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Welcome to Wikipedia, Typhoonchaser/Archive 1! I'm Celestianpower. I noticed that you were new and/or have yet to receive any messages so I just thought I'd pop in to say "hello". Hello. Wikipedia can be a little intimidating at first, since it's so big but we won't bite so Be Bold and get what you know down in microchips! If you do make a mistake, that's fine, we'll assume good faith and just correct you: it'll take a few seconds maximum! Here, however, are a few links to get you started:
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I hope you enjoy contributing to Wikipedia. We can use all the help we can get! Have a great time, all the best, sayonara and good luck! -- Cel e stianpower hablamé 11:12, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
Hi. Thanks for your contributions to some Hong Kong-related articles. You might be interested to take a look at HK wikipedians' notice board, HK Collaboration of the Week and Current events in Hong Kong and Macao. Happy editing! — Insta ntnood 13:34, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
I partially reverted your recent edit to the 2004 Pacific typhoon season. In your edit, you deleted a few storms of the article, probably by accident. Please be more careful in the future. -- Hurricanehink ( talk) 12:44, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
Welcome to the project! (Unfortunately, you did it again ;)) Here's a copy of our latest newsletter.
The Hurricane Herald
This is the monthly newsletter of WikiProject Tropical Cyclones. The Hurricane Herald aims to give a summary, both of the activities of the WikiProject and global tropical cyclone activity. If you wish to change how you receive this newsletter, or no longer wish to receive it, please add your username to the appropriate section on the mailing list.
Storm of the month
Tropical Storm Alberto was the first tropical storm of the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season. Forming on June 10 over the western Caribbean Sea, the system moved northwestward as a disorganized tropical depression due to dry air and wind shear. It passed to the west of Cuba, bringing heavy rainfall to Cuba and Grand Cayman. The rainfall damaged 37 homes and destroyed 3 in Havana. It strengthened over the Gulf of Mexico and became a tropical storm on June 11. The center reformed to the northeast near its deep convection, and Alberto reached a peak intensity of 70 mph (110 km/h) before weakening and hitting the Florida Panhandle on June 13. Alberto brought heavy rainfall to the southeastern United States, peaking at 7.16 inches in Raleigh, North Carolina. The rainfall in Florida was beneficial in places as it alleviated drought conditions. The storm indirectly caused two deaths: A pilot who crashed near Tampa due to poor conditions and a boy who drowned in the flooding in Raleigh, North Carolina.Other tropical cyclone activity
New and improved articles
New articles and improvements wanted
Member of the month
The June member of the month is Jdorje. The WikiProject awards this to him for his many contributions to the coverage of tropical cyclones on Wikipedia. Jdorje founded the WikiProject in October 2005 and established much of the categorizations the project depends on. His most significant contributions include the Featured article 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane and his track map generator with which he has created hundreds of track maps.
Main Page content
Storm article statistics
Grade | April | May | June | July |
---|---|---|---|---|
FA | 7 | 7 | 10 | 13 |
A | 4 | 5 | 7 | 6 |
GA | 0 | 3 | 5 | 18 |
B | 62 | 66 | 82 | 79 |
Start | 154 | 177 | 168 | 180 |
Stub | 13 | 12 | 10 | 8 |
Total | 240 | 263 | 282 | 303 |
percentage ≥Less than B |
69.6 | 71.6 | 63.1 | 62.0 |
WikiProject subpages
This is a brief description of some of the subpages of the WikiProject, explaining their purpose briefly, to find out more read the pages.
Thanks to Hurricanehink to maintaining the stats table and producing the storm summaries. Nilfanion ( talk)
And here's some suggestions for tropical cyclone articles.
Dear Tropical cyclone editor,
As a member of the Tropical Cyclone Wikiproject, you are receiving this message to describe how you can better tropical cyclone articles. There are hundreds of tropical cyclone articles, though many of them are poorly organized and lacking in information. Using the existing featured articles as a guide line, here is the basic format for the ideal tropical cyclone article.
Good luck with future writing, and if you have a question about the above, don't hesitate to ask.
If you have any questions, never hesitate to ask. Happy editing! -- Hurricanehink ( talk) 12:58, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
The Hurricane Herald
This is the monthly newsletter of WikiProject Tropical Cyclones. The Hurricane Herald aims to give a summary, both of the activities of the WikiProject and global tropical cyclone activity. If you wish to change how you receive this newsletter, or no longer wish to receive it, please add your username to the appropriate section on the mailing list.
Storm of the month
Severe Tropical Storm Bilis was a damaging tropical storm that caused significant damage to areas of southeastern China, the Philippines and Taiwan. The fourth named storm of the 2006 Pacific typhoon season formed to the east of the Philippines on July 8 and moved towards Taiwan, strengthening as it did so. It reached its peak strength of 110 km/h (70 mph) on July 13, shortly before it made its first landfall on northern Taiwan. Bilis then made a second landfall in Fujian, China on July 14 after officials evaucated over 1 million residents from the areas in the storm's path. The remnant lasted for several days after landfall and brought heavy rain to inland China. The most significant damage occurred in Hunan, where heavy flooding and mudslides destroyed over 31,000 homes and killed 345. Despite never reaching typhoon strength, the storm was responsible for $2.5 billion in damage and at least 625 fatalities in total.Other tropical cyclone activity
There were 10 other tropical cyclones worldwide in July, with activity in all 4 northern hemisphere basins.
Main Page content
New articles and improvements wanted
Member of the month
The July member of the month is Hurricanehink. The WikiProject awards this to him for the superb quality of his work on articles. Hurricanehink joined the project in November and has significantly contributed to many of the project's Featured Articles including Tropical Storm Allison and Hurricane Mitch. In addition to his contributions Hurricanehink also works on the assessment and improvement of most articles within the project.
New and improved articles
Storm article statistics
Grade | May | June | July | August |
---|---|---|---|---|
FA | 7 | 10 | 13 | 16 |
A | 5 | 7 | 6 | 6 |
GA | 3 | 5 | 18 | 24 |
B | 66 | 82 | 79 | 77 |
Start | 177 | 168 | 180 | 191 |
Stub | 12 | 10 | 8 | 8 |
Total | 263 | 282 | 303 | 322 |
percentage ≥Less than B |
71.6 | 63.1 | 62.0 | 61.8 |
Useful sources of tropical cyclone information
The following organizations provide helpful information for writing about tropical cyclones, both past and present.
In his April Tropical Cyclone Summary, Gary Padgett stated that he will extensively reference Wikipedia in his future summaries. I have communicated with him and he has stated that he is "very much interested in cooperating" with us. He has also provided me with a copy of Jack Beven's weekly summaries (covering 1991-1996). If you want a copy of them, email me.-- Nilfanion ( talk)
Hello, I noticed that you edited an article related to, or expressed interest in The Chronicles of Narnia. I thought you may be interested in knowing that there is a WikiProject working to improve articles about Narnia, your help would be greatly appreciated. Please consider joining the WikiProject Narnia. Thank you! Bornagain4 03:18, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
thanks for reminding. let me check with admin.
Number 4, September 3, 2006
The Hurricane Herald
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Storm of the month
Typhoon Saomai (known as Typhoon Juan to PAGASA) claimed at least 441 lives and caused over $1.5 billion in damage. After forming on August 4 near Chuuk, the storm brought heavy rain and strong winds to the Marianas, the Philippines, Taiwan and southeastern China. It started to intensify, and reached its official peak with winds of 95 knots (175 km/h, 110 mph) on August 9. The JTWC reported that it peaked as a Category 5 super typhoon the same day, a strength Chinese forecasters described as the most powerful to hit China in 50 years. Saomai maintained that strength until landfall on August 10 and dissipated inland the next day.
Other tropical cyclone activity
There were 16 other tropical cyclones during August, in the northern Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
Main Page content
New articles and improvements wanted
Member of the month
The August member of the month is Nilfanion. The WikiProject awards this to him for his contributions in many diverse sections of the project. Nilfanion joined the Wikiproject in April and provides track maps for the project and has produced a featured picture. He has developed the tropical cyclone Commons Category scheme in the process. In addition he has produced a number of quality articles and is active in assessment.
New and improved articles
Storm article statistics
Grade | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep |
---|---|---|---|---|
FA | 10 | 13 | 16 | 15 |
A | 7 | 6 | 6 | 7 |
GA | 5 | 18 | 24 | 28 |
B | 82 | 79 | 77 | 79 |
Start | 168 | 180 | 191 | 200 |
Stub | 10 | 8 | 8 | 8 |
Total | 282 | 303 | 322 | 337 |
percentage ≥Less than B |
63.1 | 62.0 | 61.8 | 61.7 |
Tropical cyclone imagery
When uploading an image of a tropical cyclone please
The following is a good image description:
{{Information
|Description=Visible image of Hurricane Ernesto on 2006-08-27 at peak strength just south of Haiti as seen by GOES-12.
|Source=Original image located here.
|Date= 2006-08-27
|Author=The Naval Research Laboratory
|Permission={{ PD-USGov-Military-Navy}}
}}
[[Category:Hurricane Ernesto (2006)]] [[Category:NRL images of tropical cyclones|Ernesto (2006)]]
The Hurricane Herald
This is the monthly newsletter of WikiProject Tropical Cyclones. The Hurricane Herald aims to give a summary, both of the activities of the WikiProject and global tropical cyclone activity. If you wish to change how you receive this newsletter, or no longer wish to receive it, please add your username to the appropriate section on the mailing list. The WikiProject has its own IRC channel.
Storm of the month
Hurricane Ioke is the most intense hurricane on record in the Central Pacific. After forming on August 19 to the south of Hawaii, Ioke moved to the northwest and hit Johnston Atoll as a Category 2 hurricane. It strengthened further as it moved to the west, reaching Category 5 strength on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale three times, twice in the Central Pacific and once in the Western Pacific. After the storm entered the Western Pacific it directly hit Wake Island. The storm finally became extratropical on September 7 but its extratropical remnants affected Alaska. Overall damage from Hurricane Ioke was light.
Other tropical cyclone activity
New and improved articles
Main Page content
New articles and improvements wanted
Storm article statistics
Grade | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct |
---|---|---|---|---|
FA | 13 | 16 | 15 | 15 |
A | 6 | 6 | 7 | 6 |
GA | 18 | 24 | 28 | 33 |
B | 79 | 77 | 79 | 84 |
Start | 180 | 191 | 200 | 201 |
Stub | 8 | 8 | 8 | 13 |
Total | 303 | 322 | 337 | 352 |
percentage ≥Less than B |
62.0 | 61.8 | 61.7 | 60.8 |
Member of the month
The September member of the month is Thegreatdr, David Roth. David Roth is a meteorologist at the wpc, who as part of his work there is producing Tropical Cyclone Rainfall Data. Dozens of the maps he has created are used in Wikipedia articles. He has produced a number of valuable articles to the project such as tropical cyclone rainfall climatology and Atlantic hurricane reanalysis, and significantly expanded several seasonal articles such as 1982 Pacific hurricane season.
Typhoonchaser, just a quick note- did you edit the Sha Tin College page and do the whole... 'the new house is Tong Che Hwa' thing... and add that the uniform was various items of underwear? If you did, have you heard of a place called uncyclopedia? It's a parody of wikipedia and claims to be a content-free encyclopedia, basically. (It's also incredibly funny.) I just thought you might want to know- it doesn't have a Shatin College page. You might want to change that. Here's the addy: http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Have fun.
(And if you didn't edit the Sha Tin College page... sorry :D.)
V.
Number 6, November 5, 2006
The Hurricane Herald
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Storm of the month
Typhoon Xangsane, known as Typhoon Milenyo in the Philippines was a destructive typhoon that affected the Philippines and Indochina. The storm caused severe flooding and landslides in the regions it affected and was responsible for at least 279 deaths and $747 million ( USD) in damage, mostly in the Philippines and Vietnam. Xangsane formed to the east of the Philippines and rapidly intensified, striking Samar Island as a Category 4 typhoon. It weakened over the Philippines, but again reached Category 4 strength in the South China Sea. After its landfall in Vietnam, the typhoon dissipated, with its remnant crossing Indochina and entering the Bay of Bengal.
Other tropical cyclone activity
New articles and improvements wanted
Member of the month
The October Member of the Month is Coredesat. Coredesat joined the WikiProject in March and has contributed to many diverse areas within the project. He has written two featured articles on Atlantic storms and a number of good articles on current typhoons. However, the article he is most proud of is a disambiguation page, a sorely neglected portion of the project.
Main Page content
New and improved articles
Storm article statistics
Grade | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov |
---|---|---|---|---|
FA | 16 | 15 | 15 | 16 |
A | 6 | 7 | 6 | 7 |
GA | 24 | 28 | 33 | 48 |
B | 77 | 79 | 84 | 83 |
Start | 191 | 200 | 201 | 210 |
Stub | 8 | 8 | 13 | 11 |
Total | 322 | 337 | 352 | 375 |
percentage ≥;Less than B |
61.8 | 61.7 | 60.8 | 58.9 |
Tropical cyclone scales
The various agencies which report on tropical cyclones use a variety of different scales to measure the storms strength. The most familiar of these is the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale and this is the de facto standard in the project and should be used everywhere. However, as it is only official in the Atlantic and East Pacific, other local scales should be used when discussing storms in other regions and given primacy over the Saffir-Simpson Scale. The Saffir-Simpson scale is based on 1-minute averages, but other scales are generally based upon 10-minute averages, which are approximately 15% lower.
This table provides a useful-at-a-glance comparison of the various scales currently in use. Further complications arise due to the fact different agencies obtain different estimates for the same storm at the same time, so be careful to use the most appropriate source agency.
A tag has been placed on
Woodland Crest, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article seems to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable, that is, why an article about that subject should be included in Wikipedia. Under the
criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not assert notability may be deleted at any time. Please
see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, and if you can indicate why the subject of this article is notable, you may contest the tagging. To do this, please add {{
hangon}}
on the top of the page and leave a note on
the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would confirm its subject's notability under the guidelines.
For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Ohconfucius 14:16, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
Number 7, December 22, 2006
The Hurricane Herald
This is the monthly newsletter of WikiProject Tropical Cyclones. This shortened late issue covers just global tropical cyclone activity in November, to prevent the next newsletter from being too large.
Tropical cyclone activity
Editorial
The lateness of this edition is due to me being on an wikibreak and no-one taking up the slack. My wikibreak was the result of a lightning strike damaging my internet connection and frying my router, and the time taken for the replacement to arrive. As this issue is almost 3 weeks later than planned, only the monthly cyclone activity for November has been included. The next letter will be produced for January 7, 2006 and will be larger than normal to cover both month's Wikipedia news and December's tropical activity. There will be no Member or Storm of the month in January, to reduce the length; and the newsletter will return to normal in February.-- Nilf anion ( talk) 21:59, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
For information, you don't need to add a comma between components of dates as preferences set by the user dictate how the date is displayed and therefore whether a comma is displayed. Moreover, for articles about topics related to the United Kingdom, the format dd MMMM yyyy is the correct format, not MMMM dd, yyyy, which is the format used in the United States.
Therefore,
[[27 December]] [[2006]]
is perfectly valid, and is the preferred format for UK-related articles, and
[[December 27]], [[2006]]
is a valid alternative, for articles related to the US. You should avoid editing articles to change the format used in the wiki mark-up unless it is to bring consistency to the article, or the wrong format is used for the country the article is related to.
For more information on date formatting, please see WP:DATE. robwingfield « T• C» 00:38, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
The Hurricane Herald
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Tropical cyclone activity
The Portal Portal:Tropical cyclones is designed as the entry point to the WikiProject's work and is recognised as a Featured Portal. The structure emulates that of Wikipedia's Main page and needs updating in a similar manner. The following are the key sections that need editorial attention:
Please keep all of these sections up-to-date and refresh them as new tropical cyclones develop and articles are created. Also please keep the suggestions to editors current and fresh.
New articles and improvements wanted
These tasks are those listed at Portal:Tropical cyclones/Things you can do:
Main Page content
New articles
Improved articles
Number 9, February 4, 2007
The Hurricane Herald
Storm of the month
Cyclone Clovis was named late on December 31 near to Tromelin Island. Clovis strengthened as it moved to the southwest reaching its peak the same day with 60 knot winds (according to Météo-France). The JTWC intensified Clovis more slowly, and assessed that it reached its peak with 65 knot winds on January 2, as it was nearing the Madagascar coast. The JTWC maintained this strength until it made landfall on the island on January 3. The resulting floods damaged a number of structures in Mananjary and about 1,500 people had to be evacuated. [2]Other tropical cyclone activity
The only activity during January was in the
Southern Hemisphere, with a total of 5 cyclones existing throughout the month.
New articles and improvements wanted
Member of the month
The January member of the month is Chacor, formerly known as NSLE. Chacor joined the project in November 2005, and has contributed to a wide variety of articles across the project. Recently he has generally focussed on the West Pacific and did most of the work on the first Good article in that basin: Typhoon Ewiniar (2006). He has also started the much needed process of splitting the Southern Hemisphere seasonal articles. Finally, Chacor is probably the user who maintains the quality of the most visible part of the project, the current activity.
Main Page content
New and improved articles
Storm article statistics
Grade | Nov | Dec | Jan | Feb |
---|---|---|---|---|
FA | 16 | 19 | 23 | 25 |
A | 7 | 6 | 2 | 2 |
GA | 48 | 57 | 74 | 75 |
B | 83 | 78 | 71 | 76 |
Start | 210 | 200 | 193 | 195 |
Stub | 11 | 15 | 16 | 16 |
Total | 375 | 375 | 379 | 389 |
percentage Less than B |
58.9 | 57.3 | 55.1 | 54.2 |
A quick note: When you create a new article please list it in the appropriate section on the project's page and add a fact from the article to the Portal. Thanks.
Hi,
I noticed that you're from 上水. I left there when I was 10 in 1975 to live in the UK. I'm trying to find as much information as possible (especially pictures) about 上水 as I grew up there and I wanted to see what the difference was compared to when I was 10. Unfortunately my Chinese reading is very poor so I'm very limited with respect to sources available on the net (hence seeing your contribution was brilliant). Can you help by pointing me in the right direction?
Many thanks in advance.
By the way we moved to Birmingham and I noticed that you're a Baggies fan! I'm a Villa fan myself and have been a season ticket holder for a few years before I moved away from the Midlands. Chan lap ming 16:42, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi Typhoonchaser. Please accept my appoligies for taking so long to respond but I wanted to ask my parents personally when I next see them. As you said they agreed that most building are either demolished or rebuilt. The only hope was that we're near the Cinema which my Mum thinks was rebuilt at the same sight. I guess once day when I can back to visit I'll see for myself what it's changed to.
By the way if I shouldn't be editing here please remove my edits as I'm new to Wiki but once again many thanks for your help.
By the way Man U took my team out from my works' FA Cup sweep stake :(
Steve Chan lap ming 13:52, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
Wow what a small bit of information will bring! Just called my Dad to see if the Cinema was called 行樂戲院 and a quick google search gave me this: [3]. I can still remember the times when we sneaked inside without paying as a boy as well as mentioned in the article!
Many thanks. I went to remove the links but I see that you've done this already plus added comments (thanks!). Needless to say that I live there and as there doesn't seems to be any entry for it I thought I'll start there. I'll look up Shek Wu Hui now. What is that in Chinese? It's just that images results are better if done in Chinese. Bye for now. Chan lap ming 11:47, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
The Hurricane Herald
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Storm of the month
Cyclone Favio developed well to the east of northern Madagascar on February 12 and moved to the southwest as it developed. The storm did not significantly intensify until February 19 when it was just off the soutern coast of Madagascar, but rapidly intenstified soon after to its peak with 185 km/h (115 mph) winds. Favio turned to the northwest and hit Mozambique worsening the floods already occuring in the country. Favio claimed at least 4 lives and destroyed thousands of homes.
Other tropical cyclone activity
There were a total of 6 tropical cyclones in the
southern hemisphere during February. Five of these, including Favio, were in the South West Indian Ocean.
Member of the month
The February member of the month is Miss Madeline. Miss Madeline is responsible for many of the projects featured lists such as List of Category 5 Pacific hurricanes and List of California hurricanes. She has also put serious work into many of our Pacific hurricane articles since she joined the project as one of its founding members. Recently she has worked on 1996 Pacific hurricane season, bringing it from a stub-class article to a Good article candidate.
New and improved articles
Main Page content
New articles and improvements wanted
Storm article statistics
Grade | Dec | Jan | Feb | Mar |
---|---|---|---|---|
FA | 19 | 23 | 25 | 28 |
A | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
GA | 57 | 74 | 75 | 80 |
B | 78 | 71 | 76 | 78 |
Start | 200 | 193 | 195 | 194 |
Stub | 15 | 16 | 16 | 16 |
Total | 375 | 379 | 389 | 398 |
percentage Less than B |
57.3 | 55.1 | 54.2 | 52.8 |
Comments wanted on project talk Many discussions that potentially have far reaching impact for the whole project are carried out on the project's talk page. However, only a fraction of our active contributors actually engage in those discussions. If you add the project page to your Watchlist and keep an eye on discussions there to monitor upcoming changes, even if you don't participate in those discussions it would help both yourself and the project as a whole. For instance, at the moment the primary infobox templates such as {{ Infobox hurricane}} are in the process of being deprecated and replaced by new versions which do the role more effectively.
The Hurricane Herald
This is the monthly newsletter of WikiProject Tropical Cyclones. The Hurricane Herald aims to give a summary, both of the activities of the WikiProject and global tropical cyclone activity. If you wish to change how you receive this newsletter, or no longer wish to receive it, please add your username to the appropriate section on the mailing list.
Please visit this page and bookmark any suggestions of interest to you. This will help improve monitoring of the WikiProject's articles.
Storm of the month
Hurricane Will developed from a tropical wave to the east of the Caribbean Sea and intensified. It crossed over Jamaica and re-emerged over water a few days later. The storm intensified into a hurricane and an eye began to develop. Will became a major hurricane over the Gulf of Mexico and made landfall on the vulnerable Gulf Coast of the United States soon after. To date, Hurricane Will has claimed over 350 lives and is directly responsible for about $5 billion of damages; of which an unknown amount was insured. Despite the damage, it is not expected that the name will be retired by WMO.
Other tropical cyclone activity
Member of the month
The April member of the month is HurricaneIrene. Irene began contributing to tropical cyclone articles on Wikipedia in August 2005, but ran out of steam and left after barely 2 weeks. However, Irene's influence on the project has been wide-reaching. Her efforts led directly to two articles attaining featured status and her legacy inspired many of our most active editors to write a plethora of good articles on a wide range of storms.
New and improved articles
Main Page content
Storm article statistics
Grade | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr |
---|---|---|---|---|
FA | 23 | 25 | 28 | 29 |
A | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
GA | 74 | 75 | 80 | 82 |
B | 71 | 76 | 78 | 80 |
Start | 193 | 195 | 194 | 209 |
Stub | 16 | 16 | 16 | 17 |
Total | 379 | 389 | 398 | 419 |
percentage Less than B |
55.1 | 54.2 | 52.8 | 53.9 |
The Main Page
The WikiProject has a narrow scope, so it is not surprising that our articles are not frequently selected for Today's featured article. Most destructive cyclones are likely to be mentioned on the In the news column. We have no real control over that, but we should submit suggestions when appropriate.
However, we can do a more lot more to place our content in the other major section of the main page: The Did you know column. In the past month we created over 30 articles. Of these only 2 were even submitted as suggestions for DYK. We can do much better, please submit DYK entries for new articles when you do the initial assessment.
I notice you have changed Hongkong-geo-stub in ome of my article updates to HK-geo-stub. Wikipedia's official list of categories shows my version (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Hong_Kong_geography_stubs). I believe I've read somewhere else in wikipedia that the "HK" form should not be used, but I can't find the reference now. If you can find anything to prove me wrong, please let me know. Thanks.
In regards to the changes that I've made, I actually did bring this issue up on the KCR article (please see Talk:Kowloon-Canton Railway and Talk:University Station (KCR)). It would take a tremedous amount of time to have total agreement on this. I've asked for a survey to get started (because I don't know how), but I never got a reply.
I personally see the actual name of the station at the entrance/exits of the station (like the facade of Hung Hom Station). In addition, all of the Chinese version of KCR/MTR Stations are called "~站", too. I don't understand why a train/subway station doesn't have "~ station" on its name. I honestly can't stand that. I also would like the article names for all of the MTR/KCR stations changed.
Bourquie 01:59, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
In regards to your message, I agree with you point, and have looked into making the corresponding changes. However, it seems as though that the title names "~ Station" already exited. It all redirects to the station names without "station." I'll make the changes since it'll simplify things a lot, but there will be massive copy and pasting.
In addition, besides Kowloon Tong and Mong Kok, University Station needs to have "(KCR)" at the end, as there are many places that have university stations. In fact, in the city that I currently reside in Canada, there's a University Station.
Bourquie 04:24, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for completing the name changes for all KCR East Rail stations. Now when are we going to finish the West Rail, Ma On Shan Rail, Light Rail and MTR Stations?
Bourquie 20:10, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
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Thanks for looking at the article. I hate it when people write articles beginning [Subject] is a famous [building/profession/topic]. I note you took issue when I changed it to infamous. Perhaps it's a bit POV, but I am sure you are aware that there are very few, if any at all, places as "infamous" as CKM in Hong Kong. ;-) Ohconfucius 02:34, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
I was just wondering, how is it wrong to reflect the students opinions and include them in Wikipedia. Also, I have only stated that it is a monopoly because originally it wasnt. Most schools having cafeterias that are a monopoly doesnt mean ALL schools have cafeteria monopolies. Please do not make assumptions so we can provide the most accurate information to the users of Wikipedia. You may think that this is not important, but some do. You may think that MOST schools have cafeteria monopolies so that it is not necessary to state it out in Shatin College.
I don't know who you are, but before you stop making assumptions, you should reconsider your position as a Wikipedia editor. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 219.78.16.164 ( talk) 09:23, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
honestly, don't 'cheers' me as you have absoulutely no right to 'cheers' me, and I'm not being nice today. Please dont let your bad moods affect your editing. Wikipedia is based on NEUTRALITY remember? Not personal feelings and opinions remember? YOU ARE SUCH A HYPOCRITE. SO SOMETIMES JUST SHUT UP AND EDIT LIKE YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO OKAY? If you have any problems just come find me outside 101. And I wonder who you really are at SC. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 219.78.16.164 ( talk) 09:42, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
Good day. I am NOT Typhoonchaser. I am JAMES LI, a guy from 9H, so don't flame Typhoonchaser. And although I do not know YOU or HIM, I DO know from my research that you are a hypocrite. You say that he is a hypocrite because you do not agree with his views. And then you become a hypocrite, putting your feelings in front of your neutrality. Why don't YOU shut up, and stay that way instead of spreading your misery around by vandalising his formal and neutral edits? Flame me all you want, but if you want to be a wikipedian, you'd better shut up and be a good bastard. - Godisender —Preceding unsigned comment added by Godisender ( talk • contribs) 08:46, 27 September 2007 (UTC)