6 stand for each of the six points in the WikiProject's rubric. The banner also has the capability to mark why an article doesn't meet the new B-Class standards: Typing the following in an article's talk page 

{{hurricane |class=B |B1=no |B2=yes |B3=yes |B4=yes |B5=yes |B6=yes | ... }}

will assess an article as C-Class, and mark that the article is not a B because of bad references.

Articles assessed as B's before the introduction of the forced checklist were automatically reassessed as C's, but they're awaiting new reviews to check if they still meet the new B criteria. These articles are listed on Category:Tropical cyclone articles with incomplete B-Class checklists. Currently, there's 117 articles in the category—let's try to shrink that number to zero before the next edition of the Herald!

The other major change to the WikiProject was the addition of three task forces: the storm articles task force, season articles task force, and the tropical meteorology articles task force. These three task forces allow WPTC to see the progress of the different areas of the WikiProject. Currently, all 1,076 WPTC articles have been assigned to one of the three task forces, but any unsorted articles will be placed in Category:Unsorted tropical cyclone articles as they're tagged with {{hurricane}}.

In order to categorize an article, the banner needs to be modified from {{hurricane|...}} to: 

{{hurricane |storms-task-force=yes | ... }}
{{hurricane |seasons-task-force=yes | ... }}
{{hurricane |meteo-task-force=yes | ... }}

which will sort the pages into the storms, seasons, and tropical meteorology task forces, respectively.

♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 03:31, 3 August 2008 (UTC) [reply]

Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #20

Number 20, September 6, 2008

The Hurricane Herald

This is the monthly newsletter of WikiProject Tropical Cyclones. The Hurricane Herald aims to give a summary, both of the activities of the WikiProject and global tropical cyclone activity. If you wish to change how you receive this newsletter, or no longer wish to receive it, please add your username to the appropriate section on the mailing list. This newsletter covers all of August 2008.

Please visit this page and bookmark any suggestions of interest to you. This will help improve monitoring of the WikiProject's articles.

Storm of the month

Hurricane Gustav at landfall in western Cuba at peak strength
Hurricane Gustav at landfall in western Cuba at peak strength

Hurricane Gustav was a deadly and damaging hurricane which formed late in the month in the Caribbean Sea. It first struck Haiti on August 26 as a minimal hurricane, where it killed 76 people and damaged or destroyed over 10,000 houses. Gustav turned to the southwest, moving over Jamaica where it killed 11 people. The hurricane rapidly intensified to reach peak winds of 150 mph (240 km/h) before making landfall on western Cuba; in the country, Gustav damaged or destroyed over 100,000 houses, though no deaths were reported due to well-executed evacuations. In the Gulf of Mexico, Gustav weakened due to its previous land interaction, and on September 1 it made landfall in south-central Louisiana as a Category 2 hurricane, where it caused heavy damage. Across its path, the hurricane caused 101 deaths, with an initial damage total of $20 billion.

Other tropical cyclone activity

  • Atlantic Ocean– In addition to Gustav, three other tropical cyclones formed. Early in the month, Tropical Storm Edouard caused light damage when it moved ashore along Texas. In the middle of the month, Tropical Storm Fay formed over Hispaniola and later crossed over Cuba into the Gulf of Mexico; throughout the Caribbean it caused 25 deaths. Fay struck southwestern Florida, moved across the state, turned to the west, and moved across the Florida panhandle, making a record four landfalls on the state. The storm dropped 27.65 inches (702.1 mm) of rain in Melbourne, making Fay the fourth wettest Florida tropical cyclone. In the end of the month, Hurricane Hanna formed northeast of the Lesser Antilles; its impact will be covered in the next month's summary.
  • Eastern Pacific Ocean – Four named storms developed in the basin during the month, including Tropical Storm Kika, which was the first Central Pacific tropical cyclone since Ioke in 2006. Hurricane Hernan was the strongest hurricane of the month in the basin, reaching Category 3 status while remaining away from land. Tropical Storm Iselle lasted for a few days, but did not affect land. Tropical Storm Julio made landfall on Baja California Sur, producing heavy rainfall and causing two deaths.
  • Northwestern Pacific Ocean – The month began with Tropical Storm Kammuri forming and hitting southern China; the storm killed 140 people, mostly in neighboring Vietnam, and damage totaled $120 million (USD). Tropical Storms Phanfone and Vongfone lasted for a few days out at sea, before Typhoon Nuri formed and struck northern Luzon, causing 12 deaths.
  • 2008 North Indian Ocean cyclone season – A depression formed and struck Odisha.

Member of the month

Cyclone barnstar
Cyclone barnstar

The August member of the month is Cyclonebiskit, who has been on Wikipedia since April. The user helped maintain the current season articles as well as storm articles. Cyclonebiskit has written one GA, and wrote much of one of the recent tropical cyclone articles.

New and improved articles

Storm article statistics

Grade May Jun Jul Aug
FA 41 41 42 46
A 17 18 18 18
GA 129 135 139 147
B 101 96 15 15
C 0 3 98 99
Start 209 208 202 197
Stub 9 9 10 15
Total 506 510 524 537
ω 2.88 2.87 2.94 2.92
percentage
≥Less than C 		43.1 42.5 40.5 39.5
percentage
≥GA or better 		37.0 38.0 38.0 39.3

Version 0.7
This month, several of the WikiProject's articles were selected for the Version 1.0 Editorial Team's Version 0.7 static release. The article selection occurs using an automated process using WikiProjects' quality and importance assessments. For WPTC, this means that 29 articles will be part of this release, an increase from 13 in the previous release. It should be noted that these numbers are based on preliminary data that can change based on updates to the database and corrections to the selection algorithm and WP:1.0's cut-off score.

The list of articles chosen for the release can be seen here. Of the selection, almost half of the articles are already featured, and eleven are good articles. There one B-Class article (1970 Bhola cyclone, two C-Class articles (Hurricane Andrew, Cyclone Nargis), and two Start-Class articles (Pacific typhoon, Hurricane Rita). As these articles will be published in a CD, it is imperative that the project improve them quickly.

The full list of all the WikiProject's articles is also available here. According to that list, WPTC's highest-scoring article—Tropical cyclone—has a score of 1969, which is very good as Canada, the selection's highest-scoring article, has a score of 2,409. That said, Extreme wind warning is the least important article we have, with a score of 227, so we may have to improve it a little bit so it isn't that low...

♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 05:12, 7 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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