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Another article request

Can you make the article Tropical Storm Lidia (2005) in a few days? Leave Message orYellow Evan home or User:Yellow Evan/Sandbox 13:59, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Can you make Hurricane Alma (1990) by Sunday?

Archive

TCR

Leave Message orYellow Evan home or User:Yellow Evan/Sandbox 13:26, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

Hello

I don't think we ever met, but my name's Mitch. I used to work on hurricane articles often. My writing wasn't the best, so I stopped for a while. I've been watching some of your work. I am very impressed. :) - As a question, would you like to take on an 80s Atlantic storm request. I am sure Hurricanehink will go nuts, but it seems that more and more articles are popping up. I wrote three of the articles for storms in the 1982 Atlantic hurricane season - this would make an excellent Good Topic if you'd like to write Beryl (which used to have an article) and Ernesto (a fishspinner. If you'd like - I want to help collaborate with that with you. I believe that you are excellent in article writing and you need a good test :) - Mitch32(UP) 22:05, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

I saw :) - Ernesto remains when you're done, then if we want, we can get Debby and Chris to GA as well.Mitch32(UP) 21:45, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
Well, I ran it over with Hink. He is actually interested in seeing you finish Beryl. On the other hand, he gave grim outlook for Ernesto. I have both watchlisted, so in case something comes up. Chris & Debby need major work apparently.Mitch32(UP) 15:29, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

MHS

Can you expand Cyclone Elisa (2008)? I can't because my computer can't read the RSMC Nadi and JTWC bulletins. It doesn't matter when you expand it because I know you are getting a lot of requests.--Kirk76 1854 Atlantic Hurricane Season 20:42, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

Can you also do Hurricane Ele (2002)--Kirk76 1854 Atlantic Hurricane Season 20:55, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
I don't have the link, but the JMA best tracks for 2002 are at 2002 Pacific typhoon season#Tropical Storm Changmi. Go to the reference for the section and you will get all the bets tracks since the JMA only has wind and pressure and location. Sorry but this is the best I can do. (By the way, are you from the Howard Thorton School in New Rochelle the reason I am asking was that on Wednesday, I checked News 12 in the morning and it was the only school closed Also you do not have to respond to the question in the parenthesis)--Kirk76 1854 Atlantic Hurricane Season 23:16, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
The JTWC best track is at google search Unisys and go to Unisys tropical data. Then go to 2002 typhoon season best tracks.--Kirk76 1854 Atlantic Hurricane Season 23:18, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

Re: Welcome back!

Thanks; I'll still be editing at lower levels than usual, but being off Wikipedia entirely was boring. :) –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 15:11, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Heh, thanks for the barnstar! –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 15:22, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Re: Question

Just take it to WP:WPTC/A, start a section for the article, and wait for people to comment/support an upgrade to A-Class. There's an unwritten rule that A-Class requires the support of about 3 or 4 editors at that page. Cheers, –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 21:28, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Sounds good. Karina actually has a better chance at FAC than Erick did, mostly because of how much more info it has. –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 21:33, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
Here's an image that looks rather different than the one in the infobox. Unfortunately, with such a minor storm, finding good satellite images is often quite the task. –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 21:40, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Hernan

To let you know i requested page semi-protection of Hurricane Hernan (2008) Leave Message ,Yellow Evan home ,User:Yellow Evan/Sandbox,Hurricane Fausto (2002),Hurricane Hernan (2008) , Tropical Storm Dora (2005) or Tropical Storm Norman (2000) 14:52, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

The Resilient Barnstar
Congratulations you won an award for being good to me

Leave Message ,Yellow Evan home ,Sandbox[ 21:41, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #22

Number 22, November 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 October 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 X
Cyclone X

Deep Depression ARB 02 caused the 2008 Yemen floods. On October 19 the IMD noted that an area of low pressure which located to the south east of Salalah, Oman had intensifed in to a tropical depression and was assigned the number ARB 02. On October 21 IMD updated the system to a Deep Depression while it lay 700 km south of Salalah, Oman near the east coast of Somalia. It lost its strength while crossing the Gulf of Aden due to entry of dry air and land interaction as it passed close to the northeastern coast of Somalia. It later was downgraded to a Depression, named TC 03B by the JTWC. On October 24 it made landfall on the south-eastern coast of Yemen, leaving at least 26 civilians and six soldiers dead while trapping hundreds of people due to flooding and torrential rainfalls. The latest figure of casualties is of 184 persons dead and 100 others missing, mostly from the region of Hadhramawt, where the storm made landfall. A total of 733 houses were destroyed in the governorates of Hadhramaut and Al Mahrah, while 22,000 people were displaced. The Yemeni Government declared the two aforementioned governorates as disaster zones.

Other tropical cyclone activity

  • Atlantic Ocean– In the Atlantic, four tropical cyclones formed this October. Tropical Storm Marco formed in the Bay of Campeche on October 6. It made landfall on October 8 and is one of the smallest Atlantic tropical cyclones since 1988. Tropical Storm Nana formed October 12 in the middle of the open Atlantic. It had no impact anywhere and dissipated October 14. Hurricane Omar formed October 13 and dissipated October 18. Eventually peaking as a Category 4 hurricane, Omar passed through the Lesser Antilles twice, including once near peak intensity. Fortunately, it caused only one indirect death. Tropical Depression Sixteen formed on October 16 and dissipated two days later after making landfall. It killed 16 to 20 people in Central America.

Member of the month

Cyclone barnstar
Cyclone barnstar

The October member of the month is Hurricanehink. Since joining the project near its inception, Hurricanehink has been involved in bringing forty two articles, eighteen lists and six topics to featured status. Just this month, Hurricanehink was mentioned in the Signpost Dispatch. Hurricanehink has also been the regular distributor for this newsletter.

New and improved articles

Main Page content

Storm article statistics

Grade Jul Aug Sep Oct
FA 42 46 47 48
A 18 18 19 19
GA 139 145 161 187
B 15 14 17 12
C 98 99 107 113
Start 202 197 201 201
Stub 10 15 19 20
Total 524 537 571 600
ω 2.94 2.92 2.92 2.88
percentage
Less than C
40.5 39.5 38.5 36.8
percentage
GA or better
38.0 39.3 39.8 42.3

Project News
A discussion concerning sandboxes for next year's articles has begun. Please consider working on sandboxes so they will be ready to publish. As tropical cyclones can form at any time in the western Pacific and northern Indian Oceans, these two season's should be made ready for cyclones by December. Ideally, due to the possibility of pre-season storms, the eastern Pacific and Atlantic seasons should also be ready by then, but they should at least be ready by the northern-Hemisphere antipeak in late February and early March. Seasons for the years 2010 to 2015 should be given the name "Post-2009 {ocean name} {cyclone term} seasons", as in "Post 2009 Atlantic hurricane seasons".

A category for tropical cyclone articles of very-low importance has been introduced. Although discussion is still ongoing, a rating of very-low-importance will generally be given to weak cyclones that do not have impact or set any sort of record.

Editorial
This month, our usual editor, Hurricanehink, has been on a semi-wikibreak until further notice. I am filling in as editor and distributor on an interim basis. The newsletter will continue as normal during that time. Thank you. Miss Madeline | Talk to Madeline 00:49, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

Miss Madeline | Talk to Madeline 02:01, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

Wikibreak

Leave Message ,Yellow Evan home ,Sandbox[ 03:02, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

Articles

You seem to excel at creating articles for non-notable or minor storms, so I am here to request that you make articles for Tropical Storm Estelle (2004) and Hurricane Howard (2004). Also, I have hopes of making an article for Hurricane Tina (1992), but I can't until I know how to write an "instant GA" (like Tropical Storm Kika (2008) or Tropical Storm Lidia (2005)). Congrats on them, by the way! --Dylan620 (Homeyadda yadda yaddaOoooohh!) 11:44, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

A will write them because I am good a the longer storms. Leave Message ,Yellow Evan home ,Sandbox[ 13:05, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

I'm confused. Evan, if you're on a Wikibreak, then how come you're editing? --Dylan620 (Homeyadda yadda yaddaOoooohh!) 15:22, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

It stars this afternoon its morning. Leave Message ,Yellow Evan home ,Sandbox[ 15:27, 2 November 2008 (UTC) Lets compare Hernan with Hurricane Ioke which has four images add not many images uploded. Hernan has a lot of info and images espassily if we are going to get Hernan featured. Also, Do you think my Tina sandbox is good so far. Cheers. Leave Message ,Yellow Evan home ,Sandbox[ 17:32, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

No, Yellow Evan, please do not write any more articles until you learn to spell correctly, and you read up on Wikipedia's guidelines and policies. –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 17:28, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

Typhoon Ele Advisories

Hi there Cyclonebiskit,

I see that you have been having a few problems finding Public Advisories for Hurricane Ele (2002) whilst it was in the WPAC. Since 2000 The JTWC have archived all their advisories for WPAC Typhoons and NIO Cyclones in the folder named Guam Stuff. The JMA Archive their WWJP25 Advisories which might help you out in a folder named Tokyo.

Good Luck in expanding the article

Jason Rees (talk) 18:01, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

Oh no - Do you know if the advisories will open in your Mac? (check this by opening one of the advisories of the JTWC on one of the articles from this year) Jason Rees (talk) 18:22, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

Fuck - i dont know what you can do then, unless i C&P them in to a sandbox and put them in a sandbox and link them back to the advisories and you use what you need. Jason Rees (talk) 18:38, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

Ok Good Luck Jason Rees (talk) 19:02, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

Yep Jason Rees (talk) 19:17, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
Also if you require further sources then use the JMA's Annual reports Jason Rees (talk) 19:21, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
JMA ATCR 2002. is located Here The actual TCR for ELE begins on page 48 but theirs quite a bit of data in the whole of the ATCR that might be of use to you. Jason Rees (talk) 19:40, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

Hernan protection

I have protected the Hurricane Hernan (2008) article for three days because of the edit warring there. Please take discussion to the talk page. You reverted six times on that article in an hour and eleven minutes. I suggest you read up on the three-revert rule if you aren't already familiar with it because your actions at the article clearly exceeded three reverts. Thank you, Metros (talk) 18:16, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

Quick question in doing a quick glance again at the article: Is there another way to phrase this line: "The storm never approached land during its lifespan, and no damage or casualties were reported."? Technically, unless the hurricane remained stationary, it was always approaching land. Hypothetically, if the hurricane was 1,000 miles offshore and moved 30 miles to the northeast, it was then 30 miles closer to whatever was up in the northeast area, so, in essence, it approached the land. Can you find a statistic somewhere that says something along the lines of "Hernan never came closer than XXX miles from land after reaching hurricane strength"? I don't know if that's possible to track down. Yes, I know it's a picky thing, but, that's what I am :) Metros (talk) 23:57, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

please see this!

The Working Man's Barnstar
You have been working hard with a lot of frustration on Hurricane Ele (2002) Kirk76 1854 Atlantic Hurricane Season 23:38, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for working so hard on these great articles!--Kirk76 1854 Atlantic Hurricane Season 23:38, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

Re: 2003 Atlantic hurricane season FTC2 nom addition

Actually, one such timeline was sent to GAN a while ago. It was failed because it was a list, and GA is intended for articles. But who knows? It might be able to pass. Even so, if I reviewed it, people might accuse us of canvassing. Cheers, –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 19:26, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, it should be added, but only when it passes GA/FL. –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 00:55, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

GA tutorial

Feel free to wait until you're available, but maybe we could work on Hurricane Olaf (2003) or Hurricane Marie (2008) together, as sort of my GA writing tutorial. I already have Juliancolton (talk · contribs) as a full mentor, but you can never have have enough help. Besides, I'll come to him when I'm ready to write featured articles on tropical cyclones. --Dylan620 (Homeyadda yadda yaddaOoooohh!) 13:41, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

I have a book to read for a report, but I'll give a complete reply between 10:00 A.M. and 10:10 A.M.. --Dylan620 (Homeyadda yadda yaddaOoooohh!) 14:06, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

I will help you a little to. Leave Message ,Yellow Evan home ,Sandbox[ 14:18, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

I apologize for the late response. If you ask me, Cyclonebiskit, you were being modest when you sent me your initial response. You said you weren't a great writer, when four of your articles were listed as GA-class the day after they were written (and I'm excluding a fifth one, Karina). If you really aren't a great writer, you're definitely good enough for my taste. :-) Anyway, I was thinking we could do Hurricane Olaf (2003) as a hardcore tutorial, before I create Hurricane Marie (2008) as sort of a practice test.
As for you, Yellow Evan, I would prefer if you stayed out of this. I am in no way stopping you from editing; it's just that I would like just Cyclonebiskit and I to work on Olaf and Marie because we will be using them as my tutorial articles. --Dylan620 (Homeyadda yadda yaddaOoooohh!) 16:18, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
Congrats on your first FA!! --Dylan620 (Homeyadda yadda yaddaOoooohh!) 17:00, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
No problem at all. --Dylan620 (Homeyadda yadda yaddaOoooohh!) 17:04, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

Re:

Hey, thanks. I figured that was you, since I saw you move the Louisiana hurricanes page from the old user sandbox to your sandbox. It's good to see you've phoenixed from that old name into a productive editor! ♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 19:31, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

If it hadn't been for that, I would've been totally shocked. Maybe save that project for the off-season ;) Heck, I might join you and work on Texas hurricanes during the off-season. ♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 19:42, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
Yea, it seems like the format is having text now. Louisiana would probably have to be split up by a few time periods, looking at how busy it is. But seriously, you shouldn't try too hard to get it done within or week, or you'll get Wikibonked again. ♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 19:49, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
So it sounds like you need to get all of the fish storms out of your system, so you can work on an article of bigger importance ;) There's still a few dozen EPAC fishies that have both TWO's and the discussions. But seriously, good luck with Ele and helping out Dylan. I wouldn't worry much about Louisiana. It would be nice to have eventually, but it's not a top priority. ♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 20:00, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

Note

Cyclonebiskit, I just wanted to let you know that Hurricane Olaf (2003) falls under CSD A1, and might be deleted if it's not expanded soon. Maybe work on it in your sandbox? Just a friendly reminder. Cheers, –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 23:32, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

Cool. Good luck! :-) –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 23:35, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

Re: 2008 PHS

Why was Odile merged? it even has three images if you count the track map. Now am giong to put Tropical Storm Karina (2008) up to merge and see what happens. Leave Message ,Yellow Evan home ,Sandbox[ 22:15, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

Re: A little help please

I saw, and I'm in the process of reverting his merge proposal per WP:POINT. I'll leave a note on his talk page shortly. –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 22:27, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

I think I got it sorted out. –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 22:43, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

Re: wikibreak

Of course, I'd be happy to. Hope any issues in RL clear up soon. –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 14:13, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

Re: Yellow Evan

 DoneJuliancolton Tropical Cyclone 02:15, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

I gave him a {{uw-vandalism2}}, and I'll keep an eye on his contribs. –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 03:02, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

Thank you

Cookies!

Thank you, Cyclonebiskit, for the GA tutorial. I'll know who to thank for my first GA. :-) Granted I'll be busy with homework as well as articles, but I plan my first good articles to be Hurricane Marie (2008), Tropical Storm Lowell (2008), Tropical Storm Odile (2008), and Tropical Storm Polo (2008). After those articles, plus six more, I plan on receiving a featured article tutorial from my primary tutor, Juliancolton. Maybe some of those additional six articles could help you with the 2005 Pacific hurricane season topic. ;-) --Dylan620 (Homeyadda yadda yaddaOoooohh!) 21:17, 8 November 2008 (UTC) has given you some cookies! Cookies promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. You can spread the "WikiLove" by giving someone else some cookies, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend.


To spread the goodness of cookies, you can add {{subst:Cookies}} to someone's talk page with a friendly message, or eat this cookie on the giver's talk page with {{subst:munch}}!

Why?

Why did hernan fail? Leave Message ,Yellow Evan home ,Sandbox[ 23:15, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

Hurricane Marie (2008)

Do you know where I can find the TCR for Marie? --Dylan620 (Homeyadda yadda yaddaOoooohh!) 11:50, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Never mind; I just found out that the TCR isn't out yet. --Dylan620 (Homeyadda yadda yaddaOoooohh!) 12:50, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Just so you know, I have passed the article's GAN. Congratulations! --Dylan620 (Homeyadda yadda yaddaOoooohh!) 15:09, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Good stuff - but some of those Kikos are definitely male. --Dweller (talk) 15:21, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

DYK for Tropical Depression One-C (2005)

Updated DYK query On 12 November, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Tropical Depression One-C (2005), which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Gatoclass (talk) 05:00, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Re:ilena GAN

Dont worry I already know thanks to my watchlist. Any update on Boris GAN Leave Message ,Yellow Evan home ,Sandbox Happy Veterans day 15:22, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

Re: 2005 PHS

Yea, looking good so far. Few comments. See if there is any information from the discussions/other areas for the storm histories of each storm. Also, since you're providing the overview for the whole season (and now the season article is not technically split between each storm), you should keep in mind that you are writing almost a met. history for the entire season. That means you should note any unusually long breaks from activity, any monthly records, and, importantly, whenever more than one storm is active at the same time. Good luck with the article. ♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 15:39, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

I would try and use a collection of NCDC, newspaper sources, and possibly Mexican government reports. ♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 21:58, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
Well, that and the newspaper reports would probably come from a good Google search. ♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 22:03, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
What's the link? I don't know that much about Fair Use, but if it's the sort of thing where it's for educational use, there's no free equivalent available, and it really accompanies the text well, then it should probably be good. Also, I sort of doubt the government is making a lot of money off of the image. ♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 22:15, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
Hmm. PDF's aren't working on my computer at the moment, but I know the sort of image you are talking about. Yes, that would qualify as fair use, but you need to talk about the image (specifically talk about Dora's rainfall) in the text. ♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 22:31, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
I'm not sure. You're uploading on en.wp, not commons, right? I've never been that good with fair use, especially with the new format for the upload page. Maybe your best bet would be asking here, or just asking another user. Sorry I couldn't be helpful. ♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 22:42, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

Re: Help please

 Done. The article looks good, good work. :-) –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 20:34, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

ACE for North indian ocean

can u provide the link for ace. i am not able to find the updates of khaimuk in the current provided links --praddy06 (talk) 07:15, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

Re: 2003 Timeline

Cool, congrats! Would you like to nomination it for addition to the topic? It's your article, after all. :-) –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 20:32, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

BTW, this should be interesting. :-) –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 21:57, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

Timelines

Congratulations on your second FL, Cyclonebiskit! I'm a tad curious; advisories for Atlantic and EPac storms before 2004 are not available, and yet a timeline for 2003 is featured. How do you do make featured timelines for hurricane seasons that do not have advisories available for their storms (i.e. 2003)? Could you please show me how by using a timeline for the 2002 Atlantic hurricane season as a tutorial? This might sound weird, but for me, an FL might be easier than a GA! --Dylan620 (Homeyadda yadda yaddaOoooohh!) 20:42, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

Thank you very much. :-) I'm off to work on the timeline for the 2001 Atlantic hurricane season. Perhaps, if I follow your instructions, it may be my first FL. I came to you for GA and FL help; next, I plan on requesting help from my main tutor, Juliancolton, for FA and FP help. I haven't written any GA's yet, BTW. Speaking of the 2001 AHS, how close do you think that topic is to being featured? --Dylan620 (Homeyadda yadda yaddaOoooohh!) 23:15, 15 November 2008 (UTC)


Re Pre-2000 WPac question

Yep as far as i am aware Jason Rees (talk) 23:14, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Acctully talking about Timelines. Can you take a look over October and November in this years WPac one and see weather thats the right amount of detail for it? Thanks Jason Rees (talk) 23:26, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
Thanks what do you think of the PAGASA data i have included is it the right amount or what? Jason Rees (talk) 00:00, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
Thanks i agree as i think it would be excessive to include evrey PAGASA upgrade/downgradeJason Rees (talk) 00:11, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
i know its really annoying when it happens a trick ive found though with firefox is to go to your History and then Recently Closed Tabs and you should be able to recover the data Jason Rees (talk) 00:16, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
Ok then good luck in doing 1994 Jason Rees (talk) 00:42, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

Regarding Recent GA Nom

Hello. I'm aware you aren't the user that nominated it, might I thought you'd might like to know I have placed the Good Article Review for Hurricane Boris (2008) on hold. Your imput would be appreciated. :) \ / () 03:43, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

Ga rewiew for boris

Hello, Cyclonebiskit. You have new messages at Yellow Evan's talk page.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Results

It is now Yes do do articles for every storm so keep this in mind we creating one. cheers. Leave Message ,Yellow Evan home , User:Yellow Evan/Sandbox 20:23, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

I belive they all calmied. 20:28, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

YellowEvan

Just noticed his recent edits - do need any help reverting or responding to them? \ / () 20:32, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

Re: Possibly

Heh, let me first say that I'm hardly the most ideal admin candidate. I got the tools because people know me, and (I believe) I've created a positive image for myself that people can trust. Most admin candidates take the route of being a regular in reverting vandalism, reporting people for blocks, etc. etc. That isn't my style, but that is how most admin candidates get the mop. I personally dislike the idea of admin teaching. Really, the best way to be qualified to be an admin is to be well-rounded and well-connected.

The first part (well-rounded) is at the discretion of the editor. It shouldn't be a facade; if you decide to go to AFD's and rv like crazy all of the sudden, then that isn't really who you are as an editor. At the same time, to be well-connected you have go outside of the article space and share your input. Myself? I built up a reputation without realizing it. I created well-written articles and helped our project grow, at the same time of doing some minor chores I didn't even think of. The longer and more substantially you edit, the more you learn, and the more people know about you.

Take writing FAC's, which was my route. If you get a small, inconsequential storm to FA status, and only two people support it with little horrah, then the experience won't do that much. On the other hand, if you do something significant (sadly Tropical cyclone is already featured), then you will get a lot of credence for that. If ten people support that FAC, then chances are those ten people will remember you. The result multiplies when you do it again. A smaller, but still noticeable impact, is using the talk pages. And yes, AFD and reverting vandalism are certainly good credentials to backup your adminship bid.

So, to long-windedly answer your question, I'll be your mentor if you still want me to be, and I'm honored you asked me. You seem to be on your way, so I'll ask you the big questions that all prospective admin candidates are faced with.

  1. What do you think are the best contributions you have made?
  2. Have you had any conflicts since becoming an editor?
  3. Why do you want the admin tools?

Cheers. ♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 02:54, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

I'm not so sure you need the admin tools, and I'm not sure if you've convinced yourself either. If you want to go the route of saying that you want to be an extra person someone can go to, then you are bound to get some opposes. If it's about the power of blocking, then that is the typical route for admins. That means you really need to brush up on policy, since it's somewhat competitive. For example, if someone reverts a page three times in a 24 hour period, what do you do? Needless to say, that edit war on Hernan might cost you a bit, meaning you have to demonstrate appropriate warning next time. Become very familiar with the warning templates.

Also, regarding Yellow Evan, there is a relevant discussion about him on WP:ANI#User:Yellow Evan. Feedback from project users would be helpful.

Oh, and yea, I meant what article are you proudest of?

♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 04:17, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Just wanted to remind you about Hurricane Carlotta (2006)'s GA review. Yellow Evan has claimed to have retired, and little or no effort has been made to improve the article. Cheers, –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 16:28, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Well, he seems to still be editing, but this post indicates that he will be leaving. –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 17:54, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
Actually, I will still be here but will rarely be editing in the mainspace. I will still be watching the project grow and will be logged in most of the time. Cheers. Leave Message ,Yellow Evan home , User:Yellow Evan/Sandbox

Re: Da Nooz

Thanks! :-) --Dylan620 (Homeyadda yadda yaddaOoooohh!) 22:49, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Re: Source question

Oftentimes, with enough searching, you can find copies of subscription-only sources elsewhere on the internet, and if not, the hurricane archive might yield the same info. If you'd like, you can point me to the sources you've found, and I'll try to help find free copies for you. Good luck with the article. –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 00:49, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

It might be a good idea to include it within the storm history section. Every last detail doesn't need to be written, but it certainly seems like something worth mentioning. –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 21:40, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
The Bonnie article looks good so far. Do you plan on adding more impact info? –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 21:47, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the barnstar. :-) –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 14:14, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Re: Question about 2008 Global Cyclone season impact table

The page looks good, overall. I'm not sure the storm-by-storm description is need in prose. It's up to you, but it seems slightly redundant to the table. Either way, good luck with the article. Cheers, –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 15:35, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

Re: User needing a block

I gave the user a {{verror3}}, which warns on introducing factual errors. I'm not sure a block is needed at the moment, as a few of the accounts edits almost look to be in good-faith. –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 16:46, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

On another note, could you throw together a meteorological history for Hurricane Flossie (2007)? I stink at anything more significant than this or this. :) –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 17:21, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Edit warring

Just a heads-up, but you violated WP:3rr on Tropical Depression Sixteen (2008). I'm not going to block you, but please be careful. :-) –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 22:35, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, it does. The best thing to do when you find yourself in an edit war is to discuss the matter on the talk page. Let me know once you and the IP find a compromise/solution and I can unprotected the article. Cheers, –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 22:38, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

2001 Timeline

The finished product is here, and its B-Class rating makes it stand alone as my greatest article. :-) Could you please review its GAN for me? Thanks. --Dylan620 (Homeyadda yadda yaddaOoooohh!) 22:40, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Re: 2006 PHS

Thanks for the heads up/outside look. I'll probably be taking it to FAC, so the aestheticism comment is appreciated. ♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 05:07, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

To keep discussions centralised, I have started a discussion here about the validity of opposes based on a broken timeline caused by Bug 16085. Hopefully we can together establish consensus one way or another. Rambo's Revenge (talk) 12:12, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Re: Barnstar

Thank you very much! I'm sorry I didn't reply earlier, but I'm beginning to become very busy here on Wikipedia! --Dylan620 (Homeyadda yadda yaddaOoooohh!) 21:59, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Re: Could you..?

Sure, I'll take a look soon. About Kiko, keep in mind that the automated PR review says that every page listed needs a copyedit, as it's just assumed that the writing is never perfect. :-) I wouldn't be too concerned about it, and the lead seems of appropriate length. –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 17:02, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

Re: Question about the 2008 ATL season

Yeah, that might be a good idea, depending on how much of the info is sourced. –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 02:39, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

The page looks good. I guess now we just wait for the other TCRs. :-) Sorry I didn't see your message earlier. –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 02:31, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

Image mapping

I have mapped the image at Timeline of the 2001 Atlantic hurricane season, please check if this has any mistakes, but I hope it doesn't. Also before it can go back to FLC I think GimmeBot has to run to close the old one properly and this won't happen until 0:00 Wednesday. Rambo's Revenge (talk) 16:23, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

For someone that yesterday said "I have no clue how to map images" you did a very good job on Timeline of the 1982 Atlantic hurricane season today! Seems I have become redundant. :)
Rambo's Revenge (talk) 14:38, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

Help

How did you make the images for the timelines?--Neka 2008! 19:49, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

Re: Cheer up!

I'm just fine, actually. BTW, stay tuned for Christmas; I'll have a surprise present for you and at least seven others. But for Pete's sake, don't tell anyone. ;-) --Dylan620 (Homeyadda yadda yaddaOoooohh!) 23:44, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

As far as I'm concerned, no one else knows if they will receive the surprise or not. :-) --Dylan620 (Homeyadda yadda yaddaOoooohh!) 23:50, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
One minute reply time; a new record! :P --Dylan620 (Homeyadda yadda yaddaOoooohh!) 23:52, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
Zero minute reply time; you broke your own record! :P :P --Dylan620 (Homeyadda yadda yaddaOoooohh!) 23:55, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
You could only imagine the situation I was just in. Funnybunny (talk · contribs) is a Wikipedian from before your time. On his home page, he has a mock-up new message banner; when I got your message the moment I was browsing his page, it looked like Wikipedia had malfunctioned and given me TWO new message banners! --Dylan620 (Homeyadda yadda yaddaOoooohh!) 00:01, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

TD numbering

There's a chance that 1969 used a similar system in the NHC maps/numbering system that 1970-1973 did, in that the missing TDs were eastern Pacific formations. The problem is, the TDs in the eastern Pacific were not numbered in the map series that year, and the eastern tropical Atlantic was generally left unanalyzed in the map series. NHC is quite aware of the numbering problems, but has not worked at resolving the situation either. There just hasn't been much of a demand for a TD climatology over the years. I have an excel file at work that is my best guess at how all the various TDs/nondeveloping systems formed in sequence in the late 1960s and early 1970s based upon all available sources. Keep in mind the tracks within that file were created by a hurricane specialist annually after the fact between 1968-1987, who then retired in 1988, and they were only recently digitized. The whole numbering fiasco likely won't be solved until the reanalysis is complete through that year. The UNNAMED systems in that file were systems they recognized after the fact, which were written up in the annual summary articles, but not acknowledged in real-time, so the only source for those are the annual articles. As for the second ST, check for a portion of a system recognized in real-time which was subtropical while it had winds of 35+ knots. If only I was a doctor... Thegreatdr (talk) 01:15, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

Camille is AL0969. There are also potential issues of TDs being recognized in real-time differently than they were after the fact, which plays with the "order" of the pseudo-ATCF numbers, sometimes throwing them out of order. I followed the numbering they use in-house for ATCF numbers in years prior to ATCF (1990.) =) Thegreatdr (talk) 01:29, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
Thegreatdr provided good information, so it looks like your question may have already been answered; however, it might be a good idea to avoid using depression designations at all. For example, "A tropical depression forms to the southeast of X". –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 02:08, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

Impact Tables

Ive added some more paramaters to make the impact tables useable all over the world. See WPTC Talk Jason Rees (talk) 03:09, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

Timelines

If you don't mind, I am planning to timelines for the Atlantic from 2000 to 1990.--Neka 2008! 16:42, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

May I please do 1996 and 1999? I've been secretly planning to do them, once the 2001 issue is resolved. --Dylan620 (Homeyadda yadda yaddaOoooohh!) 16:48, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

Good luck...

with User:Cyclonebiskit/Westchester Tornado of July 2006. I was wondering when somebody would write that. :-) –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 00:13, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, I've driven by the area several times. I might even have a picture of downed trees, so I'll check for that. –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 00:20, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
That's a great picture, but I'm not sure about its copyright status. It's not a Government source, so unless it came from somewhere other than the website it's on, it's probably not free-use. –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 00:40, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

WPTC IRC channel

I don't know if you've heard of it, but the project has an IRC channel, which is a great place to talk about the project. Julian and I are usually on (Julian more than me). The instant communication is great for dealing with small issues, and talking about stuff in general. If you're interested, a lot of people use Mibbit.com. Just click here; next to IRC: click on the scroll window and find Freenode. Then, put Cyclonebiskit as your "nick", and #wiki-hurricanes as your channel. I hope you stop in some time. ♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 03:14, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

I got Kristy's little problems. So what do you think about coming on IRC? ♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 04:04, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for passing. BTW, I'm on now, but I don't see you. Can you see any of the other members in the channel? You can respond here to avoid the awkward 2 page conversation. ♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 04:10, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

Are you sure you followed the directions correctly? Mibbit.com is the site. When it sais "IRC:", to the right of that is a window that scrolls, which by default says "Mibbit webirc". Go down to "Freenode". Then, put Cyclonebiskit (or Jason Rees) as your "nick", and #wiki-hurricanes as the channel. ♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 04:23, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

Near tornado destruction

Live in Henderson,NC, about 50 miles NW of destruction. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ldranton (talkcontribs) 21:54, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

Happy Thanksgiving!

--Dylan620 (Homeyadda yadda yaddaOoooohh!) 01:25, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, more food was the last thing I needed too. If you were full, you could have just saved it for later. That's what I did with every dessert that wasn't a raspberry cheesecake. :-) --Dylan620 (Homeyadda yadda yaddaOoooohh!) 10:33, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

According to this, it's ready for A-Class. Since you were a good help in the article's improvement, I'd like to let you know. I'm off to submit this to WP:WPTC/A. If it passes the A-Class assessment, there will be only one chapter left in the User:Dylan620/2001 AHS Improvement Directory series; improving the timeline from A-Class to FL-Class. --Dylan620 (Homeyadda yadda yaddaOoooohh!) 00:30, 30 November 2008 (UTC)