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Wind FAC review
Cool. Just let me know what issues you find with the article. There haven't been any FAC comments in nearly a week, and no edits to the article in 5 days. We're up to 4 supports and no opposes, with the two extra supports coming late last weekend. There doesn't appear to be anything on the consensus page to know how many supports are needed before a FAC is passed. I'm assuming this is an organic process. In the past, it appears 6 supports were needed. Thegreatdr (talk) 12:02, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
This is the monthly newsletter of WikiProject Tropical Cyclones. The Hurricane Herald aims to give a summary of the WikiProject's progress 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 June 2009.
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Tropical Storm Linfa formed out of an area of low pressure on June 14, the storm briefly attained tropical depression status before degenerating. By June 17 the system regenerated in the South China Sea. Slowly tracking northward, the storm intensified, attaining severe tropical storm status on June 19 and peaking in intensity the following day. On June 21, Linfa made landfall in Fujian Province, China as a tropical storm before weakening to a tropical depression.
In Taiwan, outer bands of the storm produced significant amounts of rain over southeastern areas of the island. Along the western coast, rip currents resulted in the drowning of one person. Six hikers also were reported to be missing. In China, torrential rains triggered flooding that destroyed 100 homes, killed one person and left six others missing. In all, seven people were killed by Linfa, with another 12 missing, damages in mainland China were estimated at ¥655 million (US$95.8 million) and agricultural losses in Taiwan reached NT$400 million (US$12.1 million).
The member of the month is Cool3 (talk·contribs). Though only a new member, Cool3 has contributed hundreds of sources and hours of research to several articles, two of which are now featured. The project thanks him for his high-quality work.
Project News
The project as a whole is still rather inactive, though more articles are being created and expanded than in previous months. 18 good articles and four featured articles were promoted during June, including Wind. Additionally, about 28 new articles were created and assessed.
A discussion is ongoing at the project talk page (link) regarding the naming of unnamed tropical cyclones, such as 1978 January subtropical storm and 1975 Pacific Northwest hurricane. While more descriptive titles often constitute original research, official designations are sometimes ambiguous. Comments are welcome. There is also a discussion on how the project rates its articles on the importance scale.
Tropical cyclones at associated Wikimedia projects
I've downloaded all the systems needed for getting Tropical cyclone tracks but none of them work. I'm not sure which versions of the cairo, SVN, and gcc graphics are needed. Wonderworld1995268 (talk) 20:20, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
Hey. WRT this, I just wanted to clarify a few things: first of all, I don't believe my time is being stretched too thinly at the moment. In fact, I'm starting to expand my horizons by editing a few more sister projects. Second, surprisingly, stress hasn't been a huge issue for me as of yet. I work where and when I'm comfortable for the most part. Finally, I don't think I have to worry about burning out for a while.
We need to watch the evolution of this article closely. There has been greater vandalism in recent months. Also, one of the early editors (a current admin) to the article has previously reverted people who have simplified wording, and has previously stated to me (in a different matter) that they have no interest in the wikipedia class system. I can see the edits made over the past 12 hours all going up in smoke once the editor/admin realizes what's been going on. Thegreatdr (talk) 18:19, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
Global Positioning System
Titoxd, Are you interested in reviewing the GPS article and making comments. This would allow you to use your mathematics and engineering background to learn a new technology while giving you a break from your major field. This article has been put up for peer review. RHB100 (talk) 21:36, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
This is the monthly newsletter of WikiProject Tropical Cyclones. The Hurricane Herald aims to give a summary of the WikiProject's progress 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 July 2009.
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From the editors
In recent months, the project has become increasingly inactive; with only a few active participants, we need your help for the upcoming hurricane season! Feel free to contact Juliancolton (talk·contribs), Jason Rees (talk·contribs), or Cyclonebiskit (talk·contribs) for more information. Thanks!
Storm of the month
Hurricane Carlos was the third named storm of the 2009 Pacific hurricane season.
Tropical Depression Four-E formed on July 10, and was quickly upgraded to Tropical Storm Carlos. On July 11, the storm strengthened into a minimal Category 1 hurricane. Following a series of intensity fluctuations, Carlos peaked as a Category 2 hurricane with winds of 105 mph (165 km/h). The storm subsequently began to weaken, and on July 16, Carlos degenerated into a remnant low. The cyclone had no known effects on land.
The member of the month is Plasticup (talk·contribs). Plasticup was inactive for most of the winter; however, upon returning this month, he quickly resumed work. Among his recent works are Meteorological history of Hurricane Gustav, a Good Article, and Tropical Storm Gamma (2005), a Good Article nominee. Plasticup was also designated member of the month in July 2008.
New members
There were no new members in July. However, four users re-joined the project after being listed as inactive:
Project News
July was a relatively quiet month for the project; low levels of tropical activity allowed editors to maintain and build content regarding older storms. There are currently three Featured Article candidates and three Featured List candidates pertaining to tropical cyclones.
SchuminWeb (talk·contribs) pointed out towards the end of the month that hurricane disambiguation pages are often over-categorized. Efforts are currently underway to address this.
Hi Titoxd. I am a professor at University of South Florida completing a long research project on digital technology and classical rhetoric/postmodern philosophy. Blah blah. I am particularly interested in the Diebold revert war from November 17th 2005. Looking at the page history, I noticed that you were able to revert a rather dubious edit by an anonymous IP address (later, through Wikiscanner, attached to Diebold's corporate offices), within one minute. Do you remember anything from that day? Did you just happen to be on when the edit occurred? Where you regularly watching that page? Any information you could supply would be of interest to me. Thanks ahead of time for any information you can supply. Insignificantwrangler (talk) 17:13, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
That series of edits look to be just standard vandalism reversion (blanking of a criticism section by , caught by RC feed filters on #cvn-wp-en (or one of its many precursor channels; see WP:CUV for more info). I didn't watch that page, but it might have a) been listed on one of the IRC watchlists if someone reported problems, or b) someone else might have reverted that IP first, triggering the address to be grey-listed by the RC filter bots. More than that, I honestly don't remember (it's been four years). Titoxd(?!? - cool stuff)01:58, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
I met the people from PediaPress at Wikimania - they are the folks officially "blessed" by the Foundation for producing dead tree versions of Wikipedia content. They do quite a nice job, too! They are keen to work with us 1.0 people to develop WikiProject-based book releases. We're having an IRC meeting on Tuesday, October 20th at 1600h UTC at #wikipedia-1.0 - do you want to join us? I remember that you're (like me) quite a fan of book releases, and you were thinking of doing one on Atlantic hurricanes since 2000 (is that right?). Cheers, Walkerma (talk) 04:20, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
Sorry you can't attend. I think the process is simple; you just provide them with a list of articles, and they make the book. I will be keen to see about things like control over the article version (critical for avoiding vandalism), etc. I'll send you the log. All the best, Walkerma (talk) 05:01, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on Template:FL-classicon requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section T3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a deprecated or orphaned template. After seven days, if it is still unused and the speedy deletion tag has not been removed, the template will be deleted.
If the template is intended to be substituted, please feel free to remove the speedy deletion tag and please consider putting a note on the template's page indicating that it is substituted so as to avoid any future mistakes (<noinclude>{{transclusionless}}</noinclude>).
I was following a discussion at one of the village pumps about the comments subpages used by some articles, and having a vague memory that WP:WP 1.0 started them, I went looking for the old discussions that started them and found these: 1, 2, 3 (May to July 2006). You were one of the five main participants at those discussions, so I'm notifying all five of you so that some input from when this all started can be obtained for the current discussion, as I'm not sure the full picture is being presented there so far. I'll leave a note at the Village Pump discussion saying who I notified. I also left a note at the WP:WP 1.0 talk page, but not sure how much you each follow that page now, hence the user talk page note. Carcharoth (talk) 19:10, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
Track program
I see that you helped CB get it, so are there any PC track options? He is the only one updating and making them right now, and he is "temporarily" retired. Thanks. Darren23Edits|Mail14:20, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
Request for peer review of SENSOR-Pesticides article
Howdy, Titoxd! I've been working on the SENSOR-Pesticides article for some time now, and I've finally submitted it for peer review. I saw you listed on the peer review volunteers page, so I thought I'd ask you to take a look and the page and offer your edits, comments, and suggestions. Thank you!Mmagdalene722 (talk) 20:30, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
Tornado at FARC, User:SandyGeorgia recommended you be contacted
User:John Asfukzenski has nominated Tornado for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Ks0stmIf you reply here, please leave me a {{Talkback}} message on my talk page.20:20, 13 November 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the input so far. I believe all of your comments have now seen an attempt at a fix. If you can, strike out the comments you feel are dealt with from your review, so we know what's left. Luckily, a few people were involved in the upgrades based upon your suggestions, instead of just one. =) Thegreatdr (talk) 12:14, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
Oy gevalt. I can relate...that was partial differential equations for me. Luckily, I never had to take the fluid dynamics course, though it would have come in handy and reinforced physics. What I know of fluid dynamics was either through the basic physics, or gained by years of watching the atmosphere in motion. Just let me know...I'll be on wikipedia intermittently between now and Monday. Thegreatdr (talk) 18:58, 20 November 2009 (UTC)
Epa, Tito; me has hecho falta, gusto en "verte" de nuevo ! I'm not worried about the Tornado, since The Great Dr seems to be on it. Let me know if I should be worried. What do you think about this?SandyGeorgia (Talk) 05:18, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
Phoenix meetup
Hey there! Just wanted to direct your attention to the Phoenix meetup page, where we are planning a meet and greet for early December. It is a weeknight due to scheduling difficulties around the holidays. We will plan a weekend meetup early in 2010. --Spike Wilbury (talk) 17:50, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
WP 1.0 bot
It's good to see you around. I wanted to let you know that the WP 1.0 bot is moving forward quickly during the last few weeks. I am almost ready to move it to beta. I greatly appreciate all your work on the code in the past. I am not sure how much time or interest you have in additional work, but I would be happy to work with you again if you are ever interested. The project has a group account on toolserver now, and I would be glad to give you access to it. — Carl (CBM · talk) 18:09, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
Thanks
Thank you for your large contribution to the improvement of Tornado. I'm sure you more than anyone else know that sometimes you just need another set of eyes to fix an article. -RunningOnBrains(talk)16:38, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
The easiest way to switch is to delete your old working copy and then download it again from the new address. According to the toolserver admins you should still have commit access.
Tito, I'm coming to you because you're the admin I know best who speaks Spanish (Yoman gave up the bit, and I will point Jbmurray to this thread for consultation, since this one may be a hot point). Banco del Sur redirects to Bank of the South, although all reliable sources refer to it by the correct name of Banco del Sur. I don't know how to move over redirect; can you complete that? Please read sources carefully first, since there's some major edit warring going on across Venezuelan articles. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 19:01, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
Muy agradecida! While it seems like an obvious move, there is so much whackiness going on in Venezuelan articles, that one never knows, so I hope you know policy/guideline in this area better than I do. My understanding is that when English reliable sources call it Banco del Sur, it should be Banco del Sur, and I don't know anyone who calls it Bank of the South. But I could be wrong here, and don't want you to wade into something unforeseen. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 22:48, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
Looking more into it, I don't feel comfortable moving the BancoSur article, since there are many reliable sources (e.g. the New York Times, Al-Jazeera) that call it Bank of the South. At that point, Wikipedia:Naming conventions (use English) says to leave it in the stable name, which is the place that it currently is right now. The other article might even have to be named The Daily Journal (Caracas), as it seems that newspapers are disambiguated by city (yet I can't find where that is written anywhere). Titoxd(?!? - cool stuff)01:49, 13 February 2010 (UTC)
List of tallest residential buildings in the world
I have nominated this article for Feature list, "LIST OF TALLESTRESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS IN THE WORLD" i need your help regarding anymistakes, errors, gramatical mistakes and much more in this article, mypurpose is to make this article perfect or close to perfection, meansno mistakes and errors so that it would for sure become a feature list.
The main change we are discussing so far is removing the quality and importance parameters, and leaving that to the wikiprojects to assess. Do you have any other ideas for improvement? I can go through with a bot and re-tag every article that has the tag, to change parameters if needed. — Carl (CBM · talk) 13:25, 14 February 2010 (UTC)
I have nominated Hurricane Katrina for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Sceptre(talk)00:31, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
Ciara Bravo Deletion
Is there anyway that you can send my Ciara Bravo article to my email at shaquan_mcdowell123@yahoo.com
Thank You--7shaquan (talk) 01:29, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
Happy Titoxd's Day!
User:Titoxd has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian,
and therefore, I've officially declared today as Titoxd's day!
For being such a beautiful person and great Wikipedian,
enjoy being the Star of the day, dear Titoxd!
Could you let me know if you are still interesting in being involved with Admin Coaching, or if you would prefer to have your name removed from the "reconfirmation" list and placed on the "retired" list. If you want to be involved, could you please move your entry from "Reconfirmation" to "Active" and indicate how many students you would be willing to have (obviously, if you are actively coaching at the moment, then please indicate this!)
If I do not hear from you within a week, I will assume that you would like to have your name removed from the list of coaches and moved to the retired list.
Hi there Titoxd. I was planning on nominating United States Academic Decathlon to appear on the main page to coincide with the National Championship on April 25. I was wondering if you could give it a look over and tell me if you see any problems with it. I have also been working on United States Academic Decathlon topics on and off, and a good number of years (especially ones before the turn of the millennium) need quite a bit more information. If you know of any of that information, or know someone who knows how to access it, I would appreciate it very much if you could add it or point me towards it. Best, NW(Talk)01:03, 27 March 2010 (UTC)
Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #29
The Hurricane Herald
This is the monthly newsletter of WikiProject Tropical Cyclones. The Hurricane Herald aims to give a summary of the WikiProject's progress 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.
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From the editors
The project has gone since August without a newsletter, due to a lack of interest in its publication and development. This issue aims to catch up on major events and milestones since late summer 2009, and set a series of goals for the upcoming hurricane seasons. Your help in writing future issues is appreciated.
Typhoons Morakot, Ketsana, and Parma caused extensive damage to China, Taiwan, Philippines, and Vietnam in August and September. Their collective damages total in the billions of dollars and each storm caused hundreds of fatalities. All three of the storms' names were subsequently retired.
Member of the month
Cyclone barnstar
Thegreatdr (talk·contribs) is thanked for his tireless improvement of high-profile tropical cyclone and general meteorology articles; his production of rainfall maps for individual storms; and for his willingness to share his expertise where needed. Thegreatdr is largely responsible for the project's continued success, and has been instrumental in resolving many debates and discussions.
Members
Thirteen Wikipedia users have joined the project since September, and several have returned after an extended absence: Hurricanehink (talk·contribs), Yellow Evan (talk·contribs), and Darren23 (talk·contribs). The list of inactive or retired users has remained mostly unchanged.
Goals for the upcoming season
Hurricane season in the Eastern Pacific and Atlantic basins is quickly approaching. Activity from new users typically increases substantially during the summer months, especially during active periods of tropical cyclone strikes. Precautions should be taken to ensure that content covering ongoing or recent events is kept up-to-date. Moreover, creation of new articles should be discouraged unless the storm in question presents an immediate or long-term threat to land.
The project should also make an effort to evaluate existing recognized content. A Project audit of featured articles has been proposed; ideally, each article should be reviewed for continued compliance with the FA criteria. Articles that no longer meet the criteria may be nominated for demotion, or alternatively, improved and updated.
Project news
September 2009 – A debate on the numbering of JMA tropical depressions in season articles took place. Much of the discussion can be read here.
October 2009 – The project was featured in a Signpost article, detailing its progress over the past two years.
December 2009 – Multiple Wikipedia Books—organized and printable compilations of related articles—are created under the project's purview. Nilfanion (talk·contribs) proposed a revamp of the project's track map standards and naming conventions. This is likely a long-term project, and will be largely executed on Wikimedia Commons.
March 2010 – One of the project's core articles, Hurricane Katrina, was demoted from featured article status. Later in the month, it was suggested that more tropical cyclone-related articles are added to the rotating list of the Main Page's Selected anniversaries.
Hey, since you nommed that article for FAC, I thought I'd let you know that I don't think it meets the FA criteria anymore, so I'm putting it up for FARC. Hurricanehink (talk) 21:42, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
Hello! I recently created a village pump proposal and request for bot approval for a bot that automatically updates editcounts for use in userboxes, templates and such. We are currently discussing the benefits and drawbacks of such a bot, as well as various different ways in which it could be implemented. Since you are a member of WikiProject edit counter I thought you may be interested in participating, your input at the discussions would be very welcome. - EdoDodotalk07:57, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
Wikipedia's tagline
Hi. I noticed that you participated in a 2005/2006 discussion and straw poll on whether or not the tagline at the top of all Wikipedia articles should be changed from "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia" to "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit". I don't know if you're still interested in this issue or not, but this exact change has been proposed once again, this time at the Village pump, and there is currently an RFC (Request for Comment) on the subject where it is being discussed. All Hallow's Wraith (talk) 18:09, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
Hello,
I was just wondering if you have the tracking map generator. If you do, could you send me "track.c" in the track directory? This is the file that does not work for me and I was wondering if it will work if there is another "proper" track.c
Thanks,
--Yueof theNorth15:12, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
Returns
Thanks. I'm sort of editing here and there, though probably not going to be too active in the community as such (turns out school takes up a lot of my time), but it is kind of fun to help fix some things up. – Ilyanep(Talk)
On 5 June 2010, In the news was updated with a news item that involved the article Falcon 9 Flight 1, which you substantially updated. If you know of another interesting news item involving a recently created or updated article, then please suggest it on the candidates page.
Thank you for the praise. I use the "The" modifier when "Tito" is taken. I always hear this imaginary conversation: "Which Tito?" "You know, the Tito!" "Oh yeah, I'm fairly ambivalent toward him."
And I guess I'll have to forgive you for being so biased, but just because I can tell by your name that you're good people. TheTitoDiscuss02:06, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
Sorry, I was just trying to be funny, add some humor (regarding your opposal of renaming oil spill with BP in the title)... I am sure I would like you very much! :D MichaelWestbrook (talk) 03:53, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
I don't mind that you merged my new "Oil Spills" section into the "Environmental effects" section, although I thought the oil spills represented a significant economic effect as well. However, I was a little annoyed that you didn't check to see what linked to the "Oil Spills" section you were eliminating. I had to clean up after you. Johnson487682 (talk) 13:22, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
I can't remember the finer details I'm afraid though I suspect the answer to your question is Jdorje. Since I last did any work on track maps I've had to replace the computer and I haven't installed the tracks program on the current one (yet). I do have access to my GNA account, but as I'm a group member - not an administrator - I probably can't grant access to others [verification needed]. That allows me to submit stuff, and presumably approve open patches. But I don't know how to do anything beyond the most basic tasks. Most sensible route for you may just be to fork (unless GNA allows admin usurping?), as that way you'd have admin rights.
As you can tell from my recent contributions here on WP I'm working on another time-consuming project at present. When that's out the way, I'll have a look at implementing the stuff talked about at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Archive 21#Tracks on Commons (I've just moved the track for 1944 Great Atlantic Hurricane as the existing file name was downright stupid). Once that's done, it will make future uploads of older tracks simpler.
One idea I'd suggest you look into is if the track program could (optionally) be converted to use 10-min averaging, as this would make using [1] a lot simpler. Re-installing the tracks package and working with that is on my to-do list.
In more general terms with respect to WPTC, obviously when I went inactive I wasn't feeling the best wrt the project. That said, I will do specific things (that don't require the track program) if requested; If/when I reinstall the package I'll probably do stuff with that again too. I may get involved in some work here on WP again, but my home wiki is Commons and my present interests reflect that. If I do ever get back to real activity on wp, WPTC is one of the areas I'll probably do stuff in...--Nilfanion (talk) 23:33, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
