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RE:List of Canadian Tornadoes
Can you link me to the guidelines about adding tornadoes to the list? As well, When you say EC Database are you referring to here Canadian National Tornado Database: Verified Events (1980-2009), or another place? In regards to the tornadoes that were removed, that was a mistake on my part I did not intend to remove any. Cheers - Kyle1278 (talk) 04:02, 7 August 2016 (UTC)


 * Basically the guidelines are what I mentioned in the other post - post a new entry and save page, and not to have multiple changes in 1 edit. If you look at the edit history you'll see what I mean. With your last two edits you did it looks like you've got the hang of it, which is great! And yes the EC Database I'm referring too is the Canadian National Tornado Database: Verified Events (1980-2009). Happy Editing!


 * I caught the local time just recently, so i was verifying dates. I was about to change it back to the 5th you beat me to it. :D Cheers - Kyle1278 (talk) 05:48, 14 August 2016 (UTC)


 * No worries. The only thing I would ask is to keep the distances in KMs/metres and use the metric system for this page. There is no need to convert to miles or feet.


 * I am going to refer you to this discussion on admin talk page about convertions. Convert Template. Wikipedia is for a general audience and not just for people that understand metric. as he states. Cheers - Kyle1278 (talk) 06:11, 14 August 2016 (UTC)


 * That's great you had a discussion about it, and I agree that Wikipedia is for a general audience and not just for people that understand metric, but this page is a Canadian List, refereed to by mostly Canadians, and conversions add clutter to the page. Please keep to metric only.


 * Regardless of Canadian/metric or American/imperial willingly not adding them is against Manual of Style, WP:MOSCONVERSIONS all articles have to adhere as close as possible by these guidelines. Cheers - Kyle1278 (talk) 07:48, 14 August 2016 (UTC)


 * The list may be about tornadoes in Canada but there is no way of telling that it is "refereed to by mostly Canadians". And even if it was there are still a lot of Canadians that are not comfortable with metric and some things still use the old system. Take a look at Manual of Style/Dates and numbers which states "Where English-speaking countries use different units for the same quantity, follow the "primary" quantity with a conversion in parentheses". CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 08:08, 14 August 2016 (UTC)


 * Suckerpunchand, I just realised that the List of Canadian Tornadoes has a problem that has nothing to do with conversions. As pointed out above the list is a Canadian one and as such should be written in Canadian English and not in American English. It contains "traveled" which should be "travelled", "leveled" which should be "levelled", "neighboring" which should be "neighbouring" (strangely it has "neighbour" correctly), "center" which should be "centre" and probably the worst is that it has "kilometer" which should be "kilometre". I checked back and found that the article started life in Canadian English, travelled and the first use of kilometre. So given that it started in Canadian English and is about a Canadian subject there is no reason that it should have ever been changed to American English. I have gone through the list and restored all American to Canadian and at the same time corrected a few spelling errors such as "Maldon Center, Ontario" which should be "Malden Centre, Ontario" but I probably missed some. I also added Use Canadian English and all the changes are here. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 09:14, 14 August 2016 (UTC)


 * Thank you for doing that work!--Cheers - Kyle1278 (talk) 12:18, 14 August 2016 (UTC)

Do gustnados count as tornadoes for the “21st Century Tornadoes” list? I ask because a gustnado was spottes near Drumheller, AB a few weeks ago and I want to know if it can be added. CKulak05 (talk) 21:33, 1 May 2022 (UTC)


 * No they don't. Gustnadoes don't connect with the clouds, so they are not really related. I don't believe EC includes them in their yearly counts. Suckerpunch (talk) 13:59, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

Thanks! CKulak05 (talk) 05:15, 6 May 2022 (UTC)

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