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AFC Sandbox
Re. Wikipedia:Articles for creation/AFC sandbox
Hi there. My76Strat (talk · contribs) had the quite groovy idea of making an AFC sandbox; so I've had a go at setting it up.
Can we make Soxbot clear it, please, as it does the others?
Header, I think is,
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In addition...well, I imagine I've done things wrong, so please feel free to fix, etc.
Cheers, Chzz ► 03:49, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
- Regarding our conversation on IRC, I did attempt to request this action through bugzilla. The request was declined here leaving this talkpage request intact. I do understand your time constraints and will kindly await any response. Thank you for considering this request. Kind regards. My76Strat 15:11, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
Your RFA votes tool
Hi X! it seems your tools could not parse over 30 of my RFA votes O.o, could it have anything to do with my signature? Cheers, —Ғяіᴆaз'§Đøøм • Champagne? • 12:01pm • 02:00, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
- No, it just means that you edited it without voting (e.g. discussion section, nomming, asking a question) (X! · talk) · @140 · 02:21, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
- I voted in all of them and made some comments. —Ғяіᴆaз'§Đøøм • Champagne? • 6:12pm • 08:12, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
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What did yo mean by "Bot operators are expacted to respond to concerns about their bots, and instead, he has reverted them as "vandalism"." I only just saw this. Rich Farmbrough, 15:34, 5 October 2010 (UTC).
Apparent bug
Rich Farmbrough, 17:29, 5 October 2010 (UTC).
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Don't forget to check if the accounts are stale before endorsing [1]. ;-) Cheers! Tiptoety talk 18:45, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
RFA Tally/report is down
Eh ^ –xenotalk 20:13, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
- ? –xenotalk 13:44, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
- It was working for a while there, I thought. (X! · talk) · @615 · 13:46, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
- It hasn't updated since 07:00, 12 Oct. As a side note, why don't we make WP:RFXR dependent on the tally? The "time left" can use time functions rather than needing to be updated manually, and the S/O/N count can come from the tally. Then RFXR only needs to be updated when an RFA is added or removed, or has duplicate votes. –xenotalk 13:49, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
- (edit conflict × 2) Problem solved. When Keepscases removed the oppose (good move, I thought), he forgot to readd the #. (X! · talk) · @618 · 13:50, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
- It was working for a while there, I thought. (X! · talk) · @615 · 13:46, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
SoxBot UAA
Apparently the bot is still reporting usernames with WAIT_TILL_EDIT that have no edits. See this, for example. ~NerdyScienceDude 22:40, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
Soxbot on WP:UAAB
Has Soxbot failed on this task? Or have users been very good lately and not created any naughty names? — Tivedshambo (t/c) 18:48, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
tweaking the nipple
Was wondering if you could remove "nipple" from the list of verboten words that are reported to UAA as violations. We have had several lengthy discussions on the subject and there was a strong consensus that "nipple" is not offensive to the average person. Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive572#Block review of User:Nipple37, Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive573#Haven't I seen your nipples somewhere before? and Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive637#Nipples - I have two, how about you? are three of the relevant conversations. As you can see in all cases the block was overturned and the blocking admin chastised. Beeblebrox (talk) 18:49, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
- I'm about to head off, but it's at User:SoxBot/UAA/Blacklist. (X! · talk) · @830 · 18:54, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
Done Beeblebrox (talk) 19:14, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
- Twelve users with "nipple" in their name have been blocked this year after making at least one edit: Sacredrightnipple, Crabnipples, Peperoninipples, Sizzlenipples, Ondinenipple, Fishy.nipple, Hairynipple111, Bolognanipples4all, Urdadsleftnipple, Austinnipples, Nipplenipplenipple, Trish touched my nipples, Mcdobblenipple, Pippilongnipples, and Mynipplehunter69. It does seem that at least 1/3 of the users with these names are vandals even if 2/3 aren't. (I excluded from the list those users who were blocked before they made any edits, since we wouldn't know what their intentions were.) While I agree we shouldn't block a name like that on sight, it may be a sign of an account to keep a watch for (I recently added "boobs" to the list for the same reason.) —Soap— 19:23, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
- If their edits are a problem, they can and should be blocked for that, not their username. Since the bot can't see any context when it makes a report, it was probably causing more problems than it was solving by reporting these. I'm pretty sure at least two of the three cases linked above stemmed from bot reports. The first one in particular was a very long and very confrontational discussion that almost ended up before ArbCom and/or a desysop conversation for the blocking admin. In the interest of avoiding that in the future I really think it is best to let the edits of such users speak for themselves instead of casting suspicion on them because they used the name of a body part in their username. Beeblebrox (talk) 20:10, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
- Sometimes it's worth reporting, for example "Trish touched my nipples" is worth blocking based on the name alone. Why not re-add it, but with a comment warning admins to be cautious? - Kingpin13 (talk) 20:16, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
- I really, really, think the interest of drama reduction outweighs any harm posed by some user making an edit or two before being blocked, but if you guys insist on re-adding it with a warning I won't make a big deal out of it. I have no idea how to do that myself so someone with bot-fu will need to handle it. Beeblebrox (talk) 20:25, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
- Well it's just a suggestion as a compromise between removing completely and having in normally, I don't really have an opinion. If you do add it, should just be ;nipple:HOMOGLYPH,NOTE(COMMENTGOESHERE),WAIT_TILL_EDIT or use LOW_CONFIDENCE, although I'm not sure that would be sufficient. - Kingpin13 (talk) 20:32, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
- I won't add it back either unless there's consensus from other users to do so. On a tangent, UAA/Bot seems to be down as of about 07:00 GMT on Oct 14. I suspect it might have something to do with the Recent Changes revamp that also broke Huggle, but I want to point it out even so in case there is something else that needs to be done to fix it. —Soap— 12:41, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
- Well it's just a suggestion as a compromise between removing completely and having in normally, I don't really have an opinion. If you do add it, should just be ;nipple:HOMOGLYPH,NOTE(COMMENTGOESHERE),WAIT_TILL_EDIT or use LOW_CONFIDENCE, although I'm not sure that would be sufficient. - Kingpin13 (talk) 20:32, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
- I really, really, think the interest of drama reduction outweighs any harm posed by some user making an edit or two before being blocked, but if you guys insist on re-adding it with a warning I won't make a big deal out of it. I have no idea how to do that myself so someone with bot-fu will need to handle it. Beeblebrox (talk) 20:25, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
- Sometimes it's worth reporting, for example "Trish touched my nipples" is worth blocking based on the name alone. Why not re-add it, but with a comment warning admins to be cautious? - Kingpin13 (talk) 20:16, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
- If their edits are a problem, they can and should be blocked for that, not their username. Since the bot can't see any context when it makes a report, it was probably causing more problems than it was solving by reporting these. I'm pretty sure at least two of the three cases linked above stemmed from bot reports. The first one in particular was a very long and very confrontational discussion that almost ended up before ArbCom and/or a desysop conversation for the blocking admin. In the interest of avoiding that in the future I really think it is best to let the edits of such users speak for themselves instead of casting suspicion on them because they used the name of a body part in their username. Beeblebrox (talk) 20:10, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
- Twelve users with "nipple" in their name have been blocked this year after making at least one edit: Sacredrightnipple, Crabnipples, Peperoninipples, Sizzlenipples, Ondinenipple, Fishy.nipple, Hairynipple111, Bolognanipples4all, Urdadsleftnipple, Austinnipples, Nipplenipplenipple, Trish touched my nipples, Mcdobblenipple, Pippilongnipples, and Mynipplehunter69. It does seem that at least 1/3 of the users with these names are vandals even if 2/3 aren't. (I excluded from the list those users who were blocked before they made any edits, since we wouldn't know what their intentions were.) While I agree we shouldn't block a name like that on sight, it may be a sign of an account to keep a watch for (I recently added "boobs" to the list for the same reason.) —Soap— 19:23, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
Yeah, in response to the bot being down, if it relies on the IRC Recent Changes feed, you are probably going to have to make it so that the bot does not rely on diffs coming from a specific nickname, because they're planning on splitting the work of displaying the feed among several different bots, or at least that's what I gathered when I talked to the devs. The entire network is read-only anyways, only the RC bots can post in the channels, so there really is no need for the bot to rely on a specific nickname. The Thing // Talk // Contribs 12:57, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
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Hi X! It would be great if you could publish the source of your pages tool as I’m interested in your approach. Maybe you can just duplicate the file(s) as *.phps? Best regards, --Ireas ask! 14:30, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
The WikiProject Tropical Cyclones Newsletter#32B
Number 32B, October 20, 2010
The Hurricane Herald
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Storm of the month
'Typhoon Fanapi' is Storm of the Month
Early on September 14, the JMA reported that a tropical depression had formed east of Taiwan. The Joint Typhoon Warning Center soon designated the depression as 12W with PAGASA naming it Inday shortly thereafter. Later on the same day, the tropical depression was upgraded to a tropical storm and was officially given the name Fanapi by the JMA. On September 16, the storm further intensified into a severe tropical storm. That same day, the JMA further upgraded it into a typhoon. Fanapi turned west and intensified into a category 1 typhoon that night. On the following day, the storm further intensified into a category 2 typhoon. On September 18, the storm further intensified to a Category 3 typhoon and moved straight into Taiwan. It made landfall in Hualien County at 8:40 a.m. (10.40am AEST) on September 19, with winds of 162 kilometres (101 mi) and across the island at a speed of 20km/h. Shortly after its landfall, it moved south and again turned east and rapidly weakened into a Severe Tropical Storm. It had a Category 1 equivalent strength at that time. At 06:00 PM (Local time), the typhoon went back into the ocean. Post Storm Analysis proved that the system stayed on land for 9 hours approximately. The storm made its second landfall at Zhangpu County, Zhangzhou, Fujian province, China, at a Category 1 Typhoon intensity. The Storm caused a large scale damage to Taiwan. In the early hours of September 21, Fanapi weakened into a tropical depression over Guangdong province, China. On Septemner 22, Fanapi dissipated completely.
Other tropical cyclone activity
- Tropical Storm Fiona
- Tropical Storm Gaston
- Tropical Storm Hermine
- Hurricane Igor
- Hurricane Julia
- Hurricane Karl
- Tropical Storm Lisa
- Tropical Storm Matthew
- Tropical Storm Nicole
- Hurricane Otto
- Hurricane Paula
- Tropical Depression Ten-E
- Tropical Depression Eleven-E
- Tropical Storm Georgette
- Severe Tropical Storm Malou (Henry)
- Tropical Storm Meranti
- Typhoon Fanapi (Inday)
- Typhoon Malakas
- Tropical Depression #22
- Tropical Depression 14W
- Typhoon Megi (Juan)
- Depression BOB 02
- Deep Depression BOB 03
New members
Articles Requiring Help
- Typhoon Keith (1997) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
- Cyclone Gwenda (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
- Hurricane Olaf (2003) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
- Typhoon Sudal (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
- Typhoon Roy (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Main and Important Articles
Member of the month
Jason Rees is the member of the month - October 2010
- Jason is been awarded the member of the month - October 2010 for his excellent work at the construction of Tropical cyclone related articles. He is excellent when it comes to referencing. His work at the article Typhoon Fanapi (2010) is remarkable.
To do
- Improve the 14 WPTC core articles to FA status
- Finish List of Pacific typhoon seasons
- Expand every season article worldwide to mention every storm in the season
- Expand the articles in Category:Tropical cyclone articles to be expanded
- Get every article on the vital articles list to GA status
Storm article statistics
| Tropical cyclone articles by quality and importance | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality | Importance | ||||||
| Top | High | Mid | Low | Other | ??? | Total | |
 FA
|
6 | 12 | 64 | 66 | 148 | ||
 A
|
1 | 1 | 9 | 16 | 27 | ||
 GA
|
8 | 22 | 126 | 259 | 415 | ||
| B | 3 | 6 | 21 | 23 | 53 | ||
| C | 5 | 23 | 87 | 97 | 212 | ||
| Start | 5 | 58 | 232 | 239 | 4 | 538 | |
| Stub | 1 | 17 | 94 | 59 | 171 | ||
| Current | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | |||
| Future | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| Category | 524 | 1 | 525 | ||||
| Disambig | 7 | 581 | 588 | ||||
| Template | 167 | 1 | 168 | ||||
| Assessed | 29 | 141 | 637 | 770 | 1,294 | 27 | 2,898 |
| Unassessed | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| Total | 29 | 141 | 637 | 771 | 1,294 | 29 | 2,901 |
Project News
- The 2011 Northern Hemisphere cyclone season articles are awaiting creation.
- A replacement for Template:Infobox hurricane current has been discussed.
- Hurricane Earl (2010) dab issue solved.
- List of tornadoes spawned by Hurricane Earl (1998) being discussed for deletion.
- Flattening MODIS real time images discussed.
- List of Tropical Storms David, Hurricane Humberto, Tropical Storm Alex discussed.
- NASA GRIP (Genesis and Rapid Intensification Project) explained.
- Book:Greatest Category 5 Hurricanes, which is related to this project, has been nominated for deletion.
- Early hurricane season names brought up a large discussion.
- Format for season articles discussed
- Use of colour in charts on season articles duscussed
- new map icon discussed
- Lists on Cyclones, Hurricanes, and Typhoons discussed
- several of our SWIO categories have been nominated for CFD
- moving of storm articles and the year in retired storm articles decided
- Storm Article titles discussed
--Anirudh Emani (talk) 10:13, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
How to opt out?
Hi, I'd like to opt out of the edit counter. I created the opt in page some time ago, and now can't figure out how to opt out. Can you delete for me? Thanks. Truthkeeper88 (talk) 00:21, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
Page History Statistics not working
Sorry for not using the bug reporter, but I don't have (and don't want to have) a google account. Your tool Page History Statistics is responding very slowly right now. All responses only contain error messages (DBError...). It's easy to reproduce, because it happens always... Thanks for the tool, I like it a lot. --ACNiklas (talk) 16:48, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
nubio
will it ever work? THEMONO™ 01:18, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
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Bot problem
I don't have a Google account so I am posting here. SoxBot is causing a problem (breaking the page), I have reverted it twice, last diff is here: [2]. Nimbus (Cumulus nimbus floats by) 00:09, 29 October 2010 (UTC)