Template talk:Infobox Hurricane
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[edit] Usage
| Parameter name | Purpose | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Name | The storms name | |
| Year | The year the storm formed in. | 2005 |
| Basin | The basin the storm formed in. One of "Atl", "EPac", "WPac", "NIO", "SWIO", "Aus", "SPac", "SAtl" or "SHem". | |
| Type | "Type" of the storm, depending on basin ("hurricane", "typhoon" or "cyclone"). Uses anything but ensure correct capitalization | hurricane |
| Image location | Location of picture to use | |
| Image name | Caption for picture | |
| Formed | Date of formation | [[September 23]], [[1996]] |
| Dissipated | Date of dissipation | [[October 2]], [[1996]] |
| 10-min winds | Highest 10-minute sustained winds in knots as a pure number. The template will convert appropriately. | 160 |
| 1-min winds | Highest 1-minute sustained winds in knots as a pure number. The template will convert appropriately. | 160 |
| Gusts | Gusts in knots as a pure number. The template will convert appropriately. | 160 |
| Pressure | Lowest recorded pressure. Expressed as a pure number - value in mbar/hPa. Will convert to appropriate values. | 925 |
| Pressurepre | If defined, adds a qualifying prefix to the pressure value. | < |
| Pressurepost | If defined adds a note to the pressures | |
| Fatalities | Number of people who died. Separate direct and indirect deaths if possible. | 65 (36 direct; 29 indirect) |
| Damages | Damages from the storm in millions of year-of-storm US dollars, expressed as a pure number. Template will convert to reasonable values. | 1000 |
| Inflated | If defined, applies a standard inflation to the damage figure to bring to current year USD. Numerical value given here gives number of dp to express it to. | 0 |
| Damagespre | If used, adds a qualifing prefix to both damages figures. | At least |
| Damagespost | If defined, adds a note to the damages figure | costliest [[Atlantic hurricane]] in history |
| Areas | List of regions affected | [[Florida]], [[North Carolina]] |
| Hurricane season | The season the storm was a part of | [[2005 Atlantic hurricane season]] |
[edit] Notes
This is a significant update/replacement of {{infobox hurricane}}, created at a new page to stop breakage of articles. The template uses capitalized parameters to distinguish it from the older form. Currently, cross-basin storms can not be handled correctly: Is Ioke WPac or EPac? However, this will be sorted without breaking the template. Do any of the other values need a qualifying variable - like the pressure and damage ones?--Nilfanion (talk) 20:29, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Automatic Unit Conversion
Note: Just so everyone is aware, the concept of adding automatic unit conversion from metric to imperial has been proposed as a feature request for the wikimedia software. The feature discussion would benefit from participation. Alan.ca 12:57, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Referencing
This template makes it impossible to add refs to the max winds/min pressure/formation/dissipation etc. Mind changing it to allow that, Nilf? – Chacor 12:45, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
- Oh, and the inflation values need to be rounded (for example, New England Hurricane of 1938 with Inflation=69 gives a number with far too many significant figures). – Chacor 13:31, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
- The references for those facts should be in the prose of the article. I'd treat the infobox like the lead section (ie the facts are not referenced there).--Nilfanion (talk) 16:52, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
- And the 69 is an absurd value for the Inflation parameter. The instructions for that are a bit unclear I apologise, but this is how it works:
- If Inflated is not defined, do not include an inflated damage figure.
- If it is defined, include it. The value of the parameter gives the number of decimal places that the number is given to. If the "exact" inflation figure is $12,345,678: Inflated = 0 gives $12 million, =1 gives $12.3 million etc. Likewise if the damage is about $12 billion - Inflated = 0 gives $12 billion.--Nilfanion (talk) 16:58, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
