User:Hurricanehink

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Hurricanehink

Category 5 hurricane (SSHS)
Hurricane Andrew
Formed	August 11, 2005
Dissipated	Still active
Highest winds	10000+ edits, 135+ articles created (1-minute sustained)
Lowest pressure	Whenever I'm playing the piano or on the computer.
Damage	11 deleted edits, oh well, no one's perfect
Fatalities	One article I created when I first started, 12 (1975)
Areas affected	List of Atlantic hurricane seasons, List of Pacific typhoon seasons, Cyclone Catarina, Hurricane Floyd, A lot of other pages
Part of the This user is a member of the Tropical cyclone Wikiproject.

Hurricanehink, myself, is a Wikipedia user who spends his time writing hurricane articles on Wikipedia. I have written articles for 1492 through 1889 Atlantic hurricane seasons, 1959 through 2003 Pacific typhoon seasons, and all of the North Indian cyclone seasons. I have over 10000 edits (see Edit Count), and I am currently active. My Wikipediholic score is 1546.8397416423393. I have no interest in becoming an administrator. If nominated, I will not run. If elected, I will not serve. My page has been vandalized 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 times.

Here's the link to the IRC (and here's another one) so I don't lose it.

[edit] Storm History

I was upgraded to an anonymous Wikipedia user on December 27, 2004. My first anon edit was to the Wikipedia sandbox, which consisisted of me changing the word hello to Hello. This was to test that I really could edit the articles. Minutes later, I made my first mainspace edit to the 1969 Atlantic hurricane season by adding Inga to the lede for notable storms. For 8 months, I become better organized and better at articles, during which I created my first article; 1949 Atlantic hurricane season. I also created 1939, 1925, 1924, 1923, 1909, 1907, 1905, 1904, 1903, and 1902.

On August 11, 2005, I was upgraded to a Wikipedia user, and have been going ever since. My last name is Hink, and I like hurricanes, so I chose the name Hurricanehink. My first Wikipedia edit as Hurricanehink was a fix for the 1903 Atlantic hurricane season article.

• September 13, 2005- My 100th edit
• October 17, 2005- My 500th edit
• November 14, 2005- My 1000th edit
• March 27, 2006- My 5000th edit
• October 4, 2006- My 10,000th edit (I think)

[edit] Hurricanes

Hurricane Katrina May we never forget… This user thinks that registration should be required to edit articles. This user wastes far too much time editing Wikipedia. This user enjoys tracking hurricanes. This user is male. col This user is a college student. gk This user is a geek. en This user is a native speaker of English. es-2 Este usuario puede contribuir con un nivel intermedio de español. ... This user would like to be able to speak some more languages. dem This user supports the U.S. Democratic Party. This user is a Cancer. 10000+ This user has over 10000 edits voc-2 This user is an intermediate singer. sax-3 This user is an advanced saxophonist. This user is a professional pianist. This user is a music composer. This user helped promote the article Hurricane Floyd to featured status. This user helped promote the article Hurricane Iniki to featured status. This user helped promote the article Hurricane Gloria to featured status. This user helped promote the article Hurricane Mitch to featured status. This user helped promote the article Hurricane Claudette (2003) to featured status. This user helped promote the article Tropical Storm Allison to featured status. This user helped promote the article Hurricane Irene (1999) to featured status. This user helped promote the article 1933 Atlantic hurricane season to featured status. This user helped promote the article Hurricane Fabian to featured status. This user helped promote the article Tropical Storm Bill (2003) to featured status. This user helped promote the article Hurricane Edith (1971) to featured status. This user helped promote the article Tropical Storm Bonnie (2004) to featured status. This user helped promote the article Tropical Storm Henri (2003) to featured status. This user helped promote the article 1995 Pacific hurricane season to featured status.

Ever since July 31th 1995, I have been tracking hurricanes, starting with Tropical Storm Erin (later hurricane), as it was going to hit near my cousins' house. Since then, I have tracked every single tropical depression, storm, and hurricane. More likely than not, if you ask me a name, I will be able to tell you if it was a hurricane or not. Luckily, my home state (New Jersey) has not gotten hit since 1903, but we are not immune to major hurricanes. On September 3 1821, we got hit by a Category 4 hurricane. If that were to happen today, well... it wouldn't be nice at all.

In addition, I started a little project of mine, based on satellite images from the Global ISCCP B1 Browse System. Here is a list of some Mediterranean tropical cyclones. Here is my first sandbox for articles, and here's my other.

[edit] Removal of the Greek Alphabet for Hurricanes

Personally, I don't like the Greek Alphabet for hurricanes. It is confusing for the public, and what happens if a name is worthy of retirement? This almost happened in 2005. If the 2005 Azores subtropical storm were classified operationally, Wilma would have been named Alpha, and surely would've been retired. Rather than waste time for this, I have my own idea for my own fantasy world - have a 7th list of human names. The gender, rather than strictly male or female, would be ambiguous; that is, it could be either. Here is my list.

[edit] Music

Music is another love. I started playing the piano when I was 4 years old. I began by playing Christmas songs by ear, as I had Absolute pitch (I am one of the .01% of Americans who have it, my mother being one of the many tone deaf people). I continued playing, and at the age of 11 I composed my first song. It sucked, but it was original. I steadily wrote more and more, and to this day, I have 98 songs and counting, 3 of which the High School Choir has sung. My music is a blend of jazz, rock, and contemporary music, with my primary influences being Jimmy Buffett and Billy Joel. I also play the saxophone (for 9 years now) and clarinet (for 5 months now). I am currently going to college to major in music composition.

[edit] TV

As a child, I would watch a lot of TV. The Simpsons and Seinfeld were two favorites, but newer shows popped up, including Futurama, Family Guy, and South Park.

[edit] Trivia

I love trivia. For as long as I can remember, I had a keen interest in geography. That led to history facts, which led to random facts. In the 2004/5 school year, every day I brought trivia questions for my lunch table. Some were history ones, weather ones, random ones, pop culture ones. It was fun. I am doing the same this year, provided I have some friends at my lunch table. To end this section, here is a question. What common object has 24 flowers printed on it? Give up? Click here

[edit] My Favorites

Main article: User:Hurricanehink/My Favorites

Here's my list of some links I have that are very useful for hurricane article writing.

[edit] Todo

Make 2003 Atlantic hurricane season articles a Featured topic

• Get List of retired Atlantic hurricanes to featured topic - very long term (Color for decades indicates average class- 1 point for start, 2 for B, etc.) Bold indicates which ones I am currently working on.

• Get List of retired Pacific hurricanes to featured topic

• Redo 1997 Pacific typhoon season

[edit] Major Contributions

• Every seasonal article for the List of Atlantic hurricane seasons prior to 1890
• Wrote the beginnings for nearly every season article in the List of Pacific typhoon seasons prior to 2003
• Major contributor to Hurricane Floyd (now an FA)
• Major contributor to Hurricane Iniki (now an FA)
• Major contributor to Hurricane Gloria (now an FA)
• Major contributor to Hurricane Mitch (now an FA)
• Major contributor to Hurricane Claudette (2003) (now an FA)
• Major contributor to Tropical Storm Allison (now an FA)
• Major contributor to Hurricane Irene (1999) (now an FA)
• Major contributor to 1933 Atlantic hurricane season (now an FA)
• Major contributor to Hurricane Fabian (now an FA)
• Major contributor to Tropical Storm Bill (2003) (now an FA)
• Major contributor to Hurricane Edith (1971) (now an FA)
• Major contributor to 1995 Pacific hurricane season (now an FA)
• Wrote Tropical Storm Bonnie (2004) (now an FA)- first authored FA
• Wrote Tropical Storm Henri (2003) (now an FA)
• Wrote List of New Jersey hurricanes (now an FL)
• Wrote List of South America tropical cyclones (now an FL)
• Wrote List of Delaware hurricanes (now an FL)
• Wrote List of retired Pacific hurricanes (now an FLC)
• Major contributor to Hurricane Georges (now A-class)
• Major contributor to Hurricane David (now A-class)
• Major contributor to Hurricane Erika (2003) (now A-class)
• Got Edith (1971), Isabel (1985), Erika (1997), Danny (2003), Erika (2003), Kate (2003), Nicholas (2003), Alex (2004), Charley, Matthew (2004), and Nicole (2004) to GA class, and did some decent work for Danny (1997) to bring it to GA class.
• Wrote articles for 1821 Norfolk and Long Island Hurricane, 1837 Racer's Storm, Nova Scotia Hurricane of 1873, 1893 Chenier Caminanda Hurricane, Dog (1950), Easy (1950), Charlie (1951), Groundhog Day Storm (1952), Hilda (1955), Alma (1966), Gladys (1968), Francelia (1969), Belle (1976), Emmy (1976) , Amelia (1978), Greta (1978), Beryl (1982), Diana (1984), Klaus (1984) , Lili (1984), Bob (1985) , Juan (1985), Charley (1986), Emily (1987), Allison (1989), Danielle (1992) , Bret (1993), Gert (1993), Felix (1995) , Jerry (1995), Edouard (1996) , Bonnie (1998), Nicole (1998) , Leslie (2000) , Dean (2001) , Erin (2001) , Karen (2001) , Noel (2001), Bertha (2002) , Edouard, Ana (2003) , TD 9 (2003) - the first article on a tropical depression , Grace (2003) , Henri (2003) , Larry (2003) , Mindy (2003) , Odette (2003) , Peter (2003) , Bonnie (2004) , Rewrote Chris (2006) with some assistance , Debby (2006) , 1939 Long Beach Tropical Storm, Paul (1982), Calvin (1993), Juliette (2001), John (2006) (my first attempt at a current article) , Lane (2006) , Paul (2006), Typhoon Vera, Typhoon Ike, Typhoon Mike, Typhoon Mireille, Tropical Storm Thelma, Tropical Storm Vamei , Typhoon Chataan, Typhoon Rusa, Typhoon Imbudo, Cyclone Agni, Cyclone Mala, and Cyclone Catarina

[edit] Awards

juan andrés 01:57, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

		The Original Barnstar
		I award you this barnstar for your tireless work on tropical cyclone articles. Consider yourself congratulated! Sarsaparilla39 10:39, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

		The Gerbil
		I award you for starting the hurricane userbox trend. User:Gerbilfyed4 9:40, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		I am proud to award you this barnstar for your contributions to the tropical cyclone project have been invaluable. The level of hard work and research you put into these articles is without precedent. §HurricaneERIC§Damagesarchive 22:07, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

		Featured writer's barnstar
		Here's this Featured writer's barnstar, due to your prolific and high-quality work in tropical cyclone articles, which has made Wikipedia among the premier sources of cyclone information in the Internet. Titoxd(?!? - help us) 05:03, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		I think you know why you deserve this; just look at all the articles you've written or improved. Not only are they articles, they're amazing articles! íslenska hurikein #12(samtal) 21:54, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

I, Titoxd, award you this Cyclone Barnstar for the high quality of your work in Cyclone-related articles. Titoxd^(?!?) 06:52, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

TimL

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Congratulations Hurricanehink! You are an excellent Wikipedian for working very hard to help and improve our tropical cyclones articles and images. Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody

		The Featured Hurricane
		I, Mitchazenia, give you this Featured Hurricane Articles Barnstar for you work on many featured articles.Mitchazenia 21:03, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

		The Tropical Cyclone Barnstar
		I award you this tropical cyclone barnstar for all your fantastic work in the Wikipedia mainspace, especially in areas related to tropical storms. Your 5,500+ edits to articles, near 12,000 overall, and 15 months of service to Wikipedia demonstrate the highest level of dedication, and are greatly appreciated by everyone who views this fantastic encyclopaedia. Cheers, Daniel.Bryant [ T · C ] 02:57, 23 November 2006 (UTC)