User talk:Theonlysilentbob

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York university article

Hi Theonlysilentbob, I'm not sure where to put messages, so I'm going to put it here for now. I noticed you are the main person uploading pics for the YorkU wikipedia page. Just wanted to say that we need a better pic of Vari Hall (even if its tentative) because the current one is very low quality and makes the article look bad. Vari Hall is probably one of the nicer (if not nicest) buildings on the campus.

LupusCanidae (talk) 04:37, 8 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

VA-Tech names

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Licensing for Lake effect blizzard.jpg and DSC04049.JPG

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Well, the problem at the time was that there was no indication that you had anything to do with the website you got it from, so it looked no different from hundreds of other cases of people uploading images they had no rights to. I'm sorry for the confusion (and the fact that it took as long as it did for you to get back to me means it would have been deleted in the meantime anyway; you can re-upload it or I can undelete it now anyway) —Random832 13:25, 28 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Possibly unfree Image:DSC04049.JPG

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Great, thanks. --Fritz S. (Talk) 10:12, 28 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Winter storms

There is a discussion started by User:Juliancolton at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Meteorology about a proposed/possible new WikiProject called WikiProject Winter storms. Feel free to voice your opinion on the proposal.--JForget 01:33, 23 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WP:METEO Active members

User:Juliancolton/Active

WikiProject Severe Weather Newsletter

A newsletter has been started for WP:SEVERE at Wikipedia:WikiProject Severe weather/Newsletter. Newsletter editors are currently in need of nominations for featured member to finish the newsletter before the begining of the month. Nominations are accepted at the above link. User: Southern Illinois SKYWARN and User:Juliancolton —Preceding comment was added at 23:45, 31 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

lake effect snow image

The information in the picture should be correct, the image is just a snapshot of a computer screen using a cellphone camera. If you'd like to do that, that'd be nice, it would be better than the possible illegal version anyway. Argyleist (talk) 17:37, 4 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Severe Weather Newsletter (February 2008)

The WikiProject Severe weather NewsletterVol. I, No. 1, Issue 1, February 2008
If you would like to delete this message, the original is at Wikipedia:WikiProject Severe weather/Newsletter/February 2008

Welcome

Welcome to the first monthly issue of the WikiProject Severe weather newsletter! In this issue, we will welcome you to the newsletter, and give you an idea of what the project is about, what it has done, and what it plans to do. So, enjoy reading the February 2008 issue! If you have not signed up to receive the newsletter, you may do so at the newsletter page. If you do not sign up, you will not receive the next newsletter!

New project articles

Marion, Illinois Tornado Outbreak- Featured as a "Did you know" article on the Main Page
List of May 2003 Tornado Outbreak Sequence tornadoes (split from the main article)
2008 Vancouver tornado- Details the recent abnormal tornado in Vancouver, Washington
Barneveld, Wisconsin tornado outbreak- Details a destructive tornado outbreak that hit areas of Wisconsin in 1984.
January 2008 Tornado Outbreak Sequence-Details the recent tornado outbreak (see section below)

Featured story

This featured story focuses on the relative WikiWork for this project. The relative WikiWork is the measure of how lose a project is to having every article featured. It is a complex calculation;

ω = a + 2g + 3b + 4s + 5t

where a is A-class articles, g is GA-class articles, b is B-class articles, s is start-class articles, and t is stub-class articles.

Thus, the closer you are to 0 (zero), the closer you are to having every article featured. The WikiWork number for every class is added, then divided by the number of articles, similar to averaging, and it is found that the relative WikiWork for this project is Ω = 4.182. Ω is a symbol for the relative WikiWork factor. That is not the best number, as we are closer to 5 than we are to 0, and we are very close to 5. This means that the majority of the articles in the project are either stub, or start. That is what we need to change. So, while more severe weather articles are good, we should try not to publish as many stub class, and fewer start class articles.

Wikiwork statistics

Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Severe weather articles by quality statistics

Members section

New members User:Juliancolton (Talk) The most recent user to join the project, but is very active. User:Juliancolton is also an editor of this newsletter.

Featured member User:CrazyC83 is this month's featured member for WikiProject Severe weather. (The following text is from User:JForget's nomination.) User:CrazyC83 - One of the most active (if not the most) members in recent tornado activity coverage and monitoring. Recent examples of this includes the February-March 2007 Tornado Outbreak in Alabama and Missouri, the May 2007 Tornado Outbreak in Kansas and Oklahoma and the January 2008 Tornado Outbreak Sequence in Missouri, Wisconsin, Arkansas, Mississippi and Alabama. Had also made coverage in non-article tornado events such as the New Orleans tornado event on February 13, 2007 and the tornado event associated with the Superstorm of December 16, 2007. User:CrazyC83 made numerous edits, more than one hundred, to 2008 Super Tuesday tornado outbreak.

Significant storms

Significant storms last month included the outbreak in the United States in early to mid-January that produced 71 tornadoes and killed three people. Several tornado emergencies were issued in association with supercells during this outbreak. This outbreak was very similar to a classic spring severe weather outbreak, but extending farther north than even most late season outbreaks. The hardest hit areas on January 7 were the Springfield, Missouri metropolitan area and areas immediately to the north of Chicago, three people were killed near Springfield throughout the Southwestern Missouri Ozarks. On January 8, my area, the Tri-State region of Evansville, Indiana, was hit with the tornado outbreak. Only a few funnel clouds were reported in my area. Most tornadoes of the day were confined to the Memphis, Tennessee area and Eastern Arkansas, where one person was killed. On January 9 only a few wind and hail reports were received^[1]. On January 10, however, the action started back up. More tornadic storms developed across the Southern United States, including several significant storms that produced tornadoes. These tornadoes severely damaged rual towns in Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia. The most notable of these tornadoes was reported in Lamar County, Alabama where 1 person was injured as several buildings were destroyed in this EF-3 tornado.

Five more deaths (three by tornadoes and two by straight-line winds) were reported on January 29 from a series of scattered tornadoes and a serial derecho across the Ohio Valley stretching south into Arkansas.^[2]

References

^ http://spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports/080109_rpts.html SPC reports for January 9
^ Storm Prediction Center 20080129's Storm Reports

For more references see January 2008 Tornado Outbreak Sequence

Southern Illinois SKYWARN (talk) 14:40, 10 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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3 point lighting

The author information says that Image:3 point lighting.svg was generated from an image you created. If true, I wonder if you might enhance the artwork by adding a camera to the illustration? It would make this image very useful. Thanks for your consideration. 06:27, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

Winter waterspout

Hi,

You have participate to the article called Winter waterspout. Althought they are very rare, exept for the season they physically are produce the same way as any waterspout : strong low level instability and weak wind shear. So I have proposed to merge that article into a section a section of waterspout. Could you comment at Talk:Waterspout.

Pierre cb (talk) 02:54, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Left a message on your commons talk page

You seem to be more active over here, so I thought I'd leave you a note... that I left you a note on your commons talk page. Thanks! --ShakataGaNai ^{^_^} 19:13, 22 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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A barnstar for you!

The Original Barnstar

Hi,

Just thought I'd let you know I have used one of your images (with attribute) as the picture for a track I have released (under CC). Many thanks for allowing it to be shared.

http://kosh42.bandcamp.com/track/elgars-as-torrents-in-summer-string-quartet-arrangement

Kosh Kosh42 (talk) 07:44, 18 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Perhaps see this article

in need of creation… [1] Leprof 7272 (talk) 14:13, 3 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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[1] ttp://spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports/080109_rpts.html SPC reports for January 9

[2] Storm Prediction Center 20080129's Storm Reports

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