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[edit] Welcome!
Thank you for your contributions, you seem to be off to a good start. Hopefully you will soon join the vast army of Wikipediholics! If you need help on how to title new articles see the naming conventions, and for help on formatting the pages visit the manual of style. For general questions goto Wikipedia:Help or the FAQ, if you can't find your answer there check the Village Pump (for Wikipedia related questions) or the Reference Desk (for general questions)! There's still more help at the Tutorial and Policy Library. Plus, don't forget to visit the Community Portal. If you have any more questions after that, feel free to ask me directly on my user talk page.
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[edit] Be Bold!!
You can find me at my user page or talk page for any questions. Happy editing, and we'll see ya 'round. 
Joe I 03:31, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Please use edit summaries
I have noted that you often edit without an edit summary. Please do your best to always fill in the summary field. This is considered an important guideline in Wikipedia. Even a short summary is better than no summary. An edit summary is even more important if you delete any text; otherwise, people may think you're being sneaky. Also, mentioning one change but not another one can be misleading to someone who finds the other one more important; add "and misc." to cover the other change(s). Thanks! — Super-Magician (talk • contribs • count) ★ 12:52, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Trans-Neptunian objects
Your tracking down of all those TNOs in the List of solar system objects by radius list is much appreciated! :-) Deuar 21:25, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] You track hurricanes?
Hey, I talked to you on the 1982 Pacific hurricane season talk page. Do you have a good interest in hurricanes? If so, there is a Tropical cyclone Wikiproject on the subject, which has articles on just about every major storm, nearly every season, and many of the important terms. The project is sort of lacking in active members, and we always need more writers, so would you be interested in joining? The Tropical cyclone Wikiproject, or WPTC, is dedicated to becoming one of the leading centralized sources of tropical cyclone information on the internet; indeed we have been cited by various news agencies and have had dozens of articles featured. If you are interested, you can ask me for more questions, or you can sign up (don't let the number of members signed up fool you; about 90% of the work on the project is done by a small group of editors). Hurricanehink (talk) 03:30, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Welcome!
Welcome to the Tropical cyclone Wikiproject! I'm glad you decided to join. Don't worry, you don't need to be an expert. All you need is some skills in researching and writing. As I said before, we are becoming one of the leading sources for tropical cyclone information, and as such we are dedicated to fairly high standards. Yea, 2005 was quite a season. Would you be interested in improving the article for Tropical Storm Tammy (2005)? If so, the typical method for improving a storm article is to gut it and start from step 1. We have a fairly standard format for tropical cyclone articles.
- 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. Be sure to use the updated Infobox Hurricane. You can use articles in the Atlantic basin from 2003 to the present as a guideline for the infobox.
- Intro- The intro for every article should be, at a minimum, 1 long paragraph for storms that did not affect land, or a minimum of 2 paragraphs for those that did affect land. For hurricanes with more impact, 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 a brief storm history, while the third should be impact.
- 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 flexable, depending on meteorological conditions, but it should generally be around 2 to 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, you could 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.
- 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.
- 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 very useful, as well. For storms that impact the United States, United States territories, or Mexico, this site can be used for rainfall data, including an image of rainfall totals.
- 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.
- Records- This is optional, but can't hurt to be included. If the records are short and the impact is short as well, the two sections can be combined to form Impacts and records.
- 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.
There are plenty of sites available for certain sources of information. For example, the National Climatic Data Center has great information for nearly all storms that impacted the United States since 1993. Next is the latest edition of the monthly newsletter of the project.
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.
Storm of the month
Cyclone Favio developed well to the east of northern Madagascar on February 12 and moved to the southwest as it developed. The storm did not significantly intensify until February 19 when it was just off the soutern coast of Madagascar, but rapidly intenstified soon after to its peak with 185 km/h (115 mph) winds. Favio turned to the northwest and hit Mozambique worsening the floods already occuring in the country. Favio claimed at least 4 lives and destroyed thousands of homes.
Other tropical cyclone activity
There were a total of 6 tropical cyclones in the southern hemisphere during February. Five of these, including Favio, were in the South West Indian Ocean.
- The only other storm in the Australian region was Cyclone Nelson which formed at the end of January in the Gulf of Carpentaria before it hit Queensland.
- Cyclone Dora was active in January and reached its peak as an annular cyclone on February 3 with 185 km/h (115 mph) winds.
- Cyclone Gamede was an unusally large storm that prompted the highest level of cyclone warning on Réunion and brought strong winds to the island on February 27, causing a bridge to collapse.
- Neither Enok towards the start of the month or Humba near its end, had any impact on land.
Member of the month
The February member of the month is Miss Madeline. Miss Madeline is responsible for many of the projects featured lists such as List of Category 5 Pacific hurricanes and List of California hurricanes. She has also put serious work into many of our Pacific hurricane articles since she joined the project as one of its founding members. Recently she has worked on 1996 Pacific hurricane season, bringing it from a stub-class article to a Good article candidate.
New and improved articles
- New featured content: Hurricane Erika (1997), Effects of Hurricane Isabel in Maryland and Washington, D.C., Meteorological history of Hurricane Wilma, 2000 Sri Lanka Cyclone, Hurricane Isabel and List of Florida hurricanes (pre-1900).
- New Good articles include Hurricane Pauline, Hurricane Isis (1998), 1939 Pacific typhoon season, Typhoon Tip and 1983 Atlantic hurricane season.
- New articles include Hurricane Isis (1998), Hurricane Debby (1982), Hurricane Adolph (2001), Hurricane Alberto (1982) and Tropical Depression One (1992).
Main Page content
- Entries from 6 articles: Hurricane Flossy (1956), Hurricane Able (1951), Meteorological history of Hurricane Wilma, Effects of Hurricane Wilma in the Bahamas, Tropical Depression One (1992) and Tropical cyclone basins appeared on the Main Page in the Did you know column during February.
New articles and improvements wanted
- Articles are wanted on Pacific typhoon, North Indian cyclone, diffluence, Outflow (meteorology) and Central dense overcast.
- Improvements are wanted to Subtropical cyclone, Japan Meteorological Agency, Intertropical Convergence Zone, 1919 Florida Keys Hurricane Hurricane Ivan and Hurricane Andrew.
Storm article statistics
| Grade | Dec | Jan | Feb | Mar |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 FA |
19 | 23 | 25 | 28 |
| A | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
 GA |
57 | 74 | 75 | 80 |
| B | 78 | 71 | 76 | 78 |
| Start | 200 | 193 | 195 | 194 |
| Stub | 15 | 16 | 16 | 16 |
| Total | 375 | 379 | 389 | 398 |
| percentage Less than B |
57.3 | 55.1 | 54.2 | 52.8 |
Comments wanted on project talk Many discussions that potentially have far reaching impact for the whole project are carried out on the project's talk page. However, only a fraction of our active contributors actually engage in those discussions. If you add the project page to your Watchlist and keep an eye on discussions there to monitor upcoming changes, even if you don't participate in those discussions it would help both yourself and the project as a whole. For instance, at the moment the primary infobox templates such as {{Infobox hurricane}} are in the process of being deprecated and replaced by new versions which do the role more effectively.
So, hopefully you're still interested after all of that! If you have any questions, feel free to give me a post. Additionally, the Wikiproject has its own channel on IRC. Just click the link to the left, enter your name, type irc.freenode.net as the server, and type #wiki-hurricanes as the channel. Good luck, have fun, and I'll see you around. Hurricanehink (talk) 17:25, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #11
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.
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 Will developed from a tropical wave to the east of the Caribbean Sea and intensified. It crossed over Jamaica and re-emerged over water a few days later. The storm intensified into a hurricane and an eye began to develop. Will became a major hurricane over the Gulf of Mexico and made landfall on the vulnerable Gulf Coast of the United States soon after. To date, Hurricane Will has claimed over 350 lives and is directly responsible for about $5 billion of damages; of which an unknown amount was insured. Despite the damage, it is not expected that the name will be retired by WMO.
Other tropical cyclone activity
- After threatening the Eastern Seaboard for some time, Hurricane Hink has turned away and the NHC has cancelled all warnings associated with the storm.
- The 2007 Pacific typhoon season began with Tropical Storm Kong-rey forming on March 31.
- There were a total of 7 cyclones in the southern hemisphere: Becky in the South Pacific, Indlala and Jaya in the Southwestern Indian Ocean and Odette, George, Jacob and Kara in the Australian region. Indlala killed at least 80 and left over 100,000 homeless; whilst Cyclone George was the worst storm to affect Port Hedland in over 30 years.
Member of the month
The April member of the month is HurricaneIrene. Irene began contributing to tropical cyclone articles on Wikipedia in August 2005, but ran out of steam and left after barely 2 weeks. However, Irene's influence on the project has been wide-reaching. Her efforts led directly to two articles attaining featured status and her legacy inspired many of our most active editors to write a plethora of good articles on a wide range of storms.
New and improved articles
- The was one new featured article: Hurricane Kenna
- New Good articles include: Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale, Hurricane Florence (1988), Tropical cyclone observation and 1996 Pacific hurricane season.
- New storm articles include: Hurricane Lili (1990), Tropical Storm Alberto (1988), Cyclone George and Typhoon Durian.
- New non-storm articles include: Tropical cyclone naming, list of cyclones in Western Australia, Hurricane evacuation route and Tropical cyclone rainfall forecasting.
Main Page content
- Hurricane Iniki appeared on the Main Page as Today's featured article on March 15.
- Entries from 2 articles: Hurricane Katrina (1981) and Hurricane Guillermo (1997) appeared on the Main Page in the Did you know column during March.
Storm article statistics
| Grade | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FA |
23 | 25 | 28 | 29 |
| A | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| GA |
74 | 75 | 80 | 82 |
| B | 71 | 76 | 78 | 80 |
| Start | 193 | 195 | 194 | 209 |
| Stub | 16 | 16 | 16 | 17 |
| Total | 379 | 389 | 398 | 419 |
| percentage Less than B |
55.1 | 54.2 | 52.8 | 53.9 |
The Main Page
The WikiProject has a narrow scope, so it is not surprising that our articles are not frequently selected for Today's featured article. Most destructive cyclones are likely to be mentioned on the In the news column. We have no real control over that, but we should submit suggestions when appropriate.
However, we can do a more lot more to place our content in the other major section of the main page: The Did you know column. In the past month we created over 30 articles. Of these only 2 were even submitted as suggestions for DYK. We can do much better, please submit DYK entries for new articles when you do the initial assessment.
