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On 18 November, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Methyldichloroarsine, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

This is very nice! Congratulations on a job well done! Ecoleetage (talk) 01:20, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

And thank you for the award! :) Ecoleetage (talk) 00:58, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

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		For signing my guestbook - I, - Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ guestbook ♦ contribs, hereby present RockManQ with this award. Cheers! -- By the way, do you have a guestbook? - Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ guestbook ♦ contribs 23:57, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

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Thank you, this will keep me busy. I will mark these off as I go :-) RockManQ ^(talk) 02:18, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

...Couldn't the same be said about illustrating your page with an AK-47?

Perhaps you are unaware that at a press conference in Panama in 2005 Bush 43 assured reporters that America does not torture. The picture that particularly concerns you is of a Guantanamo detainee. You seem to think he is being tortured but in fact, like other "war on terror" detainees, her is "being brought to justice." (Again the words of the president. And the president wouldn't lie.) It's my guess that the man portrayed is an extremely dangerous terrorist who was detained for wearing soiled underpants in a threatening manner while attempting to damage government property by zip-tying his hands behind his back and using his body's weight to try to pull the bars off a US government-owned window.

Thank you for your visit, and I'm glad it gave you something to think about.

Peace — Writegeist (talk) 04:40, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

Oops, I see you had second thoughts. I'll delete the post. — Writegeist (talk) 04:44, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

Psshh, like we torture, that's what waterboarding is for! _{(just kidding of course torture is a horrible thing and we should probably stop)} RockManQ ^(talk) 15:30, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

:~) — Writegeist (talk) 19:20, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

It's set to change color like that. I stole it from somebody :) RockManQ ^(talk) 19:25, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

 

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		Thank you to all who participated in my RFA- regardless of whether you supported or opposed, all feedback is important to me. I look forward to proving in the coming months that the trust placed in me by the community is not misplaced. —Mizu onna sango15Hello!

Welcome to the WikiProject Firearms. I hope you enjoy being a member.--LWF (talk) 00:00, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

Your trust is flattering. :) Best wishes, Durova^Charge! 05:52, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

		The RfA Barnstar
		VX, I would like to thank you for your participation in my recent Request for Adminship, which passed with 112 supports, 4 opposes and 5 neutrals. A special mention goes out to Stwalkerster and Pedro for nominating me, thanks a lot for having trust in me! In response to the neutrals, I will try to double check articles that have been tagged for speedy deletion before I CSD them and will start off slowly with the drama boards of ANI and AN to ensure that I get used to them. In response to the oppose !votes on my RfA, I will check that any images I use meet the non-free content criteria and will attempt to handle any disputes or queries as well as I can. If you need my help at all, feel free to simply ask at my talk page and I'll see if I can help. Once again, thank you for your participation, and have a great day! :) The Helpful One 22:11, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

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Hi I just made a big edit on chloropicrin, chopping a lot of stuff but mainly aimed at the chemistry. If you hate the edit, then revert what I did and save what you want. I am pretty sure that the chemical structure in the pic was incorrect (but I could be wrong). There is probably a way to multiply cite the book you refer to without repeating the ref format each time, thus compressing the bit count. If you want to discuss my edits, let me know. Congrats on the honors that you have gotten. Cheers, --Smokefoot (talk) 05:22, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

I don't really care as long as it's cited and a improvement. The pic I took almost straight from the book source (only made with my own chem editor), but it's probably debatable. Do you have an interest in chemical weapons? If so I would suggest a collaboration... RockManQ ^(talk) 20:36, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

BTW, my gramerz skillz ain't the best, but I try my hardest to leave a mess for the other elves to clean up :)

 

I just wanted to wish those Wikipedians who have been nice enough to give me a barnstar or smile at me, supportive enough to agree with me, etc., a Happy Thanksgiving! Sincerely, --Happy Thanksgiving! Sincerely, A Nobody^{My talk} 02:25, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

		Happy Thanksgiving!
		Just stopped by to wish you a Happy Thanksgiving! When you're eating your turkey, think of the little fellow to the left! User:Juliancolton/Faces –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 05:14, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

Hi, VX, welcome to WikiProject LGBT Studies! We are a growing community of Wikipedia editors dedicated to identifying, categorizing, and improving articles regarding lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) and intersex people. LGBT Studies covers people, culture, history, and related subjects concerning sexual identity and gender identity - this covers a lot of ground and your help is appreciated! Some points that may be helpful: Our main aim is to help improve articles, so if someone seeks help, please try to assist if you are able. Likewise feel free to ask for help, advice or clarification. Many important discussions take place on the project's main discussion page; it is highly recommended that you watchlist it. If you have another language besides English, please consider adding yourself to our translation section, to help us improve our foreign LGBT topics. The project has several ongoing and developing activities, such as article quality assessment, peer review and a project-wide article collaboration, all of which you are welcome to take part in. We also have a unique program to improve our lower quality articles, Jumpaclass, so please consider signing up there. If you're going to stay awhile, please create a square in our project quilt! You can put anything you want in it. If you have any questions, feel free to ask on the talk page, and we will be happy to help you. And once again - Welcome!

-- SatyrTN (talk / contribs) 08:23, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

I finally split Halloween around the world from Halloween. You willing to assess it so we know where we stand?--otherlleft^{No, really, other way . . .} 14:51, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

I thought I caught all of them, but I had to go shopping so maybe I rushed. I'll check it out. I didnt think the article would assess well, but C is better than ZOMG. I figure now we have two articles that are improvable. Thanks.--otherlleft^{No, really, other way . . .} 20:43, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! –Juliancolton ^{Tropical Cyclone} 15:10, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

Jclemens' RfA Thankspam

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		Thank you for participating in my Request for Adminship, which passed with 77 supporting and 2 opposing. Regardless of your position, I thank you for the time you took to examine my record and formulate your response. Jclemens (talk) 02:26, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

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		for your diligence in assessing the quality of articles within the purview of WikiProject Halloween, I award you this Barnstar o'Lantern. otherlleftNo, really, other way . . . 16:19, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

You assessed all those after I gave you a Barnstar? Dern . . . guess I'd better go find a few more!  ;)--otherlleft^{No, really, other way . . .} 19:42, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

Don't feel like it's a quid pro quo obligation - I reviewed you because:

1. I felt I ought to pay it forward
2. You're a huge help on projects I care about
3. I didn't want you to be overlooked because you'd gotten a few comments but nothing close to a thorough review.

I won't turn away a review from ya, but if we're keeping score, I owed you and that made us even!--otherlleft^{No, really, other way . . .} 22:06, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Have an unyielding beer on me. Let the amber nectar flow all day and night. Let it run down the mountains and through the caverns and across the rich lawns to swamp the streets. Let it rain beer. Let the heavens open and shine forth beer. Let it all be beer. Wonderful beer. And let it be as deep as the heart of a lion. This is an acknowledgment of your participation in the RfA of: SilkTork *YES!. 19:12, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

I just wanted to take a moment to say "thank you" for taking the time and effort to participate in my recent RfA. As you may know, the discussion closed 66/0/1 and I'm now a holder of the mop. I will keep working to improve the encyclopedia and appreciate the trust which you have placed in me. - Dravecky (talk) 23:55, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

No problem, glad I could help. Have fun. Sirkad_talk^sign 16:18, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Also, I looked at some of the articles you created and I am impressed, while some certainly need to be expanded you are off to a good start. The only thing that worried me was that every article was either about explosives or corrosive chemical agents. haha! Good job! Sirkad_talk^sign 16:24, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

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Thanks for your careful consideration at my successful RfA. "great candidate" was generous and appreciated. Please let me know on my talk page if you have any suggestions for me. - Dan Dank55 (send/receive) 17:36, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

Could you come back on IRC? ♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 04:13, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

Yea, just come back on. ♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 04:16, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

Are you going to nominate all of the arbitrators, bureaucrats, stewards, founders, foundation board members, etc. etc. etc. or just those with a sense of humor :) davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 03:02, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

I've only nominated three editors for deletion; Newyorkbrad, Durova and myself. But if you want to know, it's all just a evil cabal conspiracy to destroy all the admins, crats, stewards, etc... RockManQ^(talk) 03:26, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

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It's me on PSP. Seriously 98.222.12.120 (talk) 03:35, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

FYI, this really was me. VX!^~~~ 22:18, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

Test edit. 98.222.12.120 (talk) 23:08, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

 

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A friend of yours? :P VX!^~~~ 05:54, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Yeah some IPs don't like that star. Go figure. Not sure who I pissed off recently. Thanks for the revert! StarM 13:10, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Well, I am, partially. I celebrate Hanukkah and Christmas. :) –Juliancolton ^{Happy Holidays} 14:52, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

In that case, Happy Hanukkah, Julian! --Dylan620 _Contribs ^Sign! 17:31, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, Dylan! :) Happy holidays to you, as well. –Juliancolton ^{Happy Holidays} 17:33, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

Shoo, my talk page isn't your forum :P VX!^~~~ 17:44, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

 

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Happy New Year! I like the new user name. Seems we've got the arsenical vesicants covered now. --IvoShandor (talk) 05:31, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

I've started compiling a list of stuff in my sandbox. Check it out, the agents that still need covered are there too, I have only put a few links to sources so far, but there's enough to get started I think. --IvoShandor (talk) 18:50, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

You're welcome to add sources or articles that you think need to be created or worked on to my lists on that sandbox page. --IvoShandor (talk) 18:52, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Also, nice one here. I found out that what was on the list before was wrong just the other day. If you haven't added it to Template:U.S. chemical weapons you can do so, also note I made a similar template for bio-weapons.--IvoShandor (talk) 19:29, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

No problem, you are most welcome. I saw the M47 article, kudos again. Of course, everytime I think we have almost covered them all, I find more in the source materials. :-) --IvoShandor (talk) 19:43, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Number 23,

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Storm of the month

 

Hurricane Paloma
Hurricane Paloma was the second most powerful November hurricane on record in the Atlantic Basin, behind Hurricane Lenny in 1999. It was the third and final major hurricane to hit Cuba in 2008, being the first time that three major hurricanes have struck Cuba in one season. It also marked the first time that at least one major hurricane formed in every month of the hurricane season from July to November, with only June not having a major hurricane this season.

Hurricane Paloma was also the last Tropical Depression of the 2008 season, and caused at least $1.4 billion in damage and was responsible for at least one direct death.

Other tropical cyclone activity

• Eastern Pacific Ocean– Tropical Storm Polo was the only Tropical Storm to form during November and December.

• Western Pacific Ocean – There were five tropical depressions during the last two months of the 2008 Pacific typhoon season. Though only four of them developed into Tropical storms with only Dolphin becoming a Typhoon.

• North Indian– There were three Tropical Depressions during the last two months of the 2008 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, however there were only two that officially became Tropical Storms being named Khai-Muk and Nisha.

• South Indian– Cyclone Bernard was the first cyclone of the year to move into the Australian Region from the Southwest Indian Ocean. Forming on early on November 19 it quickly intensified into a Moderate Tropical Storm the next day, however as it moved westward it weakened into a Tropical Depression and moved into Australia's Bureau of Meteorology's area of responsibility and dissipated later on November 21.

• Australian - There were four tropical lows during November and December with Tropical Low ex Bernard moving into the Australian Region from the South-West Indian Ocean. Two of the Lows developed into Tropical Cyclones being named Anika and Billy respectively. Anika intensified into a category two cyclone whilst Cyclone Billy became a Severe Tropical Cyclone after it had affected Northern Australia.

• The 2008–09 South Pacific cyclone season got off to an slow start during November and December, with three Tropical Disturbances forming during December. Only one of the tropical disturbances developed into a tropical depression.

Member of the month

 

The November/December member of the month is Thegreatdr, who has been a steady editor within the project for the past few years. Lately, the user's contributions include improving some of the Pacific Typhoon season articles from the 1980s. Thegreatdr has also tipped us off about going on's at the National Hurricane Center and the Hydrometeorological Prediction Center.

New members

• Aquamelli * DavidWS * Ramisses * Renereynoso * VeronicaPR * Neutralhomer * VOFFA * Catalan * HurricaneSpin * HERB * NuclearWarfare

New and improved articles

• There were new pieces of Featured content : Timeline of the 2005 Pacific hurricane season, Tropical Storm Erick (2007), Tropical Storm Gabrielle (2007), Timeline of the 2003 Atlantic hurricane season, Timeline of the 1983 Atlantic hurricane season, Timeline of the 1982 Atlantic hurricane season
  • 1994 Pacific hurricane season became the project's first Good topic.
• New Good articles include: 1981 Pacific typhoon season, 1983 Pacific typhoon season, 1994 Pacific typhoon season, Hurricane Karl (1998), Tropical Depression One-C (2005), Tropical Storm Dorothy (1970), Tropical Storm Hermine (1998), Cyclone Gene
• New storm articles include: Tropical Storm Guchol (2005), Hurricane Paloma (2008), Hurricane Douglas (2002), Hurricane Florence (1994), Tropical Storm Vongfong (2008), Cyclone Rosie (2008), Tropical Storm Becky (1970), Hurricane Hector (2006), Hurricane Karl (1998)
• New non-storm articles include: Timeline of the 2003 Atlantic hurricane season, Timeline of the 1995 Atlantic hurricane season, Timeline of the 1983 Atlantic hurricane season, Timeline of the 1982 Atlantic hurricane season, 2009 Pacific typhoon season, Timeline of the 2001 Atlantic hurricane season

Main Page content

• Facts from 2008's Cyclone Rosie, 1970's Tropical Storm Becky, 2005's Tropical Depression One-C & 1998's Hurricane Lisa appeared in the Did You Know? section of the Main Page during November.
• Hurricane Paloma appeared on the Main Page in the In the News section.
• Facts from 1998's Hurricane Karl, 2006's Tropical Storm Olivia & 1969's Hurricane Holly appeared in the Did You Know? section of the Main Page during December.

Storm article statistics

Grade	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
FA	47	49	49	50
A	19	19	19	19
GA	161	187	198	202
B	17	13	21	22
C	107	119	118	122
Start	201	204	210	210
Stub	19	19	16	17
Total	571	613	631	642
ω	2.92	2.88	2.87	2.87
percentage ≥Less than C	38.5	36.4	35.8	35.4
percentage ≥GA or better	39.8	42.1	42.2	42.2

Project News
During the last two months there have been several important discussions of which some are still seeking contributions from members. These include discussions about:

Project Importance - Is it better to rate Storm Importance by basin or by overall importance? - There seems to be a consensus to rate storm importance on a case by case basis, though there still needs to be a bit more discussion on this matter.

Prominent units within TC articles: Imperial or SI? - Which should be the prominent unit outside the Atlantic and Eastern Pacific Basins, Knots or MPH? Generally people think that Knots should not be used except in the general science articles and infoboxes.

ACE - Where and how, should it be used? - We have decided that it should not be used outside the Atlantic or the Eastern Pacific hurricane Seasons. A debate is still ongoing with a view too get rid of it all together.

JMA Tropical Depressions Should we include them with the season articles or not? - The general consensus so far seems to be that we should include them in the season articles though this debate is still ongoing.

We discovered during December that the Australian Bureau of Meteorology have started to designate the Tropical Lows that form within their region with letter U. It is unclear whether either TCWC Jakarta or TCWC Port Moresby assign any designations to lows that form within their Area of Responsibility.

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Thanks for the offer, VX. I've only been an admin for five months, I'm highly unlikely to pass, and I don't really want to be a bureaucrat at the moment, so I'm going to have to respectfully decline. Best, –Juliancolton ^{Tropical Cyclone} 04:06, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

Meh, fine. You'd be a fine bureaucrat at any rate :) Cheers, VX!^talk 04:09, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

...to put your name down when you make a GA review under the article at WP:GAN, or others might also try to review the article ;) Arsenikk ^(talk) 08:54, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

Bah, my mistake. I forgot for a second :) VX!^talk 21:46, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

 

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This edit is in error. The correct component name is mod_python, not "mod python". I have reverted. TJRC (talk) 02:03, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

Same here. TJRC (talk) 02:05, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

All completed. In addition, I'd be willing to help in whatever sort of project you're participating in, when able. VX!^talk 00:58, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

I'm honored that you would like to work with me.

I and several others are buried in a huge project right now, and we could use all the help we could get! Thank you for volunteering!

We're building the geography branch of Wikipedia's Outline of knowledge. Toward that end, we are developing a set of country outlines - one for every country of the world!

Most of them are drafts in the Wikipedia namespace. We've been working on them since last spring, and we're trying to get them completed so that we can move them all into the main namespace!

The first thing I need you to is familiarize yourself with these outlines and their development.

Choose a country, and then follow the general suggestions in the section below.

Good luck.

Have fun.

The Transhumanist 21:33, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

P.S.: Note that Zlerman has taken on 4 countries.  :)

There are two issues here:

1. What needs to be done before a country outline should be moved to article space
2. Completing a country outline

Country outlines should be moved to article space before they are completed.

That way, more editors will notice them and help complete them.

However, there are certain things that should be finished before moving them, and these are covered in the subsections below.

The lead section should be condensed down to a single paragraph including just enough for good solid country identification. Unfortunately, we haven't developed a standard for this yet (perhaps general location, main distinguishing characteristics, and something the country is famous for) - more thought is needed on this. It was never intended to leave the full article leads in these outlines. We simply copied and pasted the leads from the articles to provide an easy starting point for editing. Some of the leads are monstrous - these pages are supposed to be outlines, not articles or article forks. I'll get back to you on this. Though any topics in the lead that are essential to the country as a subject should be converted to outline entries and included in the body of the outline (if they are not already there).

The country outlines placed in article space so far were done rather hastily in order to provide feedback (to see if the community wouldn't just want to burn these with fire, but also to generate comments, and to see how editors developed them further - for ideas on how to improve and expand the standard format), to get readers used to their presence, and to attract editors to this project.

In our haste, and since, we never got around to condensing the leads.

By the way, an editor, on his own initiative, condensed the lead in Topic outline of Indonesia down to the bare bare minimum. I guess he wasn't aware that outlines are still lists, and it is normal for lists to have a lead paragraph more than a single sentence long (see WP:LISTS#Lead section or paragraph). Oh well.

The administrative divisions sections for many countries are incorrect on the drafts, and the sections are empty. These need to be corrected and filled.

If there are way too many divisions to list, provide a link instead.

Provide a map if you can find one (for each admin div section).

These too start out in error for many countries. They must be corrected before the outline can be moved to article space.

Once the above 3 things (lead, administrative divisions, and government branch sections) are completed, it's time to move the outline to the main namespace. There, you can go about finishing up the outline (see the next section)...

There is some awkward stuff in the incomplete outlines:

• redlinks
• empty brackets
• apparently irrelevant entries (e.g., "fjords" for a landlocked country)
• blank entries

When encountered in article space, many editors tend to delete the awkward stuff instead of complete it. You need to be on the look out for this. One way to check for this is to compare the outline against the template:Outline country. That will show you what standard items have been removed.

That aside, here's the basic order that I generally complete an outline in:

Each country outline should include:

1. Location map
2. General map (with roads, rivers, cities, etc.) - usually placed next to or below the table of contents
3. Satellite photo or topological map - usually placed in the Geography section
4. Map(s) showing administrative divisions - one for each administrative division section, if available
5. Population density map (or some other demographics-related map) - in the demographics section
6. Etc.

Look for these at Wikimedia Commons. A faster way to get to what you need is to click on the atlas link in the country outline.  ;)

Sometimes the selection to choose from is pitiful. Do the best with what you have to work with.

The best examples of map support so far are Topic outline of the Isle of Man and Topic outline of Japan.

All blank entries and empty link brackets need to be filled in.

Generally, either move a page to the name of the redlink, or click on the redlink and create a redirect to the article and section where the information is.

Entries that don't seem like they belong, we still keep for comparison purposes. These outlines serve as profiles, and the standard entries and the standard order they are in let you compare country profiles easily. So rather than remove "Glaciers" for countries that have none, instead add a colon and type in "none". This also helps remove ambiguity. If the glacier item is missing, the reader may not know whether it means that there are no glaciers, or if the outline just isn't complete yet. We're trying to make these outlines as unambiguous as possible.

These outlines were created using a template that had all the links most likely to be found for most of the countries of the world. But countries are highly individualized, and there are lots of non-standard topics on Wikipedia about them. We need to find them for each country. Here are some searching tips:

These outlines are not indexes, and they shouldn't include every article related to the country. We have alphabetical indexes and specialized lists for that. For example, in the outline of the United States, don't include the name of every municipality in the country, because there are thousands of them. That's too much data!

But small countries might only have a handful of cities, towns, and villages. Sure, add them in.

Use Google to search Wikipedia (yes you can use Google to search specific websites - Google is actually much more useful for searching Wikipedia than Wikipedia's own search box is.)

Basically, in Google you type in "of x" (including the quotes!). (Where "x" is a country name). Then click on Advanced search, and configure it to "title only" and add Wikipedia's URL to the domain field. As you get up to speed with this technique, you'll probably start editing the url directly in the url field at the top of your browser, but you could skip to an advanced method and make an url list of google searches on a user page and load them with Linky (this technique speeds up multi-Google searches immensely).

In the results, you'll recognize a lot of the article names on there (guess how I found the article names for the country outlines in the first place!) Look over the results, keeping an eye out for article names that are not already included in the country outline you are working on.

(Using "-subject", where "subject" is the name of a subject, you can eliminate a lot of the standard subjects already in use, to make it easier to spot new ones in your results).

Then repeat for "in x", and look them over as above.

Other search terms that may be useful include the country's name (without "of" or "in"), the country's adjectival(s) (e.g. "German", "Germanic"), the country's demonym(s), etc.

You can usually find blatantly missing topics in Wikipedia's category system.

By this point the outline itself is already a powerful research tool. Click on its links to find more links for the outline. For example, History of Russia is a great place to look for links for the history section. And don't forget to read the main article on the country!

Images are best saved for last, because once you've added all the links and maps to the outline, then you know how much room you need to fill with images. But it's OK to add them sooner or as you go - pictures are worth a thousand words and they liven up the page. Just keep in mind that as more links are added, so is more space which needs to be filled with images.

For images, the standard size we've been using is 300px. If the image can't be seen at that size, make it bigger. Placement is usually to the right, but large images usually work best centered at the top or bottom of a section. Be creative, but make it look good.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot. Try to find pictures that are not already in use in the main country-related articles. You can usually find some at Commons, and in more-specific articles (like place articles, or animal type, etc.). Go a few clicks deep.  ;)

The best examples of image placement are Topic outline of France, Topic outline of Iceland, Topic outline of Japan, Topic outline of Taiwan, and Topic outline of Thailand.

I hope you find the above suggestions useful.

For the sake of comparison, it takes me 3 to 8 hours to develop the content (topics, links, and annotations) of a country outline. It takes me about another 8 hours to finish it up with maps and images.

Good luck.

Have fun.

The Transhumanist 21:33, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

If you find methods of completing country outlines faster, please by all means let me know.

I'm especially interested in finding faster ways to find and place images.

The Transhumanist 21:33, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

By the way, we do a bit more than country outlines. Work on the outlines uncovers problems in Wikipedia's country-related coverage, and we've been taking care of those as we find them as well.

Currently we're cleaning up the "Demographics of" articles, and creating disambiguation pages for all the country adjectivals (German, Dutch, Taiwanese, etc.), and we've just started organizing and cleaning up all the country-related lists (because generally, each one focuses on a link type from the outlines). We're also standardizing the names and redirects of all the topics that tend to be repeated for countries (e.g., all countries will eventually have a "Geography of" article - we make sure they are all named alike, or least share common redirects). An unexpected benefit is that the links on the country outlines provide a standard framework from which to base the titles of new articles on.

See:

• User:The Transhumanist/Country demographics articles
• User:The Transhumanist/list of country adjectivals
• User:The Transhumanist/Cuisine by country list
• User:The Transhumanist/Lists by country

The Transhumanist 21:33, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

They tend to visit my talk page a lot.

They are:

• Penubag - he's our graphics genius. He's created the images for the awards we'll be using for upcoming contests and collaborations
• Robert Skyhawk - bot user, specializes in tasks that need to be repeated on all the country outlines
• Thehelpfulone - bot user in training, specializes in search/replaces on the entire set of country outlines
• Juliancolton - AWB user, going for a bot account
• Highfields - manual fill-ins
• Zlerman - specific outline development and the team's watchdog (he has this uncanny ability to spot problems before the rest of us)
• NuclearWarfare - he lives up to his name as he'll take on any task and blow it away

The Transhumanist 21:37, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

The name of the company is written with a small 'c', refer to the company website. Please have a look at WP:NAME. Happy editing. --STTW (talk) 17:43, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

My mistake, I didn't know it was intentional. I'll try not to assume as much next time. VX!^talk 22:22, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

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Number 24, March 7

The Hurricane Herald

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Storm of the month
Cyclone Fanele was the first cyclone of tropical cyclone status to strike western Madagascar since Cyclone Fame one year prior. It formed on January 18 in the Mozambique Channel, and rapidly organized, reaching peak winds of 185 km/h (115 mph). It weakened before moving ashore in Menabe Region southwest of Morondava, and rapidly deteriorated over land. Fanele briefly re-intensified after reaching open waters, only to become an extratropical cyclone by January 23. The cyclone caused heavy damage near where it moved ashore and along its path, resulting in at least eight deaths. Fanele struck Madagascar just two days after Tropical Storm Eric brushed the northeastern portion of the country. The two storms affected over 50,000 people, of which at least 4,000 were left homeless. Fanele struck the country during a series of government protests, and consequentially relief efforts were hindered.

Other tropical cyclone activity

• Western Pacific Ocean– The first tropical cyclone of the season was Tropical Depression Auring, as designated by PAGASA. It formed on January 3 to the east of the Philippines, producing heavy rainfall and flooding on Mindanao island. Never organizing much, the depression dissipated a few days after forming, causing one death and destroying 305 houses. The next month, Tropical Depression Bising formed near Palau and, moving westward, later passed through the Philippines as a remnant low; rainfall from the system produced mudslides, though no major damage was reported.
• South-West Indian– Tropical Storm Dongo was the first storm of January in the basin, and it remained over open waters without affecting landmasses throughout its duration. In the middle of the month along with Cyclone Fanele, Tropical Storm Eric developed and moved near Madagascar, killing one and producing heavy rainfall in the northeastern portion of the country. Later, Cyclone Gael killed two people on Réunion while tracking for ten days east of Madagascar; at the time it was the 2nd strongest cyclone of the season. Lastly, Tropical Storm Hina persisted for about five days, nearly reaching tropical cyclone status before weakening.
• Australia- During the previous two months their have been nine Tropical Lows with four of them becoming a Tropical Cyclone whilst the remants of Cyclone Innis briefly moved into the Australian Region from the South Pacific. Cyclones Charlotte, Dominic, Ellie, and Freddy all caused damage to Australia and or the Indonesia Islands.
• South Pacific- During the last two months the south Pacific has come alive with six depressions forming in January and February. The most significant depression was Tropical Depression 04F which brought heavy rainfall to Fiji and caused widespread flooding and killing at least 11 people. The first two named storms, Hettie and Innis also developed, each having minor effects on land.

Member of the month

 

The member of the month is... HurricaneSpin HurricaneSpin is a relativly new member of the project who has helped the project out by finding photos of Tropical Cyclones and uploading them to Commons. He is still getting to grips with the project but is coming on in leaps and bounds thus we have decided to make him the Member of the Month, for January and February 2009.

New members

• Chukonu xbow
• La Pianista
• Leolisa1997
• X!

New and improved articles

• There were 12 new pieces of Featured content: Typhoon Tip, Hurricane Linda (1997), Tropical Storm Keith (1988), Tropical Storm Kiko (2007), Hurricane Daniel (2006), Timeline of the 1972 Atlantic hurricane season, Timeline of the 1992 Atlantic hurricane season, Timeline of the 1994 Atlantic hurricane season, Timeline of the 1997 Pacific hurricane season, Timeline of the 2005 Pacific hurricane season, Timeline of the 2006 Pacific hurricane season, Timeline of the 2007 Pacific hurricane season
• New Good articles include: Tropical cyclone scales, Rainband, Cyclone Agni, Hurricane Barry (1983), Hurricane Ileana (2006), Hurricane Beta (2005), 1952 Groundhog Day tropical storm
• New storm articles include: Hurricane Bonnie (1986), Hurricane Henriette (1995), Hurricane Howard (2004), Typhoon Conson (2004), Typhoon Prapiroon (2006), Typhoon Yagi (2006), and Cyclone Cliff
• New non-storm articles include: 1854 Atlantic hurricane season

Main Page content

• Entries from several articles, including Tropical Storm Kay (2004), Typhoon Wayne (1986), Effects of Hurricane Ivan in Jamaica, Tropical Depression Ten (2005), 1941 Florida hurricane, Hurricane Darby (2004), Typhoon Olive (1952), and Cyclone Arthur (2007) appeared in the Did You Know? section of the Main Page during January and February.
• Hurricane Dog (1950) appeared as Today's Featured Article on January 27.
• 2009 Fiji floods appeared on the Main Page in the In the News section.

Storm article statistics

Grade	Oct	Nov	Dec	Feb
FA	49	50	50	56
A	19	19	19	17
GA	190	198	202	239
B	13	21	22	14
C	119	118	122	122
Start	204	210	210	198
Stub	19	16	17	28
Total	613	631	642	669
ω	2.88	2.87	2.87	2.80
percentage ≥Less than C	36.4	35.8	35.4	33.0
percentage ≥GA or better	42.1	42.2	42.2	46.6

Project News
The project reached a milestone in the last two months in terms of article quality for all articles within the project. For the first time, the percentage of Good articles or better reached more than 1/3, and at the same time, the percentage of Start or Stub articles totaled less than 50%. In the previous twelve months, the overall project grew by 262 articles, of which 204, or 78%, were GA or better. Additionally, in terms of only storm articles, the project now has 46.6% of its articles as GA or better, and only 1/3 are Start or Stub. Unfortunately, much of that is due to newly-created articles easily attaining GA status. For storm articles, the total number of Start or Stub articles, currently 226, is about the same as it was a year ago. The lack of work on older articles is especially noticeable on season articles, where more than 75% of articles are still Stub or Start.

In an attempt to improve articles, there is talk of forming a collaboration between a few Wikipedians. The current project is to improve Hurricane Camille to FA status in time for its 40th anniversary this August. There is still plenty of work to be done, so if you're interested, any help would be appreciated.

Additionally, there is a recent discussion on the WPTC talk page about establishing a notability criteria. There was talk in the past of instating one, although this time the proposal is backed up by interpretations of existing Wikipedia policy. The proposal would limit articles to tropical cyclones that have at least one independent, reliable source other than any warning centers. Excluding cross-basin, off-season, or 64+ knot cyclones, the proposal would affect 26 articles, none of which affected land or lasted for an appreciable amount of time.

 

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Number 25, April 4 The Hurricane Herald This is the monthly newsletter of WikiProject Tropical Cyclones. The Hurricane Herald aims to provide a summary of both the activities of the WikiProject and global tropical cyclones. 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. This newsletter covers March 2009. 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 Cyclone Hamish formed as a Tropical Low to the south of Papua New Guinea on March 4. The low quickly organized and became Tropical cyclone Hamish the following day. Hamish then started to rapidly intensify, becoming the second severe tropical cyclone of the season the next day. Throughout much of its duration, it moved southeastward, parallel to the coast of Queensland. It underwent rapid deepening over a period of 48 hours, Hamish reached peak winds of 215 km/h (130 mph) according to the Australia Bureau of Meteorology, making the cyclone a Category 5 on the Australian intensity scale. It quickly weakened due to wind shear, and without moving ashore it stalled and turned to a northwest drift. The low dissipated on March 5. Hamish indirectly caused a major environmental disaster along the Queensland coastline, when strong waves from the cyclone damaged the hull of a cargo ship, spilling 260 tonnes of fuel and oil into the ocean. The oil washed onto the coastline, endangering the environment prompting a costly cleanup. Offshore, the fishermen went missing after the boat was lost; one person was found, although the other two remained missing and were presumed dead. As the storm remained offshore, overall damage directly from the storm was minor, primarily from strong waves. Other tropical cyclone activity Australia – In addition to Cyclone Hamish, three other cyclones formed and were named as Gabrielle, Ilsa and Jasper. However, there was no impact reported from these three storms whilst in the Australian region. South Pacific – This month Cyclones Joni and Ken formed near to the Cook Islands, whilst Cyclone Jasper moved into the area at its peak and brought heavy rain and coastal erosion to New Caledonia. On the last day of the month Tropical Depression 14F formed to the northeast Fiji. South-West Indian – Severe Tropical Storm Izilda was the only storm to form in the South-West Indian Ocean this month; however the extratropical remnants of Ilsa moved into the region from the Australian basin. Member of the month   The member of the month is... Ramisses, has been a member of the Project since January 2008. He is a usefull editor who helps to make the trackmaps for the current season articles, as well as numerous other storms, from previous seasons. We just hope he is able to keep on top of the trackmaps when the busy part of the year comes! New members User:X! User:Shearwater912 User:Cyclonica New and improved articles There were no new pieces of Featured content New Good articles include: 1925 Atlantic hurricane season, 1991 Pacific hurricane season, Subtropical cyclone, Typhoon Tingting New articles include: 1924 Cuba hurricane, Hurricane Howard (2004), Tropical Storm Odile (2008), Typhoon Tingting, Cyclone Tam (2006) New non-storm articles include: 1780 Atlantic hurricane season Main Page content Entries from four articles, including Typhoon Conson (2004), Hurricane Howard (2004), Tropical Storm Faxai (2007), and Cyclone Joni (2009), appeared in the Did You Know? section of the Main Page during March. Hurricane Linda (1997) appeared as Today's Featured Article on March 4. Storm article statistics Grade Nov Dec Feb Mar   FA 50 50 56 56   A 19 19 17 17   GA 198 202 239 244 B 21 22 14 15 C 118 122 122 120 Start 210 210 198 192 Stub 16 17 28 34 Total 631 642 669 678 ω 2.87 2.87 2.80 2.81 percentage ≥Less than C 35.8 35.4 33.0 33.3 percentage ≥GA or better 42.2 42.2 46.6 46.8 Project News There is a discussion on the state of the project, discussing whether it still works like it used to, and what can be done about it. One extreme position is labeling the project inactive, while another position is eliminating some of the bureaucracy. Input would be very beneficial. As part of the above discussion, there is a request for all active members to sign a list to affirm they are still active members in the project. If you don't sign the list, or if you don't consider yourself active anymore, your name will be placed on the inactive members list on May 1st. Hurricanehink has organised a challenge to try and improve some of the Tropical cyclone articles. The rules are that you must take either an seasonal or a storm article from one of the eight basins we have, that is either a Stub, Start class or a brand new article and improve it to at least GA status. However to avoid several articles on cyclones that did not affect land, Hurricanehink has limited the challenge to storms/seasonal articles of Mid-importance or higher. Their is an exception to this rule for the Central Pacific as Cyclones rarely form in this basin. - For full details of the challenge see the Project's Talkpage Project member list

Your Valued picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for valued picture status, Image:Pyroclastic flows at Mayon Volcano.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Valued picture candidates. ~ ωαdεstεr16«talkstalk» 18:12, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

Hi VX,

I have to let you know on your talk page that ArbCom has announced a temporary injunction against the "mass delinking of dates". You can still delink dates on an occasional basis; however, you may wish to be cautious and use the script only for its non-date functions until the issue is resolved by an RFC poll. You may wish to express your view on autoformatting and date linking in the RFC at: Wikipedia:Date_formatting_and_linking_poll.

Regards Lightmouse (talk) 22:01, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

 

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We are always looking for new members to assist with the remaining articles, so if you are interested or know of anybody that can assist, please visit the GA sweeps page. In addition, for every member that reviews 100 articles or has a significant impact on the process, s/he will get an award when they reach that threshold. If only 14 editors achieve this feat starting now, we would be done with Sweeps! Of course, having more people reviewing less articles would be better for all involved, so please consider asking others to help out. Feel free to stop by and only review a few articles, something's better than nothing! Take a look at the list, and see what articles interest you. Let's work to complete Sweeps so that efforts can be fully focused on the backlog at GAN. If you have any questions about the process, reviewing, or need help with a particular article, please contact me or OhanaUnited and we'll be happy to help. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 08:41, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

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Number 23, June 7

The Hurricane Herald

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Storm of the month

 

Cyclone Aila was the second tropical cyclone to form within the Northern Indian Ocean during 2009. The disturbance that was to become Cyclone Aila formed on 21 May 2009 about 950 kilometres (590 mi) to the south of Kolkata, in India. Over the next couple of days the disturbance slowly developed before a Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert was issued by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center early on 23 May 2009 and being designated as a depression by RSMC New Delhi. As of 27 May 2009^[update], 330 people have been killed by Aila and at least 8,208 more are missing, while about 1 million are homeless. Health officials in Bangladesh confirmed a deadly outbreak on diarrhea on 29 May, with more than 7,000 people being infected and four dying. In Bangladesh, an estimated 20 million people were at risk of post-disaster diseases due to Aila. Damage totaled $40.7 million (USD).

Other tropical cyclone activity

• North Atlantic

Tropical Depression One was the first tropical cyclone to develop during the 2009 Atlantic hurricane season. The depression formed on May 28, out of a disorganized area of low pressure off the coast of North Carolina. However after attaining its peak strength the depression began to weaken due to increasing wind shear and cooling sea surface temperatures with the final advisory being issued on May 29.

• 2009 Pacific typhoon season - In the two month period, there were four tropical cyclones, all within a short time period and small area. Tropical Depression Crising moved through the Philippines but didn't develop. Typhoon Kujira formed over the Philippines, causing 29 deaths and almost $30 million in damage, before becoming the equivalent of a Category 4 hurricane. While Kujira was active, a tropical depression formed and dissipated over the open ocean, while Typhoon Chan-hom developed and organized in the South China Sea, eventually crossing Luzon and causing 60 deaths and heavy damage.
• North Indian - Aside from Aila, Cyclone Bijli formed in April, making landfall on Bangladesh and killing 7 people.
• South Indian– Cyclone Jade was the final Cyclone to form. Jade formed on April 5th from a tropical disturbance it quickly intensifed and bcame a category one tropical cyclone on the SSHS before making its first of three landfalls on Madagascar. Jade then dissipated on April 11 after causing fifteen deaths.
• Australian Region - Cyclone Kirrly formed on April 25 in the Arafura Sea to the north of Australia within 5 degrees of the equator which is an unusual area of formation. It quickly reached its peak before making landfall on eastern Indonesia.
• South Pacific - As the last newsletter was published Tropical Cyclone Lin was just devloping as Tropical depression 14F. Lin eventually went on to affect Fiji and Tonga causing at least $1000 worth of damage. Tropical Disturbance 15F also formed this month within the Solomon Islands. It moved eventually moved into the Australian Region but was not monitored by TCWC Brisbane as anything higher than an area of low pressure.

Member of the month

 

The member of the month is Jason Rees, who joined Wikipedia in 2007, and has written nine tropical cyclone GA's. Jason primarily focuses on Southern Hemisphere storms, as well as the Western Pacific. He has plans for featured topics for several seasons, but for now, he is a regular member of the project who adds his input in discussions on the talk page. We thank Jason for his work, and we look forward to more articles!

New members

• User:Kyle1278
• User:Bbabybear02
• User:Darren23

New and improved articles

• There were no new pieces of Featured content
• New Good articles include: 1973 Pacific hurricane season, Hurricane Kiko (1989), Tropical Storm Carlos (2003)
• New storm articles include: Hurricane Dalilia (1989), Typhoon Wipha (2007)
• New non-storm articles include: 1972 Hurricane Agnes tornado outbreak, Meteorological history of Hurricane Luis, Effects of Hurricane Georges in Louisiana, Timeline of the 2002 Pacific hurricane season

Main Page content

• Hurricane Ismael was Today's Featured Article on April 25
• Facts from the 1924 Cuba hurricane, Hurricane Lily (1971), Hurricane Tara (1961), and Hurricane Cora (1978) appeared in the Did You Know? section of the Main Page during April and May.
• Typhoon Chan-hom (2009) and Cyclone Aila appeared on the Main Page in the In the News section.

Storm article statistics

Grade	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
FA	47	49	49	50
A	19	19	19	19
GA	161	187	198	202
B	17	13	21	22
C	107	119	118	122
Start	201	204	210	210
Stub	19	19	16	17
Total	571	613	631	642
ω	2.92	2.88	2.87	2.87
percentage ≥Less than C	38.5	36.4	35.8	35.4
percentage ≥GA or better	39.8	42.1	42.2	42.2

Project News
There is debate as usual with regards to notability, as well as the status of the project in general, but nothing new is going on.

During the last week, some editors have organized a page — Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Viewed stats — that has a listing of monthly page views within the project. It is under construction, although it is complete for all Eastern Pacific tropical cyclones, as well as all Atlantic tropical cyclones from 1979 to the present. Interestingly, the top 6 viewed EPAC articles are all featured, and all of the top 16 in the basin are GA's. Unfortunately, the Atlantic, at least from 1979 to the present, is much worse, despite being viewed much, much more. The top eight-viewed Atlantic articles all are viewed more than 10,000 times per month, for a total of 363889 views per month, but only two of them are featured, and none of the others are GA. As always, any help in the retired storms would be greatly appreciated.

Somewhat tying into the bettering of project articles, the basin article challenge is still ongoing. Hurricanehink is currently in the lead with a GA in 2 basins. Cyclonebiskit is in 2nd, with one GA in the EPAC. The challenge is still open to anyone, and it is not so much a race, rather a challenge just to get a fairly important GA in each basin.

The Miss Julie Memorial LGBT studies WikiProject Newsletter: Special Pride 2009 Booty call edition

The LGBT studies WikiProject Newsletter! Issue XVIII: June 24, 2009 Yo, happy Pride y'all - are you ready for your close-up? Stonewall riots How do you change the world? You can start by writing an incredible article for the world's encyclopedia. Moni3 kicks it old school again with Stonewall riots - a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969 at the Stonewall Inn. [...] [T]hey have become the defining event that marked the start of the gay rights movement in the United States and around the world. It's a featured article hitting the mainpage this Sunday to mark the 40th anniversary of the events. So first off, wow! Clever and cool. Moni3 has been recently named hottest delegate to Obama's bookclub but that may not be official yet. (Shhh!) Otto4711 mentioned that gee we really should swamp the DYK section with LGBT-related articles for use on the 28th as well. We have eight or so in the holding area and if you push yourself to get an article together you might be able to get in on the fun. Do this now! The official rules for DYKs can be found here. Once you have expanded an article 5-fold or created an article with at least 1,500 characters of prose, place your DYK thread here. Use this handy tool to count your 1,500 characters. As a suggestion, when you add your potential hook, include the character count and a link to the source(s) that confirm the hook. These will be confirmed anyway but may help. Trans quotes needed for Portal:Transgender The layout for the individual quotes is here (just copy/paste into one of the red links on Portal:Transgender/Random quote). Then this counter has to be upped to match the new # of total quotes (not counting quote zero). Obama proclamation On June 1, President Barack Obama declared June 2009 Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month, citing the riots as a reason to "commit to achieving equal justice under law for LGBT Americans". Excerpts at the bottom. F*ck me I'm famous I was interviewed by Wikipedia Signpost, the weekly in-house newsletter, for the WikiProject report. The Signpost has nearly 1,000 Wikipedian subscribers and arguably many of those folks actually read it. It came about rather quickly and my worst fears - that it was an elaborate hoax by a troll - were apparently unfounded. I hope y'all feel I did fine by the project, I did my best to avoid the phrase "man-humping, cock-sucking, doggy-style loving queer" but otherwise did ok. Free image appeal A friendly reminder to consider taking photos while you're out and about at various Dyke marches and Pride parades. Consider donating them to the world at Wikicommons. I'm sooo totally over having to deal with lovely images being deleted and argued about. If they are just free they are then also freely usable worldwide. And no, they don't need photos of your cha-cha or hoo-hoo-dilly. Chaz Bono Sonny and Cher's daughter was a famous lesbian and now he's a famous transman, possibly the most famous in the world. This also serves as a friendly reminder that we recently updated Wikipedia:WikiProject LGBT studies/Guidelines - it's not perfect but should help inform on those gnip-gnop battles that do seem to drag on, and not in the good way. R U Popular? Wikipedia:WikiProject LGBT studies/Popular pages is a new handy place to see which LGBT-tagged pages are the most popular in any given month. Article alerts As part of the redecorating at our talkpage, the article alerts and keyword search alerts are handily located at the top of the page. Always fascinating to see what's up. All help appreciated on those. Glambert Adam Lambert is soooo gay - surprised? Neither is anyone else. Nuff said. David Ogden Stiers was outed but apparently he wasn't terribly in either. Community Quilt reminder Wikipedia:WikiProject LGBT studies/Quilt - update it and add yourself! Our own little IRC home The LGBT studies project does have its own free Internet Relay Chat channel, #wikipedia-en-lgbt connect, for coordination, collaboration and socializing. This channel is hosted on Freenode and can be accessed in one of two ways: If you already have an IRC client, click the link to the left. If you do not have an IRC client, you'll need to get one installed on your computer first. Once you've done this, then click on the link to the left. For more general information on IRC and a listing of other useful Wikipedia-related channels, see Wikipedia:IRC channels. The project had at one point another channel at #LGBTproject connect but as the original people associated with the setting up and administration of that channel have seemed to have disappeared, this new channel has been set up. Plus the new channel is inline with required naming conventions for Wikipedia related IRC channels. So, feel free to use this channel. Such a channel gives opportunity to discuss the latest happening on articles, the LGBT project itself, latest happening in your life with "wiki-friends" here, etc.. You can say things on there you normally wouldn't here on Wikipedia (keeping it civil of course) like talk about the latest hot guy/girl or tell a joke.. you get the point. Anyway, see you there - eventually! LGBT to-do list (held over from last edition) Give out more barnstars, and let each other know that what they're doing is valued. Create a guide to stave off burnout, because editors in this project get burned out faster than others. There are many hills to climb. Bring back the monthly collaboration project. Participate in LGBT Peer reviews. Get familiar with the characteristics of Good Articles and get our top priority articles to WP:GA. Keep our project page and open tasks template updated. Use the Newsletter, Moni3! You can suggest what to send out in the newsletter, too! Offer research materials, copy editing, ideas, and support to your fellow editors. Keep the project talk page informed of problems and discussions we should know about. “ There are many well-respected LGBT leaders in all professional fields, including the arts and business communities. [I]n both the White House and the Federal agencies -- openly LGBT employees are doing their jobs with distinction and professionalism. [...] LGBT youth should feel safe to learn without the fear of harassment, and LGBT families and seniors should be allowed to live their lives with dignity and respect. At the international level, I have joined efforts at the United Nations to decriminalize homosexuality around the world. Here at home, I continue to support measures to bring the full spectrum of equal rights to LGBT Americans. These measures include enhancing hate crimes laws, supporting civil unions and Federal rights for LGBT couples, outlawing discrimination in the workplace, ensuring adoption rights, and ending the existing "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy in a way that strengthens our Armed Forces and our national security. [...] As long as the promise of equality for all remains unfulfilled, all Americans are affected. If we can work together to advance the principles upon which our Nation was founded, every American will benefit. During LGBT Pride Month, I call upon the LGBT community, the Congress, and the American people to work together to promote equal rights for all, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity. [...] I call upon the people of the United States to turn back discrimination and prejudice everywhere it exists. - Barack Obama, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month, 2009, The White House (June 1, 2009). ” Click your heels three times ladies and gents, home is where hot is! -- Banjeboi To receive this newsletter in a different format, please let us know here. If you have any news or any announcements to be broadcast, do let Moni3 know.

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The Hurricane Herald This is the monthly newsletter of WikiProject Tropical Cyclones. The Hurricane Herald aims to give a summary of the WikiProject's progress 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. This newsletter covers June 2009. Please visit this page and bookmark any suggestions of interest to you. This will help improve monitoring of the WikiProject's articles.

From the editors In recent months, the project has become increasingly inactive; with only a few active participants, we need your help for the upcoming hurricane season! Feel free to contact Hurricanehink (talk · contribs), Juliancolton (talk · contribs), Jason Rees (talk · contribs), or Cyclonebiskit (talk · contribs) for more information. Thanks! Storm of the month   Tropical Storm Linfa formed out of an area of low pressure on June 14, the storm briefly attained tropical depression status before degenerating. By June 17 the system regenerated in the South China Sea. Slowly tracking northward, the storm intensified, attaining severe tropical storm status on June 19 and peaking in intensity the following day. On June 21, Linfa made landfall in Fujian Province, China as a tropical storm before weakening to a tropical depression. In Taiwan, outer bands of the storm produced significant amounts of rain over southeastern areas of the island. Along the western coast, rip currents resulted in the drowning of one person. Six hikers also were reported to be missing. In China, torrential rains triggered flooding that destroyed 100 homes, killed one person and left six others missing. In all, seven people were killed by Linfa, with another 12 missing, damages in mainland China were estimated at ¥655 million (US$95.8 million) and agricultural losses in Taiwan reached NT$400 million (US$12.1 million). Other tropical cyclone activity Tropical Depression One-E, East Pacific Hurricane Andres, East Pacific Tropical Storm Nangka, West Pacific Depression ARB 01, North Indian Member of the month   The member of the month is Cool3 (talk · contribs). Though only a new member, Cool3 has contributed hundreds of sources and hours of research to several articles, two of which are now featured. The project thanks him for his high-quality work. New members Cool3 (talk · contribs) Darkspace72 (talk · contribs) In addition, three users re-joined the project after being listed as inactive: Hurricane Angel Saki (talk · contribs) Cyclonebiskit (talk · contribs) Hurricanehink (talk · contribs) New and improved articles There were 5 new pieces of Featured content: 1941 Florida hurricane, Subtropical Storm Andrea (2007), Tropical Storm Marco (2008), Hurricane Kiko (1989), and Wind New Good articles include: Hurricane Charley (1986), 1943 Mazatlán hurricane, 1982 Atlantic hurricane season, Hurricane Earl (1998), Effects of Hurricane Georges in Cuba, Effects of Hurricane Georges in Louisiana, and Hurricane Hazel New storm articles include: Tropical Storm Isidore (1984), Cyclone Nancy, Tropical Storm Hazel (1965), and Tropical Storm Cristina (1996) New non-storm articles include: Timeline of the 1974 Atlantic hurricane season Main Page content Tropical cyclone was Today's Featured Article on June 1 Facts from Tropical Storm Isidore (1984), Hurricane Gustav (1990), Hurricane Irene–Olivia‎, Tropical Storm Hazel (1965), and Cyclone Nancy appeared in the Did You Know? section of the Main Page during June. Tropical Depression One-E (2009) appeared on the Main Page in the In the News section. Article statistics Tropical cyclone articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total   FA 3 14 84 60 161   FL 1 4 32 43 80   FM 21 21   A 2 1 3   GA 10 65 400 648 1,123 B 11 32 63 63 1 170 C 10 103 257 287 2 659 Start 2 58 332 405 5 802 Stub 2 53 83 138 List 6 26 86 594 414 1,126 Category 956 956 Disambig 68 68 File 8 8 Portal 204 204 Project 97 97 Redirect 3 21 80 105 209 Template 470 470 NA 4 4 Other 3 3 Assessed 37 289 1,269 1,755 2,530 422 6,302 Total 37 289 1,269 1,755 2,530 422 6,302 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 10,233 Ω = 3.35 Project News The project as a whole is still rather inactive, though more articles are being created and expanded than in previous months. 18 good articles and four featured articles were promoted during June, including  Wind. Additionally, about 28 new articles were created and assessed. As of 01:42, 4 July 2009 (UTC), there are three featured article candidates; see the noticeboard for more info. A discussion is ongoing at the project talk page (link) regarding the naming of unnamed tropical cyclones, such as 1978 January subtropical storm and 1975 Pacific Northwest hurricane. While more descriptive titles often constitute original research, official designations are sometimes ambiguous. Comments are welcome. There is also a discussion on how the project rates its articles on the importance scale. Tropical cyclones at associated Wikimedia projects Two articles were created and featured on Wikinews' main page: Tropical Storm Andres is designated and Tropical depression dissipated, impacts Mexico.

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From the editors In recent months, the project has become increasingly inactive; with only a few active participants, we need your help for the upcoming hurricane season! Feel free to contact Juliancolton (talk · contribs), Jason Rees (talk · contribs), or Cyclonebiskit (talk · contribs) for more information. Thanks! Storm of the month   Hurricane Carlos was the third named storm of the 2009 Pacific hurricane season. Tropical Depression Four-E formed on July 10, and was quickly upgraded to Tropical Storm Carlos. On July 11, the storm strengthened into a minimal Category 1 hurricane. Following a series of intensity fluctuations, Carlos peaked as a Category 2 hurricane with winds of 105 mph (165 km/h). The storm subsequently began to weaken, and on July 16, Carlos degenerated into a remnant low. The cyclone had no known effects on land. Other tropical cyclone activity Tropical Storm Blanca, East Pacific Tropical Storm Dolores, East Pacific Tropical Storm Soudelor, West Pacific JMA Tropical Depression 08, West Pacific Typhoon Molave, West Pacific Deep Depression BOB 03, North Indian Tropical Storm Lana, Central Pacific JMA Tropical Depression 10, West Pacific Member of the month   The member of the month is Plasticup (talk · contribs). Plasticup was inactive for most of the winter; however, upon returning this month, he quickly resumed work. Among his recent works are Meteorological history of Hurricane Gustav, a Good Article, and Tropical Storm Gamma (2005), a Good Article nominee. Plasticup was also designated member of the month in July 2008. New members There were no new members in July. However, four users re-joined the project after being listed as inactive: Hurricanekiller1994 (talk · contribs) Plasticup (talk · contribs) Patrickrox11 (talk · contribs) Southern Illinois SKYWARN (talk · contribs) New and improved articles There were three new pieces of Featured content: Tropical Depression Ten (2005), Tropical Storm Hermine (1998), and Hurricane Kiko (1989) New Good articles include: Meteorological history of Hurricane Gustav, Tropical Storm Linfa (2009), Hurricane Emily (1987), Tropical Depression Fourteen (1987), New storm articles include: Tropical Storm Dottie (1976), Hurricane Arlene (1987), Tropical Storm Soudelor (2009), Tropical Storm Hallie (1975) New non-storm articles include: Timeline of the 1996 Atlantic hurricane season, Effects of Hurricane Hazel in Canada, Meteorological history of Hurricane Georges, Hurricane Georges tornado outbreak Main Page content Hurricane Ioke appeared on the main page in the Today's Featured Article section on July 22. Tropical Storm Dottie (1976) and Tropical Storm Hallie (1975) appeared on the main page in the Did You Know? section on July 13 and July 24, respectively. Article statistics Tropical cyclone articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total   FA 3 14 84 60 161   FL 1 4 32 43 80   FM 21 21   A 2 1 3   GA 10 65 400 648 1,123 B 11 32 63 63 1 170 C 10 103 257 287 2 659 Start 2 58 332 405 5 802 Stub 2 53 83 138 List 6 26 86 594 414 1,126 Category 956 956 Disambig 68 68 File 8 8 Portal 204 204 Project 97 97 Redirect 3 21 80 105 209 Template 470 470 NA 4 4 Other 3 3 Assessed 37 289 1,269 1,755 2,530 422 6,302 Total 37 289 1,269 1,755 2,530 422 6,302 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 10,233 Ω = 3.35 Project News July was a relatively quiet month for the project; low levels of tropical activity allowed editors to maintain and build content regarding older storms. There are currently three Featured Article candidates and three Featured List candidates pertaining to tropical cyclones. SchuminWeb (talk · contribs) pointed out towards the end of the month that hurricane disambiguation pages are often over-categorized. Efforts are currently underway to address this. A discussion is underway at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Timeline of the 1987 Atlantic hurricane season/archive1 regarding the use of HURDAT as a reference. Input is appreciated. Tropical cyclones at associated Wikimedia projects Wikinews published articles related to: Tropical Storm Blanca, Tropical Storm Carlos, and Tropical Storm Dolores.

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As Halloween is my favorite holiday, I just wanted to wish those Wikipedians who have been nice enough to give me a barnstar or smile at me, supportive enough to agree with me, etc., a Happy Halloween! Sincerely, --A Nobody^{My talk} 16:42, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

 

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I just wanted to wish those Wikipedians who have been nice enough to give me a barnstar or smile at me, supportive enough to agree with me, etc., a Happy Thanksgiving! Sincerely, --A Nobody^{My talk} 16:21, 26 November 2009 (UTC)