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Tornado photographs

Hey Hurricane Clyde. So I know you are aware of the tornado-photo discussion over on the Commons (as I've seen you comment about it a few times). Although, I'm not sure how familiar you are with Wikipedia's non-free content guidelines.

When the commons had the discussion regarding the famous photograph used for the 2011 Joplin tornado article (Commons:Deletion requests/File:Joplin tornado photo.jpg), we figured out tornado photographs almost always can qualify under the NFC guidelines! Rlandmann, the administrator who is going through the NWS-photo review on the commons, agreed with the assessment near the bottom of that discussion.

So, with that in mind, I wanted to make a quick comment here on if you wanted to help out. I've been going through and trying to add a single photograph of tornadoes if and only if they have (1) a stand-alone article (like the 2011 Joplin tornado or 2021 Western Kentucky tornado - noting, both already have non-free tornado images on the articles) or (2) if they have a stand-alone section in an outbreak article (like the 2024 Prospect tornado or the 2024 Winchester tornado - noting, both already have non-free tornado images in their sections).

If you wanted to do random edits during your semi-Wikibreak (like myself), you can help look for a photograph of tornadoes with articles or sections and add them under the non-free content policy. If you decide to add any, make sure to add them to Category:Non-free pictures of tornadoes. If you need some templates to look off of, you can use the ones on File:Photograph of the 2011 Joplin tornado.jpeg for images from NWS webpages that are being deleted on the Commons or File:Photo of the 2024 Winchester tornado.png for images non being discussed on the Commons. If you would have any questions regarding how free or non-free a file is, you can always message myself or even Rlandmann, since we both seem to agree on the tornado non-free file content usage. Cheers! The Weather Event Writer (Talk Page) 18:33, 2 November 2024 (UTC)

I am very much aware of WP:NFF; I have read it multiple times. And I really need to take down my Wikibreak template; because I have come off of that break and just forgot to take down the template. Hurricane Clyde 🌀^{my talk page!} 18:36, 2 November 2024 (UTC)

Regarding the lead of an article

Hi, Hurricane Clyde! I noticed your comment regarding expressing your concern on how to write leads of articles.

So essentially, a lead of an article is basically a summary of the article. So if an article's topic is, for example, Hurricane Ida, we would probably have to include the most significant details of Ida's impacts and summarize into a short paragraph of Ida's meteorological history and its impacts on specific regions. That's how I write it; see my articles December 2017 North American winter storm and the recently-written lead with Sir MemeGod 1997 Jarrell tornado. Those summarize how the system/event formed, what impacts it brought, and the aftermath/records it set.

Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lead section also says, "In Wikipedia, the lead section is an introduction to an article and a summary of its most important contents. It is located at the beginning of the article, before the table of contents and the first heading." This essentially is the summary of the entire article, as aforementioned above. Also, Wikipedia:Lead dos and don'ts is probably useful here: the main points that I would pull from there are providing context, identify the subject/event and why it is notable in the opening paragraph, and don't include significant information related to the article's event that is not covered later – in fact, that respective information should be covered later on and that could be used in the lead if necessary.

If you have any further questions or need additional help, feel free to ask! Also FWIW, if you'd like to collaborate on an article to work on to at least improve your understanding on writing articles, you're free to reach out to me. :) ~ Tails Wx 03:23, 3 November 2024 (UTC)

To be honest @Tails Wx; my concern is for any type of prose; but the lead up is probably the most difficult for me to write. Hurricane Clyde 🌀^{my talk page!} 04:59, 3 November 2024 (UTC)

Ok. Given that, would you like any additional tips or comments on how to effectively write a good-quality article, including or excluding the lead? ~ Tails Wx 18:57, 3 November 2024 (UTC)

As of now; no. But that could change later. Hurricane Clyde 🌀^{my talk page!} 20:54, 3 November 2024 (UTC)

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Sorry bot; didn’t know it pointed to a disambiguation. Fixed now. Hurricane Clyde 🌀^{my talk page!} 16:45, 4 November 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Tornado outbreak and derecho of April 1–3, 2024

The article Tornado outbreak and derecho of April 1–3, 2024 you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Tornado outbreak and derecho of April 1–3, 2024 for comments about the article, and Talk:Tornado outbreak and derecho of April 1–3, 2024/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Tails Wx -- Tails Wx (talk) 03:04, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

Note: Even though we didn't formally co-nominate, I still think you deserve this for your amazing help. :) E_F⁵ 12:34, 14 November 2024 (UTC)