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This is my fourth talk page archive. The discussions in this archive span from April 2019 to May 2021. LightandDark2000 🌀 (talk) 21:51, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
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I hope the article is fine. I plan to add much more to the MH over the next few or several days (depending on how the track goes). I added a bunch of wikiprojects to the talk page. Please add any I may have missed. Thanks. NoahTalk 22:53, 24 April 2019 (UTC)
Hey... Kenneth is an overland depression. That is how the MFR categorized it, so TS does not apply. The MFR actually said it was an overland depression "Depression sur terre" when it was 85 knots. Take note this is NOT the same as tropical depression. The MFR will make any storm at any intensity an overland depression once it's inland. Also, please don't put official statuses in quotation marks. NoahTalk 10:20, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
Implementation of the new portal design has been culled back almost completely, and the cull is still ongoing. The cull has also affected portals that existed before the development of the automated design.
Some of the reasons for the purge are:
Most of the deletions have been made without prejudice to recreation of curated portals, so that approval does not need to be sought at Deletion Review in those cases.
In addition to new portals being deleted, most of the portals that were converted to an automated design have been reverted.
Which puts us back to portals with manually selected content, that need to be maintained by hand, for the most part, for the time being, and back facing some of the same problems we had when we were at this crossroads before:
These and other concepts require further discussion. See you at WT:POG.
However, after the purge/reversion is completed, some of the single-page portals might be left, due to having acceptable characteristics (their design varied some). If so, then those could possibly be used as a model to convert and/or build more, after the discussions on portal creation and design guidelines have reached a community consensus on what is and is not acceptable for a portal.
See you at WT:POG.
A major theme in the deletion discussions was the need for portals to be curated, that is, each one having a dedicated maintainer.
There are currently around 100 curated portals. Based on the predominant reasoning at MfD, it seems likely that all the other portals may be subject to deletion.
See you at WT:POG.
An observation and argument that arose again and again during the WP:ENDPORTALS RfC and the ongoing deletion drive of {{bpsp}} default portals, was that portals simply do not get much traffic. Typically, they get a tiny fraction of what the corresponding like-titled articles get.
And while this isn't generally considered a good rationale for creation or deletion of articles, portals are not articles, and portal critics insist that traffic is a key factor in the utility of portals.
The implication is that portals won't be seen much, so wouldn't it be better to develop pages that are?
And since such development isn't limited to editing, almost anything is possible. If we can't bring readers to portals, we could bring portal features, or even better features, to the readers (i.e., to articles)...
An approach that has received some brainstorming is "quantum portals", meaning portals generated on-the-fly and presented directly on the view screen without any saved portal pages. This could be done by script or as a MediaWiki program feature, but would initially be done by script. The main benefits of this is that it would be opt-in (only those who wanted it would install it), and the resultant generated pages wouldn't be saved, so that there wouldn't be anything to maintain except the script itself.
Another approach would be to focus on implementing specific features independently, and provide them somewhere highly visible in a non-portal presentation context (that is, on a page that wasn't a portal that has lots of traffic, i.e., articles). Such as inserted directly into an article's HTML, as a pop-up there, or as a temporary page. There are scripts that use these approaches (providing unrelated features), and so these approaches have been proven to be feasible.
What kind of features could this be done with?
The various components of the automated portal design are transcluded excerpts, news, did you know, image slideshows, excerpt slideshows, and so on.
Some of the features, such as navigation footers and links to sister projects are already included on article pages. And some already have interface counterparts (such as image slideshows). Some of the rest may be able to be integrated directly via script, but may need further development before they are perfected. Fortunately, scripts are used on an opt-in basis, and therefore wouldn't affect readers-in-general and editors-at-large during the development process (except for those who wanted to be beta testers and installed the scripts).
The development of such scripts falls under the scope of the Javascript-WikiProject/Userscript-department, and will likely be listed on Wikipedia:User scripts/List when completed enough for beta-testing. Be sure to watchlist that page.
Being curated. At least for the time being.
New encyclopedia program features will likely eventually render most portals obsolete. For example, the pop-up feature of MediaWiki provides much the same functionality as excerpts in portals already, and there is also a slideshow feature to view all the images on the current page (just click on any image, and that activates the slideshow). Future features could also overlap portal features, until there is nothing that portals provide that isn't provided elsewhere or as part of Wikipedia's interface.
But, that may be a ways off. Perhaps months or years. It depends on how rapidly programmers develop them.
The features of Wikipedia and its articles will continue to evolve, even if Portals go by the wayside. Most, if not all of portals' functionality, or functions very similar, will likely be made available in some form or other.
And who knows what else?
No worries.
Until next issue... — The Transhumanist 01:21, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
Hey, would you be willing to review any of the articles here for A class? I hate to have to ask people, but they have been sitting there for 1-2 months. I don't know about HH, but I was planning to take some of mine to FAC eventually. NoahTalk 02:44, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
@LightandDark2000: I added two archived links for the sources on Ann's section in the 2018–19 Australian region cyclone season article regarding the system's dissipation on 18 May like you wanted. ChocolateTrain (talk) 07:24, 19 May 2019 (UTC)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trifecta_Morning_Mountain_Moonset_01-31-2018.jpg We have something in common: "we are always looking up" All the best, Jessie Eastland (talk) 16:33, 20 May 2019 (UTC)
Before I publish it, I have issue with Rolf's MH relying so much on maps, especially saying things like "strengthening" based on an image. Can you get any better sources? Otherwise, it borders on WP:OR. The article looks decent though. I'm sure there's more impacts out there too to help flesh out the impact, but that's not required before publishing. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 21:33, 20 May 2019 (UTC)
As long as articles for the Medicanes have more info than the section in the main article, and there are a variety of independent sources establishing notability and verification, then I'm ok with the two articles you mentioned, so long as you trim down the section in the main article. Since Mediterranean tropical-like cyclone is over 100 kb, I think it would be good to be a bit shorter. As for Zorbas, you should do a broader search, not just for "Zorbas", but also "storm Greece [date]" in your searches. Keep up the good work though. I'll make sure Rolf gets a mention in the monthly newsletter. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 01:15, 31 May 2019 (UTC)
Hey thanks for the invitation to the tropical cyclone wiki project, I appreciate it. =D -User:SaiTheCyclone (talk) 16:29, 22 May 2019 (UTC)
I see you make nice userboxes, have you ever thought about making userboxes for other users on Wikipedia.Catfurball (talk) 16:31, 30 May 2019 (UTC)
@LightandDark2000: The only thing you have to do is add your name to Wikipedia:Userboxes. I've got many ideas.Catfurball (talk) 20:31, 30 May 2019 (UTC)
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Thanks for helping keep Wikipedia vandal-free! I've also noticed from your user page that we have a bunch in common! andritolion (talk) 04:42, 6 June 2019 (UTC) |
Thank you for helping keeping Wikipedia clean!
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Would this be eligible for GA even though webcite is down? NoahTalk 05:47, 8 June 2019 (UTC)
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For your work at Catherine of Aragon. -- DannyS712 (talk) 06:01, 10 June 2019 (UTC) |
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Hi, a new user, User:xubinzeng, edited the article which included the University of Arizona (UA). Do you think this is reliable and can be kept in the article? BlackDragon222 (talk) 23:29, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
I have successfully merged it, the same way as the Japanese article. 2406:3003:2004:6A0:386F:F8D8:5043:F4B1 (talk) 11:19, 26 June 2019 (UTC)
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Hi LightandDark2000! Thanks for reverting the disruption to Saad bin Laden. I noticed that the IP user who made the edit didn't receive any kind of note or warning after you reverted the disruption. Did you mean to leave the user a note, or did you not do so for a reason? I went ahead and left a note for you, but just wanted to message you about it in case you had a reason for not leaving one. I don't want to step on your toes or mess anything up. ;-) Let me know (ping me in your response so that I'm notified); just trying to keep an eye out for things and make sure that nothing is missed is all. :-) Cheers - ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 03:06, 1 July 2019 (UTC)
I just wanted to ask you if you think the current version of Hurricane Rosa (2018) is significantly better than this version. I am just curious as I am planning to renominate at FAC sometime in the future. NoahTalk 01:46, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
I'm new here and I've been recently patrolling the recent changes, looking for bad edits. Thanks again! :) Here's the one you thanked me on. TomSmithNP (talk) 10:59, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Wikipedia:CIVILWAR. Since you had some involvement with the Wikipedia:CIVILWAR redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 15:39, 9 July 2019 (UTC)
Greetings LightandDark2000
I am part of a research project at the University of Westminster, London, that looks at contentious Wikipedia articles and would like to interview you about your work and the issues and intricacies within collaboration practices in article development.
We have observed that you are an active editor in the Wikipedia community and that you have contributed in an article of our interest for several years (War in Donbass 2015-2018 period). This experience is of great interest to us. If you would be interested in participating in this research or would like more information, please do not hesitate to contact me through the Wikipedia mailbox or my personal talkpage. It would be a great help.
Best regards, Etchubykalo doctoral researcher at the communication and media research institute (CAMRI), University of Westminster, London.Etchubykalo (talk) 09:44, 3 July 2019 (UTC) Etchubykalo (talk) 10:05, 3 July 2019 (UTC)
Category:Politics user templates, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. —andrybak (talk) 12:27, 14 July 2019 (UTC)
Hello LightandDark2000, I do not know what happens in the future, but was the whole system of cyclone Barry really weak after the landfall yesterday? Barry lost her hurricane status, ok, making landfall with the northern parts of the system and that part may disappear slowly to the North, but in the whole area including the rainband in the Gulf of Mexico (marine warning there) Barry continued to be a severe storm, that I tried to express with my edit. It is difficult for me to write all the facts, but it seemed important for me to notice in the article that the threads and the power of the storm had not disappeared: The whirlpool area with 3 or 4 "hot spots" near the Galvestone Bay in the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico] (circulating supercells?) that feeds the cyclone in the North is not described in the article (heavy rainfall in the East of the center). And yesterday it was not clear to me, whether the cyclone turns around to the West and in the direction of Houston and the warm water of the Gulf, so I tried to tell this our readers. If you look here, Barry turns around today. Are the thunderstormlike red hot spots near Galvestone (and the blue edge moves around ...) still part of a huge circling Barry, or is this a "new" cyclone developing there in the Gulf of Mexico, driven by the former hurricane Barry? Is it allowed to use the NOAA-animations or a satellite photo of the rainband in the article? You are able to describe that images and the context in the article, I am not good enough to to that. Thanks, --LudwigSebastianMicheler (talk) 19:13, 14 July 2019 (UTC)
This report didn't make a lot of sense to me, but I blocked the user anyway. Drmies (talk) 01:06, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
Regarding the use of {{Infobox television season}} on non-season articles. If you look at your recent edits at List of Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters episodes (season 1) there are some issues. First, the page is incorrectly named per WP:NCTV#Season articles and the first sentence of the lead. So per the naming convention guideline, the name would be Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (season 1). Second issue is the infobox title you used. You are abusing the parameter, which is part of the reason why I removed it in the first place. From the little I can gather from the article (as those names aren't explained anywhere), I understand that those names are the titles of the 3 story-arcs of the season. Those do not belong in the infobox at all. See Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (season 4) which has 3 story arcs for that season: "Ghost Rider", "LMD" and "Agents of Hydra". Also, lists should never use the br tag as that doesn't follow WP:ACCESSABILITY. If all of those issues would be fixed, the infobox would not have needed to use the custom parameter. --Gonnym (talk) 16:26, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
|also_known_as=
can be added to display that. But again, those names need to be official and not fan made, which these seem to be. --Gonnym (talk) 16:41, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
As I had suspected, at least a handful of those articles already have blocking redirects at the proper title, so I can't carry out the page-moves for some of those articles. This means that those articles will have to go through an official RfC for mass-renaming and/or have an admin carry out the moves, because they are currently beyond my technical abilities. LightandDark2000 🌀 (talk) 16:50, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
Hey! May I ask why you requested a range block for 2401:4900:2306:CA6C:0:0:0:0/64
when all edits came from the same IP (2401:4900:2306:ca6c:9c2a:4446:320f:94e2)? --MrClog (talk) 09:01, 20 July 2019 (UTC)
Hello and thank you for helping me getting started in the WikiProject Tropical Cyclones. I earned a lot of infos from your message to me. Also thanks for sending the message “Getting Started”. I actually don’t need that message because I was editing as an anonymous user since 2012 so I alrendy know a lot about Wikipedia. Anyways thanks!
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Hi LightandDark2000, Many thanks for getting the IP blocked (and thanks Favonian for doing the honours),
I had been keeping an eye on their (prev) IP address but ofcourse they're not as stupid as they look! ,
Anyway thanks both for your help :). –Davey2010Talk 17:12, 12 August 2019 (UTC)
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On 1 September 2019, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Hurricane Dorian, 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. LightandDark2000 🌀 (talk) 14:27, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
Hey, just wanted to see what you think about Draft:Meteorological history of Hurricane Dorian thus far. KN and I plan to publish it once the storm dissipates. NoahTalk 03:40, 5 September 2019 (UTC)
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Dorian is dissipated because the OPC said it is. Unless you have info from Met UK, I would suggest you revert the changes since Germany doesn’t have jurisdiction for that area. The issue here is the original circulation died a while ago. NoahTalk 19:12, 12 September 2019 (UTC)
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Hi there! I noticed you did some work with the ISIS Syria detailed map. I’m looking for someone to help with two or three potential maps, and could compensate for the effort. If interested email me Twillisjr (talk) 23:08, 5 November 2019 (UTC)
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Is it necessary to fill out always the parameter basin? Infobox hurricane explicitly says "leave blank only if rare storm outside of main basins". Besides "atl" gives out mph instead of km/h, which is absurd for the Mediterranean.--Carnby (talk) 11:27, 24 November 2019 (UTC)
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Hello LightandDark2000, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2020. Spread the love by adding {{subst:Seasonal Greetings}} to other user talk pages. |
G'day all, March Madness 2020 is about to get underway, and there is bling aplenty for those who want to get stuck into the backlog by way of tagging, assessing, updating, adding or improving resources and creating articles. If you haven't already signed up to participate, why not? The more the merrier! Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 08:19, 29 February 2020 (UTC) for the coord team
As you've reverted my "Saga" split based on the Japanese DVD releases, could you please add a citation for the American season divisions and names used? The ones in that list aren't the ones used on the American DVDs. LostTL (talk) 15:19, 6 May 2020 (UTC)
Hello. You and I have previously interacted on Talk:List of Cyberchase episodes regarding the arbitrary and unsourced changes made to the air dates of those episodes by anonymous editors on a repeated basis. As a result of the latest slew of those types of edits, I put in a request for page protection, and also requested further administrative action be taken on the matter here. But it appears as though the admins in relation to this matter only took a cursory look at the page history and the issue in question, and do not seem to realize how wide-spread and lengthy this issue has been to deal with. THey also seem to be under the impression that the problem would easily be resolved if I'd take the initiative to contact all the offending anonymous editors myself, which doesn't seem practical to me. I thought about posting an additional comment on the matter to put the issue into greater context, but worry that the admins feel I may be wasting their time by asking them to intervene. Would you be able to add corroboration and context on this issue to this subject? Perhaps having a second witness to the problems and the length of time in which they have been repeatedly recurring (particuarly directly after page protection has expired every time) may do more than any additional comment I could make personally. Thanks for taking time to address this problem. --Jgstokes (talk) 00:22, 28 June 2020 (UTC)
@LightandDark2000: I just looked into the page history, and it looks as though the pattern is that a number of anonymous editors will wait for page protection to be lifted and work in concert to sabotage the page. Page projection is requested and granted, and the page remains intact. But the minute the paage protection is lifted, a new army of anonymous editors come into the fray to sabotage the page and the contents thereof. So it's still very much going on. I think we need stronger resolution efforts, which, as you rightly pointed out, wouldn't be accomplished by an appeal to ANI. Go ahead and contact your admin buddy. If you need me to corroborate any part of these details, just have that individual reach out to me via my talk page or something. Thanks. --Jgstokes (talk) 03:37, 12 July 2020 (UTC)
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Thanks for stopping the vandals at Ness (EarthBound). (Oinkers42) (talk) 03:11, 14 July 2020 (UTC) |
Okay. All I need is some clarification. Even if the NHC says they are initiating advisories on a system, shouldn't we WAIT for the 1st advisory BEFORE adding it to the page? That was the impression I got when I first got here, but no one seems to follow, which is making me angry right now.ChessEric (talk) 20:46, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
Hey there LightandDark2000, and thanks for your edits to Hurricane Isaias and 2020 Atlantic hurricane season! Your knowledge of storm dissipation dates from the WPC is valuable. I noticed that you changed your userpage styling to make it more like mine and User:Cyclonebiskit's. Cool! I changed my userpage styling by kinda copying the wikicode on Cyclonebiskit's page and putting it on mine, while changing the color and photo. It was just something cool and interesting I noticed. ~ Destroyeraa (talk|Contribs) 01:15, 11 August 2020 (UTC)
Nominations for the upcoming project coordinator election are now open. A team of up to ten coordinators will be elected for the next year. The project coordinators are the designated points of contact for issues concerning the project, and are responsible for maintaining our internal structure and processes. They do not, however, have any authority over article content or editor conduct, or any other special powers. More information on being a coordinator is available here. If you are interested in running, please sign up here by 23:59 UTC on 14 September! Voting doesn't commence until 15 September. If you have any questions, you can contact any member of the coord team. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 02:05, 1 September 2020 (UTC)
Hey, do you think this is a good picture to use for my page August 2020 California lightning wildfires?: https://scitechdaily.com/nasas-terra-satellite-captures-smoky-pall-over-california-after-unprecedented-lightning-strikes-ignite-more-than-650-wildfires/. I'm not too sure. EagerBeaverPJ (talk) 23:20, 1 September 2020 (UTC)
Hey, what do you think about the 2018 Pacific hurricane season? The topic has been steadily progressing over the past several months. NoahTalk 23:07, 4 September 2020 (UTC)
Would you possibly be willing to review Hurricane Hector against the FA criteria? NoahTalk 22:48, 14 September 2020 (UTC)
TYSM for helping to make edits to the August 2020 California wildfires page, I greatly appreciate it!! I was initially trying add info to the page for several days, but I was not able to do much because I'm currently facing a huge burden of work in my real life. And additionally no one else ever came to edit till now which made it harder for me. So if you could come and continue to make significant edits to it every day, that would really help! I see you're a really experienced user with over 55,000+ edits. Preferably we should try to make it as good or better than the other major California wildfire event pages (like October 2007, December 2017), for example. I may still try to continue making minor revisions to the page (with regards to more citations and some additional info), and I do have many different articles about the fires from when I was reading about them, so we can discuss about the page if necessary. We can share info and discuss any concerns there might be. But anyways, thanks again! EagerBeaverPJ (talk) 20:47, 8 September 2020 (UTC)
On 14 September 2020, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article September 2020 Western United States wildfires, 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. Stephen 00:12, 14 September 2020 (UTC)
G'day everyone, voting for the 2020 Wikiproject Military history coordinator tranche is now open. This is a simple approval vote; only "support" votes should be made. Project members should vote for any candidates they support by 23:59 (UTC) on 28 September 2020. Thanks from the outgoing coord team, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 05:18, 15 September 2020 (UTC)
Unfortunately, WP:COMMONNAME trumps our naming convention on storms. Medicane Ianos is the most commonly searched version of the storm. NoahTalk 18:00, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
LOL the above title user is so narccistic, He just unilatreally changes stuff and so stub-born to change stuff , He only wants his version, I agree with you in spanish flu death toll, Litreally nowhere there is 17 million deaths, Its always 50M+ and i also saw your recent swine flu pandemic change i agree there too, Hope we can change the spanish flu and not include 17-100, but only 50-100 and break the monopoly of thetimesarechanging user, I LIKE YOU SO MUCH :), Your the idol editor for me and my inspirstion thanks for fighting in the spanish flu talk page section!LOVE YOU Swtadi143 (talk) 09:35, 3 October 2020 (UTC)
Were you trying to put your recent edit for Hurricane Delta in for the past 20 minutes? ChessEric (talk · contribs) 20:10, 9 October 2020 (UTC)
Umm, we have been doing this for a while but Goni is a cat4 per the JTWC BT. Typhoon2013 (talk) 20:44, 29 October 2020 (UTC)
I have resigned as an admin and am no longer active on the project. Email notifications are turned off so I only just got your pings when I logged in for some housekeeping. Pings are unlikely to be received in any kind of timely manner if at all. I apologize for any inconvenience. -Ad Orientem (talk) 05:40, 30 October 2020 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is 90.255.128.0/17. Thank you. --HurricaneTracker495 (talk) 18:36, 21 November 2020 (UTC)
I blocked the range for a month, but I doubt that it's that Wyatt person, given the geolocation of that IP on the SPI and this one--these last few ranges were all based in the UK. There isn't much more we can do; one can only hope that one day their father finds out what they're doing on his computer and lays down the law. Or the dude gets a romantic partner. Drmies (talk) 21:00, 21 November 2020 (UTC)
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Hi LightandDark2000, I have moved the report to WP:ANI#181.161.160.0/19_reported_by_LightandDark2000. Best regards, ~ ToBeFree (talk) 21:12, 27 November 2020 (UTC)
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Thanks for being a dilligent Wikipedian Sliekid (talk) 03:34, 30 November 2020 (UTC) |
I noticed that some past sigs of yours were unbalanced and broke syntax highlighting on the rest of the page where it appeared. This was an old sig, and looks like you've since fixed it, so all is well. That said, you can simplify your current sig code by distributing the bold-italic out:
'''''[[en:User:LightandDark2000|<span style="color:#C69214">Light</span><span style="color:#410064">and</span><span style="color:blue">Dark2000</span>]]''''' 🌀
generates:Hope this helps, Mathglot (talk) 09:45, 1 December 2020 (UTC)
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in my user preferences? LightandDark2000 🌀 (talk) 19:58, 1 December 2020 (UTC)
'''''[[en:User:LightandDark2000|<span style="color:#C69214">Light</span><span style="color:#410064">and</span><span style="color:blue">Dark2000</span>]]''''' 🌀
By the way: I had just found that Meta discussion while you were typing the link to it above, and yes, *that* version of yours did indeed have misnested tags, just like the version of your sig that got me here in the first place. I was going to point out the same error that xaosflux pointed out to you in 2018, but you'd fixed it by then, using the same fix xaosflux suggested back then.
It's ironic, because just now in your 19:58 response, you made another mis-nested tag error, which screwed up the page again (diff) because you coded this:
<code><nowiki><i><b></code></nowiki>
when you should have coded this:
<code><nowiki><i><b></nowiki></code>
Do you see the difference? That is a mis-nested tag error: the last tag added has to be the first one closed. (I fixed it for you, in this edit.)
There's a good explanation of mis-nested tags somewhere on the site, if you're interested in how to avoid that, should you wish to tweak your sig from time to time going forward, but it's basically LIFO (last-in, first-out) like a stack of trays in a cafeteria, so whatever the last tag was, is the first one that has to come off. Think about how you use (parenthetic comments that contain [bracketed comments], the end bracket-comes first, and then the end-paren), right? Same thing with tag nesting. Make sense? HTH, Mathglot (talk) 20:34, 1 December 2020 (UTC)
Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of BlyatPutin has been nominated for merging. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. 4thfile4thrank (talk) 19:08, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
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Destroyeraa has given you a Turkey! Turkeys promote WikiLove and hopefully this has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by giving someone else a turkey, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Happy Thanksgiving! ~ Destroyer🌀🌀 17:23, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
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I'm thankful to have you here as a fellow member of WPTC, and also of your work fighting LTAs. ~ Destroyer🌀🌀 17:23, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
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see above ~ Destroyer🌀🌀 17:24, 9 December 2020 (UTC) |
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The Civility Barnstar |
You've gotten a lot more civil since 2015. ~ Destroyer🌀🌀 17:24, 9 December 2020 (UTC) |
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You write great op-eds. Use that energy to write GAs! ~ Destroyer🌀🌀 17:26, 9 December 2020 (UTC) |
G'day all, the nominations for the 2020 Military history WikiProject newcomer and Historian of the Year are open, all editors are encouraged to nominate candidates for the awards before until 23:59 (GMT) on 15 December 2020, after which voting will occur for 14 days. There is not much time left to nominate worthy recipients, so get to it! Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 06:45, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
Hi! Just wondering, what is the code for the userbox that says you've visited 2 countries? And, how do you create these edit-notices? 🌀☾⊙☈⊙♫ꍏ🌀 18:38, 14 December 2020 (UTC)
{{User:Blackadam2/Countries Visited|#2}}
. Just add the userbox to your page and adjust the number inside. To create an editnotice, go the the target page, and enter in "/editnotice". Then, enter in the text that you want. For example, you can check out the editnotice for my talk page. (I also have a separate one for my userpage). Once you finish setting it up, it'll display at the top of the page every time someone opens the editing window. Hope this helps! LightandDark2000 🌀 (talk) 19:10, 14 December 2020 (UTC)
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Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2021! |
Hello LightandDark2000, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2021. Spread the love by adding {{subst:Seasonal Greetings}} to other user talk pages. |
Hey mate, I know you haven't been doing too great all your years (neither have I), and would like to send you my best wishes for the holiday season. Thanks for all you do, from the bottom of my (albeit otherwise empty) heart.
Best wishes,
Thanks so much for the barnstar! Editor retention has been one of my biggest goals over the past few years - maybe even more than writing articles! I'll never forget how welcoming the community was when I first joined. I think that is what has made the WPTC so successful all these years, that community of editors. Keep up your editing, and stay safe/sane these next few months. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 16:16, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
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The Writer's Barnstar |
Thank you so much for fixing most issues in Effects of Hurricane Dorian in the Carolinas. SMB99thx my edits! 10:56, 19 December 2020 (UTC) |
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Thanks for fixing that error on Tropical Storm Allison, updating the damage. Hurricane Tracker 495 23:43, 19 December 2020 (UTC) |
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Gee, thanks for the barnstars! I really appreciate them, they made my day! It was my brother’s birthday yesterday so I didn’t have time to edit :p, though I still say the barnstars. I just want to tell you that you are a good person and friend, and I’m grateful for your support. ~ Destroyer🌀🌀 17:08, 20 December 2020 (UTC) |
On 2 November 2020, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Typhoon Goni (2020), 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. LightandDark2000 🌀 (talk) 01:28, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
On 21 December 2020, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article great conjunction, 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. LightandDark2000 🌀 (talk) 23:25, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
Hi LightandDark! I found this, which is the "official website" of the Mediterranean Cyclone Center. It looks like TheAustinMan's avatar on Discord! Thus, the source is unreliable, and a reliable source copying a name from an unreliable source is unreliable. ~ Destroyer🌀🌀 01:11, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
Hello LightandDark2000: Enjoy the holiday season, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, ~ Destroyer🌀🌀 01:51, 23 December 2020 (UTC)
24.182.9.202 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) - This guy is making too many unconstructive edits. I'm on my phone so I cannot use Twinkle. Please help me. Thanks. ~ Destroyer🌀🌀 23:47, 23 December 2020 (UTC)
Hello LightandDark2000: Enjoy the holiday season, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, 𝙲𝚘𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚐𝙲𝚢𝚌𝚕𝚘𝚗𝚎 ᴛᴀʟᴋ 01:22, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
Donner60 (talk) is wishing a foaming mug of Seasons Greetings! Whether you celebrate your hemisphere's Solstice or Christmas, Diwali, Hogmanay, Hanukkah, Lenaia, Festivus or even the Saturnalia, this is a special time of year for almost everyone!
Spread the holiday cheer by adding {{subst:User:WereSpielChequers/Dec20}} to your friends' talk pages.
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Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2021! |
Hello LightandDark2000, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2021. Spread the love by adding {{subst:Seasonal Greetings}} to other user talk pages. |
M.Bitton (talk) is wishing a foaming mug of Seasons Greetings! Whether you celebrate your hemisphere's Solstice or Christmas, Diwali, Hogmanay, Hanukkah, Lenaia, Festivus or even the Saturnalia, this is a special time of year for almost everyone!
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You did a lot of copyedits and updates lately. Great job! Also, thanks for promoting Beryl. Five down, we have Florence, Gordon, Michael, and Leslie left! ~ Destroyer🌀🌀 03:09, 27 December 2020 (UTC) |
@Hurricane Noah:, LightandDark2000: It really was bittersweet seeing Michael Met go. It was a good article that Noah and others put a good amount of time and effort in. ~ Destroyer🌀🌀 21:53, 27 December 2020 (UTC)
Re: this edit, I'm not sure you needed to add the |website= parameter for all of the nhc.noaa.gov references. We already list the publisher as the National Hurricane Center. Per Template:Cite_web, the "website" parameter is supposed to list the title of the website, which is the same as the publisher, and not just the url of the homepage. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 15:35, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
G'day all, voting for the WikiProject Military history "Military Historian of the Year" and "Military history newcomer of the year" is about to close, so if you haven't already, click on the links and have your say before 23:59 (GMT) on 30 December! Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 23:35, 28 December 2020 (UTC) for the coord team
Since you are involved with writing the WPTC newsletter, you may want to check out this. ~ Destroyer🌀🌀 00:43, 2 January 2021 (UTC)
Thanks. Also, Karen 13 is now up to 18K USD in damage. NCDC really helps, though this is still considered minimal damage. ~ Destroyer🌀🌀 01:25, 2 January 2021 (UTC)
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This is for being such a great editor, a kind person, and a hard-worker, as well as coming up with great ideas, and helping me the great people like you here on Wikipedia. 🌀Weatherman27🏈 (Chat|Edits|sandbox) 17:07, 4 January 2021 (UTC) |
@Weatherman27: Aw...Thanks! That really means a lot to me. LightandDark2000 🌀 (talk) 18:46, 4 January 2021 (UTC)
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Thanks for catching and fighting so many LTAs - most notably IP95 and Wyatt2049. ~ Destroyer🌀🌀 21:43, 4 January 2021 (UTC) |
Its never too late! :) Thank you for a very nice New Year's card and to you too, have a Happy happy New Year!!! :D
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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. |
You have been trouted for: Not keeping your cool when reverting an edit by an IP user. It happens sometimes! -Shift674-🌀 contribs 12:04, 5 January 2021 (UTC)
Hey there! How do you request page mover rights? ~ 🌀☾⊙☈⊙♫ꍏ🌀 15:25, 8 January 2021 (UTC)
When you will write the sections for December 2020 SOTM, SOTY and your OP? (I doubt that the Hurricanehink interview will be ever be written given when Destroyer moved the year report up) MarioJump83! 01:48, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
Well then, here's our work that just got into fruition! MarioJump83! 00:09, 15 January 2021 (UTC)
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That's my reward for you after getting back into WPTC after all those years. I think you're going to become MoTM some time soon. MarioJump83! 02:17, 11 January 2021 (UTC) |
I wish you a speedy recovery. May God watch over you.
~ Destroyeraa🌀🇺🇸 00:19, 12 January 2021 (UTC)
How are you feeling? ~ Destroyeraa🌀🇺🇸 14:23, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
Here: User:Destroyeraa/Cyclone Cup. ~ Destroyeraa🌀🇺🇸 16:20, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
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I wish you a very speedy recovery. 🦠🌀𝕾𝖚𝖕𝖊𝖗 𝕮𝖞𝖈𝖑𝖔𝖓𝖎𝖈 𝕾𝖙𝖔𝖗𝖒 𝕮𝖔𝖗𝖔𝖓𝖆🌀🦠 15:03, 12 January 2021 (UTC) |
Thank you! This means so much to me! It's not as bad as I thought it would be right now (mostly because of my pain meds). As long as I properly manage my pain medication and do everything else right, I may be fine. The first 3 days are usually the worst. We'll see how this goes. LightandDark2000 🌀 (talk) 23:07, 12 January 2021 (UTC)
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I was sorry to hear about your health issues and the operation. I hope things are OK! What a rough time to be getting ill. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 23:12, 12 January 2021 (UTC) |
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Sorry to hear about your health and operation. I hope you recover quickly and easy. Cheers. 🌀CycloneFootball71🏈 |sandbox 05:57, 13 January 2021 (UTC) |
Some days before August 17, 2019 my ankle sprained (non-sports injury - I don't participate in athletic activity) when I'm walking alongside stairs in my school. It was painful and I wasn't able to walk for several days. Fortunately, I was able to recover without any surgery - though I fear that ankle might get injured again. To see you getting a surgery in wisdom teeth removal is probably might be more painful than that - I feel pain and I probably wouldn't be able to handle it! I have wisdom teeth tbh and I don't plan to get it removed someday. This is why I gave you a bicolor kitten. Bicolor cats are my favorite.
MarioJump83! 10:26, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
![]() 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. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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!) |
I am sorry to hear that you aren't feeling great. I hope things get better for you.
🌀CycloneFootball71🏈 |sandbox 04:57, 15 January 2021 (UTC)
Thanks. Though I still am experiencing physical pain/discomfort (not quite as bad now, thankfully), this one is largely emotional. And unfortunately, this kind of pain is much more difficult to deal with. LightandDark2000 🌀 (talk) 05:00, 15 January 2021 (UTC)
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The Special Barnstar |
Hi there! I've been talking to you lately, and seem like a really great person. I noticed you have been going through some stuff, so hopefully this barnstar will cheer you up a bit. Best of luck, 𝙲𝚘𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚐𝙲𝚢𝚌𝚕𝚘𝚗𝚎 ᴛᴀʟᴋ 17:31, 15 January 2021 (UTC) |
Thanks for your contributions. Always be happy.
Dam222 🌋 (talk) 07:14, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
I note that you have commented on the edits made by a user with the ID 82.1.133.50 on the Balfron article. He is at it again, and again. Are you able to prevent him from further vandalism? Shipsview (talk) 22:31, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
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The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar |
Thank you for reverting vandalism whenever it occurs, thus saving Wikipedia. ~~ 🌀𝕾𝖚𝖕𝖊𝖗 𝕮𝖞𝖈𝖑𝖔𝖓𝖎𝖈 𝕾𝖙𝖔𝖗𝖒 𝕮𝖔𝖗𝖔𝖓𝖆🌀 16:54, 22 January 2021 (UTC) |
Thanks! I'm just doing my part to defend Wikipedia and the other editors here (when it becomes necessary). :) LightandDark2000 🌀 (talk) 19:40, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
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The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar | Les actes de bonté au hasard EtoileDeGrange |
Hello! Thanks for all the WikiLove and nice messages; as well as the help. Hopefully time does you better now than before. Stay safe! ~ AC5230 talk 17:16, 22 January 2021 (UTC) | salut! Merci pour tout le WikiLove et les bons messages; ainsi que l'aide. J'espère que le temps vous fera mieux maintenant qu'avant. Restez en sécurité! ~ AC5230 talk 17h16, 22 janvier 2021 (UTC) |
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A pineapple cake for you! |
This pineapple cake I present to you is a virtual one. It's a picture of one I ate today. I made sure to take a picture and upload it before I ate it. It's made in Taiwan and has a very buttery taste. Suits your sweet cravings well. Enjoy ^_^ ~ Destroyeraa🌀🇺🇸 01:17, 23 January 2021 (UTC) |
A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Devastator (Ratchet and Clank). The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 January 23#Devastator (Ratchet and Clank) until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. Regards, SONIC678 03:16, 23 January 2021 (UTC)
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I think I'll keep this cookie to my self.. just kidding. Anyways, I think it's wonderful that your still editing articles daily despite this minor inconviences. Though this may not be the same kind of pain that you feel, I do get headaches like two to three times every couple of months. While it's really not that frequent, it really hurts. Though I also have chipped one of my teeth before. That felt weird. Oh well. I wish you a fast recovery. Stay safe, Cyclone Toby 02:23, 24 January 2021 (UTC) |
I saw that you have reverted edits on the John Giuca page made by 2 editors. There is now a third editor on the page that has (it looks like) made 500 edits in the past 24 hours...It looks IMO like a sockpuppet account due to his editing ability and since the IP/editor is so new. He is positioning the page as an article about the CASE vs. about Giuca himself. He has also removed information sourced from the NYTimes about a prior shooting arrest. In all, after spending much time on this page and reviewing the talk page and edit history I believe these editors are closely connected with the defendant's family. Are you able to help prevent 2603:7000:2143:8500:31b5:246a:5626:edca from further vandalism? Please let me know if you have any ideas on next steps. Looking for help/answers. Thank you! Drsammyjohnson (talk) 01:23, 27 January 2021 (UTC)
Super Cyclonic Storm Corona has eaten your pie! The pie made them happy and they'd like to give you a great big hug for donating it. Spread the WikiLove by giving out more pies, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Thanks again! ~~ 🌀𝕾𝖚𝖕𝖊𝖗 𝕮𝖞𝖈𝖑𝖔𝖓𝖎𝖈 𝕾𝖙𝖔𝖗𝖒 𝕮𝖔𝖗𝖔𝖓𝖆🌀 19:04, 28 January 2021 (UTC)
Woah man, calm down. You don't have to say mean words like that. ~~ 🌀𝕾𝖚𝖕𝖊𝖗 𝕮𝖞𝖈𝖑𝖔𝖓𝖎𝖈 𝕾𝖙𝖔𝖗𝖒 𝕮𝖔𝖗𝖔𝖓𝖆🌀 17:33, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
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Sorry to see you are miserable again. Hopefully this delicious brownie will make you feel better. ~~ 🏅🌀𝕾𝖚𝖕𝖊𝖗 𝕮𝖞𝖈𝖑𝖔𝖓𝖎𝖈 𝕾𝖙𝖔𝖗𝖒 𝕮𝖔𝖗𝖔𝖓𝖆🌀🏅 21:30, 5 February 2021 (UTC) |
Alongside working to get successful Cyclone Owen PR I am considering GAN of 2006 Central Pacific cyclone despite being small in size I acknowledge. From what I learned from Hurricane Kristy (2006) merger, Hurricane Sergio (2006) is probably going to not hold out any longer so I see 2006 Central Pacific cyclone as a replacement. MarioJump83! 05:11, 9 February 2021 (UTC)
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I am thankful that you are very helpful to me by assisting my GAR on Pacific Meridional Mode, and didn't actively participate in holding back our (me and Chicdat - We are working together by this point I admit) Cyclone Owen GA efforts onwiki. ![]() |
To tell about my user rights I'm on, I'm now Destroyeraa but with temporary page mover instead of permanent one. LOL! MarioJump83! 05:57, 9 February 2021 (UTC)
Skarmory has given you a kitten! Kittens promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Your kitten must be fed three times a day and will be your faithful companion forever! Spread the WikiLove by giving someone else a kitten, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend.
Spread the goodness of kittens by adding {{subst:Kitten}} to someone's talk page with a friendly message, or kittynap their kitten with {{subst:Kittynap}}
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Valentine Greets!!! |
Hello LightandDark2000, 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. |
I do hope you're doing well. CodingCyclone citation needed 20:49, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
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The Writer's Barnstar |
For merging the Tropical Storm Cristobal (2020) and Tropical Storm Amanda (2020) articles into the Tropical Storm Amanda–Cristobal article by yourself. Great job man! ChessEric (talk · contribs) 22:38, 25 February 2021 (UTC) |
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Hungry? You can eat it if you need to, because I want to say thanks for the thank. :S ImaoisIizlook through T/C 14:01, 26 February 2021 (UTC) |
![]() 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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New articles since the last newsletter include:
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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. |
Congrats! Why you don't subscribe to this newsletter? MarioJump83! 06:24, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
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~ 🌀 SCS CORONA 🌀 16:52, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
Dear LightandDark2000, Thank you for actively watching for vandalism in Wikipedia pages. I have recently reverted a change made to the Random Forest page, as it was a visible action taken by an author to promote three of his research articles in sections/topics that were not directly related to his work. Indeed, Random Forest is a very broad topic in the machine learning domain, and the citations that this user inserted (including the text of his recent Ph.D. thesis, defended in 2019) are related to extremely specific domains and applications (mainly published in "Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part B: Pavements" and "Journal of Infrastructure Systems"). Therefore, these works cannot be seen as authoritative in the machine learning domain (they also were never cited in the academic domain). I noticed the same pattern of this user on different pages. For this reason, I reverted the edit (i.e. removed the three citations) and reported it as cite spam for further analysis (edit that you have reverted). I am rather new here, so I'm still not used to the right processes/etiquette in this kind of situation, could give us assistance in this case? Thanks a lot 83.137.1.221 (talk) 18:14, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
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Thank you for all of the thanking and acknowledging all of the work we all do, also, for being a overall great person! :D WiiBoi (talk) 17:04, 3 March 2021 (UTC) |
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Removed mistakes in articles, so thanks. Dam222 🌋 (talk) 08:28, 9 March 2021 (UTC) |
Hey Light! I need a few more sources for my sandbox - User:Super Cyclonic Storm Corona/March 2021 Hawaii Floods - that don't repeat the information I already have. I already looked through all news articles. Do you know where to get more sources? ~ 🌀 SCS CORONA 🌀 15:32, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
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Regarding the Sleepinthestars situation, I honestly did something wrong and probably disruptive for the WikiProject. As I want to admit, I am on recruiting pitch back in March 10, which led to Tc06cimaron and Floridaball officially joining the project, but also led to dumb decisions like SR and Sleep (which, if you want to acknowledge it, is the main editor of tropical cyclone articles in Ukrainian Wikipedia). I am giving you barnstar for your handling in this situation, and I am also going to quit from recruiting efforts in WPTC (including resisting these efforts if necessary). MarioJump83! 01:34, 13 March 2021 (UTC) |
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While I am on the edge of my stress right now, you are going to be the first recipient of this barnstar. MarioJump83! 02:04, 13 March 2021 (UTC) |
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LightandDark2000, you thanked me for one of my recent edits, so here is a heart-felt... YOU'RE WELCOME! It's a pleasure, and I hope you have a lot of fun while you edit this inspiring encyclopedia phenomenon! JennilyW (talk) |
05:04, 14 March 2021 (UTC) JennilyW (talk) 05:04, 14 March 2021 (UTC)
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Just to celebrate π day, here's a pi for you! Tfess up?or down? 19:55, 14 March 2021 (UTC) |
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You did a great job defending from vandalism, among with the collection of all your other banstars, I believe you deserve this. Have fun making a plaque for all of these. Opkiller82 (talk) 04:07, 15 March 2021 (UTC) |
I saw you joined the Current Events WikiProject, so welcome! ~ 🌀 SCS CORONA 🌀 17:26, 15 March 2021 (UTC)
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Masala dosai or masale dose or masaldosa is a variation of the popular South Indian dosa, which has its origins in Tuluva Mangalorean cuisine of Karnataka. It is made from rice, lentils, potato, fenugreek, and curry leaves, and served with chutneys and sambar. It is popular in South India, it can be found in all other parts of the country and overseas. In South India, preparation of masala dosa varies from city to city.
This is my favorite food. I'm not sure if you would like it too, but I'm giving this to you as appreciation for all your thanks, my notifications are filled with them! |
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Thanks for the birthday cake! Black Forest is my favorite! ~ 🌀 SCS CORONA 🌀 18:02, 19 March 2021 (UTC) |
I really don't know what to say, thanks a lot for the kind words mate, I have tried my best always and although I have partially stepped away/retired from Wikipedia I hope I will be able to help in the future as well. Thanks once again! :) EkoGraf (talk) 15:54, 21 March 2021 (UTC)
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Thank you so much for all that you do, like reverting vandalism, making great edits, being so kind, and being supportive of other editors. Thanks for making Wikipedia such a great place! 🌀CycloneFootball71🏈 |sandbox 14:49, 22 March 2021 (UTC) |
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Sorry to see you've sprained your ankle. I had that happen to me 3 years ago, not a pleasant experience. Hope you get better soon. ~ 🌀 SCS CORONA 🌀 16:40, 23 March 2021 (UTC) |
Hello L&D2000, I was wondering if you could help me with something regarding a userbox I recently created. Now, I ask you as I have seen you make user-boxes before, and so I though you could help me out. I want to add it to the Wikipedia talk:Userboxes/New Userboxes page, but I am not sure how to do the formatting seen on the page, like this: { { User:Tcr25/Userbox/User Hates DST } } so I was wondering if you could help me figure out how to make the link like that? Or am I just dumb and it is simply { { User:CycloneFootball71/UBX } } (without the spaces of course) Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you so much Sorry if that is confusing. -🌀CycloneFootball71🏈 |sandbox 23:04, 23 March 2021 (UTC) My UBX:
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Try adding this below the rest of the code for your userbox. Let me know if that works. BTW, I would strongly recommend renaming your userbox to something more specific (specifically, adding a / dash after "UBX" and adding a more specific title), because it's pretty general right now, especially if you plan on making more userboxes. LightandDark2000 🌀 (talk) 23:12, 23 March 2021 (UTC)
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🌀CycloneFootball71🏈 |sandbox 23:40, 23 March 2021 (UTC)
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Thanks for working on Tropical Storm Rolf's article. Dam222 🌋 (talk) 07:50, 24 March 2021 (UTC) |
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I'm sorry to see that you're miserable. Tea always helps me feel better, and I hope that it does for you too. CodingCyclone! 🌀 📘 17:49, 25 March 2021 (UTC) |
Hey, IDK if you know this or not, but you are the 1433th most active editor of all time on the wiki. ~~ 🌀𝚂𝙲𝚂 𝙲𝙾𝚁𝙾𝙽𝙰🌀 18:12, 25 March 2021 (UTC)
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For singlehandedly writing articles for PTC 10 and Hurricane Pali. Great job! 🌀HurricaneCovid🌀 (contribs) 12:21, 26 March 2021 (UTC) |
I don't know why you pinged me to close an RFC, but please don't do that again. I'm mostly inactive due to my parents' health issues and hospice care, but even if I weren't, I'm well aware of where to find the overdue RFCs if I wish to start closing some. Thanks. Katietalk 15:14, 26 March 2021 (UTC)
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Hey y'all, the April 2021 WikiProject Military History Reviewing Drive begins at 00:01 UTC on April 1, 2021 and runs through 23:59 UTC on April 31, 2021. Points can be earned through reviewing articles on the AutoCheck report, reviewing articles listed at WP:MILHIST/ASSESS, reviewing MILHIST-tagged articles at WP:GAN or WP:FAC, and reviewing articles submitted at WP:MILHIST/ACR. Service awards and barnstars are given for set points thresholds, and the top three finishers will receive further awards. To participate, sign up at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Military_History/April 2021 Reviewing Drive#Participants and create a worklist at Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/April 2021 Reviewing Drive/Worklists (examples are given). Further details can be found at the drive page. Questions can be asked at the drive talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:25, 31 March 2021 (UTC)
I'm working and unable to fix recent changes to the barbat article, but they were done at the same time as the recent changes to the oud article, that you rolled back. Would you mind rolling back the recent changes to barbat? The author seems to be fixated on making the instrument an Iranian only instrument, and sources don't support that. If not, I get to it tonight. Best wishes, Jacqke (talk) 19:40, 31 March 2021 (UTC)
This is your April Fools' warning; if you continue to contribute constructively to Wikipedia, you may be showered with barnstars without further notice. HAHA! Happy April Fools' Day! XD Anyway, nice new signature :) CodingCyclone! 🌀 📘 02:30, 1 April 2021 (UTC)
April Fools!!!!!!! P.S. The headline is just the first 56 atomic symbols of the periodic table all lowercased and with no spaces. Tfess up?or down? 04:01, 1 April 2021 (UTC) And my attempts at bringing about April Fools is, well, in shambles.
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LOL! That April Fools' joke was amazing! ~~ 🌀𝚂𝙲𝚂 𝙲𝙾𝚁𝙾𝙽𝙰🌀 22:42, 2 April 2021 (UTC) |
Hey, hope all is good. I just wanted to let you know that I saw these articles about the boom star was expected in 2022. Here they are: https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/two-stars-wont-collide-into-a-red-nova-in-2022-after-all and https://www.sciencealert.com/kic-9832227-cygnus-binary-star-collision-prediction-was-wrong-data However, I might not be thinking of the same one on your userpage. I wanted to come here and let you know about it before I go and just edit your page without permission. Thanks - 🌀CycloneFootball71🏈 |sandbox 05:14, 6 April 2021 (UTC)
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This cookie will cheer you up. It is warm and crisp! Floridaball ;). 17:03, 7 April 2021 (UTC) |
Seems Kullanıcı İsmi added the separation line to dozens of articles. So it wouldn't be just me, and knowing you are of the same mind, could you remove the line in the other articles where I haven't removed yet? I removed over half of where he added already. Here are the ones that still need removing. Also, could you keep an eye on him as well so he doesn't do it again? Seems he's a problematic editor who has been blocked three times in just the three months he has been editing. EkoGraf (talk) 19:18, 7 April 2021 (UTC)
Hey there @LightandDark2000! I saw that you're a member of WikiProject Western Asia. Just wanted to notify you that I have opened up a discussion on whether Iraq should be included in the ASPG article. In the talk page I've organized a short history and research on the subject. And opened a discussion on the issue. If you're interested please feel free to join, we would love for neutral third party opinion on the matter. Cheers! — ♾️ Contemporary Nomad (💬 Talk) 07:18, 20 April 2021 (UTC)
I noticed that you thanked me for 2 of my edits. While it's not really all that significant, I would like to tank you for thanking more than just one of my edits. It's rare that I see the same editor thank more than one of my edits. I would give you a barn star but I can't figure out how at the moment but once I do I will gladly give you one. Blaze The Wolf | Proud Furry and Wikipedia Editor (talk) 18:08, 21 April 2021 (UTC)
I really appreciate your thanks on some of my edits! Your kindness really made my day. Thank you for sharing the WikiLove, and here is some for you!
TheLastClassicist1750 (talk) 07:27, 22 April 2021 (UTC)
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Thanks for stopping vandalism :) Justiyaya (talk) 07:33, 24 April 2021 (UTC) |
Thanks! LightandDark2000 🌀 (talk) 08:49, 24 April 2021 (UTC)
Hi. I am having an issue on South Atlantic tropical cyclone. An IP is attempting to start another edit war and replace the timeline that was removed. I have reverted him but I am trying to refrain from surpassing 3rr. It is obviously Td30W (talk · contribs) with exactly the same wording and tone in their edit summaries, and the fact that they are so adamant in such a poor table. I am not sure how to properly do it, so could you please help me report the IP as a sockpuppet or whatever they are? Thanks 🌀CycloneFootball71🏈 |sandbox 14:38, 24 April 2021 (UTC)
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Thank you for telling me not to overlink. I genuinely appreciate it. Gummycow moomilk 18:39, 28 April 2021 (UTC) |
You thanked my addition of the opinion piece about Destroyeraa. This really means a lot to me, and not because it's the first time I've been thanked (it certainly is not). It's because recently, you have vouched for Destroyeraa in discussions, and that makes it feel like it came from Destroyeraa himself. 🐔 Chicdat Bawk to me! 10:17, 29 April 2021 (UTC)
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Hello LightandDark2000. I just want to thank you for everything that you have done here on WP, I really appreciate your kindness, your hard-work, and your willingness to help other editors. I want to thank you for convincing Destroyeraa to come back as well. I want to also thank you for being such a role-model to the community, and for stepping up and being a leader especially when things got tough for the WPTC (like this) and for always supporting me when I came close to leaving or quitting WP, and your constant support. I want to thank you for being a great editor, and a great friend, it means a lot. Keep up the great work, it is really appreciated. 🌀CycloneFootball71🏈 |sandbox 05:35, 29 May 2021 (UTC) |
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