Wiki143:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Newsletter/Archive 2
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The Hurricane Herald
This is the monthly newsletter of WikiProject Tropical Cyclones. The Hurricane Herald aims to give a summary, both of the activities of the WikiProject and global tropical cyclone activity. If you wish to change how you receive this newsletter, or no longer wish to receive it, please add your username to the appropriate section on the mailing list.
{{Wikipedia:WikiProject_Tropical_cyclones/Newsletter/box-header}} Storm of the month
{{Wikipedia:WikiProject_Tropical_cyclones/Newsletter/box-header}} Other tropical cyclone activity
- Tropical Depression Two-E briefly existed near the Mexican coast on June 3 to June 4 and brought heavy rainfall to Acapulco.
- Tropical Storm Jelawat lasted from June 26 to June 29 in the South China Sea and made landfall on China. The storm caused flooding which killed at least seven people.
- Tropical Storm Ewiniar formed on June 30 east of Palau. It is forecast to reach typhoon strength.
{{Wikipedia:WikiProject_Tropical_cyclones/Newsletter/box-header}} New and improved articles
- New storm articles include: Tropical Storm Alberto (2006), Typhoon Patsy (1970), Tropical Storm Larry (2003), Cyclone Steve and Hurricane Danielle (1998).
- New non-storm articles include: Subtropical ridge and List of named tropical cyclones.
- New Featured articles: Hurricane Nora (1997), List of New Jersey hurricanes, Hurricane John (1994) and Hurricane Katrina.
- Articles which became A/GA class include: Tropical Storm Allison (A), Eye (cyclone) (GA), Tropical Cyclone (GA), Project Stormfury (GA), Hurricane Lenny (GA), Hurricane Epsilon (2005) (GA), Hurricane Esther (1961) (GA), Tropical Storm Henri (2003) (GA) and Hurricane Camille (GA).
{{Wikipedia:WikiProject_Tropical_cyclones/Newsletter/box-header}} New articles and improvements wanted
- New article: List of California tropical storms and List of New Jersey hurricanes are both featured lists, so why is there no List of Louisiana hurricanes or List of Cuban hurricanes?
- The current collaboration of the fortnight is Hurricane Fifi, please help improve this article.
- Please help to expand and improve the coverage of Tropical cyclones on Wikinews.
- Improvements are requested to Hurricane Janet, Hurricane Erin (1995) and Pacific hurricane season articles.
{{Wikipedia:WikiProject_Tropical_cyclones/Newsletter/box-header}} Member of the month
The June member of the month is Jdorje. The WikiProject awards this to him for his many contributions to the coverage of tropical cyclones on Wikipedia. Jdorje founded the WikiProject in October 2005 and established much of the categorizations the project depends on. His most significant contributions include the Featured article 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane and his track map generator with which he has created hundreds of track maps.
{{Wikipedia:WikiProject_Tropical_cyclones/Newsletter/box-header}} Main Page content
- Hurricane Floyd appeared on the Main Page as Today's Featured Article on June 17.
- Entries from 5 articles: Tropical Storm Larry (2003), Tropical Storm Henri (2003), Typhoon Kate (1970), Typhoon Patsy (1970) and List of named tropical cyclones appeared on the Main Page in the Did you know column during June.
{{Wikipedia:WikiProject_Tropical_cyclones/Newsletter/box-header}} Storm article statistics
| Template:Chembox header colspan=1 | Grade | Template:Chembox header colspan=1 | April | Template:Chembox header colspan=1 | May | Template:Chembox header colspan=1 | June | Template:Chembox header colspan=1 | July |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| class="assess-fa " style="color:inherit; background: Template:Class/colour; text-align: center; " | Template:Class/icon FA | 7 | 7 | 10 | 13 |
| class="assess-a " style="color:inherit; background: Template:Class/colour; text-align:center; " | Template:Class/icon A | 4 | 5 | 7 | 6 |
| class="assess-ga " style="color:inherit; background: Template:Class/colour; text-align: center; " | Template:Class/icon GA | 0 | 3 | 5 | 18 |
| class="assess-b " style="color:inherit; background: Template:Class/colour; text-align: center; " | B | 62 | 66 | 82 | 79 |
| class="assess-start " style="color:inherit; background: Template:Class/colour; text-align: center; " | Start | 154 | 177 | 168 | 180 |
| class="assess-stub " style="color:inherit; background: Template:Class/colour; text-align: center; " | Stub | 13 | 12 | 10 | 8 |
| Template:Chembox header colspan=1 | Total | Template:Chembox header colspan=1 | 240 | Template:Chembox header colspan=1 | 263 | Template:Chembox header colspan=1 | 282 | Template:Chembox header colspan=1 | 303 |
| percentage ≥Less than B |
69.6 | 71.6 | 63.1 | 62.0 |
{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Newsletter/box-header}} WikiProject subpages
This is a brief description of some of the subpages of the WikiProject, explaining their purpose briefly, to find out more read the pages.
- Assessments: Provides a series of guidelines to help with the assessment and improvement of articles. Discussion of how to improve specific articles is also held here and future nominations for FAC.
- Merging: Discussion of articles which could be merged is held here. Generally for less significant topics, their articles are likely to be listed here unless very well written.
- Article requests: A list of many possible subjects for articles, with comments on the worth of an article. If you have a topic which you think should have an article, list it here.
- Collaboration: Discussion of the collaboration of the fortnight is held here. Nominate an article for WikiProject collaboration or comment on the existing nominations on this page.
- Newsletter: The content of future editions of this newsletter and selection of Member of the month are discussed here.
- Other topics not relating to a specific article are handled on the main WikiProject talk page.
{{Wikipedia:WikiProject_Tropical_cyclones/Newsletter/box-header}} Thanks to Hurricanehink to maintaining the stats table and producing the storm summaries. Nilfanion (talk)