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Need comments for major proposed changes
It's a new decade, so I've been thinking about some ways we can restructure this WikiProject to make it more normative and higher quality. For the past decade and a half, the main Tornadoes of [Year] page has been overwhelmingly United States-centric, with only major tornadoes from different countries shoehorned in. This has led to article titles that are pretty clearly wrong, especially since we have established tornado databases in Canada and Europe that go without any mention every year. For this reason, I am proposing multiple, major changes to the way we do things:
- The main Tornadoes of... pages, I think, should become disambiguation pages
- Within these disambiguation pages, there should be a link to United States tornadoes of... which would serve as a true US-centric version of what we currently have (example: Tornadoes of 2020)
- Within these disambiguation pages, we should have links to List of Canada tornadoes in... and List of European tornadoes in... given established tornado databases there (example: List of United States tornadoes from January to March 2020)
- Within these disambiguation pages, we should have links to List of tornadoes and tornado outbreaks in... for each the continents of Australia, Asia, North America, South America, excluding Europe because it'd have a monthly list, and excluding Antarctica because obviously there are no tornadoes there (example: List of North American tornadoes and tornado outbreaks)
This is a large undertaking, but I think it would help users more easily find what they're looking for without being disingenuous about what's currently offered on the Tornadoes of... pages. TropicalAnalystwx13 (talk · contributions) 04:14, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
- I strongly concur with this plan. We've been in desperate need of an overhaul. Pinging other editors for input: @TornadoLGS, United States Man, CrazyC83, TheAustinMan, Runningonbrains, Juliancolton, Rdfox 76, Redfishtwofish, and Tornadotom666: ~ Cyclonebiskit (chat) 04:29, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
- Also @TornadoInformation12: ~ Cyclonebiskit (chat) 04:34, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
- I had thought it would be a good idea, at least. to restart the European year list since that got dropped somewhere back in 2014. I know Environment Canada conducts surveys, but I don't know where to find them.
- But I'm concerned that this endeavor, as it is currently proposed, would actually decrease the visibility of tornadoes outside North America and Europe. Significant events, if they don't get articles, are still listed alongside US events, and generally in greater detail than in the continental list. For the sake of conserving detail, I would suggest some sort of annual page for these tornadoes as well, even if there is less content than for the U.S., Europe, and Canada. I may have some other thoughts on this matter, but I'll have to sleep on it. TornadoLGS (talk) 06:06, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
- Concur. It would be nice to bring the tornado databases for Canada and Europe to the same level as the monthly catalogs for the US. We should also probably include Africa as well since they do get tornadoes. Tornadotom666 (talk) 14:35, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
- I am not in support of doing away with the Tornadoes of... pages in favor of a disambiguation. We do need confirmed lists of tornadoes from Canada, Europe, and elsewhere, and those significant events can be mentioned here like always. The reason these pages have become so U.S.-centric is because tornadoes are overwhelmingly U.S.-centric. I do not think splitting this off into more articles is the solution here. We barely have enough user activity and information to maintain the main Tornadoes of ... pages. If you follow through on this, are you actually going to put in the work that is required to maintain all those new lists? I believe that's partially the reason it was dropped to begin with. So, I will lean my support behind the monthly or yearly "list" pages for areas outside the United States, but we need to keep all the "paragraph" information maintained in one place, like Tornadoes of 2020. If you are afraid of this becoming U.S.-centric, simply do a better job of adding tornado information to that page from other countries. United States Man (talk) 14:43, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
- This is a good point. It may be more efficient to keep Tornadoes of ... the same format and focus on improving the yearly Canadian tornadoes list, yearly European tornadoes list, and significant tornadoes and tornado outbreaks by continent (which I think should include Europe as well, since it would be selective for the more significant events, not a comprehensive chronological list). Once those are more polished, informative, and well-sourced, I think it might be significantly easier to include non-US tornadoes on the yearly Tornadoes of ... page. Tornadotom666 (talk) 16:29, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
- Tornadoes are not overwhelmingly US centric. Canada gets about 100 per year, Europe sees several hundred per year. If people are concerned about exposure to those events, they should support this proposal because the current format that does not do justice. In terms of simply finding more information about tornadoes, it's simple enough to do that...if we're talking about confirmations. But the United States is the anomaly in that we have archived severe weather outlooks, discussion about meteorological setups, etc. The level of detail we get for tornado events in the U.S. is worthy of the current format. In other countries, we only get scant detail about confirmed tornadoes. That is more suitable to a list format than combining it with what should be a U.S. only page. TropicalAnalystwx13 (talk · contributions) 16:36, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
- Eh, I'm still not sold. Sorry, United States Man (talk) 16:41, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
- I think some of the aforementioned visibility concerns are valid, and a lot of the problems arise because it is difficult to maintain a prose-based article cataloging worldwide events that aren't necessarily related to one another. Prose-based articles about continental seasons or hurricane seasons work well because the events they cover can be linked by common influences or facts, such as weather patterns and seasonal forecasts. There is not much prose that can be written that bridges tornadoes worldwide together without substantial synthesis; this is the case with the the annual listing of earthquakes which simply lists earthquakes and their statistics. I think we can all get behind the idea of new tornado lists for other continents, and personally I like TA13's proposal, but if we want to stick with the current
Tornadoes of YYYY
system, Wikipedia guidelines for staying on topic and giving proper balance prevents certain information from being emphasized. This would not be an issue if we had dedicated, regionalized pages on which information could be expanded in a focused manner. For instance, it seems jarring to me that on an article with worldwide scope the infobox leads off with an image of American tornado statistics and then has a large map of fatalities for only U.S. tornadoes. If we were to split a yearly U.S. tornado article off, we could have those graphics, talk about U.S. warning changes, SPC/NWS statistics, and U.S. weather patterns because the scope of the article would allow for that without creating the appearance of undue weight. TheAustinMan(Talk ⬩ Edits) 18:18, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
- After a little thought, I agree with United States Man. Separating non-U.S. tornadoes from the main article and shunting them off to their own corner will likely decrease their visibility. The current proposal also does poorly by tornadoes outside North America and Europe. And yes, any article about tornadoes, especially one in English, is naturally going to be U.S.-centric. We get a good number of tornadoes outside the U.S., yes, but the majority of reported tornadoes worldwide occur in the U.S. I do support running European and Canadian lists in addition to what we are currently doing. TornadoLGS (talk) 20:33, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
- OK, just a suggestion here. How about we keep the main list article mostly as it is, using it to report significant events worldwide, with the separate lists being used in addition to the main list, much as we do with the US monthly lists now? Add links at the top of the main list articles to take people to the separate continental lists for each year, along with a bit of an explanation of what constitutes a significant enough event to make the main list page (perhaps the standard we've been using for putting US outbreaks into it, or perhaps something else to be roughly equivalent based on lesser coverage elsewhere in the world?), and then have just minimal levels of detail on the individual events listed on the main page, with links to the appropriate event sections on the subpages, where we include the level of detail we now have for events on the main page. This makes the main list less visibly US-centric except in coverage of total events (where proportion of events and quality of coverage would explain it for anyone questioning it), and more of a useful "executive summary" of the year's significant tornado events; the various continental/regional/national-level lists would then be expanded beyond pure table-type lists to include the event summaries, which would then link to the separate articles for individual notable events. This would somewhat strike a middle ground between reducing the main "Tornadoes of xxxx" page to a disambig and the status quo, and wouldn't significantly increase the workload, as we'd basically be putting the amount of data we already have into the lesser articles while having, essentially, a one-liner description of the year's major events in the main list. Hopefully, the explanation of what gets into the main list (and, presumably, what gets a prose discussion on the appropriate sublist instead of just slots in the table) might also reduce the number of "There was a tornado in East Cityton on the 37th of Smarch that knocked over three garden sheds and a patio table" entries we get put into the main list with no sourcing and need to clean up... rdfox 76 (talk) 17:10, 4 April 2020 (UTC)
- Honestly, I do not see the need for major changes. I am definitely a "if it's not broke, don't fix it kind of guy. I don't see any glaring issues with the current system, and this current format is simple and effective. The more complex things get, the messier they look, and the harder they are to maintain. If the concern is over non-US tornadoes, I don't really see the point, because as of lately, non-US tornadoes have been well-covered in the global yearly tornado pages, and I myself make sure of this. I'm actually in the process of going back through past years and adding better info for non-US events. It will take a while, but will be worth it. Minor changes are ok, but big changes to the system are a huge no-no in my opinion. Keep it organized, simple, and inclusive of all global events, as we have been. We've been doing an especially great job for the past few years. With all this considered, there is really no need for a huge overhaul, and I cannot stress how important it is to keep things simple. Bottom line, make additional lists for foreign events if you want, but PLEASE keep the yearly global tornado pages. They're great. Let's not "over-engineer" this, as I feel we did with the 2011 Super Outbreak article, but that's a whole different can of worms. — Preceding unsigned comment added by TornadoInformation12 (talk • contribs) 07:24, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
Seems like a good idea, I would be in if we were to do this. -Redfishtwofish — Preceding unsigned comment added by Redfishtwofish (talk • contribs) 23:12, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
Proposal
Please see and comment on this merger Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Meteorology#Proposal that impacts this project.Jason Rees (talk) 16:51, 1 August 2020 (UTC)
September 2020 heat wave
Can someone create an article for 2020 California Labor Day weekend heat wave.
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Discord
Hello, I'm wondering if you guys have a Wikiproject Discord I can join. Flasty Jam (talk) 16:18, 27 January 2021 (UTC)
- Flasty Jam I think you can go to the WPTC Discord at first. It is pretty much Wikipedia's main Discord server for weather. MarioJump83! 23:02, 7 February 2021 (UTC)
Removal of WP:SEVERE
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@TornadoLGS, TheAustinMan, ChessEric, TornadoInformation12, DavidTheScientist, Elijahandskip, Destroyeraa, CapeVerdeWave, and AC5230: A user tried to remove this wikiproject and place it under the banner of another project without asking for comment from any active member of the project. As active members, I feel we should have a discussion on this. I am not in favor of combining WP:SEVERE and WP:Tropical Cyclones both under WP:Weather. The user made the comment that all projects are suffering from lack of membership. However, that is not the case with these two projects. Just curious to see what others think. United States Man (talk) 03:52, 7 May 2021 (UTC)
- I would like to point out that we did ask for comment in August 2020. The problem is weather as a whole is doing poorly on membership. While TCs and severe weather may be okay, the rest is lagging far behind on active participants. If you take out TCs and severe weather from this proposal, I can say for certain nothing will change and the rest of weather will be doomed to rot in a hole as it currently is. We should have a standardized weather project so all the resources can be pooled together, giving everyone access to things like more help, more reviewers, etc.. We have a lot of overlap between projects and this would make cooperation on articles much easier. WikiProject Non-Tropical Storms is a task force currently. As you can see from this, the changes aren't all that drastic. The goal is simply to create an organizational structure over these currently separate projects that brings them together more and organizes everything. I do feel a rename would be in the best interest of disambiging severe weather from the rest as most are technically "severe weather". I had asked for thoughts for some people in this project off-wiki before I did the merger and rename, but I guess it should be publicly discussed since United States Man objects so strongly to it. I ask you to think about the overlap between these projects and what's lagging behind rather than what's successful. The success isn't the issue, it's what's falling behind. NoahTalk 10:14, 7 May 2021 (UTC)
- Comment: look at the former WikiProject Non-tropical storms. 2 days ago, it became a task force of WP Weather. Notice how it is still functioning the same way, except as a task force. Overall, nothing will change in how the WikiProjects are run. When this project is merged, it will also keep functioning the same way as well. ~ 🌀HurricaneCovid🌀 12:03, 7 May 2021 (UTC)
@ChessEric: Why should we have separate projects and not make it easier to share resources and in turn help other articles such as say Syria or Fiji out. We are in a unique position to be able to drive standards up across wiki. I would also remind people that there is so much overlap between the various projects outside of the US. For example, tropical cyclones spawn tornadoes, cause floods, end droughts as well as high winds which are all classified as Severe Weather. Jason Rees (talk) 17:18, 7 May 2021 (UTC)
- Share resources? Really? The same people are going to work on the same articles. So if nothing changes like you say, what is this really accomplishing? United States Man (talk) 17:23, 7 May 2021 (UTC)
- If not much is going to change in the articles themselves, then I'm pretty neutral on the merger. Comments were made on the WP severe talk page months ago, so it's natural that others would assume WP:SILENT on our part. TornadoLGS (talk) 18:30, 7 May 2021 (UTC)
- @Jason Rees: I'm with United States Man here. The projects crossover all the time, so what it combining them going to accomplish? Additionally, I think the projects should remain separate because not everyone has the expertise in all the weather subjects (i.e. the people who consistently put dashes in EF ratings, which drives me bonkers cause its not needed) Of course, I'm not saying that to be negative, but trying to combine everything is just going to bring unnecessary stress. For the August 2020 Midwest derecho last year, the creator of that article asked me for help regarding the confirmed tornadoes and tornado reports that came from the derecho. In this case, he was able to make the article about the derecho, BUT was unclear about how the tornado logging system from the SPC worked. That was an example of COROPORATION between two projects, which I think is possible. We had to do the same thing for the tornadoes that came from Hurricane Isaias, Hurricane Laura, Hurricane Sally, etc. last year, so I don't really see the point of a merger.ChessEric (talk · contribs) 19:32, 7 May 2021 (UTC)
- @ChessEric: Smaller projects are difficult to maintain. WP Met is essentially dead with the subprojects of WPTC and WP Severe reaping all the activity. WP NTS was dead and barely was brought back to life only recently. WP Climate was defunct for years. Yeah, not everyone has the expertise to do everything. Anyone can join a project or participate in writing articles so that isn't really an issue. WP Severe wouldn't be ended or merged in the sense it no longer exists. This project would still maintain its individuality while a new, overarching structure exists for all of the weather. If you take a look at what was done for WPNTS, it was relatively stress-free and was over quite quickly. This project would still function as it always has, just underneath a unified weather banner. The overarching structure would be used to let EVERYONE involved in weather see articles that need reviews or discussions that are going on. Being under one project would make things easier to see and provide a general forum for easier cooperation when we need to do so. Anything concerning weather as a whole could be discussed there. If we don't change how things are done, we are essentially sending everything outside WP Severe and WPTC to hell in a handbasket, dismissing it as non-important. NoahTalk 01:21, 8 May 2021 (UTC)
- @Hurricane Noah: So the solution to fixing a dead project is to combine it and make a bigger project for it to be neglected still? That doesn't make sense to me. ChessEric (talk · contribs) 02:00, 8 May 2021 (UTC)
- You bring it into a larger project so more people are in a position to maintain and improve articles. If something goes up for review amongst those articles in a dead project, nobody is aware of it and it isn't handled. You are just assuming people would neglect everything, which isn't entirely true. If people are aware that something needs improvement, they are more likely to improve it. NoahTalk 02:18, 8 May 2021 (UTC)
- This project is not dead. That’s what you don’t understand. Combining this isn’t going to help anything. There will be no extra help, I guarantee you that. And usually any extra help that does come is unhelpful because most part time “outbreak” people have no clue what is going on, and most of what gets added has to be redone. If people wanted to work on these articles they would be in WP:SEVERE. Why do you think it needs to be combined in order to make more people work on it? United States Man (talk) 12:11, 9 May 2021 (UTC)
- I would support a merger of all the other projects, but I believe WP:SEVERE and WPTC should remain separate. United States Man (talk) 12:14, 9 May 2021 (UTC)
- Honestly, as far as people working on tornado articles goes, the one area where more work needs to be done is tornadoes and outbreak outside the U.S. TornadoLGS (talk) 20:52, 9 May 2021 (UTC)
- You bring it into a larger project so more people are in a position to maintain and improve articles. If something goes up for review amongst those articles in a dead project, nobody is aware of it and it isn't handled. You are just assuming people would neglect everything, which isn't entirely true. If people are aware that something needs improvement, they are more likely to improve it. NoahTalk 02:18, 8 May 2021 (UTC)
- @Hurricane Noah: So the solution to fixing a dead project is to combine it and make a bigger project for it to be neglected still? That doesn't make sense to me. ChessEric (talk · contribs) 02:00, 8 May 2021 (UTC)
- @ChessEric: Smaller projects are difficult to maintain. WP Met is essentially dead with the subprojects of WPTC and WP Severe reaping all the activity. WP NTS was dead and barely was brought back to life only recently. WP Climate was defunct for years. Yeah, not everyone has the expertise to do everything. Anyone can join a project or participate in writing articles so that isn't really an issue. WP Severe wouldn't be ended or merged in the sense it no longer exists. This project would still maintain its individuality while a new, overarching structure exists for all of the weather. If you take a look at what was done for WPNTS, it was relatively stress-free and was over quite quickly. This project would still function as it always has, just underneath a unified weather banner. The overarching structure would be used to let EVERYONE involved in weather see articles that need reviews or discussions that are going on. Being under one project would make things easier to see and provide a general forum for easier cooperation when we need to do so. Anything concerning weather as a whole could be discussed there. If we don't change how things are done, we are essentially sending everything outside WP Severe and WPTC to hell in a handbasket, dismissing it as non-important. NoahTalk 01:21, 8 May 2021 (UTC)
Renaming & merger
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I had thought that a renaming was appropriate to distinguish this group from all of the others that are all technically "severe weather". I had chosen "thunderstorms and tornadoes task force" as the name because it represents the vast majority of articles currently underneath the project. If you guys would have a different and/or better name in mind, I would like your input here. I linked the discussion here in the closure request for consideration as well. We can also leave project in the name instead of task force if you would like that as well. The discussion was closed with consensus to merge all of the projects together. I have gone ahead and reinstituted the changes made to the project talk banner, but will wait to take further action after getting your input on a name. NoahTalk 13:30, 24 June 2021 (UTC)
Tornadoes of 2018 topic
@United States Man and TornadoLGS: Would you guys possibly be interested in working towards a topic for tornadoes of 2018? I think it would be cool if we could have an overall topic for weather in 2018 with subtopics for the different types of weather events. It would involve getting all the lists to FL (Tornadoes of 2018 and the monthly lists for US tornadoes) and any regular articles (tornado articles) to either GA or FA. What do you guys think? NoahTalk 19:34, 22 July 2021 (UTC) @TheAustinMan, ChessEric, TornadoInformation12, DavidTheScientist, Elijahandskip, Destroyeraa, CapeVerdeWave, and AC5230: Pinging additional people. NoahTalk 19:45, 22 July 2021 (UTC)
- Any reason you pick 2018 in particular? TornadoLGS (talk) 19:59, 22 July 2021 (UTC)
- We have people working on a topic for tropical cyclones in that year (which is nearly half done) and I figured it would be easiest to complete topics in other areas for the same year so we have "Weather in 2018" completed eventually. We also have had plenty of time for academic journals/papers to be released on these events as well which helps for completing some areas. NoahTalk 20:40, 22 July 2021 (UTC)
Hello, WikiProject,
This article has been tagged for 12 years for having incorrect information and apparently has never been checked. It would be great if one of the members of this WikiProject could look it over and either correct the misinformation or tag it for a deletion discussion. Thanks. Liz Read! Talk! 01:09, 13 August 2021 (UTC)
Cleaning up empty categories
Hello, again, WikiProject,
One of my tasks these days is going through WikiProjects and removing unused categories. Frequently, these assessment categories were set up between 2005-2011 and they were never used. This phenomenon applied to your Severe Weather article categories which went unused for 14 years. For some reason, editors in this WikiProject have chosen to assess articles into "Thunderstorm and tornado articles" categories instead of "Severe weather articles" categories although I'm not sure why (you can see this in Category:WikiProject Severe weather articles). I've dealt with dozens of WikiProjects so far this summer and I've never seen this happen elsewhere.
You might consider renaming this WikiProject Thunderstorm and Tornado since those are the categories you have placed articles in. I'm happy to restore the Severe weather article assessment categories if you want to start using them but that would necessitate you recategorizing all of the articles placed in the Thunderstorm and Tornado article categories into Severe Weather article categories so someone has to want to and be willing to do this work. But if so, just ask on my talk page and I'll happily restore them. Thanks. Liz Read! Talk! 04:49, 13 August 2021 (UTC)
- @Liz: yes, I've been trying to clean up this WikiProject too. I believe someone changed it to "Thunderstorms", and then, maybe because there was not a consensus, that it was changed back half way. I've been trying to sort it all out with the WP templates, and have gotten some things done, and others are hanging, right now. --Funandtrvl (talk) 18:15, 14 August 2021 (UTC)
- Oh, I have a bad habit of starting too many discussions at the same time. I'm just seeing your reply, Funandtrvl. It seems like there is a lot of discussion going on right now about reorganizing Wikipedia's weather WikiProjects and so attention might be elsewhere. But thank you for filling me in on a little history about this one. Liz Read! Talk! 04:05, 17 September 2021 (UTC)
Weather FARs
Please see the corresponding list of articles that have been FAR noticed here. Amongst the ones there, Tornado has been noticed and has some serious issues that would need to be addressed in order for it to maintain its featured status. Any help with saving articles that have been noticed would be appreciated. NoahTalk 15:24, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
FAR for Tornado
I have nominated Tornado for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. NoahTalk 13:37, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
Notability discussion at 2017 Minnesota tornadoes
All,
I have started a discussion as to the notability of the page 2017 Minnesota tornadoes. United States Man (talk) 23:34, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
Notice of AfD discussions
All,
There are currently ongoing discussions at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Iowa tornado outbreak of July 2018 and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2020 Dalton, Minnesota tornado as to whether these articles of marginal notability should be deleted/merged back into list and yearly articles. United States Man (talk) 01:23, 16 February 2022 (UTC)
User script to detect unreliable sources
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Inclusion of Discord link on the project page
I left comment on the talk page of the current Arbitration case about WPTC. I asked if, in the interest of transparency (since a lack of transparency was one criticism of having off-wiki discussions), we should include a link to WP:SEVERE's Discord server on the project page, as there is on for WPTC. The two ArbCom members who commented said it was a good idea. I agree with them. I had thought I should mention it here before going ahead with it, though. TornadoLGS (talk) 04:10, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
State of the monthly lists
I'm making this post as a central hub so we know what needs work and what is good. Of note, even if the monthly lists are good, we need to make sure those updated tables have been transferred to the outbreak pages, as well as that the updated numbers have been added to the yearly tornado pages. TropicalAnalystwx13 (talk · contributions) 21:48, 9 April 2022 (UTC)
- Thank you for doing this and working to update them. I kept them all updated years ago but I got burned out and haven’t been able to bring myself to work on them in recent years. United States Man (talk) 00:24, 10 April 2022 (UTC)
- I would also like to mention that many of NWS links are dead due to the site changes, so these need to be replaced as well. ChessEric (talk · contribs) 23:27, 31 May 2022 (UTC)
July–August 2022 United States floods has an RFC for possible consensus. A discussion is taking place. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. --LordPeterII (talk) 12:14, 30 August 2022 (UTC)
@TornadoLGS, Elijahandskip, ChessEric, and TornadoInformation12: The same IP hopping user that many of you are familiar with has created a WP:CONTENTFORK article and has protested its deletion. I began an AfD as there is simply no reason to have information simply copy/pasted from the outbreak article to a new article. United States Man (talk) 23:55, 31 October 2022 (UTC)
- United States Man and the rest of you guys. Just a head's up, it is two different IP users. One is a sock of Andrew5 that has hopped at least two IPs, and possibly others that I am not aware of. Talk:Tornado outbreak of December 10–11, 2021 is one of the few places both of the recent sock IP's edited. Elijahandskip (talk) 00:41, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
- If you think there is enough evidence, you could bring it up at SPI. TornadoLGS (talk) 02:38, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
- I'm not saying this specific IP is the sock, but this sock has an interest in weather and there are a whole lot of different IPs that I think have been seen in weather articles and various discussions. Besides general interest in weather, I haven't notice any new easy-to-spot sock IPs. All I'm saying is there is a sockmaster using IPs in weather articles, so when USM brought up "
The same IP hopping user that many of you are familiar
, it may be two different users (this is what I think) or it is one sockmaster (more unlikely). Elijahandskip (talk) 03:40, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
- I'm not saying this specific IP is the sock, but this sock has an interest in weather and there are a whole lot of different IPs that I think have been seen in weather articles and various discussions. Besides general interest in weather, I haven't notice any new easy-to-spot sock IPs. All I'm saying is there is a sockmaster using IPs in weather articles, so when USM brought up "
- If you think there is enough evidence, you could bring it up at SPI. TornadoLGS (talk) 02:38, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
- Good Lord. I'm getting tired of this. I hope they figure this out. I left my opinion on the article in the discussion already. ChessEric (talk · contribs) 17:06, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
GAR notice
1899 New Richmond tornado has been nominated for an individual good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Onegreatjoke (talk) 19:31, 6 January 2023 (UTC)
Final selection: Colors
The final selection RfC for the map, template, infobox, and timeline colors has started. This affects maps, templates, infoboxes, and timeline colors for the Weather, Tropical Cyclone, and Severe Weather wikiprojects. Please see the discussion here to participate. NoahTalk 21:52, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
A discussion about civility
I am increasingly annoyed at the state of this WikiProject. Some of us have been editing for over a decade, some just joined a few months ago, but it is clear at this point that all of us need to have a discussion about how to move forward. The sarcasm, the name calling, the edit wars and the arguments, they've got to stop. Today or tomorrow, I will finish updating 2020 tornadoes, meaning our lists will be complete spanning the end of 2013 to present. That only leaves over 15,000 tornadoes that need to be finalized or added to this site. Time would be much, much better spent assisting in that effort, improving older articles, and the like rather than the pettiness, the fighting, the image wars, the rewriting summaries, and the rewriting of rewritten summaries that is increasingly a daily activity in this project. Let's be productive. wxtrackercody (talk · contributions) 21:53, 14 January 2023 (UTC)
- Why the name change? I thought you were some random coming in here barking at us lol. United States Man (talk) 22:06, 14 January 2023 (UTC)
- Me too! ChessEric (talk · contribs) 03:48, 7 February 2023 (UTC)
- TropicalAnalystwx13 was my old handle on Weather Underground. I updated it for what I go by these days. wxtrackercody (talk · contributions) 04:02, 7 February 2023 (UTC)
- Wait, now I can't remember who you were before. (This is why I don't change my name). TornadoLGS (talk) 04:09, 7 February 2023 (UTC)
- @TornadoLGS: He was TropicalAnalystwx13. ChessEric (talk · contribs) 13:36, 7 February 2023 (UTC)
- Wait, now I can't remember who you were before. (This is why I don't change my name). TornadoLGS (talk) 04:09, 7 February 2023 (UTC)
Good article reassessment for Great Storm of 1975
Great Storm of 1975 has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Onegreatjoke (talk) 00:05, 8 February 2023 (UTC)
Proposed Colors Modification
A slight modification has been proposed to the consensus that was achieved in the final selection given its outcome. Said modification only involves the category 5 color. Please see Wikipedia:WikiProject_Weather/Color_RfC#Modification for the discussion. NoahTalk 18:53, 16 February 2023 (UTC)
An AfD has been created to discuss the recently split 1974 Xenia tornado. United States Man (talk) 03:06, 18 February 2023 (UTC)
Infoboxes RfC
Just a heads up that we are discussing a replacement infobox at Wikipedia:WikiProject Weather/New Weather Infobox. Please see that page for further details. NoahTalk 23:46, 24 February 2023 (UTC)
Project-independent quality assessments
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However, if your project has decided to "opt out" and follow a non-standard quality assessment approach, all you have to do is modify your wikiproject banner template to pass {{WPBannerMeta}} a new |QUALITY_CRITERIA=custom parameter. If this is done, changes to the general quality assessment will be ignored, and your project-level assessment will be displayed and used to create categories, as at present. Aymatth2 (talk) 13:59, 13 April 2023 (UTC)
Discussion at Wikipedia:Content assessment
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Content assessment#Proposal: Reclassification of Current & Future-Classes as time parameter, which is within the scope of this WikiProject. This WikiProject received this message because it currently uses "Current" and/or "Future" class(es). There is a proposal to split these two article "classes" into a new parameter "time", in order to standardise article-rating across Wikipedia (per RfC), while also allowing simultaneous usage of quality criteria and time for interest projects. Thanks! —CX Zoom[he/him] (let's talk • {C•X}) 21:09, 1 July 2023 (UTC)
I just created 2023 Vermont floods. Any help would be appreciated. Thriley (talk) 22:02, 10 July 2023 (UTC)
Feel free to give an opinion at Articles for deletion/Tornado outbreak of June 12. Thanks,
--A. B. (talk • contribs • global count) 04:05, 31 July 2023 (UTC)
Feel free to give an opinion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2023 Desert Southwest floods. Thanks,
--A. B. (talk • contribs • global count) 01:39, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
how do i add my name to the active members?
question Lolkikmoddi (talk) 13:46, 23 August 2023 (UTC)
- @Lolkikmoddi, Wikipedia:WikiProject Severe weather#Participants, though you'll have to edit the source and scroll down to the "Participants" section, then you can add your name there! Tails Wx (they/them) ⚧ 06:28, 24 August 2023 (UTC)
This category has only sub-categories, for intensities from F0 to F5. These subcategories contain both entries for individual tornadoes, and for tornado outbreaks whose highest intensity corresponds to the subcategory. So the content of the subcategories doesn't match the name of the overall category, which specifically refers to tornado outbreaks. Should the category name be changed, or should individual tornadoes be categorised by intensity elsewhere? (There is no Category:Tornadoes by intensity). The descriptions of each of the intensity subcategories differ too - Category:F4 tornadoes mentions both indvidual tornadoes and tornado outbreaks, but the others only mention tornado outbreaks. Colonies Chris (talk) 20:57, 30 August 2023 (UTC)
- Follow-up observation: this category seems to be superfluous anyway. Tornado and tornado outbreak articles could just be assigned directly to one of its 6 subcategories. Colonies Chris (talk) 19:39, 31 August 2023 (UTC)
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Nomination for deletion of Template:Infobox storm
Template:Infobox storm has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Noah, AATalk 15:12, 12 March 2024 (UTC)
I am planning on nomming the List of California tornadoes for featured list status soon. I wondered if anyone could give it a fresh set of eyes? With such a long article, I might've made some dumb mistakes, and maybe some glaring ones as well. Any comments could be made on the talk page. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 03:37, 20 March 2024 (UTC)