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The page was getting kind of heavy, I just figured I'd clear some off. You can put it back or put yours back if you want; it is after all, your page just as much as mine. (How's my driving?) ❖ 19:11, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

RE:Teh Signatures

Thanks for leaving me a signature! User:Da.Tomato.Dude

Pagename vs PageName

"Pagename is a rediect to Dummy target. Why isn't this one?"

The answer is that wikipedia article titles are case sensitive. Thus, Pagename and PageName are entirely different articles. Another example is PANDORA (all caps), which re-directs to the Pandora Archive, and Pandora (first letter caps), which sends you to the article about the Greek mythological figure.

Hope I could help!

The Dark Lord Trombonator (((¶))) 08:10, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Re: Question on MOTD

Hi. I'm kind of confused about the edits procedure, proposed by you. If a motto has several edits, is the one with the most supports approved, and the other ones rejected? Also, are mottos with too few votes always reopened, even if it's one of several edits? Were there any mottos that were rejected and forgotten even with too few votes? Also, is there an archive for past mottos? I really think the mottos should be archived, or at least removed from the in review section, if it's already on the nominations page. This is because if the in review section is too long, it can cause browser problems, but the nominations page can be edited over several sections. This problem hasn't occured before, did some rule about it change? Also, great job with everything else on MOTD. PS. I created the motd star. Thanks. AstroHurricane001 22:55, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Okay, first off, the most common way to close an edit is to approve only one and reject the other versions. This is because consensus usually favors one over the other, and they're usually so similar that approving two versions would violate the rule of duplicate mottos. However, as in the case of this nomination, some edits may be approved in addition to their original nomination. In that case, the "edits", if you can call them that, we different enough from the original nomination that they all were approved.

Next, about approving edits with too few votes, as long as one of the versions has gained enough support to be approved, the other versions may be rejected, even if they haven't received enough votes. The only time they would be reopened is if none of the versions had received enough votes to determine consensus. If that were the case, the entire nomination, edits and all, would be copied back into the "In review" section.

I don't know of any (recent) mottos that were rejected and forgotten even with too few votes. I know of one mass closing by User:Vanderdecken, which essentially created the Misplaced Pages:Motto of the day/Nominations/Archive 2 page, in which he was forced to either make a decision based on the 1 or 2 votes, if any, or reopen nearly all of them. Of course, that was back when MOTD had Overseers... But now, I think nominations are receiving enough votes that most are either approved or rejected. You can take a look at Misplaced Pages:Motto of the day/Nominations/Archive 4 for my recent mass closing, and to see some of my reasons for rejecting mottos. Most of the time it was because of a unanimous oppose or because there were strong opinions on both sides, and therefore no consensus (even with enough votes).

Yes, you can view the archives for discussions from the link on the nominations page, which includes archives 1, 2, 3, and 4. A similar archive for the schedule page can be found at Misplaced Pages:Motto of the day/Schedule/Archive/2006, or from the archive box on the schedule page.

The "In review" section is merely a subpage for the current mottos, and is transcluded to the nominations page, so no duplicates should exist. The nominations page essentially acts to display all of the current nominations, with its three sections ("In review", "Awaiting decision", and "Decisions to be acted on"). The In review subpage was initially created by User:Geo.plrd, with the reason, In review allows for speedy archiving. (discussion).

I think that covered most of your questions. Contact me further if you need more detail, or if I interpreted one of your questions wrongly. --Tewy 23:38, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Reply. Hi. Thanks for answering my questions so thouroughly, and yes, you did answer practically all my questions. I could still not find a direct reason why the in review page is being so large, I thinkit is because of your mass reopenings and closings, and the huge number of mottos. I am beginning to resee mottos already forgotten for weeks. I don't really mind the page being so large, I think my browser can handle it. I guess the problem is,some mottos are so boring or unpopular, people are not paying attention to them, not even enough to oppose on its boringness. Anyway, thanks again. Bye for now. AstroHurricane001 00:57, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

I'd say it's the combination of a large number of nominations with a small number of votes. That leads to more reopenings, which only compound the problem. And yes, I've noticed that many people don't vote on bland or just plain bad mottos. The unanimous opposes are usually only for obscene and offensive mottos. --Tewy 01:46, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Okay, I've revised the procedures on the nominations page, to address some of the "FAQs" on my talk page, but you can revise them further if there's a part that might confuse someone. --Tewy 04:42, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Score

Greetings AstroHurricane001!

Please read the message I have put at the bottom as a reply to the accusations from several people (here). Thank you for your interest in this matter. It is nice to know that there are hardworking Wikipedians who believe in fairness and no-cheating(as I do).

Sincerely, Yuanchosaan 07:02, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Nice job

Good work on copy-editing homework. Chill Factor Five 18:47, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

About that...

Ah ha! Our first victim is one of our own! See Misplaced Pages:Motto of the day/April 1, 2007. Happy April Fools' Day! --Tewy 00:15, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Ha, or was I the intended victim... --Tewy 00:24, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Guess not. --Tewy 01:16, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #11

Number 11, April 1, 2007

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.

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 Will developed from a tropical wave to the east of the Caribbean Sea and intensified. It crossed over Jamaica and re-emerged over water a few days later. The storm intensified into a hurricane and an eye began to develop. Will became a major hurricane over the Gulf of Mexico and made landfall on the vulnerable Gulf Coast of the United States soon after. To date, Hurricane Will has claimed over 350 lives and is directly responsible for about $5 billion of damages; of which an unknown amount was insured. Despite the damage, it is not expected that the name will be retired by WMO.

Other tropical cyclone activity

• After threatening the Eastern Seaboard for some time, Hurricane Hink has turned away and the NHC has cancelled all warnings associated with the storm.
• The 2007 Pacific typhoon season began with Tropical Storm Kong-rey forming on March 31.
• There were a total of 7 cyclones in the southern hemisphere: Becky in the South Pacific, Indlala and Jaya in the Southwestern Indian Ocean and Odette, George, Jacob and Kara in the Australian region. Indlala killed at least 80 and left over 100,000 homeless; whilst Cyclone George was the worst storm to affect Port Hedland in over 30 years.

Member of the month

The April member of the month is HurricaneIrene. Irene began contributing to tropical cyclone articles on Misplaced Pages in August 2005, but ran out of steam and left after barely 2 weeks. However, Irene's influence on the project has been wide-reaching. Her efforts led directly to two articles attaining featured status and her legacy inspired many of our most active editors to write a plethora of good articles on a wide range of storms.

New and improved articles

• The was one new featured article: Hurricane Kenna
• New Good articles include: Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale, Hurricane Florence (1988), Tropical cyclone observation and 1996 Pacific hurricane season.
• New storm articles include: Hurricane Lili (1990), Tropical Storm Alberto (1988), Cyclone George and Typhoon Durian.
• New non-storm articles include: Tropical cyclone naming, list of cyclones in Western Australia, Hurricane evacuation route and Tropical cyclone rainfall forecasting.

Main Page content

• Hurricane Iniki appeared on the Main Page as Today's featured article on March 15.
• Entries from 2 articles: Hurricane Katrina (1981) and Hurricane Guillermo (1997) appeared on the Main Page in the Did you know column during March.

Storm article statistics

Grade	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr
FA	23	25	28	29
A	2	2	2	2
GA	74	75	80	82
B	71	76	78	80
Start	193	195	194	209
Stub	16	16	16	17
Total	379	389	398	419
percentage Less than B	55.1	54.2	52.8	53.9

The Main Page

The WikiProject has a narrow scope, so it is not surprising that our articles are not frequently selected for Today's featured article. Most destructive cyclones are likely to be mentioned on the In the news column. We have no real control over that, but we should submit suggestions when appropriate.

However, we can do a more lot more to place our content in the other major section of the main page: The Did you know column. In the past month we created over 30 articles. Of these only 2 were even submitted as suggestions for DYK. We can do much better, please submit DYK entries for new articles when you do the initial assessment.

Re:please decide on it soon!

Hi. It wasn't meant to be a joke on my part. I only remebered that there was a motto like that after you showed it to me. I was wondering where the April fools' nominations had gone, I couldn't find it in the history. Also, I see you turned your page into AAAAAAAAAA! Why not add the diagonal banner at the top? Thanks. AstroHurricane001 14:34, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

If you haven't found them already, the April Fools' Day nominations are here. As for the border, I might add it later, maybe. --Tewy 19:19, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Re: Sponge quotes

• See: Misplaced Pages:Quotations. -AMK152 19:33, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

The Motto

I want to post this motto @ MOTD if you like it:

Over the river and through the woods to editing Misplaced Pages I go!

If I nominate I'll be sure to format it like this: AstroHUrricane001 proposed it; motivation from Squeak (see User talk:Steptrip#That Box for further information). Tell me if you like it.  ~Steptrip 23:47, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

RFB vote

Ah, that's great. I hope I didn't jump in too early... by the way, I have answered your question at the help desk about popups... or at least, I think that I answered it (correctly, that is). Happy editing, Gracenotes § 01:31, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Nesolagus

AstroHurricane, Most times when ecologists and biologists don't know why an organism is exceptionally rare they say it "may be habitat loss." That's all the reference said. (How's my driving?) ❖ 00:39, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Since that's what the source said, I don't see why we can't say it, too. Instead of removing the content, find a better source that explains it better. - UtherSRG (talk) 01:08, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

The only thing is that there are not many sources period. On Google Scholar the relevant sources start falling off by the second page. I suppose my argument doesn't look so good, but I still believe "may be due to habitat loss" should be removed because the answer is not known. (How's my driving?) ❖ 01:19, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

By the way AstroHurricane, I think it was exceptionally good of you to notify each of us of the happenings and get us to talk about it. I personally believe it is from to recent speciation due to habitat bubbling from sea level rise after the Pliocene epoch. The sea level rose (and ironically) this cut off the ancestor(s) of the Nesolagus from each other and put them in their own separate bubbles; they turned into their own species (plural), but there were only few of them in each bubble, and they weren't that suited to begin with in the new native land.

During glacial maxima, sea levels over the Sunda shelf were almost 150 metres lower than today, connecting Sumatra, Java and Borneo to the Asian mainland7. The ancestral Nesolagus may have been distributed over areas of this region at a time of lower sea level in the Pliocene, and its range would have been repeatedly dissected by periodic changes in both sea level and forest habitat.

The contraction and expansion of ranges in and out of such allopatric refugia can generate divergence, with the sister genomes being protected by hybrid zones if they make contact, leading to speciation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mac Davis (talk • contribs) 03:17, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Thank you/It's a pleasure

Thanks for signing my page, and for caring about my sig being there (most people would have relished the chance to mercilessly delete something). And: it's a pleasure, signing yours. Happy Editing! Goldfritter 08:57, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Thank you

For the sig Mr. AstroHurricane001The New Mikemoral

Geology Project

The project has been created. Please check out the project page. Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Geology Solarapex 00:09, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Signpost

Template:Signpost-subscription has instructions - you can sign up for the spamlist, or just put the template on your user page, however you prefer. --Michael Snow 17:02, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Help at MotD, please?

Hi, Atro. You've introduced many mottoes at MotD, but you haven't voted on many others. I would really appreciate if you would help me (and Tewy, and Magnus, etc.) to close some nominations. The page is currently very long, and any help would be appreciated. I'm not saying this to be mean or anything, but very few users help out with the "boring stuff", so I thought recruting some helpers would be benificial. Thanks for all of the work you have done so far too! *Cremepuff222* 17:51, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

No, no, no, no! Two supports helps a ton! Sorry if I was a tad angry-sounding earlier; I was just a bit frustrated. Please keep it up, and thanks! *Cremepuff222* 20:53, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Template:Motd nomclosing

Their both just as correct. I've never seen it spelt with mottoes so i just assumed it was a typo. I don't mind. Should i post this on the template talk page? Simply south 17:07, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

It may not be coincidence as i use British English. Simply south 17:13, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Regarding your comments on User Talk:WikiMan53

Just so you don't get the wrong idea about the blocking administrators here, WikiMan53 (talk · contribs) was warned for his behavior and in many other places as well. Believe me, it was his time. Regards, ➪HiDrNick! 23:22, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Signature

Please tone down your signature. It is way too excessive and takes up about 6 lines of my editing window (and I'm on a pretty wide screen). Please read WP:SIG and try to make it a lot smaller. Metros232 23:55, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Re. Spongebob

I'm really sorry if I caused a mess! Aillema 22:01, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

Motto of the day

Woah, that's a lot of mottoes you just nominated! ;) You're making it tough for the people who close the mottoes though..., and your help in this area would be much appreciated. *Cremepuff222* 00:37, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

I agree... Well done! ♠Tom@sBat 01:10, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

I could show you how I do it if that would help. *Cremepuff222* 22:10, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

(Shhh, nobody knows that I'm not at track...) XD You always make me laugh... Now, back to business. First, I open the Misplaced Pages:Motto of the day/Nominations/In review page, then cut and paste the mottoes older than 14 days into Misplaced Pages:Motto of the day/Nominations#Awaiting decision. At that point, I open up three tabs: one for the archive, one for approved mottoes, and one for reopened mottoes. (So at this point, I'll have four tabs: one for the mottoes I'm closing, one for archiving, one for approved mottoes, and one for reopened mottoes). Next, I edit each motto in the awaiting decision by section. After that, I move the motto to the appropriate page (in review for reopened mottoes, approved for approved mottoes, and archive for approved/rejected mottoes). Well, that's pretty much it I suppose. If you have any more questions, or if I wasn't very clear, please tell me. *Cremepuff222* 22:31, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

I have to say…

I'm really impressed, AstroHurricane. How did you think up of so many mottos in so little time? It takes me weeks sometimes to come up with just one :)! If there were a MOTD barnstar, you'd surely have earned it many times! Well, have fun editing :). —May the Edit be with you, always. (T-borg) 23:27, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

It wasn't too much at all! Thanks for taking the time to explain. —May the Edit be with you, always. (T-borg) 19:23, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Number of nominations

Hello, and thank you for your contributions to WP:MOTD. It really is great to have a healthy number of nominations to work with. However, a discussion was recently opened regarding the number of mottos you sometimes nominate in one sitting. I would like to politely ask you to reduce the number of your nominations, or to spread them over several days, to both allow time for users to vote on your nominations and to ease the job of the closer. Thank you. --Tewy 02:43, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Mary River Turtle

Thanks for your post. I've replied on my talk page. Stephen Kirrage 22:39, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Oil shale

Hi. You are listed as a participant in WikiProject Geology. Maybe you to please consider helping to improve the oil shale article. This article has developed quite well, but some more expert assistance is needed. Thank you in advance. Beagel 17:29, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

MOTD

Sorry, Astro, I think you have put 7 mottoes in the section again, please make a little less.c'mon, we've fished a good one.Kfc1864Cuba Libre! 05:14, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

7 isn't so bad. It's good that there actually are nominations coming in. --Tewy 05:46, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Tropical cyclone is a FA Nomination. c'mon, we've fished a good one.Kfc1864Cuba Libre! 06:40, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

sign here

Yes, internal links are fine (of course), but a link screaming "sign here!!" could be considered disruptive, or inelegant to say the least. The story is: I don't like those sign here links in signatures and then I discovered that the WP:SIG guideline advises against them. So I decided to ask the next best user with such a link in his sig if he'd agree not to have it. Luckily, I met Teh tennisman, who seems like a friendly guy (and I'm not saying that because he agreed).

Don't get me wrong: Signature pages are fine. FWIW, I strongly endorse the community spirit or what they produce. But I think some people are taking signatures too far. This is not usenet. Other people have to sift through pages all the time and long sigs make that difficult. Likewise, useful contribution-oriented links are fine. But this is not Myspace. If people want community, they can have the rest of the web. And if they must have it here, they please shouldn't take it to me with their signature. People can instead put up giant letters on their user and talk pages begging to sign their autograph pages. That's perfectly fine. But not in their signatures. That's not fine.

Sorry for this near-humorless reply, but you asked for it.

Regarding my userpage: Interesting. Which browser do you use? Do you use another skin than Monobook?

—AldeBaer 01:41, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Replied. —AldeBaer 09:42, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

ACE

Re-read the source for Andrea's ACE. It clearly says the ACE for Andrea is provided only as a comparison - "we are including this information to allow for comparison between individual cyclones across all basins, many of which contain records which inadequately distinguish between tropical and subtropical cyclones". – Chacor 00:43, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

Also, per WP:SIG, "When customizing your signature, please keep the following in mind: A distracting, confusing or otherwise unsuitable signature may adversely affect other users. Some editors find it disruptive to discourse on talk pages, or when working in the edit window. Very long signatures that contain a lot of code ("markup") make it difficult for some editors to read talk pages while editing" - I've formatted your signature on my talk page because it was becoming disruptive to use the edit box. I'd strongly suggest pruning all unnecessary links. – Chacor 03:04, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

To do:

"Help suggest wikipedia should be moved to Orlando, then Atlanta, in case sea level rise threatens servers."

I though I was the only person who worried about that... ~ thesublime514 • talk • sign 23:49, July 5, 2007 (UTC)

{{Dinotopia-stub}}

Hi - a stub template or category which you created has been nominated for deletion or renaming at Misplaced Pages:Stub types for deletion. The stub type, which was not proposed at Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals, does not meet the standard requirements for a stub type, either through being incorrectly named, ambiguously scoped, or through failure to meet standards relating to the current stub hierarchy or likely size, as explained at Misplaced Pages:Stub. Please feel free to make any comments at WP:SFD regarding this stub type, and in future, please consider proposing new stub types first! Grutness...wha? 02:02, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

RE. YIKES!!!

Hello, that was some kind of bug that biron fixed. See , , and for more details. No the image you added had nothing to do with the glitch so no worries with that. Happy editing. :) KOS | talk 16:51, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

User:AstroHurricane001/Signpost story

I was wondering if you think this would be better as a separate story, or part of the technology news in the Signpost? Either way, here's some extra information: the problem was reported to developers on the bug tracker at bugzilla:10539; the cause turned out to be an operator-precedence typo, that was causing all the affected diffs/edits to be made to the page which contained the revision with revision number 1. The error was introduced in r23973 (referring to a version of the software) and fixed immediately afterwards in version r23974, but there was disruption in the meantime. (Misplaced Pages's running version 1.11alpha (r24044) as of this comment.) If you think that there's enough in the story to run it separately, feel free to incorporate this information; if you don't, enough happened that a separate section in the technology report (which I haven't started writing yet, as it has to be written close to press time to reflect recent developments) would be appropriate, and it would be much easier for me to incorporate your content into the article than duplicate the effort you've gone to. --ais523 17:36, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

I've incorporated your article as a section in mine, because it wasn't really long enough to stand as an article on its own. It should be included in tomorrow's (today's?) Signpost as a section in the technology report. --ais523 11:05, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Cite error: There are <ref> tags on this page without content in them (see the help page)._tags_on_this_page_without_content_in_them_(see_the_)-2007-07-15T15:51:00.000Z">

Hi. I'm just wondering, why did you add this to the tfd's? I'm not sure if it was a test, if you were editting another page, if you thought it needed refs, etc, but this invalid refernece parameter casued the entire expand section to go under the seven wonders thing. I have fixed it since. Thanks. ~AH1 15:51, 15 July 2007 (UTC)_tags_on_this_page_without_content_in_them_(see_the_)"> _tags_on_this_page_without_content_in_them_(see_the_)">

No, I'm not even sure how that happened. It just sort of appeared. I couldn't figure out how to get it back to normal at first anyway. Kevin 15:52, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

Proposed unmerge

You commented in Misplaced Pages:Redirects for discussion/Log/2007 July 25#Misplaced Pages community → English Misplaced Pages. You may therefore be interested in the discussion in progress at Talk:Misplaced Pages community#Proposing un-merge Your comments would be welcome. Thank you. DES 20:13, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

On the question of "meatpupetry" i raised the matter on the Admin's incident noticeboard. You can see the thread that resulted at WP:ANI#Canvassing accusation. Several administrators and experienced editors commented. None of them seemed to think that it would be "meatpupetry" to comment on the unmerge discussion.

As to the size of the former article, you ca see it in the history, it hasn't been deleted. See here.

As to the "voting" systems on Misplaced Pages, you do have a point. Most of the formal boards, such as Articles for deletion, Deletion Review and the like are set up to make a single yes/no decision, and other stuff can get kind of bypassed. When i close such a discussion (which i do fairly often on AfD, and sometimes on some other boards) I do try to weight the various suggestions, and I always read every comment, usually at least twice. But boiling it all down into a single action can be tricky. By the way, there is a board to discuss moves (Requested Moves), and foe for sysopping (Request for Adminship), and for protection (Request for Page protection). merges, though, along with many other changes that are not simple yes/no decisions, are normally discussed on the talk page of the article involved, and those discussion tend to be more free-wheeling, as there is no formal close procedure. This can be good or bad, depending. There is also Request for comment which can serve as a more general forum to settle some particular issue, sometimes.

Your further comments are welcome. DES 04:07, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

Do not make stuff up

First warning - please don't include inaccurate information.

This is regarding this edit - there is no such thing as half a named storm. The official NOAA number is 10, not 9, nor 9.5. A "named storm" is defined as a cyclone that meets NHC warning criteria and has winds of at least tropical storm-force.

Also, regarding storm activity (Chantal) - when the last advisory is issued by the NHC (as is now the case - the last advisory was issued 12 hours ago) it is considered dissipated as a tropical cyclone. The graphic says 15% dissipation because Chantal is still alive as an extratropical cyclone. – Chacor 14:25, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

Second warning - NHC is the RSMC and Chantal never reached hurricane strength. Find out the proper facts before accepting false data. CHC issued a corrected advisory just minutes after their incorrect advisory. Very obvious clue from the 0557 advisory: "MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS ARE ESTIMATED AT 45 KNOTS". Hurricanes are of 64 kt or more. – Chacor 17:15, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

I agree, please be more careful. There are dozens of people working on the page. If you are unsure at all, please wait, as if there are any noteworthy changes, someone else will address it. Hurricanehink (talk) 17:21, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

Look at it this way, if it had indeed been upgraded to a hurricane we would've changed it as soon as it happened. Also, NHC is official, it doesn't matter what the CHC says. – Chacor 17:30, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

Venus' fate

I thought in the future Venus is unlikely to swallowed up,since the sun's loss of mass will gradually push the planet outward by 7.5 Gyrs Venus will have escaped to 1.2 AU. It is common sense that although Venus is not swallowed up, it's surface will be semi-molten. It's greenhouse atmoshere will have long been boiled away and its rock will melt. Such website as Planetary Nebulae and Future of Our Solar System and some others still uncertain whether Earth will survive or be engulfed. Freewayguy 22:13, 2 August 2007 (UTC)HPShu789194

Misplaced Pages:Requests for adminship/Elonka 2

Thank you for your support in my Request for Adminship. Unfortunately the nomination did not succeed, but please rest assured that I am still in full support of the Misplaced Pages project, and I'll try again in a few months! If you ever have any questions or suggestions for me, please don't hesitate to contact me. Best wishes, --Elonka 07:04, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

Don't create silly redirects

Please don't create silly redirects, no one will search for "Misplaced Pages:Red admin" in the search box. Nor will people search for "Misplaced Pages:Rouge sysop". Misplaced Pages:Rouge admin is linked to humorously, no one will intentionally search for it, let alone plays on the words. "Rouge" is used as a play on "rogue" and on communism, so "red" doesn't really fit. – Chacor 01:59, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

WP:BIO

Your recently-created articles Kim MacDonald and Nneka Elliott don't assert notability, and may meet criteria for speedy deletion. Could you please assert their notability (I notice their articles also fail WP:BIO), or I'll AFD them. – Chacor 14:42, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

We're all having issues at the moment, it's not just you, don't worry. Server issues, big time. Yes, I won't deny I've been looking at your contribs. But these articles assert no notability. How are they notable? Have they won awards? There are no sources except one from the company they work for. That appears to fail WP:BIO. Cheers, – Chacor 15:41, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

Look

No offence, but if you're really trying for WP:RFA soon, you need to stop making edits like these which contravene Misplaced Pages policy. You cannot cite a TV show - find an actual source or do not add it. – Chacor 14:26, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

Also. Forgive me if this turns into a rant. But can you please use smarter edit summaries? Clearly no-one "just comes upon" a page, article, image or whatever - you have to intentionally click a link from another page, unless you use Special:Random. That's not "just coming upon" a page. – Chacor 14:31, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

Unsourced info

Again, do not add information that you happened to " on the news" unless you have a valid reference for it. – Chacor 14:50, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

DAFT

Misplaced Pages isn't censored when it comes to subject matter, but it also doesn't include profanity without reason. WP:DAFT is in the project namespace, and thus it's up to the community to decide what's appropriate there. In the discussion at Misplaced Pages:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Deleted articles with freaky titles (2nd nomination), the community is currently trying to decide if maybe the whole page should be deleted or not. One thing that was suggested is that perhaps the list could use some trimming. The spirit of compromise is what drove my deletion. You may want to check out that discussion and add your own arguments. Just FYI.  :) —DragonHawk (talk|hist) 20:08, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Invitation to WikiProject recruitment for WikiProjects

AstroHurricane001,

Would you be interested in trying to make your (proposed) WikiProject becoming a succes by actively involving yourself in a recruitment agency aimed at establishing an active base of participants for a WikiProject?--Daanschr 11:41, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Hi. I'm not sure what this recruitment agency is, but I guess I'll participate, as long as I won't have so much to do that I'll be needed when I'm busy doing something else off-wiki. I'm not sure exactly what your project does. Are you asking me to join in the list of participants on that project? I do wish I had time to do more on my project, although there is so much to do and so little to do at the same time, that what results is procrastination...and more procrastination. Maybe I don't know what to finish first, or I don't have enough time at that time to finish those individual tasks. How does your project help in improving Wikiprojects? Does it provide its participants with instructions on how to improve your Wikiproject, or the like? I'm still not quite decided on what your project does, so I guess I'll request more information. I'm still not very experienced in conducting a WikiProject, and yes, it is still in its early stages. I'm still a bit confused about what the participants do --- do they read what they could do, get assigned individual tasks or requests, etc? I would like some help on improving my WikiProject, and be more actively involved in it to help improve articles. Thanks. ~AH1 00:46, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

These are very good questions Astrohurricane. I have to tell you something about myself and my intentions in order to make myself clear. I have started two WikiProjects, both of them failed due to lack of participance.

The first one was WikiProject intellectual debate, which i deleted. This project was aimed at improving the quality of debate in talk pages. I wanted people to first read a couple of relevant books (books often contradict eachother, so they shouldn't read only one) and than have a debate about them, before editing. At the moment edits are done most often without reading books and without any debates.

Another WikiProject was WikiProject historical atlas. Aiming to create a historical atlas like a video, with countries and borders evolving. Despite the wide possibilities i could only find two other persons to make this, and now there hasn't been any activity for more than half a year. I really want to start that WikiProject up again. It could be linked to WikiProject intellectual debate with people watching maps and reading books in libraries all over the world and special themes being discussed during a month, something like the borders of medieval Serbia, or one of Napoleon's military campaigns.

A recruiting agency could be helpful in achieving a level of participance. What i am trying to reach is a base of commited people who are willing to start and develop projects. Not only participance is needed, but also commitment and quality. We are dealing with volunteers, so it is important that people have time and are enthusiastic about the project. The recruiting agency is focused at getting these kind of people. Experts on subjects are very welcome, because they know much about the relevance of information, where to find the right information and how this information can be analysed correctly. Of course there are many subjects where every human is enough of an expert.--Daanschr 08:20, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

Hi. Thank you for your reply, but there are still a few things I don't yet get. How do I help make my project a success? Do I add my name into the list of participants in your project? Does my project get listed on a page where interested people could find which project to join? If I participate, what exactly do I, and the participants of my WikiProject do? Do we follow the to-do list, help improve the project in general, discuss what to do, etc? Where are the volunteers going to come from, and how do they discover your project and WikiProjects in need of a firm base of participants and experts? Is the project to be worked on whenever time is avalible? What do I do now? Thanks. ~AH1 17:34, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

My initial idea behind it was that the recruiters will focus on a few WikiProjects at a time. These WikiProjects will have their own active participants who will run the WikiProject seperately from the recruitment project once their are enough participants found. The recruitment project tries to find the best ways to recruit and make a WikiProject to a succes. The participants of a WikiProject will get self-responsibility eventually. WikiProjects that weren't a succes can be taken in by the recruitment project again to find new active participants. Given that the recruitment project becomes a succes, there will be a tricky part. People within the management department will have to decide which projects are worthwhile to be managed in order to find recruits. There can be several reasons for managing a wikiProject with the purpose of finding new participants. It could be a marketing strategy (more participants), effectivity (durability, expansion, use of a WikiProject), enthusiasm of the people behind the WikiProject (can be measured by the effort put behind the idea). The tricky part will be the politics behind it.

I didn't directly answer your questions above. The most important thing the recruitment department will do is to find volunteers. Management of the WikiProject is primarily self-management, in my view. If the right volunteers have been found, than they should be capable of making a WikiProject a succes for themselves.

John Carter, a new participant, has other ideas about the recruitment project. We have to examine all ideas for their effectivity and usefulness, including mine of course.

What can you do now? If you want to join the recruitment project, than you can think about what the management department can do, or try to find new participants for the recruitment project. That are the tasks for the moment. If you want the recruitment project to find participants for your WikiProject (Dinotopia), than we have to find a way to make that work. If the recruitment project runs, than the mangers could set recruiters for the task to find the right recruits for the WikiProject Dinotopia. However, the recruitment project doesn't have recruiters yet.--Daanschr 18:54, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

Hi. Oh I see, so your project needs to expand and get more volunteers before it can be developed enough to help get more editors for my project and improve it. If I am to help get more people to join the recruitment project, where do I post? Do I post on some kind of "Misplaced Pages:" page to notify other editors of this project, or on someone's usertalkpage who is interested? Or, is it more complicated than that to have an exact idea of what needs to be done? If it works, when would my WikiProject start improving? If I join your project, do I simply add myself to the list of participants, or are there different places to show participatemanship on individual departments? Do the people involved get a to-do list, periodical newsletters, etc? Thanks. ~AH1 21:30, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

Some of these topics are debated at the moment in the talk page of the recruitment project. My remarks on Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject recruitment for WikiProjects#Management and authority can give some answers to your questions. I see recruitment as unlimited, you could recruit the person sitting next to you in public transport for instance. The whole methodology of the project has to be determined as yet in cooperation with other members. You are not obliged to join the recruitment project if you want to focus on your own project, but it will take effort to convince participants of the recruitment project to choose for a WikiProject, since there is a limit in the commitment of participants to this project.--Daanschr 21:44, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

Redirect

• Misplaced Pages Day Comet of 2007 → Comet McNaught

What's the purpose of this redirect you created? - Mtmelendez 15:22, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

Re: med

Nah, only that 1 is decent enough to be named. Cyclone1(00:12-18-10-2007) —Preceding comment was added at 00:12, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for signing. Really appreciate it. --  ThinkBlue  (Hit BLUE) 21:51, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

You're WELCOME. That's what I'm here for. And nice page. --  ThinkBlue  (Hit BLUE) 21:56, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Hi.

Hello AstroHurricane001, I hope I'm not being too forward, but I was just wondering for the meaning of this? I'm just wondering where I claimed to be Paul McCartney? I am not, just a fan. I was infact named after him. I was just wondering the meaning. This message is not meant to be read as "yelling", I am just wondering. Thank you. --JpGrB 15:35, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

Oh, I understand now. Yeah, no, I was just named after Paul, first and middle name, but I, as he, go by my middle name. I'm sorry if I have violated any Wikipedian policies. JpGrB 23:33, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

Your report at WP:ANI

Per Misplaced Pages:Requests_for_arbitration/Attack_sites#Malicious_sites, "Misplaced Pages should not link to websites set up for the purpose of or substantially devoted to harassing its volunteers. Harassment in this context refers to... outing people without their consent..." Please do not restore your report, or the link contained therein. John254 16:49, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

To answer your question - yes, Misplaced Pages administrators (especially those on that page) are well aware that it exists. There isn't much that can be done about it though. It really isn't a good idea to link to it on a high profile page like WP:ANI though - that will give it much wider publicity among those who didn't know it existed (or how to find it) previously. WjBscribe 16:55, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Truth in Numbers: The Misplaced Pages Story

Hi. I'm pleased to be able to tell you that the 'project' has been very productive. I have however run into some trouble. Apparently you can't link project pages to articles very easily(complicated rules). I was wondering if you could help me get an accurate assessment as to weather the article is good enough to publish or not. Thank you. U5K0 19:44, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

H-Wikia Log-In

It's probably just a Wikia bug, it happens a lot. Recently, it's been logging me out after about 20 minutes; sometimes I forget to log in and accidentally sign with my IP address. I'd suggest copying & pasting your sig and using five tildes (~~~~~) to mark the time; that's what I do in school, where I have the same problem. Oh, and don't ask me why I haven't joined the Project yet, I'm working on finding time to work on it. IPchanges 20:15, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

I could ask Coredesat, though he isn't usually around. I'd suggest trying to log in, and going to another page while that loads. Refer to my previous suggestion if absolutely nothing works. IPchanges 02:27, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

In Remembrance...

--nat 01:24, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Hey, What's Up?

What's up <put name here>? lol anyways, I don't wanna say your real name because I know you get angry... So, I was just asking if you could go on msn real quick, I need to tell you something... мιІапэџѕ (talk) 03:42, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

Hello

Hi <Name>, this is just to let you know that i edited your page... (In a good way) I removed spelling errors and the like.
мιІапэџѕ (talk) 04:11, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

User talk:ElKevbo

I thought about it a bit more... and I removed the text as well as your question. Normally I'd leave it for the editor, but on further reflection it was pointless trolling (to answer your question) and as El Kevbo appears to be on something of a break, it doesn't need to be there. Beyond that I warned the IP. If I were a betting man I'd say that IP is underlying an username that has edited that article in the past.--Isotope23 18:50, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Post on 2007AHS

I just had to say that the post you left on 2007 AHS talk page a month ago on extratropical storms was by far the longest post I've ever seen in my life on any forum. I actually copied and pasted it into Word and it was a page and a half, single-spaced. 1,129 words! Good God man! Some of our articles aren't that long. I was doing some archiving when I noticed it. I couldn't keep myself from mentioning that. That's incredible. How long did it take you to write that? -- §HurricaneERICarchive 19:41, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

{havefun template

Deleted as vandailsm Dlohcierekim 00:45, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

fine line

I have no problem with content in user space as long as it is not "fair use." Misplaced Pages is uncensored. If the user wants content on his page, it is better for him to keep it on his userpage rather than in the mainspace. Looks like a new user, so he probably does not know the finer points yet. Templates are another matter because they can introduce content inappropriately. Image someone speed pasting that into a series of articles! Eventually, you see it all on Misplaced Pages. Dlohcierekim 01:20, 7 December 2007 (UTC) If someone should decide to overturn that, then that's OK too. Or they can take it to WP:DRV. From there it would go to WP:XFD. Dlohcierekim 01:23, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Image choice and placement

I noticed you placed several of the images recently that I have rm'd from articles. I thought I would give you my thoughts on the problems with these images:

Image:Telescope Celestron window.jpg - The telescope pictured is a type of Newtonian telescope. The part sticking up in the air is the mirror mount and therefore the bottom of the telescope, in other words, the telescope is upside down. I have rm'ed this image since a telescope orientated the wrong way is not a very good illustration. It also suffered from Pertinence and encyclopedicity since it was a redundant image in an article about Telescope types, not telescope models.

Image:Orion startrails window.jpg - This image is un-readable as a thumbnail as required re: WP:IMAGE. It was also a redundant image in Orion (constellation).

You may want to review Misplaced Pages:Images#Image choice and placement re:redundant images, properly informative images, revealing relevant detail as a thumbnail. Fountains of Bryn Mawr (talk) 17:02, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Upside down Newtonians are something I see allot of... especially in ads. It makes me want to write the ad people and say "hmmm, and that guy is looking at his own shoes at very high power because.....????" I did see its placement in Celestron but left it because it’s not too redundant (although it is still upside down). You could always go back to that store and ask the people to point the thing right side up and shoot another picture. It looks to be a GoTo telescope so may be a good add to that article in the correct orientation. Size and pertinence of images is more something where you can follow common sense more than any advice I can give you. Misplaced Pages is not a repository of images (yes.. Commons is a good place to put these images in general since they may have other uses). Images on Misplaced Pages should meet the following logic - "This image (where we can actualy see something at thumbnail size), is in this spot, in this article because it specifically describes _________ that another image does not." Fountains of Bryn Mawr (talk) 20:47, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Re: Retiring/Birthday and such

Thanks for remebering! Today is my birthday. Yeah I'm retiring, feel like I never edit anymore. I'll probably hang around hurricanes.wikia, maybe. We'll see. Anyway, thanks for your thoughts and good wishes! Cyclone1(21:56-13-12-2007) —Preceding comment was added at 21:56, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

WPTC Active Members

User:Hurricanehink/Active

Tasco

Fixed - You added in an extra <ref> tag. That caused major screw-ups. NF24 22:59, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Winter storms

• Sorry, I haven't posted you the message about the discussion, I have only sent messages to those who have signed their names in the Participants section of the WikiProject Meteorology - as been the general WP weather-related project, I haven't sent to those who have signs to the projects related to Tropical or severe weather.--JForget 03:11, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

Natalie Thomas PROD

Natalie Thomas (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

The PROD reason given was "Non notable weather presenter", and the tag was placed by Nuttah (talk · contribs) on December 2, 2007. When I deleted the article, the proposed deletion time had expired and there were no contests to the deletion. If you want, I can temporarily restore the page if you have a need for a particular part of it, or provide you the whole contents as they were when they were deleted by e-mail, but to have the page restored back to normal, you will have to list it at Misplaced Pages:Deletion review and follow the methods there. As for the lack of notification, it's a necessary step for the proposing editor, as it would seem unfair to the author not to have a say in it, however, I'm not really sure that a notice of deletion is usually handed out. Cheers, Spebi 03:44, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

Unfortunately I was not involved in proposing the deletion at all, but I did make the deletion when it was time for it to be made, but when I checked up on it, no apparent attempts to contest the proposal had been made. I strongly suggest talking to Nuttah further about this matter rather than myself. If you do decide to reincarnate the article through Deletion review, I suggest you create the page in a user subpage to move into the main namespace if consensus is to overturn the deletion and rewrite the article. This also allows people who comment in the debate to see what the article will look like and will it differ from the old deleted version. If you do decide to do this, I strongly suggest you read Misplaced Pages:Notability (people) and its criteria to see if Natalie Thomas does satisfy it, and if she does, the article must state it. This is quite an important stage in rewriting deleted articles as you need to convince those in the debate that an article on Natalie Thomas is needed in Misplaced Pages. Spebi 21:11, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

I haven't paid much attention to WP as of late, but thanks for the correction. :: Colin Keigher (Talk) 06:40, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Place names with English meanings

Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #12

Number 12, January 10, 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 edition of the newsletter, after an extended hiatus, covers December 2007 and the first ten days of January 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

Tropical Storm Olga was a rare Atlantic December tropical cyclone. The fifteenth named storm of the season, it developed near Puerto Rico on December 11, and quickly struck the Dominican Republic. There, it brought heavy rainfall and severe damage, and caused more than 40 deaths. Casualties were also reported in Puerto Rico and Haiti. The storm greatly weakened as it crossed Hispaniola, degenerating into a remnant low pressure area in the Caribbean Sea on December 13. The remnants of Olga passed near the Yucatán Peninsula before turning northward and bringing rainfall to Florida.

Other tropical cyclone activity

• Three named tropical cyclones occurred in the South-West Indian Ocean, the strongest of which being Moderate Tropical Storm Celina
• Two named tropical cyclones occurred in the Australian region, including Tropical Cyclone Helen which struck Australia
• Two named tropical cyclones occurred in the South Pacific ocean, including Tropical Cyclone Elisa which is currently active. Cyclone Daman was the strongest tropical cyclone worldwide during the time period, reaching a pressure of 925 hPa before impacting Fiji.

Member of the month

The December member of the month is Mitchazenia. Mitchazenia has been a project member since 2006. He has created several tropical cyclone related articles, including the good article Subtropical Storm One (1982). Mitchazenia significantly contributed to 1983 Atlantic hurricane season, which is currently a featured article candidate.

New and improved articles

• There were four new pieces of Featured content : 2003 Atlantic hurricane season, Hurricane Danny (1997), Meteorological history of Hurricane Ivan, and List of North Carolina hurricanes (1980-present)
• New Good articles include:
• New storm articles include: Cyclone Inigo, Hurricane Ava (1973), Hurricane Marco (1996)
• New non-storm articles include: Effects of Hurricane Ivan in the Lesser Antilles and South America, Maximum sustained wind, List of North Carolina hurricanes (pre-1900)

Main Page content

• Tropical Storm Allison appeared on the Main Page as Today's featured article on December 19.
• Entries from 2 articles: Hurricane Rick (1997) and 2006 Central Pacific cyclone appeared on the Main Page in the Did you know column during December and early January.

Storm article statistics

Grade	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
FA	30	30	31	33
A	4	9	8	9
GA	105	106	109	112
B	80	78	82	86
Start	213	212	211	208
Stub	6	5	6	6
Total	438	440	447	454
percentage Less than B	50.0	49.3	48.5	47.1

Categories and more The project has gone under somewhat of a revamping. We have a new, more realistic goal. The members list has been dropped from 89 to 34. This newsletter is to inform users of a change in policy with categories. Previously, an Atlantic and Pacific storm article would have both Category:Atlantic hurricanes and Category:Category 3 tropical cyclones. However, the two were combined, resulting in Category:Category 3 Atlantic hurricanes. The same is done with Pacific hurricanes. Tropical storm articles are dealt with either Category:Eastern Pacific tropical storms or Category:Atlantic tropical storms.

Future timeline of Earth

Can you please provide some references regarding impact related sentences in the article Future timeline of Earth. It would be good if you come in that article for collaborative edit. Thanks. Otolemur crassicaudatus (talk) 06:56, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Doomsday

Hi, thanks for your comment in the deletion discussion. I think the article will not survive the AfD. And most of the delete votes are based on complete illiteracy on Future studies. The conservatives, corporate-industrial-nexus, cannot tolerate anything about global warming, climate change, population growth, future of Earth. And lack of interest and knowledge in astronomy. Anyhow I have moved the information in User:Otolemur crassicaudatus/Sandbox. And will shortly join in the article Risks to civilization, humans and planet Earth. I will likely to divide the section "Earth" and "Humanity" in different subsections and more info on "Space". Some good references are needed on the runaway greenhouse effect and more info on meteorite impact. Thanks. Otolemur crassicaudatus (talk) 14:52, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Rollback

Hello AstroHurricane, I have granted rollback rights to your account. The reason for this is that, after a review of some of your contributions, I can trust you to use rollback correctly by using it for its intended use of reverting vandalism: I do not believe you will abuse it by reverting good-faith edits or to revert-war. For information on rollback, see Misplaced Pages:New admin school/Rollback and Misplaced Pages:Rollback feature. If you do not want rollback, just let me know, and I'll remove it. Good luck. Acalamari 03:42, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

You're welcome. :) Good luck. Acalamari 17:07, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Orion (constellation)

Hello. I wish to nominated the article Orion (constellation) to be semi-protected because of the extreme number of anonymous vandals editing that article. Considering it's a high profile article, an article children would be likely to look up, the detrimental effects of the vandalism to how Misplaced Pages looks as a whole, and the proportion that most edits are vandalism and reversions, I think semi-protection against anonymous users would be appropriate. Since the process requires a consensus on the article's talk page and you are one of the registered users who have reverted vandalism recently, I am writing in the hopes that you will go to the talk page and agree to the semi-protection. If we can get a convincing consensus, we can continue the process to the next step. Thanks for your time. --Bark (talk) 15:04, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

WP:NTROP newsletter

Hi. As you may know, the Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Non-tropical storms/Newsletter was started. If you would like to receive the newsletter, place you name here. Also, we need editors for the newsletter. So, sign up at the nesletter HQ to be an editor, and to help out with the next issue, go to Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Non-tropical storms/Newsletter/February 2008. Thanks. Juliancolton (talk) 02:06, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Your question on WP:RD/L

I added a few sentences under your question about pronunciation of hockey in French. Since it's been a few days since you asked, I just thought I might let you know in case you didn't watch it anymore. — Kpalion 19:42, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #13

Number 13, February 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 January 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 Gene formed on January 26 over the open south Pacific Ocean. It drifted southward, and strengthened into Tropical Storm Gene on January 28 as it moved across the Fijian archipelago. There, it brought heavy rainfall, which caused the worst flooding in several years. Half of the country was left without power, and the cyclone killed seven people in Fiji. The storm turned southwestward, developing a cloud-filled eye and quickly strengthening by the end of the month.

Other tropical cyclone activity

• One tropical cyclone formed in the Western North Pacific Ocean west of The Philippines, which was analyzed by Japan Meteorological Agency as a depression; it tracked southwestward and did not significantly affect any land areas.
• In addition to Cyclone Gene, Tropical Storm Elisa and Cyclone Fuma occurred in the South Pacific ocean during the month, along with three tropical depressions.
• The only tropical cyclone in Australian region during the month was Tropical Cyclone Helen, which struck Australia.
• Four tropical cyclones, three of which named, existed in the Southwest Indian Ocean during the month. The most notable was Cyclone Fame, which caused twelve deaths after striking Madagascar.

Member of the month

The January member of the month is Ajm81. A tropical cyclone editor since he first joined in October 2005, Ajm81 plays a vital role in the project. Unlike other editors, who mainly edit articles, Ajm81 maintains and updates the track maps across the project. We thank Ajm81 for his timely contributions, and may he have some well-deserved downtime after the last tropical cyclone report is released.

New and improved articles

• There were six new pieces of Featured content : 2003 Atlantic hurricane season, List of storms in the 2003 Atlantic hurricane season, List of North Carolina hurricanes (pre-1900), 1983 Atlantic hurricane season, 1988 Atlantic hurricane season, and Hurricane Lane (2006)
• New Good articles include: Hurricane Cleo, Hurricane Gracie, 1821 Norfolk and Long Island hurricane
• New storm articles include: Tropical Storm Danielle (1980), Hurricane Elida (2002), Cyclone Elita, Cyclone Indlala
• New non-storm articles include: 2006 central Pacific cyclone, List of United States hurricanes

Main Page content

• Entries from 8 articles: Hurricane Ava (1973), Cyclone Inigo, Hurricane Greg (1999), Hurricane Henri (1979), Hurricane Kenneth (2005), Hurricane Elida (2002), Cyclone Elita, and Hurricane Naomi (1968) appeared on the Main Page in the Did you know column during January.

Storm article statistics

Grade	Oct	Nov	Dec	Jan
FA	30	31	33	33
A	9	8	9	9
GA	106	109	112	114
B	78	82	86	99
Start	212	211	208	214
Stub	5	6	6	3
Total	440	447	454	472
ω	3.02	3.01	2.98	2.98
percentage Less than B	49.3	48.5	47.1	46.0

Wikiwork and 1000 articles In January 2008, the WikiProject began using a system called Wikiwork, or ω. It weighs the overall quality of the project's articles, and a lower number means a greater total quality. The weighed ω, as used above, is a relative number that can be used to compare groups of this article. As of this publication, the relative ω of the project is 3.404, corresponding to between Start and B class. However, when limiting it solely to storm articles, the number drops to 2.98, which is slightly better than B class. During the month, a new statistics page was created.

Additionally, during the month, Mitchazenia pointed out that we received our 1,000th article with the creation of Cyclone Elita.

ITN Main Page

2008 Chinese winter storms is now on the main page! Woohoo! High five! Shapiro-israel (talk) 17:38, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

STFU Yale

Yale, what the heck, why'd you erase the picture I uploaded, you're so mean.