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August 2008

You are invited...

to join the Earthquakes Wiki! Any questions can be directed to my talk page. --Meldshal (§peak to me) 14:12, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Pretty much do everything we do here. --Meldshal (§peak to me) 15:51, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

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.

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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) 03:35, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

List of solar eclipses

Hi. Thanks for adding the ref to List of solar eclipses in the 20th century. Just to let you know, I plan to get that page (and another one for the 21st century eclipses, which I have yet to split from List of solar eclipses) up to featured list status. I'm not sure what to do with the antiquities ones yet; it would be good to have a definition of what should be included in the list and what shouldn't be. Perhaps this should just be recorded eclipses, rather than including predicted ones? What do you think? Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 09:33, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

thanks...

for the heads up regarding anon removal of July ETA bombings from the 2008 Terrorist Incidents list. I'm not sure I would have realized. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rdavi404 (talk • contribs) 19:06, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

thanks again

Yes, it was a vandalism. Thanks again! --Neo-Jay (talk) 05:16, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Many thanks!

Thank you...

...for participating in my RfA, which closed with 119 in support, 4 neutral and 5 opposes. I'm honestly overwhelmed at the level of support that I've received from the community, and will do my best to maintain the trust placed in me. I 'm also thankful to those who opposed or expressed a neutral position, for providing clear rationales and superb feedback for me to build on. I've set up a space for you to provide any further feedback or thoughts, should you feel inclined to. However you voted, thanks for taking the time out to contribute to the process, it's much appreciated. Kind regards, Gazimoff 22:53, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

You may wish to know

Since you are a member of Wikipedia:WikiProject Earthquakes, you may wish to know about this. --I'm an Editorofthewiki[citation needed] 18:38, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Did You Know problem

Hi. I've reviewed your DYK submission for the article Virginids, and made a comment on it at the submissions page. Please feel free to reply or comment there. Cheers, Art LaPella (talk) 23:38, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Thank you. The article is now long enough. Others will soon check citations and other details. Art LaPella (talk) 21:11, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Song

Hallo, I am from the german Wikipedia from the sociologic section, and I found out that you wrote a song text on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Song . We want to know the reason(s) why you wrote this song. It would be kind of you to leave an english (or german) comment on http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Wikipedistik/Soziologie/Musik . Thank you --84.166.123.219 (talk) 07:37, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

Virginids DYK

Updated DYK query On 12 August, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Virginids, 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.

--Congratulations! PeterSymonds (talk) 02:20, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

Hi AH. The article appeared on the Main Page between 02:06 and 08:16 UTC, and the DYK has since been updated (it's updated about every six hours). Best, PeterSymonds (talk) 16:48, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

Talk:Bigfoot

Sorry about my poor reversion, but this diff just showed an anonymous IP editor deleting and refactoring talk page comments that sounded normal. I didn't see the random crap in the diff. I wonder how I missed it? OrangeMarlin Talk• Contributions 17:18, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

Anna Anderson

Thanks for calling my attention to Finnegan's revert on Anna Anderson. Undoubtedly he'll revert it again. I am attempting to edit the article to make it flow better and am paraphrasing passages to take out lengthy direct quotes. I've also requested that the article be peer reviewed. I've explained what I'm doing to Finnegan several times, suggested he edit it himself and paraphrase those quotes, etc. He keeps reverting and accusing me of vandalism. Any suggestions would be appreciated. I think the article in his preferred version is an absolute mess. It needs better balance as well. --Bookworm857158367 (talk) 01:15, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

Re: Invest (meteorology)

I'm not entirely sure. The NHC glossary said that invests are designated by the NHC, CPHC and JTWC, so I just went with that. –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 14:56, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for signing my guestbook

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Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

Thanks for signing my guestbook

The Extra-Special Guestbook Barnstar
For being the 50th person—a special landmark, indeed—to sign my guestbook, I, La Pianista, hereby present you with this award. Cheers! —LaPianista! «talk» 00:24, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

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