Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones
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Welcome to WikiProject Tropical cyclones, a WikiProject to systematically organize all the information in Wikipedia related to tropical cyclones (also known as hurricanes or typhoons). This project's focus is to centralize the efforts of many Wikipedians to make Wikipedia the best free resource when it comes to information about the subject. If you want to help, feel free to look at the project's noticeboard, the Scope[edit]This WikiProject aims to provide a common layout for articles on official tropical cyclones—classified by any warning center, or considered a tropical cyclone in a scientific journal or publication—as well as the science behind them. Goals[edit]To provide an encyclopedic overview for tropical cyclones, including coverage of historical individual storms and the structure of a cyclone, and to categorize all known tropical cyclones in an effective and cohesive fashion.
History[edit]The article for the "hurricane" (now known as tropical cyclone) was created on December 2, 2001. On October 3, 2002, User:Ed Poor created an article for Hurricane Lili while the storm was active and near peak intensity; since then, many other people have edited the article to help make it a . In March 2004, User:BigT27 created an article for the extremely active 1995 Atlantic hurricane season, one of the most active Atlantic hurricane seasons ever. On August 14 of that year, an article was created for Hurricane Iniki, the first non-Atlantic storm, and on August 31, the 1900 Galveston hurricane became the first TC-related . On October 4, 2004, Cyclone Tracy became featured, which was the 2nd FA in the project. A week later, User:Golbez created the article for 2004 Pacific hurricane season, which was the first season article for the EPAC. On May 19, 2005, User:Tom created Template:Infobox Hurricane, which standardized the infobox that appears in every storm article. On July 20, User:Skywayman created the article for the 2005 Pacific typhoon season, which became the third basin to get season articles. On July 31, User:Holderca1 created the article for 2004-05 Southern Hemisphere tropical cyclone season – for the first several years on Wikipedia, the SHEM was handled in a singular article, but was split into SWIO, AUS, and SPAC beginning on April 16, 2007, and finished on April 21, 2013. During the extremely active 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, articles were created quickly for the most powerful storms, including Hurricane Dennis which quickly became an FA. On August 26, 2005, User:CrazyC83 created an article for Hurricane Katrina after the disastrous storm crossed over southern Florida. By two days later, there were 500 edits to the article, and the hurricane was threatening to hit New Orleans as a Category 4 or 5. We now know it was "only" a Category 3 at landfall. In the 16 years since Katrina, there have been over 6,327 editors that have contributed to the Hurricane Katrina article, along with 23 sub-articles. During the 2005 season, there were debates among editors whether lesser notable storms, like Hurricane Cindy (2005), should have articles. At one point in 2006, there were articles for every named storm during the 2005 AHS, but in the 13 years since then, articles for tropical storms Franklin, Harvey, and Lee, and Philippe were merged. As a way to coordinate edits among the tropical cyclone pages, User:Jdorje created Template:Hurricane on September 12, 2005. This is the same template that appears on the talk pages for every article in WPTC. On October 5, Jdorje officially created the tropical cyclone WikiProject. That October, in quick succession, the Atlantic hurricane seasons reached back to the beginning of recordkeeping (before 1600s) due to a collaboration of several editors; User:RattleMan created the first season article for the North Indian Ocean; User:Miss Madeline successfully nominated List of California hurricanes for featured list; and Jdorje created a a standardized storm path template. In 2006, a series of users improved articles worldwide to featured article status. Professional meteorologist David Roth joined the project, and in the same year, the NOAA and NHC copied some material from Wikipedia, including track maps, and the Tropical Cyclone Report for Tropical Storm Chris (2006). In June 2006, User:Nilfanion created the project assessment page, which documents the status of every article, organized by basin, the year, and storm shaded by the quality. On August 1, the chat room on IRC for the project was created, which allowed real-time communication among editors. There's something special about conversing with fellow weather geeks during an epic storm, which seems to have become all the more common. On January 1, 2007, the number of good articles in the project reached 100. On January 29th, a collaboration of users made the List of retired Pacific hurricane names the first featured topic in the project. It was joined by the 2003 Atlantic hurricane season in March 2007. In 2008, further collaborations helped make the article for tropical cyclone a featured article, one of 100 FA's in the project. Notably among project members, Tropical Storm Erick (2007) became featured on December 14, 2008. The storm lasted for a short amount of time over open waters, and as such, it was the shortest featured article anywhere on Wikipedia. Users questioned whether the storm was notable enough to have such a detailed article, but the article described the storm in articulate detail. After an AFD and two featured article review (and a series of low-notability storms being merged), Erick was delisted as a featured article on March 2, 2013. In the period from 2008 to 2013, users created task forces for various basins, articles for all of the seasons in the Atlantic and EPAC, and enough high-quality articles that more than half of all storm/season articles were good or featured articles. In January 2008, there were 1000 articles in the entire project. On January 1, 2014, User:Yellow Evan created Typhoon Nancy (1982), which was the 2000th article in the project. In October 2008, there were 100 FA's in the project, which reached 200 on November 28, 2015, with Hurricane Fay (2014). By March 2016, every basin had at least 100 storm articles, multiple featured articles, and season articles of various quality. On May 9, 2020, Typhoon Warren became the 1000th GA in the project. Parentage[edit]The parent of this project is WikiProject Weather. This project is partially inspired by: Related WikiProjects[edit]
Related Wikiportals[edit]There are currently two portals related to the topic. (What is a portal?) Related Collaborations[edit]Related pages in Wikimedia sister projects[edit]
Sister project searches[edit]Participants[edit]Current members[edit]Please sign your name(s) at the bottom of this list if you want to join our WikiProject, but before doing so you have to sign up first. Once you added your name in the list, you can add our userbox, {{User WPTC}} to your userpage, subscribe to our newsletter, or join us at our IRC channel or Discord server! Note that you can subscribe to our newsletter, join our IRC channel and/or our Discord server without adding your name to this list if you don't intend to join our project - there are no firm rules here on Wikipedia. Once you are more established in this project enough, you can also invite prospective members of the project or welcome new members of the project. To invite prospective members of the project, use {{WP:WPTC/I}} or {{WP:WPTC/Invite}}. To welcome a new member of the project, use {{WP:WPTC/W}} or {{WP:WPTC/Welcome}}.
Bot[edit]In 2013, WxBot was created to assist the project and other meteorology-related projects. As the bot runs through AutoWikiBrowser, only tasks that can be performed in AWB can be performed by the bot. Click here to make a request for the bot to perform a task. Awards[edit]WikiProject Tropical cyclones has a list of awards that may be found here. Competitions[edit]WikiProject Tropical cyclones also has an annual competition, the Cyclone Cup. This game is based off of the WikiCup, another annual event that involves the wider Wikipedia community. General guidelines[edit]Templates will provide a useful set of features to show information on tropical cyclones and seasons in a consistent format. Guidelines for naming, links, and categorization help keep the vast number of articles properly interconnected. Basins[edit]Tropical cyclones are separated by basin. Generally each basin has its own categories; all articles for a particular basin are inter-woven using links and categories. It's important that the basin is listed identically (including capitalization) for all articles. The basin is generally passed in to templates to automatically create categorizations and links within an article. The basins include:
Templates[edit]A number of templates exist to make life easier for tropical cyclone article writers. For a complete list, see Category:Tropical cyclone templates.
Categories[edit]Categorizing all articles consistently makes it easier for readers to navigate through related articles. The top-level category Category:Tropical cyclones should be reserved for a few select meteorological articles; most articles should be categories into several of the sub-categories therein. Images[edit]To make uploading and categorization easier, season and storm articles should have consistent types of images and those images should have consistent names.
Article guidelines[edit]Storm articles[edit]
Articles can be created on any storm that passes the notability guideline, provided they are reasonably well-written, comprehensive, and generally have several paragraphs of information on it in the body of the article. Articles may be merged by consensus, however. Naming[edit]
Storm article structure[edit]
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Storm set index articles[edit]
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Hierarchy definition[edit]Tropical cyclones are categorized by basin, strength, season, and region. Seasons are categorized by basin and year. Tasks[edit]Did you know
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Lists[edit]See also Category:Lists of tropical cyclones. Where possible these should be complemented by or replaced by categories. Articles[edit]Assessment[edit]
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