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Med Com
Good evening (GMT time); I was wondering if the numerous diff's I have provided for you are enough to persuade you to support me in my much-wanted Mediation Committee nomination.

Also, just to let you know if you would like some first-hand evidence of my mediation abilities, feel free to drop by my "test case" that I am hoping to take from the medcom (as soon as one becomes available).

Cheers, Anthony cfc  [ T &bull; C] 23:18, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #8
Number 8, January 7, 2007 The Hurricane Herald This is the monthly newsletter of WikiProject Tropical Cyclones. The Hurricane Herald aims to give a summary, both of the activities of the WikiProject and global tropical cyclone activity. If you wish to change how you receive this newsletter, or no longer wish to receive it, please add your username to the appropriate section on the mailing list. The WikiProject has its own IRC channel.

Tropical cyclone activity
 * Three tropical cyclones existed in the West Pacific during December. Typhoon Durian (Reming) was the deadliest and strongest of the three, killing over 800 people, in the Philippines and Vietnam and peaking at Category 4 strength. Typhoon Utor lasted formed on December 7 and lasted for 7 days, passing over the Philippines and causing severe floods in Malaysia. The final storm of the year, Tropical Storm Trami, lasted for three days and did not affect land.
 * The Southern Hemisphere saw a number of storms develop during December. The most significant was Cyclone Bondo, which hit Madagascar on December 23. Cyclone Anita dissipated early in the month, having formed in November and Cyclone Clovis developed on December 30 before reaching its peak in January. All of these storms were in the Southwest Indian Ocean, the only other cyclone was Cyclone Isobel that formed on December 31 to the north of Western Australia.

The Portal Portal:Tropical cyclones is designed as the entry point to the WikiProject's work and is recognised as a Featured Portal. The structure emulates that of Wikipedia's Main page and needs updating in a similar manner. The following are the key sections that need editorial attention:
 * Selected article: This is one of the articles of the project, rotated on a weekly basis. These are selected from the better-quality articles and discussed at Portal talk:Tropical cyclones/Selected article.
 * Selected picture: This is chosen from the pictures used in the articles and is rotated monthly. It is selected in a similar manner to the article on Portal talk:Tropical cyclones/Selected picture.
 * Did you know: This is rotated as new articles are created and contains an interesting fact from a few of the new articles.
 * Active tropical cyclones: The currently active tropical cyclones are listed here, and are linked to appropriately.
 * Tropical cyclone news: Recent events in Tropical cyclone activity, such as formation, landfalls and dissipation of storms.
 * Anniversaries: This significant anniversaries for each day in the last week. Unlike the others it refreshes automatically, but should be updated if a new significant event occurs.
 * Things you can do: Unlike the other sections which are reader orientated, this is aimed at editors to give suggestions of articles to work on.

Please keep all of these sections up-to-date and refresh them as new tropical cyclones develop and articles are created. Also please keep the suggestions to editors current and fresh.

New articles and improvements wanted

These tasks are those listed at Portal:Tropical cyclones/Things you can do:

 Requests: Original-content tropical cyclone articles: Papua New Guinea National Weather Service, Herbert S. Saffir, Hurricane Ginny (1963)  Copyedit: Rapid deepening  Wikify:  Merge: See here  Cleanup: Hurricane Rita, Hurricane Wilma, Cyclone Leon-Eline  Expand: Indianola Hurricane of 1886, Hurricane Carla, Hurricane Gilbert, Typhoon Nina (1975), 1970 Bhola cyclone, Typhoon Tip  Stubs: Intertropical Convergence Zone, Kamikaze (typhoon), Typhoon Paka, Harry Cane of 1667, Hurricane Edna, Hurricane Janet More... <li>Update: Tropical Storm Beryl (2006) </li> </li> </ul>

Main Page content
 * Entries from 9 project articles, including Tropical cyclone observation, Bill Proenza, Hurricane Tanya (1995) and Hurricane Erin (2001) appeared on the Main Page in the Did you know column during the past two months.
 * 1970 Bhola cyclone and Cyclone Tracy appeared on the Main Page in the On this Day column on November 13 and December 24, respectively.

New articles
 * November
 * Storm Articles included: Typhoon Muifa (2004), Hurricane Helene (2006), Hurricane Allison (1995) and Cyclone Heta.
 * Non-storm articles included: Effects of Hurricane Isabel in New Jersey, South Pacific convergence zone and 1969 Pacific hurricane season.
 * December
 * Storm Articles included: Hurricane Tanya (1995), Tropical Storm Dean (1995) and Tropical Storm Beryl (2000)
 * Non-storm articles included: Storm (novel), Tropical Cyclone Warning Centre, List of fictional tropical cyclones and Eastern Pacific Hurricane Center.

Improved articles
 * Featured articles: Hurricane Edith (1971), Hurricane Fabian, Meteorological history of Hurricane Katrina, Tropical Storm Bill (2003), 1995 Pacific hurricane season, Effects of Hurricane Isabel in North Carolina, Hurricane Erika (2003), Tropical Storm Bonnie (2004) and Tropical Storm Edouard (2002).
 * Featured lists: List of Baja California hurricanes and List of retired Pacific hurricane names.
 * Two articles were promoted to A-Class: Tropical cyclone and Effects of Hurricane Isabel in Delaware.
 * There were a total of 32 new good articles including: Tropical cyclogenesis, Atlantic hurricane reanalysis, Hurricane Keith, Hurricane Fico, Tropical Storm Dean (2001) and Tropical Storm Arlene (2005).

Storm article statistics

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Mediation Committee
Good evening (GMT time); many thanks for your support on my Mediation Committee nomination - I've been waiting for that post on my talk page for many days now :) You might want to check out my trial case, WP:RfM/Jews for Jesus 2 which I am currently mediating. Otherwise, thanks again and see you around!

Regards, Anthony cfc   [ T &bull; C] 17:27, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

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Pilotguybot
It's still shutting down due to excess flood... what is going on? I was told by nalioth I had flood exemption for it, but it's still getting kicked off the network. The operpassword= field is empty, perhaps I need one to avoid this problem from happening? You might also want to talk to pgk about this. — P ilotguy (ptt) 13:34, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

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Favor
Will you do me a favor and comment at my desk about the case AMA Requests for Assistance/Requests/January 2007/Grandmaster? It would be a big help. Thanks. --James, La gloria è a dio 02:31, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Wikimedia cloak
Hi! I'm Ed318 on IRC using the cloak wikipedia/Ed for my username, User:Ed. I have a question regarding my cloak. I have downloaded an evaluation client that expires tomorrow. My question is: If I download a client again tomorrow, will I have to reregister my cloak? I'm not in a hurry to request a new cloak if I have to.--<font color="blue" face="comic sans ms">Ed  <font color="maroon" face="comic sans ms">¿Cómo estás? Reviews? 01:45, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

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Update?
Hi, it's been nearly two weeks now. pgkbot is once again broken, so mine is in place, and is excess flooding as usual. People are complaining and are frustrated about it, yet I am equally frustrated because I am powerless to do anything about it, and I feel like I've gotten nowhere trying to. I originally asked for flood protection months ago. I have gotten zilch. What is going on? — P ilotguy (radio check)  02:06, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

I'm told it's the same problem.... nalioth and I both thought it was fixed. I was given a password so it could /oper up properly by Tawker and Cyde. They both gave me the same password, and it doesn't appear to be working. All I know is to have you contact pgk about this. Since you and him are both on the same time zone and you have control over the operpassword, you might want to try to get in touch with him to help get some things cleared up. — P ilotguy (radio check)  03:12, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #9
Number 9, February 4, 2007 The Hurricane Herald This is the monthly newsletter of WikiProject Tropical Cyclones. The Hurricane Herald aims to give a summary, both of the activities of the WikiProject and global tropical cyclone activity. If you wish to change how you receive this newsletter, or no longer wish to receive it, please add your username to the appropriate section on the mailing list. "The NHC is the official basin for the Atlantic." 

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

Other tropical cyclone activity The only activity during January was in the Southern Hemisphere, with a total of 5 cyclones existing throughout the month.
 * Dora, the second cyclone the Southwest Indian Ocean formed late in January well to the east of Réunion; and reached tropical cyclone strength at the start of February.
 * The two storms in the South Pacific, Zita and Arthur followed very similar tracks to the east of the Dateline. The JTWC estimated that Zita reached its peak on January 23 and Arthur briefly had hurricane force winds two days later.
 * Cyclone Isobel formed between Indonesia and Australia late in December and headed south, making landfall in Western Australia on January 3 as a minimal Tropical Cyclone.

New articles and improvements wanted
 * Articles are wanted for each of the tropical cyclone breakpoints (see this list).
 * An article is wanted for Tropical Storm Debbie (1965).
 * The Southern Hemisphere tropical cyclone seasons articles need splitting into the 3 component basins.
 * This sandbox for Typhoon Durian badly needs completion, please help.
 * Large chunks of the project's imagery needs proper categorization.
 * The number of stubs has markedly increased in the past few months, please improve them.

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

Main Page content
 * Hurricane Juan appeared on the Main Page as Today's Featured Article on January 29.
 * Entries from 3 articles: 2000 Sri Lanka Cyclone, Hurricane Ignacio (2003) and Hurricane Bob (1979) appeared on the Main Page in the Did you know column during June.

New and improved articles
 * The WikiProject has its first Featured topic on Retired Pacific hurricanes.
 * New Featured articles: Hurricane Ismael, Hurricane Juan and the Effects of Hurricane Isabel in Delaware and Maryland and Washington D.C..
 * New Good articles: 2000 Sri Lanka Cyclone, Hurricane Iwa, Hurricane Alice, Hurricane Kenna and 1936 Atlantic hurricane season.
 * New articles include: Hurricane Ignacio (2003), Hurricane Cindy (1963), Hurricane Isaac (2006) and Chris Landsea.

Storm article statistics

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

Mediation of Single-party state
No, the issue has now moved on to Domonant-party state, so if anything a new mediation should start. But the fact is that I can't be bothered anymore. It's quite clear that Wikipedia to a large extent at the moment is ruled by bullies. This is highly unfortunate, and I hope Wikipedia finds a way to deal with that sort of behaviour. But until it does, it's not very interesting to contribute to it, and it also make sit a much less useful source than it could be. --Regebro 20:23, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

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The Box is Back!

 * By the way: is it you that hosts your The Test Wiki (that cares), or is it external. If external, who - they're great :) and is the whole MediaWiki thing difficult? Anthony cfc  [ T &bull; C] 01:08, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

mediation for disc jockey article
sorry, it's actually been settled already.Jimmycracker 06:06, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Re: Requests_for_mediation/Stryker_(disc_jockey)
Hi! I can be reached at Craig dot Talbert at gmail dot com. Though I think the disputes have largely been resolved. -- Craigtalbert 09:01, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Re: Mediation closure
If by "resolved" you mean that I gave up because I was tired of arguing my point with someone who has difficulty following WP:CIVIL, thats true, and I don't want to get in to it again. But it, it was by no means amicable. -- Craigtalbert 15:22, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
 * If mediation can help civility problems than I'm all for it. -- Craigtalbert 18:01, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

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Invalid AIV request
Every edit the person has made has been vandalism, including the last edit today on the Hindenburg. I should have noted it was a vandalism only account, but I only researched that fact after making the request for intervention. No big deal. He'll be banned after the next vandalism I'm sure. Hatch68 17:19, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

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Christianity
Thanks -- I was hoping someone would step in soon to keep things in check... no rest for us immortals... :-) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by LotR (talk • contribs) 21:48, 23 February 2007 (UTC).

VandalProof Approval
Hi, i would like to know if i was approved or not approved for using VandalProof as i went to see the list and there was a bracket missing form my name as if i wasn't suppose to be looked over anymore. Thanks for your helpBlah0401 20:15, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

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Mediation of Sulla
Hi I was wondering if you could be very kind and mediate an edit conflict on the Sulla page. This is the first mediation I have requested, so any advice as to protocols would be gratefully received! Sulla16 17:24, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

VP problem
Isn't a problem anymore, thanks for looking in to it.Blah0401 23:44, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #10
Number 10, March 4, 2007 The Hurricane Herald This is the monthly newsletter of WikiProject Tropical Cyclones. The Hurricane Herald aims to give a summary, both of the activities of the WikiProject and global tropical cyclone activity. If you wish to change how you receive this newsletter, or no longer wish to receive it, please add your username to the appropriate section on the mailing list.

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

Other tropical cyclone activity There were a total of 6 tropical cyclones in the southern hemisphere during February. Five of these, including Favio, were in the South West Indian Ocean.
 * The only other storm in the Australian region was Cyclone Nelson which formed at the end of January in the Gulf of Carpentaria before it hit Queensland.
 * Cyclone Dora was active in January and reached its peak as an annular cyclone on February 3 with 185 km/h (115 mph) winds.
 * Cyclone Gamede was an unusally large storm that prompted the highest level of cyclone warning on Réunion and brought strong winds to the island on February 27, causing a bridge to collapse.
 * Neither Enok towards the start of the month or Humba near its end, had any impact on land.

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

New and improved articles
 * New featured content: Hurricane Erika (1997), Effects of Hurricane Isabel in Maryland and Washington, D.C., Meteorological history of Hurricane Wilma, 2000 Sri Lanka Cyclone, Hurricane Isabel and List of Florida hurricanes (pre-1900).
 * New Good articles include Hurricane Pauline, Hurricane Isis (1998), 1939 Pacific typhoon season, Typhoon Tip and 1983 Atlantic hurricane season.
 * New articles include Hurricane Isis (1998), Hurricane Debby (1982), Hurricane Adolph (2001), Hurricane Alberto (1982) and Tropical Depression One (1992).

Main Page content
 * Entries from 6 articles: Hurricane Flossy (1956), Hurricane Able (1951), Meteorological history of Hurricane Wilma, Effects of Hurricane Wilma in the Bahamas, Tropical Depression One (1992) and Tropical cyclone basins appeared on the Main Page in the Did you know column during February.

New articles and improvements wanted
 * Articles are wanted on Pacific typhoon, North Indian cyclone, diffluence, Outflow (meteorology) and Central dense overcast.
 * Improvements are wanted to Subtropical cyclone, Japan Meteorological Agency, Intertropical Convergence Zone, 1919 Florida Keys Hurricane Hurricane Ivan and Hurricane Andrew.

Storm article statistics

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

Happy Spread-the-funny and-slighty-random-love day!



 * Ooo thanks. I'm afraid I can't really think of anything very imaginative to give in return, so I'll just leave it for now :) &mdash;Xyrael / 17:28, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

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Mediation - Sulla
Hi thanks for agreeing to mediate - I have set up email as requested...best Nick 14:02, 12 March 2007 (UTC)