User talk:AKMask/Archive 2

Storm of the month

Typhoon Chanchu was the first typhoon and first super typhoon of the 2006 Pacific typhoon season. Forming on May 9 over the open western Pacific Ocean, Chanchu moved over the Philippines on the 11th. There, it dropped heavy rainfall, causing mudslides, crop damage, and 41 deaths. It moved into the South China Sea, where it rapidly strengthened to a super typhoon on May 14, one of only two super typhoons recorded in the sea. It turned to the north, weakened, and struck the Fujian province of China as a minimal typhoon on the 17th. The typhoon flooded 192 houses, while heavy rainfall caused deadly mudslides. In China, Chanchu caused at least 25 deaths and $480 million in damage (2006 USD). Elsewhere on its path, strong waves from the typhoon sank eleven Vietnamese ships, killing at least 44 people. In Taiwan, heavy rainfall killed two people, while in Japan, severe waves killed one person and injured another.

Other tropical cyclone activity

• Tropical Storm Aletta existed in the eastern Pacific Ocean from May 25 to May 29, peaking as a 45 mph tropical storm.

New and improved articles

• New storm articles include: Typhoon Joan (1970), Hurricane Bonnie (1986), Tropical Storm Matthew (2004), Storm of October 1804, Typhoon Chanchu (2006) and Cyclone Olaf.

• New non-storm articles include: Tropical cyclone rainfall climatology, Dvorak technique and List of Bangladesh tropical cyclones.

• New Featured articles: 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, Hurricane Mitch, Hurricane Irene (2005) and Hurricane Claudette (2003)

• Articles which became A/GA class: Hurricane Katrina (A), Effect of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans (A), Hurricane Felix (1995) (GA), Cyclone Percy (A), Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 (A), List of New Jersey hurricanes (A), Hurricane John (1994) (A), Tropical Storm Isabel (1985) (GA), Tropical Storm Odette (2003) (GA)

New articles and improvements wanted

• An article is requested on subtropical ridge
• The current collaboration of the fortnight is Hurricane Gilbert, please help improve this article.
• Improvements are requested to Indianola Hurricane of 1886, Hurricane Camille and Hurricane Andrew.
• The WikiProject is likely to submit Hurricane John (1994) and Hurricane Katrina to Featured Article Candidates in the near future, so please help improve them to featured standard.

Member of the month

The May member of the month is TitoXD. The WikiProject awards this to him for his brilliant work in improving articles. TitoXD joined the WikiProject in October just after it had been founded. Since then he has contributed substantially to many articles, for example Hurricane Nora (1997), which is currently a Featured Article Candidate. He is also actively involved in the assessment of articles and so helps to improve many more articles.

Explanation of content

If you have a topic which is not directly related to any specific article but is relevant to the WikiProject bring it up on the Newsletters talk page, and it will probably be included in a future edition of The Hurricane Herald.

These two sections are decided by the community on the newsletter's talk page:

• Storm of the month: This is determined by a straw poll on the page. While all storms will be mentioned on the newsletter, the selected storm will be described in more detail.
• Member of the month: Nominations are made on the talk page, voting is by secret ballot; read the talk page for details. The winner receives the WikiProject's barnstar (when we make it).

Main Page content

• 2005 Atlantic hurricane season appeared on the Main Page as Today's Featured Article on June 1.
• Hurricane Floyd will appear on the Main Page as Today's Featured Article on June 17.
• Entries from Dvorak technique, Typhoon Joan (1970), Typhoon Chanchu (2006), and Storm of October 1804 appeared on the Main Page in the Did you know column during May.
• Entries from 5 other articles relating to tropical cyclones had appeared in the Did you know column earlier in 2006.

Storm article statistics

Grade	April	May	June
FA	7	7	10
A	4	5	7
GA	0	3	5
B	62	66	82
Start	154	177	168
Stub	13	12	10
Total	240	263	282
percentage ≥Less than B	69.6	71.6	63.1

The assessment scale

• The cyclone assessment scale is one of the bases of the new assessment scale for Version 1.0 of Wikipedia. It splits articles into several categories by quality, to identify which articles are "finished" and which ones still need to be improved.
• The assessment scale by itself counts of several grades:
  • FA: reserved for articles that have been identified as featured content only.
  • A: this grade is given to articles that are considered ready for Wikipedia:peer review. The way to get this grade assigned to an article is by asking other cyclone editors at the WikiProject's assessment page.
  • GA: reserved for articles that have passed a good article nomination.
  • B: these articles are "halfway there", and have most of the details of a complete article, yet it still has significant gaps in its coverage.
  • Start: articles that fall in this category have a decent amount of content, yet it is weak in many areas. Be bold and feel free to improve them!
  • Stub: these articles are mostly placeholders, and may in some cases be useless for the reader. It needs a lot of work to be brought to A-Class level.
• The way to use these assessments is by adding a parameter to the WikiProject template on the articles talk page ({{hurricane|class=B}} as an example). This feeds the article into a category which is read and parsed to create an assessment table, summary and log.

[edit] Belated check-back

Sorry, didn't see your answer; one wonders first how we ever get anything done.

All I'm interested in is some stable name! If nothing is binding, please explain the template on Talk:Tsushima Island. Thanks — this ebooks thing is just a niggle, but one which is holding up work on category names, etc.

Anyway1, I'm firmly convinced NO ONE has a handle on all the procedures, guidelines, and cases when such conflict! (notice the mention of a formal approval vote— the sort of stability that ebook issue would benefit from, since the many links are large and growing daily. (Not counting unwikified mentions in multiple usages and such. That's probably something to turn a BOT loose on once a name is settled for internal self-consistancy.)

Anyway2, someone stepped in a started a poll. Thanks for your thoughts in advance. // FrankB 16:58, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tapdance

Here is a version of the article Tapdance which contains everything that was there. I don't think there's really a need for a standalone article (since there really isn't that much more to say than was said there), but you may be able to find a good article to include this information in. Check out Category:Tom Clancy for a good target. (ESkog)^(Talk) 08:02, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] DRV/MfD of your "log" User Subpage

Hi,

A consensus at DRV has restored your "log" User subpage, User:AKMask/log. As is standard procedure, I have nominated the page for MfD. You are, of course, free to comment at the MfD, if you wish. Best wishes, Xoloz 03:36, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Humphrey Davies

This was pretty silly. I've got a couple of replies to your talkpage message scattered about: a crotchety one at Talk:Humphrey Davies, and a nice one at User talk:Rodii#Humphrey Davies. Choose your favourite! fuddlemark (befuddle me!) 04:59, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The name

I realised the association, but given the Sweedish (?) authorities didn't allow it as a real name, then it still does stand as being gibberish even if not random.... --pgk^(talk) 06:49, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] MfD Result Notice

Hi,

I have closed the MfD on your "log" user subpage. The result was keep. Best wishes, Xoloz 16:23, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Out the road

I've been looking for a population figure to put into the Out the road article, since it'd be nice to know how many people actually live there. I found this 1998 report (PDF) from the Juneau Economic Development Council which says 1,438 for "Lena Loop/Tee Harbor/Out the road". I'm wondering, since you seem to be one of The Juneau People around the 'pedia, are Lena Loop and Tee Harbor out the road enough that the number could be used as is? —Zero Gravitas 05:17, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] CVU Cats

The CFD on this still seems to be open: Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion/Log/2006_June_10#Category:Counter_Vandalism_Unit_Member.2Fwikipedia.2Fen_to_Category:Counter-Vandalism_Unit_members but you are updating links, did I miss something here? — xaosflux ^Talk 22:45, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

I have a WP:CFDS bot, Fluxbot, that can assist with mass recategorization if needed. I usually take entries from WP:CFDS, but if the CFD closes, and you want help, let me know and I'll sick the bot on it. — xaosflux ^Talk 22:58, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #2

The July issue of the WikiProject Tropical cyclones newsletter is now available. If you wish to receive the full newsletter or no longer be informed of the release of future editions, please add your username to the appropriate section on the mailing list.--Nilfanion (talk) 00:49, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My dear AK

Thank you for enlightening my day!

I see that you haven't been much around in the last week. I hope this is just something temporary, and that you return to us soon with renewed strength. I'm extremely sorry about the belated reply, my dear AK - but I just wanted you to know that I "always" notice, and I "never" forget. Once again, thank you! :) A big big hug, Phædriel ♥ tell me - 13:22, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Template:Alaska-politician-stub

I see where you are coming from, but the template listed above (and those for the other states) is designed only for politicians, not issues. If you think there should be a stub template for Alaska political issues, make a proposal over at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting. Cheers. youngamerican (ahoy-hoy) 04:29, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

Allrighty, thanks much. -M^ask 04:30, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #3

The August issue of the WikiProject Tropical cyclones newsletter is now available. If you wish to receive the full newsletter or no longer be informed of the release of future editions, please add your username to the appropriate section on the mailing list.--Nilfanion (talk) 00:22, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The road poll

I noticed you don't think the poll should be binding and suggest further discussion will solve the issue. However I'd point to the 6 to 7 months of discussion, talk, edit warring and finally stalemate that have occured. I fear this is an instance where no consensus is able to be come to. Several users have made it very clear they will not budge from their positions on both sides. And Arbcom has declared that permenant stalemate is unacceptable. JohnnyBGood t c VIVA! 01:02, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Sadly I think the arbcom was smoking crack when they asked us to come to a typical Wikipedia consensus. It's not possible at this point. The sides are much too polarized. Neither side has shown any willingness to give in and there is no middle ground on an issue like this. You either go one way or the other. SPUI has made it very clear he won't accept the XX State Route XX naming convention at all and anyone who supports it is quote wrong. There is no consensus building with someone like that. Many people are now opposing his naming convention just to spite him. JohnnyBGood t c VIVA! 17:56, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Well I'd argue that on an issue such as this where there is no discussion needed, we either need to pick one way or the other, a vote IS building consensus. No more talk is needed here. This issue has been talked to death for the better part of a year. Everyone knows in depth the stances of both sides of the issue and their evidence for their position so no more talk is needed. Voting may be evil, but it is a way to build consensus and is used everyday at AFD, Arbcom, etc... JohnnyBGood t c VIVA! 17:34, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

I don't know if majority wins would define consensus, but it does give us a better idea of which is the more supportted convention and something to point to when making changes going forward. We can't wait forever. I know consensus develops over time, but 7 months is more then enough time to wait for consensus to develop, and none has. Drastic steps are now in order. I'd like to see the poll go to the full 66% one way or the other but as it stands it hasn't, which is unfortunate. JohnnyBGood t c VIVA! 21:19, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Regarding the comments made on the voting section: one of the six judging admins removed them from both sides. They were considered distracting and rude, as no one could discuss them. Just a note. --physicq210 22:09, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Reading comprehension: it's not just a good idea, it's a really good idea. Ashibaka tock 03:25, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] URL syntax

Just a tip: yes, you need a http:// prefix for the parser to recognize the string as a URL; make sure my edit to your comment at the CVU MfD accurately reflects the way you intended to tell it. ~ PseudoSudo 02:30, 29 August 2006 (UTC)