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Climate

I would rather use another source for the climate, given that the values cover only 4 years (april 2014 - march 2018). 4 years can't reflect the effective climate. Has anybody got a source which covers like 20 or more years? --Casumattu (talk) 10:40, 30 August 2019 (UTC)

Hottest area in Greece

Lindos is renown in the country for being the warmest area nationally. Up until 15 years ago we had anecdotal references from locals and visitors (myself included) about how hot it can get in Lindos compared to the rest of the island but now we have the biggest research institute in the South Europe, the National Observatory of Athens confirming it. It's truly suffocating in the summer due to constant foehn winds blowing almost 24/7 in the SE Rhodes area. Here is an article from a Rhodes newspaper citing the data of the National Observatory of Athens with a title The warmest location of Greece is Lindos [1]. You can also verify the Meteoclub article very simply by running the Lindos data found here: [2] or by using the NOA bulletins [3]. Weatherextremes (talk) 16:53, 10 July 2021 (UTC)

Oh and btw here [4] is that article from NOA itself confirming Lindos is the hottest area of the country Weatherextremes (talk) 17:09, 10 July 2021 (UTC)

Proposed climate section

Given the multiple edits the climate section has received so far I propose we use the following wording and sources as a compromise:

Lindos is the warmest area in Greece [5] and according to the the data provided by National Observatory of Athens station, the past few years it registers a mean annual temperature of 21.9°​C.

Climate data for Lindos (2014-2021)
Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Year
Mean daily maximum °C (°F)	16.0 (60.8)	17.2 (63.0)	18.8 (65.8)	22.4 (72.3)	26.7 (80.1)	31.3 (88.3)	35.1 (95.2)	35.1 (95.2)	31.7 (89.1)	26.7 (80.1)	21.9 (71.4)	18.1 (64.6)	25.1 (77.2)
Daily mean °C (°F)	13.3 (55.9)	14.5 (58.1)	15.9 (60.6)	19.0 (66.2)	23.0 (73.4)	27.5 (81.5)	31.2 (88.2)	31.4 (88.5)	28.2 (82.8)	23.7 (74.7)	19.0 (66.2)	15.5 (59.9)	21.9 (71.4)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F)	10.8 (51.4)	12.0 (53.6)	13.1 (55.6)	15.6 (60.1)	19.4 (66.9)	23.7 (74.7)	27.3 (81.1)	27.7 (81.9)	24.7 (76.5)	20.7 (69.3)	16.5 (61.7)	12.9 (55.2)	18.7 (65.7)
Average rainfall mm (inches)	98.2 (3.87)	82.9 (3.26)	46.1 (1.81)	13.1 (0.52)	14.1 (0.56)	3.1 (0.12)	2.2 (0.09)	0.0 (0.0)	7.7 (0.30)	22.8 (0.90)	81.5 (3.21)	93.7 (3.69)	465.5 (18.33)
Source: Meteoclub.gr

References

So as you will notice the current source now displays a 404 error so no data, when the link was live though it used the Rhodes city data which has nothing to do with Lindos. Now regarding the Meteoclub source, you will notice that article is written properly, referenced and can be independently verified [6]. Regarding the description of the website itself here [7] sharing thoughts etc is meant for all users regarding the chat facility which you might have missed [8]. Articles are submitted through a specific portal [9] and admins choose which of them merit a publication. I will be moving forward at a later stage to ask community wide feedback on Meteoclub, since some users raised questions on its reliability. However, given that we do not have an alternative source right now, I suggest we adopt this version which is more balanced and carefully worded. Weatherextremes (talk) 22:57, 12 July 2021 (UTC)

I have now deleted the irrelevant source (which was for Rhodes city). Also the source displays a 404 error and no data Weatherextremes (talk) 00:39, 13 July 2021 (UTC)

I am also adding verification of the Meteoclub data from Wayback Machine on Lindos station which will be much faster than going through the data month by month. Unfortunately, again some minor synthesis is required to calculate the mean for the entire period but it's a much more straightforward way to completely verify the Meteoclub article data:

Lindos, National Observatory of Athens Meteorological Station

2014 [10] 2015 [11] 2016 [12] 2017 [13] 2018 [14] and [15] 2019 [16] 2020 [17] 2021 [18]

Weatherextremes (talk) 01:34, 13 July 2021 (UTC)

Alternatively we could use the Wayback Machine link as the sole reference for the climate data. Removing the relevant tag:

Lindos is the warmest area in Greece [19] and according to the the data provided by National Observatory of Athens station, the past few years it registers a mean annual temperature of 21.9°​C [20] Weatherextremes (talk) 13:45, 13 July 2021 (UTC)

I see its been 4 days and no response from anyone. So I will go ahead and add the balanced version I proposed. Weatherextremes (talk) 13:26, 17 July 2021 (UTC)
Since @Average Portuguese Joe: is reverting the proposed edit I want to address his comment.
You make claims about 30 years average. This is a new station (there was never a weather station before 2014) do you have a non biased opinion why we should skip this data? The weather box clearly states the years measured so it is not misleading.
The weather station of Lindos was set up by NOA which is reliable I don't see why being part of WMO is necessary (I guess it will be added in the future). You can find information about the standards of the weather station here. You are right that the weather station doesn't provide averages but I tried to confirm the validity of the results. I am not sure what is the best approach here however you are free to check all the results on your own starting from here.
As far as I know these are the best and the only sources that exist regarding that part of Rhodes. The reports about Lindos being the hottest city in Greece have been generated by NOA which is a reputable source.
On a side note you can find some funny and exaggerated reports of tourists that visited Lindos on tripadvisor, obviously I am not using this to prove anything but I am leaving it here.
Lastly I want to state that I don't know Weatherextremes and I am in now way affiliated with him I am just from Rhodes and know very well the climate here. So please I don't want any ridiculous accusations that started here to continue by anyone.FactDistributor (talk) 21:48, 17 July 2021 (UTC)

FactDistributor the monthly breakdown you are proposing for verification is a much more time consuming task. This is why I resorted to the Wayback Machine links. Also I am kinda worried that you are a SPA since I haven't seen you editing on anything else. Even though I understand completely that you are aware of the local weather of Lindos and I agree with you on pretty much anything, I want to also clarify I am not affiliated with this user in any way . The clarification is needed because meatpuppeting is also an issue in wikipedia. My take is that you are an overzealous guy from Rhodes who feels offended that a Portuguese person is trying to tell you what the weather looks like in Lindos. However, he is right on one thing, climate normals are usually coming from a 30 year period. On rare occasions we can use data from shorter periods. I think this is such an occasion since there is a lack of any Lindos data apart from the NOA station which started to operate in 2014 and due to the fact that the area is climatologically unique in Greece and Europe. Weatherextremes (talk) 23:15, 17 July 2021 (UTC)

Also just to add that no Lindos will not be added to the WMO list of stations. This is only reserved for stations coming from the national met office. In Greece the National Observatory of Athens stopped being the national met office in 1931 when HNMS took over. However, NOA has retained WMO reporting for a few regions of Greece due to its historic contribution in meteorology in the country and due to owing some really historic met stations. These WMO reports are sent from NOA to HNMS which in turns publishes them internationally. But a WMO station is not a prerequisite of a reliable weather station. As you correctly pointed out the NOA journal paper (I guess you are following me in the PalmTalk forum where you have seen me post it right?) is an excellent resource on the reliability of the NOA Davis stations Weatherextremes (talk) 23:31, 17 July 2021 (UTC)

@Average Portuguese Joe: Stop reverting the new version. You are the only one objecting to the new version while myself and the Rhodes editor agree on it. I have allowed 4 days (5 days now) for people to express their opinion. I have already warned you Weatherextremes (talk) 09:41, 18 July 2021 (UTC)

Hello, I just want to say something, a WP:CONSENSUS of a disputed article (like in this case) should be achieved by various users, not because no one has replied in 4 days, as we have discussed this in an admin's talk page (User talk:EdJohnston#Is meteoclub.gr a reliable source?) the admin itself said the source (meteoclub) wasn't reliable and not acceptable as per WP:Reliable Source, now the source is a Wayback Machine NOA link that is very, very misleading and it neither shows the averages but a compilation of yearly TXT files. Looking at WP:Source that's not a valid source (I MIGHT BE WRONG THOUGH) but since @Average Portuguese Joe: disagreed, I have disagreed and another user who reverted the edits over this past week, this makes already 3 users disagreeing against 2 users who agree with the proposed page, one of them being obviously a SPA account as mentioned by @Weatherextremes: because his only Wiki edits have been on this page or this page talk's page and the purpose is clear.

I have also something to add, the last source shown data of Lindos, not of Rhodes, and the source works perfectly but I did a small mistake when I've edited the page and I didn't reference it properly, so it appeared as dead. I am putting again the last aspect of the page had before the edit war started. Please read WP:CONSENSUS on how consensus are made. If no one intervenes, that's not a consensus. If other uses have disagreed earlier on the talk page or another talk page regarding this subject, it's as well a disagreement that has to be solved. For me using WP:NPOV the source is not acceptable by WP:GUIDELINES because there isn't any single summary nor average but just split years with yearly resumes. Also climate normals are not taken from 7 years of data. I strongly recommend this data to be used in Wikipedia:Sandbox instead of an article's page, unless if you find a reliable source without having to manually calculate all the data from every year. --TechnicianGB (talk) 14:42, 18 July 2021 (UTC)

Ok I inferred you were in agreement with my new proposed climate section TechnicianGB since you did not object to it for four days. I see now that you raise an issue with the Wayback Machine source. As you will notice I have provided the breakdown per year and according to what is not synth here: [21] it could be used as a summary. The source that you claim is reliable for Lindos is not! This has been pointed out twice. The source does not list years of data because it is NOT from Lindos. Most probably the data are for Rhodes city and this weather box should go as inaccurate. Weatherextremes (talk) 15:05, 18 July 2021 (UTC)

@Weatherextremes: Hello, like I said I would prefer to see other user's opinions on this, as we both agree that we can't take too serious the SPA opinion. And about being Lindos nor Rhodes it's Lindos, and as you can see it has extended data (not only temps and rain) because you can compare, here is the Lindos climate data https://en.climate-data.org/europe/greece/lindos/lindos-187534/ and here is the Rhodes climate data https://en.climate-data.org/europe/greece/rhodes/rhodes-15369/ as you can see they differ. I know "climate-data.org" is neither too reliable but it's at least more than meteoclub.gr (an amateur site told by themselves in their own TOS page) about the NOA WayBack Machine sources I don't have any problem with them, but as you know they don't offer long-term averages, well neither from 2014 to 2021 but a summary of each year which later has to be manually calculated. Is that an acceptable source as per WP:Sources? I don't have anything against Lindos and less against you because as I've personally said to you, I appreciate your edits and your work. But it would be nice to know and to hear another user's opinions, moreso if it's a Wiki admin or someone expert in this subject regarding if that source is acceptable. --TechnicianGB (talk) 15:14, 18 July 2021 (UTC)

Actually in that case the meteoclub source can be used only as a supplementary source to the Wayback Machine source and only for the purposes of the weatherbox. You will notice I haven't used any wording from Meteoclub in the new proposed section. The climate-data.org weather box in this case is much more unreliable than the Meteoclub weather box which is verified completely by the Wayback Machine source. What makes it more dubious is that it makes up the data completely! I mean ok wow. We know that the only Lindos station is active from 2014 and HNMS has never had a previous station over there. This source has been widely rejected in climate articles all around wiki. So it needs to go Weatherextremes (talk) 15:23, 18 July 2021 (UTC)

One more thing. A Greek newspaper is also saying that Lindos has a mean annual temperature of 21.4C [22] I have no idea how climate.org made up this 19C mean. Weatherextremes (talk) 15:31, 18 July 2021 (UTC)

And the source from NOA it self saying again that Lindos is the warmest station in Greece. These two source are much better and could be used in-text in the climate article instead of the dubious 19C from climate.org Weatherextremes (talk) 15:39, 18 July 2021 (UTC)

Finally, there is one more thing we need to address regarding the reliability of the Meteoclub site. I just noticed that the National Technical University of Athens is actually quoting the Meteoclub weatherbox and it is using it as a reliable source here:[23]. So to summarize, the climate.org weatherbox needs to go and we have better in-text sources. We can keep the article without the dubious climate.org weatherbox until other editors or admins review the new piece of information I provided for Meteoclub (both at the top and now). What do you think TechnicianGB ? Weatherextremes (talk) 16:00, 18 July 2021 (UTC)

@TechnicianGB: Just count my opinion as anyone else's.
I think the link you provided has some obvious inaccuracies.
For Rhodes it shows 3704.13 yearly sunshine hours, for Almeria 3687.32 and for Faro 3428.54
I think for all the previous cities this data is incorrect (way too high). Additionally your link shows Rhodes has 19.6 mean annual temperature and Lindos 18.9, given the previous references this is inaccurate. Finally Lindos is that much warmer than other places of the island and some people who live there on summer prefer to live in some other village nearby to avoid the intense heat.
I would prefer if your link is removed and we can have a climate section without any data (until a consensus is reached), since no data is better than wrong data.
Because I find the subject of arguing about climate really trivial, the last edit war we had was my first and my last, I also find it really tiring and time consuming. I am just adding my opinion here and I hope you will not consider it any less than someone else's because my account is new.
FactDistributor (talk) 16:10, 18 July 2021 (UTC)

Yes, I agree FactDistributor. This source is not reliable for Lindos. I will add in-text the two new sources and I will refrain from reinstating the Meteoclub source until we hear back from someone else. I will not remove the climate.org source just yet. Even thoughTechnicianGB also suggested that the source is not particularly reliable. But we will need to remove it sooner or later Weatherextremes (talk) 21:12, 18 July 2021 (UTC)

Yet another source in Greek here: [24] offering also insight on why Lindos is so hot. Basically, explaining that this is due to the predominance of NW foehn winds which reach the area significantly heated from the surrounding mountains Weatherextremes (talk) 04:52, 19 July 2021 (UTC)

Further discussion on Meteoclub source

I have also compared the means between Lindos and Tenerife as per the article. For Tenerife I have used the source here: [25]. It appears that the mean mentioned on Meteoclub for Tenerife is also verified. From my calculations the mean annual T for Tenerife from ogimet is 21.86C vs 21.89C for Lindos for the same period (2014-2021). I understand of course this is WP:SYNTH but I am just leaving it here to confirm that again Meteoclub's data are correct. Weatherextremes (talk) 19:49, 20 July 2021 (UTC)

RfC on weather box source

Should the meteorological data found here: [26] be used for the weather box of this article? Weatherextremes (talk) 18:30, 20 July 2021 (UTC)

• Yes I don't see what's wrong with it.Thelostone41 (talk) 19:03, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

Weatherbox

I have now removed the climate.org dubious data. Weatherextremes (talk) 14:01, 26 July 2021 (UTC)

@Weatherextremes: Technically, no one spoke on the RfC and no consensus has been reached. However, since you really want that weather box to be out of the page, from a WP:NPOV I can agree with removing it as long as you leave again the text you've undone (which you've also removed, that's not only the chart though) for me it's ok and we can call it consensus. I've also added a bit more of useful data, and the page you cited talks about 2015 so that has to be there as well. --TechnicianGB (talk) 00:18, 27 July 2021 (UTC)

I disagree. The source from climate.org is not reliable. Also one source says for 2015, the other source mentions no year. Also the station in not in the centre of Lindos. So I have edited a better version. Weatherextremes (talk) 14:19, 27 July 2021 (UTC)

Also i see you are the only one wanting the climate.org source (even though you said it is not very reliable), while already two users disagreed. So I see a consensus in not including it. Below one more source from 2019 clearly stating that the mean annual temperature in Lindos is 21.4C [27] so we might need to use this one as well. Weatherextremes (talk) 14:30, 27 July 2021 (UTC)

@Weatherextremes: This is not how things work and not how WP:Consensus is made and you should already know it. It's not "just me" wanting that source, it's just you two wanting to keep that data. That's why I'm being polite and using WP:NPOV I'm leaving it trying to reach a consensus, even if several users are against it, including me, but I didn't delete it. I'd encourage you to refrain yourself from deleting everything you don't agree with. You even made a RfC request and no one intervened.

As @Average Portuguese Joe: pointed out in another talk page, this station is neither official in the WMO network and it's neither a NOA official station, it's just provided by NOA, as the website says it's just on their network hosted by a physical person.

Difference: NOA official station http://penteli.meteo.gr/stations/penteli/ (it clearly says Provided by NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS - Hosted by NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS),

Now compare it to Lindos: http://penteli.meteo.gr/stations/lindos/ (Provided by NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS - Hosted and supervised by Lakis Bakas, SV5KKU) Check the lead of the page. It's a NOA provided station but hosted by 3rd parties. It's a PWS with a tag as well (SV5KKU) that has been accepted on penteli.gr as well as many other stations that are just provided but not hosted by the NOA. This is also a reply to your comment from above comparing official WMO stations to this non-official station.

I'm not gonna enter on the debate if it's reliable or not, as it has clear leaks, but first things first, if you want to include that data, then at least point things out as how they're are, as this is not an official NOA station. And the climate-data.org is acceptable as an indicator, even if it's not too reliable. The official HNMS map (this is the most reliable data) shows Lindos and the surrounding areas between 18-19ºC yet I didn't delete your edits based on the Lindos PWS from Penteli. One week ago, you seemed to understand these things on the ANI made against you for the edit war, but now, after one week, you started again being on the edge of another edit war. First, try to reach a point with other users here in the talk page. --TechnicianGB (talk) 16:32, 27 July 2021 (UTC)

In fact, I'm adding the official HNMS Climatic Atlas of Greece as a source for the temperature: http://climatlas.hnms.gr/sdi/?lang=EN and not climate-data.org, that's just for the rain and humidity. HNMS is the official Greek Met Agency.

Now the source is the Hellenic National Meteorological Service Climate Atlas for 1971-2000 backing up the 19ºC annual temperature claim. This is the most reliable and authoritative source on Greece's climate data. With having this official data here the other data would even have to be deleted as by WP:Reliable sources but again, since I'm also trying to understand you, I won't delete that data and for me it can remain on the page as well. --TechnicianGB (talk) 16:43, 27 July 2021 (UTC)

I think we are entering a clear content dispute here (which is fine). First of all it is laughable to suggest that Lindos NOA station is not an official NOA station. Here is the list of all the NOA stations [28] and you can find Lindos in the drop down menu and here [29] the description of the network where Lindos is clear mentioned (page 4) as a part of the official network.

Secondly, the HNMS climate atlas does not say anywhere anything on Lindos's data. Guess why? Because there is no HNMS station in Lindos. Here is the relevant proof of all the HNMS stations [30].So by adding the HNMS source you are in clear violation of no WP:SYNTH since you are using an extrapolation of data used by non Lindos stations to infer the ludicrous idea that Lindos has a mere 19C mean annual T.

Thirdly, I see you edited the 21.4C reference to make it 21.0C. Why is that? I will be including it the latest source found here [31] that clearly states a mean annual of 21.4C

Also, the stable version before yours and Average Portuguese Joe's disruptive edits started was the one I had edited. From what I can tell both of you try to bury the fact that Lindos is a very warm area and according to Meteoclub source it is the warmest in Europe which probably directly attacks relevant Spanish and Portuguese narratives (you are a Spaniard and Joe is Portuguese right?)

Finally,it does not matter if a station is not a WMO station, this is not how wikipedia works. We just need reliable sources from reliable met stations and in Lindo's case both are provided. I urge you to stop your disruptive edits and stop trying to bury good sources by resorting to WP:SYNTH and altering in text information.Weatherextremes (talk) 21:16, 28 July 2021 (UTC)

Did you just delete the official Greek Met Agency source with the 1971-2000 Climate Atlas to add a tourist ad website that only mentions once anything about the temperature and it's just made to show tips to visit the island?

Don't you realize you're doing WP:SYNTH by using 3 completely different sources just to try to reach a connection between them, even if they're totally unrelated? I've wrote "over 21.0ºC" which is almost the same but well, 21.4ºC can stay there.

Do you realize that right now, you're just arguing about keeping a properly sourced phrase with an official source? I didn't delete anything from your changes, showing an extreme attempt to reach a consensus with you and trying to make the page "more according to your likings" and instead of realizing that, you're making personal assumptions and blaming me and another user for the purpose of our edits. Seriously??? You should refrain yourself from doing these kind of personal assumptions and edits when there's a clear WP:CYCLE situation. Keeping on WP:NPOV I left the data you desire to be there. You've deleted the climate-data chart without any Consensus nor any comment from the RfC. I've accepted it politely as you were really intense about deleting it, so I did respect that. But don't delete the HNMS official Climate Atlas source proving up the 19ºC temperature in Lindos. What's ludicrous is to assume HNMS is wrong and a 7-year PWS is right. So including both is the best way.

There wasn't any stable version of this page, it was just that no one noticed the edits, but as I can see in the talk page someone already said something about the climate in 2019 and like it or not HNMS has a map, I'm even trying to be polite by leaving the data you've put (and only you 2 are the ones that support that data, one being a WP:SPA recognised by yourself) and you still delete even the official HNMS source to deliberately impose your non-neutral POV? --TechnicianGB (talk) 21:58, 28 July 2021 (UTC)

@Weatherextremes: Wait for third parties to intervene and to reach a consensus, non-involved third parties as per WP:CONSENSUS. I'm tired to repeat the same as you clearly ignore it. It's the last step before taking it to the ANI as I see you don't want to cooperate after so many tryouts. Look, I didn't delete what you wrote. But you neither have to delete what I wrote based on official sources. Because you're trying to impose your own POV (clearly not WP:NPOV) without strong arguments, and I'll also encourage you to stop using random sources just as the tourist newspaper trying to reach a common point (that is WP:SYNTH). Why don't you try to edit your own WP:Sandbox where you can add anything you want? And about the NOA station, I just pointed out what it says on the site, that it's not hosted by the NOA but by a 3rd party being a PWS with it's own tag (SV5KKU) I didn't say it's not useful and I didn't delete the text that shows that average, but there isn't any reliable source backing up all of your claims except for meteoclub.gr which is not accepted as per WP:Reliable sources. And it's not cool to impose your POV while blaming other users for making "disruptive edits and having purposes" as that's on the edge of personal attacks. --TechnicianGB (talk) 03:02, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

@TechnicianGB:Stop making assumptions//accusations about the quality of the weather station without reading the relevant data that was given to you earlier, NOA is including it in its network and is not a PWS, so please read this paper [32] from the National Observatory of Athens. The station is not a PWS and SV5KKU is not its tag, look at pages 3,4 and 5 for what type of weather station is used and how the sites are selected. Finally no one is disputing the reliability of HNMS (however you are of NOA) if you select from the left menu the temperature stations (from the link you provided) you will see only one weather station in Rhodes, near the airport (northwest part of the island), however Lindos is in the southeast part so I think it is fair to assume that the 2 locations can have different temperatures, this is why the NOA data is more accurate since they have a weather station there and HNMS doesn't have one. FactDistributor (talk) 05:16, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

@FactDistributor: But that's secondary. That's not the main point here, as the main point is one well sourced phrase being deleted. In fact I didn't make any single assumption, I am aware of the existence of "off-oficial" stations outside from the national weather met agencies. Just to put an example, in Spain, that happens with AEMET too, albeit being obviously the most useful and always the first preference unless if it's a very specifical case, they don't hold the ultimate truth. Almost each Spanish region has it's own regional high quality Met Agency that fulfills the WMO requirements. But we have to be wise here, for the average, a meteorological normal should be used, at least 20 years of data. I see with the HNMS happens the same, and we can say in every country too probably, since it doesn't offer such an extensive list of stations, other smaller agencies fill that data. And in this case it's the Greek NOA and that's ok because as you can see I didn't delete anything related to NOA. But we have to understand that, for such a chart to be included in a Wikipedia article, it needs to have a climate normal or at least an important amount like 20 years. That's why 7 years of data can't stay anywhere else except for a personal WP:Sandbox. It's simply too few years of data to be taken into consideration.

As you can see I've never deleted anything related to that or NOA (it really feels offensive when I'm trying to keep what you write and then to be accused of false things, like if a had a purpose or something) and I am ok with leaving the NOA data regarding the average, since I don't want my opinion to prevail as I'm always speaking from a WP:NPOV trying to understand the other parts too, but I strongly consider that both sources should be used on the article, right now it says 19ºC with the HNMS source and 21.4ºC with the other source based on the 2015 data, the 2019 data is similar as well. Someone commented in 2019 (see 3 paragraphs above) that the climate data was too short. Now include there the other 3 users (including me) that also disagreed with keeping that chart.

It's simply too few years of data, no Wiki page has data of such a short lapse of time, and if it does, it gets deleted when someone notices it, because we have to respect climate normals as much as possible. But keeping the NOA data with the annual average at least is good for me, not sure what the other users think about. I was ok with deleting climate-data, I am ok with keeping the NOA average. But I'm not ok with deleting the HNMS Atlas. That's a serious source. --TechnicianGB (talk) 07:14, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

@TechnicianGB: As you now know I am new here and I was not aware of some wikipedia guidelines. I didn't make edits last week because I understand even if some data is correct if there is no link that summarizes all that data WP:SYNTH is against it, so you have my apologies there. Personally I am fine with the HNMS atlas link however I would like mentioned that the climate in Lindos is extrapolated since the HNMS station is at the windward side(north west) of the island. Right now I am not insisting on adding a weather box or removing the 19C average, I only want noted the location of the HNMS station. So we can keep both sources and if/when NOA provides climatic charts, a weather box can be added that is directly linked to NOA. Of course if a consensus is reached I support the proposed weather box because I have checked the NOA results with a python script that traversed their database, however I know that my personal opinion counts only as a vote and nothing more :)FactDistributor (talk) 07:56, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

@TechnicianGB: Additionally I want to add that besides climate normals we should take into account the usefulness of such information to the public. For example according to NOA, Rhodes city has average highs of 5 degrees less than Lindos for August and July. This information could be very useful to tourists since they might not have well heat tolerance. I understand that climate normals need a longer time to be established but there is a case that such differences in temperature should be stated because if people who go to Lindos expect 30 Celsius average highs and they get 35C averages highs they are in for a big surprise. This aspect should be also taken into account when it is decided how the climate section will be.FactDistributor (talk) 08:18, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

@FactDistributor: Hello, no problem, I appreciate your efforts on trying to improve and I can help you if you need it as well. I understand your point, if you want I can make another edit including what you've said, that Lindos can get much warmer than Rhodes or if you want you can include it by yourself. The other user made a RfC (comments request) but no one commented yet. Anyways, I've removed climate-data already from the page and only HNMS is used. --TechnicianGB (talk) 19:22, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

@TechnicianGB: No! What you are doing now is really disruptive and in fact twisting the sources. I have provided the Athens Voice source (is this the tourist source you are on about?Its a serious newspaper btw not a tourist site). The source clearly states 21.4C mean annual without the mention of a year. The HNMS source is clearly WP:SYNTH when you use it for Lindos when in fact there is NO HNMS station in Lindos. Point us to where VERBATIM the HNMS source says anything on Lindos? It's an extrapolation from other stations data. So stop altering the in-text meaning of my edits. Stop twisting the words basically. I do not agree to use the HNMS source because it does not say anything on Lindos. Weatherextremes (talk) 18:49, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

@Weatherextremes: Climate-data is already removed from the page, why do you insist and repeat the same stuff again and again even if it's not even in the page already? What's your point?

Who said that newspaper is a tourist website? That specific article from that newspaper IS a tourist/visiting tips page. As written by yourself, the name of the article is "Why visitting Lindos on fall?" Does that sound like any climate-related article? It shows places and pictures of places to visit in Lindos, the temperature is barely mentioned once and it neither has any source regarding that aspect. Even if keeping it as useful, it doesn't remove the fact of the HNMS Climate Atlas.

Lindos is clearly seen on Rhodes island with an average temperature inside the 19ºC threshold in the HNMS Climate Atlas source, full stop. The location is easily distinguishable in the map. You're doing Wikipedia:Disruptive editing as you keep reverting useful sources (HNMS) to impose your own POV. What about WP:CYCLE? You seemed to understand how Wikipedia works in the last ANI made against you 2 weeks ago, but now you've went fully disruptive again. --TechnicianGB (talk) 19:17, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

@TechnicianGB: So wait, I have now agreed to the HNMS station source respecting that also FactDistributor says they are ok with it and now you want to remove the explanation that it is for the Rhodes data and also you want to remove the Athens Voice source? On what grounds? I have kept the HNMS source since also FactDistributor agrees and I have specified the data are for Rhodes HNMS station. Lindos does not have an HNMS station Weatherextremes (talk) 19:22, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

@Weatherextremes: Well, what you've done now is different, since you've clicked revert on my edit but you've also included additional data, so the best way was to simply add the text instead of clicking revert. And again that website is a newspaper article, but we can both agree that just looking at the title it's not climate related but tips to visit Lindos on Autumn. Not sure why is that necessary as a source when you've provided already 2 climate-related sources that say Lindos had an average of 21.4ºC, do you think is really necessary to keep that one too? I've added an additional small text saying it's interpolated in the HNMS map, which fits better to the source of the Atlas, as pointed out before by FactDistributor. --TechnicianGB (talk) 19:36, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

@TechnicianGB: Ok, that's better. However, looking at it now the actual sources on Lindos should go first, followed by the HNMS source. It makes more sense for the average reader.And also the wording should change to clearly indicate that the Rhodes station is fundamentally different to Lindos Weatherextremes (talk) 19:41, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

@Weatherextremes: Most official Met Agencies have an Atlas with a map, just as the Köppen maps and so on, it's clear not every single spot is covered but extrapolated. The actual wording is correct, indicating that "the Rhodes station is fundamentally different from Lindos" is misleading text, don't you think? As it's right now seems ok for anyone including the average user, as it closely follows by the data shown in the local NOA station. As I've said before, I don't have any problem with keeping both there.

Anyways, what do you think about keeping that newspaper article called "When to visit Lindos in Fall" (travel tips) as there are already 2 better sources focused on the climate. --TechnicianGB (talk) 20:08, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

Still the first impression of the average reader is that Lindos has a mean annual T of 19 which is incorrect, so the sentence structure should change putting first the Lindos sources (including the Athens Voice article to answer your question) and then speaking about the Rhodes station from the HNMS source. As you understand the crucial thing is not to bury the increased mean annual T of Lindos , this is also particularly helpful for the tourists Weatherextremes (talk) 22:53, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

@Weatherextremes:You cannot contradict yourself. The facts are: Lindos registered a mean of 21.4°C in 2015 (according to a source) and the mean temperature of that exact area in the period 1971-2000 is around 18.5-19.0 (according to the most official source). Given this, the correct phrasing should look something like this:

"Lindos has an annual average temperature of around 19 °C (66 °F) (as extrapolated from the Rhodes Hellenic National Meteorological Service station) and in a year, the rainfall is between 400 and 500 mm (16 and 20 in). In 2015, according to the National Observatory of Athens, Lindos registered a mean annual temperature of 21.4 °C (70.5 °F) which made it, for that same year, Greece's warmest area."

If Lindos has an average of 21.4C then Madeira has a tropical wet and dry climate (which it doesn't and will probably not even have in the 2000-2030 period), you know why? Because I don't take info for a couple of years that didn't go down below 18C and put it as a normal. The only thing I can do is to write about what happened in that year and not generalize it as if it were a normal.

And let's keep the sources official, newspapers use that source (I sure hope so), so using multiple sources that use the same source to prove your point is not the correct way to approach anything on Wikipedia.Average Portuguese Joe (talk) 16:01, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

Actually the way my edit was worded is to the point. The island of Rhodes has a mean of 19 as the HNMS source suggests using the Rhodes city data. HNMS does not say anything on Lindos bsc there is no HNMS station in Lindos, so do not revert again. Also your edit was disruptive in that the Lindos mean should be first for better understanding from the average reader. Also the mean annual for 7 years is 21.9C in Lindos according to Wayback source. Which I am now thinking it might be a better idea to re-introduce since you seem to focus only on one year Weatherextremes (talk) 18:35, 30 July 2021 (UTC

@Average Portuguese Joe: Regarding climate normals we agreed to not put a weatherbox since there is not a summary directly from NOA. However there has not been a year that Lindos has registered sub 21C (or close to it) annually, that is for the 7 years it is working. The probability that this will change (make the average drop below 21C) in the next 22.5 years is close to zero statistically speaking (unless some cataclysmic event happens). Secondly there are some variables that need more time to be established like sunshine duration and average precipitation, the way it is right now, Lindos had registered for a few years numbers that make it to have a semi-arid climate, no one claimed that Lindos has Bsh climate though because even if it ends up having this climate it would be marginal and annual percipitations can vary a lot ( I don't think though Lindos will end up having bsh but I am not sure).
Finally I just checked in the climate section about Madeira an unsourced claim that several coastal areas have above 20C. How come when it comes for Portugal you don't have issues with such claims but for Lindos not only you try to nitpick everything but also refuse to check the data we have showed you and you want to deliberatly change the wording to make it look like it is an exception?FactDistributor (talk) 22:52, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

@Weatherextremes: I'd urge you to stop trying to impose your own POV on this article. And for writing something in a talk page doesn't give you free rights to revert everything you don't agree with. Please wait to reach first a WP:Consensus with other users as per WP:CYCLE. @Average Portuguese Joe: pointed it with a stable looking aspect of the page. He has put first the most reliable data (not deleting anything) and he removed 2 sites that were repeating the first source, the newspaper article has no relationship with the climate of Lindos as the page itself is called "When to visit Lindos in Autumn" and the temperature is only mentioned once in a phrase. There is a good meteo.gr source, there is no need to put unrelated sources. --TechnicianGB (talk) 21:06, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

@TechnicianGB: I am sorry but some rules of wikipedia are not yet clear to me. I was reading WP:SYNTH and it I found out that arithmetic mean is not SYNTH here. Does that mean that the arithmetic mean of the data from NOA is something that doesn't break any rules?(not weather box)FactDistributor (talk) 22:53, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

@TechnicianGB: Actually I urge you to stop trying imposing your version. Using the HNMS source to describe Lindos is both WP:SYNTH and WP:OR when the source says nothing about Lindos. The most accurate wording is the one I proposed by far for the average user. Weatherextremes (talk) 15:38, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

@FactDistributor: Thanks for that. I have raised a similar concern. So it might be a good idea to reinstate the 21.9C for further differentiation from Rhodes city data. Weatherextremes (talk) 15:41, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

To further add to what FactDistributor is saying I also found various unsourced claims in Portuguese climate articles edited by Average Joe. For example I found that Amareleja supposedly registered the highest T max in Europe during the 21st century which is completely false (I added the relevant HNMS source which shows Athens registered 47.5C in 2007). Anyhow it seems we have a user with a history of trying to back non existent narratives. Now like I said in the past Lindos is a very impressive area in Greece climatologically speaking. Check out the extreme temps it is registering the past few days with one of the most prolonged heatwaves in Greece [33]. You will notice the area can not drop below 34C during the nights and also the constant Foehn winds from mid June. This is why Lindos is so hot. Anyhow this is not important. What is important is to have the Lindos mean prominently in the article which can also help the average reader. Weatherextremes (talk) 15:51, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

@Weatherextremes: No WP:OR exists when there is a based source, and WP:SYNTH is literally what you're doing when inserting a travel tips page to try to make a point between the 3 sources. Then you're also always reverting and deleting everyone else's edits on the page while also constantly breaking Wikipedia:No Personal Attacks. This is the last warning before reporting you for being disruptive. I've tried everything to reach a consensus and you didn't care in any single case as the only thing you do is writting some random stuff in the talk page and then you go to revert or to edit whatever you want in this article. You opened a RfC and didn't even wait for any response. This won't be tolerated anymore, Wikipedia is not your personal blog. You've seemed to understand it in the ANI but you went disruptive again since you don't want to cooperate as you literally don't care about WP:Guidelines nor to reach a WP:Consensus. I'd urge you to end your Disruptive behavior before taking further actions. --TechnicianGB (talk) 17:10, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

@TechnicianGB: First of all I would appreciate it if you lowered your tone and stopped threatening me. I doubt you will go a long way like this. Secondly it is the responsibility of each editor to oversee that no WP:SYNTH or other wikipedia policies are compromised. So your threats will not deter me from editing according to wikipedia policies. Weatherextremes (talk) 18:12, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

I added some information regarding the mean annual temperature of Lindos for the period 2014-2021 + some misc info. As I read this is a routine calculation and isn't an original research https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research#Routine_calculations and it is completely verifiable. The only issue is that the user has to select Lindos from the Link since the query is done with ASP.net and there is no other way I know now to reference it directly. You can reference individual months by changing the date http://meteosearch.meteo.gr/data/lindos/2021-04.txt
As I see this is also not synthesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_SYNTH_is_not#SYNTH_is_not_numerical_summarization
If I am breaking any rules feel free to reference wikipedia to the appropriate section. Additionally the mean with Davis is 21.62C and the simple mean is 21.935C, I said over 21.5 to cover both.FactDistributor (talk) 18:08, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

@Average Portuguese Joe: I didn't revert your edits don't revert mine, if you have objection with something I added comment here. As I see I am keeping a NPOV and my edit didn't break any wikipedia rule. If you think that I am breaking some rule point me to the wikipedia section and correct the specified section. I added also some additional useful information so don't revert again!FactDistributor (talk) 19:53, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

@FactDistributor: For the purposes of consensus I agree with your latest edit. I would have preferred though to put the Lindos data first and specify that the 19 mean is for Rhodes data with the use of the word the island. But its ok. It seems a fair compromise Weatherextremes (talk) 17:51, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

References

Lindos ties European highest Tmin record for August

On a different note Lindos has just done the impossible and tied the European highest Tmin record for August with 34.0C [34] and is on track to break it in a few hours time. I am expecting it will start to be reported in various reputable sources before I add it to the article.

Well I will first wait to see if it breaks it later today Weatherextremes (talk) 21:29, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

Lindos about to break the European record for highest mean monthly T

I think this one will be confirmed in a couple of days.Indeed a 33C mean monthly T is more akin to Red Sea areas. Here is the source [35]. Weatherextremes (talk) 14:53, 29 August 2021 (UTC)

Ι have now added in the article the Dimokratiki newspaper source regarding the European record registered in Lindos Weatherextremes (talk) 15:07, 1 September 2021 (UTC)

History

Tlepolemus is a mythical figure, so I have added "According to myth" to the first sentence of the History section. Someone with more knowledge should separate myth from known history. 88.96.79.115 (talk) 19:33, 6 August 2022 (UTC)

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