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Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #1

Number 1, June 4, 2006

The Hurricane Herald

This is the monthly newsletter of WikiProject Tropical Cyclones. The Hurricane Herald aims to give a summary of the activities of the WikiProject over the past month and upcoming events over the next month. In addition monthly tropical cyclone activity will be summarized.

You have received this as you are a member of the WikiProject, please add your username in the appropriate section on the mailing list. If you do not add your name to that list, the WikiProject will assume you do not wish to receive future versions of The Hurricane Herald.

Storm of the month

Other tropical cyclone activity

• Tropical Storm Aletta existed in the eastern Pacific Ocean from May 25 to May 29, peaking as a 45 mph tropical storm.

New and improved articles

• New storm articles include: Typhoon Joan (1970), Hurricane Bonnie (1986), Tropical Storm Matthew (2004), Storm of October 1804, Typhoon Chanchu (2006) and Cyclone Olaf.

• New non-storm articles include: Tropical cyclone rainfall climatology, Dvorak technique and List of Bangladesh tropical cyclones.

• New Featured articles: 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, Hurricane Mitch, Hurricane Irene (2005) and Hurricane Claudette (2003)

• Articles which became A/GA class: Hurricane Katrina (A), Effect of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans (A), Hurricane Felix (1995) (GA), Cyclone Percy (A), Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 (A), List of New Jersey hurricanes (A), Hurricane John (1994) (A), Tropical Storm Isabel (1985) (GA), Tropical Storm Odette (2003) (GA)

New articles and improvements wanted

• An article is requested on subtropical ridge
• The current collaboration of the fortnight is Hurricane Gilbert, please help improve this article.
• Improvements are requested to Indianola Hurricane of 1886, Hurricane Camille and Hurricane Andrew.
• The WikiProject is likely to submit Hurricane John (1994) and Hurricane Katrina to Featured Article Candidates in the near future, so please help improve them to featured standard.

Member of the month

The May member of the month is TitoXD. The WikiProject awards this to him for his brilliant work in improving articles. TitoXD joined the WikiProject in October just after it had been founded. Since then he has contributed substantially to many articles, for example Hurricane Nora (1997), which is currently a Featured Article Candidate. He is also actively involved in the assessment of articles and so helps to improve many more articles.

Explanation of content

If you have a topic which is not directly related to any specific article but is relevant to the WikiProject bring it up on the Newsletters talk page, and it will probably be included in a future edition of The Hurricane Herald.

These two sections are decided by the community on the newsletter's talk page:

• Storm of the month: This is determined by a straw poll on the page. While all storms will be mentioned on the newsletter, the selected storm will be described in more detail.
• Member of the month: Nominations are made on the talk page, voting is by secret ballot; read the talk page for details. The winner receives the WikiProject's barnstar (when we make it).

Main Page content

• 2005 Atlantic hurricane season appeared on the Main Page as Today's Featured Article on June 1.
• Hurricane Floyd will appear on the Main Page as Today's Featured Article on June 17.
• Entries from Dvorak technique, Typhoon Joan (1970), Typhoon Chanchu (2006), and Storm of October 1804 appeared on the Main Page in the Did you know column during May.
• Entries from 5 other articles relating to tropical cyclones had appeared in the Did you know column earlier in 2006.

Storm article statistics

Grade	April	May	June
FA	7	7	10
A	4	5	7
GA	0	3	5
B	62	66	82
Start	154	177	168
Stub	13	12	10
Total	240	263	282
percentage ≥Less than B	69.6	71.6	63.1

The assessment scale

• The cyclone assessment scale is one of the bases of the new assessment scale for Version 1.0 of Misplaced Pages. It splits articles into several categories by quality, to identify which articles are "finished" and which ones still need to be improved.
• The assessment scale by itself counts of several grades:
  • FA: reserved for articles that have been identified as featured content only.
  • A: this grade is given to articles that are considered ready for Misplaced Pages:peer review. The way to get this grade assigned to an article is by asking other cyclone editors at the WikiProject's assessment page.
  • GA: reserved for articles that have passed a good article nomination.
  • B: these articles are "halfway there", and have most of the details of a complete article, yet it still has significant gaps in its coverage.
  • Start: articles that fall in this category have a decent amount of content, yet it is weak in many areas. Be bold and feel free to improve them!
  • Stub: these articles are mostly placeholders, and may in some cases be useless for the reader. It needs a lot of work to be brought to A-Class level.
• The way to use these assessments is by adding a parameter to the WikiProject template on the articles talk page ({{hurricane|class=B}} as an example). This feeds the article into a category which is read and parsed to create an assessment table, summary and log.

Asian Supremacy

You voted to delete the article Asian supremacy because you felt it was unverifiable. It is verifiable. The organization Goldsea supports Asian supremacy.--Dark Tichondrias 01:14, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

How about reconsidering

re: Someone called me back from a wikibreak via email on this, and I've explained the rationale and system we're (taking a break <g>) from building. Thanks // FrankB 21:34, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Scouting in Humberside

Thank you for noticing my small effort on that article and altering your opinion on its deletion. Unfortunately new young editors who are scouts leap in and write a rather poor attempt at an article on their own County, or even worse their own troop. --Bduke 05:16, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

No problem. At least it looks like a decent article now, and not an ad. --Coredesat 05:17, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Ugonna Wachuku

This article does not violate Misplaced Pages verifiable content principles asUser:Dlyons493 suggests. The quoted letter from Kofi Annan is verifiable. And a copy can be faxed to wikipedia's Jimmy Wales if need be. The letter was written and signed by Kofi Annan himself and not his secretary. Kofi Annan himself can be contacted by Misplaced Pages. So, I don't see why my fellow editors are saying that the Ugonna Wachuku article is not verifiable.

The facts in the article are verifiable wen looked at closely with an open mind. Webcity Resources, Ltd that Wachuku is Chairman of is also verifiable in Lagos, Nigeria - except that the Web site of the company is currently being upgraded and is not available for the moment. If that company is a problem, then as the contributor of the article, I can remove that sentence. Also, The Great Place a book by Ugonna Wachuku is also real and verifiable - if only User:Dlyons493, Coredesat and AdamBiswanger1 would be objective and not cynical. Lets do the right thing and keep the article, my good friends. (Lord777 10:42, 23 June 2006 (UTC))

The Great Place

This is another case of User:Dlyons493 and Coredesat not being object in nominating articles for deletion at will. That a book is a "Non-notable" book as User:Dlyons493 said does not mean that it violates any of the Misplaced Pages principles and rules; including the three cardinal content policies: Misplaced Pages:Neutral point of view, Misplaced Pages:Verifiability, and Misplaced Pages:No original research, and the copyright policy (Misplaced Pages:Copyrights). ''The Great Place'' by Ugonna Wachuku is out there and can be bought.

My talk page is not AfD. Please go to the AfD discussion page and make your argument there. --Coredesat 11:11, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

The author spent years of research and toil writing The Great Place. So, I'd advise Coredesat and User:Dlyons493 to buy a copy of the book and read for themselves before they start referring to it as a "Non-notable" book. This article should not be deleted. I therefore humbly call for the removal of deletion notices on both the Ugonna Wachuku article and The Great Place article. Please, let us not just nominate articles for deletion without being objective and realistic in our views. Thank you and GOD bless you all abundantly with wisdom. (Lord777 11:06, 23 June 2006 (UTC))

The book has not won any awards, nor has it been mentioned in any notable publications. Any notability the author may have does not automatically make the book itself notable. Also, the article reads like an ad. --Coredesat 11:09, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Proposed AfD

I have made enormous changes to the article - Bangladesh Booty, and I hope the notability issues have been addressed at length (thanks to snug and DaveG12345 I have found some good directions on that), though it still needs some development in articulation. I am working on the verifiability part now (I got some directions on that as well, thanks to you guys). Keep me posted for directions, an I wish some of you will get your hands dirty in tidying up the article as well. (Aditya Kabir 13:16, 25 June 2006 (UTC))

Cicero's Pizza

Hi, I was just wondering if you'd consider revisiting your vote on the VFD for Cicero's Pizza. You state that you don't believe it is notable, however evidence to the contrary has been presented on both the article page and the VFD. Cicero's Pizza does infact meet WP:CORP requirement 1A and is considered a notable business as serveral non directory, or business produced news articles from independent sources have been written about the establishment. Thanks. Gateman1997 20:32, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

Cardinal Newman High School

You seem to be a veteran on school deletions. I honestly thought that this could get speedily deleted. How wrong I was. (sigh) How wrong I was. In your experience would you expect there to be any hope of getting this through? --Stroika 09:53, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Slim to none once the "all schools are notable" people show up. I don't see why people cite WP:SCHOOL when it's a rejected policy. --Coredesat 09:55, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Two-way artist

Feel free to close speedily deleted or nomination-withdrawn-with-no-delete-votes AfD's yourself. Just add to the top {{subst:afd top}} Speedy deleted by user:whatever ~~~~ and to the bottom add {{subst:afd bottom}}. Don't hafta be an admin to do that. Cheers. - CrazyRussian talk/email 14:39, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

I just wanted to let you know that of all comments in AfD, yours have been most helpful as a neutral second opinion. Your comment today per WP:ORG where I had nominated under WP:CORP showed me a section of documentation that I was yet unawares. Thanks!

The Barnstar of Diligence For aloof NPOV education of new editors. Ste4k 00:56, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Hi again! About being marinally notable... is there a scale that you use to go by? Since the article is all self sourced and is attached to an advocacy group I am very suspicous about anything that it says and have to go by external research. Any help would be appreciated. I was getting ready to put an AfD on his book as well. I'll wait until I hear back on you about that, if you wouldn't mind giving a new person some tips. Thanks! Ste4k 08:58, 27 June 2006 (UTC)