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• 10 March 2006 – 11 April 2006
• 12 April 2006 – 9 May 2006
• 10 May 2006 – 23 May 2006
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• 19 November 2006 – 14 January 2007
• 15 January 2007 – 3 April 2007

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[edit] Scottish Parliament Election 2007

Can i ask why you removed the word "Scottish" from the title of the Scottish Conservative party? I would revert your edit but there may be a reason behind it. The name of the party is the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party - NOT the Conservative and Unionist Party, this is why i don't understand your edit, but i don't want to revert it if there is a factual reason for it. And also, i don't understand why you removed the link from the bottom of the page either, i'm new to editing wikipedia so thats why i'm asking without reverting, i don't want to upset anyone. Take care, Princesskirsty 19:47, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

To what literature are you referring? Princesskirsty 22:52, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for replying again. Campaign leaflets, websites and even the Scottish Parliament website refers to each party with Scottish in front of the party names. I'm also pretty sure, but can't be entirely certain, that the ballot paper says, for example, Scottish Labour but I won't be sure until after the election as i've never paid attention to that before. An example of a campaign leaflet i found: Scottish Labour and a website Scottish Conservatives or Scottish Lib Dems and like i said, even the Scottish parliament website (when it doesn't have the party names shortened to abbreviations) refers to them with Scottish *Party Name* here for example. I'm arguing the point because it is a pretty big change to be making to the page and i just want to check that you're certain its the correct edit to be making. I could pose the question to the talk page of the article and see if others have an opinion on it. Personally, giving away who i vote for here, i have never voted Liberal Democrat, it has always been Scottish Liberal Democrat. The buttons and leaflets always have Scottish before it. I do have a relation who is a Scottish Labour MSP, i could ask him for verification on what the party is properly addressed as. Thanks for taking time to talk it over with me, Princesskirsty 15:03, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Matt Luft

I am sincerely trying to create a page for my friend Matt Luft. He is a famous drummer from the progressive rock band BlueFire. Please see BlueFireBand.com for further information. I don't see why you have the power to say that he is not of notable interest to the public. Matt is loved by many people.

Please read WP:BAND#Criteria for musicians and ensembles for what your "friend" Matt Luft (aka, you) would need to do to be notable enough for a Wikipedia article. —Cuiviénen 17:39, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Block

I've said it before--this IP: 167.206.204.101 is a school, and A LOT of vandalism is coming from there. (See User talk:167.206.204.101 for exact details) Appearently, schools are supposed to be blocked for 6 months or less, with the schoolblock template as the block reason. Can you please do this? Or, if you really want to crack down, the you could contact their administrators, whose email addresses I have found after some research. They are: mcamporeale@pascack.k12.nj.us and aatlas@pascack.k12.nj.us For more information, their school district website is: http://pascackvrhs.schoolwires.com/pascackvrhs/site/default.asp

Thank you. Seldon1 16:48, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ken Onion

Thanks for the correction! --Mike Searson 20:46, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] My RfA

Thanks for your support in my RfA. I withdrew when it became clear that the uphill climb had crossed the snowball threshold, but I appreciate your support and the process gave me some good ideas for other ways I can be contributing to Wikipedia. I'll work on the areas that came up in the discussion, and try again after I've gained wider experience. -FisherQueen (Talk) 12:20, 23 January 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Energy: world resources and consumption

Could you please look at Energy: world resources and consumption and comment if it is ready to be a featured article? Your opinion matters! Thanks Frank van Mierlo 12:31, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #9

Number 9, February 4, 2007

The Hurricane Herald

This is the monthly newsletter of WikiProject Tropical Cyclones. The Hurricane Herald aims to give a summary, both of the activities of the WikiProject and global tropical cyclone activity. If you wish to change how you receive this newsletter, or no longer wish to receive it, please add your username to the appropriate section on the mailing list.
"The NHC is the official basin for the Atlantic."[1]

Storm of the month

Cyclone Clovis approaching Madagascar
Cyclone Clovis was named late on December 31 near to Tromelin Island. Clovis strengthened as it moved to the southwest reaching its peak the same day with 60 knot winds (according to Météo-France). The JTWC intensified Clovis more slowly, and assessed that it reached its peak with 65 knot winds on January 2, as it was nearing the Madagascar coast. The JTWC maintained this strength until it made landfall on the island on January 3. The resulting floods damaged a number of structures in Mananjary and about 1,500 people had to be evacuated.[2]

Other tropical cyclone activity
The only activity during January was in the Southern Hemisphere, with a total of 5 cyclones existing throughout the month.

  • Dora, the second cyclone the Southwest Indian Ocean formed late in January well to the east of Réunion; and reached tropical cyclone strength at the start of February.
  • The two storms in the South Pacific, Zita and Arthur followed very similar tracks to the east of the Dateline. The JTWC estimated that Zita reached its peak on January 23 and Arthur briefly had hurricane force winds two days later.
  • Cyclone Isobel formed between Indonesia and Australia late in December and headed south, making landfall in Western Australia on January 3 as a minimal Tropical Cyclone.

New articles and improvements wanted

Member of the month

Cyclone barnstar

The January member of the month is Chacor, formerly known as NSLE. Chacor joined the project in November 2005, and has contributed to a wide variety of articles across the project. Recently he has generally focussed on the West Pacific and did most of the work on the first Good article in that basin: Typhoon Ewiniar (2006). He has also started the much needed process of splitting the Southern Hemisphere seasonal articles. Finally, Chacor is probably the user who maintains the quality of the most visible part of the project, the current activity.

Main Page content

Storm article statistics

Grade Nov Dec Jan Feb
Featured article FA 16 19 23 25
A 7 6 2 2
Good article GA 48 57 74 75
B 83 78 71 76
Start 210 200 193 195
Stub 11 15 16 16
Total 375 375 379 389
percentage
Less than B		 58.9 57.3 55.1 54.2

A quick note: When you create a new article please list it in the appropriate section on the project's page and add a fact from the article to the Portal. Thanks.

[edit] Hurricane Alice 1954

Here's some links that'll help with the article. Hurricanehink (talk) 19:49, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

No problem. That was just with a very quick search, so I'm sure there's still lots out there. Good luck with the article, and good move in moving the later Alice to Hurricane Alice (December 1954). Hurricanehink (talk) 02:14, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Coil (band ) FA nomination

Thank you for your input on the article, I have taken your advice. If you have the time to look over the article again and possibly re-comment on the recent changes please do so. --AlexOvShaolin 19:06, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DYK

Updated DYK query Did you know? was updated. On 18 February 2007, a fact from the article Hurricane Able (1951), which you recently nominated, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--Majorly (o rly?) 20:37, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #10

Number 10, March 4, 2007

The Hurricane Herald

This is the monthly newsletter of WikiProject Tropical Cyclones. The Hurricane Herald aims to give a summary, both of the activities of the WikiProject and global tropical cyclone activity. If you wish to change how you receive this newsletter, or no longer wish to receive it, please add your username to the appropriate section on the mailing list.

Storm of the month

Cyclone Favio near Madagascar

Cyclone Favio developed well to the east of northern Madagascar on February 12 and moved to the southwest as it developed. The storm did not significantly intensify until February 19 when it was just off the southern coast of Madagascar, but rapidly intensified soon after to its peak with 185 km/h (115 mph) winds. Favio turned to the northwest and hit Mozambique worsening the floods already occurring in the country. Favio claimed at least 4 lives and destroyed thousands of homes.

Other tropical cyclone activity
There were a total of 6 tropical cyclones in the southern hemisphere during February. Five of these, including Favio, were in the South West Indian Ocean.

  • The only other storm in the Australian region was Cyclone Nelson which formed at the end of January in the Gulf of Carpentaria before it hit Queensland.
  • Cyclone Dora was active in January and reached its peak as an annular cyclone on February 3 with 185 km/h (115 mph) winds.
  • Cyclone Gamede was an unusually large storm that prompted the highest level of cyclone warning on Réunion and brought strong winds to the island on February 27, causing a bridge to collapse.
  • Neither Enok towards the start of the month or Humba near its end, had any impact on land.

Member of the month

Cyclone barnstar

The February member of the month is Miss Madeline. Miss Madeline is responsible for many of the projects featured lists such as List of Category 5 Pacific hurricanes and List of California hurricanes. She has also put serious work into many of our Pacific hurricane articles since she joined the project as one of its founding members. Recently she has worked on 1996 Pacific hurricane season, bringing it from a stub-class article to a Good article candidate.

Storm article statistics

Grade Dec Jan Feb Mar
Featured article FA 19 23 25 28
A 6 2 2 2
Good article GA 57 74 75 80
B 78 71 76 78
Start 200 193 195 194
Stub 15 16 16 16
Total 375 379 389 398
percentage
Less than B		 57.3 55.1 54.2 52.8

Comments wanted on project talk Many discussions that potentially have far reaching impact for the whole project are carried out on the project's talk page. However, only a fraction of our active contributors actually engage in those discussions. If you add the project page to your Watchlist and keep an eye on discussions there to monitor upcoming changes, even if you don't participate in those discussions it would help both yourself and the project as a whole. For instance, at the moment the primary infobox templates such as {{Infobox hurricane}} are in the process of being deprecated and replaced by new versions which do the role more effectively.

[edit] Image:Alexa_McDonough_and_Alexis_MacDonald.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:Alexa_McDonough_and_Alexis_MacDonald.jpg. I notice the 'image' page specifies that the image is being used under fair use, but its use in Wikipedia articles fails our first fair use criterion in that it illustrates a subject for which a freely licensed image could reasonably be found or created that provides substantially the same information. If you believe this image is not replaceable, please:

  1. Go to the image description page and edit it to add {{Replaceable fair use disputed}}, without deleting the original Replaceable fair use template.
  2. On the image discussion page, write the reason why this image is not replaceable at all.

Alternatively, you can also choose to replace the fair use image by finding a freely licensed image of its subject, requesting that the copyright holder release this (or a similar) image under a free license, or by taking a picture of it yourself.

If you have uploaded other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified how these images fully satisfy our fair use criteria. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on this link. Note that any fair use images which are replaceable by free-licensed alternatives will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Iamunknown 20:02, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Jean-Paul Hansford = Jean-paul hansford

It's baaaaaack! - CobaltBlueTony 19:56, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #11

Number 11, April 1, 2007

The Hurricane Herald

This is the monthly newsletter of WikiProject Tropical Cyclones. The Hurricane Herald aims to give a summary, both of the activities of the WikiProject and global tropical cyclone activity. If you wish to change how you receive this newsletter, or no longer wish to receive it, please add your username to the appropriate section on the mailing list.

Please visit this page and bookmark any suggestions of interest to you. This will help improve monitoring of the WikiProject's articles.

Storm of the month

Damage from Will

Hurricane Will developed from a tropical wave to the east of the Caribbean Sea and intensified. It crossed over Jamaica and re-emerged over water a few days later. The storm intensified into a hurricane and an eye began to develop. Will became a major hurricane over the Gulf of Mexico and made landfall on the vulnerable Gulf Coast of the United States soon after. To date, Hurricane Will has claimed over 350 lives and is directly responsible for about $5 billion of damages; of which an unknown amount was insured. Despite the damage, it is not expected that the name will be retired by WMO.

Other tropical cyclone activity

  • After threatening the Eastern Seaboard for some time, Hurricane Hink has turned away and the NHC has cancelled all warnings associated with the storm.
  • The 2007 Pacific typhoon season began with Tropical Storm Kong-rey forming on March 31.
  • There were a total of 7 cyclones in the southern hemisphere: Becky in the South Pacific, Indlala and Jaya in the Southwestern Indian Ocean and Odette, George, Jacob and Kara in the Australian region. Indlala killed at least 80 and left over 100,000 homeless; whilst Cyclone George was the worst storm to affect Port Hedland in over 30 years.

Member of the month

Cyclone barnstar

The April member of the month is HurricaneIrene. Irene began contributing to tropical cyclone articles on Wikipedia in August 2005, but ran out of steam and left after barely 2 weeks. However, Irene's influence on the project has been wide-reaching. Her efforts led directly to two articles attaining featured status and her legacy inspired many of our most active editors to write a plethora of good articles on a wide range of storms.

Main Page content

Storm article statistics

Grade Jan Feb Mar Apr
Featured article FA 23 25 28 29
A 2 2 2 2
Good article GA 74 75 80 82
B 71 76 78 80
Start 193 195 194 209
Stub 16 16 16 17
Total 379 389 398 419
percentage
Less than B		 55.1 54.2 52.8 53.9

The Main Page

The WikiProject has a narrow scope, so it is not surprising that our articles are not frequently selected for Today's featured article. Most destructive cyclones are likely to be mentioned on the In the news column. We have no real control over that, but we should submit suggestions when appropriate.

However, we can do a more lot more to place our content in the other major section of the main page: The Did you know column. In the past month we created over 30 articles. Of these only 2 were even submitted as suggestions for DYK. We can do much better, please submit DYK entries for new articles when you do the initial assessment.

[edit] Your edits to the main page

Please immediately cease and desist your counterproductive edits to the main page images. See [[3]]. Mindspillage is acting positively and appropriately on behalf of Wikipedia and your attempts to demolish that and start an edit war are quite disturbing. —Pilotguy cleared for takeoff 02:45, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

I'm sorry, but evidently you are more of a competent admin than I am. I would love it if you could show me this "policy" that directs the use of non-free images on the main page. —Pilotguy cleared for takeoff 21:01, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image:TGV train in Rennes station DSC08944.jpg

Hello! In addition to the fact that this misleadingly implied that the train pictured was the one that broke the record, you neglected to upload and protect the image (thereby leaving our main page open to vandalism via the Commons). —David Levy 22:52, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] HLA Hart

Hey, amigo, what's the rationale behind your revert edit of this article. Thanks for a quick and enlighting reply.

My impression was of an attempt to overrepresent the views of a single scholar, which your addition certainly does. I thought you might be Nicola Lacey herself trying to get free publicity, which happens all too often. Please make sure not to overemphasize Lacey's viewpoint on the subject; she is but one scholar among many. Thanks :) —Cuiviénen 02:29, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Huh

I know i have hit on this issue before, but Estabrooks in the N.J senate elections, could you create a page on her?? The people should no more! Politics rule 8:20pm EST.- 4/17/2007

  • Got your message. i understand. thank you. if you have any questions, or comments leave on my tak page.-Politics 7:07pm EST. 4/18/2007