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The Tropical Cyclone Collaboration of the Fortnight is a collaborative effort to improve tropical cyclone-related articles, in order to help them reach featured-article standards. Anyone, no matter what their level of knowledge about tropical cyclones or meteorology, is welcome to lend a hand.

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Contents 1 Selecting the next collaboration 2 Preparing the next collaboration 3 Nominating articles 4 Next collaboration 4.1 Tropical cyclone 4.2 Great Hurricane of 1938 4.3 Hurricane Andrew 4.4 Hurricane Keith 4.5 1929 Florida Hurricane 4.6 Hurricane Frances 4.7 Hurricane Rita 4.8 Hurricane Kathleen (1976) 4.9 Hurricane Linda 4.10 South Atlantic tropical cyclone 4.11 Mediterranean tropical cyclones 4.12 Hurricane Nora (1997) 4.13 Hurricane Katrina 4.14 1997-98 Southern Hemisphere tropical cyclone season 5 Interested Wikipedians 6 See also

[edit] Selecting the next collaboration

The selection process involves three steps:

1. Nomination: New nominations can be made at any time and should be added at the end of the Candidates for next week section. Insightful comments may assist others in casting their vote.
2. Voting: To vote for an article, add your ~~~~ under the article's support section. Any registered Wikipedian can vote on this page, regardless of their level of knowledge about the subject.
3. Selection: The colllaboration is selected by approval voting; thus, you may vote for as many candidates as you like, and opposition votes have no bearing. The article with the most support votes is selected as the winner. In case of a tie, the candidate that was nominated first wins.

A nomination will be removed and archived if it does not receive at least 1 vote per week.

[edit] Preparing the next collaboration

To change to a newly selected article, first close the previous one:

1. Change the noticeboard to reflect the change.
2. Note the selection in the collaboration archive.
3. Send the article to the assessment page to check where it falls on the grading scale.
4. If appropriate, the article should be referred to Peer review and later to Featured article candidates.

Now prepare the new article:

1. Announce the new selection at the noticeboard by replacing the old article with the new.
2. Remove the new article from the Next collaboration section, and note it on the collaboration archive.
3. Contact the Wikipedians who voted for the winning article in their talk pages.

[edit] Nominating articles

===[[Article]]=== Reason ~~~~ ;Support #~~~~ # ;Comments *

1. First, decide if it is necessary for the article to require a collaboration. Minor grammatical errors and other simple tasks can be done by one person. Be bold!
2. Add the nominee to the Next collaboration section, and follow the following format:
3. Add TCCOTF=yes to {{Hurricane}} on the top of the article's talk page.

[edit] Next collaboration

[edit] Tropical cyclone

Linked from everywhere, lots of detail, but it needs a bit of love to be a FA, something it easily can be... Titoxd^{(?!? - help us)} 21:42, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Good idea. It would require a big overhaul, but that would be a cool task for the TCCOTF. Hurricanehink 02:46, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

A good core article before moving on to specific storms. Should be in a print version, but needs improvement.--HereToHelp 03:03, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Great Hurricane of 1938

I'm reading a book on it. I've been taking notes on important things. From what is in the book, the article can be greatly expanded, especially in the aftermath and impact section. By the way, the book is A wind to shake the world by Everett S. Allen, incase if anybody wants to buy it. Icelandic Hurricane #12 22:41, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hurricane Andrew

I don't know if a complete overhaul is needed. It just needs some love in the impact section and aftermath section. Maybe eventually, if no one does it before then, but not yet. Hurricanehink 02:46, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hurricane Keith

Not that notable, this should be far down the list. — jdorje (talk) 19:48, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 1929 Florida Hurricane

No need, IMO. The hurricane is not notable enough, and there's hundreds of articles that should be redone before this one. In addition, there simply isn't a lot of information. Hurricanehink 15:48, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

No need. — jdorje (talk) 19:47, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hurricane Frances

Yes but eventually. Like Rita, it might be too soon to have a lot of information on it. There's probably a ton on the storm from the month when it made landfall, but probably not much afterwards. Hurricanehink 21:11, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hurricane Rita

I vote yes, but eventually. Other, more important storms, deserve articles better than this. Plus, it's too soon to have accurate details on everything. Hurricanehink 21:11, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hurricane Kathleen (1976)

I think the article is pretty good considering the location and time period. It's just that there's not much information from a storm in 1976 in the Eastern Pacific ocean, so I'll have to vote no. Hurricanehink 21:11, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hurricane Linda

Possible no. The storm had little impact on land. That might make it hard. Hurricanehink 21:11, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] South Atlantic tropical cyclone

Similar to Mediterranean tropical cyclones, the subject is obscure without much information out there. However, it couldn't hurt, so I vote eventually. Hurricanehink 15:48, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Not that notable; should be far down the list. — jdorje (talk) 19:49, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

I'd like this one to get some attention... rare, possibly linked to larger factors, theres some troves of info out there (I've been looking) -M^ask 23:01, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mediterranean tropical cyclones

No need, IMO. The subject is obscure, and few people would probably look at it. In addition, there's little information out there. Hurricanehink 02:46, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hurricane Nora (1997)

Big no. The article is great! Hurricanehink 21:11, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

It's an FA, no way should we be picking at them when there are so so many start class articles.--Nilfanion (talk) 20:38, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Third big no. Titoxd^{(?!? - help us)} 20:40, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hurricane Katrina

I vote no. It was already the Wikipedia Collorabation of the Week. No need to do it again. Hurricanehink 21:11, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

I'd say that another round would be useful. Support. Titoxd^{(?!? - help us)} 23:11, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

It's featured, so forget that. Titoxd^(?!?) 06:42, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

Let us not involve FAs in collaborations until all articles are featured, or until there is some sort of "Complete-class" article class. --Gray Porpoise 00:46, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 1997-98 Southern Hemisphere tropical cyclone season

We're not doing seasons yet for FA's, so not really sure the usefulness of this. I vote no due to lack of notability and need for a complete overhaul. Hurricanehink 15:48, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Interested Wikipedians

1. Hurricanehink
2. Icelandic Hurricane #12
3. Titoxd^{(?!? - help us)}
4. Runningonbrains
5. Miss Madeline | Talk to Madeline
6. Sarsaparilla39
7. jdorje (talk)
8. TimL
9. WotGoPlunk

[edit] See also

• Portal:Tropical cyclones
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Assessment
• Path to a featured article