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Request for assistance or advice

After I spent the last two days citing each sentence or clause of each sentence (again, see aarchives), Jclemens now says he is going to delete the entire thing, again, (after losing an AFD argument to delete the entire article, but initially keeping it deleted for many days, and after then getting information he deleted censored from going back in by edit war deletions with a number of editors causing an article protection). Included in those making deleitions was User:Waaog, a team or users from the Wasilla Assembly of God church itself, who had their account shut down just before Jclemens arrived. I created this article as my first at Wikipedia, and I do not understand Jclemens reasoning on the talk page with his "six hour deadline" he has given me to fix unspecified "redundancies", and fix every unspecified citation format error. Could you help or advise? Thanks. Tautologist (talk) 22:12, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Request

Hey Plasticup; would you mind running your non-breaking space script over Christmas 1994 nor'easter? Thanks, –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 00:55, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

You got it. Plasticup T/C 01:42, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
Thanks. –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 01:43, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #22

Number 22, November 2, 2008

The Hurricane Herald

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

Please visit this page and bookmark any suggestions of interest to you. This will help improve monitoring of the WikiProject's articles.

Storm of the month

Cyclone X
Cyclone X

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

Other tropical cyclone activity

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

Member of the month

Cyclone barnstar
Cyclone barnstar

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

New and improved articles

Main Page content

Storm article statistics

Grade Jul Aug Sep Oct
FA 42 46 47 48
A 18 18 19 19
GA 139 145 161 187
B 15 14 17 12
C 98 99 107 113
Start 202 197 201 201
Stub 10 15 19 20
Total 524 537 571 600
ω 2.94 2.92 2.92 2.88
percentage
Less than C
40.5 39.5 38.5 36.8
percentage
GA or better
38.0 39.3 39.8 42.3

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

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

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

Miss Madeline | Talk to Madeline 02:00, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

Fay

How did you make the Fay image keep on repeating and how did you make it in the first place?--Kirk76 1854 Atlantic Hurricane Season 01:07, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

I made an animated gif file using Adobe Fireworks and the individual satellite images of the storm. Plasticup T/C 16:00, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

Lowell Nesbitt's endless lists

Hi Plasticup, I saw you were an editor for the Lowell Nesbitt article and wonder if you'd like to comment on the discussion page? Thanks, Julia Rossi (talk) 09:44, 3 December 2008 (UTC)