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WikiProject Tropical cyclones

Welcome to WikiProject Tropical cyclones, a WikiProject to systematically organize all the information in Wikipedia related to tropical cyclones (also known as hurricanes, typhoons, or just cyclones). This project's focus is to centralize the efforts of many Wikipedians to make Wikipedia the best free resource when it comes to information about the subject.

If you want to help, feel free to look at the project's noticeboard, the to do list, the #wiki-hurricanes IRC channel, or this talk page.



Scope & Goals

This WikiProject aims to provide a common layout for articles on official tropical cyclones—classified by any warning center, or considered a tropical cyclone in a scientific journal or publication—as well as the science behind them. Our primary aim is to provide an encyclopedic overview for tropical cyclones, including coverage of historical individual storms and the structure of a cyclone, and to categorize all known tropical cyclones in an effective and cohesive fashion.



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The parent of this project is WikiProject Meteorology.

This project is partially inspired by:
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 * WikiProject Rivers

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General guidelines
Templates will provide a useful set of features to show information on tropical cyclones and seasons in a consistent format. Guidelines for naming, links, and categorization help keep the vast number of articles properly interconnected.

Basins
Tropical cyclones are separated by basin. Generally each basin has its own categories; all articles for a particular basin are inter-woven using links and categories. It's important that the basin is listed identically (including capitalization) for all articles. The basin is generally passed in to templates to automatically create categorizations and links within an article.

The basins include:
 * The Atlantic hurricane basin.
 * The Pacific hurricane basin (this includes both the Eastern Pacific and Central Pacific).
 * The Pacific typhoon basin (the northwest Pacific).
 * The North Indian cyclone basin.
 * The South-West Indian cyclone basin
 * The Australian cyclone basin
 * The South Pacific Cyclone basin
 * South Atlantic tropical cyclone

Templates
A number of templates exist to make life easier for tropical cyclone article writers. For a complete list, see Category:Hurricane templates.
 * hurricane may be included at the top of talk pages of hurricane-related articles to let potential editors know about these resources. It also can be used to identify the assessment given to the article, as well as its quality on the assessment scale.
 * Infobox Hurricane provides a template for creating an informative table for any hurricane article.
 * Infobox Hurricane Small is used to give a brief version of the hurricane infobox, and it can contain both a picture and a track map. This template is good for long season articles.
 * HurricaneWarning provides a top-of-page warning (disclaimer) useful for active hurricanes.
 * HurricaneActive provides a table to show the current status of an active hurricane (still under development).
 * Infobox hurricane season is a template similar to infobox hurricane, but used instead for hurricane season articles.Infobox hurricane season needed is a placeholder for season articles that need an infobox.
 * Hurricane season links creates a list of adjacent hurricane seasons (to be used inside hurricane season articles and particularly inside Infobox hurricane season.
 * Hurricane season category is a template that may be used to create hurricane season categories (like Category:2005 Atlantic hurricane season).

Categories
Categorizing all articles consistently makes it easier for readers to navigate through related articles. The top-level categoryCategory:Tropical cyclones should be reserved for a few select meteorological articles; most articles should be categories into several of the sub-categories therein.

Images
To make uploading and categorization easier, season and storm articles should have consistent types of images and those images should have consistent names.
 * If you create storm track map using Jdorje's track map generator, try to upload it toCommons and tag it with.
 * Storm peak-intensity visible-light pictures. Most storms have a satellite picture of the storm at peak intensity. Higher resolution is always better.
 * Storm landfall visible-light pictures. Other storms have a satellite picture of the storm at landfall. Again higher resolution is always better.
 * Non-visible-light storm images. Many storms may have IR, doppler, or other types of meteorological pictures.

Storm articles

 * Example articles: Hurricane Mitch, Hurricane Floyd

Articles can be created on any storm, provided they are reasonably well-written, comprehensive, and generally have more than two paragraphs of information on it in the body of the article. Articles may be merged by consensus, however.

Naming

 * Hurricanes should only receive a separate article if they are long enough not to be considered a stub. If there isn't enough to write about, the text can go inside the article for the hurricane season.
 * When creating a new article for an active storm when it may or may not be appropriate (i.e. a major hurricane currently threatening land), it is generally best to put a request up in the discussion for that hurricane season (e.g. Talk:2006 Atlantic hurricane season) and discuss it with others.
 * Named hurricanes generally do not have unique names. A storm that has had its name retired may take its name for the main article (e.g.Hurricane Charley, Tropical Storm Allison, Cyclone Tracy); use the prefix appropriate for the tropical cyclone's basin.
 * Less infamous (i.e. non-retired) hurricanes may have a separate page distinguished by year (e.g. Hurricane Bertha (1996)), only if it must be differentiated (e.g. Tropical Storm Bret (1993) and Hurricane Bret (1999)). If a name was used only once, no year is needed (e.g. Hurricane Rina or Typhoon Zeb).
 * If a name has been used only once (or is being used for the first time) and is not warranting an article, it should be created as a redirect to that season (e.g. Tropical Storm Peter redirects to 2003 Atlantic hurricane season).
 * Never hesitate to add a redirect when there is no article for a particular hurricane. Redirects help users to find information if it's "hidden" in a season article, and prevent spurious creation of new articles. This is particularly useful for active hurricanes, as users will otherwise often jump at the chance to write a "new" article about the event. Articles should be redirected to disambiguation pages or (only when there is no ambiguity) to the season article that includes the hurricane. Do not redirect to the season article when a disambiguation page exists, as there is then no way for readers to find the disambiguation.
 * This is also helpful for people who wish to provide links to WP for current storms: they can do it once, and the redirect will catch the in-links unless and until a separate page is created. Question: should the redirect go to the season page, or the section thereon for that specific storm?
 * Unnamed (including numbered) hurricanes (used for older tropical cyclones in all basins) should be distinguished by location, type, and year. The acceptable naming convention is 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane. All unnamed hurricanes should always have a year in the name. Again, create redirects wherever necessary to avoid confusion or duplicate articles.

Storm article structure

 * Use one of the infobox templates above at the head of the article. Other templates may also be useful for active hurricanes.
 * Each storm article should have a track image if possible. See /Tracks.
 * Add at the top of the talk page of tropical cyclone articles.
 * Tropical cyclone articles should always link to the season they are a part of (included in the templates). For instance, Hurricane Camille links to the 1969 Atlantic hurricane season. A link should also be included to tropical cyclone. These should generally come in the article header.
 * Make sure the season article also links to the hurricane article. For instance, 2004 Atlantic hurricane season should link toHurricane Ivan.
 * Tropical cyclone articles should be categorized by basin (see Category:Tropical cyclones by basin), strength (see Category:Tropical cyclones by strength), season (see Category:Tropical cyclones by season), and if applicable by region affected (seeCategory:Tropical cyclones by region).
 * When there are multiple articles about a particular storm, that storm should have a category identical to its article name; in this case the storm category should be categorized the same way the article is. See Category:Hurricane Katrina or for an example.

Storm disambiguation pages

 * All tropical cyclones of the same name should be visible through a disambiguation page (e.g. Hurricane Diana (disambiguation)). If none of the disambiguated storms are particularly infamous the main name may be used for the disambiguation (e.g. Hurricane Danielle). The disambiguation should be basin-independent and should cover all storms in all basins with the same name. If in doubt use "Tropical Storm" or "Tropical Cyclone" as the prefix for the disambiguation when multiple basins are involved.
 * Exception: a disambiguation page may not be needed when there are just two storms with a certain name and at one takes the main naming space to disambiguate to the other. See for instance Hurricane Andrew.
 * Disambiguation pages are also categorized by basin (sometimes into multiple basins); see Typhoon Nina for an example. An example basin category is Category:Atlantic hurricanes.
 * Disambiguation pages are categorized by season as well (see Tropical Storm Hazel for an example). See the child categories ofCategory:Tropical cyclones by season for a complete list of season categories.
 * Storm disambiguation articles (like Hurricane Gordon (disambiguation)) should be in the Category:Tropical cyclone disambiguation pages category. Previously, using hurricane disambig in the article would accomplish this automatically, but the template is currently deprecated.

Season articles

 * Seasons are separated by basin. Compare 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, 2005 Pacific hurricane season, 2005 Pacific typhoon season. There are generally seven basins (N Atlantic, NW Pacific, NE Pacific, SW Pacific, N Indian, SW Indian, Australian Region,) but not all may justify articles.
 * Use or a variant, as mentioned above.
 * Add at the top of the talk page of season articles.
 * Link to other appropriate season articles. For instance 2005 Atlantic hurricane season links to the articles for the 2005 NW and NE Pacific seasons and to the 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, and 2008 N Atlantic season articles.
 * Season articles should include an overall summary plus a short summary for each storm, with a link to the storm page where appropriate, preferably as part of the lead section. See 2004 Atlantic hurricane season for an example. If a storm's summary becomes too long it may be moved into a separate article.
 * Categorize the season into a season category; see Category:Tropical cyclones by season for choices. There is a template to help with this.
 * Each season should have a track image if possible. See /Tracks.

Hierarchy definition
Tropical cyclones are categorized by basin, strength, season, and region. Seasons are categorized by basin and year.

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Categories

 * Category:Tropical cyclones (tree)
 * Stub-class tropical cyclone articles

Lists
See also Category:Lists of tropical cyclones. Where possible these should be complemented by or replaced by categories.

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Main Wikipedia articles on Tropical Cyclones

 * 1900 Galveston hurricane
 * 1970 Bhola cyclone
 * 1991 Bangladesh cyclone
 * 2005 Atlantic hurricane season
 * Cyclone Nargis
 * Cyclone Tracy
 * Effects of tropical cyclones
 * Eye (cyclone)
 * Glossary of tropical cyclone terms
 * Great Hurricane of 1780
 * Hurricane Andrew
 * Hurricane Katrina
 * Hurricane Sandy
 * Storm surge
 * Tropical cyclogenesis
 * Tropical cyclone
 * Tropical cyclone forecasting
 * Tropical cyclone rainfall climatology
 * Tropical cyclone scales
 * Typhoon Tip