User talk:Titoxd/Archive19
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 September 15 2006 and November 11 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(?!? - cool stuff) 07:09, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
Mexican gov infoI was poking around on the SMN site looking at Lanes radar images and stumbled across this: http://www.covecyt.gob.mx/descargas/memorias/Inundaciones/INDICE.HTML It seems to have a TON of potentially useful stuff. This file seems to have info on Pre-Columbian hurricanes (Maya?). All very interesting... I also noticed a Stan impact pic.--Nilfanion (talk) 00:16, 16 September 2006 (UTC) Re: KeithI think I got just what you need. Here's the currency converter I use. Hope that helps :) Hurricanehink (talk) 03:09, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
Happy Birthday!Just heard on the IRC channel... Have a nice one! :) —AySz88\^-^ 14:06, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
Version 0.5 Natural ScienceYou have tagged Soil as {{v0.5|class=A|category=Natsci}} (appreciated!). I am curious about the Natsci portion of the tag, but could not seem to find such a v0.5 or class A category. Is there a list of articles similarly tagged with category=Natsci or ? Cheers! -- Paleorthid 17:50, 17 September 2006 (UTC) September Esperanza Newsletter
Re: Small announcementWe will certainly miss you on the Council, Tito! Thanks for making the time I've gotten to work with you on it awesome, and I look forward to still seeing you around Esperanza and Wikipedia. All the best -- Natalya 04:28, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
Hey Tito :)Any chance of seeing you on IRC?--Nilfanion (talk) 23:15, 23 September 2006 (UTC) RfA thanksHey Titoxd, thank you for supporting my recent RfA. It finished with an amazing final tally of 160/4/1. I really appreciate your support. Cheers, Sarah Ewart (Talk) 11:16, 24 September 2006 (UTC) Tropical Storm Helene (2000) copyeditHink told me that I should contact you for a copyedit of the Helene article if I wanted it sent to GAnom. I hope you can copyedit to make it a GA. Thanx. íslenskur fellibylur #12 (samtal) 17:19, 24 September 2006 (UTC) Regarding this edit/TS reviewTitoxd, regarding this, I was wondering if you speak Spanish, as there is a pattern, which continues today. I've been trying to get this editor to discuss changes (even translating for him) and use edit summaries for a while: in case you don't speak Spanish, I wish we could find an admin who does. On a separate matter, you commented long ago on the peer review for Tourette syndrome; can you have a fresh look at the article whenever you have time (no hurry whatsoever)? Sandy 22:39, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
Meteorological history of Hurricane Katrina
Very nice ! Sandy 14:24, 26 September 2006 (UTC) Sorry about thatI wasn't aware that the revert I did was actually correct, I just saw that the date was listed like that in previous versions, so I just assumed that was wrong. My bad. Anyway, thanks for reverting back to the correct version. Have a pleasant evening. Kyra~(talk) 23:49, 28 September 2006 (UTC) CheckUser on CommonsHi Titoxd, Per the CheckUser Policy, I have been granted the checkuser permission. Thankyou for supporting this request. Requests for checkuser can be made at the Commons:Administrators' noticeboard. Thanks, [ælfəks] 01:41, 29 September 2006 (UTC) ProQuestI'm not sure what the proper procedure is, but when I use ProQuest I just assume that the database is accurate and cite the article as if I had seen a hard copy. I feel this is justified especially for stuff in the Historical NYT database, since all the articles are scanned copies of what appeared in the newspaper. Probably the same can be assumed for other databases, but you could also just put a parenthetical note saying which database it came from. --Spangineeres (háblame) 05:59, 29 September 2006 (UTC) I have noticed when you closed the above AfD, you did not remove the category template, "REMOVE THIS TEMPLATE WHEN CLOSING THIS AfD". By deleting this when closing it pulls the discussion out of the category. I have deleted it from this discussion, but if you could review any other closures you have done recently and remove the tag from them it would be greatly appreicated. This is a fairly recent change. The guideline is at WP:AFDC. I have been going through the listing in each of the categories CAT:AFD and removing the tag from pages that are closed and adding the approriate category code for those in the uncatagorised group. Thanks.--Gay Cdn (talk) (email) (Contr.) 23:05, 30 September 2006 (UTC) Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #5The 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 has its own IRC channel. "TD's should be bolded, as they are the impetus of every storm, weak or strong."
Storm of the month  Hurricane Ioke is the most intense hurricane on record in the Central Pacific. After forming on August 19 to the south of Hawaii, Ioke moved to the northwest and hit Johnston Atoll as a Category 2 hurricane. It strengthened further as it moved to the west, reaching Category 5 strength on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale three times, twice in the Central Pacific and once in the Western Pacific. After the storm entered the Western Pacific it directly hit Wake Island. The storm finally became extratropical on September 7 but its extratropical remnants affected Alaska. Overall damage from Hurricane Ioke was light. Other tropical cyclone activity
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Member of the month  The September member of the month is Thegreatdr, David Roth. David Roth is a meteorologist at the wpc, who as part of his work there is producing Tropical Cyclone Rainfall Data. Dozens of the maps he has created are used in Wikipedia articles. He has produced a number of valuable articles to the project such as tropical cyclone rainfall climatology and Atlantic hurricane reanalysis, and significantly expanded several seasonal articles such as 1982 Pacific hurricane season. 1933 AHSCould you give the article another look? I just expanded it greatly, using newspaper reports, and I want to make sure it flows well, etc. I'd ask someone else, but you're the best copyeditor we got ;) Hurricanehink (talk) 22:40, 2 October 2006 (UTC) Anon on Foley scandal article againHas just removed "sexually suggestive" and removed the description of Foley as a republican. JoshuaZ 04:11, 4 October 2006 (UTC) HiDo you think you can help me out for the 1999-00 Southern Hemisphere tropical cyclone season article, please? I have put up heaps of comments in the assessment page, but no one's responding back. RaNdOm26 10:27, 4 October 2006 (UTC) Re: 1933Thanks for the needed copyedit. I got the ref (HPC), and to be safe I expanded all of them. As for the 5,000, that number is only the number of dead or injured, at least according to what the newspaper article said. Damn, I thought someone had got the ref for Hurdat. Oh well, I just did it. Thankss for your help in general for the article. I just can't wait until it's done (either passes or fails). Hurricanehink (talk) 16:11, 4 October 2006 (UTC) EvilCatNooooooo O_O :)--§hanel 05:36, 6 October 2006 (UTC) Thank YouThank you for reverting the vandalism on my talk page. --Chesaguy 16:49, 6 October 2006 (UTC) Cruz Roja Española Xangsane press release for Vietnam, translation help neededHi Tito, would you mind helping to translate this Cruz Roja Española press release on the aftermath of Xangsane in Vietnam? Thanks! – Chacor 17:02, 6 October 2006 (UTC) My RfA
Set nominations for Version 0.5Hi Tito, I hope you're doing well. I'd like to close the set nomination discussions, so I'm asking for your votes on these if you have time. With Wikipedia:Version 0.5 Set Nominations/Genetic disorders I'm the only person who has commented/debated recently, and I noticed you commented back in the summer on this when the consensus was to hold till later. Can you cast your vote on this set? The other three sets seem to have at least 2-3 people in rough agreement, but if you have time your comments on those would be welcome as well. Thanks, Walkerma 04:19, 13 October 2006 (UTC) Re: Wikipedia:One featured article per quarterHeh, that's pretty interesting, thanks. I would consider doing it, but due to my ADD I can't seem to predict which articles I'm going to do. Whenever I do, I get sidetracked and work on something else :) I did too many large projects earlier in the year that now I'd rather do good articles for low-impact storms. Hurricanehink (talk) 14:56, 13 October 2006 (UTC) Ive created the Typhoon Shanshan (2006) article but someone keeps reverting it everytime i move it onto the mainspace. Storm05 17:28, 13 October 2006 (UTC) Reply to Ernesto
The articles have vanished, there's none to be found, so the Canada part will go, but will it keep in the infobox --JForget 21:04, 13 October 2006 (UTC) VP warningPlease refrain from removing content from Wikipedia, as you did to Cabrini College. It is considered vandalism. If you want to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. A link to the edit I have reverted can be found here: link. If you believe this edit should not have been reverted, please contact me. TheRanger 16:55, 16 October 2006 (UTC) status templateHello. This is a note informing you of my intent to use one of your status templates on my user page. I found that your "busy" template fits my current editing status better than any other template I've found. Great idea, thanks! -- Nebular110 14:25, 17 October 2006 (UTC) My RfA thanks
SlapConsider yourself slapped with a large trout for this. You should know better than to upload free material to here. Admittedly there is not much of a purpose beyond WPTC stats, but free material = Commons:.--Nilfanion (talk) 11:59, 18 October 2006 (UTC) Edit counterHi, thanks for the notification. Interiot posted his "wannabe kate" substitute counter, which has more features and (I believe) is accurate, so I've made my counter redirect to his now. Please use that instead. Cheers, Tangotango 15:47, 19 October 2006 (UTC) Fabian picWould the picture from this newspaper be usable for the Fabian article? Sure, it's pretty low-res, but it's about the only damage pic I can find that would be useable. Would cropping the damaged house be fair use or PD as well, or unusable due to copyright (AP). Hope you can help :) Hurricanehink (talk) 02:19, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
Edit Count and Edit CountersThank you for removing the section about Edit Counters in the Edit Count article. The two articles were fundamentally different and users creating edit tools were advertising them on the Edit Count article rather than the Edit Counters article. Let's hope the merge request and clean up of the articles stays. Thanks again. Mkdw 22:10, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
Maybe I am missing something. If you're refering to namespaces. How does Wikipedia:Edit_count fit under User talk namespace? Namespaces 1, 3, 5, and 7 are all talk pages more specifically Namespace 3 as the User Talk. Now Wikipedia:Edit_count is under the Namespace 4 and can be found in its category [1]. I was talking more to the point that the article reads as an encyclopedic article, whether a part of Wikipedia or not, and the WikiProject Edit Counters relates to the development of Wikipedia Tools. I don't see how they are similar enough to warrent one being linked to the other without making it a generalization. An example would be Grapes and Grape Pickers. One relates to the other, but could, and would discuss them separately. Especially if there is a movement to keep Edit Counts away from the basis of adminship. I don't see the purpose of discussing that on the same page as where people are discussing technical notes or where people are reviewing. 22:39, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
I agree, and what I am reading are two very 'project pages' then, being merged when they have different discussions going on. If you read the Edit Count discussion, enough people for a six month old argument have said they are different subjects. The changes I am talking about are simply removing the first paragraph from WikiProject: Edit Counters as the second paragraph directly contradicts the purpose of the article. If people are indeed trying to do something together, then we shouldn't be mixed two groups of people trying to do two different things. I don't even see the relevence of discussing adminship in a place of tool development. Mkdw 22:50, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
We've left the topic about whether they are articles or not. They're not and if you need me to say it, then I am. Let's move on. The topic sentence, which is acting as the secondary thesis statement to the whole project states: "Our goal is to organize and coordinate the various efforts at creating edit counters and statistics tools. Our primary purpose is to give Wikipedians more tools at analyzing their own edits and others' edits; while editcountitis may be fatal, we primarily strive to offer another alternative and viewpoint at one's contributions" To coordinate the various efforts at creating edit counters. I fail to see the pages responsibility or usage in its first thesis: Edit counts are a quick way of measuring a Wikipedian's experience in the Wikipedia community. Edit Counts has its own topic, it talks about its use in adminship. Why not keep the articles separate? One about tools the other about how edit counts are used? Mkdw 23:03, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
Coaching coordinatingAre you willing and able to take back the admin coaching co-ordination? Life has got a lot busier for me, so I can longer give it the time needed. Petros471 14:44, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
Semi-auto edits?Is there a way to make semi-auto edits on a list of articles that can be fed to a program or script of some sort? I am inquiring about this because I have recently stumbled across a whole mess of stub articles that have no references or sources, and it would definately save a whole lot of time if it were possible to include an unreferenced tag at the top of the article and have the edit be saved, though confirming it didn't break any layouts or anything beforehand, of course.. If not, the old-fashioned method still works, would just take longer. --Kyra~(talk) 22:07, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
More merging of information from tropical cyclone into tropical cyclogenesisAnother attempt has been made to include information from the tropical cyclone article into tropical cyclogenesis. I reformatted the unusual formation section, fixed a reference, and moved it over. It makes tropical cyclogenesis a more complete article (I think). Thegreatdr 21:34, 24 October 2006 (UTC) whoa Sysop DayAll the best! --Bhadani 21:18, 25 October 2006 (UTC) AIVI reported an already-blocked IP, 81.0.151.151, because no one noted on the users talk page that they were blocked. --Kathryn NicDhàna 20:36, 27 October 2006 (UTC) p.s. I got bold and added the notice myself. And now I know to check the logs before listing at AIV. Learning happens. Feel free to delete this if you need the room. --Kathryn NicDhàna 22:19, 28 October 2006 (UTC) Removal of deadlinks after article deletionWho is responsible to fix redlinks after article deletion. At Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Emotional metalcore the decision was to delete, the problem is there is a related link on a template (see also Emotional Metalcore) and redlinks from other articles. Paul foord 01:13, 28 October 2006 (UTC) Esperanza Admin coaching - October 29 - PendingYou are receiving this message because you are currently listed as a coach in the 'Pending' section of the coaching box.
Thank you for helping with admin coaching! Highway Grammar Enforcer! 22:42, 29 October 2006 (UTC) Seasonal infoboxenHey Tito, I can't figure out the coding for the {{infobox hurricane season}} and how to extend it. I'm nearing the completion of my pet project and I have a seasonal track map prepared (not uploaded yet though). However, there is no {{infobox typhoon season}} corresponding to {{infobox typhoon season nopic}} for me to swap over to - so I can't insert it into the article yet. As these templates are a bit confusing I was wondering if you could cook up a working template here? In the longer term, I think we ought to work towards having just the one infobox templates for individual TC seasons, in any basin - and use a lot of voodoo to make it the jobs of all the other ones.--Nilfanion (talk) 23:36, 30 October 2006 (UTC) Your comments on Wikipedia talk:Administrator intervention against vandalism... were spot on. I am wondering why someone even started a poll there. Thanks for the pointed comments. --Ginkgo100 talk · e@ 05:57, 3 November 2006 (UTC) Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #6Number 6, November 5, 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 has its own IRC channel. Storm of the month  Typhoon Xangsane, known as Typhoon Milenyo in the Philippines was a destructive typhoon that affected the Philippines and Indochina. The storm caused severe flooding and landslides in the regions it affected and was responsible for at least 279 deaths and $747 million (USD) in damage, mostly in the Philippines and Vietnam. Xangsane formed to the east of the Philippines and rapidly intensified, striking Samar Island as a Category 4 typhoon. It weakened over the Philippines, but again reached Category 4 strength in the South China Sea. After its landfall in Vietnam, the typhoon dissipated, with its remnant crossing Indochina and entering the Bay of Bengal. Other tropical cyclone activity
New articles and improvements wanted
Member of the month The October Member of the Month is Coredesat. Coredesat joined the WikiProject in March and has contributed to many diverse areas within the project. He has written two featured articles on Atlantic storms and a number of good articles on current typhoons. However, the article he is most proud of is a disambiguation page, a sorely neglected portion of the project. Main Page content 
New and improved articles
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Tropical cyclone scales The various agencies which report on tropical cyclones use a variety of different scales to measure the storms strength. The most familiar of these is the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale and this is the de facto standard in the project and should be used everywhere. However, as it is only official in the Atlantic and East Pacific, other local scales should be used when discussing storms in other regions and given primacy over the Saffir-Simpson Scale. The Saffir-Simpson scale is based on 1-minute averages, but other scales are generally based upon 10-minute averages, which are approximately 15% lower. This table provides a useful-at-a-glance comparison of the various scales currently in use. Further complications arise due to the fact different agencies obtain different estimates for the same storm at the same time, so be careful to use the most appropriate source agency. Commons vandalThat was fun... as for the rv you made to my userpage I had already gone to blockip, but FF broke the save or something. Oh well *9* blocks later I think thats the lot. Ta for the help.--Nilfanion (talk) 03:29, 5 November 2006 (UTC) Deletion of old usernamesHey there, I saw that you were in discussion with the devs, here, about the deletion of old usernames policy. I am a bit taken aback by Brion's response, and was wondering if there is any recourse from here? This policy had amazing support behind it, and while I realize we are beholden to the devs, I find it a bit distasteful that it was rejected with barely any discussion or explanation for why. --Wolf530 (talk) 16:58, 5 November 2006 (UTC) November Esperanza Newsletter
Template:GA-Class Full-protectionI noticed you protected the template Template:GA-Class along with the other quality-scale indicators. I personally feel this is a mistake, since although it is a "high risk" template (included on hundreds of thousands of articles), it is also quite hidden from access. To know it exists you would have to know quite well how to dissect templates and inclusions, something that is above 99.9% of vandals (if not 100%). Can I ask that you revert the full protection to semi-protection? I am not an administrator and would like to tweak the background color that is used to indicated Good Articles. -- Renesis (talk) 22:31, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
Well said! (No surprise, of course)Tito, what you wrote at the Coffee Lounge MfD was really impressive, and really true. Well put! You should probably get a barnstar for that.... :) -- Natalya 17:46, 8 November 2006 (UTC) |
