User talk:Verrai/Archive11/Archive5

Thank You

While, first thing, I'm honored to make the first contribution to this new talk page. Secondly, which is the reason I cam here in the first place, was to thank you for your participation in the National College Athletic Association of the Phillipines FAC. (Remember that?) You were very prompt and polite in your assistance, and it's always refreshing to see such nice conduct in a place where it's sometimes lacking. Again, thank you, and have a happy/nice/satisfying (fill in appropriate time element). RyanGerbil10 03:38, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Revision of my home page

I was removing the tutorial because it was tacky and didn't really want it, and a removed the warning because it was made against something I made which wasn't vandalism. Repeat, not vandalism. All I ever wanted was a clean user page, and I cleaned it up 4 times myself. Please let me edit my own page.Bordello 08:03, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

I'll reply here. I'll trust you when you say that the warning was unwarranted; to be honest, I'm not certain whether unwarranted warnings can be blanked or not. (I noticed that the warning was not for vandalism but for incivility; make sure to remain civil.) I would also remind you that no one owns a page, even a user page or user talk page, as claiming ownership of a page can lead to divisive bickering. Cheers. —Cuiviénen^T|C, Wednesday, 24 May 2006 @ 15:54 UTC

About the ownership issue, you're right. I meant I was trying to rid my talk page of everything because I've noted it and it's bulky. And thank you for not responding on there, by the way. And of civility and vandalism, I removed vandalism and was accused of creating it.Bordello 02:10, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for your comments in Lar's RfA!

We are here to build an encyclopedia!

Hi, and thank you for your supportive comments in my request for adminship! With a final tally of (109/5/1), I have been entrusted with adminship. It's been several weeks since the conclusion of the process, so hopefully you've had a chance to see me in action. Please let me know what you think! Thanks again, and I will do everything I can to justify the trust you've placed in me, hopefully you've still got "nothing to complain about"! ++Lar: t/c 03:25, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

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Please help on Ancient Egypt

Posted by Pruneau 18:51, 29 May 2006 (UTC) on behalf of the AID Maintenance Team

Re: Hurricane John

Cool on the GA. The only thing I can think of is more images. Here is an image of John at its tertiary peak, though it isn't that good. If you're considering an FAC bid, you should wait a bit, as there's currently an FAC (Claudette) and we don't want to have more than one at a time. Also, you should bring it up at the assessments talk page for the next FA. Hurricanehink (talk) 14:11, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Article formatting

Dear Tropical cyclone editor,

As a member of the Tropical Cyclone Wikiproject, you are receiving this message to describe how you can better tropical cyclone articles. There are hundreds of tropical cyclone articles, though many of them are poorly organized and lacking in information. Using the existing featured articles as a guide line, here is the basic format for the ideal tropical cyclone article.

1. Infobox- Whenever possible, the infobox should have a picture for the tropical cyclone. The picture can be any uploaded picture about the storm, though ideally it should be a satellite shot of the system. If that is not available, damage pictures, either during the storm or after the storm, are suitable. In the area that says Formed, indicate the date on which the storm first developed into a tropical depression. In the area that says Dissipated, indicate the date on which the storm lost its tropical characteristics. This includes when the storm became extratropical, or if it dissipated. If the storm dissipated and reformed, include the original start date and the final end date. Highest winds should be the local unit of measurement for speed (mph in non-metric countries, km/h in metric countries), with the other unit in parenthesis. The lowest pressure should be in mbars. Damages should, when available, be in the year of impact, then the present year. The unit of currency can be at your discretion, though typically it should be in USD. Fatalities indicate direct deaths first, then indirect deaths. Areas affected should only be major areas of impact. Specific islands or cities should only be mentioned if majority of the cyclone's effects occurred there.
2. Intro- The intro for every article should be, at a minimum, 2 paragraphs. For more impacting hurricanes, it should be 3. The first should describe the storm in general, including a link to the seasonal article, its number in the season, and other statistics. The second should include a brief storm history, while the third should be impact.
3. Storm history- The storm history should be a decent length, relatively proportional to the longevity of the storm. Generally speaking, the first paragraph should be the origins of the storm, leading to the system reaching tropical storm status. The second should be the storm reaching its peak. The third should be post-peak until landfall and dissipation. This section is very flexible, depending on meteorological conditions, but it should generally be around 3. Storm histories can be longer than three paragraphs, though they should be less than five. Anything more becomes excessive. Remember, all storm impacts, preparations, and records can go elsewhere. Additional pictures are useful here. If the picture in the infobox is of the storm at its peak, use a landfall picture in the storm history. If the picture in the infobox is of the storm at its landfall, use the peak. If the landfall is its peak, use a secondary peak, or even a random point in the storm's history.
4. Preparations- The preparations section can be any length, depending on the amount of preparations taken by people for the storm. Hurricane watches and warnings need to be mentioned here, as well as the number of people evacuated from the coast. Include numbers of shelters, and other info you can find on how people prepared for the storm.
5. Impact- For landfalling storms, the impact section should be the majority of the article. First, if the storm caused deaths in multiple areas, a death table would work well in the top level impact section. A paragraph of the general effects of the storm is also needed. After the intro paragraph, impact should be broken up by each major area. It depends on the information, but sections should be at least one paragraph, if not more. In the major impact areas, the first paragraph should be devoted to meteorological statistics, including rainfall totals, peak wind gusts on land, storm surge, wave heights, beach erosion, and tornadoes. The second should be actual damage. Possible additional paragraphs could be detailed information on crop damage or specifics. Death and damage tolls should be at the end. Pictures are needed, as well. Ideally, there would be at least one picture for each sub-section in the impact, though this sometimes can't happen. For storms that impact the United States or United States territories, this site can be used for rainfall data, including an image of rainfall totals.
6. Aftermath- The aftermath section should describe foreign aid, national aid, reconstruction, short-term and long-term environmental effects, and disease. Also, the storm's retirement information, whether it happened or not, should be mentioned here.
7. Records- This is optional, but can't hurt to be included.
8. Other- The ideal article should have inline sourcing, with the {{cite web}} formatting being preferable. Always double check your writing and make sure it makes sense.

Good luck with future writing, and if you have a question about the above, don't hesitate to ask.

Hurricanehink (talk) 19:54, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

LOL. Yea, some probably didn't need to receive the message, but I just wanted to remind everyone of how to make a good article. Would you be interested in a newsletter, though? Unfortunately, it might be longer than that message :P Hurricanehink (talk) 23:04, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Cool, I'll bring it up. Hurricanehink (talk) 23:25, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

FAC Help

Since you were so helpful last time I asked, I thought I might request your vote at another FAC. This time it's deconstructivism. The nom seems to be headed for success, but Raul says it too vote-poor to count as consensus as of yet. Thanks for your time, and your help in the past, RyanGerbil10 16:07, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your vote. It's now an FA, so your time was invaluable. Thanks, RyanGerbil10 05:37, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

I didn't ad

I was erasing an ad BY someone. User:Jasonflare

Opt in RfA alerts

I posted a new proposal at User talk:ShortJason/Publicity that would allow users to opt-in to RfA alerts, and specify the nominees they would be interested in. I think we agree that spamming isn't the way to keep people informed about RfA, but that some kind of (targetted?) publicity would be good. I wondered if you would like to comment, or even sign up? TheGrappler 03:07, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

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.

Storm of the month

Typhoon Chanchu near its peak intensity

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.

Signature

Hi, it has been brought to my attention via a post on Wikien-L that your signature is as follows

<!--Cuivienen's signature begins here-->—<span style="font-variant:small-caps">[[Wikipedia:Concordia|<span style="color:gray;">C</span>]][[User:Cuivienen|uivi]][[User:Cuivienen/Esperanza|<span style="color:green;">é</span>]][[User:Cuivienen|nen]]^{[[User talk:Cuivienen|T]]|[[Special:Contributions/Cuivienen|C]]|[[Special:Emailuser/Cuivienen|@]]}</span><span style="font-size:85%;"> on [[Saturday]], [[3 June]] [[2006]] at 23:44 [[UTC]]</span><!--Cuivienen's signature ends here-->

Even ignoring the ridiculous opening and closing HTML comments, the size of the signature proper is over 400 characters. It is very intrusive, making your actual comments and those of others, most of which are considerably smaller than the 480+ characters of your signature, rather difficult to locate.

As an example, see this comment which is 76 characters followed by your absolutely massive signature. Your preceding comment is a mere 10 characters followed by the same signature of nearly 500 characters.

Wikipedia policy states that Wikipedians with improper signatures can be compelled to change them. The Wikipedia signature guidelines (shortcut: WP:SIG) say that you should reduce your signature to "the minimum necessary."

Could I please ask you, in the interests of making the Wikipedia environment a nicer place for other editors to work in, to reduce the size of your signature? --Tony Sidaway 22:03, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

As much as I think this crusade is unwarranted and misguided, I've reduced the length of my signature considerably. —Cuiviénen on Tuesday, 6 June 2006 at 01:03 UTC

Well that's:

<!--Cuivienen's signature begins here-->—[[Wikipedia:Concordia|<span style="color:gray;">C</span>]][[User:Cuivienen|uivi]][[User:Cuivienen/Esperanza|<span style="color:green;">é</span>]][[User talk:Cuivienen|nen]]<span style="font-size:85%;"> on [[Tuesday]], [[6 June]] [[2006]] at 01:03 [[UTC]]</span>'''<!--Cuivienen's signature ends here-->

You've lopped maybe 200 characters off your signature, which is great. But you know you've still got a lot of nonsense in there that you don't need. Do you need to do "on [[Tuesday]], [[6 June]] [[2006]] at 01:03 [[UTC]]"" ? And what sense does it make to clutter the page with html comments? --Tony Sidaway 21:00, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

The way this guy said it is hilarious. 165.146.211.58 19:59, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

You're right, I forgot about the comments that I added previously (it's a lot shorter now). The time stamp is used so that I can have a custom time stamp. I sign using three tildes instead of four, so my signature is not considerably longer than it would be without that text and using four tildes. —Cuiviénen on Friday, 9 June 2006 at 21:03 UTC

My RFA

Thanks

Verrai/Archive11/Archive5, thank you for participating in my RfA. It passed with an amazingly unopposed 77/0/1. Thanks for the support everybody! If you see me doing anything wrong, want to ask me something, or just want to yell in my general direction, leave me a note on my talk page. I promise to try and knock out Wikipedia's problems wherever I may find them!

Staxringold _talk^contribs 20:26, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Long time.

Hello, Cuivienen. I want to apologize that I haven't been able to send you message back. Thanks you for introducing your school because someone created the article about your school, but there is no article about my school. Sorry for that. Cuvienen, when is your school going to start Final Exam? The date for my final exam is June 19 to June 21. but the end of my schoolday is June 22 which is too late. I'm still taking Wikibreak little bit because I prepare for final exam. So, When will you take Final Exam? Anyways, I hope you could send me message. '''*Daniel*''' 03:31, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Nomination

Am willing to co-nominate. NSLE _(T+C) at 15:48 UTC (2006-06-09)

RFA questions

I have asked a question on your RFA. Could you please respond? Thanks. --Cyde↔Weys 21:46, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Nomination.

Hello, Cuivienen. Some Wikipedian nominated you for administrator. If I knew the way of nominating people for Admin, I could have nominated you for administrator. Anyways, I put Support for you to become administrator. And I admire you that you always created good article, Reverting vandalism often, provide the edit summary when you edit the article. Anyways, I'm so glad about someone's nomination for you to becoming admin. Anyways, Could you send me message.

'''*Daniel*''' has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Smile to others by adding {{subst:smile}}, {{subst:smile2}} or {{subst:smile3}} to their talk page with a friendly message. Happy editing!

'''*Daniel*''' 04:06, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for explaining about Template:db-author!

I had no idea Template:db-author existed. Thanks for explaining about its existence in Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion/Log/2006_June_12. Maybe we can include information on its existence in Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion? Could save the admins some time. In fact, I don't see it mentioned in any pages in the Help namespace. --Che Fox

Congrats!

Congratulations. Here are what pass for words of wisdom from the puppy:

Remember you will always protect the wrong version. Remember you must always follow the rules, except for when you ignore them. You will always pick the wrong one to do. (See #5) Remember to assume good faith and not bite. Remember that when you are applying these principles most diligently, you are probably dealing with a troll. Use the block ability sparingly. Enjoy the insults you receive when you do block. Remember when you make these errors, someone will be more than happy to point them out to you in dazzling clarity and descriptive terminology. and finally, Remember to contact me if you ever need assistance, and I will do what I am able. KillerChihuahua?!?

DISCLAIMER: This humor does not reflect the official humor of Wikipedia, the Wikimedia Foundation, or Jimbo Wales. All rights released under GFDL.

Congratulations

You're now an admin, so use your shiny new tools wisely to help out where you can. I recommend being conservative with them, especially at first, and re-reading the relevant policies before acting. Have fun and don't hesitate to ask questions. Again, congrats. And wow, KC dropped the above in here between when I opened the edit window and saved. Gotta love the less edit conflicts with the new smart merging. I'd also say that while I find it unfortunate that you may have felt forced to shorten your signature due to the RfA, I do appreciate that it is leaner now :) - Taxman ^Talk 21:12, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations! :) --AySz88\^-^ 21:19, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

I also mus congratulate you. I hope you're experience as an admin is pleasant, and that it's at least three weeks before you're mentioned in an RfC or an arbitration request. RyanGerbil10(Drop on in!) 22:09, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations on making it. Alethiophile^{Evil Kitten wants you to TALK TO ME} 23:00, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Haha, thank you to all of you for your congratulations. I hope I don't muck up immediately =) —Cuiviénen 22:47, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations, mate. Well done. NSLE 01:18, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Welcome aboard -- enjoy the mop, and don't mind the musty smell from the bucket! I promise that you will muck up immediately, and that's absolutely ok. Lemme know if you need a second opinion about any of your new buttons (see very very top of page) or mopsmacking someone -- I've been an admin since February, long enough to know my way around but short enough that I haven't quite gone rouge yet ;) and wtf was that nonsense on your RfA about your sig? Well, whatever, looks like it didn't slow you down. Again, welcome to adminship! JDoorjam Talk 07:04, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Re: Impersonator

Yep, and I banned him forever. Thanks for the heads up anyways. :) --tomf688 (talk - email) 01:08, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

DVD+R/W's RfA

Thank you for your support in my RfA, which ended with the result of (74/0/0). If there is anything I can help with feel free to ask. Also, if there is anything I am doing wrong, please point that out as well. I look forward to working with you in the future. Highest regards, DVD+ R/W 01:37, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Admin

Congradulations! You deserve it. →Cyclone1→ 02:11, 18 June 2006 (UTC)