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Archived every 50 sub-headings:
Archive 1 (July 7, 2005 to October 8, 2005)
Archive 2 (October 9, 2005 to October 22, 2005)
Archive 3 (October 23, 2005 to November 5, 2005)
Archive 4 (November 6, 2005 to November 19, 2005)
Archive 5 (November 20, 2005 to December 7, 2005)
Archive 6 (December 8, 2005 to December 18, 2005)
Archive 7 (December 19, 2005 to December 29, 2005)
Archive 8 (December 29, 2005 to January 8, 2006)
Archive 9 (January 8, 2006 to January 29, 2006)
Archive 10 (January 29, 2006 to February 11, 2006)
Archive 11 (February 11, 2006 to March 3, 2006)
Archive 12 (March 4, 2006 to April 2, 2006)
Archive 13 (April 2, 2006 to April 22, 2006)
Archive 14 (April 23, 2006 to May 11, 2006)
Archive 15 (May 12, 2006 to June 10, 2006)
Archive 16 (June 10, 2006 to July 4, 2006)
Archive 17 (July 4, 2006 to July 31, 2006)
Archive 18 (July 31, 2006 to September 14, 2006)
Archive 19 (September 15, 2006 to November 11, 2006)
Archive 20 (November 11, 2006 to December 23, 2006)
Archive 21 (December 24, 2006 to February 24, 2007)
Archive 22 (February 24, 2007 to April 12, 2007)
Archive 23 (April 12, 2007 to July 10, 2007)
Archive 24 (July 11, 2007 to November 12, 2007)
Archive 25 (November 13, 2007 to March 3, 2008)
Archive 26 (March 9, 2008 to June 21, 2008)
Archive 27 (June 28, 2008 to September 30, 2008)
Archive 28 (October 1, 2008 to June 23, 2009)
Archive 29 (June 27, 2009 to July 2, 2010)
Archive 30 (July 3, 2010 to June 9, 2011)
Archive 31 (June 10, 2011 to December 30, 2012)
Archive 32 (January 1, 2013 to January 7, 2016)
Archive 33 (January 8, 2016 to March 18, 2020)

DO NOT EDIT OR POST REPLIES TO THIS PAGE. THIS PAGE IS AN ARCHIVE.

This archive page covers approximately the dates between June 27 2009 and July 2 2010.

Post replies to the main talk page, copying or summarizing the section you are replying to if necessary.

Please add new archivals to User talk:Titoxd/Archive34. (See Wikipedia:How to archive a talk page.) Thank you. Titoxd(?!?) 02:29, 13 February 2011 (UTC)


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)

Sure, go ahead. Thegreatdr (talk) 03:09, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

First Phoenix meetup today!

  In the area? You're invited to
   Phoenix Wikimedia Meetup
  Time/Date: Sunday, June 28, 3:00pm
  Place: CUPZ Coffee; 777 College Ave, Suite 101, Tempe (map)

--EdwardsBot (talk) 06:35, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #27

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. This newsletter covers June 2009.

Please visit this page and bookmark any suggestions of interest to you. This will help improve monitoring of the WikiProject's articles.

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 Hurricanehink (talk · contribs), Juliancolton (talk · contribs), Jason Rees (talk · contribs), or Cyclonebiskit (talk · contribs) for more information. Thanks!

Storm of the month

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).

Other tropical cyclone activity

Member of the month

Cyclone barnstar
Cyclone barnstar

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.

New members

In addition, three users re-joined the project after being listed as inactive:

Main Page content

Article statistics

Tropical cyclone articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total
FA 3 14 85 60 162
FL 1 4 32 43 80
FM 21 21
A 2 1 3
GA 10 65 399 648 1,122
B 12 31 64 63 170
C 10 103 256 289 3 661
Start 2 58 333 404 5 802
Stub 2 52 83 137
List 6 26 86 594 414 1,126
Category 956 956
Disambig 68 68
File 8 8
Portal 204 204
Project 97 97
Redirect 3 21 79 106 209
Template 470 470
NA 4 4
Other 4 4
Assessed 38 288 1,269 1,755 2,532 422 6,304
Total 38 288 1,269 1,755 2,532 422 6,304
WikiWork factors (?) ω = 10,234 Ω = 3.35

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.

As of 01:42, 4 July 2009 (UTC), there are three featured article candidates; see the noticeboard for more info.

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

–Juliancolton | Talk 02:10, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

Tropical Cyclone tracks

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)

Thanks for the help. Wonderworld1995268 (talk) 01:57, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

My RfB

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.

Just FYI. Regards, –Juliancolton | Talk 22:37, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

El Nino/ENSO article

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)

I've been working on getting a GPS unit working for the last month, so it wouldn't be much of a break. :P Sure, will do. Titoxd(?!? - cool stuff) 22:00, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #28

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. This newsletter covers July 2009.

Please visit this page and bookmark any suggestions of interest to you. This will help improve monitoring of the WikiProject's articles.

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.

Other tropical cyclone activity

Member of the month

Cyclone barnstar
Cyclone barnstar

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:

Main Page content

Hurricane Ioke appeared on the main page in the Today's Featured Article section on July 22.

Tropical Storm Dottie (1976) and Tropical Storm Hallie (1975) appeared on the main page in the Did You Know? section on July 13 and July 24, respectively.

Article statistics

Tropical cyclone articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total
FA 3 14 85 60 162
FL 1 4 32 43 80
FM 21 21
A 2 1 3
GA 10 65 399 648 1,122
B 12 31 64 63 170
C 10 103 256 289 3 661
Start 2 58 333 404 5 802
Stub 2 52 83 137
List 6 26 86 594 414 1,126
Category 956 956
Disambig 68 68
File 8 8
Portal 204 204
Project 97 97
Redirect 3 21 79 106 209
Template 470 470
NA 4 4
Other 4 4
Assessed 38 288 1,269 1,755 2,532 422 6,304
Total 38 288 1,269 1,755 2,532 422 6,304
WikiWork factors (?) ω = 10,234 Ω = 3.35

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.

A discussion is underway at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Timeline of the 1987 Atlantic hurricane season/archive1 regarding the use of HURDAT as a reference. Input is appreciated.

Tropical cyclones at associated Wikimedia projects

–Juliancolton | Talk 03:00, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

RfD nomination of Wikipedia talk:SANDY

I have nominated Wikipedia talk:SANDY for discussion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Soap Talk/Contributions 04:25, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

2005 Diebold Incident

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)

Hi, I didn't remove anything from the Anne Murray page, I added.70.27.146.17 (talk) 04:22, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

Nicholas U. Mayall

Hello,

I'm requesting peer review on astronomer Nicholas U. Mayall in the hopes of making it a Good Article. Please provide your feedback. Thanks.

WilliamKF (talk) 21:11, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

WPTC Assessment

Hi! Since you have recently posted to WT:WPTC or otherwise been involved with tropical cyclone articles, please nominate and review pages at Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Assessment so we can revive this process. Thanks in advance, –Juliancolton | Talk 14:22, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

Featured Article Review (2009)

Please note, Wikipedia:Featured_article_review/Hungarian_Revolution_of_1956/archive1 Fifelfoo (talk) 15:01, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

IRC with PediaPress

Hi Titoxd,

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)


Speedy deletion of Template:FL-classicon

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>).

Thanks. RL0919 (talk) 12:36, 17 October 2009 (UTC)

Comments subpages (Village pump discussion)

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|Mail 14:20, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

The track map generator has several dependencies on Unix-based utilities, so as far as I know, it is not possible to use in Windows without using cygwin. Titoxd(?!? - cool stuff) 06:54, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

Feedback Request

Seeking feedback article I created at Energetic neutral atoms - my first article. Requested feedback at Wikipedia:Requests_for_feedback but then noticed that most articles on that list are rather undeveloped. So I left a feedback request on the article's talk page. Tnx. Canuck100 (talk) 20:59, 2 November 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)

I closed this PR after getting good comments from several users, so n/m. MMagdalene722talk to me 13:57, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

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. Ks0stm If 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)
Sweet. I'll try doing that as soon as I finish beating up my fluid mechanics homework with a blunt instrument (my forehead)... Titoxd(?!? - cool stuff) 18:27, 20 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)

Happy Birthday and Holidays!

File:18th Birthday.jpg Hey, Titoxd. Just stopping by to wish you a Happy Birthday from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee!
Have a great day!-- MisterWiki talk contribs 02:58, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

MisterWiki is wishing you Happy Holidays! MisterWiki talk contribs wishes you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year with all of your family, spread love during this times!

I (MisterWiki) created a video specially for you, wishing you the best for this christmas time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxOAvuNbt1o

Spread the holiday cheer by adding {{subst:User:MisterWiki/Happy Holidays}} to your friends' talk pages.

MisterWiki talk contribs 02:58, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Happy Birthday from the Birthday Committee

Wishing Titoxd a very happy birthday on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee!

Don't forget to save us all a piece of cake!

Hi878 (talk) 04:27, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Repository moved

The svn repository for the new WP 1.0 bot has moved to

http://svn.toolserver.org/svnroot/p_enwp10/

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.

Best wishes for the holidays, — Carl (CBM · talk) 01:29, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

Importance ratings for non-article classes

If you have a moment, I'd appreciate any thoughts you have about Wikipedia_talk:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Assessment#Importance_ratings_for_non-article_classes. — Carl (CBM · talk) 20:51, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

Requested move

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)

Will look into it a bit later (gotta finish homework first). Titoxd(?!? - cool stuff) 22:41, 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)
Maldicion, I just found another one Venezuela Daily Journal should be at either The Daily Journal or The Daily Journal (Venezuela). I don't think that's controversial, but I'm not up on newspaper naming. Venezuelan articles everywhere are a mess. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 19:54, 28 January 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.

Nabil rais2008 (talk) 10:29, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

WP1.0 template updates

We're discussing the {{WP1.0}} template at Wikipedia_talk:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team#Tagging_0.7_articles. At some point soon I need to tag all the articles that were released on 0.7, so it's a good time to make any changes to the template itself.

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)

WP Venezuela

Epa, Tito; are you able to determine why FAs aren't showing up in the chart at Wikipedia:WikiProject Venezuela#Recognized content? I suspect a problem in {{WP Venezuela}}. In fact, the total number of articles tagged (48) must be wrong also. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 18:13, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

Tito, it's all set (Dr Pda and Ucucha got to it). Do you know how to get a bot on board to tag all of these articles with {{WP Venezuela}}? SandyGeorgia (Talk) 16:17, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

Hurricane Katrina

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!

Peace,
Rlevse
00:50, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

A record of your Day will always be kept here.

For a userbox you can add to your userbox page, see User:Rlevse/Today/Happy Me Day! and my own userpage for a sample of how to use it. — Rlevse • Talk • 00:50, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

Admin Coaching: Reconfirmation

I was looking through the coaches at Wikipedia:Admin_coaching/Status and saw that there are a lot under "reconfirmation".

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.

Regards, -- PhantomSteve/talk|contribs\ 07:32, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

United States Academic Decathlon

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.

Please visit this page and bookmark any suggestions of interest to you. This will help improve monitoring of the WikiProject's articles.

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.

Tropical cyclone activity
2009 Atlantic hurricane season
2009 Pacific hurricane season
2009 Pacific typhoon season
2009 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
2009–10 Australian region cyclone season
2009–10 South Pacific cyclone season
2009–10 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season
2010 Pacific typhoon season
2010 North Indian Ocean cyclone season

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
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.

Nonetheless, the project should encourage new editors to get involved; for this purpose the standard Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Invite template may be used.

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.

Main Page content
Three articles appeared on the main page as Today's Featured Article: Cyclone Orson on September 22, Hurricane Fabian on January 30, and Hurricane Lane (2006) on March 22

Article statistics

Tropical cyclone articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total
FA 3 14 85 60 162
FL 1 4 32 43 80
FM 21 21
A 2 1 3
GA 10 65 399 648 1,122
B 12 31 64 63 170
C 10 103 256 289 3 661
Start 2 58 333 404 5 802
Stub 2 52 83 137
List 6 26 86 594 414 1,126
Category 956 956
Disambig 68 68
File 8 8
Portal 204 204
Project 97 97
Redirect 3 21 79 106 209
Template 470 470
NA 4 4
Other 4 4
Assessed 38 288 1,269 1,755 2,532 422 6,304
Total 38 288 1,269 1,755 2,532 422 6,304
WikiWork factors (?) ω = 10,234 Ω = 3.35

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.

JCbot (talk) 14:15, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured article review/Hurricane Dennis/archive1

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)

Yea, I gotcha :( Hurricanehink (talk) 15:42, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

EditCountBot

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. - EdoDodo talk 07:57, 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)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Class parameter

Template:Class parameter has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 17:55, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

Hello...

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 theNorth 15:12, 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)

ITN for Falcon 9 Flight 1

Thanks for adding those references! - Dumelow (talk) 08:28, 5 June 2010 (UTC)

Always nice to hear from a fellow Tito

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. TheTito Discuss 02:06, 10 June 2010 (UTC)

Why...

do I not like you already MichaelWestbrook (talk) 06:22, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

? Titoxd(?!? - cool stuff) 07:20, 15 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)
Heh, I figured that out after a while. No big deal, I'm more interested in the article's content than in its title... Titoxd(?!? - cool stuff) 07:51, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

Hurricane Katrina - Oil Spills

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)

{{Infobox hurricane current}}

Is there a way you can format that template so that it conforms to User:Jason Rees/note for the SHEM basins? Thanks! Darren23Edits|Mail 00:46, 21 June 2010 (UTC)

Track map generator:

Hello,

Could you send me track.exe :) ? I believe that I have enabled emails now.

Thanks!

Yueof theNorth 18:09, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

Tracks

Hey,

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)

How are TC tracks made?

I'm interested in helping out with them in the future. --Dylan620 (contribs, logs) 22:16, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, now to patiently wait for Bonnie/Estelle... --Dylan620 (contribs, logs) 00:02, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
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