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Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Tornado emergency

It has been mentionned in the Wikiproject Severe Weather talk page but here is a link to the discussion.--JForget 01:06, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Message posting

Try and do a proper message to me before accusing me of acting improperly. For example, using --~~~~ to sign at the end of the message. Hard enough I had to go into the history to message you. And don't threaten me with acting improperly when I don't see the reversion done by you. --293.xx.xxx.xx 13:22, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Please check the history now. I am very sorry I forgot to sign, and I am sorry for your trouble. I will try to integrate this section today. Southern Illinois SKYWARN 13:25, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

No. --293.xx.xxx.xx 13:32, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

USRD Inactivity check and news report

Hello, Southern Illinois SKYWARN. We had a few urgent matters to communicate to you:

1. Please update your information at Misplaced Pages:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Participants, our new centralized participant list. Those who have not done so by October 20th will be removed.
2. There are important discussions taking place at WT:USRD relating to whether WP:USRD, WP:HWY, or the state projects should hold the "power" in the roads projects.

Regards, Rschen7754 (T C) 23:36, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Illinois 2007 Census

The WikiProject Illinois 2007 membership census has concluded. If you did not add your name during the last week, you were declared "inactive" in the project, your name is still listed at The Participants Page. You can change your status by replacing {{member inactive}} with {{active}} in the table. Any members should also feel free to fill in any missing details on the list below.

IvoShandor 11:20, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Illinois Post Census Report

The WikiProject Illinois Newsletter (Beta) "Post Census Report" Vol. I, No. 1, Issue 1, October 2007 If you would like to delete this message, the original is at Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Illinois/Newsletter/Post Census Report

Census results On October 4, 2007 WikiProject Illinois embarked on a membership census. The census was the project's first since its establishment on September 24, 2005. Due to the nature of the wiki, and the two years that had passed, it seemed likely that many of the project's older members were no longer active. The project page had grown stagnant and the census provided an opportunity to see who was still around, slaving away in their own corner of the encylopedia, unknown to the rest of the Illinois editing world. Well, now, the tabulation is complete, and after a notice at the Community Portal, we have gained a couple new members amongst the cluster of project veterans who returned to sign up. Of the 55 members listed on the project membership list on October 4, 26 editors returned to the list to "resign up," thus, confirming their current activity within project areas. If you received this message, you were one of those editors. The List of Participants has now been updated to reflect the results of this membership survey, with members who failed to respond highlighted as "inactive." Now, as a group of editors, we have a core list of individuals, that will hopefully grow in size as the project strives to become a better organized central collaboration space for editors working on Illinois related topics. What's next? The big question, where does the project go from here? Well there are a few proposals being floated at this project page. Little discussion has occurred thus far, and participation would be key to all of them. Some ideas include: An A-class review system, under the WP:ILLINOIS banner, to serve the Illinois and Chicago WikiProjects. A project newsletter, of which this is a beta version. Project restructuring, to include regional and specific discipline task forces. A monthly project collaboration to grow out of our currently idle collaboration division.

From the Editors Welcome new members: Laleena, Omnedon and Rickvaughn Interested in helping building and developing a project newsletter? See, start and join in on the proposal discussion. The table is back up at the List of Participants and it has several blanks you can fill in if you have not done so already. They are: where you are originally from, where you live, the project areas you work in, your join date, and now, your status (which has been filled in for you). News & Notes Don't forget to add the project page to your watchlist so you can monitor the project talk page for relevant discussion. As a note: WP:ILLINOIS is the project page shortcut and WT:ILLINOIS is the project talk page shortcut. Kranar drogin essentially single-handedly cleared out the massive backlog in Category:Unassessed WikiProject Illinois articles, feel free to sprinkle his page with barnstars and thank yous, he deserves it. Everyone can help keep it cleared out by checking it for unassessed articles. For more information see the Assessment division of the project, though it isn't as project specific as it should be, it has enough info to give assessors an idea of what to do. Be aware that classes A, GA and FA can only be imposed by outside review processes. The AlexNewArtBot dumps new Illinois related articles on this page periodically. You can help monitor new material by watchlisting the page, and combing new Illinois articles for clean up, referencing and other needed editing work. Contributors to this Issue IvoShandor

IvoShandor 06:18, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Re:Noticed your request

Hey, that would be awesome if you can get any pictures of any communities that you live near for Illinois. My only suggestion is that you upload them to the Commons, so that way later on they won't need to be moved. If you would be so kind, let me know when you have them put into articles here on the Misplaced Pages, so I may tag them with the project tags and categories. Thanks for anything you can do!--Kranar drogin 20:52, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

That is ok. One thing I have been doing lately, is putting the geobox template in the cities, villages, and towns near me. Click on any of the cities, towns, villages in Template:Stephenson County, Illinois to see what I have been doing. If you could do this for your county or even some of the area counties, that would be great also. If you can't, no worries either! Let me know if you have any questions.--Kranar drogin 16:59, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Ok, I have fixed up the template for you. You forgot the county seat, and forgot to put those thingys at the end of each name except for the last one which just gets the two }}. I did Henderson County, Kentucky.--Kranar drogin 18:04, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Great to hear! I am heading out to take some pictures of some round barns near me that aren't on the NRHP, and I might nominated. You can see one here Cox Round Barn.--Kranar drogin 18:36, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

I have updated both the articles on Allendale, Illinois and Lawrenceville, Illinois. All images have been tagged, geobox2 has been added to both articles. Any questions, let me know. Two requests. I need the township/Precinct added for each place, and the area code. I still have to finish off stubbing off the precincts, but should be able to do that down the road. Thanks much!--Kranar drogin 02:15, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Also, check this list out on the List of Registered Historic Places in Illinois. If any of these counties and cities/villages are near you, we need pics of them all. I can help get you addresses if you need that. Let me know.--Kranar drogin 03:03, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Winter storms

There is a discussion started by User:Juliancolton at Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject Meteorology about a proposed/possible new WikiProject called WikiProject Winter storms. Feel free to voice your opinion on the proposal.--JForget 01:34, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

DYK

On 5 January, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Marion, Illinois Tornado Outbreak, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Southern IL is pretty. I once caught the stock car races in Flora. Keep up the great work! --Royalbroil 21:16, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

WP:METEO Active members

User:Juliancolton/Active

Thanks

Thanks for removing the inappropriate link from Paducah, Kentucky. I tried to revert it, but I don't think I went back far enough. This user has been attempting to add the link to Kentucky, University of Kentucky, and Kentucky Community and Technical College System over the last few days as well. Acdixon 15:15, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Convective Instability

Thanks for checking! Theonlysilentbob (talk) 04:15, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Re:WP:NTROP newsletter

Mah, not at all. Afterall, you are an editor for it. Anyway, I was waiting to see if we could get more editors on it, before I actually started it. You are welcome to help with it. Juliancolton (talk) 02:52, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

Hi. If you don't mind, could you add your nomination for the featured member for the WP:NTROP newsletter? There is a link at the newlsetter HQ. Thanks. Juliancolton (talk) 15:10, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Re:WP:SEVERE newsletter

Of course, I would be happy to help. Juliancolton (talk) 12:14, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

I signed up to be an editor at your newsletter, although, I suggest we keep the current issue in the making seperate from the format newsletter article, so we should start the first issue of it at Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Severe weather/Newsletter/February 2008. Juliancolton (talk) 01:58, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

We need a featured member. Other than that, it is a good first issue. Juliancolton (talk) 01:01, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Sounds good. Juliancolton (talk) 02:52, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

I think it looks pretty good. The only thing is I think you should put the link to the recipients list so people will know how to recieve the newsletter. Juliancolton (talk) 13:52, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

It looks great! Especially for the first newsletter of the project. Good work! Juliancolton Talk 14:31, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Enigma Outbreak

Thanks for the message. I've been doing a lot of research locally - I have Grazulis' book, and several university libraries in my area. I've found copies of wire articles published that describe many of the storms in widely varying levels of detail. I still need to do some cleanup and sourcing with the article.

The foundation article ran in the NY Times, two days later, and it did a state-by-state accounting, though telegraph communications in some areas were disrupted, so the articles were very detailed in their coverage of some states (AL, GA, SC and the floods along the OH River), and very limited in others. Midwestern papers (perhaps due to greater familiarity with tornado outbreaks) had good coverage as well. Most of the detail in NC came from two small-town papers, in Wadesboro and Statesville, NC. An individual living near Wadesboro undertook a very detailed survey of the three large storms which passed through that area - travelling the path of the strongest storm (and recording damage details and some survivor stories), and drafting a house-to-house inventory of effects along the path of the others. This gentleman also summarized effects elsewhere in NC.

Grazulis' book and a road atlas provided F? ratings, when available and/or applicable, and were of help in pinpointing counties, towns and distances. Grazulis was also the source for some details, though I would not like for this to be the lone source, and am still working to develop as many other sources as possible. The basic article, and specific storm details were first pulled from the aforementioned newspaper sources. Chart entries with multiple referenced sources are the ones I consider complete; the others I am still working to beef up. Some, but not all, of those sources are available online, and I'll get those links up as soon as I can. The emergency management offices in VA and AL have a complete inventory of significant tornadoes in those states, and the AL listing includes path maps. The journal of the American Meteorological Society also was a source - primarily of value in pinpointing locations and times (their severe weather reports usually did not offer descriptions of effects, but did list times and locations).

Thanks for reading through, and any suggestions or pointers would be welcome. I've been working - within the 'tornado projects' - to try to research older outbreaks, and significant outbreaks striking unusual parts of the country (SE, Mid-Atlantic and NE, specifically). I've done a good bit of reading and digging around for info that covers the Midwest, Plains and Miss. Valley as well, so let me know if I can help in any projects you might be undertaking.

Thanks again- Davidals (talk) 23:11, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

2008 Super Tuesday tornado outbreak

Can you find another link for the 60th death? The story at the address you added has been removed. Thanks -RunningOnBrains 20:23, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

WP:NTROP newsletter

The lastest issue of the Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Non-tropical storms newsletter is available here.

Re. Feb. 16, 2008 tornado Outbreak

This is going on RIGHT NOW! So far, there has been tornadoes and servere storms seen in the Texas area. It has only begun. Check www.weather.com for more. I've been monitoring this on a Self Powered Radio for quite some time. One T-storm nearly got me. I'm in the affected area. 65.163.115.203 (talk) 01:38, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

The radio I have has the Weatherband on it. You should purchase one. Got mine at Radio Shack Ask for their "Hand Cranked Radios". 65.163.115.203 (talk) 01:43, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Note: I have no idea what this person is talking about, I am guessing they have me confused with someone else. Southern Illinois SKYWARN (talk) 01:57, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

re:helpdesk

It wasn't accusatory, I don't expect you to look through an entire page of questions before you asked yours, its not like you were asking a reference question on the help desk, despite the fact that there is a notice in big red letters telling people not to :P. Anyways sorry I couldn't be of more assistance, and thanks for commenting on my userpage.--Kerotan Have a nice day :) 03:04, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

cangaroo court

Your joining cangaroo court is just as disgusting as the initiators' intial wikilawyering which started all this. `'Míkka>t 18:53, 17 February 2008 (UTC)