User:Fishhead/Hurricane Herald/Issue
The Hurricane Herald
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Storm of the month
Other tropical cyclone activity
- Tropical Storm Aletta existed in the eastern Pacific Ocean from May 25 to May 29, peaking as a 45 mph tropical storm.
New and improved articles
- New storm articles include: Typhoon Chanchu (2006) and Cyclone Olaf.
- New non-storm articles include: Tropical cyclone rainfall climatology, Dvorak technique and List of Bangladesh tropical cyclones.
- New Featured articles: 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, Hurricane Mitch, Hurricane Irene (2005) and Hurricane Claudette (2003)
- Articles which became A/GA class: Tropical Storm Isabel (1985) (GA), Tropical Storm Odette (2003)(GA)
New articles and improvements wanted
- An article is requested on subtropical ridge
- The current collaboration of the fortnight is Hurricane Gilbert, please help improve this article.
- Improvements are requested to Indianola Hurricane of 1886, Hurricane Camille and Hurricane Andrew.
- The WikiProject is likely to submit Featured Article Candidatesin the near future, so please help improve them to featured standard.
Member of the month
The May member of the month is
Explanation of content
If you have a topic which is not directly related to any specific article but is relevant to the WikiProject bring it up on the Newsletters talk page, and it will probably be included in a future edition of The Hurricane Herald.
These two sections are decided by the community on the newsletter's talk page:
- Storm of the month: This is determined by a straw poll on the page. While all storms will be mentioned on the newsletter, the selected storm will be described in more detail.
- Member of the month: Nominations are made on the talk page, voting is by secret ballot; read the talk page for details. The winner receives the WikiProject's barnstar (when we make it).
Main Page content
Storm article statistics
Grade | April | May | June |
---|---|---|---|
FA | 7 | 7 | 10 |
A | 4 | 5 | 7 |
GA | 0 | 3 | 5 |
B | 62 | 66 | 82 |
Start | 154 | 177 | 168 |
Stub | 13 | 12 | 10 |
Total | 240 | 263 | 282 |
percentage ≥Less than B |
69.6 | 71.6 | 63.1 |
The assessment scale
- The cyclone assessment scale is one of the bases of the new assessment scale for Version 1.0 of Wikipedia. It splits articles into several categories by quality, to identify which articles are "finished" and which ones still need to be improved.
- The assessment scale by itself counts of several grades:
- FA: reserved for articles that have been identified as featured content only.
- A: this grade is given to articles that are considered ready for Wikipedia:peer review. The way to get this grade assigned to an article is by asking other cyclone editors at the WikiProject's assessment page.
- good article nomination.
- B: these articles are "halfway there", and have most of the details of a complete article, yet it still has significant gaps in its coverage.
- Start: articles that fall in this category have a decent amount of content, yet it is weak in many areas. Be bold and feel free to improve them!
- Stub: these articles are mostly placeholders, and may in some cases be useless for the reader. It needs a lot of work to be brought to A-Class level.
- The way to use these assessments is by adding a parameter to the WikiProject template on the articles talk page ({{hurricane|class=B}} as an example). This feeds the article into a category which is read and parsed to create an assessment table, summary and log.