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Misplaced Pages:WP 1.0 assessment request

Posted at User talk:Titoxd and User talk:Walkerma I noticed that you are a member of the 1.0 Editorial Team and you have an interest in assessment, so I am requesting that you assist me in making an assessment table for Misplaced Pages:WikiProject_Bahá'í_Faith#Assessement. As you can see, I have made Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Bahá'í Faith/Assessment, {{WPBF}}, and Category:WikiProject Bahá'í Faith articles, but for some reason Misplaced Pages:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Bahá'í Faith articles by quality statistics is not being generated. Walkerma added Category:Misplaced Pages 1.0 assessments almost two weeks ago, but the table hasn't been generated yet. I really appreciate your time and I wish I knew what I was doing wrong here. Also, I know that there was discussion about C-class articles, but did that get approved? If so, is it obligatory to add a C-class? Please respond on my talk or Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject Bahá'í Faith. Thanks. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 21:06, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

There you have it Thanks a lot. Again, re:C-class articles: is that designation obligatory or advised now? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 23:34, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Great One last thing: these assessment tables still have a yellow background for B-class articles, whereas {{Grading scheme}} has assigned yellow to C-class and a pea green to B-class. It seems like this could be confusing, so I would advise the 1.0 assessment folks to fix how these tables look when they are generated. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 23:39, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Categorization for articles with {{hurricane}}

Quick question. Would there be a nice, easy way to add a parameter to {{hurricane}} to break it down by category? I'm doing the monthly stats, and every month it's frustrating how tedious it is. Is there a way we could add something like |type=Atlantic, |type=season, |type=other? It'd be nice having it automatically broken down to have B-class articles categorized by type, and I wouldn't imagine it would be too difficult. ♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 04:31, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

I love the idea of setting up a task force, simply for the categorization purpose. I like, but not love the idea about having the B's automatically re-assessed as C's. In principal, I like it, but I thought the whole point of C class was to have a class in between start and B, not just to raise the standards for B-class. If an article passes all of the B-class criteria, then what is the point of then having A-class? Perhaps this should be dealt with on the project talk page. ♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 03:32, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

Track stuff

I just had a glance at the WPTC section on this stuff, I'll look into doing a bot run for the basin tracks. That is once there is consensus as to which ones - I'm not uploading all of them unless they are all wanted! I'll try to pick a systematic name format which doesn't clash with anything else.

On a related note, partially due to my idiocy, there is an inconsistent naming structure for unnamed storms. I'd like to standardise them, as it would help with locating things. My idea would be to use the JTWC-style format whether it is 12L, 03E or 33W and with no 'Cyclone' or 'Tropical Storm' style prefix Back to 1984, before that like on the 1970 NIO season. I'd want the projects thoughts before I start doing all the stuff associated with that.

I've got various RL concerns at the moment, but I'm planning to do a major bot run in late August to upload every last track I have data for. That would be back to 1870 in the N Indian, ~1900 in the South Hem and ~1950 for the N Pacific. If I can't readily ID the tracks, I'll just upload them at a generic site and people can re-upload when they ID it. This would mean the project would have everything from the past, and would only need updates when something major occurs - like a new storm or another batch of reanalysis. That would mean you won't need my intervention either. ;)--Nilfanion (talk) 22:47, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Typical of the project, over a week to comment and no response. So what are your views? Without further guidance I will upload the 1851-1994 Atlantic tracks, but I won't do 1995 onwards (that's when the coloured NHC ones start) or EPac ones. Likewise I won't action paras 2 or 3, unless I have at least a second opinion (preferably project consensus) on how to tackle file naming; does what I suggested above sound sensible to you?--Nilfanion (talk) 10:29, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

OK glad to know I'm sane. Regarding the inclusion/exclusion of the precise "Cyclone" or "Tropical storm" type prefixes my reluctance to use them is the difficulty in determining the appropriate one for the context. The problems get worse earlier in the period, WPac tracks stop in the 60s despite named stuff earlier because there is no relationship between the best track and the ATCRs. How would you feel about "Tropical cyclone XXY" for any unidentified/unnamed storms: irrespective of basin? That at least makes it clear it is a cyclone's track. I can read HURDAT but I don't enjoy it, and I don't particularly want to work out what 23P (1985) was just from staring at best track.--Nilfanion (talk) 20:53, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

Official rollout of C-Class

Tito,

I will be without internet (for a day or so) in about 5 minutes time, so could you make sure things keep progressing over at Misplaced Pages talk:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment? I posted conclusions to the discussions, I think the consensus for several changes are clear, most notably the adoption of the MILHIST criteria, plus I think G-Guy's version of B6. Perhaps you could look over my conclusions, and if you think they are fair, try and modify the "long description" table using the draft version? By all means recruit others to assist with the specific wording as you see fit. If you don't get to it today, I will be able to work on it on Thursday, but I'm concerned that we maintain momentum and get things all clear before we go to "rollout" on Friday (probably evening UTC). Cheers, Walkerma (talk) 15:36, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

List of The Bellflower Bunnies episodes

Sorry if WP:LoCE has been shut down for this, but can you go over this page and see what needs to cleaned up and/or fixed? Slowly aiming once more for FLC anytime soon. --Slgrandson (How's my egg-throwing coleslaw?) 22:03, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Nonsense?

It is a well known fact that Nebraska is a celebrated producer of crap. 75.3.192.35 (talk) 02:06, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #18

{{Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Newsletter/Archive 18}} ♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 03:32, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Help requested at WP:ANIME

Hi Titoxd,

I have been active at the abovementioned Wikiproject for quite a while now, and following the adoption of C-class, we have decided to start up a proper assessment page, re-assess our articles and update our project banner in the same way as {{Hurricane}}.

Will you be willing to update to update {{anime}} with the same functionality, i.e. to assess an article as C-class if all of the parameters have not been completed?

Regards, G.A.S 06:04, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

I'll work on that most likely tomorrow, but yeah, I can do that. Titoxd 05:34, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Thank you very much. Your help is appreciated. G.A.S 05:39, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

I have no idea why this is displaying at the top of the page on my browser, please fix this. G.A.S 06:08, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Fixed the problem Titoxd 05:34, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

		BarnSakura for excellence
		I hereby award you the Anime and Manga BarnSakura for your fine work in updating our Wikiproject banner to use a forced B class checklist. Keep up the good work! —G.A.S 19:02, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

A discussion

An important discussion on Should WikiProjects get prior approval of other WikiProjects (Descendant or Related or any ) to tag articles that overlaps their scope ? is open here . We welcome you to participate and give your valuable opinions. You are receiving this note as you are a member of WikiProject Council -- TinuCherian - 12:43, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Changes to the color scheme

Not sure if it is just me, or whether something serious happened, but it appears that when you added the category to the color templates, the template got messed up. For example - here. ♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 03:30, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Source that is really interesting

wondered if you could help with inclusion of this into the article. Seddσn 10:36, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Peer review#Euro gold and silver commemorative coins (Austria)

Hi Titoxd,

I am asking for a big favours of yours. I nominated the article Euro gold and silver commemorative coins (Austria) for featured list, but there were too many small grammar problems, so we decided to withdraw it, and do a peer review first. The list is complete and very well sourced. It also followed all he suggestions given in Euro gold and silver commemorative coins (Belgium) (recently promoted to featured list), so in general is in a very good shape. Only the description fields for the coins are in a need of a good copy/edit. Can you please help us to get this list promoted?

Many thanks, Miguel.mateo (talk) 06:23, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Follow up from Walkerma's talk page

Thanks for jumping in on my question on Walkerma's talk page. The template I am having the issue with is from the Ireland WikiProject Template:WikiProject_Ireland. If you look at Category:Unassessed Ireland articles you will see a links, several of which, being C-class, are using an uppercase 'C'. There don't seem to be any using a lowercase 'c' but it is odd that even though these articles are assessed as C-class they still appear in the unassessed category. All the properly assessed and correctly categorised articles are using an uppercase 'C'. Curious. Any thoughts? TIA (Normally I post in one place to keep a discussion together, so am now watching this page). ww2censor (talk) 01:24, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

This had to do with the size of the Job queue more than anything. I went through the category above and did null edits to those talk pages, and that seems to have cleared the category. Titoxd 02:00, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

Brilliant. You are a star. Thanks ww2censor (talk) 02:11, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

Не за что. Glad to help. Titoxd 02:13, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

Reading back on Walkerma's talkpage, I see that you referred to "Class" and "class" but I was actually referring to "class=C" as opposed to "class=c", that is the uppercase/lowercase I was talking about not the word "class" but the parameter used. Does it make any difference? ww2censor (talk) 02:16, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Re: Wikiwork

Yea, I know about that, but I opted to change ours to keep it comparable with our old system (making C-class between 3 and 4). ♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 04:21, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Graphics lab

Template:Graphics reply --pbroks13 06:44, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Bots/Requests for approval/TinucherianBot 4

If you see the configuration of this plugin created by an admin, used by the bot ,it allows creation of only the required categories. This avoids the needs of deletion of unnecessary categories as in case of Math bot.It is also future proof and allows category intersections which is already in adopted by some WikiProjects like WP:INDIA -- Tinu Cherian - 15:51, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

Do you mind sharing your opinions at the BRFA. The idea of this bot task is just an alternative for the existing method. Let who wants can use this method.Unlike the Mathbot, It gives some very useful advantages

• No need of deletion of unnecessary categories. The required categories can be selected and only created.
• No need of admin supervision.
• Allows category intersections which will come in next version of WP1.0 and already in practice by some projects etc

-- Tinu Cherian - 15:07, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

ITN

On 22 July, 2008, In the news was updated with a news item that involved the article(s) Tropical Storm Dolly (2008), which you created or substantially updated. If you know of another interesting news item involving a recently created or updated article, then please suggest it on the In the news candidates page.

Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/SlimVirgin-Lar

A request for arbitration which you commented on has been opened, and is located here. Any evidence you wish to provide should be emailed directly to any sitting Arbitrator for circulation among the rest of the committee. Please submit your evidence within one week, if possible. On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, Ryan Postlethwaite 14:35, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Hurricane Dolly (2008)

I am getting info as we speak! Cat. 1 as of 3pm CST. MountCan (talk) 20:22, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

RE: Hurricane Dolly (2008)

I am not a public I get info every hour! MountCan (talk) 20:24, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

• Hurricane Dolly (2008) info is coming shortly wait I will be updating Hurricane Dolly(2008). —Preceding unsigned comment added by MountCan (talk • contribs) 20:34, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Dolly @ 4

Ok. thanks I was just going to undo my own edit thanks! MountCan (talk) 20:56, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Dolly

That was me and from the article it says that estimated damages to property = 1.2 billion dollars --Elena85 | Talk to Me | Arlene87 is now Elena85 20:52, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Solution looking for a problem

Hi Titoxd,

I noticed your comments at Misplaced Pages:Village pump (technical) and I wanted to talk to you a bit more about the proposal to move the main page to Portal:Misplaced Pages. As ais523 pointed out, having the main page in the article space is causing even more problems than I initially realized, and moving it to the Portal space would resolve these problems. Specifically, moving the main page would fix the following:

• The top-left tab would read "portal" instead of "article".
• People who want to make copies of Misplaced Pages, such as people who provide computers to schools in Africa that can't get Internet access, would have an easier time separating actual articles from project content which they don't want to copy. Because the content of the main page changes dynamically from day to day, it would take quite a bit of work to make the main page work and keep working on an offline copy of Misplaced Pages. Thus, since the main page won't actually work by default, it's probably best to exclude it from copies of Misplaced Pages article content by default.
• The "cite this page" link in the sidebar would be hidden from screen readers and text-only browsers, and the sitewide CSS would no longer have to contain a special declaration to hide it.
• The article count shown at Special:Statistics would be accurate instead of being 1 higher than the actual number of articles on Misplaced Pages. {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} would also be accurate instead of being off by one.
• Statistics about Misplaced Pages articles would be more accurate and not slightly skewed by statistics about the main page that are likely to get mixed in.
• It would be generally easier to write bots and other automated scripts because developers would not have to worry about having to write special code for the main page, ever.

Thanks for the link to Tim Berners-Lee's article "Cool URIs don't change". I like his reasoning, and I absolutely agree that we should try to get things right the first time to avoid having to move things later. Unfortunately, we didn't get things right the first time, and the longer we delay this move the more of a problem it's going to become. The number of scripts, bots, etc. that have to be specially coded around the main page will continue to increase and it's quite possible that other, unforseen problems will emerge from the illogical placement of the main page into the article space.

I hope this explanation helps resolve your concerns - please let me know. —Remember the dot 05:55, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Apologies for the delay, but it still doesn't:

• The top-left tab does not need to be an issue at all if we change the tab in the main namespace from "article" to "page", like developers suggested.
• Also, as a member of WP:1.0, I have never seen the main page be a concern for publishing projects, as it is impossible to select all the pages in the main namespace and have them be printed or placed on a DVD. There's simply too many, and they don't fit. Instead, the approach used by WP:V0.5, WP:V0.7 and BozMo's Misplaced Pages for Schools selections is to select a subgroup of articles and publish them. The main page has never been selected, nor it will, so that problem is purely hypothetical.
• Why does the "cite this page" link even have to be hidden? Isn't consistency in the interface the reason we don't have a second search bar on the Main Page? I really didn't even know that it was hidden, and I don't see why it is necessary.
• Special:Statistics can be modified on the server side, by not counting a page as an article if its title equals the contents of MediaWiki:Mainpage. Not hard to do, actually, and works for all wikis in all languages.
• I would be interested in knowing which statistics are skewed by one page out of 2,480,211.
• If the bots obey {{nobots}}, they shouldn't have to worry about editing the main page, ever.

Overall, I still only see marginal benefits in the move, and a lot of headaches. So, I'm still opposed to the move. Titoxd 21:57, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Pacific hurricane season maps

I uploaded a bunch of season maps from NHC. They follow the same naming format as the others. The local copies are interfering with the display, and I think they should be renamed like the other ones with a Blue Marble background. I did not upload on top of them because some may be used on other pages. That is all I can do, so I need an admin to fix these. As far as I can tell, the ones from 1990-94 are affected.Potapych (talk) 15:36, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

Template help for 1.0

Hi Tito, I was wondering if you could take a look at this discussion. We clearly need to amend the template, but I'd like to check that such a change wouldn't screw up the layout in the places where the template is used. I'm sure there are ways to check how and where this is used, but I'm very ignorant of such tools. Can you help?

Also, would you be up for an IRC discussion in mid-August on the release of Version 0.7? Thanks, Walkerma (talk) 05:22, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

No I will not stop doing what I must. I was making a merre simple edit to rectify the grammer and adjectives used in the article sunflower then I get this mad warning from you. You cant tell me to stop. You have no right. As per WP:RIGHTS —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.167.55.57 (talk) 10:13, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Maletinazo

Tito, I posted to Jossi yesterday, but haven't had a response. If you have a chance, can you check the accuracy of my representations of the Spanish sources here? Thanks, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 20:28, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Battle of Berlin (air)

Instead of just reverting edits, how about you make a little input into the discussion? Or else, stay out of it? Dapi89 (talk) 22:33, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Oh, and you didn't even complete the reversal properly. Please join the talk page. Dapi89 (talk) 22:35, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Of course I did. You removed the note template in the information box. Now we have a missing template note for the footnotes. I can't revert again, as I'm on my third today. Dapi89 (talk) 22:41, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #19

Number 19, August 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 July 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

Hurricane Bertha was a rare early season Cape Verde-type hurricane and the easternmost forming July tropical storm on record. Bertha became the longest-lived pre-August Atlantic tropical cyclone on record and the longest-lived tropical cyclone in the Atlantic Basin since Ivan in 2004. The second named storm of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season, Bertha developed from a tropical wave that emerged off the coast of Africa on July 1. After initially remaining weak while tracking westward, Bertha began to strengthen on July 6, and the next day it quickly intensified to reach peak winds of 120 mph (195 km/h). The hurricane weakened during the day on July 8, and after turning to a northwest drift, it passed within 40 miles (64 km) of Bermuda on July 14 before moving northeast away from the island. Bertha became extratropical on July 20 to the east of Newfoundland, after causing minimal damage and three indirect drowning deaths.

Other tropical cyclone activity

• Northwestern Pacific Ocean – After several weeks of no activity, Typhoon Kalmaegi developed in the middle of the month, passing near northern Luzon before turning to the north and making landfalls on Taiwan and China; the typhoon caused heavy crop damage and 18 deaths. Later in the month, Typhoon Fung-Wong caused further flooding in Taiwan and China. In addition to the two named typhoons, PAGASA issued advisories on Tropical Depression Gener early in the month.
• Eastern Pacific Ocean – Four named storms developed in the basin during the month, of which three became hurricanes; Hurricanes Elida, Fausto, and Genevieve, as well as Tropical Storm Douglas, all remained offshore, though in the middle of the month a tropical depression brought rainfall to Mexico after hitting near Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán. Hurricane Boris and Tropical Storm Cristina continued from the previous month.
• Atlantic Ocean– In addition to Hurricane Bertha, two other tropical cyclones developed in the month. Tropical Storm Cristobal formed off the coast of Florida, bringing rainfall and gusty winds to coastal North Carolina and later Nova Scotia. The most damaging Atlantic tropical cyclone during the month was Hurricane Dolly, which formed on July 20 in the western Caribbean Sea. After tracking northwestward through the Gulf of Mexico, it reached peak winds of 100 mph (155 km/h) before moving ashore on South Padre Island, Texas. The hurricane caused flash flooding from heavy rainfall, with damage in the United States estimated at $1.2 billion; across its path Dolly caused 21 deaths, including 17 from landslides in Guademala, as well as two indirect fatalities.

Member of the month

The July member of the month is User:Plasticup. Joining the project in August of 2007, Plasticup first became an asset in working on the active article series on Hurricane Dean. After a period of inactivity, the user returned to produce two featured articles this month, both interesting meteorological histories. Additionally, Plasticup has focused some attention to articles in the 2005 season. Keep up the good work!

New members

New and improved articles

• There were five new pieces of Featured content : 1998 Pacific hurricane season (FT), Tropical Storm Chantal (2001), Meteorological history of Hurricane Dean, 2007 Atlantic hurricane season, and Meteorological history of Hurricane Gordon (1994)
• New Good articles include: Atlantic tropical cyclone, Cyclone Bola, Maximum sustained wind, Hurricane Henriette (2007)
• New storm articles include: Great Barbados hurricane, 2002 Oman cyclone, Tropical Storm Kiko (2007)
• New non-storm articles include: Meteorological history of Hurricane Jeanne, Maximum potential intensity

Main Page content

• Typhoon Paka appeared as Today's Featured Article on July 5
• Typhoon Kalmaegi and Hurricane Dolly appeared in the In the news column during the month
• Entries from 2 articles: Meteorological history of Hurricane Gordon (1994) and 1891 Martinique hurricane, appeared on the Main Page in the Did you know column during July.

Storm article statistics </noinclude>

Grade	Apr	May	Jun	Jul
FA	40	41	41	42
A	8	17	18	18
GA	131	129	135	139
B	103	101	96	15
C	0	0	3	98
Start	208	209	208	202
Stub	9	9	9	10
Total	499	506	510	524
ω	2.92	2.88	2.87	2.94
percentage ≥Less than C	43.5	43.1	42.5	40.5
percentage ≥GA or better	35.9	37.0	38.0	38.0

Project News
During July, there were two large changes to the operations of the WikiProject. First, WPTC adopted and helped develop the WP 1.0 B-Class criteria, and was among the first projects to use a "forced" B-Class rubric as part of their assessment schemes. This means that all the articles tagged with {{hurricane|class=B|...}} are automatically reassessed as {{C-Class}}, unless all the values in the checklist are marked as passed. In other words, to mark an article as B-Class, the banner needs to be changed to

{{hurricane |class=B |B1=yes |B2=yes  |B3=yes |B4=yes |B5=yes |B6=yes | ... }}

B1, B2, B3, B4, B5 and B6 stand for each of the six points in the WikiProject's rubric. The banner also has the capability to mark why an article doesn't meet the new B-Class standards: Typing the following in an article's talk page

{{hurricane |class=B |B1=no |B2=yes |B3=yes |B4=yes |B5=yes |B6=yes | ... }}

will assess an article as C-Class, and mark that the article is not a B because of bad references.

Articles assessed as B's before the introduction of the forced checklist were automatically reassessed as C's, but they're awaiting new reviews to check if they still meet the new B criteria. These articles are listed on Category:Tropical cyclone articles with incomplete B-Class checklists. Currently, there's 117 articles in the category—let's try to shrink that number to zero before the next edition of the Herald!

The other major change to the WikiProject was the addition of three task forces: the storm articles task force, season articles task force, and the tropical meteorology articles task force. These three task forces allow WPTC to see the progress of the different areas of the WikiProject. Currently, all 1,076 WPTC articles have been assigned to one of the three task forces, but any unsorted articles will be placed in Category:Unsorted tropical cyclone articles as they're tagged with {{hurricane}}.

In order to categorize an article, the banner needs to be modified from {{hurricane|...}} to:

{{hurricane |storms-task-force=yes | ... }}
{{hurricane |seasons-task-force=yes | ... }}
{{hurricane |meteo-task-force=yes | ... }}

which will sort the pages into the storms, seasons, and tropical meteorology task forces, respectively.

Offseason hurricanes

Yeah, its fine. I got lazy and stopped working on it, but that list does have most of the bigger storms. Hello32020 (talk) 23:11, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

It's 36, which is also in the article. I fixed it. ♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 13:05, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

Coding for updated WP 1.0 bot

If you're interested in coding for the new bot, the script that needs the most work is list.pl, which needs to have a more general query interface (subsuming list2.pl). Would you feel comfortable working on that? Another, shorter, task would be to write the code to update the lists of GA, FA, and WP 0.5 articles. This info should be put into two new tables, one for FA/GA and another for WP 0.5/0.7/1.0. — Carl (CBM · talk) 18:29, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

I updated the backend files in svn this afternoon. I added (and tested) transaction support, so that either all the data for a project gets updated or none of it does. I also changed the way extra assessments are read, to use a template like I described earlier, and tested that.

If you're looking for a project to use to learn Perl, I'd recommend the script to download the lists of Good Articles and Featured Articles. You can use the existing database routines as a model for that, and it doesn't have as many complications as the CGI script. — Carl (CBM · talk) 21:51, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

Overly drastic

... but the FBI's penalty for edit warring seems overly drastic.  :-) -- SEWilco (talk) 23:10, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

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LEAVE ME ALONE I KNOW WHAT YOUR DOING.Compu34 (talk) 06:50, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

Please check this out

You said you use a Mac, so could you look at any tropical cyclone season page and see if the small template looks right in Safari? I think I finally fixed the IE-style issues, but I believe that's the only picky browser.Potapych (talk) 21:21, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Tropical Storm Olga (2007)

The article Tropical Storm Olga (2007) you nominated as a good article has passed , see Talk:Tropical Storm Olga (2007) for eventual comments about the article. Well done! Plasticup /C 22:37, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

2004 Hurricane season

I've recently been criticised for promoting lists with even just one support - this list had plenty of comments but no support. So I didn't feel comfortable with promoting it. It still looks as if FLC is being used as WP:PR to a degree and that lists require two runs, one to get all the stuff fixed, the second to get sufficient support. There's nothing to stop the list being renominated. The Rambling Man (talk) 08:03, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

Toolserveraccount

Hello Titoxd,
please send your real-name, your wikiname, your prefered login-name and the public part of your ssh-key to . We plan to create your account soon then. --DaB. 02:11, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

DYK: List of off-season Atlantic hurricanes

On 13 August, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article List of off-season Atlantic hurricanes, which you recently nominated. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

WP1.0 template

I just reassessed an article as C-Class and noticed that {{WP1.0}} isn't working for C-Class; see Talk:Northern Territory Can you fix that? Thanks, Walkerma (talk) 21:31, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Fixed. Titoxd 21:41, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! That was fast! Walkerma (talk) 22:48, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, as the template used the code at {{WP1.0/Version categories}}, I only had to make one change. Titoxd 22:52, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Help! <:)

Hey, I was wondering if you would be willing to spare a wiki-second and do a copy-edit of Odwalla. It's on GA review and Peer review right now, but I need all the suggestions I can get! Thanks! Intothewoods29 (talk) 02:16, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Commons and tracks

Hey,

I noticed you just had a quick hack at the track map template - its very overdue. However, the timing was a bit unfortunate, I'm about to go do exactly the same thing preparatory to uploading all damn tracks. I plan to make some substantial changes to it, which will make the information page much more useful.

I also plan to make the template a mandatory subst, as that will make adding non-english language descriptions a matter of simple edits as opposed to exponentially increasing the complexity of the template itself. I'll be working the replacement up at commons:User:Nilfanion/Tc. As part of all this I will run over all the images, both my new uploads and the existing ones and update them. Given this, I'd suggest you stop your cleaning up of the files for now and give any suggestions on the talk page of my workup on Commons.--Nilfanion (talk) 00:29, 22 August 2008 (UTC)