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Welcome to the WikiCup!
Welcome to the 2021 WikiCup! The first round began on 1 January and your submissions page can be found here. If you are wondering how to get started, a good article review might be a good place to begin. Any questions on the rules or on anything else should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page. The first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will move on to round 2. The judges for the WikiCup are Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email) and Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email). Good luck! Cwmhiraeth (talk) 20:23, 8 January 2021 (UTC)
Checking in
Hi there. Are you still planning to have that interview with Hurricanehink? I'm asking this because the latest issue of the newsletter will be published in just 1 week. I'll try to have everything I planned to write completed within a day or two. Although my operation is going to knock me out of commission for a few days, I'll try to drag myself back onto WP to make some final checks next Thursday. BTW, I see that you decided to enter the 2021 WikiCup! If I had more time and energy (and no surgical operation to worry about), I might have joined that one as well. Seeing all of those familiar names is getting my competitive spirit all fired up (hehe). But alas, if I were to attempt an entry this year, I'd only get myself brutally demolished. Sniff sniff. Oh well. Anyway...As consolation, I'll clean up the mess that are the citations in the 2020 AHS and PHS articles. Since I have more time on my hands than you do (oh yes, you know that I'm right XP), I'll probably be able to get a leg up on you if you ever choose to tackle those. Even though I only have a few days left before the...pain...begins. Anyway, I hope you're doing well in school and in life, in general. See you around, LightandDark2000 🌀 (talk) 23:41, 8 January 2021 (UTC)
- @LightandDark2000: I am not planning to write anything for the HH this edition. The WikiCub I joined because I saw users like Jason Rees and Hurricanehink enter. It's mainly a way to encourage users to do more for the wiki. As for your operation, I wish you a smooth operation and quick recovery. Remember: "He will see us through. The light has been turned on the works of Darkness. But Truth and the light will prevail." Best, ~ Destroyer🌀🌀 01:17, 9 January 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks. Thank you so much for you support. I'm probably going to be miserable anyway, but...I'll do my best to hang in there. LightandDark2000 🌀 (talk) 01:25, 9 January 2021 (UTC)
- @LightandDark2000: You saw the change to my userpage, right? ~ Destroyeraa🌀🇺🇸 01:30, 9 January 2021 (UTC)
- Yes. I did. I'd rather not comment about that on-wiki, though. There are too many prying eyes. LightandDark2000 🌀 (talk) 01:31, 9 January 2021 (UTC)
- @LightandDark2000: I know. I'll get to you on that on Discord tomorrow...I need some rest. I took a break from there due to recent events. Luckily Wikipedia doesn't censor. ~ Destroyeraa🌀🇺🇸 01:35, 9 January 2021 (UTC)
- Yeah, Wikipedia isn't censored (or rather, it's not supposed to be). But some stuff is better kept off-wiki, you know? Anyway, get some rest. Meanwhile, I'm going to hammer out my Hurricane Herald sections. And I'm going to see if I can straighten out some more 2020 TC articles later tonight. LightandDark2000 🌀 (talk) 01:43, 9 January 2021 (UTC)
- @LightandDark2000: Yeah, most political talk belongs off-wiki. See you there tomorrow. Stay safe, ~ Destroyeraa🌀🇺🇸 01:45, 9 January 2021 (UTC)
- Yeah, Wikipedia isn't censored (or rather, it's not supposed to be). But some stuff is better kept off-wiki, you know? Anyway, get some rest. Meanwhile, I'm going to hammer out my Hurricane Herald sections. And I'm going to see if I can straighten out some more 2020 TC articles later tonight. LightandDark2000 🌀 (talk) 01:43, 9 January 2021 (UTC)
- @LightandDark2000: I know. I'll get to you on that on Discord tomorrow...I need some rest. I took a break from there due to recent events. Luckily Wikipedia doesn't censor. ~ Destroyeraa🌀🇺🇸 01:35, 9 January 2021 (UTC)
- Yes. I did. I'd rather not comment about that on-wiki, though. There are too many prying eyes. LightandDark2000 🌀 (talk) 01:31, 9 January 2021 (UTC)
- @LightandDark2000: You saw the change to my userpage, right? ~ Destroyeraa🌀🇺🇸 01:30, 9 January 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks. Thank you so much for you support. I'm probably going to be miserable anyway, but...I'll do my best to hang in there. LightandDark2000 🌀 (talk) 01:25, 9 January 2021 (UTC)
DYK nomination of Hurricane Beryl
Hello! Your submission of Hurricane Beryl at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) at your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! SL93 (talk) 15:18, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
Regarding the message you sent to 2003 LN6
Hello! I have seen that you have sent a {{uw-test1}} template to 2003 LN6. I want to let you know that 2003 LN6 got permission off-wiki to make the test edits. 2003 LN6 also said that I could use it to test out Twinkle. Thank you! -322UbnBr2 (Talk | Contributions | Actions) 03:07, 12 January 2021 (UTC)
- @Unbinilium-322 Dibromide: My apologies. Also, 2003 LN6 I'm sorry for the unnecessary warning. Welcome to WPTC. Cheers, ~ Destroyeraa🌀🇺🇸 15:17, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
Some cookies for you!
Here's wishing you a belated welcome to Wikipedia, Destroyeraa!
I know I was barely around last year until July, and even then, I didn't make a "full" return until September. If I had been more active and paid more attention, I would have welcomed you personally, both to WP and to WPTC. Someone should have done it – I'm actually sad that no one stepped up to do so. There's no way I would have let that slip by. Anyhow, you can't change the past. You're pretty smart, and you have a decent amount of experience at this point, so I no longer see any point in dropping a Welcome! template on your talk page. And per the usual welcome templates, yeah, you know where to go if you have questions. And I'm always open, in case you were wondering.
Anyway, here are some cookies to make up for that. (Well, an attempt on my part.) Baked with extra brown sugar too, for more flavor! XD I should have done this back in July or August. All the same, I'm thankful that you're here. LightandDark2000 🌀 (talk) 15:07, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
- @LightandDark2000: Aw man, I didn't mean to make you feel even more miserable by making you regret your wikibreaks! Hurricanehink welcomed me in June IIRC after I joined WPTC. Yeah, thanks for the cookies, it really brightens my day (I love brown sugar). I wish you a speedy recovery.
~ Destroyeraa🌀🇺🇸 15:12, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
- Too late, it's already done. 😝 I really do regret stepping away like I did last year. I should have learned from 2015–2016 (regarding WPTC involvement). I just hope that you feel at home now on WPTC, like I do. Huh, I have a sweet tooth as well! Brown sugar and cinnamon are some of my favorites. :) Thanks again, for your kind thoughts. LightandDark2000 🌀 (talk) 15:16, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
Mac n’ Cheetos!
Shift674 has given you a Mac n' Cheetos (🧀🐆)! Mac n' Cheetos promotes WikiLove (📖💞) and hopefully this one has made your day cheesier. It is dangerously cheesy! Mac n' Cheetos is the combination of both macaroni and cheese and the Frito-Lay snack Cheetos. Spread the WikiLove by giving someone else a Mac n' Cheetos, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend.
Spread the goodness of Mac n' Cheetos by adding {{subst:Mac n' Cheetos}} to someone's talk page with a friendly message!
- @Shift674: Yummy! Thanks! ~ Destroyeraa🌀🇺🇸 20:02, 15 January 2021 (UTC)
Oh no...
Wait. What's going on here? Please God, no. Not you, too. ;( LightandDark2000 🌀 (talk) 22:13, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
A smoothie for you!
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A smoothie for you! |
| I don't what's happening, but I hope you're okay. I'm terribly sorry. I wish you a speedy recovery regarding any health issues you may be experiencing. May God watch over you. I wish I could send you one of these in real life. Please enjoy this smoothie. I hope that you're feeling much better by the time you see this. From the bottom of my heart, LightandDark2000 🌀 (talk) 22:15, 13 January 2021 (UTC) |
- @LightandDark2000: Aw, thank you so much! I love fruit smoothies too. I am feeling better today, though I still need some rest. After Martin Luther King Jr. Day, I have another round of exams, so I won't be editing much. Are you joining the Cyclone Cup? Please do. Thanks again. ~ Destroyeraa🌀🇺🇸 20:04, 15 January 2021 (UTC)
- I'll probably get demolished by others, but I'm seriously considering it at this point. I have this competitive urge that I need to satisfy, hehe. But I'd probably be playing more of a beta-testing or a supportive role there than a full-fledged competitor, given my real-life schedule. More on that later. LightandDark2000 🌀 (talk) 05:11, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
ITN recognition for La Vega raid
On 14 January 2021, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article La Vega raid, which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. SpencerT•C 01:07, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
Someone has hugged you!
Hug others by adding {{subst:Hug}} to their talk page with a friendly message.
- I second this one. (I'd hold you real tight if I could.) ;( LightandDark2000 🌀 (talk) 18:34, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
- @Berrely: Thank you so much! I am feeling better today, and I hope to get some edits in on the weekends. I have another round of exams coming, which will reduce my editing drastically again (and increase my stress). Thanks for your support. ~ Destroyeraa🌀🇺🇸 20:05, 15 January 2021 (UTC)
Hey
Remember this? When you have the time. I'll be waiting. BTW...I'm very sorry about yesterday. I shouldn't have ignored you like that. I should have been there for you, instead of carrying about my business as usual. I regret every second of it. More on that off-wiki. LightandDark2000 🌀 (talk) 18:34, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
45th edition of Hurricane Herald!
 The Hurricane Herald: Wikipedia's 20th Anniversary and New Year's Special Edition!
The Hurricane Herald is the semi-regular newsletter of WikiProject Tropical Cyclones. The newsletter aims to provide in summary the recent activities and developments of the WikiProject, in addition to global tropical cyclone activity. The Hurricane Herald has been running since its first edition ran on June 4, 2006. If you wish to receive or discontinue subscription to this newsletter, please visit the mailing list. This issue of The Hurricane Herald covers all project related events from December 1, 2020–January 15, 2021. This edition's editors and authors are MarioJump83, Hurricanehink, Destroyeraa, Chicdat, Typhoon2013, CycloneFootball71, Hurricane Noah, LightandDark2000, Cyclone Toby (editor's pick for member of the month), Skarmory, Shift674, and HurricaneCovid. Please visit this page and bookmark any suggestions of interest to you. This will help improve the newsletter and other cyclone-related articles. Past editions can be viewed here. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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WikiProject Tropical Cyclones: News & Developments New articles since the last newsletter include:
New GA's include:
Typhoon Ike was also promoted from GA to A-class article. Member of the month (Editor's Pick) – Cyclone Toby  Cyclone Toby first joined Wikipedia in July 2020 as I like hurricanes. Since then, they have become one of the most active editors, taking the initiative of fulfilling article requests, as well as helping us work on finishing many drafts we have. These articles include Hurricanes in Hispaniola, Hurricanes in Nicaragua, and Hurricanes in Honduras, as well as helping out getting Effects of Hurricane Dorian in the Carolinas (a long-standing draft that took many efforts to get it published to mainspace) nominated for GA, as of this writing. There are more articles Cyclone Toby is currently working on other than the ones previously listed. Also, Cyclone Toby is one of the kinder members of WPTC, actively welcoming many new editors that edited articles under WikiProject Tropical cyclones banner, as well as inviting some of these editors to the project, in which their influence ended up bringing more editors to WPTC without any invitation. We thank Cyclone Toby for work they have done in the past year, which was a horrible year for many of us, but Toby is one of many bright spots that helped us get through that year. As we enter the new year, we encourage Cyclone Toby to keep up their work and eventually complete these drafts, which will ultimately lead to the clearing of the backlog of drafts within the project.
From December 1, 2020 to January 15, 2021, there were no articles promoted to Featured Article status.
There is currently one featured article candidate:
For the next steps of the 2018 Global FT project, we're likely to finish the 2018 Pacific hurricane season FT by the end of the year. Hurricane Bud (2018) is likely to become a Featured Article (FA) around the first anniversary of the 2018 Global FT task force, which will be in June 2021, while Hurricane Olivia (2018) is the most likely FAC next in line. Sooner or later (which might happen before Bud or Olivia is FA), Timeline of the 2018 Pacific hurricane season will be completed, and subsequently nominated for Good Article (GA) status. After that, 2018 Pacific hurricane season might be nominated for Featured Topic (FT) before the timeline or the article is nominated for FA, based on the likely order of completion provided by Hurricane Noah on December 22, 2020 with some changes due to priorities after that time. We also began to focus more attention on the 2018 Atlantic hurricane season FT, as evidenced by Hurricane Beryl and Hurricane Chris (2018) becoming GAs by the time of this issue of The Hurricane Herald, as well as the merger of Meteorological history of Hurricane Michael into Hurricane Michael (despite the merge moratorium which was enacted in November 23, 2020 - this was made possible by getting the consensus for an exception to the merge moratorium), which boosted the prospects of Hurricane Michael becoming a GA by the time of the next issue or the following one. Our next step in the 2018 Atlantic hurricane season FT, as it is currently planned right now, is to have Hurricane Leslie (2018) promoted to a GA. In the Western Pacific, the creation of Effects of Typhoon Mangkhut in the Philippines is still being planned out, while Cimaron, Trami, Kong-rey, and Son-Tinh are in line to be nominated for GA later on - and Jebi may well become a FA by the next issue. In the North Indian Ocean, Cyclone Titli was recently created and likely to be expanded later on. In the Southern Hemisphere, Cyclone Owen is currently being worked on to become a GA someday, while Berguitta, Josie, Keni, and Liua are still under construction. For the Mediterranean, Cyclone Zorbas will be expanded upon and nominated for GA, some time after this issue.
If you are interested in writing new articles, promoting articles to GA, or helping with the FAC review process for the Global 2018 FT project, please reach out to Hurricane Noah or any other member of the 2018 FT task force. WikiProject To-Do
Current assessment table Assessments valid as of this printing. Depending on when you may be viewing this newsletter, the table may be outdated. See here for the latest, most up to date statistics.
Project Goals & Progress The following is the current progress on the three milestone goals set by the WikiProject as of this publishing. They can be found, updated, at the main WikiProject page.
Storm of the month and other tropical activity for December through January 15, 2021  Storm of the month for December – Cyclone Yasa Afterward, Yasa underwent an eyewall replacement cycle as it neared Fiji, causing the storm to weaken. Early on December 17, Yasa made landfall on Bua Province on Vanua Levu, as a powerful Category 4-equivalent tropical cyclone on the SSHWS (Category 5 severe tropical cyclone on the Australian scale). Following landfall, Yasa quickly weakened, dropping back to tropical storm-equivalent status within two days. Afterward, Yasa moved in a southward direction while continuing its weakening trend, falling below tropical cyclone status on December 19, and dissipating on December 24. Yasa killed 4 people in Fiji and left another person missing. As of this writing, the damage estimates for Yasa are still being calculated, but Yasa had caused extensive damage on Vanua Levu, likely becoming the most destructive tropical cyclone to strike Fiji since Winston in 2016.
Storm of the Year 2020 – Hurricane Eta  Eta was a powerful and long-lived hurricane that devastated Central America in November 2020. The twenty-ninth tropical depression, record-tying twenty-eighth named storm, twelfth hurricane, and fifth major hurricane of the extremely active 2020 Atlantic hurricane season, Eta originated from a vigorous tropical wave in the eastern Caribbean Sea on October 28. On October 30, the system organized into Tropical Depression Twenty-Nine, before becoming a tropical storm on the next day, at which time it was given the name Eta by the National Hurricane Center (NHC). On November 2, Eta became undergoing rapid intensification over the western Caribbean, as it progressed westward, with the cyclone ultimately becoming a Category 4 hurricane on November 3. Later that day, Eta reached its peak intensity, with 1-minute sustained winds of 150 mph (240 km/h) and a minimum central pressure of 922 mbar (hPa; 27.23 inHg), it was the third-most intense November Atlantic hurricane on record, behind the 1932 Cuba hurricane, and Hurricane Iota, which struck the same region just two weeks later. However, satellite data suggests that Eta may have reached Category 5 intensity at the time of its peak intensity, since reconnaissance aircraft failed to sample the hurricane's strongest winds at the time of its peak intensity. Despite this, in their post-storm report, the NHC maintained Eta as a powerful Category 4 hurricane. Six hours after reaching its peak, Eta underwent an eyewall replacement cycle, causing the storm to weaken somewhat. At 21:00 UTC on November 2, Eta made landfall south of Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, with maximum sustained winds of 140 mph (225 km/h) and a central pressure of 940 mbar (hPa; 27.76 inHg). Following landfall, Eta rapidly weakened to a tropical depression by 00:00 UTC on November 5. Despite the mountainous terrain, Eta's low-level circulation survived, and Eta retained tropical depression status for another day, during its two-day trek across Central America, before degenerating into a remnant low overland later on November 5. On November 6, Eta's remnant low moved north over water and regenerated into a tropical depression, before turning towards the northeast. Afterward, Eta reorganized into a tropical storm over the Caribbean on November 7, as it accelerated toward Cuba. On the next day, Eta made landfall on Cuba's Sancti Spíritus Province as a tropical storm, before quickly emerging into the Atlantic and turning westward. Over the next five days, the system moved erratically, making a third landfall on Lower Matecumbe Key in the Florida Keys, on November 9, before slowing down and making a counterclockwise loop in the southern Gulf of Mexico, just off the coast of Cuba, with the storm's intensity fluctuating along the way. Afterward, Eta turned north-northeastward and briefly regained Category 1 hurricane strength on November 11, before weakening back into a tropical storm several hours later. On November 12, Eta made a fourth landfall over Cedar Key, Florida. Eta weakened after making landfall, before eventually re-emerging into the Atlantic later that day. Afterward, Eta became extratropical on November 13, before being absorbed into another frontal system off the coast of the Eastern United States on the next day. In all, Hurricane Eta killed at least 211 people, left 120 people missing, and caused at least $7.9 billion (2020 USD) in damages, with the vast majority of the deaths and damages occurring in Central America. Just two weeks later, Central America was struck by Hurricane Iota as a high-end Category 4 hurricane, making landfall near the same location as Eta, which further exacerbated the disaster in the region. Member of the month (edition) – Jason Rees  Jason first created an account on Wikipedia in August 2006, after tracking Hurricane Katrina and countless other storms in 2005. Since then, he has written four featured articles and 21 good articles. Recently, Jason has done great work expanding and cleaning up Cyclone Yasa, one of the strongest storms ever recorded in the South Pacific basin. He is also an active content creator, currently writing Cyclone Meena. Overall, Jason has done an outstanding job expanding the scope of tropical cyclone articles in the Southern Hemisphere basins, such as the South Pacific, where there is, sadly, a shortage of active users. We want to thank him for his wonderful work, and thus award him the Member of the Month award for this edition. New WikiProject Members since the last newsletter More information can be found here. This list lists members who have joined/rejoined the WikiProject since the release of the last issue. Sorted chronologically.
To our new members: welcome to the project, and happy editing! Feel free to check the to-do list at the bottom right of the newsletter for things that you might want to work on. To our veteran members: thank you for your edits and your tireless contributions! A year in review: WPTC's accomplishments in 2020 2020 has been a hard year for many of us. Depending on where you live, the COVID-19 pandemic began as early as January. In most of the world, the pandemic ramped up in February and March, reaching its first peak in April–May. A second wave struck in June–August, which saw cases dramatically increase across the globe, while the third and largest wave began around October. However, during this pandemic, through lock-downs and online learning, as well as the the insanely active 2020 Atlantic hurricane season, our WikiProject saw a huge influx of new editors showing interest in editing tropical cyclone articles. Here, we will take a look at the stats: New WPTC members since January 1, 2020: AC5230, CycloneFootball71 (Previously Weatherman27), Chicdat, Hurricaneboy23, Chlod, Destroyeraa, NOOBSKINSPAMMER, HurricaneMichael2018, JoeMT615, MarioJump83, Buttons0603, Robloxsupersuperhappyface, ChessEric, Allen2, Mazum24, Modokai, CodingCyclone, Gumballs678, Janm 7, Cyclone Toby, Hurricanehuron33, Hurricane21, TornadoLGS, Iseriously, Jupiter50, ARegularWisconsinite, CyclonicStormYutu, ARay10, Gex4pls, Nioni1234, Dannisom, HurricaneCovid, Skarmory, Moline1, HurricaneIcy, Beraniladri19, HurricaneEdgar, Miguel 04012010, Cyclonetracker, Dam222, Hi 022828, Elijahandskip, TovarishhUlyanov, Animem 1, Shift674, Super Cyclonic Storm Corona, ThePelicanThing, FinnTheHurricaneFanatic, 8medalkid, Vida0007, TFESS, Doge1941, Tropical Storm Angela, HurricaneKappa, KingLucarius, Hurricanestudier123, 2 0 D a r t h S a n d M a n 0 5, iBlazeCat, FuturPDUCTIONS, SputtyTheSputnik, AveryTheComrade, Poxy4, SovietCyclone, Gummycow, Chong Yi Lam, German2k2k, Wikihelp7586, StopBoi, Final-Fantasy-HH, TheActiniumSpoon, Ididntknowausername, New GAs since January 1, 2020: Hurricane Erin (1995), Typhoon Halola, 2008 Atlantic hurricane season, Tropical Storm Kirk (2018), Effects of Hurricane Wilma in Mexico, Hurricane Audrey, 2018 Atlantic hurricane season, 1916 Pensacola hurricane, Paleotempestology, 1934 Atlantic hurricane season, 1916 Virgin Islands hurricane, Cyclone Indlala, Typhoon Cecil (1985), Meteorological history of Hurricane Florence, 1929 Bahamas hurricane, 1938 Atlantic hurricane season, Tropical Storm Olga (2019), 1923 Atlantic hurricane season, 1893 San Roque hurricane, 2006–07 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season, Typhoon Zeke, Typhoon Amy (1991), Typhoon Yunya (1991), Effects of Hurricane Dorian in the Caribbean, Typhoon Sarika, Typhoon Warren, Typhoon Holly (1984), Typhoon Eli (1992), Typhoon Alex (1987), Typhoon Irving (1982), Tropical Storm Bolaven (2018), Tropical Storm Sanba (2018), Tropical Storm Nanmadol (2017), 2018 Pacific hurricane season, Hurricane Dolores (2015), Typhoon Percy (1990), Tropical Storm Ampil, Typhoon Jebi (2018), Tropical Storm Ewiniar (2018), Hurricane Barry (2019), Tropical Storm Bertha (2020), Tropical Storm Arthur (2020), Hurricane Chris (2018), Typhoon Louise–Marge, Cyclone Ava, Hurricane Beryl New FAs since January 1, 2020: Tropical Storm Ileana (2018), Cyclone Chapala, Racer's hurricane, Hurricane Humberto (2019), Tropical Storm Zelda (1991), Hurricane Lane (2018), 1916 Texas hurricane, Hurricane Willa, Meteorological history of Hurricane Dorian, Tropical Storm Vicente (2018), Hurricane Hector (2018), Hurricane Walaka Sockpuppetry in WPTC, by LightandDark2000 Due to recent incidents involving sockpuppetry within WPTC, I invited some editors to address the problem of socking inside the project. MarioJump83! Sockpuppetry is a serious offense committed by various users on Wikipedia. Our own WPTC is not immune to this travesty. WPTC has seen its fair share of abuse from serial vandals and LTAs throughout the years. From 2013 through 2018, IPhonehurricane95 vandalized dozens of tropical cyclone articles and created more than 200 sock accounts. For several years, mostly spanning a two-year period from 2013 to 2014, IPhonehurricane95 defaced numerous tropical cyclone articles, mostly ones that he had once contributed to, were major storms, or were storms in an active tropical cyclone season. He also attacked essentially every single active editor on WPTC at the time, and he went on to attack every single Admin and CheckUser who had ever blocked him, in addition to making making racist remarks and threats of harassment. He eventually went cross-wiki, forcing the intervention of Stewards. In July 2014, he began including graphic 9/11 images in his vandalism, which further damaged the image of the project. IPhonehurricane95's vandalism inspired several copy-cat vandals, including one who has continued to plague the project to this day. This is a problem with LTAs and serial vandals – those who aren't stopped quickly enough and early on often bring bad publicity to the project, in addition to elevating the risk of copycat inspiring knock-offs. In 2016, IPhonehurricane95's socking spree dramatically decreased, with the LTA disappearing in 2018. Sockpuppetry on WPTC has not been nearly as bad since then, but sockpuppetry persisted on WPTC afterward, even to this day. Recent LTAs that WPTC had to deal with include Fly High in the Sky and Wyatt2049, and possibly Evlekis, with the later two engaging in a campaign of vandalism claiming fake Category 5 upgrades (or Category 0 downgrades) "from God" that attracted a lot of bad publicity. Recently, some users dabbled with socking, which got them into trouble. With the recent breaches of trust on WPTC and the confirmation of socking by CUs in several of the newer members, some members of WPTC have called for WPTC members to be vetted by CUs. In the past year alone, a few editors who had recently joined the project came out as sockmasters who went on to become LTAs, further adding to the pressure on WPTC. Personally, I feel that the newer users who joined within the past 6 months with a history of disruption should be examined by a CheckUser, but long-standing CU policy is to not investigate anyone unless there are serious allegations of sockpuppetry (with evidence). This policy exists for good reason, and these requests for blanket CUs may very well be turned down, if proposed. Sockpuppetry is not only bad for the reputation and integrity of the project. It is also harmful to the well-being of editors on the site, especially when they become the targets of attacks. In addition, sockpuppetry breaks the trust of the community when the said offender is a trusted and valued member of the community, no matter the level and duration of the offense. Those editors have to work hard to regain the trust of the community, and in some cases, trust may never be restored. Perhaps equally as bad, sockpuppetry leads to false accusations of the practice and claims of intentional bad faith against both reformed ex-sockpuppeteers and non-socking editors alike. This further damages the reputation of the site, while unnecessarily inflaming tensions between editors on the project and damaging the cohesion between the community. These aspersions also hurt well-meaning editors on the site, and can have the unwanted consequences of embittering them or prompting them to go into retirement. While there are users on WPTC who are dedicated to rooting out and combatting vandals and sockpuppeteers on the site (including some who are a part of the Counter-Vandalism Unit), this is a responsibility that the entire project needs to bear as a whole, since socking is an issue that affects the entire project in one way or another. Editors should be willing and able to investigate potential cases of socking and other types of abusive behavior, while maintaining good faith at the same time. Sockpuppetry is serious issue and an ongoing challenge to the project. Equally as bad are unfounded allegations of the abuse against editors with a long-standing history of being a net-positive. However, together, as a community, we can combat this menace to safeguard the integrity and accuracy of WPTC articles, and make Wikipedia a healthy, productive environment. ~ LightandDark2000 🌀 The Renewal and Growth of WPTC, by LightandDark2000 WPTC had its humble beginnings in the early days of Wikipedia. The WikiProject was founded by Jdorje on October 5, 2005, during the heart of the record-breaking and devastating 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. The founding of WPTC provided a place for editors who had an interest in tropical cyclones to collaborate. Over the next few years, dozens of users flocked to WPTC, growing the ranks to over 60 active members by 2011. This was the first generation of WPTC editors, many of whom had been active on Wikipedia within a few years of its founding in 2001. The first WPTC editors worked hard on improving the quality and quantity of tropical cyclone articles, attaining 100 Good Articles (GAs) and several Featured Articles (FAs) by January 2007. The number of existing TC articles grew each month, with the project boasting 1,000 articles by January 2008. However, as the years passed by, long-time members of the WPTC gradually began dropping out. Reasons included entering college, a busy work schedule, loss of interest in the subject, and retirement from Wikipedia, among other reasons. By January 2011, more than 120 members had either become inactive or had left Wikipedia entirely. By the end of the year, WPTC membership had hemorrhaged to the point where roughly 19 users remained in the WikiProject. As of this writing, the first 13 members on the WPTC roster can be considered the remaining "core" of this first generation that has stayed with the project throughout the years. But the initial WPTC Golden Age was over. The flow of new recruits fell off sharply, and overall interest declined. WPTC would remain at this reduced level of membership and activity for years to come. More users continued to join the WikiProject over the next several years, albeit on a significantly reduced scale. Even then, the vast majority of the work done on tropical cyclone articles were largely carried out by a "core" of roughly a dozen experienced editors who stayed on with the WikiProject throughout the year, even as tropical cyclone activity shifted between the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. However, this reduction in the numbers of active users meant that many more articles ended up being neglected, or suffered from reduced quality. The flow of new GAs and FAs slowed down, and new FACs almost ground to a halt. Some long-time editors, such as Hurricanehink, continued to hammer out TC articles, while recruiting and mentoring new members. The second generation of WPTC editors began showing up in 2013 through 2016, including Nova Crystallis, Typhoon2013, Master of Time, KN2731, and me. (I had edited on Wikipedia for several years before then, but I wasn't officially a part of WPTC prior to 2014.) While new editors continued to join each year, others kept on leaving, and the size of the roster remained around the same size. On a Featured Article review, one of the reviewers even remarked that WPTC was no longer as lively as it once was, with much of the activity having died down. Working on WPTC grew depressing at times, with some of the active editors moving on to other topics when their basins of interest went inactive (usually when the northern hemisphere seasons came to an end). Articles suffered from quality control and content issues in numerous places, especially articles on storms outside of the North Atlantic and East/Central Pacific hurricane basins, where most of the activity from experienced editors was historically concentrated. Articles for storms in the Southern Hemisphere were the hardest-hit, with only a few editors, such as Jason Rees, continuing to work hard on them year-round. As usual, the vast majority of work fell on a tight-knit group of roughly two dozen editors, most of whom were senior editors who had been present since the early days of WPTC. At times, I wondered whether I would ever see the day in which we would have enough active editors on our roster to bring WPTC back to its former glory. From 2016 to 2018, more users joined WPTC, including ChocolateTrain, Hurricane Noah, and MarioProtIV, some of whom would later play a key role in revitalizing tropical cyclone articles or WPTC on some level. In 2018, Hurricane Noah helped restructure some of the internal dynamics of WPTC, including the creation of specific task forces for certain topics and also designing a new award system, in order to help motivate WPTC members and also to help coordinate the work between other editors more effectively. That same year, he kicked off a massive campaign to get more articles to GA and FA status, By late 2020, more than two dozen articles had been brought up to GA or FA status, and WPTC saw its first potential Featured Topic Candidate in more than 6 years (the 2018 Pacific hurricane season). After 2019, the number of new members gradually increased, and activity picked up across the WikiProject. A third batch of new editors showed up between 2018 and 2019, tripling the WPTC roster to 60+ active members. These editors included FleurDeOdile, CycloneYoris, EBGamingWiki, Sandy14156, SaiTheCyclone, DavidTheMeteorologist, JavaHurricane, and others. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic struck. Despite the ensuing lockdowns and other fallouts from the pandemic, WPTC saw an explosion of new editors that same year. This 4th generation of editors was, by far, probably the largest influx of new membership that WPTC had ever seen. By the end of the year, the active membership roster had exploded from 69 to 124 active members. Our newer members from 2020 include AC5230, CycloneFootball71, Chicdat, Hurricaneboy23, Chlod, Destroyeraa, MarioJump83, ChessEric, Modokai, CodingCyclone, Cyclone Toby, TornadoLGS, HurricaneCovid, Skarmory, and many, many others. The wait was finally over. New life had been breathed back into WPTC. It was almost as if the good old days of the WikiProject were starting to return. While we've had our ups and downs this year, the influx of new editors infused WPTC with much-needed new blood and also helped relieve the senior editors of some of the burdens they've had to bear for years. Our hope is that the vast majority of these new editors will stay with us going forward, even as tropical cyclone activity cycles on and off across the world. Even after the pandemic-related lockdowns end. In closing, I want to thank my fellow WPTC editors for my experience. When I first started as an IP editor on Wikipedia more than a decade ago, I never imagined that WikiProjects existed, not to mention one specifically tailored for tropical cyclones. I had a rough start here, with a bitey reception from most of the others who communicated with me, while also struggling to learn some of Wikipedia's fundamental policies (particularly citations). However, I eventually eased into the place and the others warmed to me, and my proficiency in editing improved as I spent more time on Wikipedia. The truth is, whenever I came under pressure in other areas of Wikipedia, whether it is from hounding, witch hunts, attacks, or other hostile behavior, I've always retreated back to WPTC. Why? Because I've always felt much more welcome here. And safe. In some ways, WPTC has become my home on Wikipedia. I've gotten so much more out of here than I had expected to as well. My time on Wikipedia helped sharpen my writing (and typing) skills, which was a rather nice bonus. I've also made a number of new friends here (some of whom I've grown rather close with), all of whom I enjoy working with. Thank you, all of you, for everything. Thank you for showing me what the Wikipedia experience should be like, and thank you for being willing to befriend me. I look forward to continue working with you all and growing with you in the years to come. May you all have a wonderful 2021! ~ LightandDark2000 🌀 My stress, by MarioJump83 Hello, this is my first opinion piece on Hurricane Herald as MarioJump83. In this opinion piece, I want to explain why I'm not as active as I'm hoping for in recent weeks. I do not plan to ever make this opinion piece at all, but I had to speak out about my issue with my activity in order to balance this edition of Hurricane Herald as well as to prevent attempts at adding my work-in-progress opinion piece to this issue because I'm planning to package that opinion piece with a long-finished but unfortunately delayed opinion piece. I want to apologize for delaying my work-in-progress opinion piece numerous times, given there are numerous issues about it, one of which (stress) will be addressed in this opinion piece. Since last December, I have repeatedly have been on semi-wikibreaks. Wikipedia, as I know it, is a serious business. I was no longer the "nice guy" when I got my MoTM. Stress has been building up as I faced college exams as well as my father's stroke which happened on December 17, 2020. I attempted to break this semi-wikibreak once as I requested to change my name from SMB99thx into MarioJump83 for a breath of a fresh air (some days before that I requested deletion of my userpage for the same reason), and did some AfC reviewing spree in January 2 and 3. But as it turns out, it was quite a failure as three AfC submissions I accepted ended up being in jeopardy, with me trying to save the last one standing. I think these experiences ruined my chance to become a permanent new page reviewer, pushed me back into my semi-wikibreak once more and I had to enroll myself into New Page Patrol School in hopes of getting back into what I wanted. As such, I decided to commit into content creation as I was granted page mover rights (temporary) on January 4. As of now, I'm trying my best to come out on this second semi-wikibreak, bringing myself out of trouble that I didn't intend to participate in and planning to become autopatrolled some day as the college exams are winding over. Wish me and my family for the best in the coming weeks, anyone! I'm hoping that it will happen after the release of this issue, if not later. By the way - even when I'm still stressed - I am going to wish everybody Happy New Year and Happy 20th Wikipedia anniversary! (Don't forget that we also reached edit number 1,000,000,000!) |
A kitten for you!
I am sorry to hear that you aren't well, I hope you feel better soon! Stay safe
🌀CycloneFootball71🏈 |sandbox 02:38, 15 January 2021 (UTC)
- @CycloneFootball71: Thanks so much for the kitty! I am feeling better today. I wish you and your family a healthy and safe weekend. ~ Destroyeraa🌀🇺🇸 20:08, 15 January 2021 (UTC)
- I am glad to hear that you are feeling better. Thank you, best wishes to you and your family as well. 🌀CycloneFootball71🏈 |sandbox 20:39, 15 January 2021 (UTC)
Siopao for you!
Shift674 has given you a siopao! Siopao promotes WikiLove (📖💞) and hopefully this one has made your day better. Siopaos are wonderfully delicious! They are a Chinese-Filipino snack, may contain beef, chicken, pork, salted duck egg or shrimp; and popular in the Philippines and Thailand. Spread the WikiLove by giving someone else a siopao, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend.
I am sad to know you had a sickness that affected your ability to edit here, and I am glad to know you have felt better since then. I saw that you liked Chinese food, so I brought some Siopao! -Shift674-🌀 contribs 03:12, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
Spread the goodness of siopaos by adding {{subst:Siopao for you}} to someone's talk page with a friendly message!
- @Shift674: Yummy! I wish I can get this at my nearest Filipino restaurant, though I don't think they deliver. Thanks again for the virtual food! Cheers, ~ Destroyeraa🌀🇺🇸 00:09, 19 January 2021 (UTC)
A teardrop for you!
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| Here is a teardrop for you! Legends have it that a teardrop is an extremely rare artifact found in enchanted forests and on the tops of snowcapped mountains. Some have even said that they have the power to heal life-threatening conditions, or even grant a wish! But legends also say that teardrops are born only from events of great tragedy or heartbreak. So here is a teardrop from me. Hopefully, it'll lift your spirit. Anyway, I am not going to comment any more on this here, so don't even bother. LightandDark2000 🌀 (talk) 05:11, 16 January 2021 (UTC) |
- BTW, hopefully you'll feel well enough for us to get together sometime this weekend. Especially before your exams next week. It really has been too long. BTW...You've got a lot of explaining to do (off-wiki). Don't you even think for a second that I'm going to give you a free pass for that coverup you pulled. And don't you forget to take your medicine, and rest as needed. (Take medicine until the more severe symptoms are completely gone.) They're both crucial for a swift recovery. LightandDark2000 🌀 (talk) 05:11, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
- @LightandDark2000: I'm terribly sorry for the misery I've caused you over the past few days. I really didn't mean to scare you and other users by the {{user health inactive}}. Thanks for your continued support. Stay safe and optimistic. ~ Destroyeraa🌀🇺🇸 00:13, 19 January 2021 (UTC)
- Ah, it's okay. I just don't want you to hide any of that stuff anymore. It can be real scary just thinking about the possibilities. Especially with the chaos unfolding in this world right now. I'm just glad that you're okay. :) LightandDark2000 🌀 (talk) 00:15, 19 January 2021 (UTC)
Someone has smiled at you!
Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.
Hey hope you’re doing well, and I hope you are able to get your health better during your break from Wikipedia.Robloxsupersuperhappyface (talk) 21:56, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
- @Robloxsupersuperhappyface: Thank you for your compassion. During my break, my health has improve drastically, and I am not ill anymore. I hope I didn't scare anyone - I did not get covid. I'm sorry for the late reply, it's not that I did not see your kind message. Thanks again, and stay safe. Cheers, ~ Destroyeraa🌀🇺🇸 13:44, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
Happy 20th Wikipedia Anniversary!
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Cyclone Toby has given you a Wikipedia ball! Wikipedia balls promote WikiLove and hopefully this has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by copy and pasting and sending it to a user, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Happy 20th anniversary! Cyclone Toby 02:03, 17 January 2021 (UTC) |
Also, now you have been on Wikipedia for a year! Congrats! Stay safe, Cyclone Toby 02:03, 17 January 2021 (UTC)
- @Cyclone Toby: Thank you! I hope you had a great WP 20th anniversary! Sorry for the late reply, it's not that I didn't see your kind message. Stay safe! ~ Destroyeraa🌀🇺🇸 13:45, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
Please help
Hey, Destroyer. The others won't understand this, but I know you will. They are coming after me, again. It's really bad. I've left more details off-wiki; it's just much too personal to talk about here. Please help me. Thanks. Your friend, LightandDark2000 🌀 (talk) 19:52, 17 January 2021 (UTC)
DYK for Hurricane Beryl
On 18 January 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Hurricane Beryl, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a mental-health hotline in Puerto Rico recorded a spike in calls leading up to Hurricane Beryl? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Hurricane Beryl. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Hurricane Beryl), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (ie, 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
— Maile (talk) 00:02, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
BBC 1 idents
Thanks for the message. While updating some of my YouTube clips I referred to the idents page of Wikipedia and realised there was a gap on Simon Luxtons input between 1963 and 1969- which I attempted to fill. Unfortunately since I provided a lot of the early clips on his site and tried to help with dates etc I can’t supply any other verification as a lot a material in there would have come from me. The tv-ark site has radically changed since the death of Simon and the details on the ident pages reduced. The tv room also was a recipient of a lot of my recordings- but once again it has closed complete with the background information held on it. It’s not much of a bind to me as I can (and have) put clips on YouTube along with any historical information I have. So since the actual ‘facts’ aren’t particularly held anywhere at least my YouTube clips provide an information source.
Thanks
Dave Baldwin 178.78.85.12 (talk) 14:52, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
@Bdavebaldwin: Greetings, Dave. Thank you for the explanation. When sourcing information, you should use the refs tag (<ref></ref>) and put the url inside the tags. I hope this helps. Happy editing! ~ Destroyeraa🌀🇺🇸 17:42, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
A barnstar for you! - Un EtoileDeGrange pour vous!
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The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar | Les actes de bonté au hasard EtoileDeGrange |
| Hey! Glad to see you're doing well. Thank you for the nice messages for myself and our WPTC colleagues. Stay safe! ~ AC5230 talk 16:56, 21 January 2021 (UTC) | Bonjour! Content de voir que tu vas bien. Merci pour les gentils messages pour moi et nos collègues WPTC. Restez en sécurité! ~ AC5230 talk 16h56, 21 janvier 2021 (UTC) |
NOTE: Translated to include French. Because I said so. ~ AC5230 talk 17:01, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
- @AC5230: Thanks for the barnstar! I don't know French, but I can get the basic gist of your translated words. Does EtoileDeGrange mean barnstar? Merci, ~ Destroyeraa🌀🇺🇸 17:48, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
- @Destroyeraa: Etoile de grange is French for barn star. Google gave me the option. I did. (I don't know THAT much French) ~ AC5230 talk 11:56, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
A kitten for you!
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It has been quite a time since you started your wikibreak. When you will be coming back? BTW, I'll give you a bicolor kitten. I like them all!
MarioJump83! 07:15, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
- @MarioJump83: Thank you so much for the cute kitty! My wikibreak isn't really that much of one anymore, though I have sporadic exams through February 1st. I'll change it soon. Thanks again! ~ Destroyeraa🌀🇺🇸 17:01, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
A brownie for you!
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Here's a brownie! It's been a while since you've started your wikibreak. When are you coming back? Is everything ok? ~~ 🌀𝕾𝖚𝖕𝖊𝖗 𝕮𝖞𝖈𝖑𝖔𝖓𝖎𝖈 𝕾𝖙𝖔𝖗𝖒 𝕮𝖔𝖗𝖔𝖓𝖆🌀 16:07, 22 January 2021 (UTC) |
- @Super Cyclonic Storm Corona: Thanks for the brownie! Yum! Yeah, everything has been fine. I have since recovered and my activity is ramping up again, though I still have sporadic exams until February 1st. Thanks again, and stay safe. ~ Destroyeraa🌀🇺🇸 17:03, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
- Good to know you've recovered. ~~ 🌀𝕾𝖚𝖕𝖊𝖗 𝕮𝖞𝖈𝖑𝖔𝖓𝖎𝖈 𝕾𝖙𝖔𝖗𝖒 𝕮𝖔𝖗𝖔𝖓𝖆🌀 18:08, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
A golden ammonite fossil for you!
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A golden ammonite fossil for you |
Hey! Don't base your self-worth off of your accomplishments (or lack of, thereof). That leads to an easy way to beat yourself up when things don't turn out as you hoped. It's not worth it. Those things do not reflect on who you are as a person, or your value. And it's not healthy for you to engage in this kind of self-beating, either. Here is a golden-colored, pyritized ammonite fossil for you. Because you deserve one. You are special. You are a valued editor on Wikipedia. You are brilliant, and you are awesome. And you are my good friend. Don't ever forget that.  LightandDark2000 🌀 (talk) 16:13, 23 January 2021 (UTC)
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A smile for you! — revoked
Really? (diff) Comeon. That does the opposite than to lower the temperature. Why even add further negativity into the mix? Sorry, but that isn't a good look. El_C 17:18, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
- @El C: I'm sorry if you disagree but I have my own personal reasons for revoking it. I disagreed with the closure of the ANI thread but won't argue it further. I believed that it would be more just if you had given a chance for LightandDark2000, Hurricanehink and Jason Rees to give their two cents. I restored the smile for the sake of avoiding more crap and/or personal attacks. Thanks, and stay safe. ~ Destroyeraa🌀🇺🇸 19:58, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
- Destroyeraa, not to belabour the point, but to me, it just looks kinda bad. Anyway, I had my reasons for swiftly closing that ANI complaint. But thank you for sharing your perspective. Best, El_C 20:01, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
- @El C: I respect your rational for closure and I will be more careful from now on. Thanks again. Best, ~ Destroyeraa🌀🇺🇸 20:02, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
- Destroyeraa, not to belabour the point, but to me, it just looks kinda bad. Anyway, I had my reasons for swiftly closing that ANI complaint. But thank you for sharing your perspective. Best, El_C 20:01, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
Someone has smiled at you!
Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.
Hey, I hope you're doing well and your health is improving. You've been on a Wikibreak for quite some time now. Cheers! HurricaneCovid (contribs) 01:26, 28 January 2021 (UTC)
- @HurricaneCovid: Thank you so much for the smile! My health has improved greatly over the last two weeks… thank you for your support. I have some exams in the coming few days, which I need to get over before ending the wikibreak! Thanks again for the smile, and stay safe. BTW, aren't you getting another nor'easter soon (Monday-Tuesday timeframe)? Cheers, ~ Destroyeraa🌀🇺🇸 16:54, 28 January 2021 (UTC)
- No problem! Great to hear your health is improving! And yes, another nor'easter is coming, and I think you will get more snow than me from it though. HurricaneCovid (contribs) 17:22, 28 January 2021 (UTC)
- @HurricaneCovid: This one may be my first really "significant" winter storm (the Dec 15-17 one only dropped 8 inches). I'll make sure to take photos :) Cheers, ~ Destroyeraa🌀🇺🇸 17:26, 28 January 2021 (UTC)
- I got 14 inches from that one; I'll probably get somewhat less this time, but it'll fall on top of the 4.something inches of current snow depth. HurricaneCovid (contribs) 17:31, 28 January 2021 (UTC)
- Oh, I live in MD, and only got like 6-7 inches. It was supposed to be a lot more, since it was forecasted that the coastal low moves away from us and send us heavier snow, which did not happen. ~~ 🌀𝕾𝖚𝖕𝖊𝖗 𝕮𝖞𝖈𝖑𝖔𝖓𝖎𝖈 𝕾𝖙𝖔𝖗𝖒 𝕮𝖔𝖗𝖔𝖓𝖆🌀 19:09, 2 February 2021 (UTC)
- I got 14 inches from that one; I'll probably get somewhat less this time, but it'll fall on top of the 4.something inches of current snow depth. HurricaneCovid (contribs) 17:31, 28 January 2021 (UTC)
- @HurricaneCovid: This one may be my first really "significant" winter storm (the Dec 15-17 one only dropped 8 inches). I'll make sure to take photos :) Cheers, ~ Destroyeraa🌀🇺🇸 17:26, 28 January 2021 (UTC)
- No problem! Great to hear your health is improving! And yes, another nor'easter is coming, and I think you will get more snow than me from it though. HurricaneCovid (contribs) 17:22, 28 January 2021 (UTC)
WikiProject Current Events Discussion (New proposal to admins)
You are invited to a new proposal that will affect the WikiProject Current events. The discussion is about adding a way to track how many times an article is listed at Portal:Current events. You can see the proposal here. Elijahandskip (talk) 15:18, 28 January 2021 (UTC)
Michael 2018
Hey destroyaa! Doge saying hi but I see that there are 2 of the same gifs in the Hurricane Michael is this ment to be there? Or should someone delete it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Doge1941 (talk • contribs) 03:24, 30 January 2021 (UTC)
- @Doge1941: Hi there! It was fixed by CycloneFootball71. Cheers, ~ Destroyeraa🌀🇺🇸 16:38, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
Alr thank you also hope you get better! Doge1941 (talk) 18:07, 4 February 2021 (UTC)
- @Doge1941: Thank you! Stay safe. Best, ~ Destroyeraa🌀🇺🇸 18:57, 4 February 2021 (UTC)
A jar of honey for you!
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A jar of honey |
| I'm so sorry to hear that you've gotten sick again. I told you that it wasn't healthy to stress out so much like you've been doing for the past week. Why did you do it!? 😢 In the end, it was all for nothing. Even if the worst came to pass, it still wouldn't diminish your value as a person. And I know that you're a smart, wonderful guy. Please don't ever do this to yourself again. It really hurts watching stuff like this happen to you. Remember to take your medicine until all of the significant symptoms are gone. And rest. So here's a jar of honey from me. Because honey is sweet and soothing. I hope you'll be feeling much better when you see this. I'd send you so much more if I could (such as cough syrup), but this is the least I can do for you. And I'll always be here for you (off-wiki, at least). I wish you a speedy recovery. Your friend, LightandDark2000 🌀 (talk) 02:52, 1 February 2021 (UTC) |
A barnstar for you!
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The Resilient Barnstar |
| Your health doesn't seem to have affected your Wikipedia editing much: keep editing, and everything gets better. 🐔 Chicdat Bawk to me! 13:14, 1 February 2021 (UTC) |
An apple pie for you!
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An apple pie for you |
Hi! Since apples are your favorite food, I'd like to gift you with this apple pie from Julian. Topped with caramel sauce, too. It's really delicious. I hope this gift of mine makes your day. Since I'm unable to give you one in real life (as of this writing). This slice is all yours. Anyhow, get well soon.  From the bottom of my heart, LightandDark2000 🌀 (talk) 18:25, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
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A bowl of strawberries for you!
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It hurts to see you sick again. I'm not sure if strawberries are appropriate for you, but this is the best food I could find for you. Stay safe my friend, COVID-19 is a monster that is still not defeated. MarioJump83! 03:06, 2 February 2021 (UTC) |
A cupcake for you!
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Sorry to see that you are ill again. Hope you get better soon. ~~ 🌀𝕾𝖚𝖕𝖊𝖗 𝕮𝖞𝖈𝖑𝖔𝖓𝖎𝖈 𝕾𝖙𝖔𝖗𝖒 𝕮𝖔𝖗𝖔𝖓𝖆🌀 14:40, 2 February 2021 (UTC) |
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| And this is for all your fine contributions to articles relating to Tropical Cyclones. ~~ 🌀𝕾𝖚𝖕𝖊𝖗 𝕮𝖞𝖈𝖑𝖔𝖓𝖎𝖈 𝕾𝖙𝖔𝖗𝖒 𝕮𝖔𝖗𝖔𝖓𝖆🌀 19:18, 2 February 2021 (UTC) |
@Super Cyclonic Storm Corona, MarioJump83, LightandDark2000, and Chicdat: Thank you so much for the kind words and messages. My health is improving greatly and I am returning to editing again (end of Wikibreak). Thanks again, and I wish you all and your families good health and a wonderful week. Best, ~ Destroyeraa🌀🇺🇸 16:40, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
- No problem! Just take better care of yourself going forward. And please don't shred yourself over something like that again. That kind of stress and self-beating doesn't help you anyway. LightandDark2000 🌀 (talk) 16:50, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
- I'm glad we made you feel better. But as LightandDark2000 mentioned, don't be to stressed, it can be harmful to you. ~~ 🌀𝕾𝖚𝖕𝖊𝖗 𝕮𝖞𝖈𝖑𝖔𝖓𝖎𝖈 𝕾𝖙𝖔𝖗𝖒 𝕮𝖔𝖗𝖔𝖓𝖆🌀 17:29, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
- Finally! MarioJump83! 23:26, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
- Thank you for saying thank you. Some people, after getting hundreds of barnstars, don't even bother to reply to them. (I check admins' talk pages.) I'm glad that you aren't one of those. 🐔 Chicdat Bawk to me! 11:38, 4 February 2021 (UTC)
- @LightandDark2000, Super Cyclonic Storm Corona, MarioJump83, and Chicdat: Thanks again. It's very wonderful to have a community that cares for me. Thanks y'all. And Chicdat, you're very welcome! ~ Destroyeraa🌀🇺🇸 16:34, 4 February 2021 (UTC)
- No problem! ~~ 🎸🎻🥋🏅🌀𝕾𝖚𝖕𝖊𝖗 𝕮𝖞𝖈𝖑𝖔𝖓𝖎𝖈 𝕾𝖙𝖔𝖗𝖒 𝕮𝖔𝖗𝖔𝖓𝖆🌀🏅🥋🎻🎸 16:40, 4 February 2021 (UTC)
Welcome back (and with a pun)!
Glad to see that you're back in editing, but don't destroy your affinity in doing so! Tfess up?or down? 18:48, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
- @TFESS: Thanks! Ha ha ha ~ Destroyeraa🌀🇺🇸 16:35, 4 February 2021 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar |
| Thanks for helping me tackle Lightning Sabre's cross-wiki vandalism spree today! You deserve this barnstar. ^_^ I'm very grateful for your help. LightandDark2000 🌀 (talk) 21:11, 3 February 2021 (UTC) |
Lucas
Just fyi that Lucas reached Category 1 (JTWC) intensity in the SPac, and never in the Australian basin. Just letting ya know. :) Typhoon2013 (talk) 01:33, 4 February 2021 (UTC)
- @Typhoon2013: My bad. Forgot the old rules! Cheers, ~ Destroyeraa🌀🇺🇸 16:32, 4 February 2021 (UTC)
Some stroopwafels for you!
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Thank you. MarioJump83! 22:57, 4 February 2021 (UTC) |
- @MarioJump83: No, thank you! You're one of the reasons I am back here editing. Cheers, ~ Destroyeraa🌀🇺🇸 15:31, 5 February 2021 (UTC)
A nor'easter for you!
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| Thanks for updating the death toll for the February 2021 nor'easter. Hey, how much snow did you get from that storm? I got a mere 7 inches. I live in MD, so I figured you got more. ~~ 🏅🌀𝕾𝖚𝖕𝖊𝖗 𝕮𝖞𝖈𝖑𝖔𝖓𝖎𝖈 𝕾𝖙𝖔𝖗𝖒 𝕮𝖔𝖗𝖔𝖓𝖆🌀🏅 15:07, 5 February 2021 (UTC) |
- @Super Cyclonic Storm Corona: Thanks for the nor'easter. It was really bad here in New Jersey. I got 19.5 inches of snow, as submitted to the NWS. Another nor'easter may be coming though... ~ Destroyeraa🌀🇺🇸 15:35, 5 February 2021 (UTC)
- Ah, ok. Yeah can't wait for the one on Sunday, though it won't be as bad as the one before. You know, I kind of want a repeat of the 2016 blizzard. ~~ 🏅🌀𝕾𝖚𝖕𝖊𝖗 𝕮𝖞𝖈𝖑𝖔𝖓𝖎𝖈 𝕾𝖙𝖔𝖗𝖒 𝕮𝖔𝖗𝖔𝖓𝖆🌀🏅 15:41, 5 February 2021 (UTC)
A cupcake for you!
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Don't worry, a little mistake happens. be happy. Dam222 🌋 (talk) 19:30, 5 February 2021 (UTC) |
Please don't go...
No. You're not a bully. You are far nicer than I am as a person, probably even nicer than I ever was at any point in my life. I mean it. This isn't your fault. There's no way you could have possibly known what had happened in that kid's life. You are not responsible for any of this. Had he continued his behavior, I would have dragged him off to AIV myself. He brought this on himself. You can't trash yourself for this. There are so many things that are out of our control. And we all make mistakes. You cannot let things like this drag you down. It'll really destroy you. Please don't go. I don't think any less of you. And you're still my friend. LightandDark2000 🌀 (talk) 21:08, 5 February 2021 (UTC)
- If you want the discussion to be continued off-wiki, then start it off-wiki. 🐔 Chicdat Bawk to me! 11:17, 7 February 2021 (UTC)
- @LightandDark2000: I wish I knew the goings-on between you two. 🐔 Chicdat Bawk to me! 11:18, 7 February 2021 (UTC)
I'm Sorry.
Hello. I saw that you were going on a wiki-break, and I wanted to apologize for what happened. I didn't mean for this to blow up into what it did, and I apologize for bringing you into the discussion here, I just though that you could explain it better than me, for the user so that they could understand why their name wasn't on the list, and what CIR meant. Unfourtunately, he got blocked, and you ended up feeling like a bully. Again, I apologize, I did not mean to make you feel like the bully here. 🌀CycloneFootball71🏈 |sandbox 22:18, 5 February 2021 (UTC)
- @CycloneFootball71: No, please don't tear into yourself either. Look, both of you need to stop being so hard on yourselves. Even though it is possible that it could have been handled a bit differently, the kid's actions warranted the block. And there is no way either of you could have known about the stuff in his life. Ultimately, both of you made the right call. BTW, the kid is now Globally Locked for cross-wiki abuse. It appears that he has been socking for close to two weeks now. Both of you are some of the kindest editors that I have met, and I have been on Wikipedia for close to 12 years now. You have a good heart, and you should be proud of it. Both of you. LightandDark2000 🌀 (talk) 20:50, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
- @LightandDark2000:, I am trying to work at not doing such things such as tearing myself apart, but unfortunately it still gets the best of me. I understand now what you mean, Thank you for the kind words, you are a very kind person yourself. Thanks. 🌀CycloneFootball71🏈 |sandbox 05:29, 8 February 2021 (UTC)
- @CycloneFootball71: I'm sorry. You made the right call, as LightandDark2000 said, to ping me there to stop the kid. I didn't know they were an LTA! Please don't tear into yourself. Thank you for your support, and stay safe. Best, ~ Destroyeraa🌀🇺🇸 22:52, 11 February 2021 (UTC)
- I had no idea either that the kid was an LTA. Thank you for support as well, you stay safe also. I am working on not tearing into myself, so hopefully things get better. Thanks again for the response 🌀CycloneFootball71🏈 |sandbox 00:11, 12 February 2021 (UTC)
- @CycloneFootball71: I'm sorry. You made the right call, as LightandDark2000 said, to ping me there to stop the kid. I didn't know they were an LTA! Please don't tear into yourself. Thank you for your support, and stay safe. Best, ~ Destroyeraa🌀🇺🇸 22:52, 11 February 2021 (UTC)
- @LightandDark2000:, I am trying to work at not doing such things such as tearing myself apart, but unfortunately it still gets the best of me. I understand now what you mean, Thank you for the kind words, you are a very kind person yourself. Thanks. 🌀CycloneFootball71🏈 |sandbox 05:29, 8 February 2021 (UTC)
A yellow mechanical bird for you!
Thank you for being a great contributor! Also, isn't this giving you myself, based on my (old) username?... Skarmory (talk • contribs) 23:54, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
- @Skarmory: Thanks for the little bird! Isn't Skarmory a pokemon, and Yellow Skarmory a yellow pokemon? Lol. Stay safe. ~ Destroyeraa🌀🇺🇸 22:54, 11 February 2021 (UTC)
- Yeah, it is a pokemon! There is no yellow versions in the game, that was just something I added to the name (my favorite color) when I made the username. Skarmory (talk • contribs) 19:37, 12 February 2021 (UTC)
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Shift674 has given you some cookies! Cookies promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. You can spread the "WikiLove" by giving someone else some cookies, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Hey there. I recently saw your talk page, and when I saw what was happening, it made me feel melancholy. Nobody but BCNY2011’s family knew his great-grandmother passed away, and it’s not your fault he broke into tears. -Shift674-🌀 contribs 20:47, 7 February 2021 (UTC) To spread the goodness of cookies, you can add {{subst:Cookies}} to someone's talk page with a friendly message, or eat this cookie on the giver's talk page with {{subst:munch}}! |
- @Shift674: Yum! Thanks! Stay safe, ~ Destroyeraa🌀🇺🇸 22:54, 11 February 2021 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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| Keep working to reach that greatness even with some trouble you have experienced. I'm planning to nominate you as MoTM this May. MarioJump83! 23:28, 7 February 2021 (UTC) |
- @MarioJump83: Aw, thanks! I saw that you re-started the WPNTS wikiproject! Excellent idea! I'm joining. Stay safe, ~ Destroyeraa🌀🇺🇸 22:56, 11 February 2021 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar |
| For being one of the kindest editors I've come across in all my years on Wikipedia, and for helping me out and lending me support numerous times over the past few months. I'm really thankful for everything you've done for me. You have a good heart, and you really are much nicer than I am, whether or not you choose to believe it. You should be proud of it. So here is this barnstar for you, as a token of my appreciation. Your friend, LightandDark2000 🌀 (talk) 01:41, 8 February 2021 (UTC)
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Invitation to join the Non-tropical storms WikiProject
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Please accept this invitation to join WikiProject Weather's Non-tropical storms task force (WPNTS), a task force dedicated to improving all articles associated with extratropical cyclones on Wikipedia. WPNTS hosts a number of Wikipedia's highly-viewed articles, and needs your help for the upcoming winter season (for whichever hemisphere happens to be in its climatological winter). Simply click here and add your name to the list to accept! | 
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Since you're already active on those articles and have an interest there. If you want to. :) LightandDark2000 🌀 (talk) 02:29, 8 February 2021 (UTC)
- @LightandDark2000: Thanks for the barnstars and the invite! Please don't tear yourself apart. Stay safe, ~ Destroyeraa🌀🇺🇸 22:57, 11 February 2021 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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The Special Barnstar |
| Sorry to see you've been going through some trouble lately. This barnstar is my thanks for being a great contributor to the English Wikipedia. ~~ 🏅🌀𝕾𝖚𝖕𝖊𝖗 𝕮𝖞𝖈𝖑𝖔𝖓𝖎𝖈 𝕾𝖙𝖔𝖗𝖒 𝕮𝖔𝖗𝖔𝖓𝖆🌀🏅 15:59, 8 February 2021 (UTC) |
- @Super Cyclonic Storm Corona: Aw...thanks! Remember that you're special too! Stay safe, ~ Destroyeraa🌀🇺🇸 22:58, 11 February 2021 (UTC)
Cyclone Faraji moved to draftspace
An article you recently created, Cyclone Faraji, is not suitable to remain published. It needs to meet Wikipedia notability guidelines. I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page.DachshundLover82 (talk) 02:01, 9 February 2021 (UTC)
Hi there,
I hope all is well.
I noticed you rejected this wikipedia submission and I'm trying to understand the reasons. This page classifies results of an official sports competition (team handball, US National Championship, women) and is a continuation of the http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/2018_USA_Team_Handball_Nationals_-_Women%27s_Open_Division.
I'm hoping this can get approved as it follows the exact same basis as the 2018 page.
I look forward to hearing from you, and thank you.
Best, Handball4USA — Preceding unsigned comment added by Handball4usa (talk • contribs) 01:42, 10 February 2021 (UTC)
- @Handball4usa: Hi there! I hope you are well too. The main problem about the draft is that it needs more sources. Several sections are still unsourced. If you can add some more sources to the draft, I'll be happy to publish it. I hope this helps. Best, ~ Destroyeraa🌀🇺🇸 22:47, 11 February 2021 (UTC)
Welcome to WPNTS!
Hi, and welcome to WikiProject Weather's Non-tropical storms task force! We are a group of Wikipedia editors who help to improve articles related to extratropical cyclones on Wikipedia.
Looking for somewhere to start? Here are a few suggestions.
- You can check out topics in our scope on the home page.
- You can re-assess storm-related articles to assure they are up to standards.
- See the to-do list for the task force, and opt to try and complete some of those tasks.
- If you want to work on an article, Category:Stub-Class Non-tropical storm articles is a great place to start.
- You can also check out the newsletter, known as The Frozen Times.
- For further information, you could join the WikiProject Weather IRC channel or Discord server.
If you have any comments, suggestions, or would like to talk about the project in general, feel free to leave a message on the talk page.
It's great to see you join us. I finally managed to welcome you to something. ^_^ LightandDark2000 🌀 (talk) 03:24, 12 March 2021 (UTC)
Happy Valentine's Day & Lunar New Year!
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 Happy Valentine's Day!! (Or Single's Awareness Day – However you prefer it! XD) Here is a delicious cookie baked with a large Hershey's Kiss, from yours truly. I hope you will find love and happiness with your friends and family. May your life be filled with joy. And happy Lunar New Year! I hope that you were able to spend some quality time with your family, during the festivities. I wish you a prosperous 2021 as well. Hopefully this message made your day a little better. ^_^ Stay safe out there. From the bottom of my heart, LightandDark2000 🌀 (talk) 01:44, 14 February 2021 (UTC) |
- @LightandDark2000: Thanks! I hope you enjoyed your Lunar New Year with quality time with your family! Stay safe, ~ Destroyeraa🌀🇺🇸 01:58, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
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Hello Destroyeraa, Shift674 has given you a shining smiling star! You see, these things promote WikiLove and hopefully this has made your day better. Spread the Shining Smiling Star whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or someone putting up with some stick at this time. Enjoy! -Shift674-🌀 contribs 01:45, 14 February 2021 (UTC) |
- Hi. I saw the notice on your user page that said you were in the path (or are being affected) by Winter Storm Uri. I hope this storm doesn’t interfere in your current situation, and I am hoping the best for you. Stay safe, -Shift674-🌀 contribs 01:49, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
@Shift674: Thanks for the shiny smiling star ! Uri didn't do much except for some minor flooding (ankle-deep) in my garage due to a combo of rapid snowmelt and heavy rain. Stay safe, ~ Destroyeraa🌀🇺🇸 01:57, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
Hey there
I saw the notice on your user page about you being in the path of Winter Storm Uri. I hope you are staying safe and warm. Your friend, CodingCyclone citation needed 01:45, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- @CodingCyclone: Thanks! Uri didn't do much except flood my garage with ankle-deep water due to a combo of rain and rapid snowmelt. Stay safe, ~ Destroyeraa🌀🇺🇸 01:56, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
- I'm glad you're safe. The weather is really getting more extreme. Hyperactive hurricane season, record-breaking fires in Australia and California, and now these crazy winter storms. Climate change...CodingCyclone [citation needed] 04:19, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
A pie for you!
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Stay safe from all of this winter madness. MarioJump83! 05:32, 16 February 2021 (UTC) |
- @MarioJump83: Thanks. Luckily, Uri and Viola weren't bad for me, compared to Texas and the Deep South. There's no winter madness in Indonesia, I assume? Stay safe, ~ Destroyeraa🌀🇺🇸 01:55, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
- There is no kinds of that. Just rain. Even then, it could be very destructive. 2021 South Kalimantan floods is one example here that affected my home region... MarioJump83! 02:33, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
A belated Happy Valentines Day!
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Hello Destroyeraa, love is the language of hearts and is the feeling that joins two souls and brings two hearts together in a bond. Taking love to the level of Wikipedia, spread the WikiLove by wishing each other Happy Valentine's Day, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Spread the love by adding {{subst:Valentine Greetings}} to other user talk pages. |
Sorry for the belated message. It was also my mom's birthday, so I took a little break from wiki to celebrate. I saw the notice on your userpage that you are in the path of Winter Storm Uri. That storm sent me a lot of ice, so stay safe, ok? ~~ 🏅🌀𝕾𝖚𝖕𝖊𝖗 𝕮𝖞𝖈𝖑𝖔𝖓𝖎𝖈 𝕾𝖙𝖔𝖗𝖒 𝕮𝖔𝖗𝖔𝖓𝖆🌀🏅 13:55, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
- @Super Cyclonic Storm Corona: I'm wishing your mom a belated (late) happy birthday! I hope you escaped all that ice without any damage! Uri flooded by garage due to rapid snowmelt and heavy rain, though I'm fine. Thanks for the belated Velentine's Day card! Stay safe, ~ Destroyeraa🌀🇺🇸 01:54, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
ITN recognition for February 13–17, 2021 North American winter storm
On 19 February 2021, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article February 13–17, 2021 North American winter storm, which you nominated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. LightandDark2000 🌀 (talk) 17:42, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
A coffee for your journey through Winter Storm Viola
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Good luck on Winter Storm Viola, stay safe. a_liza aliza's chat, lila's chat/aliza's mess, lila's mess 15:09, 23 February 2021 (UTC) |
@Iol Iizzy: Thanks. Storm wasn't too bad, though it did manage somehow to drop 0.12" of freezing rain. Was overall not a big storm, but it was a pain to shovel all that ice :) Stay safe. ~ Destroyeraa🌀🇺🇸 01:52, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
@Destroyeraa: Stay safe too! --a_liza aliza's chat, lila's chat/aliza's mess, lila's mess 13:35, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
- Destroyeraa, did you know that lol lizzy and IiIa.1 are blocked? ~ 🌀 SCS CORONA 🌀 19:23, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
Sockpuppets of IaiIa123, says the blocking admin. Another sockpuppet of IaiIa123 is ImaoisIiz, who has had some interaction with me and LightandDark2000.
Student Cockade draft
Hello you previously declined the draft Student Cockade (http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Draft:Student_Cockade), i have edited it, and it has now been waiting review for several months. Would it be possible for you to review it again ? Thanks in advance! EdenFaust (talk) 18:02, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
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... for what you said to Flyer22 --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:15, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
46th issue of Hurricane Herald newsletter
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The Hurricane Herald
The Hurricane Herald is the semi-regular newsletter of WikiProject Tropical Cyclones. The newsletter aims to provide in summary the recent activities and developments of the WikiProject, in addition to global tropical cyclone activity. The Hurricane Herald has been running since its first edition ran on June 4, 2006. If you wish to receive or discontinue subscription to this newsletter, please visit the member list. New members will automatically receive this newsletter. This issue of The Hurricane Herald covers all project related events from January 15–February 28, 2021. This edition's editors and authors are MarioJump83, Destroyeraa, HurricaneCovid, CycloneFootball71, HurricaneEdgar, Skarmory, Typhoon2013 (editor's pick for member of the month), and our member of the month, LightandDark2000! Please visit this page and bookmark any suggestions of interest to you. This will help improve the newsletter and other cyclone-related articles. Past editions, including past MoTMs and SoTMs, can be viewed here. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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WikiProject Tropical Cyclones: News & Developments
New articles since the last newsletter include:
New GA's include:
I, MarioJump83, the interim coordinator of 2018 Global FT's WPAC squad, feels bad with what is going on as I felt we are taking a step back with the ongoing real-life difficulties regarding important members of our task force. KN2731 had to take a wikibreak because of the compulsory service in Singapore and will likely be gone for two years; Destroyeraa's activities were highly inhibited by multiple illnesses, school exams, "bullying" issues, and series of winter storms this month; Hurricane Noah almost took a two-month-long wikibreak because due to college studies, which Noah is committed to (he also left the WPTC Discord for a couple of months, due to toxicity). I don't really like to take a lot of responsibilities within the 2018 Global FT task force, as I had joined with the intent of helping GA's that involves this year, i.e. like what I did in Cyclone Ava and Cyclone Owen as of now, but with so many of us were forced out of commission due to these problems I mentioned, I and LightandDark2000 had to take much of the responsibility within the task force. Because of this reason, I strongly recommend you, readers of Hurricane Herald, to join this task force to help take pressure off from us. Note that this is not a formal invite, as Wikipedia is free and anyone can edit, but this is what we have to deal with in this current situation, especially because of our real-life problems and commitments. Let's hope that we, including you, can make this through with what we can do!
If you are interested in writing new articles, promoting articles to GA, or helping with the FAC review process for the Global 2018 FT project, please reach out to LightandDark2000 or any other member of the 2018 FT task force. WikiProject To-Do
Storm of the month and other tropical activity for the rest of January and February  SoTM for January – Cyclone Eloise Eloise caused numerous disasters throughout numerous countries, specifically, in Madagascar, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Eswatini, and Mozambique. Mozambique was the hardest-hit. In Madagascar, Eloise destroyed 190 homes and caused the death of one person. In South Africa, Eloise caused the deaths of 10 people, four of which were children, in addition to being responsible for making another 7 people go missing. In Zimbabwe, Eloise caused damage and destruction to nearly a thousand homes, some of which were badly affected by Idai two years ago. Three people were also swept away by flooding from Eloise and were presumed to be dead. In Eswatini, over 1,500 people were affected by the storm, two of whom were killed. Eloise also damaged the water system and flooded the gravel roads and low-lying bridges. In Mozambique, the residents compared the cyclone's impacts to Cyclone Idai, which had catastrophically devastated the country two years earlier. This storm caused psychological trauma and mental health crises among the residents of the country. Eloise caused nine deaths in Mozambique, but massive amounts of farmland were flooded, and the storm also damaged over 30,000 houses, the majority of which were destroyed by the storm. 579 classrooms and 86 health centers had to be repaired after the storm.  SoTM for February – Cyclone Guambe Guambe caused widespread flooding in Mozambique, which displaced over 27,000 people and worsened the ongoing crisis in the region. Prisoners had to be transferred away from the cyclone because of potential flooding. There were no deaths recorded and damages were unknown, however the worst part of Guambe wasn't there yet. South Africa were also flooded by Guambe, which might have been caused by the secondary low-level circulation center (LLCC) of Guambe. This secondary LLCC had caused Guambe to slow down, which probably had devastating effects on Bazaruto Archipelago National Park's marine life, as 186 Spinner dolphins were probably killed by the storm. After Guambe re-emerged into the Mozambique Channel, no additional damage to human property was reported, thus marking the end of Guambe's impacts on land.
Member of the month (edition) – LightandDark2000 LightandDark2000 joined Wikipedia as an IP editor on May 2, 2009. Although a couple of users encouraged him to make an account early on, he decided to continue editing articles from his IPs for the next few years. He registered his user account in May 2012 and spent another year on Wikipedia as an IP editor, before fully transitioning over to his account in the summer of 2013. He received an invitation to join WPTC in March 2014, which he accepted. Ever since joining WPTC, LightandDark2000 has been a regular editor on tropical cyclone articles and one of Wikipedia's most active rollbackers, putting him on the forefront in the fight against vandals and LTAs, and actively steering the WikiProject out of stagnation. He also defended WPTC from numerous vandals, including the likes of the LTAs IPhonehurricane95 and Lightning Sabre. In late 2014–early 2017, LightandDark2000 largely moved out of WPTC into MILHIST (as well as taking a 3-month WikiBreak in the fall of 2016—due to college work and stress from on-wiki hounding), before returning to WPTC in September 2017, following the devastating landfall of Hurricane Harvey in Texas. From there, LightandDark2000 regularly contributed to tropical cyclone articles, as well as articles on other storms and natural disasters, before taking a series of WikiBreaks in late 2019 through mid-2020, due to college work and real-life activities. However, LightandDark2000 returned in July 2020, just as the extremely-active North Atlantic hurricane season got underway. By the time the last issue of The Hurricane Herald was released, LightandDark2000 had made a full return and was ramping up activity, even as WPTC was beset by a series of problems within its membership, ranging from blocks to stress-induced WikiBreaks. During this time of crisis, LightandDark2000 stepped up very quickly - first, he helped out a number of users who were struggling with personal issues on the WikiProject. Then, he joined 2018 Global FT (currently the Interim Coordinator, with Hurricane Noah and KN2731 stepping aside due to real-life commitments). From there, he conducted his first GA review, which was for Hurricane Beryl. After that, he took on a major role in the writing of the previous issue of The Hurricane Herald, which as of this writing is the biggest issue of Hurricane Herald ever published, at an excess of 50,000 bytes, as well as being the most visually-balanced Hurricane Herald issue since the first issues of Hurricane Herald (if it were to be viewed using a 1920×1080 desktop using Legacy Vector). For these reasons and his contributions to the WPTC in the past, we will finally thank LightandDark2000 for all of his contributions by rewarding him with the Member of the Month for this edition. It's quite sad that he didn't get this award since the restart of Hurricane Herald in late 2018 to this day, but now, he has the opportunity to win the award for the first time. We are hoping to see more from LightandDark2000 in the future. For example, he joined the 2021 Cyclone Cup (and also volunteered to take on the role of a judge, if necessary), a new competition for WPTC members based on the WikiCup! New WikiProject Members since the last newsletter More information can be found here. This list lists members who have joined/rejoined the WikiProject since the release of the last issue. Sorted chronologically.
To our new members: welcome to the project, and happy editing! Feel free to check the to-do list at the bottom right of the newsletter for things that you might want to work on. To our veteran members: thank you for your edits and your tireless contributions!
From January 15 to February 28 no featured article were promoted. From the Main Page: Documents WikiProject related materials that have appeared on the main page from January 15–February 28, 2021 in chronological order. There are currently no featured article candidates. Current assessment table Assessments valid as of this printing. Depending on when you may be viewing this newsletter, the table may be outdated. See here for the latest, most up to date statistics.
Project Goals & Progress The following is the current progress on the three milestone goals set by the WikiProject as of this publishing. They can be found, updated, at the main WikiProject page.
Special thanks to David Roth, Keith Edkins, Hylian Auree and HurricaneSpin In this section, we want to thank these first-generation WPTC members for being able to stay in here for years before 2020. They (David, Keith, Hylian and Spin) are one of greatest content creators in WPTC history, helping to build and shape WPTC for what it is now today. Without them, we don't know if WPTC would be like today. David Roth's expertise, Keith Edkins' maintenance activities, Hylian's and Spin's content creation skill helped a lot in the early days of WPTC and we hope some of us can replicate what they can do in today's WPTC. Member of the month (Editor's Pick) – Typhoon2013 Typhoon2013 first edited Wikipedia in August 2013, and ever since joining Wikipedia, Typhoon2013 has been one of the most prolific editors in Western Pacific basin. Since last November, Typhoon2013 has been working very hard on getting tropical cyclone intensity lists of Western Pacific basin done, lending a hand in creation of named storms lists of C, P, R, and S (alongside finishing List of named storms (T) which I was unable to complete because of college), as well as finishing storm lists of Pacific typhoon seasons from 1980 to 1964. For the efforts Typhoon2013 has done leading to the publishing of this newsletter, I, MarioJump83, as one of many editors of Hurricane Herald, will be picking Typhoon2013 as the Member of the Month (Editor's Pick) and thank him for his contributions to build a bedrock foundation for the rapidly-growing Western Pacific coverage of the Wikipedia. We wish Typhoon2013 best of luck at college! My experience here on Wikipedia - by Destroyeraa Was planned to be published in 44th edition of Hurricane Herald, however due to some issue (and per Destroyeraa's request), I have delayed this opinion piece further into this edition. At this point, I do not want to see this opinion piece getting delayed further into May 2021 as I really, really want this OP, alongside my OP below to finally see the light at the end of the tunnel. MarioJump83! I created my Wikipedia account on January 18, 2020. I seems so long ago. My first edit was creating my user page, and my first mainspace edit was on Hammonton, New Jersey. My first autoconformed edit was on my userpage. By then, I was editing about myself and roads. My first tropical cyclone edit was on January 30, on Tropical Storm Nestor, which got reverted. I also edited about the coronavirus epidemic before it became a worldwide pandemic. I edited List of United States tornadoes in April 2020, but got bitten on the talk page, though my love for tornadoes kept me editing pages. I also began editing numerous cyclone pages, and joined WPTC on May 19. It was sad that no one noticed that I joined, and no one welcomed me on my talk page for five months already. I submitted my first article, Tropical Storm Bertha (2020), which was accepted. I was still rather new, and mistook Chicdat as an admin. It was June already. Still, no one welcomed me. Finally, on June 5, Hurricanehink took notice of my edits and welcome me! Around the same time, I downloaded Twinkle. I found the CSD function very cool, and I admittedly didn't read WP:CSD and misused it. One month later, I met my first real vandal, which turned out to be a Force Thirteen kid who was messing around changing everything to Force Thirteen without leaving a source or an edit summary, which most people will take as vandalism. It turned out to be pretty rough, and did not end well for both of us. I was still learning at that stage, as shown here. After that, my experience here got much better. Perhaps it was the "learning-the-ropes" phase that is the hardest for all Wikipedians. I created and wrote some good articles, with my first being Hurricane Dolores, promoted on September 24. I also developed a good relationship with many of my fellow Wikipedians, including the editors/writers of this newsletter and many other newer and older users. Then came the sock block. I'll not get into much detail about that, though I will be forever indebted to the countless users who vouched for me and who welcomed me back to the community with open arms. Thank you. I am glad to be here today.~ Destroyeraa🌀🇺🇸 My experiences of tropical cyclones and tropical cyclone editing before joining WPTC - by MarioJump83 I planned this OP way back to September 2020, but because of issues with length and college (also even stress - detailed in my previous opinion piece My stress), I decided to delay this opinion piece until now. I also intend to publish this opinion piece alongside Destroyeraa's OP above, thus pushing back the date where I can publish this opinion piece further. Thus I fully apologize for delaying this opinion piece for way too long. I was unable to spend my time on building this opinion piece because of these issues and thus getting this opinion piece complete in time. By the way, this will be the final opinion piece I will write for Hurricane Herald - I'm done with it after two opinion pieces as SMB99thx and two opinion pieces as MarioJump83. It was so much fun creating opinion pieces, but I don't want to have opinion pieces for four straight issues already since the 43rd edition! I'm still editing Hurricane Herald in the future, but not writing opinion pieces any further - ...unless you're inviting me to write an opinion piece in my user talk page, which I'll do my best to comply. Hello, WikiProject Tropical cyclones! I want to tell you about the reasons why I liked and loved tracking tropical cyclones and my experience regarding editing tropical cyclones before I joined this WikiProject. First of all, I have been watching tropical cyclones but on-and-off since 2012. That year, Hurricane Sandy as I remembered it got significant coverage on my country, Indonesia (Badai Sandy). That hurricane was the first tropical cyclone that I had ever known in my life (it's possible that Hurricane Katrina had significant coverage in my country, but I didn't remember anything at all about it), and without it I would never known about tropical cyclones by myself. When that hurricane was about to be finished, I visited the article about 2012 Atlantic hurricane season on Wikipedia, and it was the first article about tropical cyclones that I have ever read on Wikipedia. From that day, my interest on tropical cyclones grew but it was limited to the Atlantic hurricanes only. When 2013 started, if I'm thinking about tropical cyclones I frequently visited 2013 Atlantic hurricane season, and in particular the Seasonal summary section, which drew my eyes into when I didn't edit tropical cyclone articles yet. In November 2013, however, as I'm becoming an uncle of one (now three), Typhoon Haiyan showed up. That typhoon which devastated the Southeast Asian brother country of Philippines caused my interest on tropical cyclones to grow outside of Atlantic hurricanes. Now I'm finally aware of what's happening in Pacific, and it was the first time that I learned that tropical cyclones are everywhere in the world, not just Atlantic. That time, I read 2013 Pacific typhoon season as well as 2013 Pacific hurricane season (I don't remember reading these kinds of articles before that). When I read about it, I also visited 2013 Atlantic hurricane season once again and I was shocked by that it wasn't active! As such, I didn't watch tropical cyclones that much for most of 2014 and 2015. Hurricane Patricia didn't convince me enough to watch tropical cyclones again. In 2016, things changed again that led me to make my first edits on tropical cyclones in Wikipedia. Once Hurricane Matthew came and with it significant coverage on Indonesia that I have never seen since Hurricane Sandy, I finally watched tropical cyclones full-time for the first time. That hurricane was the cyclone that finally got me going for the tropical cyclones (not just the recent seasons, but the older seasons and also SHEM) and my quick-growing interest on tropical cyclones led me to find what made me uncomfortable. That led me to make my first edit on tropical cyclone-related articles in Wikipedia - which was to add Central Pacific to a navigation template about leading tropical cyclones in March 7, 2017. Later that month, I made a second edit, which was to remove a year from a link to Hurricane Omar. These additions are quite "cosmetic" (as said by ChessEric about Hurricane Michelle GA), but soon enough in the next month I found more things that made me more uncomfortable - they are legitimate vandalism. The first edit I made in that month was to revert a vandalism on Hurricane Andrew (I edited it again after that, which was to change mb to mbar). On the next day, I fixed another vandalism in 1954 Atlantic hurricane season. That isn't the end yet, as I found one more vandalism in Hurricane Dennis, and I promptly fixed them. As I'm getting more invested on tropical cyclone articles, I've eventually heard and found out why some articles didn't have (XXXX year) in them - and it is because that they are primary topics. When I see some articles like Hurricane Linda (1997), which I thought they are primary topics (I eventually realized that they are not, and I have not requested moving these articles under WPTC banner ever since), I sought the same treatment in these kinds of articles that I thought was primary topics and thus I requested moves in many of these said articles under that thought. I believed that these requests will garner support by most of the WPTC members (which I thought will think for the same), but never did I know that these requests gained overwhelming opposes, primarily from WPTC members - and they talked to me about it. Of course, I panicked and I have to withdraw some of these nominations. That didn't stop me from editing more WPTC articles, and I started to do these requested moves again soon after. This is probably the most successful things I have ever done through my pre-WPTC membership career in the WPTC realm. After withdrawing some of these nominations, I began to work on a split of 1940–49 Pacific typhoon seasons article by starting the discussion on one in May 14. Two weeks later, as I said before, I started requesting more of these nominations in a batch on May 27 - which was wildly successful (only one of them were failed, and that was Tropical Storm Bret of 1993). In a month after these nominations, and with the consensus for split, I finally worked on the split itself. 1940 Pacific typhoon season and 1949 Pacific typhoon season has been split from the article much more earlier, with Hurricanehink creating an article for the 1940 season in May 23, 2014 and Typhoon2013 split the 1949 section from the article in December 19, 2016. I continued what Hurricanehink and Typhoon2013 has been doing, with copying content from the original article into the respective season articles. First, I reverted them to the original before Hurricanehink merged them. Afterwards, I copied the respective sections from the original into respective articles and removed the respective sections in the original article. From the IDs, you can notice that I did this not in order. Afterwards, I moved the original article into 1941–44 Pacific typhoon seasons without moving it's talk page, which I want to admit was a mistake and made a major ramifications (I even started a RfD, which should not happen) in my attempts to get it back without getting it's talk page removed later in October 2020. Once moving the article, I created redirects for the recently moved article (which includes 1941 Pacific typhoon season, 1942 Pacific typhoon season, 1943 Pacific typhoon season, and 1944 Pacific typhoon season, all of which eventually turned into articles), and quickly changed redirects of the respective storms into the newly restored articles. It was a massive effort that day on June 27, 2017, and the experience that I never forgotten. After that month, I returned into requesting moves once again for the third time, riding on the recent wave of successes. I requested the moves of Hurricane Norman (1978) and Hurricane Liza. Hurricane Liza move request was successful but Norman did not. By that point, the frustration from WPTC members are showing up and by the time I requested moving Typhoon Ida (1958) into Typhoon Ida, I had to be stopped. I also moved Typhoon Pamela (1976) into Typhoon Pamela without any discussion, but you know my intentions by that point, and the move was soon reverted. I had a talk with Yellow Evan regarding these actions, and I soon relented, never requested any moves ever since. I didn't do much for the rest of the year - the most notable moves are moving disambiguation pages Tropical Storm Noru and Tropical Storm Banyan into Typhoon Noru and Typhoon Banyan, respectively. Moving on to the next year, I did not do much once again. Most of the activity that year was working on the most of Tropical Storm Son-Tinh (2018) article. Keep in mind that I plan to return working on that article as a part of 2018 Global FT efforts, and that happened because KN2731 is going to take a break for most of this year. Onto the 2019, I did something that I think planted the seeds for my future MoTM run and vast WPTC growth in 2020. Most of the activity in general involves creating links to the future articles, but I also fixed redirects for most 1930s seasons and created redirects for the rest of 1960s decade for NIO basin. I planned something greater than that, however, but because I had to use my phone and not my laptop (it was broken) I wasn't able to do so. That plan was a factor leading to me joining the WPTC in July 2020 (after I realized about the benefits of joining the WikiProjects) and I began realizing the plan as soon as I got my laptop back. What I did for the most of August 2020 and September 2020 was mostly set in stone back in the previous year, if you don't notice that. If I didn't plan it back in the day, I don't think I would ever got that MoTM (it would have been Destroyeraa most likely). That was a story. It is a long story. It took me pains to get myself established in WPTC, but now here I am. If anyone could have invited me back in the year 2018, I would have rejected it like CyclonicallyDeranged, whom I believe has been driven out of Wikipedia. But coming to this year, I realized the benefits of joining the WikiProjects and now, as said by Hurricanehink, I became a vital editor for WPTC. |
WikiCup 2021 March newsletter
Round 1 of the competition has finished; it was a high-scoring round with 21 contestants scoring more than 100 points. Everyone with a positive score moves on to Round 2, with 55 contestants qualifying. You will need to finish among the top thirty-two contestants in Round 2 if you are to qualify for Round 3. Our top scorers in Round 1 were:
Epicgenius led the field with a featured article, nine good articles and an assortment of other submissions, specialising on buildings and locations in New York, for a total of 945 points.
Bloom6132 was close behind with 896 points, largely gained from 71 "In the news" items, mostly recent deaths.
ImaginesTigers, who has been editing Wikipedia for less than a year, was in third place with 711 points, much helped by bringing League of Legends to featured article status, exemplifying how bonus points can boost a contestant's score.
Amakuru came next with 708 points, Kigali being another featured article that scored maximum bonus points.
Ktin, new to the WikiCup, was in fifth place with 523 points, garnered from 15 DYKs and 34 "In the news" items.
The Rambling Man scored 511 points, many from featured article candidate reviews and from football related DYKs.
Gog the Mild, last year's runner-up, came next with 498 points, from a featured article and numerous featured article candidate reviews.
Hog Farm, at 452, scored for a featured article, four good articles and a number of reviews.
Le Panini, another newcomer to the WikiCup, scored 438 for a featured article and three good articles.
Lee Vilenski, last year's champion, scored 332 points, from a featured article and various other sport-related topics.
These contestants, like all the others, now have to start again from scratch. In Round 1, contestants achieved eight featured articles, three featured lists and one featured picture, as well as around two hundred DYKs and twenty-seven ITNs. They completed 97 good article reviews, nearly double the 52 good articles they claimed. Contestants also claimed for 135 featured article and featured list candidate reviews. There is no longer a requirement to mention your WikiCup participation when undertaking these reviews.
Remember that any content promoted after the end of Round 1 but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is a good article candidate, a featured process, or something else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews.
If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk). MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:25, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
Please move
Can you please move User talk:Super Cyclonic Storm Corona/Archive 2 to User talk:Super Cyclonic Storm Corona/Archive 2021 without a redirect? Sorry to give you more work, but I don't have page mover rights. Thanks. ~ 🌀 SCS CORONA 🌀 16:50, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
- Can you also move User talk:Super Cyclonic Storm Corona/Archive 2020 back to Archive 1 without a redirect and back again without redirect? Thanks.
- @Super Cyclonic Storm Corona: I can do it. But hold on, do you really want to use two different types of titles? Why not use one format instead for all of them (e.g. 1, 2, 3, etc., or 2020, 2021, 2022, etc.)? I think that some consistency might be better. LightandDark2000 🌀 (talk) 17:44, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
- @LightandDark2000: Good point. So, can you change them to years, like the first one to 2020 and second to 2021? Thanks. And sorry for giving you more work, really sorry. ~ 🌀 SCS CORONA 🌀 18:26, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
- And also, there is also something you might want to take a look at on Drmies's talk page. ~ 🌀 SCS CORONA 🌀 18:30, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
- @Super Cyclonic Storm Corona: I can do it. But hold on, do you really want to use two different types of titles? Why not use one format instead for all of them (e.g. 1, 2, 3, etc., or 2020, 2021, 2022, etc.)? I think that some consistency might be better. LightandDark2000 🌀 (talk) 17:44, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
A pi for you!
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Just to celebrate π day, here's a pi for you! Tfess up?or down? 19:53, 14 March 2021 (UTC) |
2nd issue of The Frozen Times!
 The Frozen Times
The Frozen Times is the semi-regular newsletter of WikiProject Non-tropical storms. The newsletter aims to summarize recent developments and activities in the WikiProject, in addition to recent extratropical cyclone activity on a global scale. The Frozen Times has been running since its revival in March 2021, although the first issue was published in February 2008. If you wish to receive or discontinue subscription to this newsletter, please visit the mailing list. This issue of The Frozen Times covers all project-related events from February 2008–March 14, 2021. This edition's authors and editors are MarioJump83, HurricaneCovid, Shift674, and LightandDark2000. Past editions can be viewed here. | |||||||||||||||
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WikiProject Non-tropical storms: News and Developments
New articles since the last newsletter
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Member of The Edition Featured members – MarioProtIV and HurricaneCovid  MarioProtIV joined Wikipedia in 2014, although his activity really ramped up in late 2015. He formally joined this WikiProject in early February 2021, just after its revival. Since and before formally joining, he has been one of the most prolific editors in non-tropical storm articles, particularly being a major part of getting 2020–21 North American winter to greater quality and taking the initiative to constantly update the article, as well as other separate winter storm articles. He has also participated in and started several discussions within WPNTS, further influencing the quality of current event articles in the WikiProject. We would like to thank him for his outstanding work, and therefore jointly give him the Member of The Edition award. HurricaneCovid joined Wikipedia in March 2020, though he began working with weather-related articles and joined WPTC in November. He joined WPNTS in January 2021, just before its revival, although he had begun actively editing extratropical cyclone articles in December 2020. He has been doing constant work on 2020–21 North American winter throughout the North American winter season so far. He has helped write much of the article, with aid from MarioProtIV, as well as numerous other articles for the most major storms. He was present throughout the barrage of winter storms and the Arctic air outbreak in North America, in mid-February, creating most of the articles for storms in that period. He also helped with the revival of the WikiProject, and it was partially his idea to model this newsletter after The Hurricane Herald. For his consistent work to WPNTS, we are jointly giving him the Member of The Edition award for this issue. Project revivers – LightandDark2000 and MarioJump83  LightandDark2000 joined Wikipedia as an IP editor in May 2009, although he didn't register an user account until 3 years later, in May 2012. He became active on WPTC and WPNTS in 2013, formally joining the projects in 2014 and 2016, respectively. He is one of the most-senior active members on WPNTS, as most of the active participants joined in 2020 or 2021. Soon after formally joining, he largely stopped editing Wikipedia on storm-related articles, turning his attention to MILHIST from 2014–2017, and later took numerous WikiBreaks in 2016 and in 2019–2020, due to real-life activities and college. However, he began making a return to Wikipedia in July 2020, and since then, he has made a full return. In December 2020, he returned to WPNTS, with the start of the climatological winter in North America. He became a main part of the revival and resurrection of WPNTS from January–February 2021, assisting in efforts to revamp the project and helping to coordinate it. During this time, he continued his work on WPNTS articles, including during a historic outbreak of cold temperatures and a barrage of back-to-back winter storms in North America, in February. For his aid in the revival of this WikiProject, and his work on WPNTS articles, we are jointly giving him a modification of the MoTE award. MarioJump83 first joined Wikipedia in 2013 as SMB99thx, although they first began working with storm-related articles in August 2020. They joined WPNTS in November 2020, quickly becoming the main coordinator and most active user in terms of getting the project restarted. They did outstanding work in terms of modeling the project after WPTC, with the aid of LightandDark2000, and got the project's act together. They took the initiative to formally restart the project in January 2021, and continued work restoring, improving, and creating project pages, including this newsletter. LightandDark2000 was along every step of the way, and helped out MarioJump83 create and improve project pages, modeling after WPTC. We would like to thank their outstanding work in getting the WikiProject together, and are thus jointly giving them a version of the MoTE award. For the time being, there will be no user nominations, as this WikiProject is currently relatively small; however, once we gain enough participants, we will begin nominating members for MoTE.
Storm of The Edition – February 13–17, 2021 North American winter storm (Winter Storm Uri)  The February 13–17, 2021 North American winter storm, also referred to as Winter Storm Uri, was a strong and destructive winter storm that affected areas from the West Coast of the United States, through the Deep South and Northern Mexico, to the Northeast and Eastern Canada. The second of three major winter storms to affect the continent within the month, the system originated as a powerful low-pressure area in the Pacific and came ashore as a frontal system on February 13. The system then dived southward along a trough in the polar jet stream, while also strengthening, and began producing snowfall in the Deep South. The storm system then began expanding in terms of size, and the main low spawned a secondary low in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Florida on February 15. As the storm grew more organized, it spawned another low pressure center to the north on February 16, which quickly became the main low-pressure center. When the system exited the continent early on February 17, almost 75% of the continental U.S. was covered in snow, which almost broke a record. The newest low moved up the coast of Nova Scotia, beginning to strengthen faster along the way. It then began to quickly intensify, while approaching landfall on Newfoundland, reaching a central pressure of 985 millibars (29.1 inHg) by 12:00 UTC on that day. The system then began meandering across the Atlantic, while proceeding to strengthen further, reaching a peak intensity of 960 millibars (28 inHg) on February 19. Afterward, the storm then began weakening rapidly, dissipating southwest of Greenland on February 24. The storm system resulted in over 170 million Americans being placed under winter weather alerts, reaching as far south as Galveston, Texas. The swath of snow and ice it produced stretched from Washington to Maine. It ranked as a Category 3 winter storm on the Regional Snowfall Index (RSI) scale, and it became the second of three Category 3+ winter storms to affect North America in February 2021. The system caused over 9.9 million power outages, with 5.2 million in the U.S. and 4.7 million in Mexico, making it the worst blackout event recorded in North America since the Northeast blackout of 2003. The hardest hit area by both the severe winter weather and long-term power outages was Texas, with the 2021 Texas power crisis taking place due to the storm. Some long-term power outages in areas of the Deep South lasted over one week long. It also brought destructive severe weather to parts of the Southeastern U.S., spawning five tornadoes, including an EF2 and a high-end EF3 tornado. In total, the storm resulted in at least 136 fatalities, with 124 in the U.S. and 12 in Mexico, making it the deadliest winter storm in decades. Damage from this system is estimated to cost at least $195 billion (2021 USD), making it the costliest winter storm on record, as well as one of the costliest natural disasters in the modern era. Other significant storms
New WikiProject members More information can be found here. The following list lists members who have joined/rejoined the WikiProject since the last issue.
To our new members: welcome to the project, and happy editing! Feel free to check the tasks or to-do lists towards the bottom of the newsletter for tasks that you might want to work on. To our veteran members: thank you for your edits and your tireless contributions! Note that most of the members listed here are inactive now, with the majority of them moved having been moved into the inactive list.
Current assessment table Assessments are valid as of this printing. Depending on when you may be viewing this newsletter, the table may be outdated. See here for the latest, most up to date statistics. As of this issue, there are 8 featured articles and 1 featured list. There are 21 good articles, but only 1 A-class article, perhaps because most articles of that quality already passed an FA review. There are 53 B-class articles, 110 C-class articles, 172 start-class articles, and 52 stub-class articles, with 14 lists. These figures mean that roughly one-fifth of the project is rated B-class or better. Tropical Storm Rolf was the 20th GA in the project. Project Goals & Progress The following is the current progress on the two milestone goals set by the WikiProject as of this publishing. Updates on the following goals can also be found on the project home page.
WikiProject tasks Featured article reviews
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WikiProject to-do Why I revived this WikiProject, by MarioJump83 Since this is the first issue of The Frozen Times since the revival of WPNTS, I thought we should have an opinion piece detailing the reasons based on which the revival took place. And the project member who would know these reasons the best would be none other than the main resurrector of the WikiProject, MarioJump83! HurricaneCovid (contribs) Hello, WikiProject Non-tropical storms! I am the one who first took the initiative of this WikiProject's revival. While most of my work here is mostly related to maintenance work and some coordinating before resigning after the revival of this newsletter (I would like to say that LightandDark2000 is the coordinator of the project now given he is the only active member to join before 2020), there are reasons why I took the initiative to revive the project. Firstly, WPTC members, for some reason that was unclear to me, began joining the project in droves beginning in late 2020 and continuing into 2021. This surprised me since normally, people don't join defunct WikiProjects in large numbers. Secondly, many WPTC members, many of them based in either the United States or Europe, continue to edit extratropical cyclone articles, even when climatological winter ends in the Northern Hemisphere. This suggests that there is a space for WPNTS to spring up once again. Third and lastly, WPNTS-covered articles are quite active for a defunct WikiProject. I honestly think that this WikiProject shouldn't have been considered defunct in the first place. Ultimately, these reasons drove me to revive the WikiProject on the heels of Wikipedia's 20th anniversary on January 15, 2021. It's short, but it's what I can say for the reasons why I came to the decision to revive this WikiProject. I hope this WikiProject lasts for a long time, even when I'm not present as part of it. MarioJump83! | |||||||||||||||
Don't
Don't tell me you've left Wikipedia. 🐔 Chicdat Bawk to me! 11:16, 18 March 2021 (UTC)
I hope not! That would be really sad, he inspired me to join Wikipedia! 🥺 AwesomeHurricaneBoss (talk) 14:54, 18 March 2021 (UTC)
Honestly, I don't think he's gone. If he planned to make a full exit, I think we would know. He's Semi-Retired for now, due to school work. He did say that he was busy in his edit summaries on his user page, and he put up that notice on top of his page as well. He'll probably be back in May or June. We have a life outside of Wikipedia, you know. LightandDark2000 🌀 (talk) 16:48, 19 March 2021 (UTC)
- You should know. You've been having off wiki discussions with him the whole year. 🐔 Chicdat Bawk to me! 09:59, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
I hope that's the case, LightandDark2000. AwesomeHurricaneBoss (talk) 18:11, 19 March 2021 (UTC)
- I hope so, too. He was so nice to all the project. 🐔 Chicdat Bawk to me! 10:17, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
Best of wishes to Destroyeraa. Tfess up?or down? 23:54, 19 March 2021 (UTC)
(talk page stalker) Adding on to everybody else, I do hope that you aren't too stressed, Destroyeraa. Stay safe. CodingCyclone! 🌀 📘 20:01, 21 March 2021 (UTC)
Smashed by a Hurricane!
Smash!!!
You've been destroyed by a Category 5 hurricane in the month of April!!!
On April Fools' Day, too. Of all the possible days in the year. Rest in peace(s)...[4-1]
Oh no! Not you, Destroyeraa! 😱 No! No!! NO!!! This can't be happening... How will I ever be able to live with this loss? Ugh. I'm already dying inside. RIP. It looks like I need to get started on your eulogy. I need a moment...Oh, f***. Sniff, Sniff. Sobs uncontrollably 😭 LightandDark2000 🌟 (talk) 02:13, 1 April 2021 (UTC)
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HAHAHAHAHA!!!!! Surprise!!! 🤣 Happy April Fools' Day!! ^_^ I hope you're having a wonderful day, and that this message finds you well. Hopefully this little "message" of mine gave you a good time and made your day better. Stay safe and healthy. Your friend, LightandDark2000 🌟 (talk) 02:13, 1 April 2021 (UTC) |
One month!
It's been one month since you last edited. I miss you Destroyeraa. 🐔 Chicdat Bawk to me! 10:45, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
- Destroyer, please. Everyone in the WPTC misses you greatly. You are an important asset to the WikiProject. Please come back. ~~ 🌀𝚂𝙲𝚂 𝙲𝙾𝚁𝙾𝙽𝙰🌀 13:05, 12 April 2021 (UTC)
David Adelman article
Hello there!
Back in November 2020, you declined this article regarding David Adelman (Denver Nuggets assistant coach), understandably as the title and sourcing both needed to be edited. These changes have since been made. I understand that you are not as active on here as you used to be, however I was hoping you could potentially take another look at it. I am clearly very new to everything in the Wiki world, so I appreciate any and all help I can get from you.
Thank you kindly! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stevieruano (talk • contribs) 14:44, 24 April 2021 (UTC)
WikiCup 2021 May newsletter
The second round of the 2021 WikiCup has now finished; it was a high-scoring round and contestants needed 61 points to advance to Round 3. There were some impressive efforts in the round, with the top eight contestants all scoring more than 400 points. A large number of the points came from the 12 featured articles and the 110 good articles achieved in total by contestants, as well as the 216 good article reviews they performed; the GAN backlog drive and the stay-at-home imperative during the COVID-19 pandemic may have been partially responsible for these impressive figures.
Our top scorers in Round 2 were:
- The Rambling Man, with 2963 points from three featured articles, 20 featured article reviews, 37 good articles, 73 good article reviews, as well as 22 DYKs.
- Epicgenius, with 1718 points from one featured article, 29 good articles, 16 DYKs and plenty of bonus points.
- Bloom6132, with 990 points from 13 DYKs and 64 "In the news" items, mostly recent deaths.
- Hog Farm, with 834 points from two featured articles, five good articles, 14 featured article reviews and 15 good article reviews.
- Gog the Mild, with 524 points from two featured articles and four featured article reviews.
- Lee Vilenski, with 501 points from one featured article, three good articles, six featured article reviews and 25 good article reviews.
Sammi Brie, with 485 points from four good articles, eight good article reviews and 27 DYKs, on US radio and television stations.- Ktin, with 436 points from four good articles, seven DYKs and 11 "In the news" items.
Please remember that DYKs cannot be claimed until they have appeared on the main page. As we enter the third round, any content promoted after the end of Round 2 but before the start of Round 3 can be claimed now, and anything you forgot to claim in Round 2 cannot! Remember too, that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them (except for at the end of each round, when you must claim them before the cut-off date/time). When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met.
If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Judges: Sturmvogel 66 (talk) and Cwmhiraeth MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:27, 2 May 2021 (UTC)
47th issue of Hurricane Herald newsletter
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The Hurricane Herald
The Hurricane Herald is the semi-regular newsletter of WikiProject Tropical Cyclones. The newsletter aims to provide in summary the recent activities and developments of the WikiProject, in addition to global tropical cyclone activity. The Hurricane Herald has been running since its first edition on June 4, 2006. If you wish to receive or discontinue subscription to this newsletter, please visit the member list. New members will automatically receive this newsletter. This issue of The Hurricane Herald covers all project related events from March 1–April 30, 2021. This edition's editors and authors are MarioJump83, Chicdat, Super Cyclonic Storm Corona, HurricaneEdgar, Dam222, AwesomeHurricaneBoss, LightandDark2000, LowercaseGuy (one of the editor's picks for Member of the Month), and our Members of the Month, CycloneFootball71, and CodingCyclone! Please visit this page and bookmark any suggestions of interest to you. This will help improve the newsletter and other cyclone-related articles. Past editions, including past MoTMs and SoTMs, can be viewed here. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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WikiProject Tropical Cyclones: News & Developments
New articles since the last newsletter include:
New GA's include:
New A-Class articles include Cyclone Leon–Eline and Hurricane Olivia (2018). Member of the month (Editor's Pick) – Akbermamps and LowercaseGuy In this edition of Hurricane Herald, I (MarioJump83, one of the Hurricane Herald editors) am going to pick Akbermamps and LowercaseGuy. Both of them contributed to nearly all of the new articles since the publishing of the last issue (and also they contributed to the last issue itself). All of these articles primarily covered the Western Pacific basin, but also they worked on missing Tropical cyclones in xxxx articles and Southern Hemisphere articles. They both were driving factors in some of the greatest growth the WPTC has ever seen since Issues 42, 43, and 44. Both of them are hard workers, who remain civil, and treat others with kindness, despite hardships. Akbermamps also has reverted many nonconstructive edits from many different articles, plus they have made many great edits to tropical cyclone articles, as said above. LowercaseGuy also has made many great edits, per above, plus they have kept the newsletter up to date with all of the new article creations, new GA's, and A-class articles within the project. Because of this, I can only say that I am very proud of them!
None during this period.
Since the last issue of this newsletter, I have noticed that there is an uptick of activity involving 2018 Global FT topic recently. Hurricane Noah came back from almost-retirement, then afterwards improved Hurricane Olivia (2018) into A-class, 2018 Pacific hurricane season within striking distance of it and Timeline of the 2018 Pacific hurricane season potentially became the second featured list we are going to have this year. Meanwhile, I have been focusing all of my efforts in WPTC at improving Cyclone Owen, by Chicdat, into GA status and end all drama between him and all other WPTC editors. Two MoTMs that I have personally picked, Akbermamps and LowercaseGuy, joined the fray (not joining us officially) and improved some 2018 Pacific typhoon season articles that I have created, including the creation of both two articles listed above (and as of right now, Akbermamps is building up Timeline of the 2018 Pacific typhoon season article in his sandbox). I'm very glad to see this happening and I hope this newly found activity could be kept up in the next two months. During these months, I am hoping that Noah might make efforts at improving Hurricane Bud (2018) towards FA eventually. MarioJump83!
If you are interested in writing new articles, promoting articles to GA, or helping with the FAC review process for the Global 2018 FT project, please reach out to LightandDark2000 or any other member of the 2018 FT task force. WikiProject To-Do
Storms of the month and other tropical activity for March and April  SoTM for March – Cyclone Niran Cyclone Niran originated from a developing tropical low off the coast of Queensland on February 27. Afterward, the system slowly began to strengthen, while making a slow clockwise loop, bringing heavy flooding to parts of Queensland. On March 1, the system strengthened into a Category 1 tropical cyclone on the Australian region basin scale, and was given the name Niran by the BoM. On March 3, Niran began to undergo rapid intensification as it began accelerating away from the Australian coast, towards the southeast. On March 5, Niran crossed over into the FMS's area of responsibility, in the South Pacific basin. Soon afterward, the cyclone reached its peak intensity as a Category 5 tropical cyclone on both the Australian region scale and the Saffir–Simpson scale (SSHWS), with maximum 10-minute sustained winds of 205 km/h (125 mph), maximum 1-minute sustained winds of 260 km/h (160 mph), and a central minimum pressure of 931 millibars (27.5 inHg). Several hours later, Niran underwent an eyewall replacement cycle and encountered wind shear, which caused the storm to begin weakening. The storm continued moving towards the southeast at a rapid pace, and on March 6, the storm struck the island of Grande Terre in New Caledonia, as a Category 3-equivalent tropical cyclone on the SSHWS, although the storm's eye stayed offshore. On March 6, Niran transitioned into an extratropical cyclone, and two days later, Niran was absorbed into another larger extratropical storm to the south. Niran caused at least $200 million (2021 USD) in damages, the vast majority of which came from banana crop damage in Queensland. No deaths were reported from the storm.  SoTM for April – Cyclone Seroja On March 19, the BoM began monitoring a developing tropical low to the south of Timor, which they designated as 22U. On April 3, the system fully developed into a tropical low. For the next couple of days, the system made a slow counterclockwise loop over a part Indonesia and over Timor, gradually strengthening as it did so, causing torrential floods that killed at least 229 people. On April 4, the system strengthened into a Category 1 tropical cyclone on the Australian region scale and was named Seroja by TCWC Jakarta. On April 5, Seroja began moving southwestward, away from Indonesia. The storm encountered wind shear during this time, but the storm maintained tropical cyclone intensity. On April 7, Seroja began closely interacting with Tropical Low 23U to the northeast, which later became Cyclone Odette, as a result of the Fujiwhara effect. The two storms began closely interacting on April 8, as the two storms drew closer to each other. The interaction initially caused both storms to weaken, though Seroja eventually restrengthen and 23U strengthened into Tropical Cyclone Odette later that day. However, soon afterward, Seroja became the stronger storm and begen to absorb Odette into its circulation. On April 10, Seroja absorbed Odette, before turning to the southeast and strengthening again. The system continued stregthening up until landfall, and the system made landfall on April 12 near Gregory, Western Australia, at peak intensity, as a Category 3 severe tropical cyclone on the Australian region scale and a Category 1-equivalent tropical cyclone on the Saffir–Simpson scale. Afterward, Seroja weakened as it moved inland, and the system transitioned into an extratropical storm, before emerging into the Great Australian Bight. Later that day, Seroja was absorbed by a larger extratropical cyclone to the south. Seroja killed at least 229 people and left another 102 missing, making it the third-deadliest tropical cyclone recorded in the Australian region basin. The storm also caused over $490.7 million (2021 USD) in damages. 
Member of the month (edition) – CycloneFootball71 and CodingCyclone In this edition of Hurricane Herald, we present CycloneFootball71 and CodingCyclone as the Members of the Month. Both users joined Wikipedia and WPTC in the year 2020, and they helped us navigate into a better place during the COVID-19 pandemic and during the WPTC conflicts in 2020 and 2021. Their participation lifted and maintained our spirits during the tense situations and what's happening in the world. CycloneFootball71 is the kindest WPTC member we have ever seen, actively giving out barnstars and writing out statements that can be considered as "motivational", never targeting anyone, while also making contributions to articles, and participating in talk-page discussions, and occasionally, reverting vandalism. CodingCyclone, meanwhile, gave Wiki-project Tropical Cyclones the first featured list in years, and she helps out with wording, current cyclones, and other neglected timelines, and all around is kind, and thoughtful to everyone within the Wikipedia community. She is someone who has matured to become a great, and experienced editor here. We thank her for all of her contributions, and hope she continues to keep up the great work, and kindness. Unfortunately, 2020 was not a kind year for the two of them, particularly for CycloneFootball71, as he suffered from numerous illnesses, a few injuries, the loss of a friend (offwiki) and he retired (though he came back, thankfully) numerous times; these troubles even continued into 2021. Meanwhile, CodingCyclone stayed, but she entered a semi-WikiBreak, due to real life matters she had to attend to. However, both of them are editing at full speed now, and helped us realize what 2021 should be, full of hope and a better year than 2020 was. New WikiProject Members since the last newsletter More information can be found here. This list lists members who have joined/rejoined the WikiProject since the release of the last issue. Sorted chronologically.
To our new members: welcome to the project, and happy editing! Feel free to check the to-do list at the bottom right of the newsletter for things that you might want to work on. To our veteran members: thank you for your edits and your tireless contributions! Thank you, JavaHurricane JavaHurricane, one of the prominent Wikipedia rollbackers since 2019, decided to quit WikiProject Tropical cyclones in April 7, 2021 after series of arguments regarding how the merger of Tropical storms Amanda and Cristobal was handled (though this was later resolved). This followed a series of events that included numerous edit wars, hostile interactions (involving both members and non-members of the Weather WikiProjects), incompetence issues, and trouble dealing with a number of serial vandals. These issues added on more and more stress to some of our members, with the botched handling of the Amanda/Cristobal merger being the last straw, which culminated in several WPTC members, especially the younger ones, to leave the project. Destroyeraa decided to fully retire from Wikipedia, but LightandDark2000 managed to get him consider rejoining WPTC after a lengthy series of off-wiki discussions, contingent upon the WikiProject improving its conduct. A MoTM of this edition, CycloneFootball71 also decided to retire, following the decision of Destroyeraa to quit WPTC, but quickly reconsidered and instead took an indefinite WikiBreak, which later became a Semi-WikiBreak. LightandDark2000 himself also considered quitting from WPTC and leaving Wikipedia entirely (since WPTC activities are his primary reason for being on Wikipedia in the first place), but he decided to stay for now (unless things continue to grow worse, in which case, a full retirement as a registered user is likely). Another MoTM, CodingCyclone, went on a semi-WikiBreak instead of quitting like some of others did. Although the worst of the turmoil seems to be over now, WPTC is still slowly recovering from the damage. However, it is clear, unfortunately, that JavaHurricane will not return to the project, due to the loss of faith and time. We hope that this will never happen again. To JavaHurricane himself: thank you. Thanks for all the edits you've made in 2020 and in 2021. You are one of the building blocks that led to the WPTC revival last year. Without you, we would have had more difficulty combating some of the LTAs we've recently dealt with. You've made plenty of quality improvements and also carried out a decent amount of anti-vandalism activities. If you ever wish to rejoin the project, you will always be welcome here. We wish you luck in your future endeavors.
From March 1 to April 30, one featured list was promoted. From the Main Page: Documents WikiProject-related materials that have appeared on the main page from March 1–April 30, 2021 in chronological order. March 11 – Typhoon Maemi
There is an article currently nominated as featured list candidate: Article of the Month: Tropical Storm Rolf  Tropical Storm Rolf, also known as Tropical Storm 01M, was an unusual Mediterranean tropical storm that brought flooding to Italy, France, Spain, and Switzerland in November 2011. Rolf originated from an extratropical system near western France on November 4. For the next few days, Rolf moved eastward into the Mediterranean Sea, before making a slow clockwise loop off the coast of France. Despite the generally unfavorable conditions in the Mediterranean Sea, Rolf transitioned into a subtropical depression on November 7, before becoming a tropical storm later that day and turning northeastward. On November 8, Rolf reached its peak intensity, with 1-minute sustained winds peaking at 85 km/h (50 mph, 45 kn) and a minimum central pressure of 991 mb (29.3 inHg). During the next day, the storm turned westward and made landfall on the island of Île du Levant, in France, and soon afterward, near Hyères in southeastern France. Following its second landfall, Rolf quickly weakened, dissipating on November 10. Rolf was the first tropical cyclone ever to be officially monitored by the NOAA in the Mediterranean Sea. Rolf caused widespread flooding across southwestern Europe, especially in France and Italy, with the majority of the damage from the storm occurring in those two countries. Torrential rainfall from Rolf caused multiple rivers to overflow their banks in France and Italy, flooding multiple cities and resulting in extensive property damage. The storm forced numerous schools and businesses to close temporarily, and also caused significant damage to 300 farms in France. Floodwaters from Rolf's rainfall also cut the power to over 8,000 customers and necessitated thousands of rescues, in addition to forcing thousands of evacuations. The storm also caused the largest flood event seen in Gipuzkoa, in northern Spain since 1983. Rolf killed 12 people, and the storm was also the costliest Mediterranean tropical-like cyclone in the 2010s, with the storm causing at least $1.25 billion (2011 USD, €925 million) in damages. Current assessment table Assessments valid as of this printing. Depending on when you may be viewing this newsletter, the table may be outdated. See here for the latest, most up to date statistics.
Project Goals & Progress The following is the current progress on the three milestone goals set by the WikiProject as of this publishing. They can be found, updated, at the main WikiProject page.
How to Cite Sources on Tropical Cyclone Articles, by LightandDark2000 In my years of experiences here on WPTC (and on Wikipedia, in general), I've noticed that citing sources properly is a skillset that many editors are lacking in. While a good number of the experienced editors are familiar with how to fill out citations on Wikipedia, this is something that the most of the newer editors struggle with, especially those who have never written a research paper before. Given the influx of new members in WPTC over the past year, I've decided to write a simple tutorial on how to properly complete citations in tropical cyclone articles. First of all, lets start with a standard citation template. This format will be used for the vast majority of citations on tropical cyclone articles: For our example, lets use this special "Tropical Cyclone Update" advisory for Hurricane Isaias, which was issued when the storm made landfall in North Carolina, early on August 4, 2020 (UTC time).
Once you have done all of this, your completed citation should have the following code: Which should appear as follows in the article:[1] With this tutorial, hopefully you now know how to properly cite sources within tropical cyclone articles. Properly citing sources is a crucial skill on Wikipedia. It allows you to make complete, professional references that can be accessed and reused by just about any other editor. Additionally, creating incomplete or improper citations forces other more experienced users to clean up after you, which not only wastes time, but also prevents an article from becoming a Good Article or Featured Article until these issues are completely resolved. Citing sources is an important skill and one that every experienced editor is expected to master. Citing sources takes time to learn, so don't be discouraged if you don't fully master the art at the beginning. As with everything else in life, new skills require "practice" to perfect, and as you cite more and more sources, you'll find that citing sources becomes easier and faster for you. I hope you find this guide useful in your journey on Wikipedia. May it help mold you into a superb writer, like many other experienced editors who have come before you. Best of luck, and happy editing!
Destroyeraa and the Project, by Chicdat, CodingCyclone, CycloneFootball71, MarioJump83, and LightandDark2000 Destroyeraa registered his account on Wikipedia in January 2020. He gained experience like all of us, and received several user rights in the process. He improved several articles to GA status, the first being Hurricane Dolores (2015). He made WikiProject Tropical cyclones a good place to be. He made some mistakes, of course, but learned from them quickly. But by 2021, real life seemed to be catching up to Destroyeraa. He went into periods of semi-wikibreaks. His editing became more sporadic. He has not edited since March 3, 2021. WikiProject Tropical cyclones has experienced plenty of turmoil since then, especially in late March and early April. Some users have been very hostile. There has been copyright problems. Drama is being created. With the exception of a few remarks by LightandDark2000 on-wiki, the project has not heard from him for a long time. I wish that he would come back, and I miss him. When Destroyeraa went, it seems that the short revival of WikiProject Tropical cyclones went with him as well. I came as the renewal of WPTC was beginning, so I knew no other state of the project. To Destroyeraa himself: Please come back. You made the WikiProject a good place to be. I miss you so much; you were like a real life friend. ~ 🐔 Chicdat Bawk to me! Destroyeraa was the person who invited me to the project. Like many others, his hard work and diligence made him a role model to me. Without him, I probably wouldn't be where I am today. He gave me advice when I was trying to improve Hurricane Fran (which I never completed, but would like to do as an honor to him) and helped me realize some of my earlier edits were a bit CIR-y and disruptive (albeit unintentionally). He was always unfailingly civil and helped other editors when they were down. He also created the Cyclone Cup which is actually really fun and something that I personally would never have thought of, and is helping to drive some people to create and improve more articles. To me, he was a symbol of the rebirth of WPTC. When he left, it seemed as though that age disappeared. I know that real life always takes precedence over Wikipedia, but hopefully he can figure out how to balance the two and come back soon. CodingCyclone! 🌀 📘 Destroyeraa has had a profound effect on the WPTC. He has been so helpful and kind throughout his time on Wikipedia, and I want to thank him for that. He has done so much for us throughout his time here, and Wikipedia has not been the same for the project since he left. He has helped me through lots, during some very difficult times, and he has been a great friend. He helped me create my first Opinion piece ever, which helped me get into editing these newsletters for the editors of this project. Despite some mistakes, he overcame these and became even better than before, and he really inspired me to improve myself in the realm of editing tropical cyclones. He did so much for this project, and me and the rest of this Wikiproject want to thank him for all that he has done. I am not sure what else to say, as Chicdat and CodingCyclone said everything that was in my mind. However, he was a great friend. Destroyeraa, you will be missed here on Wikipedia. I hope one day you may return and regain your faith in WPTC again, but for now, I only hope and wish for the absolute best for your life. Thank you again. 🌀CycloneFootball71🏈 |sandbox Destroyeraa brought me to speed during my initial WPTC tenure as SMB99thx, since I was not that active in my first years and also not aware of Wikipedia's changing guards, like newer users having advanced permissions so quickly, having many user scripts, very communicative on-and-off-wiki (i.e. using Discord), and so much more that I don't understand back when I first joined in WPTC. By learning from him, eventually, I did have the same advanced permissions like his up to last month, having many user-scripts, as well as using a custom theme for Wikipedia, which is not Vector, and its very cool! Without him, I may have been going into a path Chicdat is currently taking right now, as Chicdat wasn't able to stay as a page mover and a rollbacker early in his Wikipedia career, then got into several troubles which led me into adopting him. Now, I am going to give him lessons that I learned from Destroyeraa himself. Other than that, I don't have anything much to say about him, but I hope he's back again to help me once more, and bring me further growth as an editor going forward, which could potentially assist me at shepherding Chicdat into a better place. MarioJump83! The others above have pretty much captured what I would like to say, and since Destroyeraa and I have stayed in contact off-wiki, I'll make this brief. Destroyeraa was a one-of-a-kind. I've been here for 12 years now, and I have to say that I've rarely ever come across someone like him; even less so in real life. The work he has done in just one year on Wikipedia (as a registered user) is absolutely astounding; it took me 6 years for my editing to reach that level of professionalism. I have not seen anyone like him show up on WPTC since Hurricane Noah joined in 2017. He is really smart, and he is also one of the nicest people I've ever met. And he's a very good friend as well. Destroyeraa, I bet you were able to guess most of what I said here, but you should know that you're a real gem. Those of us here miss you, and there are others as well. And I did tell you that your absence would be felt, didn't I? Regardless of what you think, what you do here does and will affect us. I'm very happy that you've decided to come back this summer, once you get out of school. I hope to see you around the place then. |
Two months
It's only been two months since you last edited, but it feels much longer. Please come back soon, I really miss you. 🐔 Chicdat Bawk to me! 11:59, 3 May 2021 (UTC)
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I think that things have settled down enough now. I know that you are busy with school right now, but please come back when you get out of school. Those of us here on WPTC really miss you. ^_^ Your friend, LightandDark2000 🌀 (talk) 00:29, 16 May 2021 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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| Hello Destroyeraa. I hope everything is going well for you off-wiki, and I hope school and life for you is great. I just want to let you know that you are dearly missed here on WP, and I am very sorry to hear that you lost faith in our Wikiproject, though I am very grateful that LightandDark2000 was able to convince you to possibly come back. You are a truly great editor, and a good friend as well, and whether you chose to come back or quit for good, I will support you all the way, and I hope the best comes to you in your life. Stay safe, I hope to see you here on WP again. 🌀CycloneFootball71🏈 |sandbox 05:25, 29 May 2021 (UTC) |
- Glad to see that you've come back, you were truly missed. :)🌀CycloneFootball71🏈 |sandbox 04:23, 25 June 2021 (UTC)
Three months
3 months now. Please come back, Destroyeraa. I really miss you. 🐔 Chicdat Bawk to me! 13:14, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
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Destroyeraa-alt
Hi Destroyeraa! I hope you're doing well. I noticed that an account, Destroyeraa-alt, was created just now. Is this account yours? Did you create it? I just want to make sure that there's no impersonation attempts going on... :-) ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 17:29, 24 June 2021 (UTC)
- I can confirm that this is Destroyeraa himself. (I regularly speak with him off-wiki.) He made that account for use on public computers. His personal computer is having issues right now. I'll let him comment here if he has anything else he wants to say. LightandDark2000 🌀 (talk) 18:25, 24 June 2021 (UTC)
- @LightandDark2000: You said somewhere that he'd come back "around June 24." Yesterday I loaded and reloaded your contributions page. I wasn't paying attention to the new account that had just been created. 🏳️🌈 Chicdat Bawk to me! 10:35, 25 June 2021 (UTC)
- Glad to see the Destroyer is back. JayTee🕊️🇺🇸 21:53, 24 June 2021 (UTC)
@Oshwah: Hello, and I hope you're doing well too. Yes, Destroyeraa-alt is my alt account. I've made a note of that on my userpage. Thanks, ~ Destroyeraa🌀🇺🇸 00:55, 25 June 2021 (UTC)
- No problem! Just making sure! :-) Cheers - ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 23:12, 2 July 2021 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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| Thanks for coming back. (Though I know that we've discussed this off-wiki a couple of months ago.) It's a real pleasure to see you here again. LightandDark2000 🌀 (talk) 01:46, 25 June 2021 (UTC)
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Like +1. I second. Welcome back! ~ 🌀HurricaneCovid🌀 01:49, 25 June 2021 (UTC)- Like I third. Welcome back!!! It's great to see you on WP again. I've been stalking your contributions to see when you'd come back ... that sounds creepy, though. :P codingcyclone advisories/damages 02:21, 25 June 2021 (UTC)
Like Oh my goodness you're back. A very-happy welcome back to you friend. 🌀CycloneFootball71🏈 |sandbox 04:13, 25 June 2021 (UTC)
- YOU CAME BACK! My goodness, I thought you never would. 🏳️🌈 Chicdat Bawk to me! 10:27, 25 June 2021 (UTC)
@Chicdat, LightandDark2000, HurricaneCovid, CodingCyclone, and CycloneFootball71: Thank you! Destroyer (Alternate account) 01:39, 27 June 2021 (UTC)
- Of course! I'm so glad you're here. codingcyclone advisories/damages 03:19, 27 June 2021 (UTC)
- No problem, just happy to see you back! 🌀CycloneFootball71🏈 |sandbox 04:14, 27 June 2021 (UTC)
Op-ed
You're scheduled to make an opinion piece in the next newsletter.
Speaking of opinion pieces and newsletters... here's my piece about you. And you came back!
Destroyeraa joined Wikipedia in January 2020. He gained experience like all of us, and received several user rights in the process. He improved several articles to GA, the first being Hurricane Dolores (2015). He made WikiProject Tropical cyclones a good place to be. He made some mistakes, of course, but learned from them quickly. But by 2021, real life seemed to be catching up to Destroyeraa. He went into periods of semi-wikibreaks. His editing became more sporadic. He has not edited since March 3, 2021. Since then, WikiProject Tropical cyclones has been in turmoil. Users have been very hostile. There have been copyright problems. Drama is being created. With the exception of a few remarks by LightandDark2000, the project has not heard from him for a long time. I wish that he would come back, and I miss him. When Destroyeraa went, so did the short revival of WikiProject Tropical cyclones. I came as it was beginning, so I knew no other state of the project.
To Destroyeraa himself: Please come back. You made the tropical cyclone wikiproject a good place to be. I miss you so much; you were like a real life friend.
From me, a user who joined the encyclopedia a month after Destroyeraa, though he did mistake me for an administrator once (aka 🐔 Chicdat Bawk to me!)
— 🏳️🌈 Chicdat Bawk to me! 10:51, 25 June 2021 (UTC)
- Along with Chicdat's kind and great words, here is what some of the other editors said:
Destroyeraa was the person who invited me to the project. Like many others, his hard work and diligence made him a role model to me. Without him, I probably wouldn't be where I am today. He gave me advice when I was trying to improve Hurricane Fran (which I never completed, but would like to do as an honor to him) and helped me realize some of my earlier edits were a bit CIR-y and disruptive (albeit unintentionally). He was always unfailingly civil and helped other editors when they were down. He also created the Cyclone Cup which is actually really fun and something that I personally would never have thought of, and is helping to drive some people to create and improve more articles. To me, he was a symbol of the rebirth of WPTC. When he left, it seemed as though that age disappeared. I know that real life always takes precedence over Wikipedia, but hopefully he can figure out how to balance the two and come back soon. CodingCyclone! 🌀 📘
Destroyeraa has had a profound effect on the WPTC. He has been so helpful and kind throughout his time on Wikipedia, and I want to thank him for that. He has done so much for us throughout his time here, and Wikipedia has not been the same for the project since he left. He has helped me through lots, during some very difficult times, and he has been a great friend. He helped me create my first Opinion piece ever, which helped me get into editing these newsletters for the editors of this project. Despite some mistakes, he overcame these and became even better than before, and he really inspired me to improve myself in the realm of editing tropical cyclones. He did so much for this project, and me and the rest of this Wikiproject want to thank him for all that he has done. I am not sure what else to say, as Chicdat and CodingCyclone said everything that was in my mind. However, he was a great friend. Destroyeraa, you will be missed here on Wikipedia. I hope one day you may return and regain your faith in WPTC again, but for now, I only hope and wish for the absolute best for your life. Thank you again. 🌀CycloneFootball71🏈 |sandbox
Destroyeraa brought me to speed during my initial WPTC tenure as SMB99thx, since I was not that active in my first years and also not aware of Wikipedia's changing guards, like newer users having advanced permissions so quickly, having many user scripts, very communicative on-and-off-wiki (i.e. using Discord), and so much more that I don't understand back when I first joined in WPTC. By learning from him, eventually, I did have the same advanced permissions like his up to last month, having many user-scripts, as well as using a custom theme for Wikipedia, which is not Vector, and its very cool! Without him, I may have been going into a path Chicdat is currently taking right now, as Chicdat wasn't able to stay as a page mover and a rollbacker early in his Wikipedia career, then got into several troubles which led me into adopting him. Now, I am going to give him lessons that I learned from Destroyeraa himself. Other than that, I don't have anything much to say about him, but I hope he's back again to help me once more, and bring me further growth as an editor going forward, which could potentially assist me at shepherding Chicdat into a better place. MarioJump83!
The others above have pretty much captured what I would like to say, and since Destroyeraa and I have stayed in contact off-wiki, I'll make this brief. Destroyeraa was a one-of-a-kind. I've been here for 12 years now, and I have to say that I've rarely ever come across someone like him; even less so in real life. The work he has done in just one year on Wikipedia (as a registered user) is absolutely astounding; it took me 6 years for my editing to reach that level of professionalism. I have not seen anyone like him show up on WPTC since Hurricane Noah joined in 2017. He is really smart, and he is also one of the nicest people I've ever met. And he's a very good friend as well. Destroyeraa, I bet you were able to guess most of what I said here, but you should know that you're a real gem. Those of us here miss you, and there are others as well. And I did tell you that your absence would be felt, didn't I? Regardless of what you think, what you do here does and will affect us. I'm very happy that you've decided to come back this summer, once you get out of school. I hope to see you around the place then. Your friend, LightandDark2000 🌀
-🌀CycloneFootball71🏈 |sandbox 16:50, 26 June 2021 (UTC)
WikiCup 2021 July newsletter
The third round of the 2021 WikiCup has now come to an end. Each of the sixteen contestants who made it into the fourth round had at least 294 points, and our top six scorers all had over 600 points. They were:
- The Rambling Man, with 1825 points from 3 featured articles, 44 featured article reviews, 14 good articles, 30 good article reviews and 10 DYKs. In addition, he completed a 34-article good topic on the EFL Championship play-offs.
- Epicgenius, a New York specialist, with 1083 points from 2 featured article reviews, 18 good articles, 30 DYKs and plenty of bonus points.
- Bloom6132, with 869 points from 11 DYKs, all with bonus points, and 54 "In the news" items, mostly covering people who had recently died.
- Gog the Mild, with 817 points from 3 featured articles on historic battles in Europe, 5 featured article reviews and 3 good articles.
- Hog Farm, with 659 points from 2 featured articles and 2 good articles on American Civil War battles, 18 featured article reviews, 2 good articles, 6 good article reviews and 4 DYKs.
BennyOnTheLoose, a snooker specialist and new to the Cup, with 647 points from a featured article, 2 featured article reviews, 6 good articles, 6 good article reviews and 3 DYKs.
In round three, contestants achieved 19 featured articles, 7 featured lists, 106 featured article reviews, 72 good articles, 1 good topic, 62 good article reviews, 165 DYKs and 96 ITN items. We enter the fourth round with scores reset to zero; any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them (one contestant in round 3 lost out because of this). When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met.
If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Judges: Sturmvogel 66 (talk) and Cwmhiraeth Cwmhiraeth (talk) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:29, 2 July 2021 (UTC)
Concern regarding Draft:2021 Fultondale tornado
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Articles for Creation July 2021 Backlog Elimination Drive
Hello Destroyeraa:
WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive!
The goal of this drive is to eliminate the backlog of unreviewed articles. The drive is running until 31 July 2021.
Barnstars will be given out as awards at the end of the drive.
There is currently a backlog of over 1400 articles, so start reviewing articles. We're looking forward to your help!
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Please do not draftify tornado/severe weather articles
I'm not sure if you frequently view or edit the various tornado/severe weather articles here, but I assume not, because people in that community never draftify a tornado outbreak article that is more than halfway done, as most of the pertinent information on this event is already there. One incomplete section is not grounds for a move to draft. Myself and other WikiProject Severe Weather editors have been doing it this way for over a decade, and don't intend to change it. Thanks for your consideration. TornadoInformation12 (talk) 18:53, 12 August 2021 (UTC)TornadoInformation12
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Welcome back to WPTC!
Hi, and welcome to the Tropical cyclone WikiProject! We are a group of Wikipedia editors who help to improve articles related to tropical cyclones on Wikipedia.
Looking for somewhere to start? Here are a few suggestions.
- You can check out topics on the main page.
- You can re-assess tropical cyclone-related articles to assure they are up to standards.
- See the to do list for the WikiProject, and opt to try and complete some of those tasks.
- Check out the guidelines to get an idea of the project's standards.
- If you want to work on an article, Category:Stub-Class Tropical cyclone articles is a great place to start.
- You can also check out the newsletter.
- For further information, you could join the WikiProject Tropical cyclones IRC channel or Discord server.
If you have any comments, suggestions, or would like to talk about the project in general, feel free to leave a message on the talk page.
A very belated welcome back. LOL. This should've been done a long time ago, but since you've returned, I decided I might as well give you this. BTW, I re-added your username to the active roster (which you should've done yourself), since you've technically rejoined WPTC, and since leaving your name off is pretty odd. Even if your name is rotated back onto the inactive roster soon, this should be done for the record. LightandDark2000 🌀 (talk) 23:05, 23 August 2021 (UTC)
WikiProject Twenty-Tens Decade Started
Hey. I know we have crossed paths every now and then with weather articles, so I wanted to invite you to a new WikiProject, the WikiProject of the Twenty-Tens decade. It was proposed near the end of May, but it was officially created today. Not sure if you would be interested, but I thought I would drop you an invite and say hi. Elijahandskip (talk) 02:37, 25 August 2021 (UTC)
WikiCup 2021 September newsletter
The fourth round of the competition has finished with over 500 points being required to qualify for the final round. It was a hotly competitive round with two contestants, 
The Rambling Man and 
Epicgenius, each scoring over 3000 points, and six contestants scoring over 1000. All but one of the finalists achieved one or more FAs during the round, the exception being 
Bloom6132 who demonstrated that 61 "in the news" items produces an impressive number of points. Other contestants who made it to the final are .svg){kind=small}
Gog the Mild, 
Lee Vilenski, 
BennyOnTheLoose, 
Amakuru and 
Hog Farm. However, all their points are now swept away and everyone starts afresh in the final round.
Round 4 saw the achievement of 18 featured articles and 157 good articles. .jpg){kind=small}
Bilorv scored for a 25-article good topic on Black Mirror but narrowly missed out on qualifying for the final round. There was enthusiasm for FARs, with 89 being performed, and there were 63 GARs and around 100 DYKs during the round. As we start round 5, we say goodbye to the eight competitors who didn't quite make it to the final round; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia, and we hope you will join us again next year. For other contestants, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them.
If you are concerned that your nomination, whether it be for a good article, a featured process, or anything else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:01, 2 September 2021 (UTC)
48th issue of Hurricane Herald newsletter
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The Hurricane Herald: 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics Special Edition!
The Hurricane Herald is the semi-regular newsletter of WikiProject Tropical Cyclones. The newsletter aims to provide in summary the recent activities and developments of the WikiProject, in addition to global tropical cyclone activity. The Hurricane Herald has been running since its first edition ran on June 4, 2006. If you wish to receive or discontinue your subscription to this newsletter, please visit the mailing list. This issue of The Hurricane Herald covers all project-related events from May 1–September 3, 2021. This edition's editors and authors are LightandDark2000, MarioJump83, HurricaneParrot, CodingCyclone, CycloneFootball71, HurricaneCovid, HurricaneEdgar, Jason Rees, and Destroyeraa (the MoTM for this issue). Please visit this page and bookmark any suggestions of interest to you. This will help improve the newsletter and other cyclone-related articles. Past editions can be viewed here. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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WikiProject Tropical Cyclones: News & Developments
New articles since the last newsletter include:
New GA's include: Member of the month (Editor's Pick) – Nova Crystallis and Supportstorm In this edition of Hurricane Herald, I (MarioJump83, one of the Hurricane Herald editors) am going to award Nova Crystallis and Supportstorm with my pick. Both of them are second-generation of WPTC members who joined Wikipedia in 2011 and 2014, respectively. Their most notable work were off-wiki: Nova Crystallis created the WPTC Discord server in August 2018, an idea of Hurricane Noah's, and has since then administered the server to this day, including several server cleanups on the occasions of server disruptions. Supportstorm, meanwhile, is one of the most prolific track creator in all of WPTC, which led some WPTC members (Janm 7 in particular) to ask him for tracks, and as of now, he's actively converting track images from JPG into PNG versions, including the creation of tropical cyclones by year tracks. However, their on-wiki work deserve appreciation as well, since Nova Crystallis has created numerous GA-class WPAC pre-1980 typhoon articles pre-1980, in addition to actively creating GAs for WikiProject U.S. Roads, while Supportstorm takes their time to add their tracks into the articles once they're done and was once assisted in the creation of 1960s North Indian Ocean cyclone season articles back in 2013.
As we entered the summer and the start of the Northern Hemisphere tropical cyclone seasons, several users wrote new articles for the FT project and brought several to GA status.
If you are interested in writing new articles, promoting articles to GA, or helping with the FAC review process for the Global 2018 FT project, please reach out to Hurricane Noah, LightandDark2000, or any other member of the 2018 FT task force. WikiProject To-Do
Current assessment table As of this issue, there are 161 featured articles and 80 featured lists. There are 3 A-class articles, and 1123 good articles. There are only 169 B-class articles, perhaps because because most articles of that quality already passed a GA review. There are 660 C-class articles, 804 start-class articles, and 137 stub-class articles, with 1126 lists, and 0 current articles. These figures mean that slightly more than half of the project is rated a GA or better. Typhoon Warren was the 1000th GA in the project. Project Goals & Progress The following is the current progress on the four milestone goals set by the WikiProject as of this publishing. They can be found, updated, at the main WikiProject page.
Storm of the month and other tropical activity for May, June, July, and August SoTM for May: Cyclone Tauktae  Tauktae originated from a tropical disturbance, which was first monitored by the India Meteorological Department on May 13. The disturbance drifted eastward and organized into a deep depression by May 14. The storm soon took a northward turn, continuing to gradually intensify, and the system strengthened into a cyclonic storm and was named Tauktae later that same day. Tauktae continued intensifying into May 15, reaching severe cyclonic storm status later that day. Tauktae began to parallel the coast of the Indian states of Kerala, Karnataka, Goa and Maharashtra, before rapidly intensifying into a very severe cyclonic storm, early on May 16. Early on May 17, Tauktae intensified into an extremely severe cyclonic storm, reaching its peak intensity soon afterward. Later that same day, Tauktae underwent an eyewall replacement cycle and weakened, before restrengthening as it neared the coast of Gujarat, making landfall soon afterward. After making landfall, Tauktae gradually weakened as it turned northeastward, moving further inland. On May 19, Tauktae weakened into a well-marked low-pressure area. Tauktae brought heavy rainfall and flash floods to areas along the coast of Kerala and on Lakshadweep. There were reports of heavy rain in the states of Goa, Karnataka and Maharashtra as well. Tauktae resulted in at least 169 deaths in India, and left another 81 people missing. There were also 5 deaths reported in Pakistan. The storm displaced over 200,000 people in Gujarat. The cyclone also caused widespread infrastructure and agricultural damage to the western coast of India. SoTM for June: Tropical Storm Claudette (2021)  Claudette originated from a broad trough of low pressure over the Bay of Campeche on June 12, which moved erratically over the region for the next several days. Moving northward with little development due to unfavorable upper-level winds and land interaction, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) initiated advisories on it as a Potential Tropical Cyclone late on June 17, due to its imminent threat to land. The disturbance finally organized into Tropical Storm Claudette at 09:00 UTC on June 19 as it was over southeast Louisiana. Claudette weakened to a depression as it turned east-northeastward before moving through Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina. Baroclinic forcing then caused Claudette to reintensify into a tropical storm over North Carolina early on June 21 before it accelerated into the Atlantic Ocean later that day. Soon afterward, it degenerated into a low-pressure trough on the same day, before being absorbed into another extratropical cyclone on the next day. Claudette produced gusty winds, flash flooding, and tornadoes across much of the Southeastern United States. Claudette overall caused minor impacts along the Gulf of Campeche’s coastline due to the system stalling in the region as an Invest and a Potential Tropical Cyclone. Impacts were most severe in Alabama and Mississippi, where heavy rains caused flash flooding. Several tornadoes in the states also caused severe damage, including an EF2 tornado that damaged a school and destroyed parts of a mobile home park in East Brewton, Alabama, injuring 20 people. At least 14 people died in Alabama due to the storm. Total economic losses across the United States exceeded $350 million. SoTM for July: Typhoon In-fa  In-fa was first noted by the JTWC as an area of low pressure, located east of the Philippines on July 14. Favorable conditions helped the storm to intensify, becoming a tropical depression, two days later and a tropical storm on July 17, being assigned the name In-fa by the Japan Meteorological Agency. Located in a weak steering environment, the system struggled to organize under dry air and moderate wind shear before organizing further. It continued to move mostly westward, strengthening into a typhoon and deepening quickly. The storm struggled to organize itself significantly due to continuous dry air intrusions and its frequent motion changes. On July 21, it reached its peak intensity, with maximum 1-minute sustained winds of 175 km/h (110 mph), and 10-minute sustained winds of 150 km/h (90 mph) on the system. Nevertheless, the system reached its minimum barometric pressure of 950 hPa (28.05 inHg), three days later, after passing through the Ryukyu Islands. As it entered the East China Sea, marginal conditions started to take their toll on the system, with In-fa weakening steadily and slowly, until it made its consecutive landfalls over Putuo District of Zhoushan and Pinghu on July 25 and 26, respectively, as a tropical storm. For the next couple of days, the storm slowly moved inland while gradually weakening, before turning northward on July 29. Later that day, In-fa weakened into a remnant low over northern China. The remnants continued their northward trek for another couple of days, before dissipating near North Korea on July 31. Typhoon In-fa exacerbated and played a part in starting the 2021 Henan floods, a flooding event that killed at least 302 people and dealt upwards of 82 billion yuan (US$12.7 billion) in damage, while leaving at least 50 people missing. The typhoon itself killed 6 people and caused at least $2 billion in damages.
Member of the month (edition) – Destroyeraa Destroyeraa joined Wikipedia as an IP editor in 2018. His edits back then were sparse, mostly involving correcting typos and grammar articles in articles that he read. In 2019, he began editing more often, and he started editing articles on weather, especially those on storms in the 2019 Atlantic hurricane season. Although he contributed to those articles, his edits appeared to go unnoticed. On January 17, 2020 (January 18, UTC time), Destroyeraa created his user account on Wikipedia. In May of that year, he joined WPTC, though no one welcomed him for a month. Around this time, he co-created his first article, Tropical Storm Bertha (2020). He also began contributing larger amounts of contents to articles, in addition to creating new ones. In July 2020, Destroyeraa created an article for Hurricane Dolores (2015), which became his first GA later that month. By this time, he had become a regular WPTC editor and a key contributor, often updating the articles for various storms, such as Hurricane Isaias. As time went on, Destroyeraa contributed more content and built up his accomplishments. In October, he got Dolores's article posted to the Did You Know? section on the Main Page, and he got more articles promoted to GA status as well. He also started engaging in anti-vandalism activities, combatting multiple vandals and even some LTAs. However, he was blocked for a week for engaging in sockpuppetry. Nevertheless, after his block, Destroyeraa resumed contributing to various articles, and he also helped out with the workings of WPTC. In January 2021, Destroyeraa created the Cyclone Cup, a fun competition based on the WikiCup for WikiProject Weather users to participate in, in order to help encourage more article creation and the improvement of article quality. However, by March 2021, his school work caught up with him, and he was forced to take a WikiBreak for the next few months. In early April, Destroyeraa made the decision to retire from Wikipedia, due to a recent spate of drama and negative behavior on WPTC; however, after some off-wiki persuasion, he was persuaded to change his mind. In June 2021, Destroyeraa officially returned to WPTC. While he was a lot more inactive, largely due to summer assignments and real-life activities, he still contributed to Wikipedia from time to time. As of the publication of this newsletter, Destroyeraa has created 24 articles and brought five articles to GA status. He has become one of the most accomplished WPTC users who joined post-2020, and he plans on continuing his work in the future. We wish him the best of luck in his future on Wikipedia and in his studies at school, and we hope to continue seeing him around here. New WikiProject Members since the last newsletter More information can be found here. This list lists members who have joined/rejoined the WikiProject since the release of the last issue. Sorted chronologically.
To our new members: welcome to the project, and happy editing! Feel free to check the to-do list at the bottom right of the newsletter for things that you might want to work on. To our veteran members: thank you for your edits and your tireless contributions! Thank you, TropicalAnalystwx13, MarioJump83, DachshundLover82, and Cyclone Toby TropicalAnalystwx13 left Wikipedia in September 2020 without notice. He was one of the most prominent content contributors within the past decade, and he also welcomed some of the other users when they joined. Within the past few months, MarioJump83 went into semi-retirement, and both DachshundLover82 (previously known as Robloxsupersuperhappyface) and Cyclone Toby decided to fully retire from Wikipedia. These users made their decisions after suffering from a lack of interest in editing, a variety of real-life issues (including health issues for DachshundLover82), and also a lack of time. MarioJump83 was an invaluable editor who had made many edits and written multiple aritcles and GAs, and they also brought new users to WPTC, in addition to mentoring Chicdat. DachshundLover82 and Cyclone Toby were both seasoned article writers, having authored multiple articles and even promoting some articles to GA status. Each of these users were MoTM picks in recent issues of The Hurricane Herald. We wish them the best in life and hope to see them again someday.
From May 1 to September 3, a featured list, a featured article, and a featured topic were promoted: From the Main Page: Documents WikiProject related materials that have appeared on the main page from May 1–September 3, 2021 in chronological order.
There is an article currently nominated for featured article status: Article of the Month: 2018 Pacific hurricane season  The 2018 Pacific hurricane season was one of the most active Pacific hurricane seasons on record, producing the highest accumulated cyclone energy value on record in the basin. The season saw 26 tropical cyclones, 23 named storms – the fourth-highest value recorded, tied with 1982, 13 hurricanes, and 10 major hurricanes, in addition to one unofficial subtropical storm. The season also featured eight landfalls, six of which occurred in Mexico. The season officially began on May 15 in the Eastern Pacific, and on June 1 in the Central Pacific; they both ended on November 30. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the Pacific basin. However, tropical cyclone formation is possible at any time of the year, as illustrated when the first tropical depression formed on May 10, five days prior to the official start of the season. The accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) index for the 2018 Pacific hurricane season was around 316 units. Broadly speaking, ACE is a measure of the power of a tropical or subtropical storm multiplied by the length of time it existed. Therefore, a stronger storm with a longer duration contributes more to the seasonal total than several short-lived, weaker storms combined. 2018 had the highest total ACE of any Pacific hurricane season on record, having surpassed the 1992 Pacific hurricane season. Tropical Cyclone Anniversary: August 29, 2005 – Hurricane Katrina  On Monday, August 29, 2005, at 6:10 a.m. CDT (11:10 UTC), Hurricane Katrina made landfall on Buras-Triumph, Louisiana, before making another landfall near the Louisiana–Mississippi border, a few hours later. The storm made landfall as a powerful high-end Category 3 hurricane, with maximum 1-minute sustained winds of 125 miles per hour (201 km/h) and a central pressure of 920 millibars (27 inches of mercury). The storm had weakened from its peak as a Category 5 hurricane, due to an eyewall replacement cycle. Katrina caused the levee system in New Orleans to fail, flooding the city, and causing enormous amounts of destruction. The floods also ended up killing many residents of the city. In all, Katrina killed 1,836 people and caused an estimated $125 billion (2005 USD) in damages, making the storm the costliest hurricane on record in the United States and also worldwide (tied with Hurricane Harvey, without factoring in inflation), and also making the storm one of the deadliest hurricanes to strike the United States in the 21st century. My Experience on Wikipedia, by LightandDark2000 I joined Wikipedia as an IP editor on May 1, 2009 (May 2, if you go by UTC time). Although a couple of users encouraged me to make an account early on, I decided to continue editing articles from my IPs for the next few years. I just felt that I wasn't ready for a user account yet. In 2010–11, I experienced hounding from another user on some TV show articles, which made me withdraw from those articles for a while and briefly consider quitting Wikipedia. I registered my user account in May 2012, but I spent another year on Wikipedia as an IP editor, before fully transitioning over to my account in the summer of 2013. I also created my first articles in 2012. I pretty much grew used to using my account and decided to stick with it. :) In March 2014, I received an invitation to join WPTC, which I obviously accepted. I had considered myself a member of WPTC since 2012, but I didn't really know about WikiProjects, much less how to join them (otherwise, I would've joined much earlier). Since 2010, I had regularly contributed to articles. While I didn't have a solid grasp of how to cite sources at the time, I managed to contribute a good a mount of content, in addition to cleaning up spelling and grammar errors. As time went on, my article-writing skills improved, and so did my knowledge of Wikipedia policies. I will admit: I did have difficulty at times, and my temper got me into trouble from time to time. However, these mistakes made me more determined to better myself, and avoid the same missteps in the future. I also engaged in anti-vandalism activities quite often, which brought me into conflict with IPhonehurricane95 and his copycap, Lightning Sabre, whom can be considered the two most vicious LTAs that WPTC has had to deal with. In late 2014–early 2017, I largely moved out of WPTC into MILHIST, due to my interest in the recent conflicts involving the terrorist organization ISIL in the Middle East. I contributed a lot to those articles, though I still contributed to tropical cyclone and other weather articles from time to time. I had made some friends on-wiki by this point, including Master of Time and EkoGraf. In early April 2016, a small number of users were fed up with some of my edits and decided to launch a witchhunt in order to get me topic banned (or even completely banned, for some). While the case was eventually dropped, it was very disturbing to me and made me consider permanently retiring from Wikipedia. In August 2016, the combination of college work and stress led me to take a 3-month WikiBreak. I pulled a full exit and considered never coming back. However, I enjoyed contributing to Wikipedia too much (hehe), and during my winter break, I returned and resumed editing. In 2017, my editing activity gradually ramped up, and in September 2017, I returned to WPTC, following the devastating landfall of Hurricane Harvey in Texas. During my time in MILHIST, my citation skills had greatly improved. Once again, I regularly contributed to tropical cyclone articles, as well as articles on other storms and natural disasters, which I greatly enjoyed. I also observed the peak of the hyperactive 2017 Atlantic hurricane season, including the devastating landfalls of Hurricanes Irma and Maria. However, as I had noted before in some previous Op-Eds and elsewhere, I noticed that WPTC had stagnated, and had serious manpower issues. As we remained a rather small WikiProject for a while, it grew a little depressing at times. In December 2017, a combination of poor habits and overworking myself took its toll on my health and I suffered a severe burnout, and I was forced to leave Wikipedia until late January 2018 (a mistake I intend never to repeat). In 2017 through 2019, WPTC's membership slowly grew in size, a few of whom became very accomplished article-writers over time, and I met Hurricane Noah and others. I eventually acquired a number of user rights in order to help with my work on Wikipedia, including Pending Changes Reviewer, Rollbacker, and Page Mover. I continued tracking tropical cyclones and regularly contributing to those articles through the summer of 2019. However, in September 2019, I took an extended series of WikiBreaks through mid-2020, due to college work and real-life activities. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic went global, and lockdowns ensued. During this time, WPTC began seeing an explosion of new editors, though I remained inactive on-wiki for another several months and missed out the first part of this growth (much to my regret). In July 2020, I finally returned to Wikipedia, during the appearance of Comet NEOWISE and the impending landfall of Hurricane Isaias. Through the remainder of the year, I gradually increased my contributions, though I had to cut back on my editing activity until December, due to college. During this period, I met some of our new WPTC members, including Destroyeraa, HurricaneCovid, CodingCyclone, CycloneFootball71, and AC5230, and I made new friends, growing extremely close to some of them. I became more involved in WPTC's work, and I also helped out some of my fellow users when they needed it. In January 2021, I joined Destroyeraa's Cyclone Cup, a competition he made based on Wikipedia's WikiCup. In the past several months, I've witnessed and experienced several tumultuous episodes on WPTC, but I toughed them out. I continued contributing to various articles during this time, and I also got my first GA, Tropical Storm Rolf, with assistance from Destroyeraa. (Yeah, I didn't have the confidence to attempt a GA before then, even though I probably had the skills to do so since 2017.) In the summer of 2021, my activities began to wane once again, as I turned my attention more towards real-life activities, taking a break, and preparing for the upcoming school year. As of this writing, I am currently in college classes once again. I probably won't remain a regular editor for more than a year (since I will be searching for employment by then) and I will likely be forced into permanent Semi-Retirement then, but truly I appreciate my time here. I've created at least 26 articles and I have 3 GAs, and I'm looking forward to more content creation in the near future. In closing, I'd like to thank my fellow editors for everything. When I first joined, I was unaware of the existence of this WikiProject (much less WikiProjects in general). I've had a rough start, but I've grown a lot during my time here, both as a writer and as a person. (I have to say, my time editing on Wikipedia really improved my writing and typing skills, which really helped me in school.) I've also made some good friends here. WPTC was also kind enough of a WikiProject for me to feel comfortable retreating to during times of trouble. I've experienced a lot here during my 12 years on Wikipedia, and looking back on it, it was worthwhile. Thank you all for everything, ~ LightandDark2000 🌀 (talk) My experience on Wikipedia, by codingcyclone I first joined Wikipedia on May 15, 2020. It's been over a year since then, and I've definitely learned a lot and will continue to learn more about contributing here. When I first joined, I never thought that I would be where I am today. To those who have given me advice and support, and been all around lovely people throughout my journey here (you know who you are), to name a few, hehe, your generosity means a lot to me. You have seen me at my best and at my worst, and you've been there for me through it all. You're all very sweet. codingcyclone advisories/damages 05:59, 26 June 2021 (UTC) To start off, my wikistory isn't all that interesting, and I'm not as experienced or accomplished as the other members of WPTC, but I've been wanting to write an opinion piece, so here we go. I made my first edit the day I joined. I didn't understand the concept of WP:BOLD, so my first few edits were to talk pages to discuss what to do. I also did not know how to sign my posts. LOL. I was a bit naïve, and in retrospect, I did some stuff prematurely. Luckily, I never did anything that was too damaging to the encyclopedia at this stage. At this point, my 'better' edits were mainly typo correcting, and copyediting. My activity was sparse due to IRL stuff from May to September 2020, but by October 2020, I had found out about Twinkle, and was making more edits, mostly to revert vandalism. This led to a minor dispute with an IP after I reverted their edit, which, to me, looked like blanking. I was wrong in classifying it as vandalism, and I violated WP:DEADHORSE when replying a month later. I do think that both the IP and I were wrong in some respects, but they were certainly more experienced than me, and I was definitely mistaken in trying to continue the argument. I continued to fix typos and revert vandalism, until I saw all the neglected tropical cyclone season timelines on Wikipedia, and I started to fix them. I created Timeline of the 2013 North Indian Ocean cyclone season (very incomplete still, I'll get to it soon™) and brought Timeline of the 2019 Atlantic hurricane season to FLC (still needs a bit of work, though), leading to its promotion and my first little bronze star. I did my first GAR and helped out with the GANs of Tropical Storm Fay (2020) and Hurricane Paulette. I also helped start off 2021's Atlantic and Eastern Pacific timelines, and actually guided a new editor a bit. As of this edition's release, I'm helping the 2018 FT with timelines for the Southern Hemisphere. My activity is starting to lessen, since I'm going to be kind of busy IRL and I'm trying to manage my life more efficiently and other personal stuff, but I won't forget about Wikipedia. I'll always be here, fixing the timelines up. Semi-retirement, by MarioJump83 Hi! MarioJump83 here. You know by this point that I'm semi-retired, and you can see the farewell message above by fellow members. I won't give much clarification on why I have semi-retired in this newsletter, but I'm not fully gone just yet. As I am making this piece, I have removed the DachshundLover82 farewell message which I made by myself as they are strongly reconsidering retirement and became much more active recently, as well as changing some of my farewell message, but as you can tell from these, retirement isn't a sure thing. You can still edit anywhere at any time. I've got plans to work on Wikipedia in my semi-retirement like Cyclone Cup stuff and Spoken Wikipedia but here's a catch with a little bit of clarification (that's why I said "I won't give much" - that means I still give some clarification eventually): I feel much more restricted than I have ever was since I got my laptop on September 2020 (which led to the peak of my activity next month). I tried to sleep by day and night, but my sleep attempts keep getting disturbed thus leading to lack of sleep. And many more I won't tell for now - there's a lot more than this, but it is more private. I'll can give more about why I semi-retired, but only on WPTC IRC or contact me directly on Discord (you can search SMB99thx on WPTC Discord). By the way, this will be my final OP on Hurricane Herald, but probably not the final edit on Hurricane Herald yet. Thanks for giving me support, though, for helping me cope through mental stresses for all this time, which my family didn't give much thought about it, if not truly helping at all, since they are all about their business, AND as well as trying to get me regain interest on Wikipedia, but I don't feel like I'm going to come back on full speed this year. Not sure about next year, though. Tropical cyclone infobox images, by LightandDark2000 In 2016–2018, WPTC experienced a serious of vicious edit wars involving the main infobox image on numerous tropical cyclone articles, the most vicious of which was the Hurricane Ophelia (2017) image war. Most of them were visible satellite images Vs. Infrared satellite (IR) images that were slightly closer to the peak. This series of edit wars affected numerous articles, and they continued until the edit-warriors either stopped with their attempts at changing images or ended up getting blocked (most of those blocked were IPs who continued the edit wars). In August 2020–August 2021, a new series of edit-wars erupted over tropical cyclone infobox images once again. The largest of these newer wars was one that involved Hurricane Delta's infobox image. While many of those conflicts involved the same issue of visible satellite image Vs. IR images seen in the 2016–2018 edit wars, the newer wars also included competing visible satellite images that editors thought looked better than the original, for one reason or another. I have seen these edit wars affect multiple articles (though not as many as the older wars from a few years ago), but after all this warring, multiple WPTC users have grown fed up with it, including me. After various discussions on- and off-wiki, as a project, we have successfully moved more towards discussions first instead of edit-warring, though image-warring still crops up occasionally. First of all, I will say this to those who have participated in the image wars, and those who are inclined to do so in the future: knock it off. Consider this your only warning: If you have image-warred and you have been told to stop, if you do it again, there will be consequences. It does not matter who "started it" or who was "wrong". Edit-warring, especially image wars, are completely unacceptable. Not only are they unacceptable, but they are extremely stupid. WPTC has a set of image policies that dictate what kinds of images should be used in the infoboxes of tropical cyclone articles. While there is some wiggle room for interpretation, these guidelines should be followed regarding the infobox images. You can see the linked page for the image policies themselves, but I will list the most important points here:
Please consider these guidelines in the future regarding tropical cyclone images and any changes made to them. Editing on Wikipedia should not be stressful or filled with conflict. Instead, editing should be productive, and even enjoyable. We should all keep a level head and take a mature approach in all matters. Hopefully, together, we can make these image wars a thing of the past. ~ LightandDark2000 🌀 (talk) |
LightandDark2000 🌀 (talk) 19:52, 6 September 2021 (UTC)
You’ve been trouted!
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Whack! You've been whacked with a wet trout. Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know that you did something silly. |
For blindly reverting a sock edit that obviously fixed an error (it wasn't disruptive at all). :P Sure, sock and LTA edits should be reverted for the most part, but there's no Wikipedia policy stating that all sock edits (constructive edits included) must be reverted. See WP:BRV and WP:IAR. And I believe that constructive edits, regardless of whom they came from, should not be reverted. Please be more careful with your reverts in the future. LightandDark2000 🌀 (talk) 20:33, 9 September 2021 (UTC)
Whaled!
Smash!
You've been squished by a whale!
Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know you did something really silly.
For screwing up an attempt to revert an erroneous page-move. (In the future, either directly move it back to the original title (if possible), or round-robin move it back to the original title. If none of those options work, just place a deletion tag on the target page and get an admin.) Please be more careful in the future. LOL. :P LightandDark2000 🌀 (talk) 01:53, 10 September 2021 (UTC)
Moving pages
Hello, Destroyeraa,
Whenever you move a page from main space to Draft space, please tag the original page for speedy deletion, CSD R2. It helps if you use Twinkle. It makes things easier for admins patrolling CSD categories. Thank you. Liz Read! Talk! 01:24, 12 September 2021 (UTC)
- Hi, Liz, thank you for the reminder. Will do. Best, Destroyer (Alternate account) 20:34, 15 September 2021 (UTC)
Hello, Destroyeraa,
I can see that you are frustrated by this editor but you can't make a statement like "you will be blocked without any final warning!" You're not an admin, you can not block this editor and I doubt you could go to an admin's talk page and just have this editor blocked on your say-so unless they were doing significant vandalism which doesn't seem to be the case here. Any administrator wading into this situation is going to pause to get more information on what is going on here before taking action.
Please don't let your emotions and frustration cause you to make idle threats or these warnings start to become meaningless. Liz Read! Talk! 00:29, 23 September 2021 (UTC)
- P.S. It's also confusing that your alternate account redirects to this talk page even though you haven't used this account in months. Is there a reason why you have abandoned this account? Liz Read! Talk! 00:29, 23 September 2021 (UTC)
- @Liz: I apologize for the threats in the warning. Also, regarding my alt, I currently am borrowing a computer as my PC is broken. Destroyer (Alternate account) 19:47, 27 September 2021 (UTC)
Could you please explain what MOS:DATE guideline was violated on my edit? According to MOS:DATEFORMAT, the format that I applied is accepted within Wikipedia. ABC paulista (talk) 17:43, 30 October 2021 (UTC)
- @ABC paulista: Per this, the dates in articles with a Malaysian topic should be generally in DMY format. Sorry for the late reply. Destroyeraa (Alternate account) 01:52, 2 November 2021 (UTC)
- Ok, that's easy to fix. I'll provide the proper formatting right away. ABC paulista (talk) 02:06, 2 November 2021 (UTC)
- @ABC paulista: Thank you. Best, Destroyeraa (Alternate account) 20:00, 2 November 2021 (UTC)
- Ok, that's easy to fix. I'll provide the proper formatting right away. ABC paulista (talk) 02:06, 2 November 2021 (UTC)
WikiCup 2021 November newsletter
The WikiCup is over for another year and the finalists can relax! Our Champion this year is The Rambling Man (submissions), who amassed over 5000 points in the final round, achieving 8 featured articles and almost 500 reviews. It was a very competitive round; seven of the finalists achieved over 1000 points in the round (enough to win the 2019 contest), and three scored over 3000 (enough to win the 2020 event). Our 2021 finalists and their scores were:
- The Rambling Man (submissions) with 5072 points
- Lee Vilenski (submissions) with 3276 points
- Amakuru (submissions) with 3197 points
- Epicgenius (submissions) with 1611 points
- Gog the Mild (submissions) with 1571 points
- BennyOnTheLoose (submissions) with 1420 points
- Hog Farm (submissions) with 1043 points
- Bloom6132 (submissions) with 528 points
All those who reached the final round will win awards. The following special awards will be made based on high performance in particular areas of content creation and review. Awards will be handed out in the next few days.
- The Rambling Man (submissions) wins the featured article prize, for 8 FAs in round 5.
- Lee Vilenski (submissions) wins the featured list prize, for 3 FLs in round 5.
- Gog the Mild (submissions) wins the featured topic prize, for 13 articles in a featured topic in round 5.
- Epicgenius (submissions) wins the good article prize, for 63 GAs in round 4.
- The Rambling Man (submissions) wins the good topic prize, for 86 articles in good topics in round 5.
- The Rambling Man (submissions) wins the reviewer prize, for 68 FAC reviews and 213 GAN reviews, both in round 5.
- Epicgenius (submissions) wins the DYK prize, for 30 did you know articles in round 3 and 105 overall.
- Bloom6132 (submissions) wins the ITN prize, for 71 in the news articles in round 1 and 284 overall.
Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's WikiCup, whether they made it to the final round or not, and particular congratulations to the newcomers to the WikiCup, some of whom did very well. Wikipedia has benefitted greatly from the quality creations, expansions and improvements made, and the numerous reviews performed. Thanks to all who have taken part and helped out with the competition, not forgetting User:Jarry1250, who runs the scoring bot.
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Join WikiProject U.S. Roads
If possible, could I join the wikiproject: U.S. Roads? It reads that I can add my username to the members, so do I have permission to join? Thanks. Severestorm28 talk Contribs
20:56, 9 November 2021 (UTC)
- @Severestorm28: Of course! Next time, you don't need to ask for permission as wikiprojects are open to all registered users. Cheers, Destroyeraa (Alternate account) 00:43, 22 November 2021 (UTC)
Medicane and Infobox:storm
Hello and sorry for having messed up the infobox. The question is that at present time Infobox:storm has no capability to display metric first e.g. 100 km/h (65 mph) which is "normal" for windstorms occurring in the Mediterranean and in continental Europe. I asked for help in the infobox discussion, but no one replied. Can you help me? Thanks in advance.--Carnby (talk) 21:39, 17 November 2021 (UTC)
- There is a way to do this manually, by inserting a convert template. I can do this later. BTW, you cannot remove the USD values from the infobox. They are included in almost every infobox on natural disasters because US dollars are a global currency. Adding Euros is good enough (and all of the Medicane infoboxes already have the Euro values, I believe). LightandDark2000 🌀 (talk) 22:33, 17 November 2021 (UTC)
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Sorry about the disruptions, I mainly did it out of curiosity because im new to editing, not to cause trouble, I should have known better tho, so I won't do it again. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Catagory 5 Hurricane Dylan (talk • contribs) 20:16, 23 November 2021 (UTC)