User talk:Titoxd/Archive18
Welcome to my Talk Page! DO NOT EDIT OR POST REPLIES TO THIS PAGE. THIS PAGE IS AN ARCHIVE. This archive page covers approximately the dates between July 30 2006 and September 14 2006. Post replies to the main talk page, copying or summarizing the section you are replying to if necessary. Please add new archivals to User talk:Titoxd/Archive34. (See Wikipedia:How to archive a talk page.) Thank you. Titoxd(?!?) 00:46, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
ToolThank you for making the URL builder and such! I think I've got the foundation down for the graphs (take a look! :) ), but for some reason, parsing for anons doesn't work anymore, and there's something up with the graph that's not scaling the lines against resizes vertically (try the graph for me)... I'll try to fix both first thing tomorrow. :) —AySz88\^-^ 05:59, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
Count of a user's deleted editsI think this has been asked before but is there a way to find all edits by a user in articles which have since been deleted? I have a somewhat subtle vandal who is quietly snipping out large chunks of articles and then requesting speedy deletion. When admins don't check the history correctly, the article gets deleted. I've restored two so far but only by scanning the vandal's talk page for red links (when people caught him/her in the act). Thanks! :) —Wknight94 (talk) 22:59, 30 July 2006 (UTC) Atlantic hurricane graph
Shelley The RepublicanWikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shelley the Republican Hi Titoxd, have you noticed that STR seems to have re-appeared in Wikipedia? I am pretty sure that the old reasons for deleting the article are just as valid today. What short memories we all seem to have! --Salimfadhley 16:23, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
CURRENTMONTHNAMEGENI made this fix in several places, but I'm curious. Since there is no template or article called CURRENTMONTHNAMEGEN, what is being invoked that generates that oddball <august-gen> result? I figured out the CURRENTMONTHNAME fix, but I'm curious about what I fixed it from. Fan-1967 03:21, 4 August 2006 (UTC) SkypeAny more luck with Skype? I think I sent you an email, but don't know if it actually got there. :) -- Natalya 14:58, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
Sorry!Was trying to revert Vandalism. I haven't figured out how to do that, apparently. My deepest apologies. Foster2008 22:00, 5 August 2006 (UTC) Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #3The 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 Other tropical cyclone activity There were 10 other tropical cyclones worldwide in July, with activity in all 4 northern hemisphere basins.
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Member of the month  The July member of the month is Hurricanehink. The WikiProject awards this to him for the superb quality of his work on articles. Hurricanehink joined the project in November and has significantly contributed to many of the project's Featured Articles including Tropical Storm Allison and Hurricane Mitch. In addition to his contributions Hurricanehink also works on the assessment and improvement of most articles within the project. New and improved articles
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In his April Tropical Cyclone Summary, Gary Padgett stated that he will extensively reference Wikipedia in his future summaries. I have communicated with him and he has stated that he is "very much interested in cooperating" with us. He has also provided me with a copy of Jack Beven's weekly summaries (covering 1991-1996). If you want a copy of them, email me.--Nilfanion (talk) 200 FARsYour question has me totally befuddled. I said there are two of what in the Wikipedia namespace? Sorry if I'm missing something totally obvious. :) Marskell 13:05, 6 August 2006 (UTC) Perhaps you meant this Wikipedia:Featured articles with citation problems, which I moved from Disco King's namespace. It's a list of FARs with little or no citations. Marskell 14:07, 6 August 2006 (UTC) Re: ToolThanks for the update and for all your work! Flcelloguy (A note?) 00:56, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
Help me plz! Chacor put an article I wrote up for deletion because he thinks it is non-notable and has an unencyclopediac tone, even though it's the oldest currently running apple orchard in the US. Could you please give it one of your magical copyedits before August 11? I would do a little myself, but I'm trying to go on a wikibreak until mid-september. Thanks! íslenska hurikein #12 (samtal) 13:33, 7 August 2006 (UTC) Notability revert at Wikipedia:Articles for deletionI didn't delete the information you reverted but I am more in favor of its deletion than its inclusion. "Notability should not be used to argue for or against the inclusion of information on Wikipedia – instead, official guidelines and policy relating to NPOV, NOR, and Verifiability should be used. However, it is valid to use it as a guide to the placement of that information."—Wikipedia:Non-notability "There is no official policy on notability."—Wikipedia:Notability While both these quotes are from controversial essays, at least the second one can be said to be uncontestably true. There is no policy on notability. It should not be included in discussions of "good arguments for deletion", because many feel that it isn't a good argument. I was surprised to find this in the Wikipedia:Notability essay as one of the "arguments for deleting non-notable articles":
Unfortunately, having notability listed as a good argument for deletion every time the topic comes up only furthers this assumption. I won't re-hash the arguments for and against notability as a requirement here; my point is that until it is a policy it shouldn't be a measure of an article's suitability for inclusion.—Chidom talk 05:48, 8 August 2006 (UTC) I did a rather major revision on the WP:AFD page to hopefully more accurately reflect the topic. I'm still in favor (obviously) of it being used as an argument as a last resort; if an article truly doesn't belong there should be other, better arguments for its deletion.—Chidom talk 06:06, 8 August 2006 (UTC) Hey! It's me again. Just to let you know, I published that Dolly article from my sandbox today. Also, I worked on Helene today, and I think it's ready. What do you think? I just need to add metrication and categories once I start the article. Thanx. íslenska hurikein #12 (samtal) 20:59, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
Cite php formatI saw on a metawiki talk page you talked about how wikipedia changed the ref formats to a ^ and letters for multiple refs. I can't find anywhere that says how to do this. I'd like to do this on the wikimedia server I run at work. The info I find says it's doable, but not much about how to do it. Can you help or point me in the right direction?Rlevse 18:27, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
Set references to use ^ and letters like WikipediaIn file Cite.i18n.php starting at about line 47, formatting not working
More hist merge "fun"Hey, I've just noticed a painful copy/paste article: Subtropical Storm Nicole (2004). HurricaneCraze worked that article up at Template:X7 before copy/pasting to there... is there anything that can be done :/ --Nilfanion (talk) 21:09, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
 I don't want to scare you but I believe Craze tends to work up articles on those template a lot... Good job doing all those hist-merges, I see its a singularly annoying job.--Nilfanion (talk) 23:13, 10 August 2006 (UTC) Sorry, another bungled page move
Hola! Verás, vi que metiste una fórmula para hacer el redondeo de los destacados en wiki-es. El caso es que daba un error, y como no sé cómo utilizar correctamente el redondeo hacia la decena superior, pues no he podido arreglarlo, y he tenido que revertir a una edición anterior. El caso es que me ha parecido conveniente avisarte, porque probablemente lo puedas arreglar en un santiamén. En todo caso, muchas gracias! --Gaeddal 15:55, 13 August 2006 (UTC) Missed youWe missed you at the meeting this afternoon/evening - I hope all is well! You can take a look at the summary (And the full log, if you dare read its ridiculous length) at Wikipedia:Esperanza/Advisory Committee Meeting August 2006. The Skype chat is still running, so feel free to mention anything anytime. -- Natalya 05:03, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
Wikipedia SignpostHello. Thank you for signing up to do the Interwiki report for the Spanish Wikipedia. We'll need it a day ahead of time. Since the Spanish Wikipedia is going to be Sep. 18, we'll need it Sep. 17. You can start it at User:Titoxd/Interwiki report and then take it to User:Kpjas. ForestH2 t/c August Esperanza Newsletter
Copyvio stuffI'm busy copying over the en.wiki TC article images to Commons. That is the permissible stuff: I'm finding a number of images uploaded by Storm05 which are falsely tagged as PD-USGov when they are non-free. I've given him a warning about it - it might be worth checking out his uploads more carefullly.--Nilfanion (talk) 15:42, 15 August 2006 (UTC) Long list of imagesNote this is all I've found so far. Seeing as I've only looked at Atlantic storms I strongly suspect other basins will have this prob. Here goes: Image:Hurricane Ophelia 9142005.jpg, Image:Cindy.A2005186.1910.1km.jpg, Image:Hurricane Dennis 7102005.jpg, Image:Tropical Storm Harvey Aug_4_2005.jpg, Image:Hurricane Philippe on September 18 2005.jpg, Image:Hurricane Beta October 29 2005.jpg, Image:Tropical Storm Zeta 2005.jpg, Image:HurricaneRita21Sept05a.jpg, Image:Rita evacuees from Houston Texas September 21 2005.jpg, Image:Hurricane damage to mobile home in Davie Florida.jpg, Image:KatrinaNewOrleansFlooded.jpg, Image:Structural Bridge Damage.jpg, Image:Hurricane katrina damage gulfport mississippi.jpg, Image:Bus yard-rotate.jpg, Image:Stray dog approaching rescue worker in New Orleans following Katrina.jpg, Image:Katrina-14451.jpg, Image:New Orleans Survivor Flyover.jpg, Image:New Orleans Fire 2005-09-02.jpg, Image:Superdome Roof Damage FEMA.jpg, Image:NOAA Katrina NOLA 17th Street breach Aug 31 2005.jpg, Image:New Orleans 17th Street Canal filling.JPG, Image:New Orleans USACE Flexifloat DSC 0157.JPG, Image:New Orleans USACE-Blackhawk-A-09-04-05 0072.jpg, Image:New Orleans USACE-17th Canal-A-09-04-05 0004.JPG, Image:Hurricane Katrina Flooding.jpg, Image:People lining up for shelter in Superdome in New Orleans.jpg, Image:President Bush Biloxi after Katrina.jpg, Image:Hurricane claudette july 15 2003.jpg, Image:Hurricane Ivan.jpg. I did warn you, is there a speedy criteria for this kind of thing? :P --Nilfanion (talk) 20:38, 16 August 2006 (UTC) List of Admins by edit countHey Tito, The List of admins by edit count hasn't been updated in a few months. Your name appears on the talk page, and it appears from the comments there that you have something to do with the creation or updating of the list. Is this the case, and, if so, can we get an update (Yes, I freely admit I suffer from editcountitis)? Happy editing! :) --Firsfron of Ronchester 07:52, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
CoordinatingI'm good - so far managed to stay nice and relaxed since coming back from holiday :) No, I didn't know about those sandboxes. I've started developing some standard messages that I've just kept as notes in my browser but the assigned ones looks useful with the parameters for names. I'll get you someone assigned soon - I just need to check who's the longest waiting eligible request. Petros471 10:26, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
Magic pixie dustI sorted that image of Wukong out :P One mess I've noticed on Commons, someone has decided that "Pacific typhoon season of 2006" is more correct that "2006 Pacific typhoon season" :( Revert!--Nilfanion (talk) 12:46, 18 August 2006 (UTC) The Interwiki report -- planningHi, There's a slight change of plans regarding publication dates of the Interwiki Report for The Wikipedia Signpost. We'd like the Spanish Interwiki Report to appear on Aug. 28th instead of Sept. 4th Could you possibly pull it off ? Please let me know ASAP. Best regards,
Propose a cleanupHi!
re: I got this far in trying to back track how current the posts were on this project page. Do you think it would put anyone's nose out of joint to add some dates to the various announcement paragraphs and in general organize the page better for those of us that have no script knowledge and are looking at the project from the outside. I don't really care much about editcounts, but it's been a long long while since there was a promise implicitly made to get Interiot's tool up again. I have to confess I'm a little curious as to what has built up since May! <g> Followed you home from: here, and recalled seeing you on Interiot's page. Plz rely my talk. Suggest you link your talk in Sig with middle two letters... Advertising Esperanza is your affair, but why make people double-link-click to reach you? Is your user page really all that interesting? That would be unique! <g> (Most are pretty useless.) Best regards // FrankB 18:31, 20 August 2006 (UTC) Cambio de nombreHola, hace unos días pedí ayuda para cambiar mi nombre de usuario y tú me atendiste. Muchas gracias por la informacón, no había tenido tiempo de volver, andaba atareado en la wiki en español. Muchas gracias. Saludos. :) --Gzuz pc 20:59, 20 August 2006 (UTC) Hola Tito. I was wondering if you could give your opinion on the name of this article on the FLC nom page. I'd like to hear a second opinion from a member of the Tropical Cyclones WikiProject. Thanks! -- Rune Welsh | ταλκ 10:37, 21 August 2006 (UTC) Class creationI experimentally created the template for "Current-Class" for current events - which are difficult to classify - but haven't added it to any articles, as I wanted you to evaluate what it looks like. (It was suggested earlier in June in the Tropical Cyclones project) Here is an example:
What do you think? CrazyC83 22:52, 21 August 2006 (UTC) WikisortI think it would be easier to use a bot + a script. The script would create a "rate" tab on each article and post the rating to a user subpage. The bot would look at the ratings on the user subpage and get the final rating somehow. This way, we don't have to wait for the developers to make changes to the software because the bot can be run by one user and the scripts can be posted on the scripts page. We could make the script more well known by posting it on the village pump. The bot doesn't need to be well known because only a single user has to run it. Eyu100 23:28, 24 August 2006 (UTC) Final script (untested, requires addTab):
Source code. Click show to expand.
function write_to_ratings_page() { document.ca-edit.click();
document.editform.wpTextbox1.value = document.editform.wpTextbox1.value + "(" + quality + " and " + importance + " and " + pagename + ")";
document.editform.wpSummary.value = "Added rating";
document.editform.wpMinoredit.checked = true;
document.editform.submit();
} function get_rating() { var quality=prompt("Please enter a quality rating from 1 to 6, 1 is stub, 6 is FA","") var importance=prompt("Please enter an importance rating from 1 to 4, 1 is low, 4 is top","") } function rate() { get_rating(); document.ca-cumbersome_tab.click(); write_to_ratings_page(); } addOnloadHook( function() {
var pagename=getPname();
addTab("javascript:rate()", "rate", "ca-rate", "Rate this page", "");
addTab("http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Eyu100/Bot_area", "DO NOT CLICK THIS", "ca-cumbersome_tab", "PLEASE _DON'T_ CLICK THIS", "");
}
); Remaining work on Version 0.5I realise that the Atlantic hurricane season is just getting going, but I wondered if you could take a look at my recent post and give me some feedback? If you have time, some comments on the rivers and the Lakes and Seas set noms. Thanks! Walkerma 05:30, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
IRCTito, Thanks for detailed feedback, that's very helpful as I am hopeless at the tech issues. Regarding IRC, do I need to download software to do that? I'm unfamiliar with IRC, though I saw them use it at Wikimania. Cheers, Walkerma 01:02, 27 August 2006 (UTC) Urgent: Spanish Interwiki Report for the SignpostHi, Could you please complete the Report ? The publication date is tomorrow. Please let me know if you can't make it for tomorrow's deadline. Please treat it as an urgent matter. Kpjas 07:57, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
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Article qualityRock on, thanks for the link. I will attempt to follow the instructions now. --Fang Aili talk 16:24, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for your work on this! --Fang Aili talk 13:42, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
Could you help me again, Titoxd? Could you change the code so that only "Top" importance articles appear as such, and all other levels are hidden? I believe the biography or album templates do that, but I'm not sure how to replicate it. --Fang Aili talk 18:39, 31 August 2006 (UTC) Move requestCould you move User:Hurricanehink/Sandbox to Tropical Storm Chris (2006)? Thanks in advance. Hurricanehink (talk) 17:21, 28 August 2006 (UTC) Hey, this is a really useful thing Tito :). However, it seems to be causing problems in several locations (with formatting). The portal and newsletter page are both distorted badly by it and perhaps others too. A bit of JS Voodoo should do the job I suppose for the newsletter, but I would much rather see a good solution for the Portal, a redesign? One thing, I don't think the archive pages should be included in the navigation bar, as they are not of as much benefit to users. The archive for the newsletter in particular will get rapidly out of hand (2 pages a month?), a internal archive linking for the newsletter seems more appropriate. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Nilfanion (talk • contribs) 06:42, 29 August 2006 (UTC).
Admin CoachingCan we start now? I've started the AC page. --Quentin Smith 12:30, 30 August 2006 (UTC) MY KAtrina Fatality infohttp://www.wunderground.com/hurricane/usdeadly.asp It's 1930. Friday IRCTito, will you be participating in this? We moved it to Friday 8pm EST. Walkerma 14:39, 31 August 2006 (UTC) Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #4Number 4, September 3, 2006 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 WikiProject now has its own IRC channel. Storm of the month .jpg) Typhoon Saomai (known as Typhoon Juan to PAGASA) claimed at least 441 lives and caused over $1.5 billion in damage. After forming on August 4 near Chuuk, the storm brought heavy rain and strong winds to the Marianas, the Philippines, Taiwan and southeastern China. It started to intensify, and reached its official peak with winds of 95 knots (175 km/h, 110 mph) on August 9. The JTWC reported that it peaked as a Category 5 super typhoon the same day, a strength Chinese forecasters described as the most powerful to hit China in 50 years. Saomai maintained that strength until landfall on August 10 and dissipated inland the next day. Other tropical cyclone activity There were 16 other tropical cyclones during August, in the northern Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
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Completing Version 0.5 reviewsHi Tito, thank you so much for everything you've done so far on Version 0.5! We've made it over 1000 articles! Now we only have about four weeks left to review articles for Wikipedia:Version 0.5. I was wondering if you could take a look at Wikipedia:Version_0.5/To_do and sign up for something? I'd like us to make sure we don't miss anything important. And once the end of the month rolls around we can take a well-deserved break...! I know you're busy, but any help you can give would be most welcome. Hope to talk with you further on IRC next Sunday at 4pm EST. Thanks, Walkerma 21:22, 3 September 2006 (UTC) ...Bueno sin palabras: [1] de ver esto ya te darás cuenta que se ganó un ban permanente. Lo peor es que este usuario en la wiki española fue un troll y ahora sin motivo alguno me insulta y perspicazmente. Yo pienso que esto de que los trolls tomen en.wiki como bastión para criticar es.wiki debería acabarse. --Taichi 16:08, 4 September 2006 (UTC) My ACWhen Can we start...?--Quentin Smith 09:54, 5 September 2006 (UTC) How odd. I thought I was deleting SI_prefixes/table but clearly something went wrong. Thanks for restoring the template. --Henrygb 10:55, 5 September 2006 (UTC) Template:NeedsourceHi, Since you contributed to Template:Needsource, I'd appreciate your comments on the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Template messages/User talk namespace#Citing sources about revising and/or merging this template. --SteveMcCluskey 03:11, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
Citizens Rule Book imageThanks for your help on the image. I didn't realize that Commons had different standards than WP. Mycota 04:26, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
Thank youThanks for reverting my userpage. DVD+ R/W 03:19, 10 September 2006 (UTC) TfD of Template:SicdabYou closed this TfD as speedy delete, but forgot to delete it. I've tagged it as speedy delete db-afd (reworded), just thought I'd let you know what happened. --ais523 12:01, 14 September 2006 (UTC) |
