Hi, Hurricanehink. I'm just posting to let you know that List of California tornadoes – a list that you have been heavily involved with – has been chosen to appear on the Main Page as Today's featured list for August 12. The TFL blurb can be seen here. If you have any thoughts on the selection, please post them on my talk page or at TFL talk. Regards, Giants2008 (Talk) 21:28, 19 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

When I was editing User:OhHaiMark/1980 Pacific typhoon season, I noticed that when I subsituted the values of the template on the section for Typhoon Dom, it didn't mention the warning center. Normally, it does something like Typhoon (JMA), but it doesn't seem like that's the case. OhHaiMark (talk) 16:56, 21 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Could you rate my current work on this endeavor if you have time? OhHaiMark (talk) 14:53, 14 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article 1937 Hong Kong typhoon you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Dora the Axe-plorer -- Dora the Axe-plorer (talk) 00:23, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations, Hurricanehink! The article you nominated, Hurricane Hilary, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best articles on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.

This is a rare accomplishment and you should be proud. If you would like, you may nominate it to appear on the Main page as Today's featured article. Keep up the great work! Cheers, FrB.TG (talk) via FACBot (talk) 19:50, 27 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Hurricanehink. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Climate of North America, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.

If the page has already been deleted, you can request it be undeleted so you can continue working on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 01:06, 28 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Hurricanehink. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Climate of Oceania, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 22:06, 28 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hey there Huricanehink (long time, no see!) I am currently working on Draft:List of Illinois tornadoes, and wanted to see if you wanted to help out (since you have experience in "List of ___ tornadoes" articles. It's quite a long list, and any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks! :) Sir MemeGod ._. (talk - contribs - created articles) 05:23, 31 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 12:05, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This is an alert being sent to all active editors on the WikiProject of Weather and any editor who has recently editors weather-related articles.

Editors on the Commons have received communication from the National Weather Service that the Template:PD-NWS, which is often used to upload weather-related images, is incorrect. There will be a discussion starting on the Commons Copyright Noticeboard within the next few days to determine how to manage this issue. Under the current PD-NWS copyright template, images on any NWS webpage was considered to be in the public domain unless it had a direct copyright symbol and/or copyright watermark.

One National Weather Service office has confirmed this is not the case. For the next few days, it may be best to not upload any image from an NWS webpage that was not made or taken directly by the National Weather Service themselves. Once the Commons determine how to move forward, editors will recent a new alert. The Weather Event Writer (Talk Page) 23:41, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I am going to append this additional warning to @WeatherWriter‘s message: the National Weather Service emailed @Rlandmann today and clarified that the upload process does NOT automatically release a photo/video into the public domain. I strongly advise you not to upload anything under a PD-NWS tag unless it is specifically produced by the weather service. West Virginia WXeditor (talk) 04:25, 10 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I know I probably shouldn’t be putting this here. But I don’t have any way of contacting the oversight team; so I’m requesting that you @Hurricanehink either revision delete or ask to suppress a couple versions of the Ghost town talk page. You’ll see which ones I’m referring to; but I don’t want to post which revisions on here publicly. West Virginia WXeditor (talk) 20:14, 2 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I will also further add that the potentially oversightable content had been in place from late February until earlier this evening when I removed it and left the message here. West Virginia WXeditor (talk) 04:43, 3 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Got it. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 20:05, 3 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The article 1937 Hong Kong typhoon you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:1937 Hong Kong typhoon for comments about the article, and Talk:1937 Hong Kong typhoon/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Dora the Axe-plorer -- Dora the Axe-plorer (talk) 12:26, 3 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Happy First Edit Day! Hi Hurricanehink! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of the day you made your first edit and became a Wikipedian! The Herald (Benison) (talk) 04:57, 11 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

1982 Pacific typhoon season has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 15:33, 11 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article 1937 Pacific typhoon season you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of TheNuggeteer -- TheNuggeteer (talk) 01:25, 15 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The article 1937 Pacific typhoon season you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:1937 Pacific typhoon season and Talk:1937 Pacific typhoon season/GA1 for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of TheNuggeteer -- TheNuggeteer (talk) 05:21, 15 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I am providing members of the WikiProject of Weather along with users who frequently edit weather-related articles an update to the discussions regarding the PD-NWS image copyright template.

For starters, no "formal" administrative-style rules have occurred. All that means is the template is not formally deprecated and is still in use. However, Rlandmann, an administrator on English Wikipedia, has begun an undertaking of reviewing and assessing all images (~1,400) that use the PD-NWS copyright template.

What we know:

• Following email communications, the National Weather Service of Sioux Falls has removed their disclaimer, which has been used for the PD-NWS template for decades. This means, as far as the National Weather Service is concerned, the following statement is no longer valid: By submitting images, you understand that your image is being released into the public domain. This means that your photo or video may be downloaded, copied, and used by others. Currently, the PD-NWS template links to an archived version of the disclaimer. However, the live version of the disclaimer no longer contains that phrase.
• See this deletion discussion for this point's information. NWS Paducah (1) failed to give attribution to a photographer of a tornado photograph, (2) placed the photo into the public domain without the photographer explicitly giving them permission to do so (i.e. the photo is not actually in the public domain), (3) and told users to acknowledge NWS as the source for information on the webpage. Oh, to note, this photographer is a magistrate (i.e. a judge). So, the idea of automatically trusting images without clear attribution on weather.gov are free-to-use is in question.
• The Wikimedia Commons has a process known as precautionary principle, where if their is significant doubt that an image is free-to-use, it will be deleted. Note, one PD-NWS file has been deleted under the precautionary principle. The closing administrator remarks for the deletion discussion were: "Per the precautionary principle, there is "significant doubt" about the public domain status of this file (4x keep + nominator, 5x delete), so I will delete it."
• Several photographs/images using the PD-NWS are currently mid-deletion discussion, all for various reasonings.
• As of this message, 250 PD-NWS images have been checked out of the ~1,400.
• The photograph of the 1974 Xenia tornado (File:Xenia tornado.jpg) was found to not be in the public domain. It is still free-to-use, but under a CC 2.0 license, which requires attribution. From April 2009 to August 2024, Wikipedia/Wikimedia was incorrectly (and by definition, illegally) using the photograph, as it was marked incorrectly as a public domain photograph.

Solutions:
As stated earlier, there is no "formal" rulings, so no "formal" changes have been made. However, there is a general consensus between editors on things which are safe to do:

• Images made directly by NWS employees can be uploaded and used under the new PD-USGov-NWS-employee template (Usage: {{PD-USGov-NWS-employee}} ). This is what a large number of PD-NWS templated images are being switched to.
• Images from the NOAA Damage Assessment Toolkit (DAT) can be uploaded and used under the PD-DAT template (Usage: {{PD-DAT}} ). A large number of images are also being switched to this template.

For now, you are still welcome to upload images under the PD-NWS template. However, if possible it is recommended using the two templates above. I will send out another update when new information is found or new "rulings" have been made. The Weather Event Writer (Talk Page) 03:28, 17 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I will add that there are a couple other safe templates such as PD-NEXRAD for radar images; and also the generic PD-USGov and PD-USGov-NOAA templates. West Virginia WXeditor (talk) 05:40, 17 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The article 1937 Pacific typhoon season you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:1937 Pacific typhoon season for comments about the article, and Talk:1937 Pacific typhoon season/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of TheNuggeteer -- TheNuggeteer (talk) 00:44, 18 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

If you see an unfamiliar username start commenting on future discussions. I am in the process of changing my username from WestVirginiaWX to Hurricane Clyde. West Virginia WXeditor (talk) 04:27, 18 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I just published the list that I’ve been intermittently working on for the past couple months. I got the list back to 2000; still needs work on tornadoes prior to then and on recent tornadoes that have occurred since I started making the list. 🌀 Hurricane Clyde 🌀 (talk) 22:11, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I hope this message finds you well. I was hoping that you would assist me in the preparation and processing of the FAC nomination. I wanted to nominate this article. I'll be on the lookout for your response Thank you. dxneo (talk) 17:17, 21 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure how, but your template changes on Talk:Hurricane Newton (1986) and Talk:Effects of Hurricane Isaac in Florida have broken the article history templates. Any idea what the issue might be? CMD (talk) 19:06, 23 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Huh. I tried to fix it by changing the date format and it didn't work for me, and look at this oldid, MDY working there fine. Oh well, it's working now, big mystery box. CMD (talk) 03:35, 24 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Hurricanehink. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or draft page you started, "Climate of South America".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material, the draft has been deleted. When you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz 00:10, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Hurricanehink. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or draft page you started, "Climate of Oceania".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material, the draft has been deleted. When you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz 20:53, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I just want to ask a question, how do you find the warning and info pages for typhoons? (Mostly the JTWC and JMA). Thanks, 🍗TheNuggeteer🍗 12:14, 27 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Hurricanehink, I was wondering if you could help us with the discussion on Joseph Barbera talk page. I didn't want to take this issue straight to the administrators' noticeboard. Whatsupkarren (talk) 20:07, 28 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The fourth round of the 2024 WikiCup ended on 29 August. Each of the 8 contestants who advanced to Round 4 scored at least 472 points, and the following contestants scored more than 700 points:

• Generalissima (submissions) with 1,150 points, mostly from 3 featured articles, 2 featured lists, 7 good articles, and 13 did you know nominations;
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• BennyOnTheLoose (submissions) with 714 points, mostly from 1 featured article on Susanna Hoffs, 2 featured lists, and 3 good articles.

Congratulations to our eight finalists and all who participated. Contestants put in extraordinary amounts of effort during this round, and their scores can be seen here. So far this year, competitors have gotten 36 featured articles, 55 featured lists, 15 good articles, 93 in the news credits, and at least 333 did you know credits. They have conducted 357 featured content reviews, as well as 553 good article reviews and peer reviews, and have added 30 articles to featured topics and good topics.

Any content promoted after 29 August but before the start of Round 5 can be claimed during Round 5, which starts on 1 September at 00:00 (UTC). Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. If two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether for a good article, featured content, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. Remember to claim your points within 14 days of earning them, and importantly, before the deadline on 31 October.

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I am providing members of the WikiProject of Weather along with users who frequently edit weather-related articles an new update (2nd update) to the discussions regarding the PD-NWS image copyright template.

On the Commons, an RFC discussion is taking place to figure out how to manage the template. No "formal" administrative-style rules have occurred, so nothing has changed. That is not a surprise as the RFC is still ongoing.

What is new?

• The entire Template:PD-NWS has been placed inside a "License Review" template, which is viewable via the link aforementioned.
• Most of the photographs which were uploaded to the Commons originally under the PD-NWS template (approximately 1,500) have been reviewed. Out of those ~1,500 images, only about 150 are requiring additional looks. Most images have been verified as free-to-use and switched to a respective, valid template.
• As of this moment, approximately 50 photos have been nominated for deletion (results pending).
• A handful of images have been deleted (either confirmed copyrighted or under the Commons precautionary principle.
• One image has been kept following a deletion request under the PD-NWS template.

How to deal with new photos?

Given all of this, you might be wondering how the heck you use weather photos while creating articles? Well, here is what you can do!

• If the photo was made by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (excluding NWS), You can upload it under the PD-NOAA template via {{PD-NOAA}}.
• If the photo was made by the National Weather Service (NOT Third Party), you can upload it using the new PD-NWS-employee template via {{PD-USGov-NWS-employee}}.
  • If the photo originates on the Damage Assessment Toolkit, you can upload it using the PD-DAT template via {{PD-DAT}}.
• If the photo is from a U.S. NEXRAD radar, you can upload it using the PD-NEXRAD template via via {{PD-NEXRAD}}.

What about third-party photos?

In the case of third-party photos...i.e. ones not taken by the National Weather Service themselves...there is an option which was discussed and confirmed to be valid from an English Wikipedia Administrator.

• KEY: Third party images of tornadoes & weather-related content can potentially be uploaded via Wikipedia's Non-Free Content Guidelines!
• Experiments/testing has been done already! In fact, I bet you couldn't tell the difference, but the tornado photograph used at the top of the 2011 Joplin tornado was already switched to a Non-Free File (NFF)! Check it out: File:Photograph of the 2011 Joplin tornado.jpeg! That photo's description can also be used as a template for future third-party tornado photographs uploaded to Wikipedia...with their respective information replaced.
• NFFs can be uploaded to multiple articles as well!
• The absolute key aspect of NFFs is that they relate to the article and are not decoration. For example with the Joplin tornado, the photograph: (1) shows the size of the tornado, (2) shows the "wall of darkness", which was described by witnesses, (3) shows a historic, non-repeatable event of the deadliest tornado in modern U.S. history. The exact reasoning does not have to be extremely specific as Wikipedia's NFF guidelines "is one of the most generous in the world" (words of Rlandmann (not pinged), the administrator reviewing all the PD-NWS template images).
• Tornado photographs will almost certainly qualify under the NFF guidelines, especially for tornadoes with standalone articles or standalone sections.
• NFFs cannot be used when a free-photograph is available, no matter the quality, unless the section is about that specific photograph. For example, the photograph used at the top of the 2013 Moore tornado article is confirmed to be free-to-use, therefore, no NFFs of that tornado can be uploaded on Wikipedia. However, the "Dead Man Walking" photograph could almost certainly be uploaded as an NFF to the 1997 Jarrell tornado article as that photograph is the topic of a section in the article.
• NFFs currently on Wikipedia can and should be placed in this category: Category:Non-free pictures of tornadoes.

Update Closing

Hopefully all of that information kept you informed on the Commons copyright discussion process and how you can still create the best articles possible! If you have a question about something mentioned above, reply back and I will do my best to answer it! Also, ping me in the process to ensure I see it! Have a good day! The Weather Event Writer (Talk Page) 00:59, 5 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Hurricanehink. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or draft page you started, "List of South Atlantic tropical and subtropical cyclones".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material, the draft has been deleted. When you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz 16:28, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Hurricane Dennis you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of JCMLuis -- JCMLuis (talk) 22:03, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I saw that you weren't active on Wikipedia since 2 September, so I decided to complete most of the tasks in the nomination since I did not want it to fail due to inactivity. You're welcome! _ZZ'S 00:04, 7 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The article Hurricane Dennis you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Hurricane Dennis and Talk:Hurricane Dennis/GA1 for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of JCMLuis -- JCMLuis (talk) 14:24, 7 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The article Hurricane Dennis you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Hurricane Dennis for comments about the article, and Talk:Hurricane Dennis/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of JCMLuis -- JCMLuis (talk) 22:44, 7 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

1943 Mazatlán hurricane has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. OhHaiMark (talk) 21:58, 8 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Since we are proposing a lot of mergers, here are a few others that might be worth considering

• Effects of Hurricane Ivan in Alabama
• Effects of Hurricane Ivan in Florida (note that those two can probably also be combined for a larger subarctle for the Southeast, similar to Katrina)
• Effects of Hurricane Georges in Florida
• Effects of Hurricane Georges in Louisiana
• Effects of Hurricane Jeanne in Puerto Rico

12.74.53.67 (talk) 21:09, 10 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I want to add onto this comment. For Hurricane Georges, we can either merge Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Cuba into a new article called the Greater Antilles or all except Cuba back into the main article. _ZZ'S 23:02, 10 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm currently working on a draft for the 1936 North Indian Ocean cyclone season. How does it look? OhHaiMark (talk) 19:27, 14 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Now I've made a draft for Typhoon Ruth (1991). How is it? Tavantius (talk) 04:04, 3 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I want to be able to improve articles and get them to GA/FA class without relying on others to do it for me. Now that you're not very active in getting the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season to FT status, are you at least able to mentor me in getting Earth science-related articles to GA and/or FA status. If you're not able to, at least you responded. Thank you in advance. _ZZ'S 02:50, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Congratulations, Hurricanehink! The article you nominated, Hurricane Cindy (2005), has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best articles on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.

This is a rare accomplishment and you should be proud. If you would like, you may nominate it to appear on the Main page as Today's featured article. Keep up the great work! Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) via FACBot (talk) 00:05, 28 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hurricane Isaias tornado outbreak closed with a consensus to merge. 74.101.118.218 (talk) 21:20, 2 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

And so did Effects of Hurricane Isabel in New Jersey, Effects of Hurricane Isabel in Pennsylvania and Effects of Hurricane Isabel in New York and New England.74.101.118.218 (talk) 21:32, 10 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I just want to ask; can I continue the newsletter? The newsletter seems like a good idea, and I don't want to let it go to waste. 🍗TheNuggeteer🍗 02:12, 5 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I know that you believe that Kirk is not noteworthy, but I've been working on the draft and slowly improving it. I would really appreciate if you (or any other more experienced editors) didn't redirect it.

Thanks, 96.236.149.251 (talk) 00:10, 8 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Also, by the way, this is the other account of Shmego talking. Am I allowed to have two accounts if I make it known that they are the same person? I know you have a mobile account so I just want to check. Shmego2 (talk) 00:14, 8 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm currently seeking to try to rewrite the 1967 Pacific typhoon season, spin off all needed articles, and hopefully promote it to FA-status. However, there's one odd problem...The JMA did not include any intensity estimates in their BT, choosing to use pressure instead, and it seems like the JMA intensity are just original research. How should I rewrite this? Tavantius (talk) 20:02, 12 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I've done the met history of three of the storms, which you can see here, and spun off an article on Typhoon Sally. How are they? Tavantius (talk) 19:33, 15 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Hurricanehink! I have to admit I don't know exactly what I'm doing as I have only started adding to wikipedia. I have a weird love for sharpies and noticed that the page didn't talk about specific colors or where they come from (certain colors are discontinued or only come in certain packs). I don't want to be a bother but I added a bunch to this page and it was reverted by another user. At first glance they hadn't said anything, just simply reverted my input. I had to ask them why and they gave me attitude and really no explanation for the revert. So I added my information again....to have the same user revert my stuff again. I don't understand because I sourced my work. Once looking at this user's talk page I realized he does this to many people, on many different subjects. He thinks he's wikipedia king, the end all be all if you will. Many people on the page are asking for the information I provided, I truly don't get if this is my fault or the user who feels they would like to revert anything added by another person. I don't know if I should open a dispute resolution or ask for a protection for my items, as stated previously I don't completely understand how all of this works. Thank you in advance for all that you do. Thegoldengen (talk) 04:24, 14 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure if you noticed, but JayTee32 recently boldly merged Hurricane Beatriz. I just wanted to ask whether this was fair or if there should have been a merge discussion for this, because prior to the merge I believed that there was enough information on Beatriz for it to stay as an article.

Thanks, Shmego2 (talk) 00:21, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Shmego2 If you disagree with my actions then you can discuss them on my talk page or we can move it to a community discussion on the 2023 Pacific hurricane season talk page. I don't see why you went to an uninvolved administrator without discussing my own edits with me first. JayTee⛈️ 14:22, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Shmego Tagging your main acct as well. JayTee⛈️ 14:23, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

JayTee32 (talk · contribs) I saw nothing wrong with your edits. I let Shmego2 know about the bold, revert, discuss cycle. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 19:50, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@JayTee32 I apologize. I haven't really seen a merge like that and I was unaware of this policy. I only asked Hurricanehink because he is an experienced editor who I know. Once again, I apologize for the inconvenience.

Shmego2 (talk) 22:07, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Just address me directly next time you wish to talk about my edits, I'm always open to discussion. JayTee⛈️ 16:30, 23 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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BGerdemann (WMF) (talk) 19:22, 23 October 2024 (UTC) [reply]

While searching through the history of the 1967 Pacific typhoon season to improve my draft on it, I found revision 29387684, an edit of yours which stated where Clara originated from. If you remember, could you tell me where that came from? Tavantius (talk) 19:37, 27 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Tavantius (talk · contribs) - almost all of my edits from that article came from the JTWC annual report for 1967 - link here. If you look on page V-31 (just click on Clara in the Table of Contents), you can see where they describe the origins of the storm. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 19:47, 27 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the info! Tavantius (talk) 20:19, 27 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello Hink,

I wanted to ask for some help verifying a death estimate for a EPac storm. I was doing some research on 1988's Hurricane Kristy, a storm which appears to have caused significant deadly flooding and was building a draft article in my sandbox. In 2014, @Cyclonebiskit made an edit claiming 21 direct deaths had been due to the hurricane (which was the primary reason I decided to look into making an article for it), but the source he provided had no direct link, and I can't find the article he referenced anywhere online or in newspaper archives.

The reason I'm coming to you is because Cyclonebiskit appears to have gone inactive for almost a year now, so I can't ask him to provide the source for me, and I wanted a more experienced editor to look for the source for a quick couple minutes in case I missed something. If you can find it anywhere, let me know. If not I plan to remove the source and delete the draft, as I feel uneasy about the potentially inaccurate death toll having gone unnoticed for over 10 years now. Here's a courtesy link to Kristy's section, the source is FN59. JayTee⛈️ 06:54, 3 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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well, I don't know why this didn't add in a new section. darn. Separated into its own section now BarntToust 14:23, 3 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks again for your efforts! Buster Seven Talk (UTC) 17:25, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, sorry for ruin the cronological time in 2024-2025 South Pacific Cyclone season because i am new in wikipedia. WalterSVasquez (talk) 19:38, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

So, i dont know how to edit a cronological timeline. :( sorry WalterSVasquez (talk) 19:40, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz 22:56, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Howdy, HH! Many years ago, you offered some feedback at an ultimately unsuccessful FLC that I posted. Over the last few months, I've been fixing up the timeline of the 2004 Pacific hurricane season, and I recently re-nominated it for the bronze star. Totally up to you, but considering your involvement in the previous FLC, I'd appreciate if you had any feedback for round 2. Dylan620 (he/him • talk • edits) 20:02, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Hurricanehink: Many thanks for the recognition! As an aside, I also rewrote this old article of mine, that I wish to make a GA. Does it seem worthy, or is more needed? Is there a way to nominate it? CapeVerdeWave (talk) 11:46, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Hurricanehink: On another note, when reviewing 1873 AHS, I forgot not to manually enter the GA icon. Is that why the article still shows up under alerts—even in Earth sciences? If so, how may I fix this? CapeVerdeWave (talk) 09:50, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Hurricanehink: The issue now appears to resolved itself. As an aside, I am trying to bring this article to GA status as well, but need more data for the Gulf Coast. (Wikipedia no longer has an account with Newspapers.com, unfortunately?) Please feel free to let others know. CapeVerdeWave (talk) 16:44, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Hurricanehink: Yes, I have used the library liberally to date, often to access Newspapers.com, the latter of which no longer works with Wikipedia, apparently. NewspaperARCHIVE, ProQuest, and others are still decent, but Newspapers.com was a real trove. (As an aside, I nominated 1932 Bahamas hurricane for GA review. Maybe you care to go over it?) CapeVerdeWave (talk) 17:31, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

On second thought: hold off for a moment; I found some more information on damage in the U.S. (Newspapers.com now works for me.) Apparently the storm did more damage to the East Coast than I thought. Please refrain from doing a GA review just yet until I am finished. (I will let you know.) CapeVerdeWave (talk) 20:38, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I am not actually done just yet, for my prose needs to be tidied. (Take the last section: the passage about the ship Nantucket, for instance, just seems awkward, but I struggled to find better wording. Maybe you or others can help?) I also just ordered a book that discusses Bahamian impacts more and am awaiting its arrival. Further, I need more data from Canada and Iceland. For instance, I just found out that the storm caused fatalities in Canada, along with quite a number of impacts (per this), so I need to add more details. I do not deem the article quite ready yet, but maybe you, I, and/or others could work on addressing its components. CapeVerdeWave (talk) 07:24, 20 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Re: the Nantucket revision: yes, the original meaning is still clear, so I wove it into the article. I just expanded the Canada part as well, using the data from Environment Canada. I wish I had access to the British Newspaper Archive, however; that could add more depth to the Canada section (and maybe elsewhere). Also, do you know of any Scandinavian sources? I would like some details from Iceland, Norway, and/or the USSR. In the meantime I'm reworking the prose. Some unwieldy sections:

• "At 18:00 UTC on September 9 it became extratropical and lurched east-northeast, keeping hurricane-force winds about a day longer." This just comes off as a bit "wordy".
• "Its remnants soon traveled near the Snæfellsnes and Jan Mayen, bypassing those areas on the night of September 14–15." Can the clauses be combined and shortened somehow?
• "In the aftermath food supplies ran low and salt contaminated the drinking supply." Is there a way to smoothen this?
• "The storm leveled a pair of large brick churches with 3-foot-thick (0.91 m) stone walls, tossing some of the blocks 1⁄2 mi (0.80 km)." That the "blocks" made up the stone walls, as they did, is vaguely inferred.

Any assistance here would be appreciated. I am still working on the article. (A book on the Bahamas effects will be arriving at the end of the month, so I may have more data to insert.) CapeVerdeWave (talk) 07:39, 21 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Hink, hope you're doing well. After a long period of inactivity (real life got in the way), I've gotten more active again, and I was thinking of appealing my 2021 projectspace ban (oof, the discussion makes me cringe). I appealed in June 2022, which failed because I had continued some of the same editing that led to the ban. Over the past couple of months, I've participated a lot in RMs, a topic that I had once had problems in, with rationales supporting policy, and in almost all cases, the discussions have been closed in my favor. This is in contrast to shortly before my previous appeal, in which a CSD criterion that I proposed had zero supports.

Is there any advice or guidance that you could give me before I officially appeal the ban, and if/when I appeal, would you support it? 🐔 Chicdat   12:09, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Hm, the template broke. E_F 18:55, 17 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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