Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones

Cyclone Ingrid near peak intensity

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
to do list, the #wiki-hurricanes IRC channel, or this talk page.

Scope

This WikiProject aims to provide a common layout for articles on historical tropical cyclones, which includes tropical cyclone articles for individual storms (e.g., Hurricane Charley or 1970 Bhola cyclone), as well as seasonal basin articles (e.g. 2004 Atlantic hurricane season), and articles that are required as a framework for those articles (e.g. Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale, tropical cyclone).

Goals

To provide an encyclopedic overview for tropical cyclones, including individual storms, historical warning of cyclones, and the structure of a cyclone.

Parentage

1 Scope
2 Goals
3 Parentage
4 Related WikiProjects
5 Related Wikiportals
6 Related Collaborations
7 Related pages in Sister projects
- 7.1 Sister Project Searches
8 Participants
- 8.1 Inactive members of the WikiProject
- 8.2 Former members of the WikiProject
9 General guidelines
10 Article guidelines
11 Hierarchy definition
12 Tasks
13 Pages needing attention
- 13.1 Meteorology and Weather
14 Adopt an article
15 Other subpages
16 Categories
17 Lists
18 Articles

The parent of this project is WikiProject Meteorology.

This project is partially inspired by:

Related WikiProjects

Related Wikiportals

There is currently only one portal for the topic. (What is a portal?)

Tropical cyclones Portal

Related Collaborations

Tropical Cyclone Collaboration of the Fortnight (inactive)

Related pages in Sister projects

Sister Project Searches

Participants

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Inactive members of the WikiProject

This section is for users who are inactive in this Wikiproject; these users may change their status at any time, if they wish.

Former members of the WikiProject

This section is for users who are no longer part of this WikiProject.

Holderca1 – Left the WPTC early on November 10, 2005.
Hurricane Devon – Indefinitely blocked.
User:Aeon1006 – Left Wikipedia and removed himself from the list of participants. Later returned to Wikipedia, but not the project.
Gertzy – Left on October 7, 2006 for unknown reasons.
Sunholm – Indefinitely blocked.
Tijuana Brass – Taking a break from Wikipedia for the time being.
Funnybunny – Left wikipedia.
Sarsaparilla39 – Taking a break from Wikipedia for the time being.
RacoonFox – Indefinitely blocked due to account compromization.
Counters – Left wikipedia
VortexGuy – Left wikipedia
Chacor – Left wikipedia
DanielES15 – Left wikipedia on August 7, 2007 [1]
Storm Boy – presumably left wikipedia, no edits since 2006.
WeatherVane – presumably left wikipedia, no edits since July 2006.
Hurricane-Inu – presumably left wikipedia, no edits since 2006.
Rcnj – left wikipedia.
Alastor Moody – left wikipedia
Jaranda – left wikipedia
Good Kitty – left wikipedia
Miracle55star – left wikipedia
Cyclone1 – left wikipedia.
Slyspace – left WPTC.
Coredesat – left Wikipedia

General guidelines

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

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:

The Atlantic hurricane basin.
The Pacific hurricane basin (this includes both the Eastern Pacific and Central Pacific).
The Pacific typhoon basin (the northwest Pacific).
The North Indian cyclone basin.
The Southern Hemisphere tropical cyclone basin (This includes all southern hemisphere activity excluding the south Atlantic. If a storm forms in the south Atlantic, it will be covered in South Atlantic tropical cyclone as storms in the south Atlantic are exceedingly rare.)

Templates

A number of templates exist to make life easier for tropical cyclone article writers. For a complete list, see Category:Hurricane templates.

{{hurricane}} may be included at the top of talk pages of hurricane-related articles to let potential editors know about these resources. It also can be used to identify the assessment given to the article, as well as its quality on the assessment scale.
{{Infobox hurricane}} provides a template for creating an informative table for any hurricane article. {{Infobox hurricane needed}} provides a placeholder template to mark hurricanes that need one of the above templates.
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{{Infobox hurricane small}} is used to give a brief version of the hurricane infobox, and it can contain both a picture and a track map. This template is good for long season articles.
{{HurricaneWarning}} provides a top-of-page warning (disclaimer) useful for active hurricanes.
{{HurricaneActive}} provides a table to show the current status of an active hurricane (still under development).
{{Infobox hurricane season}} is a template similar to {{infobox hurricane}}, but used instead for hurricane season articles. {{Infobox hurricane season nopic}} is the same, but it does not provide a picture. {{Infobox hurricane season piconly}} includes only a name and picture. {{Infobox hurricane season needed}} is a placeholder for season articles that need an infobox.
{{Hurricane season links}} creates a list of adjacent hurricane seasons (to be used inside hurricane season articles and particularly inside {{Infobox hurricane season}}.
{{Hurricane season category}} is a template that may be used to create hurricane season categories (like Category:2005 Atlantic hurricane season).

Images

To make uploading and categorization easier, season and storm articles should have consistent types of images and those images should have consistent names.

If you create storm track map using Jdorje's track map generator, try to upload it to Commons and tag it with {{hurricane auto track map}}.
Storm peak-intensity visible-light pictures. Most storms have a satellite picture of the storm at peak intensity. Higher resolution is always better.
Storm landfall visible-light pictures. Other storms have a satellite picture of the storm at landfall. Again higher resolution is always better.
Non-visible-light storm images. Many storms may have IR, doppler, or other types of meteorological pictures.

Article guidelines

Storm articles

Example articles: Hurricane Mitch, Hurricane Floyd

Naming

Hurricanes should only receive a separate article if they are long enough not to be considered a stub. If there isn't enough to write about, the text can go inside the article for the hurricane season.
When creating a new article for an active storm when it may or may not be appropriate (i.e. a major hurricane currently threatening land), it is generally best to put a request up in the discussion forum for that hurricane season (e.g. Talk:2006 Atlantic hurricane season) and discuss it with others.
Named hurricanes generally do not have unique names. A storm that has had its name retired may take its name for the main article (e.g. Hurricane Charley, Tropical Storm Allison, Cyclone Tracy); use the prefix appropriate for the tropical cyclone's basin.
Less infamous (i.e. non-retired) hurricanes may have a separate page distinguished by year (e.g. Hurricane Bertha (1996)), especially if it must be differentiated (e.g. Tropical Storm Bret (1993) and Hurricane Bret (1999)). The general rule is that if the name is retired, it should have the main article, otherwise it should be distinguished by year.
If a name has been used only once (or is being used for the first time) and is not warranting an article, it should be created as a redirect to that season (e.g. Tropical Storm Sebastien redirects to 1995 Atlantic hurricane season).
Never hesitate to add a redirect when there is no article for a particular hurricane. Redirects help users to find information if it's "hidden" in a season article, and prevent spurious creation of new articles. This is particularly useful for active hurricanes, as users will otherwise often jump at the chance to write a "new" article about the event. Articles should be redirected to disambiguation pages or (only when there is no ambiguity) to the season article that includes the hurricane. Do not redirect to the season article when a disambiguation page exists, as there is then no way for readers to find the disambiguation.
- This is also helpful for people who wish to provide links to WP for current storms: they can do it once, and the redirect will catch the in-links unless and until a separate page is created. Question: should the redirect go to the season page, or the section thereon for that specific storm?
Unnamed (including numbered) hurricanes (used for older tropical cyclones in the Atlantic and Pacific basins, and for all tropical cyclones in the Indian Ocean basin) should be distinguished by location, type, and year. Three naming conventions are acceptable: Galveston Hurricane of 1900, 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane, or Unnamed Hurricane (1975). All unnamed hurricanes should always have a year in the name. Again, create redirects wherever necessary to avoid confusion or duplicate articles.

Storm article structure

Use one of the infobox templates above at the head of the article. Other templates may also be useful for active hurricanes.
Each storm article have a track image if possible. See /Tracks.
Add {{hurricane}} at the top of the talk page of tropical cyclone articles.
Tropical cyclone articles should always link to the season they are a part of (included in the templates). For instance, Hurricane Camille links to the 1969 Atlantic hurricane season. A link should also be included to tropical cyclone. These should generally come in the article header.
Make sure the season article also links to the hurricane article. For instance, 2004 Atlantic hurricane season should link to Hurricane Ivan.
Tropical cyclone articles should be categorized by basin (see Category:Tropical cyclones by basin), strength (see Category:Tropical cyclones by strength), season (see Category:Tropical cyclones by season), and if applicable by region affected (see Category:Tropical cyclones by region).
When there are multiple articles about a particular storm, that storm should have a category identical to its article name; in this case the storm category should be categorized the same way the article is. See Category:Hurricane Katrina for an example.

Storm disambiguation pages

All tropical cyclones of the same name should be visible through a disambiguation page (e.g. Hurricane Diana (disambiguation)). If none of the disambiguated storms are particularly infamous the main name may be used for the disambiguation (e.g. Hurricane Danielle). The disambiguation should be basin-independent and should cover all storms in all basins with the same name. If in doubt use "Tropical Storm" or "Tropical Cyclone" as the prefix for the disambiguation when multiple basins are involved.
- Exception: a disambiguation page may not be needed when there are just two storms with a certain name and at one takes the main naming space to disambiguate to the other. See for instance Hurricane Andrew.
Disambiguation pages are also categorized by basin (sometimes into multiple basins); see Typhoon Nina for an example. An example basin category is Category:Atlantic hurricanes.
Disambiguation pages are categorized by season as well (see Tropical Storm Hazel for an example). See the child categories of Category:Tropical cyclones by season for a complete list of season categories.
Storm disambiguation articles (like Hurricane Gordon (disambiguation)) should be in the Category:Tropical cyclone disambiguation category. Using {{hurricane disambig}} in the article will accomplish this automatically.

Season articles

Seasons are separated by basin. Compare 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, 2005 Pacific hurricane season, 2005 Pacific typhoon season. There are generally six basins (N Atlantic, NW Pacific, NE Pacific, SW Pacific, N Indian, SW Indian) but not all may justify articles.
Use {{Infobox hurricane season}} or a variant, as mentioned above.
Add {{hurricane}} at the top of the talk page of season articles.
Link to other appropriate season articles. For instance 2005 Atlantic hurricane season links to the articles for the 2005 NW and NE Pacific seasons and to the 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, and 2008 N Atlantic season articles.
Season articles should include an overall summary plus a short summary for each storm, with a link to the storm page where appropriate. See 2004 Atlantic hurricane season for an example. If a storm's summary becomes too long it may be moved into a separate article.
Categorize the season into a season category; see Category:Tropical cyclones by season for choices. There is a template to help with this.
Each season should have a track image if possible. See /Tracks.

Hierarchy definition

Tropical cyclones are categorized by basin, strength, season, and region. Seasons are categorized by basin and year.

Tasks

Here are some tasks you can do:

Requests: Original-content tropical cyclone articles: Papua New Guinea National Weather Service, Hurricane Florence (1953),
Hurricane Bridgit (1971)
Copyedit: Hurricane Anna (1961), Hurricane Marco (1996), Hurricane Elida (2002), Effects of Hurricane Dennis in Florida
Wikify: Make sure tropical cyclone lists, such as List of Texas hurricanes, have storm articles properly linked
Merge: See here
Cleanup: Hurricane Rita, Hurricane Wilma, Tropical Storm Fay (2002)
Expand: Indianola Hurricane of 1886, Hurricane Carla, Typhoon Nina (1975), Typhoon Durian
Stubs: Tropical Cyclone Warning Center, Landfall, Pacific hurricane, Typhoon Gay (1989) More...
Update: Hurricane Stan
Finish: Deprecating Template:Storm pics, Update damage figures to 2008 USD

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Pages needing attention

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Portals
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Lists

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Articles

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New Wikipedia articles related to Tropical Cyclones

Please feel free to list your new Tropical Cyclones-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Wikipedia page. DYK has a 120 hr. time limit from the creation of the article.

1968 Pacific hurricane season Thanks for the help Hink! Hurricane Angel Saki (talk) 14:18, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
Hurricane Huko (2002) Hurricane Angel Saki (talk) 07:59, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
Hurricane Jimena (2003) -- Storm05 (talk) 13:14, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
Timeline of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season -- Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 19:25, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
Hurricane Patsy (1959) Miss Madeline | Talk to Madeline 17:11, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
List of storms in the 2007 Atlantic hurricane season
1851 Atlantic hurricane season ♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 03:19, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
Tropical Storm Cindy (1993) — Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 20:05, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
Hurricane Liza (1968) IT'S FINISHED! HALLELUJAH! Hurricane Angel Saki My own personal NHC 07:09, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
Hurricane Gladys (1975) -- Storm05 (talk) 13:14, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
List of Maryland hurricanes (1980–present) -- Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 19:23, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
Cyclone Nargis -- RattleMan 05:09, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

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