Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Newsletter/Archive 49

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The Hurricane Herald is the semi-regular 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. If you wish to receive or discontinue your subscription to this newsletter, please visit the mailing list. This issue of The Hurricane Herald covers all project-related events this year, plus future goals. This edition's editors and authors is Hurricanehink. 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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WikiProject Tropical Cyclones: News & Developments

• When Tropical Storm Alberto formed in June of this year, there was a large discussion involving members of the project, as well as input from the Wikipedia community at large, with a Administrator's noticeboard discussion, and a discussion on the season article's talk page, over the current storm section. For more than a decade, and possibly longer, the tradition was to have current storm information included in the season articles, as well as if a storm had its own article. That meant that, for years, articles were meticulously kept up to date, but perhaps that meant editors were more focused on being the first to update the storm position/intensity, rather than adding more important information. We ended up getting a great trial when Hurricane Beryl ripped through the Caribbean and United Stats last month, causing 64 deaths and billions in damage. If you haven't read the article, I encourage you to check it out. The article is well-sourced, thorough, and very informative, thanks to 85 different editors adding information that will last the test of time, rather than rushing to add current information that will soon be outdated. This editor has been on Wikipedia long enough to see articles barely getting updated with any kind of source. It appears that this discussion led to a much better outcome. I'd like to note that I was personally against it, and can see I was wrong.
• There is still an ongoing effort to replace every track map around the world with the proper color. Longtime editors might remember various discussions updating the colors, and there are occasionally grumpy people online who miss the old colors. That is not an excuse to relitigate the endless discussions that led to the colors being properly compliant. So to do the various editors adding new and old storm track maps, thank you, and please keep up the good work as we expand our coverage to more and more storms.
• There is an ongoing task force dedicated to the yearly coverage of various weather articles. This includes articles such as Tropical cyclones in 1991. As a long-term project, there should be these types of articles going back to 1900. Having them all be featured articles would be especially useful, as that would require citations, as well as information such as deaths and damage totals for each storm. For a lot of years, that information doesn't exist on Wikipedia. For example, there was a good article review started recently on 1982 Pacific typhoon season, which was once considered pretty good, but it falls short compared to other season articles, lacking impact information or info from various warning centers. Season articles only go back so far, and a lot are incomplete depending on which basin you choose.

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