User talk:TydeNet

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Please do not edit the user page of another user. Thanks. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 03:41, 30 July 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] WikiProject Climate

Today I created WikiProject Climate and its first step toward implementation, the Climate table infobox template.

Can't wait till this gets off the ground; it'll add a whole new depth to the huge array of information already provided through WikiProject Cities. In a way, I consider this a bit of a sister project to that one.

TydeNet 04:43, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Page move

Ironic that the post above is telling you not to edit user pages and I am reporting doing exactly that to you! The difference of course is that I have merely moved your text, I have no intention of changing it.

I saw the two articles you created in the main namespace and took the view that if they were nominated for Wikipedia:Votes for deletion (VfD), the conclusion would probably be Delete - not notable. Sorry if that hurts your feelings, but I am just being realistic. However since you have kindly given yourself a User Id, I have taken the alternative route of userifying the articles.

If you consider that you are notable, you can re-instate the articles in the main namespace (since there is no edit history to speak of, I think this case a copy-and-paste would be acceptable) but before doing so please consider the possibility of their being nominated for VfD.

But welcome to Wikipedia anyway - I hope you will make some useful contributions. -- RHaworth 07:22:50, 2005-07-30 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism

Please stop. If you continue to vandalize pages, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. --Etacar11 03:32, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Vandalism

Who do you think you are?

[edit] Gut flora

Hey, what's up. I left a message on Talk:gut flora about the refs. Would you have a look at it when you get a chance? Thanks, delldot | talk 02:08, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Durban.jpg

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[edit] Current projects

At the moment I'm trying to find information to improve upon the following articles:

I also will be creating a page for the Volcan Juriques stratovolcano within the next few weeks. Please, everybody be patient, I don't have unlimited time for these pursuits. TydeNet 07:29, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

March 20 Update I'll be responsible for many of the updates you see regarding the developing Tropical Cyclone Wati.

Today I'm working on expanding the page for Green Island (Aus) (I'll be visiting there next week in fact), and I hope to complete my work on the Crowned Eagle.

All the best, TydeNet 03:46, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Crowned Eagle

Hi. I've moved your article to Crowned Hawk-eagle to avoid confusion with the South American species. Nice article by the way. Smallweed 16:46, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

  • While I'm grateful for your concern, unfortunately I'm going to have to revert this. Google search for Crowned Eagle and it is indeed Stephanoaetus coronatus that shows up exclusively on the first 5 pages at least. Please note that I'm an experienced birder and thus consider myself almost an authority on the matter. This is a matter of notablity, and a revert is required. Should you wish to debate this further, I'll be happy to get a mediation going over it.

Thanks, TydeNet 04:58, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

  • I'm afraid your solution isn't going to work. The South Aerican bird does not have an alternative name, the African bird does. Why not use it? The situation now is that all the links on Wikipedia for both birds are redirecting to the African bird, and none to the South American bird. Smallweed 09:21, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
    • OK I stand corrected, there is an alternative common name for the South American bird - Crowned Solitary Eagle. I'll move my article there and hopefully this will avoid probelms in the future. All the best Smallweed 10:08, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
      • The use of an alternative name for the American bird was a wise choice and one I am grateful for. However, the disambigation should clear up the matter anyhow. Keep up the good work. TydeNet 10:50, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Permission requested

Dear Mr. Banks,

I request permission to base my user page on yours (i.e. using the same headings, but not the same contents). If you deem this a breach of originality, please let me know. I am more than willing to give credit to you on my page if you accept. You may post your response either on my user page or here, if you wish. I eagerly await your response.

With all due respect,

Releeshan

  • By all means, go right ahead. Don't worry about giving me credit either. Thanks for the request though! TydeNet 00:13, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Thank you so much!Releeshan


Hey Tyde, MaddenedMan here, as you can probably see. Yes, this is the MaddenedMan you know and love. I am starting up a Userpage, namely User:MaddenedMan . I'm letting you know that I may use a few of your headings and layouts, formats etcetera, a la Releeshan.

Cheers. Also, if you could some time give me a hand with wiki markup etcetera, as I am a n00b in the world of wiki. MaddenedMan

[edit] TC edits

Hi! I see you've gotten involved with Tropical Cyclone Larry and the Southern Hemisphere article. Have you thought about joining the TC wikiproject? NSLE (T+C) at 02:17 UTC (2006-03-21)

  • Thanks for the invite. Just joined :P TydeNet 02:30, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome

Welcome to the Tropical Cyclone Wikiproject! I see you added to some southern hemisphere articles, and us at the project are happy you joined. The Southern Hemisphere is one of the least known basins on Wikipedia, it seems, so any way you can help would be greatly appreciated. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me or at our headquarters. Have fun, and see you around. Hurricanehink 02:29, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

  • Awesome, thanks! TydeNet 02:30, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject V8 Supercars

Well, I only learnt templates today... but I'd be happy to help :) ZoFreX 03:43, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

  • Heh, my knowledge isn't too far-reaching in the template department, any help is welcomed! TydeNet 03:48, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Well, unfortunately I'm quite busy at the moment, but I'll check back in a week or so when I should have more time. ZoFreX 19:35, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject V8 supercars

I'm certainly interested, although not sure how much new content I'll contribute. I'm more interested in openwheel racing, but watch the V8Supercars too. I suggest announcing it to Wikiproject Australian sports and on the Australian noticeboard. --Scott Davis Talk 00:22, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Have you read Wikipedia:WikiProject and Wikipedia:WikiProject/Best practices ? These will be good references when your block (below) expires. BTW, having read the talk page that led to that block, I think you should definitely be more polite to people here. Read WP:AGF as well before responding on a talk page. --Scott Davis Talk 09:40, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Greetings

Albeit belatedly, I am posting to inform you of your block for 31 hours on grounds of making personal attacks as well as civility, which are highly-upheld policies on Wikipedia. I can see you have good intentions, and can be agreat contributor. However, please, in the future, comment on content, not the contributor. I wish you the best on Wikipedia when your block expires, and when you will be free to resume editing. NSLE (T+C) at 07:24 UTC (2006-03-22)

  • Thank you :) Oh the joys of a non-static IP address. TydeNet 07:36, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Heh, I hope you meant that as a joke, sockpuppetry is very frowned upon. Anyhow, I've asked Cuivienen to tone down his argument (right now his argument makes a Cat 3 seem more of a 'definite' than a possibility), but hope you will also agree to respect others' right to opinion and avoid making comments that may be misconstrued as a personal attack. :) NSLE (T+C) at 07:41 UTC (2006-03-22)

[edit] Your user page

I saw your edit to your page. While you have no means of stopping it, think again. I can semi-protect your page to make it such that new users and IPs cannot edit it, if that suits you. NSLE (T+C) at 09:25 UTC (2006-04-01)

  • Heh, thanks. Emmanuel College (my former high school) are infamous for vandalism, and now that they've discovered my page I foresee a substantial degree of it. If it's easy enough for you to protect my page, I'd be extremely grateful. TydeNet 09:43, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Your userpage, I presume? And that your usertalk page doesn't need protection? NSLE (T+C) at 09:43 UTC (2006-04-01)
    • I'd prefer to leave the talk open should new users or IPs need to contact me regarding edits and other content. Thanks for all this. TydeNet 09:45, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
      • No problem, I semi-protected your user page about an hour ago. NSLE (T+C) at 10:41 UTC (2006-04-01)

[edit] User page is appearing in inappropriate categories

Hello, TydeNet. User:TydeNet/WP is appearing in inappropriate categories. This is a problem because people use the categories to fix articles. Please modify the page so that it does not appear in the categories. You could try substituting the templates like {{subst:wikify}}, then you would have to remove the link that puts it in the category. Thanks, Kjkolb 16:34, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

  • No problem. I'll see what I can do. TydeNet 03:54, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
    • I got the code used for the templates and took out the part that puts it in a category. I could not get POV or POV section to work, though. -- Kjkolb 12:05, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Daz Sampson page modifications

Sorry about that. I have traced that update to my 11 year old son. I have remonstrated with him! It will not happen again... Pure chance that I saw this as I usually log in to Wikipedia, so would not have seen the message directed at our gateway IP address. rde42 18:26, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

No problem. :) TydeNet 03:40, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cyclone Monica

Hi. If it's okay with you, I'll close the debate. Instead, next time, just simply redirect it to either the main season page, or a disambig page (in this case, Tropical Storm Monica). NSLE (T+C) at 06:29 UTC (2006-04-17)

[edit] Re: Regarding logos in Userboxes

In reply to your post on my talk:

Fair-use images—which includes just about any company logo—should not be used in userboxes. The official policy statement against this can be found in item 9 of the Fair Use Criteria, which states that fair-use images should only be used in articles. You're right, of course, that there are a number of other userboxes that also contain fair-use images (logos, specifically, are a frequent problem) in violation of the policy. While the policy applies to all these userboxes, there might appear to be a discrepancy in application because there aren't always enough editors who are focused on enforcing the fair use criteria in this area. Speaking for myself, I tend to remove fair-use images from userboxes when I run across them; however, I generally don't go looking for them. (Apologies for taking so long to reply. I was on a break from editing here, but I certainly should have taken care of replying to your comment before I left.) — Jeff | (talk) | 01:11, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Article formatting

Dear Tropical cyclone editor,

As a member of the Tropical Cyclone Wikiproject, you are receiving this message to describe how you can better tropical cyclone articles. There are hundreds of tropical cyclone articles, though many of them are poorly organized and lacking in information. Using the existing featured articles as a guide line, here is the basic format for the ideal tropical cyclone article.

  1. Infobox- Whenever possible, the infobox should have a picture for the tropical cyclone. The picture can be any uploaded picture about the storm, though ideally it should be a satellite shot of the system. If that is not available, damage pictures, either during the storm or after the storm, are suitable. In the area that says Formed, indicate the date on which the storm first developed into a tropical depression. In the area that says Dissipated, indicate the date on which the storm lost its tropical characteristics. This includes when the storm became extratropical, or if it dissipated. If the storm dissipated and reformed, include the original start date and the final end date. Highest winds should be the local unit of measurement for speed (mph in non-metric countries, km/h in metric countries), with the other unit in parenthesis. The lowest pressure should be in mbars. Damages should, when available, be in the year of impact, then the present year. The unit of currency can be at your discretion, though typically it should be in USD. Fatalities indicate direct deaths first, then indirect deaths. Areas affected should only be major areas of impact. Specific islands or cities should only be mentioned if majority of the cyclone's effects occurred there.
  2. Intro- The intro for every article should be, at a minimum, 2 paragraphs. For more impacting hurricanes, it should be 3. The first should describe the storm in general, including a link to the seasonal article, its number in the season, and other statistics. The second should include a brief storm history, while the third should be impact.
  3. Storm history- The storm history should be a decent length, relatively proportional to the longevity of the storm. Generally speaking, the first paragraph should be the origins of the storm, leading to the system reaching tropical storm status. The second should be the storm reaching its peak. The third should be post-peak until landfall and dissipation. This section is very flexable, depending on meteorological conditions, but it should generally be around 3. Storm histories can be longer than three paragraphs, though they should be less than five. Anything more becomes excessive. Remember, all storm impacts, preparations, and records can go elsewhere. Additional pictures are useful here. If the picture in the infobox is of the storm at its peak, use a landfall picture in the storm history. If the picture in the infobox is of the storm at its landfall, use the peak. If the landfall is its peak, use a secondary peak, or even a random point in the storm's history.
  4. Preparations- The preparations section can be any length, depending on the amount of preparations taken by people for the storm. Hurricane watches and warnings need to be mentioned here, as well as the number of people evacuated from the coast. Include numbers of shelters, and other info you can find on how people prepared for the storm.
  5. Impact- For landfalling storms, the impact section should be the majority of the article. First, if the storm caused deaths in multiple areas, a death table would work well in the top level impact section. A paragraph of the general effects of the storm is also needed. After the intro paragraph, impact should be broken up by each major area. It depends on the information, but sections should be at least one paragraph, if not more. In the major impact areas, the first paragraph should be devoted to meteorological statistics, including rainfall totals, peak wind gusts on land, storm surge, wave heights, beach erosion, and tornadoes. The second should be actual damage. Possible additional paragraphs could be detailed information on crop damage or specifics. Death and damage tolls should be at the end. Pictures are needed, as well. Ideally, there would be at least one picture for each sub-section in the impact, though this sometimes can't happen. For storms that impact the United States or United States territories, this site can be used for rainfall data, including an image of rainfall totals.
  6. Aftermath- The aftermath section should describe foreign aid, national aid, reconstruction, short-term and long-term environmental effects, and disease. Also, the storm's retirement information, whether it happened or not, should be mentioned here.
  7. Records- This is optional, but can't hurt to be included.
  8. Other- The ideal article should have inline sourcing, with the {{cite web}} formatting being preferable. Always double check your writing and make sure it makes sense.

Good luck with future writing, and if you have a question about the above, don't hesitate to ask.

Hurricanehink (talk) 20:01, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #1

Number 1, June 4, 2006

The Hurricane Herald

This is the monthly newsletter of WikiProject Tropical Cyclones. The Hurricane Herald aims to give a summary of the activities of the WikiProject over the past month and upcoming events over the next month. In addition monthly tropical cyclone activity will be summarized.

You have received this as you are a member of the WikiProject, please add your username in the appropriate section on the mailing list. If you do not add your name to that list, the WikiProject will assume you do not wish to receive future versions of The Hurricane Herald. Sorry if the newsletter breaks your talk page formatting.

Storm of the month

Typhoon Chanchu near its peak intensity
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

New articles and improvements wanted

Member of the month

This isn't the generic barnstar, we just don't have a WPTC star yet…

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

Storm article statistics

Grade April May June
Featured article FA 7 7 10
A 4 5 7
Good article 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] 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] V8 Supercars

Hi. You kickstarted the WikiProject V8 Supercars but haven't contributed to it for a while. The project is getting going now, perhaps you'd like to come back and help? Cheers, Scott. --Scott Davis Talk 05:43, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Peter Brock

My apologies, I was correcting vandalism with popups, and didn't see all the more recent edits. Yandman 09:35, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Yandman's reverts

I see that the user reverted some edits you were working on [1] as well as reverting (without explanation) a couple of editor's contributions that I was working on at [2]. Terryeo 14:23, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Terryeo, I have replied to you on my talk page. I'm not sure why this is here, but maybe you'll read this and go to my talk page. Yandman 14:29, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Jan Smuts

Hello there. Many thanks for your edit to the above article; you are quite right, his middle name was offically 'Christiaan', although he preferred 'Christian' throughout his life.

On a related note, you might be interested to know that the Early life of Jan Smuts (childhood and early adulthood, 1870-1895) is up for FA nomination at the moment. Any contribution, whether a vote for/against or a suggestion for improvement, would be very much appreciated. The eventual intention is to raise Jan Smuts and its detailed sub-articles to FAs - this is the first to be completed and to go forward for nomination.

Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates/Early life of Jan Smuts

Best wishes, Xdamrtalk 15:02, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 3.14 (disambiguation) prodded

I've added the "{{prod}}" template to the article 3.14 (disambiguation), suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. Disambiguation for two uses when one is by far the more common use is not necessary. If you want you can add {{redirect}} or one of its variants to Pi. TimBentley (talk) 21:02, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Infobox Weather

I seen your message on Wikipedia:WikiProject Climate today so I am responding to tell you that I have created (last week) a standard infobox for weather averages for a location.

Template:Infobox Weather

Give it a look. It is currently inserted into the Toronto, Montreal, and Detroit articles. Let me know what you think at Template talk:Infobox Weather. —MJCdetroit 16:31, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

P.S. (off subject) I attended a lecture by Stephen Jay Gould in 2000 — very smart man. You should read his books next.—MJCdetroit 16:43, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
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