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Wikipedia:WP 1.0 assessment requestPosted at User talk:Titoxd and User talk:Walkerma I noticed that you are a member of the 1.0 Editorial Team and you have an interest in assessment, so I am requesting that you assist me in making an assessment table for Wikipedia:WikiProject_Bahá'í_Faith#Assessement. As you can see, I have made Wikipedia:WikiProject Bahá'í Faith/Assessment, {{WPBF}}, and Category:WikiProject Bahá'í Faith articles, but for some reason Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Bahá'í Faith articles by quality statistics is not being generated. Walkerma added Category:Wikipedia 1.0 assessments almost two weeks ago, but the table hasn't been generated yet. I really appreciate your time and I wish I knew what I was doing wrong here. Also, I know that there was discussion about C-class articles, but did that get approved? If so, is it obligatory to add a C-class? Please respond on my talk or Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Bahá'í Faith. Thanks. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 21:06, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
Categorization for articles with {{hurricane}}Quick question. Would there be a nice, easy way to add a parameter to {{hurricane}} to break it down by category? I'm doing the monthly stats, and every month it's frustrating how tedious it is. Is there a way we could add something like |type=Atlantic, |type=season, |type=other? It'd be nice having it automatically broken down to have B-class articles categorized by type, and I wouldn't imagine it would be too difficult. ♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 04:31, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
Track stuffI just had a glance at the WPTC section on this stuff, I'll look into doing a bot run for the basin tracks. That is once there is consensus as to which ones - I'm not uploading all of them unless they are all wanted! I'll try to pick a systematic name format which doesn't clash with anything else. On a related note, partially due to my idiocy, there is an inconsistent naming structure for unnamed storms. I'd like to standardise them, as it would help with locating things. My idea would be to use the JTWC-style format whether it is 12L, 03E or 33W and with no 'Cyclone' or 'Tropical Storm' style prefix Back to 1984, before that like on the 1970 NIO season. I'd want the projects thoughts before I start doing all the stuff associated with that. I've got various RL concerns at the moment, but I'm planning to do a major bot run in late August to upload every last track I have data for. That would be back to 1870 in the N Indian, ~1900 in the South Hem and ~1950 for the N Pacific. If I can't readily ID the tracks, I'll just upload them at a generic site and people can re-upload when they ID it. This would mean the project would have everything from the past, and would only need updates when something major occurs - like a new storm or another batch of reanalysis. That would mean you won't need my intervention either. ;)--Nilfanion (talk) 22:47, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
Official rollout of C-ClassTito, I will be without internet (for a day or so) in about 5 minutes time, so could you make sure things keep progressing over at Wikipedia talk:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment? I posted conclusions to the discussions, I think the consensus for several changes are clear, most notably the adoption of the MILHIST criteria, plus I think G-Guy's version of B6. Perhaps you could look over my conclusions, and if you think they are fair, try and modify the "long description" table using the draft version? By all means recruit others to assist with the specific wording as you see fit. If you don't get to it today, I will be able to work on it on Thursday, but I'm concerned that we maintain momentum and get things all clear before we go to "rollout" on Friday (probably evening UTC). Cheers, Walkerma (talk) 15:36, 2 July 2008 (UTC) Sorry if WP:LoCE has been shut down for this, but can you go over this page and see what needs to cleaned up and/or fixed? Slowly aiming once more for FLC anytime soon. --Slgrandson (How's my egg-throwing coleslaw?) 22:03, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
Nonsense?It is a well known fact that Nebraska is a celebrated producer of crap. 75.3.192.35 (talk) 02:06, 4 July 2008 (UTC) Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #18{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Newsletter/Archive 18}} ♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 03:32, 6 July 2008 (UTC) Help requested at WP:ANIMEHi Titoxd, I have been active at the abovementioned Wikiproject for quite a while now, and following the adoption of C-class, we have decided to start up a proper assessment page, re-assess our articles and update our project banner in the same way as {{Hurricane}}. Will you be willing to update to update {{anime}} with the same functionality, i.e. to assess an article as C-class if all of the parameters have not been completed? Regards, G.A.S 06:04, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
I have no idea why this is displaying at the top of the page on my browser, please fix this. G.A.S 06:08, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
A discussionAn important discussion on Should WikiProjects get prior approval of other WikiProjects (Descendant or Related or any ) to tag articles that overlaps their scope ? is open here . We welcome you to participate and give your valuable opinions. You are receiving this note as you are a member of WikiProject Council -- TinuCherian (Wanna Talk?) - 12:43, 8 July 2008 (UTC) Changes to the color schemeNot sure if it is just me, or whether something serious happened, but it appears that when you added the category to the color templates, the template got messed up. For example - here. ♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 03:30, 11 July 2008 (UTC) Source that is really interesting[1] wondered if you could help with inclusion of this into the article. Seddσn talk Editor Review 10:36, 13 July 2008 (UTC) Hi Titoxd, I am asking for a big favours of yours. I nominated the article Euro gold and silver commemorative coins (Austria) for featured list, but there were too many small grammar problems, so we decided to withdraw it, and do a peer review first. The list is complete and very well sourced. It also followed all he suggestions given in Euro gold and silver commemorative coins (Belgium) (recently promoted to featured list), so in general is in a very good shape. Only the description fields for the coins are in a need of a good copy/edit. Can you please help us to get this list promoted? Many thanks, Miguel.mateo (talk) 06:23, 14 July 2008 (UTC) Follow up from Walkerma's talk pageThanks for jumping in on my question on Walkerma's talk page. The template I am having the issue with is from the Ireland WikiProject Template:WikiProject_Ireland. If you look at Category:Unassessed Ireland articles you will see a links, several of which, being C-class, are using an uppercase 'C'. There don't seem to be any using a lowercase 'c' but it is odd that even though these articles are assessed as C-class they still appear in the unassessed category. All the properly assessed and correctly categorised articles are using an uppercase 'C'. Curious. Any thoughts? TIA (Normally I post in one place to keep a discussion together, so am now watching this page). ww2censor (talk) 01:24, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
Re: WikiworkYea, I know about that, but I opted to change ours to keep it comparable with our old system (making C-class between 3 and 4). ♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 04:21, 17 July 2008 (UTC) Graphics labHello, Titoxd. You have new messages at Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/Illustration workshop. --pbroks13talk? 06:44, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
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-- Tinu Cherian - 15:07, 21 July 2008 (UTC) ITNA request for arbitration which you commented on has been opened, and is located here. Any evidence you wish to provide should be emailed directly to any sitting Arbitrator for circulation among the rest of the committee. Please submit your evidence within one week, if possible. On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, Ryan Postlethwaite 14:35, 23 July 2008 (UTC) I am getting info as we speak! Cat. 1 as of 3pm CST. MountCan (talk) 20:22, 23 July 2008 (UTC) I am not a public I get info every hour! MountCan (talk) 20:24, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
Dolly @ 4Ok. thanks I was just going to undo my own edit thanks! MountCan (talk) 20:56, 23 July 2008 (UTC) DollyThat was me and from the article it says that estimated damages to property = 1.2 billion dollars --Elena85 | Talk to Me | Arlene87 is now Elena85 20:52, 24 July 2008 (UTC) Solution looking for a problemHi Titoxd, I noticed your comments at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical) and I wanted to talk to you a bit more about the proposal to move the main page to Portal:Wikipedia. As ais523 pointed out, having the main page in the article space is causing even more problems than I initially realized, and moving it to the Portal space would resolve these problems. Specifically, moving the main page would fix the following:
Thanks for the link to Tim Berners-Lee's article "Cool URIs don't change". I like his reasoning, and I absolutely agree that we should try to get things right the first time to avoid having to move things later. Unfortunately, we didn't get things right the first time, and the longer we delay this move the more of a problem it's going to become. The number of scripts, bots, etc. that have to be specially coded around the main page will continue to increase and it's quite possible that other, unforseen problems will emerge from the illogical placement of the main page into the article space. I hope this explanation helps resolve your concerns - please let me know. —Remember the dot (talk) 05:55, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
Pacific hurricane season mapsI uploaded a bunch of season maps from NHC. They follow the same naming format as the others. The local copies are interfering with the display, and I think they should be renamed like the other ones with a Blue Marble background[2]. I did not upload on top of them because some [3] may be used on other pages. That is all I can do, so I need an admin to fix these. As far as I can tell, the ones from 1990-94 are affected.Potapych (talk) 15:36, 28 July 2008 (UTC) Template help for 1.0Hi Tito, I was wondering if you could take a look at this discussion. We clearly need to amend the template, but I'd like to check that such a change wouldn't screw up the layout in the places where the template is used. I'm sure there are ways to check how and where this is used, but I'm very ignorant of such tools. Can you help? Also, would you be up for an IRC discussion in mid-August on the release of Version 0.7? Thanks, Walkerma (talk) 05:22, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
Tito, I posted to Jossi yesterday, but haven't had a response. If you have a chance, can you check the accuracy of my representations of the Spanish sources here? Thanks, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 20:28, 31 July 2008 (UTC) Battle of Berlin (air)Instead of just reverting edits, how about you make a little input into the discussion? Or else, stay out of it? Dapi89 (talk) 22:33, 31 July 2008 (UTC) Oh, and you didn't even complete the reversal properly. Please join the talk page. Dapi89 (talk) 22:35, 31 July 2008 (UTC) Of course I did. You removed the note template in the information box. Now we have a missing template note for the footnotes. I can't revert again, as I'm on my third today. Dapi89 (talk) 22:41, 31 July 2008 (UTC) Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #19The Hurricane Herald This is the monthly newsletter of WikiProject Tropical Cyclones. The Hurricane Herald aims to give a summary, both of the activities of the WikiProject and global tropical cyclone activity. If you wish to change how you receive this newsletter, or no longer wish to receive it, please add your username to the appropriate section on the mailing list. This newsletter covers all of July 2008. Please visit this page and bookmark any suggestions of interest to you. This will help improve monitoring of the WikiProject's articles. Storm of the month Hurricane Bertha was a rare early season Cape Verde-type hurricane and the easternmost forming July tropical storm on record. Bertha became the longest-lived pre-August Atlantic tropical cyclone on record and the longest-lived tropical cyclone in the Atlantic Basin since Ivan in 2004. The second named storm of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season, Bertha developed from a tropical wave that emerged off the coast of Africa on July 1. After initially remaining weak while tracking westward, Bertha began to strengthen on July 6, and the next day it quickly intensified to reach peak winds of 120 mph (195 km/h). The hurricane weakened during the day on July 8, and after turning to a northwest drift, it passed within 40 miles (64 km) of Bermuda on July 14 before moving northeast away from the island. Bertha became extratropical on July 20 to the east of Newfoundland, after causing minimal damage and three indirect drowning deaths. Other tropical cyclone activity
Member of the month The July member of the month is User:Plasticup. Joining the project in August of 2007, Plasticup first became an asset in working on the active article series on Hurricane Dean. After a period of inactivity, the user returned to produce two featured articles this month, both interesting meteorological histories. Additionally, Plasticup has focused some attention to articles in the 2005 season. Keep up the good work! New members New and improved articles
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Project News {{hurricane |class=B |B1=yes |B2=yes |B3=yes |B4=yes |B5=yes |B6=yes | ... }} B1, B2, B3, B4, B5 and B6 stand for each of the six points in the WikiProject's rubric. The banner also has the capability to mark why an article doesn't meet the new B-Class standards: Typing the following in an article's talk page {{hurricane |class=B |B1=no |B2=yes |B3=yes |B4=yes |B5=yes |B6=yes | ... }} will assess an article as C-Class, and mark that the article is not a B because of bad references. Articles assessed as B's before the introduction of the forced checklist were automatically reassessed as C's, but they're awaiting new reviews to check if they still meet the new B criteria. These articles are listed on Category:Tropical cyclone articles with incomplete B-Class checklists. Currently, there's 117 articles in the category—let's try to shrink that number to zero before the next edition of the Herald! The other major change to the WikiProject was the addition of three task forces: the storm articles task force, season articles task force, and the tropical meteorology articles task force. These three task forces allow WPTC to see the progress of the different areas of the WikiProject. Currently, all 1,076 WPTC articles have been assigned to one of the three task forces, but any unsorted articles will be placed in Category:Unsorted tropical cyclone articles as they're tagged with In order to categorize an article, the banner needs to be modified from {{hurricane |storms-task-force=yes | ... }} {{hurricane |seasons-task-force=yes | ... }} {{hurricane |meteo-task-force=yes | ... }} which will sort the pages into the storms, seasons, and tropical meteorology task forces, respectively. Offseason hurricanesYeah, its fine. I got lazy and stopped working on it, but that list does have most of the bigger storms. Hello32020 (talk) 23:11, 6 August 2008 (UTC) It's 36, which is also in the article. I fixed it. ♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 13:05, 7 August 2008 (UTC) Coding for updated WP 1.0 botIf you're interested in coding for the new bot, the script that needs the most work is list.pl, which needs to have a more general query interface (subsuming list2.pl). Would you feel comfortable working on that? Another, shorter, task would be to write the code to update the lists of GA, FA, and WP 0.5 articles. This info should be put into two new tables, one for FA/GA and another for WP 0.5/0.7/1.0. — Carl (CBM · talk) 18:29, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
Overly drastic... but the FBI's penalty for edit warring seems overly drastic. :-) -- SEWilco (talk) 23:10, 7 August 2008 (UTC) TLEAVE ME ALONE I KNOW WHAT YOUR DOING.Compu34 (talk) 06:50, 8 August 2008 (UTC) Please check this outYou said you use a Mac, so could you look at any tropical cyclone season page and see if the small template looks right in Safari? I think I finally fixed the IE-style issues, but I believe that's the only picky browser.Potapych (talk) 21:21, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Tropical Storm Olga (2007)The article Tropical Storm Olga (2007) you nominated as a good article has passed , see Talk:Tropical Storm Olga (2007) for eventual comments about the article. Well done! Plasticup T/C 22:37, 10 August 2008 (UTC) 2004 Hurricane seasonI've recently been criticised for promoting lists with even just one support - this list had plenty of comments but no support. So I didn't feel comfortable with promoting it. It still looks as if FLC is being used as WP:PR to a degree and that lists require two runs, one to get all the stuff fixed, the second to get sufficient support. There's nothing to stop the list being renominated. The Rambling Man (talk) 08:03, 11 August 2008 (UTC) ToolserveraccountHello Titoxd, DYK: List of off-season Atlantic hurricanesWP1.0 templateI just reassessed an article as C-Class and noticed that {{WP1.0}} isn't working for C-Class; see Talk:Northern Territory Can you fix that? Thanks, Walkerma (talk) 21:31, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
Help! <:)Hey, I was wondering if you would be willing to spare a wiki-second and do a copy-edit of Odwalla. It's on GA review and Peer review right now, but I need all the suggestions I can get! Thanks! Intothewoods29 (talk) 02:16, 21 August 2008 (UTC) Commons and tracksHey, I noticed you just had a quick hack at the track map template - its very overdue. However, the timing was a bit unfortunate, I'm about to go do exactly the same thing preparatory to uploading all damn tracks. I plan to make some substantial changes to it, which will make the information page much more useful. I also plan to make the template a mandatory subst, as that will make adding non-english language descriptions a matter of simple edits as opposed to exponentially increasing the complexity of the template itself. I'll be working the replacement up at commons:User:Nilfanion/Tc. As part of all this I will run over all the images, both my new uploads and the existing ones and update them. Given this, I'd suggest you stop your cleaning up of the files for now and give any suggestions on the talk page of my workup on Commons.--Nilfanion (talk) 00:29, 22 August 2008 (UTC) I've got a basic layout to the template now. Sorting out the few odd outstanding points is trivial. However, I'd like feedback on the layout of the description section.--Nilfanion (talk) 22:37, 1 September 2008 (UTC) Who's ever played Eduard Friedrich Mörike's opera "Eduard auf dem Seil" ?Hi, I'm looking for Eduard Friedrich Mörike's opera "Eduard auf dem Seil" (according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silpelit), but I can find any information, who ever has played it. If do you know any link to the information about performance this opera please drop me an e-mail at fazoo@o2.pl, because it seems till now, that nobody's played it ever. It's really important for me so I'd be thankful for any information. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.9.92.72 (talk) 06:17, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
Hurricane GustavHurricane Gustav already contains a second pink/red notice. -- Ned Scott 08:17, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
Pacific hurricane season mapsI don't think those tags do anything, so I uploaded them to commons, changing the word 'maps' to 'summary'. You can delete the local copies now.Potapych (talk) 18:45, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
Couple questionsHey Tito, I'm curious: Who/When/How did the pre-WPTC group get snapped at for "clogging" Commons in the first place? From what you said in the Commons discussion its almost like WPTC was doing things (which would be deemed correct according to present Commons consensus) and got slapped for it and has followed the current approach ever since. Believe me when I say a category full of 50 track maps, unusued on any project is positively useful compared to some projects (commons:Category:Urination springs to mind); Commons has a major difficulty in deleting useless stuff :( It might well be best to upload the tracks to en, because local policy can get shot of the things after the storm. I'd not do that on Commons due to the tendency of projects other than en to hold onto the things - check out some of the Katrina articles if you care. Also could you have a look at commons:User:Nilfanion/Tc please? I've done a trial on Image:Katrina 2005 track.png. I've got stumped with the explanation of the legend (it needs a copyedit!), and I'd like some feedback before I roll it out.--Nilfanion (talk) 21:43, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #20Number 20, September 6, 2008 The Hurricane Herald This is the monthly newsletter of WikiProject Tropical Cyclones. The Hurricane Herald aims to give a summary, both of the activities of the WikiProject and global tropical cyclone activity. If you wish to change how you receive this newsletter, or no longer wish to receive it, please add your username to the appropriate section on the mailing list. This newsletter covers all of August 2008. Please visit this page and bookmark any suggestions of interest to you. This will help improve monitoring of the WikiProject's articles. Storm of the month Hurricane Gustav was a deadly and damaging hurricane which formed late in the month in the Caribbean Sea. It first struck Haiti on August 26 as a minimal hurricane, where it killed 76 people and damaged or destroyed over 10,000 houses. Gustav turned to the southwest, moving over Jamaica where it killed 11 people. The hurricane rapidly intensified to reach peak winds of 150 mph (240 km/h) before making landfall on western Cuba; in the country, Gustav damaged or destroyed over 100,000 houses, though no deaths were reported due to well-executed evacuations. In the Gulf of Mexico, Gustav weakened due to its previous land interaction, and on September 1 it made landfall in south-central Louisiana as a Category 2 hurricane, where it caused heavy damage. Across its path, the hurricane caused 101 deaths, with an initial damage total of $20 billion. Other tropical cyclone activity
Member of the month The August member of the month is Cyclonebiskit, who has been on Wikipedia since April. The user helped maintain the current season articles as well as storm articles. Cyclonebiskit has written one GA, and wrote much of one of the recent tropical cyclone articles. New members New and improved articles
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Version 0.7 The list of articles chosen for the release can be seen here. Of the selection, almost half of the articles are already featured, and eleven are good articles. There one B-Class article (1970 Bhola cyclone, two C-Class articles (Hurricane Andrew, Cyclone Nargis), and two Start-Class articles (Pacific typhoon, Hurricane Rita). As these articles will be published in a CD, it is imperative that the project improve them quickly. The full list of all the WikiProject's articles is also available here. According to that list, WPTC's highest-scoring article—Tropical cyclone—has a score of 1969, which is very good as Canada, the selection's highest-scoring article, has a score of 2,409. That said, Extreme wind warning is the least important article we have, with a score of 227, so we may have to improve it a little bit so it isn't that low... You said: "In spite of this, it is not possible to artificially induce the dissipation of these systems with current technology."This statement is likely to be challenged, because there are already projects to control weather, such as the following: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnRPZOUVhJ4 -- IRP (talk) 00:14, 8 September 2008 (UTC) USAD ArticleHi. I know for a long time you worked on this article (and are a very qualified copy-editor, or so I hear), so I thought you would be a good person to bring this request to. I just brought the article up to good article status and am looking to bring it to FAC soon. However, I wanted to have it looked over by someone familiar with FACs to let me know if there's anything I should change or correct. I was hoping that person could be you. But, if you are too busy to look over the article, that's fine. I will just submit for a regular peer review and hope for the best. I really don't think there's much else I could add by way of content. It's about as complete as it will get as far as I can tell. The things I am worried about are whether the fair-use images will be a problem and whether I have relied too heavily on the USAD website as a source for information. Will these prove to be too problematic? Anyway, do (or do not) the looking-over at your leisure. I am in no hurry. Thank you in advance if you decide to review the article! Also, this is something I've been curious about for quite a while. Which Arizona school did you compete with? CDO? St. Johns? MVM? Red Mountain? Dobson? ... etc? Anyway, thanks again. If you decide not to do this, then do have fun with your hurricane articles and such. ;) - Yohhans talk 02:23, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
Help me fix a timelineFor some reason, the timeline at 1994 Pacific hurricane season#Timeline is not displaying properly, and I can't determine how to fix it. Could you please help me? Or if you can't, do you know someone who could? Thank you very much. Miss Madeline | Talk to Madeline 04:34, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
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