User talk:Bladeswin

After two comments, I now find it necessary to make this crystal clear right here at the top of my Talk Page. I am not an admin. I use the speedy tags because I neither have, nor want the admin power to speedily delete the pages. Also: I make mistakes. Such is the way of humanity. If I make a mistake, a kind note will go further than hate. One more thing, a comment was made as to the speed at which I tag things... Well, I use Special:Newpages to clear out the junk...and there are tons of junk new pages.

These are the talk articles from October 1, 2006 to the present.

All previous messages may be found here.

marist high school

this page is currently underconstruction, it was a fluke that it was like that, sorry about that.

Skyscrapercity.com

This article was requested. Besides, it is one of the most important internet forums dealing with the topic of skyscrapers, architecture and urbanism, so there is no reason to dismiss it as "non-notable". Uaxuctum 05:10, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

OK, I've just read your justification. Anyway, I do not agree, I think you should change the speedy deletion into a Request for Deletion. SSC is a notable forum among those dealing with the topics it deals and has a wide worldwide user-base, so there are arguments in favor of keeping it that I think merit at least discussion. Uaxuctum 05:17, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Sanjeev Murali Mohan

Am creating this page and will be updating it shortly. Is meant to be humorous, but if its not suitable, kindly go ahead and delete the same. Ramanbnv

Joanie4Jackie

Dear Bladeswin:

I have just barely finished typing and you have already selected this article for deletion. It must have been up for all of ten seconds, I'm suprised you even had time to read it. I would object to your deleting this article on the grounds that several notable women filmmakers were involved with it: Miranda July, Sarah Jacobson, Lisa Hammer, G.B. Jones and Tammy Rae Carland. All these women have pages on Wikipedia: it follows that if they are notable, so is their work, especially on a collaborative project of this scope, ranging over a period of years.

I would like to know why you consider this page deleteable and I would also like the opinion of a few other administrators who, I believe, would find this subject notable.

Intheshadows 03:21, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for your reply. I appreciate your response and do understand that there must be many "junk" pages to edit on Wikipedia. I wasn't aware there was a 'New Pages' section, which explains a lot. Good luck with your work on Wikipedia!

Intheshadows 07:02, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

Psyber

Greetings Bladeswin

Responding to your request to delete the Psyber terminology that is a part of the Cyberpunk and online community terminology.

Being new here and seeing other terms here such as Cyber, Cyberspace, noobs and such, which is all tied in with the Cyberpunk and online community and subculture, I felt Psyber which is a structured term involved with this online society would be a valid input to be tied in with the Cyberpunk terminology and structure that exists here in the Wikipedia

I followed the instructions to contest deletion, however if I have “broken” any rules it is not intentionally.

Your original comment for deletion is, that this is not a dictionary, I have modified the Psyber to reflect how it is tied in with the Cyberpunk grouping so as to better fit your formatting requests, Though I am not completely sure what your formatting requirements are.

Any feed back on this would be helpful to help comply with your requirements for me to contribute to the Wikipedia. Thanks.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Psyberwolf (talk • contribs)

SmartDraw

I was wondering if you could clarify why you marked our SmartDraw article as not notable. I realize any editor at Wikipedia has to go through a lot of noise and junk to keep Wikipedia clean, but I don't think SmartDraw is any different than many other articles written about technical software. SmartDraw has been around for 12 years innovating different ways to allow regular business users to draw diagrams without technical or designer know how.

We've added references to some reviews of the older versions of the product and hopefully we will have some new reviews shortly. Just recently the US Department of Justice adopted SmartDraw Legal as their standard diagramming software. More than 10 million people have downloaded SmartDraw. SmartDraw's article is similar to pages like Visio and ConceptDraw as it discusses a specific software with its unique set of tools in a large and growing industry. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Egaal (talk • contribs)

Well...I'm no expert on notability but I suspect that it is not notable. I'm yet to find a single source that is not a secondary resource - with the exception of the smartdraw website and select few others with financial reasons to endorse and market this program. Everything seems to point back there. The point of origin for the statistics seems to be the smartdraw homepage's press releases. The US DOJ adopted Smartdraw Legal as their "standard diagramming software"? I'm not so sure as Egaal. Sure, they supposedly own a lot of licenses for it but who says they paid for them? Ten million product downloads. Free products are products too! Maybe that's 99.99% of their product downloads - upgrades, trial versions, compos etc. Ten million downloads doesn't mean ten million people have purchased licenses. "More than 10 million people" Why write this on your page? Because, you apparently marked the article as not notable and I think you were probably right. I've seen the work you've done on some other articles and I wonder if you have some brilliant idea about how to determine for once and for all... "Is Smartdraw notable? Is the smartdraw article written with a neutral point of view? Are the claims all verifiable?" and so on. Anyway thanks in advance. Really I don't have the commitment or motivation to work on wikipedia articles but this one is rather interesting. I look forward to hearing your thoughts. SneakyWho am i 07:45, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Stubs (derived from Beau Taylor edit)

Hello,

Thank you for your stub submission. You may wish to note that it is preferable to use a stub template from Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types instead of using simply {{stub}}, if you can.

Thanks! Ksbrown 18:34, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

User:Samsantiago

I saw that you prodded a number of articles by this fellow, all of which look to me like spam. Mind if I ask why you did not tag them db-spam? I started to, but you beat me to the punch. I think the prod is a waste of time, simply because the article's cannot be improved---they are just blatant advertising. ---Charles 05:29, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

To be honest, I didn't think ad was appropriate. It wasn't advertisement for a book far as I could find (google searched one of the titles got nothing), and it wasn't a bio because of the byline. It was Original Research however, which is specifically mentioned in Criteria for Non-Speedying as not a reason for speedying, but prodding. Therefore since I had (in my mind) eliminated speedying as an option, all that was left was prod. - Jake - Bladeswin | Talk to me | 05:32, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

Ok, I guess it was just an assumption on my part that he was shilling for a book---those titles sound very much like book titles. I certainly meant no offense in asking the question. The sooner the articles are gone, the better. Thanks for your response. ---Charles 05:35, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

No prob. I wanted them gone too. I patrol Newpages more recently than I used to. I still have to figure out the best was to deal with garbage. - Bladeswin | Talk to me | 05:36, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

It can be damn frustrating, I will tell you that. I have been doing newpages patrol for quite some time now, and it can be infuriating. At other times, it is amusing. My advice would be not to lose your mind. Cheers! ---Charles 05:43, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. Always is frustrating to get edit conflicts! But...at least it shows that others care about newpages too. - J - Bladeswin | Talk to me | 05:45, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

Ice Hockey Project discussion of hockey player notability and project scope

Please come join the WikiProject Ice Hockey Notability standards for hockey players discussion. I'd like to see input from all our project members who have an opinion. Thanks! ColtsScore 00:19, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Dear Bladeswin

Dear Bladeswin, I commend your zeal when searching for possible Candidates for Speedy Deletion. I friendly, and kindly suggest you, tho, to be a little more careful by checking what links to a potential candidate. You tagged Portal:Caribbean/Selected music/Layout as a test page, and thus, Portal:Caribbean and all its Music subpages showed up at WP:CSD. Like I said, I truly, really thank you for your obvious enthusiasm and work, and this is just a friend's advice :) Keep up the good work! Regards, Phaedriel - 06:20, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Ugh

Please stop tampering with the Senate elections in 2008 by calling them bias, or you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Politics rulePolitics rule 20:55, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

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Re: Message

Wow, I almost forgot you messaged me on here. I had no idea that the school uses the Wikipedia page. I have been doing ok. Classes are starting up once again and this semester is going to be a little tough for me but I'll survive. How have you been? Douglasr007 19:21, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #16

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Newsletter/Archive 16}} ♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 03:50, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #17

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Newsletter/Archive 17}} ♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 02:43, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #18

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Newsletter/Archive 18}} ♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 03:32, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #19

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Newsletter/Archive 19}} ♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 03:31, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #20

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Newsletter/Archive 20}} ♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 05:12, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (Image:DSBCCLogo.gif)

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Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #21

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Newsletter/Archive 21}} ♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 03:56, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #22

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Number 22, November 2, 2008

The Hurricane Herald

This is the monthly newsletter of WikiProject Tropical Cyclones. The Hurricane Herald aims to give a summary, both of the activities of the WikiProject and global tropical cyclone activity. If you wish to change how you receive this newsletter, or no longer wish to receive it, please add your username to the appropriate section on the mailing list. This newsletter covers all of October 2008.

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{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Newsletter/box-header}} Storm of the month

Deep Depression ARB 02 caused the 2008 Yemen floods. On October 19 the IMD noted that an area of low pressure which located to the south east of Salalah, Oman had intensifed in to a tropical depression and was assigned the number ARB 02. On October 21 IMD updated the system to a Deep Depression while it lay 700 km south of Salalah, Oman near the east coast of Somalia. It lost its strength while crossing the Gulf of Aden due to entry of dry air and land interaction as it passed close to the northeastern coast of Somalia. It later was downgraded to a Depression, named TC 03B by the JTWC. On October 24 it made landfall on the south-eastern coast of Yemen, leaving at least 26 civilians and six soldiers dead while trapping hundreds of people due to flooding and torrential rainfalls. The latest figure of casualties is of 184 persons dead and 100 others missing, mostly from the region of Hadhramawt, where the storm made landfall. A total of 733 houses were destroyed in the governorates of Hadhramaut and Al Mahrah, while 22,000 people were displaced. The Yemeni Government declared the two aforementioned governorates as disaster zones.

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Newsletter/box-header}} Other tropical cyclone activity

• Atlantic Ocean– In the Atlantic, four tropical cyclones formed this October. Tropical Storm Marco formed in the Bay of Campeche on October 6. It made landfall on October 8 and is one of the smallest Atlantic tropical cyclones since 1988. Tropical Storm Nana formed October 12 in the middle of the open Atlantic. It had no impact anywhere and dissipated October 14. Hurricane Omar formed October 13 and dissipated October 18. Eventually peaking as a Category 4 hurricane, Omar passed through the Lesser Antilles twice, including once near peak intensity. Fortunately, it caused only one indirect death. Tropical Depression Sixteen formed on October 16 and dissipated two days later after making landfall. It killed 16 to 20 people in Central America.

• Eastern Pacific Ocean– In the eastern north Pacific, three tropical cyclones formed this October. Hurricane Norbert formed October 3 and dissipated October 12. The strongest storm thus far this season, Norbert is the first hurricane to strike the west coast of the Baja California Peninsula since 1968. Eight deaths have been blamed on the hurricane.. Tropical Storm Odile formed October 8 and paralleled the coast of Mexico before dissipating on October 12. Tropical Depression Seventeen-E formed on October 23 and dissipated the next day without impacting land.

• Western Pacific Ocean– In the western north Pacific, two tropical cyclones formed. Tropical Storm Bavi formed October 18 in the open Pacific. It never came near land and dissipated three days later. Tropical Depression Twenty Two-W formed on October 13 in the Gulf of Tonkin and made landfall on October 15. It dissipated inland the next day.

• North Indian– In the northern Indian Ocean, two cyclones formed. Besides Deep Depression ARB 02, which caused flooding that killed 184 people in Yemen, Cyclonic Storm Rashmi formed October 25 and made landfall three days later. It killed two people.

• South-West Indian – The 2008-09 South West Indian Ocean Season got off to an early start with two pre season zones of disturbed weather. The first zone of disturbed weather formed on October 6 and did not develop any further. Whilst the second zone of disturbed weather formed on October 16 and developed in to Moderate Tropical Storm Asma.

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Newsletter/box-header}} Member of the month

Cyclone barnstar

Cyclone barnstar

The October member of the month is Hurricanehink. Since joining the project near its inception, Hurricanehink has been involved in bringing forty two articles, eighteen lists and six topics to featured status. Just this month, Hurricanehink was mentioned in the Signpost Dispatch. Hurricanehink has also been the regular distributor for this newsletter.

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Newsletter/box-header}} New members

• Izmir2
• Emarsee
• HairyPerry
• Dylan620
• Yellow Evan

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Newsletter/box-header}} New and improved articles

• There were new pieces of Featured content : Timeline of the 2007 Pacific hurricane season, Tropical Storm Hanna (2002), Timeline of the 2006 Pacific hurricane season
• New Good articles include: Hurricane Hernan (2008), Effects of Tropical Storm Allison in Texas, Hurricane Joyce (2000), Hurricane Elida (2008), Tropical Storm Lester (2004), Tropical Storm Arlene (1959), Tropical Storm Rosa (2006), Cyclone Daman, Hurricane Donna, Hurricane Rosa (1994), 1994 Pacific hurricane season, Hurricane Fern (1971)
• New storm articles include: Tropical Storm Dora (2005), Tropical Storm Karina (2008), Hurricane Norbert (2008), Cyclone Cliff, Tropical Storm Arlene (1959), Tropical Storm Rosa (2006), Hurricane Otis (2005), Tropical Storm Kika (2008), Cyclone Elisa (2008), Tropical Storm Lidia (2005), Tropical Depression Fifteen (2007), Tropical Depression Seven (2002)
• New non-storm articles include: 1966 Pacific hurricane season, 1854 Atlantic hurricane season, Timeline of the 2003 Pacific hurricane season, 2009 North Indian Ocean cyclone season

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Newsletter/box-header}} Main Page content

• Entries from articles: Tropical Storm Lester (2004), Hurricane Rosa (1994), Tropical Storm Kirsten (1966), 1854 Atlantic hurricane season appeared on the Main Page in the Did you know column during October.
• Meteorological History of Hurricane Wilma appeared as Today's Featured Article on October 26.
• 2008 Yemen floods, caused by Deep Depression ARB 02, appeared on the Main Page in the In the News section.

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Newsletter/box-header}} Storm article statistics

Template:Chembox header colspan=1 | Grade	Template:Chembox header colspan=1 | Jul	Template:Chembox header colspan=1 | Aug	Template:Chembox header colspan=1 | Sep	Template:Chembox header colspan=1 | Oct
class="assess-fa " style="color:inherit; background: Template:Class/colour; text-align: center; " | Template:Class/icon FA	42	46	47	48
class="assess-a " style="color:inherit; background: Template:Class/colour; text-align:center; " | Template:Class/icon A	18	18	19	19
class="assess-ga " style="color:inherit; background: Template:Class/colour; text-align: center; " | Template:Class/icon GA	139	145	161	187
class="assess-b " style="color:inherit; background: Template:Class/colour; text-align: center; " | B	15	14	17	12
class="assess-c " style="color:inherit; background: Template:Class/colour; text-align: center; " | C	98	99	107	113
class="assess-start " style="color:inherit; background: Template:Class/colour; text-align: center; " | Start	202	197	201	201
class="assess-stub " style="color:inherit; background: Template:Class/colour; text-align: center; " | Stub	10	15	19	20
Template:Chembox header colspan=1 | Total	Template:Chembox header colspan=1 | 524	Template:Chembox header colspan=1 | 537	Template:Chembox header colspan=1 | 571	Template:Chembox header colspan=1 | 600
Template:Chembox header colspan=1 | ω	Template:Chembox header colspan=1 | 2.94	Template:Chembox header colspan=1 | 2.92	Template:Chembox header colspan=1 | 2.92	Template:Chembox header colspan=1 | 2.88
percentage ≥Less than C	40.5	39.5	38.5	36.8
percentage ≥GA or better	38.0	39.3	39.8	42.3

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Project News
A discussion concerning sandboxes for next year's articles has begun. Please consider working on sandboxes so they will be ready to publish. As tropical cyclones can form at any time in the western Pacific and northern Indian Oceans, these two season's should be made ready for cyclones by December. Ideally, due to the possibility of pre-season storms, the eastern Pacific and Atlantic seasons should also be ready by then, but they should at least be ready by the northern-Hemisphere antipeak in late February and early March. Seasons for the years 2010 to 2015 should be given the name "Post-2009 {ocean name} {cyclone term} seasons", as in "Post 2009 Atlantic hurricane seasons".

A category for tropical cyclone articles of very-low importance has been introduced. Although discussion is still ongoing, a rating of very-low-importance will generally be given to weak cyclones that do not have impact or set any sort of record.

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Newsletter/box-header}} Editorial
This month, our usual editor, Hurricanehink, has been on a semi-wikibreak until further notice. I am filling in as editor and distributor on an interim basis. The newsletter will continue as normal during that time. Thank you. Miss Madeline | Talk to Madeline 00:49, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

Miss Madeline | Talk to Madeline 01:02, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #23

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Newsletter/Archive 23}} –Juliancolton ^{Tropical Cyclone} 02:53, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #24

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Newsletter/Archive 24}}Jason Rees (talk) 01:01, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #25

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Newsletter/Archive 25}} Jason Rees (talk) 01:17, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

Tropical cyclone WikiProject newsletter #26

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Number 23, June 7

The Hurricane Herald

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{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Newsletter/box-header}} Storm of the month

File:SCS Aila at peak intensity.jpg

Cyclone Aila near landfall

Cyclone Aila was the second tropical cyclone to form within the Northern Indian Ocean during 2009. The disturbance that was to become Cyclone Aila formed on 21 May 2009 about to the south of Kolkata, in India. Over the next couple of days the disturbance slowly developed before a Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert was issued by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center early on 23 May 2009 and being designated as a depression by RSMC New Delhi. since 27 May 2009Template:Dated maintenance category (articles), 330 people have been killed by Aila and at least 8,208 more are missing, while about 1 million are homeless. Health officials in Bangladesh confirmed a deadly outbreak on diarrhea on 29 May, with more than 7,000 people being infected and four dying. In Bangladesh, an estimated 20 million people were at risk of post-disaster diseases due to Aila. Damage totaled $40.7 million (USD).

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Newsletter/box-header}} Other tropical cyclone activity

• North Atlantic

Tropical Depression One was the first tropical cyclone to develop during the 2009 Atlantic hurricane season. The depression formed on May 28, out of a disorganized area of low pressure off the coast of North Carolina. However after attaining its peak strength the depression began to weaken due to increasing wind shear and cooling sea surface temperatures with the final advisory being issued on May 29.

• 2009 Pacific typhoon season - In the two month period, there were four tropical cyclones, all within a short time period and small area. Tropical Depression Crising moved through the Philippines but didn't develop. Typhoon Kujira formed over the Philippines, causing 29 deaths and almost $30 million in damage, before becoming the equivalent of a Category 4 hurricane. While Kujira was active, a tropical depression formed and dissipated over the open ocean, while Typhoon Chan-hom developed and organized in the South China Sea, eventually crossing Luzon and causing 60 deaths and heavy damage.
• North Indian - Aside from Aila, Cyclone Bijli formed in April, making landfall on Bangladesh and killing 7 people.
• South Indian– Cyclone Jade was the final Cyclone to form. Jade formed on April 5th from a tropical disturbance it quickly intensifed and bcame a category one tropical cyclone on the SSHS before making its first of three landfalls on Madagascar. Jade then dissipated on April 11 after causing fifteen deaths.
• Australian Region - Cyclone Kirrly formed on April 25 in the Arafura Sea to the north of Australia within 5 degrees of the equator which is an unusual area of formation. It quickly reached its peak before making landfall on eastern Indonesia.
• South Pacific - As the last newsletter was published Tropical Cyclone Lin was just devloping as Tropical depression 14F. Lin eventually went on to affect Fiji and Tonga causing at least $1000 worth of damage. Tropical Disturbance 15F also formed this month within the Solomon Islands. It moved eventually moved into the Australian Region but was not monitored by TCWC Brisbane as anything higher than an area of low pressure.

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Newsletter/box-header}} Member of the month

Cyclone barnstar

Cyclone barnstar

The member of the month is Jason Rees, who joined Wikipedia in 2007, and has written nine tropical cyclone GA's. Jason primarily focuses on Southern Hemisphere storms, as well as the Western Pacific. He has plans for featured topics for several seasons, but for now, he is a regular member of the project who adds his input in discussions on the talk page. We thank Jason for his work, and we look forward to more articles!

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Newsletter/box-header}} New members

• User:Kyle1278
• User:Bbabybear02
• User:Darren23

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Newsletter/box-header}} New and improved articles

• There were no new pieces of Featured content
• New Good articles include: 1973 Pacific hurricane season, Hurricane Kiko (1989), Tropical Storm Carlos (2003)
• New storm articles include: Hurricane Dalilia (1989), Typhoon Wipha (2007)
• New non-storm articles include: 1972 Hurricane Agnes tornado outbreak, Meteorological history of Hurricane Luis, Effects of Hurricane Georges in Louisiana, Timeline of the 2002 Pacific hurricane season

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Newsletter/box-header}} Main Page content

• Hurricane Ismael was Today's Featured Article on April 25
• Facts from the 1924 Cuba hurricane, Hurricane Lily (1971), Hurricane Tara (1961), and Hurricane Cora (1978) appeared in the Did You Know? section of the Main Page during April and May.
• Typhoon Chan-hom (2009) and Cyclone Aila appeared on the Main Page in the In the News section.

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Newsletter/box-header}} Storm article statistics

Template:Chembox header colspan=1 | Grade	Template:Chembox header colspan=1 | Sep	Template:Chembox header colspan=1 | Oct	Template:Chembox header colspan=1 | Nov	Template:Chembox header colspan=1 | Dec
class="assess-fa " style="color:inherit; background: Template:Class/colour; text-align: center; " | Template:Class/icon FA	47	49	49	50
class="assess-a " style="color:inherit; background: Template:Class/colour; text-align:center; " | Template:Class/icon A	19	19	19	19
class="assess-ga " style="color:inherit; background: Template:Class/colour; text-align: center; " | Template:Class/icon GA	161	187	198	202
class="assess-b " style="color:inherit; background: Template:Class/colour; text-align: center; " | B	17	13	21	22
class="assess-c " style="color:inherit; background: Template:Class/colour; text-align: center; " | C	107	119	118	122
class="assess-start " style="color:inherit; background: Template:Class/colour; text-align: center; " | Start	201	204	210	210
class="assess-stub " style="color:inherit; background: Template:Class/colour; text-align: center; " | Stub	19	19	16	17
Template:Chembox header colspan=1 | Total	Template:Chembox header colspan=1 | 571	Template:Chembox header colspan=1 | 613	Template:Chembox header colspan=1 | 631	Template:Chembox header colspan=1 | 642
Template:Chembox header colspan=1 | ω	Template:Chembox header colspan=1 | 2.92	Template:Chembox header colspan=1 | 2.88	Template:Chembox header colspan=1 | 2.87	Template:Chembox header colspan=1 | 2.87
percentage ≥Less than C	38.5	36.4	35.8	35.4
percentage ≥GA or better	39.8	42.1	42.2	42.2

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Project News
There is debate as usual with regards to notability, as well as the status of the project in general, but nothing new is going on.

During the last week, some editors have organized a page — Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Viewed stats — that has a listing of monthly page views within the project. It is under construction, although it is complete for all Eastern Pacific tropical cyclones, as well as all Atlantic tropical cyclones from 1979 to the present. Interestingly, the top 6 viewed EPAC articles are all featured, and all of the top 16 in the basin are GA's. Unfortunately, the Atlantic, at least from 1979 to the present, is much worse, despite being viewed much, much more. The top eight-viewed Atlantic articles all are viewed more than 10,000 times per month, for a total of 363889 views per month, but only two of them are featured, and none of the others are GA. As always, any help in the retired storms would be greatly appreciated.

Somewhat tying into the bettering of project articles, the basin article challenge is still ongoing. Hurricanehink is currently in the lead with a GA in 2 basins. Cyclonebiskit is in 2nd, with one GA in the EPAC. The challenge is still open to anyone, and it is not so much a race, rather a challenge just to get a fairly important GA in each basin.

Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #27

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Newsletter/Archive 27}} –Juliancolton | ^Talk 02:06, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #28

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Newsletter/Archive 28}} –Juliancolton | ^Talk 02:55, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #29

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Newsletter/Archive 29}} JCbot (talk) 14:11, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

The WikiProject Tropical Cyclones Newsletter #31

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Number 31, September 10, 2010

The Hurricane Herald

This is the monthly newsletter of WikiProject Tropical Cyclones. The Hurricane Herald aims to give a summary, both of the activities of the WikiProject and global tropical cyclone activity. If you wish to change how you receive this newsletter, or no longer wish to receive it, please add your username to the appropriate section on the mailing list. This newsletter covers all of August 2010.

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{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Newsletter/box-header}} Storm of the month
Hurricane Frank is the storm of the Month.

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Hurricane Frank

Tropical Depression Nine-E formed on August 21 south of the Gulf of Tehuantepec. It developed into a tropical storm the following morning. On August 23, Frank continued to intensify, but later faced shear and entered a period of weakening. However, on August 24, as shear decreased, it began to reorganize and strengthen again, becoming a hurricane on August 25. Two days later, Frank weakened into a tropical storm. Rapidly weakening overnight, NHC issued that it have been degraded into an remnant low. The area of low pressure associated with Frank was absorbed with another area of disturbed weather which later developed into Tropical Depression Ten-E.

Throughout Central America, Hurricane Frank produced torrential rain that resulted in at least 30 fatalities, most of which took place in Nicaragua and Honduras. In Guatemala alone, damage from the system was estimated to be up to $500 million. In Mexico, six deaths were reported. A total 30 homes were destroyed with 26 others damaged. Two major roads were damaged with another road blocked due to a landslides. Several rivers overflowed their banks as well. Losses from the storms totaled millions of dollars. Water Currents form a nearby volcano were damaged as well.

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Newsletter/box-header}} Other tropical cyclone activity

• Atlantic Ocean– In the Atlantic Ocean, around three storms and one depression formed. Tropical Depression Four early on August 2. Early the next day, the depression strengthened further into a tropical storm and was named "Colin". Tropical Storm Colin was downgraded to a tropical depression late morning on August 8. Tropical Depression 5 formed on August 10, with no improvement, it dissipated within 24 hours. Tropical Depression Six developed near the Cape Verde Islands on August 21, the first of the series of Cape Verde-type storms. On August 22 the system attained tropical storm status, thus earning the name "Danielle" The next day it attained hurricane status, becoming the second of the season and strengthened further to a Category 2 hurricane. On August 27, Hurricane Danielle strengthened to a Category 3 hurricane, becoming the first major hurricane of the season, and further strengthened to a Category 4 hurricane shortly after.Danielle later weakened to a Category 3, then Category 2 hurricane, and later became a Category 1 Hurricane due to an eyewall replacement cycle, while avoiding land areas. It became extratropical early on August 31 southeast of Newfoundland without having directly impacted land. It was fully absorbed by a larger extratropical low on September 4 over Greenland. On August 25, Tropical Depression 7 formed east of Hurricane Danielle. Later that day it was upgraded to Tropical Storm Earl. On August 29, 2010 Earl strengthened to become the season's third hurricane. Earl then quickly intensified to become the season's second major hurricane on August 30. The hurricane weakened to a Category 3 hurricane after an eyewall replacement cycle before becoming a Category 4 again. Earl made landfall in the Canadian Maritime Provinces, twice in Nova Scotia and once in Prince Edward Island (PEI) at hurricane intensity. On August 30, when gale-force winds and better organization resulted in the development of Tropical Storm Fiona, skipping tropical depression status. It struggled to develop further, however, as it was hindered by high wind shear from the outflow of the much larger and stronger Earl.

• Eastern Pacific Ocean– Three depressions formed in the Month of August. A tropical depression formed on August 5. slowly intensified, reaching tropical storm status on August 6. On August 9, it was downgraded into a tropical depression. On August 10th Estelle dissipated. Tropical Depression Eight-E formed on August 20. However, the depression weakened slightly overnight. The depression continued to weaken and the National Hurricane Center issued its final advisory on August 22. Tropical Depression Nine-E formed on August 21 south of the Gulf of Tehuantepec. It developed into a tropical storm the following morning. On August 25 it became a hurricane. Two days later, Frank weakened into a tropical storm. Rapidly weakening overnight, NHC issued that it have been degraded into an remnant low. Throughout Central America, Hurricane Frank produced torrential rain that resulted in at least 30 fatalities, most of which took place in Nicaragua and Honduras. In Guatemala alone, damage from the system was estimated to be up to $500 million. In Mexico, six deaths were reported. A total 30 homes were destroyed with 26 others damaged. Two major roads were damaged with another road blocked due to a landslides. Several rivers overflowed their banks as well. Losses from the storms totaled millions of dollars. Water Currents form a nearby volcano were damaged as well.

• Western Pacific Ocean– Eight depression formed in the Month of August. Early on August 4, After Domeng, had merged with the low pressure area PAGASA reported that Domeng had intensified into a tropical storm and reached its 10-minute peak sustained windspeeds of 65 km/h (40 mph). In Luzon, heavy rain produced by the storm led to a few landslides, prompting road closures. Offshore, three people drowned after their boat capsized amidst rough seas produced by Domeng. Later that day PAGASA reported that Domeng had weakened into a tropical depression, before reporting early the next day that after it had passed through the Babuyan Islands, Domeng had weakened into an area of low pressure. Early on August 6, the JTWC reported that a tropical disturbance formed within the monsoon gyre about 800 km (500 mi) southeast of Taipei, Taiwan. During that day the JMA started to monitor the depression before the JTWC designated it as Tropical Depression 05W. The depression was then upgraded into a tropical storm by the JMA and named "Dianmu". After moving northward for several days, it turned northeastward and struck southern South Korea. Dianmu weakened as it crossed the Korean peninsula and emerged into the Sea of Japan. Heavy rains produced by the storm resulted in one fatality after a cargo ship sank amidst rough seas produced by the storm. This marked the first time in nine years that a rain-related fatality took place in the capital city of Seoul. More than 3,000 homes were destroyed in eastern China after heavy rains from the outer bands of Dianmu struck the region. The storm made landfall on Japan; exiting the country within five hours. Heavy rains were reported through out the islands. Nearly a week after the two ships sank off the coast of the Philippines, 31 crew members remain missing and are presumed dead after numerous coast guard rescue attempts. Damage from the storm on Jeju Island amounted to 5 billion won ($4.2 million USD). Early on August 17, an area of low pressure formed about 415 km (260 mi), northeast of Tuguegarao City, Cagayan. On the evening of August 18, as it crossed Babuyan Islands, the disturbance's low level center (LLC) weakened due to land interaction and high vertical wind shear. It regenerated on August 20 when it was located about 280 km (175 miles), to the west of Dagupan City, Pangasinan. Early on the next day, the LLCC of the disturbance became partially exposed due to a Tropical Upper Tropospheric Trough (TUTT) that was developing off Luzon at that time. On the afternoon of that day, Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) upgraded the system into a tropical depression. The next day, they further upgraded the depression into a tropical storm and named it "Mindulle". At the same time, the JTWC reported that Tropical Depression 06W has intensified into a tropical storm. Thousands of fishermen were urged to return to port. According to Vietnamese officials, contact was lost with 10 vessels on August 24 and the 137 fishermen on the ships were listed as missing. Rainfall, peaking at 297 mm (11.7 in),[59] led to significant flooding and agricultural losses. A Tropical depression formed on August 26, it survived for three days with no change in strength. it rapidly traveled northwest and dissipated on August 29. On August 28, the JMA upgraded the system to a Tropical Storm and was named "Lionrock". Early of september 1, Lionrock made a Fujiwhara effect with Namtheun, whilst Lionrock maintained it's strength while Namtheun was absorbed. Lionrock made landfall on the east coast of Guangdong Province, China, just north of the city of Shantou. It then started to dissipate and weaken into a tropical storm and moved over Guangzhou, Guangdong's capital. Lionrock soon lost it's intensity as it went over Guangdong. Midday of August 29, the Joint Typhoon Warning Centre (JTWC) issued a Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert (TCFA) on the system as a Low Level Circulation Centre had become organized. On the morning of that same day, the JTWC announced that the system had quickly developed into a tropical storm and assigned the designation "08W". Intensification continued, then by midday of August 30, the JMA reported that the depression had intensified into a tropical storm and assigned it the international designation "Kompasu". In addition, PAGASA also announced that the low pressure in the northeast of Batanes had formed and assigned it a local name, "Glenda". At the same time, the JTWC also upgraded Kompasu into a category 1 typhoon. On the next day, Kompasu crossed the island of Kadena and rapidly intensified into a category 2 typhoon equivalent. On September 1, Kompasu was upgraded by JTWC as a category 3 typhoon equivalent, becoming the strongest typhoon of the season. The storm later weakened to a category one typhoon in the Yellow Sea, before veering northeast and making landfall on Ganghwa Island, northwest of Incheon and Seoul, killing at least four people.[61] Kompasu was the strongest tropical storm to hit the Seoul metropolitan area in 15 years. On August 27, an extensive cloud formed in the waters east of Taiwan. On August 28, it developed into a low pressure. At 18:00, near Yaeyama Islands, the Japan Meteorological Agency upgraded the low pressure into a tropical depression. There were two tropical cyclones developing on both sides of 09W (namely Lionrock and Kompasu), and Typhoon Kompasu had a relatively stronger intensity, causing 09W moved southwest to Taiwan Strait. On August 30, it caused heavy rain in northern Taiwan. Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau could only issue a tropical depression warning since it had not strengthened to a tropical storm. At 20:00, 09W suddenly intensified into a tropical storm, and was named Namtheun. However, due to the development of another stronger tropical storm Lionrock at South China Sea, the increase of intensity of Namtheun was difficult. In the evening hours of August 31, Namtheun weakened into a tropical depression north of Taiwan Strait. Whilst Lionrock maintained it's strength while Namtheun was absorbed. Late on August 28, the Central Pacific Hurricane Center reported that an area of low pressure system associated with a tropical disturbance had developed about 1,000 mi (1,600 km) to the southwest of Honolulu in Hawaii. Isolated thunderstorms were developing in association with the small low-level circulation. During the next day the disturbance moved towards the west and moved into the western Pacific where the JMA immediately designated it as a tropical depression. The depression was expected to bring inclement weather to Majauro and nearby atolls, although the system significantly weakened before reaching the area.

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Newsletter/box-header}} Member of the month

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The October member of the month is CrazyC83. Since joining the project near its inception, CrazyC83 has been involved in bringing twenty two articles to Good Article status and one article to Featured Article Status. Not only this, he is been working with the [[2010 Atlantic hurricane season 24/7. Our Favorite member Jason Rees looks like he has gone on a short break with the west, but he still continues with the east.

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Newsletter/box-header}} New members

• Marcusmax
• Nascar1996
• Knowledgekid87
• Pookeo9
• Cucurbitaceae
• Anirudh Emani

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Newsletter/box-header}} New and improved articles

• Hurricane Edith (1963)
• Timeline of the 1990–91 South Pacific cyclone season
• Timeline of the 1989–90 South Pacific cyclone season
• Timeline of the 2003–04 South Pacific cyclone season
• 1776 Pointe-à-Pitre hurricane
• Typhoon Linda (1997)
• Tropical Storm Irma (1978)
• Hurricane Fernanda (1993)
• Tropical Depression One (1993)
• Tropical Storm Laura (1971)
• Tropical Depression Sixteen-E (2004)
• Cyclone Clare
• Hurricane Debbie (1969)
• Hurricane Inga (1969)
• Typhoon Angela (1989)
• Hurricane Paine (1986)‎
• Tropical Storm Alice (1953)

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Newsletter/box-header}} Storm Basics

• A tropical cyclone is a storm system characterized by a large low-pressure center and numerous thunderstorms that produce strong winds and heavy rain.
• While tropical cyclones can produce extremely powerful winds and torrential rain, they are also able to produce high waves and damaging storm surge as well as spawning tornadoes.
• The term "tropical" refers to both the geographic origin of these systems, which form almost exclusively in tropical regions of the globe, and their formation in maritime tropical air masses.
• Many tropical cyclones develop when the atmospheric conditions around a weak disturbance in the atmosphere are favorable. The background environment is modulated by climatological cycles and patterns such as the Madden-Julian oscillation, El Niño-Southern Oscillation, and the Atlantic multidecadal oscillation.

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Newsletter/box-header}} Storm article statistics

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Project News
The Newsletter has been properly restarted by Anirudh Emani.

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Newsletter/box-header}} Editorial Member Award
This month the editorial member award has been disputed to CrazyC83 & Jason Rees. CrazyC83 has been working mainly with the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season while Jason Rees is working with the 2010 Pacific typhoon season. Jason has also created sandboxes for western Pacific Typhoons and North Indian ocean cyclones, Rashmi and Dianmu are a few good examples of this work. Anirudh Emani (talk) 08:35, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Newsletter/box-header}} Former Featured Articles

• Cyclone Tracy – October 18, 2004 TFA
• Galveston Hurricane of 1900 – April 16, 2005 TFA
• 2004 Atlantic hurricane season
• Hurricane Floyd – June 17, 2006 TFA
• Hurricane Katrina – September 29, 2006 TFA

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Newsletter/box-header}} Former Featured Pictures

• Image:Cyclone Gafilo.jpeg – August 6, 2006 POD
• Image:Global tropical cyclone tracks-edit2.jpg – October 3, 2006 POD
• Image:Felix from ISS 03 sept 2007 1138Z.jpg – July 18, 2008 POD
• Image:Hurricane Isabel 18 sept 2003 1555Z.jpg – September 18, 2008 POD
• Image:Hurricane Isabel eye from ISS (edit 1).jpg – September 18, 2009 POD
• Image:Hurricane Katrina Eye viewed from Hurricane Hunter.jpg – November 24, 2005 POD
• Image:KatrinaNewOrleansFlooded edit2.jpg – August 29, 2008 POD
• Image:Searching for bodies, Galveston 1900.ogg – September 8, 2009 POD
• Image:A big tip in Galveston2.jpg – September 8, 2010 POD
• Image:Effects of Hurricane Charley from FEMA Photo Library 7.jpg
• Image:ParmaMelor AMO TMO 2009279 lrg.jpg

Anirudh Emani (talk) 11:06, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

The WikiProject Tropical Cyclones Newsletter#32B

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Newsletter/Archive 32B}} --Anirudh Emani (talk) 10:11, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

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38th edition of The Hurricane Herald

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