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- 1 DYK nomination of Cyclone Ula
- 2 Thank you for supporting my RfA
- 3 Like it!
- 4 Protection changes
- 5 removing bold on other winter storm articles
- 6 More info to an article
- 7 The Signpost: 03 February 2016
- 8 The Signpost: 10 February 2016
- 9 DYK for 1934 Muroto typhoon
- 10 The Signpost: 17 February 2016
- 11 Your GA nomination of Hurricane Patricia
- 12 Winston 2016 track.png
- 13 The Signpost: 24 February 2016
- 14 February 2016 North American winter storm
- 15 Your GA nomination of Hurricane Patricia
- 16 WikiCup 2015 March newsletter
- 17 El Reno tornado
- 18 WikiCup 2016 March newsletter (update)
- 19 DYK for Hurricane Danny (2015)
- 20 The Signpost: 02 March 2016
- 21 DYK for Petite Savanne
- 22 The Signpost: 09 March 2016
- 23 Your GA nomination of 1934 Muroto typhoon
- 24 Your GA nomination of 1934 Muroto typhoon
- 25 The Signpost: 16 March 2016
- 26 Hurricane Joaquin importance
- 27 The Signpost: 23 March 2016
- 28 2016 GA Cup-Round 2
- 29 The Signpost: 1 April 2016
- 30 Your GA nomination of Meteorological history of Hurricane Patricia
- 31 The Signpost: 14 April 2016
- 32 Your GA nomination of Meteorological history of Hurricane Patricia
- 33 ITN recognition for William M. Gray
DYK nomination of Cyclone Ula
Hello! Your submission of Cyclone Ula at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! BlueMoonset (talk) 03:30, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
- Cyclonebiskit, it has been a week without a response from you. Please stop by your nomination at your next opportunity; I'd hate to see someone close it due to lack of response. Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 20:01, 8 February 2016 (UTC)
- Last call for a response on the nomination page. Thank you. BlueMoonset (talk) 04:38, 13 February 2016 (UTC)
- @BlueMoonset: sorry for the absurdly late reply. Been trying to muster the drive to finish up the article, but I keep getting sidetracked. I'm busy for the rest of the weekend and won't have time to revisit this until Monday. If that's too long and you wish to close the nomination, I understand. Thank you for taking the time to remind me multiple times and my apologies for inadvertently ignoring your comments. ~ Cyclonebiskit (chat) 07:37, 13 February 2016 (UTC)
- Cyclonebiskit, thanks for letting me know. I can certainly give you until the end of Monday, but I can't control what others might do. If you can post even a line saying it's taking much longer than you expected, that would probably satisfy others who work in the DYK space. I'll keep my eye on it either way. BlueMoonset (talk) 15:43, 13 February 2016 (UTC)
- @BlueMoonset: sorry for the absurdly late reply. Been trying to muster the drive to finish up the article, but I keep getting sidetracked. I'm busy for the rest of the weekend and won't have time to revisit this until Monday. If that's too long and you wish to close the nomination, I understand. Thank you for taking the time to remind me multiple times and my apologies for inadvertently ignoring your comments. ~ Cyclonebiskit (chat) 07:37, 13 February 2016 (UTC)
- Last call for a response on the nomination page. Thank you. BlueMoonset (talk) 04:38, 13 February 2016 (UTC)
Thank you for supporting my RfA
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Like it!
I don't know if it was intentional, but a very apt closure here Optimist on the run (talk) 07:29, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
Protection changes
I would appreciate it if you would restore the 6-month protection placed on Cyclone Laurence. As a Checkuser I placed the protection due to the excessive amount of sockpuppetry on the article after determining that range blocks would not be appropriate for this particular sockmaster. Nearly every edit on the article since October 2014 has been vandalism or socking. Of the last 50 edits to the page approximately 24 have been either vandalism or sock edits. Approximately 18 have been reverts of those edits. The remainder have been minor cosmetic changes, my protection, and then your change of the protection. As you have edited the article extensively, you should not be using your admin tools on the article as you are clearly WP:INVOLVED. It would have been appreciated if you had approached me to ask about the length of the protection, but that ship has sailed. Please restore my protection as requested. --Jezebel's Ponyobons mots 17:09, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
- Hi Ponyo, just chiming in as I have both Cyclone Laurence and this talk page on my watchlist. For what it's worth, I thought the six month semiprotection was a little heavy-handed, as well. I'm not sure if you were acting in your official capacity as a CU, and if so, it would have been helpful to specify that in the log summary. I've spent quite a bit if time patrolling WP:RFPP in my time as an admin, and I'd never consider three vandalism edits over the course of eight months to require such a long protection period – especially since all three of those bad-faith edits were reverted in under one minute each, and a relatively obscure tropical cyclone article doesn't need quite the same level of safeguarding as, say, a controversial BLP. I'm not sure where WP:INVOLVED comes into play, honestly; Cyclonebiskit started a basic skeleton of the article over seven years ago, and hasn't been involved in any sort of content disputes that would make it inappropriate to adjust protection levels. (I doubt the creator of an article would have a vested interest in seeing that his or her article remain unprotected, but that's not the point I suppose.) Given how easily editors have been able to manage the occasional abuse of this article, I agree with shortening the protection duration. – Juliancolton | Talk 17:36, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
- Articles targeted by sock accounts are regularly semi-protected when other means of protection are not available, which is the case here as range blocks aren't feasible. I don't understand why you would leave a heavily targeted article (nearly 80% of the last 50 edits have been sock related) open to further abuse by an LTA sockmaster. A look at the history also shows that the last account blocked was a checkuserblock, but the caveat about undoing such blocks does not extend to protection and other related actions. If Cyclonebiskit had concerns about the length of the protection then I would expect they would approach me to discuss as opposed to unilaterally undoing the protection, especially on an article they created (which I maintain has all appearances of being WP:INVOLVED). I obviously have no intention or desire to restore my longer protection, but would hope it would be restored in order to protect the article from further long-term disruption. --Jezebel's Ponyobons mots 18:11, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
- Ponyo, foremost I wish to apologize for not consulting with you first. I didn't expect this to be an issue which is why I went ahead and reduced the protection duration. As Julian stated, the number of malicious edits is relatively sparse given how long a period we're talking about here. Assuming the 80% ratio you mentioned, that's about 0.05 malicious edits per day, or once every 20 days, since October 2014. From a WP:RFPP standpoint, that's not frequent enough to warrant protection. It can easily be handled by users simply watching the page. The most recent spree of three new users on January 30 – February 2 vandalizing the article does raise some eyebrows, but that's more related to Cyclone Stan, which struck the same area as Cyclone Laurence, rather than a long-term vandal issue. This type of activity happens almost every time there's an active tropical cyclone. I do my best to be objective with any tropical cyclone article rather than add personal views to how I handle things, but if I have devoted considerable time to an article I'll opt to defer admin actions to others. Hopefully this clarifies my reasoning for truncating the protection period. ~ Cyclonebiskit (chat) 18:47, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
- Articles targeted by sock accounts are regularly semi-protected when other means of protection are not available, which is the case here as range blocks aren't feasible. I don't understand why you would leave a heavily targeted article (nearly 80% of the last 50 edits have been sock related) open to further abuse by an LTA sockmaster. A look at the history also shows that the last account blocked was a checkuserblock, but the caveat about undoing such blocks does not extend to protection and other related actions. If Cyclonebiskit had concerns about the length of the protection then I would expect they would approach me to discuss as opposed to unilaterally undoing the protection, especially on an article they created (which I maintain has all appearances of being WP:INVOLVED). I obviously have no intention or desire to restore my longer protection, but would hope it would be restored in order to protect the article from further long-term disruption. --Jezebel's Ponyobons mots 18:11, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
removing bold on other winter storm articles
If we're bidding to this new rule, can you remove all the other bold names in the other winter storm articles? --100.8.142.93 (talk) 20:38, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
More info to an article
If you have time, can you contribute to the article Thanksgiving 2014 nor'easter? It currently is sort of bland at this time and I would appreciate if some more info were to be contributed. --100.8.142.93 (talk) 21:01, 7 February 2016 (UTC)
- Sorry about not replying to your comment above, slipped my mind. For that one, anyone can help out doing that, not just me. For the Thanksgiving 2014 nor'easter, I'm not entirely sure an article is needed and I went ahead and redirected it to 2014–15 North American winter since it's been sitting around for a week with no substance. ~ Cyclonebiskit (chat) 21:06, 7 February 2016 (UTC)
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DYK for 1934 Muroto typhoon
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Your GA nomination of Hurricane Patricia
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Hurricane Patricia you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Hurricanehink -- Hurricanehink (talk) 20:22, 22 February 2016 (UTC)
Winston 2016 track.png
Are you sure Winston has become subtropical? The final warning from the Joint Typhoon Warning Center describes the status as becoming subtropical not subtropical, and the track from NOAA still uses TS, not SS. -- Meow 01:08, 25 February 2016 (UTC)
- @Meow: Oh, I must have misread the advisory. I've gone ahead and fixed it. Thanks for catching my mistake! ~ Cyclonebiskit (chat) 01:12, 25 February 2016 (UTC)
- @Cyclonebiskit: Well the TCWC Wellington has considered it as non-tropical so I do not dare to change it by myself. (Actually I am at work so I cannot do it.) -- Meow 01:17, 25 February 2016 (UTC)
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February 2016 North American winter storm
I meant to tag February 2016 North American storm complex as the one to be deleted as it was the original title; however, I neglected to pay attention and tagged the wrong page. Do you think it should be reverted back to "storm complex" or would it be alright to stay as "winter storm?" United States Man (talk) 03:41, 27 February 2016 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Hurricane Patricia
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El Reno tornado
Primetime638 (talk) 02:12, 2 March 2016 (UTC) I noticed you just changed my edit of the May 31, 2013 El Reno tornado page. I will have you know, I am a meteorologist and the tornado was officially rated an EF5 tornado. Primetime638 (talk) 02:25, 2 March 2016 (UTC) My qualifications are completely relevant. The first rating was EF3 due to damage, but it was later raised to EF5 after radar-indicated readings and wind speeds. What are your sources?
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DYK for Hurricane Danny (2015)
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Your GA nomination of 1934 Muroto typhoon
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Your GA nomination of 1934 Muroto typhoon
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Hurricane Joaquin importance
I think that if the name gets retired, it should be upped to high importance because of the El Faro controversy that is ongoing and the devastation caused in the Bahamas. The forecast errors are also quite notable.
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