Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Newsletter/Archive 34
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Volume XIII, Issue 34, August 12, 2013  The Hurricane Herald is the arbitrarily periodical newsletter of WikiProject Tropical Cyclones. The newsletter aims to provide in summary the recent activities and developments of the WikiProject, in addition to global tropical cyclone activity. The Hurricane Herald has been running since its first edition ran on June 4, 2006; it has been over eight years since that time. If you wish to receive or discontinue subscription to this newsletter, please visit the mailing list. This issue of The Hurricane Herald covers all project related events in the nine months since December 2012. Various information detailing the project's progress in a similar timeframe can be found in the WikiProject's 2013 State of the Project Report. This edition's editor and author is TheAustinMan (talk · contribs). Please visit this page and bookmark any suggestions of interest to you. This will help improve the newsletter and other cyclone-related articles. Past editions can be viewed here. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Storm of the month (edition) – Cyclone Evan  Cyclone Evan was considered the worst tropical cyclone to affect Samoa in the southwestern Pacific Ocean in 22 years. Forming out of a tropical depression within the South Pacific Convergence Zone on December 9, Evan tracked eastward and eventually strengthened Category 3 tropical cyclone as it stalled and looped back southward in the vicinity of the Samoas, where its intense winds disrupted communications and destroyed infrastructure; damage there amounted to A$200 million, and 14 persons were killed. Effects were also felt in Wallis and Futuna. After moving southward, Evan paralleled the Fijian islands to the west during December 16–17 at peak intensity. There, considerable damage was reported. Trees and power lines were downed across the island group. Damage there amounted to FJ$169.9 million, with short-term losses amounting to FJ$73.4 million. Evan persisted until December 24, by which time its remnants brought heavy rains to New Zealand. Overall, Cyclone Evan caused the equivalent of $315.8 million in damage and 14 deaths, making it the costliest and deadliest tropical cyclone of the 2012–13 South Pacific cyclone season.
Other tropical cyclone activity 
New WikiProject Members More information can be found here. This list lists members who have joined/rejoined the WikiProject since the release of the last issue on November 23, 2012. Sorted chronologically. Struckout users denote users who have left or have been banned.
Member of the month (edition) – Hurricanehink / 12george1  Due to the far reaching coverage of this edition of The Hurricane Herald, this issue's Member of the Month will be co-awarded to the users Hurricanehink (talk · contribs) and 12george1 (talk · contribs). Both users have made contributions unmatched by any other user of the WikiProject during the period of December 2012–August 2013. Hurricanehink was the primary contributor to the 1950s Atlantic Good Topic project, with numerous high quality articles including Hurricane Hattie and Hurricane Diane, the former of which is a Featured article and the latter of which is at Featured article candidacy. 12george1, also known as GeorgeC, has been the leading representative of the WikiProject in WikiCup 2013, and has written an astonishing 33 good articles. Some of his latest works include contributions to the latter part of the 19th century in the North Atlantic basin, as well as other contributions to season articles in the Atlantic across multiple years. WikiProject To-Do
Latest WikiProject Alerts The following are the latest article developments as updated by AAlertBot, as of the publishing of this issue. Due to the bot workings, some of these updates may seem out of place; nonetheless, they are included here. Articles for deletion
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Click to watch (Subscribe via  RSS Atom) · Find Article Alerts for other topics!WikiProject Tropical Cyclones: News & Developments  Since December 2012, WikiProject Tropical Cyclones has made huge strides in its improvement of tropical cyclone coverage across the globe. During the first quarter of 2013, editors of the project collaborated together to vastly improve articles in the 1950s of the Atlantic. Though the project took a few months, much progress was made, and each year of the 1950s is now a Good topic, making it the first time that a decade of tropical cyclones was made entirely out of good or featured articles. On February 27, 2013, the article Tropical Storm Erick (2007), a featured article and long the subject of much controversy within the WikiProject, was finally merged by TropicalAnalystwx13 (talk · contribs). This marked a landmark decision that has changed the mindset of the WikiProject towards articles of low notability. The storied debates and discussion on the article from its creation to the present is documented on the article's talk page and the associated request for comment. You may have noticed that our season buttons template, a navigational template listed at the bottom of our season articles, has drastically changed. This is the result of a discussion that occurred on the featured list candidacy page for Timeline of the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season. Discussion on the template's WP:ACCESS issue can be found here and here. On April 21, 2013, all seasons once listed at 1980–85 Southern Hemisphere tropical cyclone seasons were split off to their respective season-basin specific articles, capping an improved focus on tropical cyclone articles in the Southern Hemisphere, a trend which began in 2011 and 2012. And, to go along with this, the southwest Indian Ocean has passed the western Pacific in terms of collective Wikiwork average. Kudos to those who worked in the SWIO! More recently, Jeffrey Gu, a now inactive WPTC member, has been the confirmed sockmaster of numerous socks that have caused vandalism on many of the current and more recent WPTC articles. Though his prior socks have been banned, he continues to evade account creation blocks. We request that you be on the look out for new users vandalizing our pages. More details on his associated sockpuppet investigations can be found here and here. Current assessment table Assessments valid as of this printing. Depending on when you may be viewing this newsletter, the table may be outdated. See here for the latest, most up to date statistics.
From the Main Page From the Main Page documents WikiProject related materials that have appeared on the main page since December 2012, in chronological order.
In addition, there were numerous Did you know? entries on the Main Page. Though not on the Main Page, one of our users, Hurricanehink, was one of the interviewees in the WikiProject report for the eighth issue of the Wikipedia Signpost.
This section lists content that have become featured, articles and lists, since the last issue.
This section lists content that have been promoted to A-class since the last issue.
Project Goals & Progress The following is the current progress on the three milestone goals set by the WikiProject as of this publishing. They can be found, updated, at the main WikiProject page.
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