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The 2022 competition has just begun and all article creators, expanders, improvers and reviewers are welcome to take part. Even if you are a novice editor you should be able to advance to at least the second round, improving your editing skills as you go. If you have already signed up, your submissions page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and the judges will set up your submissions page. Any questions on the rules or on anything else should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will move on to round 2. The judges for the WikiCup this year are: Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email) and Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email). Good luck! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:02, 5 January 2022 (UTC) Your GA nomination of Hurricane Norman (1978) The article Hurricane Norman (1978) you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Hurricane Norman (1978) for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Yellow Evan -- Yellow Evan (talk) 04:41, 10 January 2022 (UTC) Your GA nomination of 1979 Pacific hurricane season Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article 1979 Pacific hurricane season you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Usernameunique -- Usernameunique (talk) 00:00, 11 January 2022 (UTC) Your GA nomination of 1979 Pacific hurricane season The article 1979 Pacific hurricane season you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:1979 Pacific hurricane season for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Usernameunique -- Usernameunique (talk) 07:20, 17 January 2022 (UTC) Your GA nomination of 1993 Pacific hurricane season The article 1993 Pacific hurricane season you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:1993 Pacific hurricane season for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Yellow Evan -- Yellow Evan (talk) 07:01, 21 January 2022 (UTC) Your GA nomination of 1979 Pacific hurricane season The article 1979 Pacific hurricane season you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:1979 Pacific hurricane season for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Usernameunique -- Usernameunique (talk) 20:41, 22 January 2022 (UTC) Your GA nomination of Typhoon Fred (1994) Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Typhoon Fred (1994) you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Etriusus -- Etriusus (talk) 05:00, 28 January 2022 (UTC) Your GA nomination of Typhoon Fred (1994) The article Typhoon Fred (1994) you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Typhoon Fred (1994) for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Etriusus -- Etriusus (talk) 06:01, 31 January 2022 (UTC) WikiCup 2022 March newsletter And so ends the first round of the WikiCup. Last year anyone who scored more than zero points moved on to Round 2, but this was not the case this year, and a score of 13 or more was required to proceed. The top scorers in Round 1 were: Epicgenius, a finalist last year, who led the field with 1906 points, gained from 32 GAs and 19 DYKs, all on the topic of New York buildings. AryKun, new to the contest, was second with 1588 points, having achieved 2 FAs, 11 GAs and various other submissions, mostly on the subject of birds. Bloom6132, a WikiCup veteran, was in third place with 682 points, garnered from 51 In the news items and several DYKs. GhostRiver was close behind with 679 points, gained from achieving 12 GAs, mostly on ice hockey players, and 35 GARs. Kavyansh.Singh was in fifth place with 551 points, with an FA, a FL, and many reviews. SounderBruce was next with 454 points, gained from an FA and various other submissions, mostly on United States highways. Ktin, another WikiCup veteran, was in seventh place with 412 points, mostly gained from In the news items. These contestants, like all the others who qualified for Round 2, now have to start scoring points again from scratch. Between them, contestants completed reviews of a large number of good articles as the contest ran concurrently with a GAN backlog drive. Well done all! To qualify for Round 3, contestants will need to finish Round 2 among the top thirty-two participants. Remember that any content promoted after the end of Round 1 but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Anything that should have been claimed for in Round 1 is no longer eligible for points. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:07, 3 March 2022 (UTC) WikiCup 2022 March newsletter And so ends the first round of the WikiCup. Last year anyone who scored more than zero points moved on to Round 2, but this was not the case this year, and a score of 13 or more was required to proceed. The top scorers in Round 1 were: Epicgenius, a finalist last year, who led the field with 1906 points, gained from 32 GAs and 19 DYKs, all on the topic of New York buildings. AryKun, new to the contest, was second with 1588 points, having achieved 2 FAs, 11 GAs and various other submissions, mostly on the subject of birds. Bloom6132, a WikiCup veteran, was in third place with 682 points, garnered from 51 In the news items and several DYKs. GhostRiver was close behind with 679 points, gained from achieving 12 GAs, mostly on ice hockey players, and 35 GARs. Kavyansh.Singh was in fifth place with 551 points, with an FA, a FL, and many reviews. SounderBruce was next with 454 points, gained from an FA and various other submissions, mostly on United States highways. Ktin, another WikiCup veteran, was in seventh place with 412 points, mostly gained from In the news items. These contestants, like all the others who qualified for Round 2, now have to start scoring points again from scratch. Between them, contestants completed reviews of a large number of good articles as the contest ran concurrently with a GAN backlog drive. Well done all! To qualify for Round 3, contestants will need to finish Round 2 among the top thirty-two participants. Remember that any content promoted after the end of Round 1 but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Anything that should have been claimed for in Round 1 is no longer eligible for points. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:55, 3 March 2022 (UTC) Tornado Outbreak In Tornado outbreak of March 21–23, 2022, there is a tornado warning for Wakefield, Virginia. However, this addition to the tornado outbreak map may be optional, since this warning was on March 24, instead of the tornado outbreak ending on March 23. Severestorm28 20:17, 25 March 2022 (UTC) Question about PDS removed from chart Hey TropicalAnalystwx13. I am wondering why you removed the mention of a PDS warning in the summary of one of the tornadoes.[1] It isn't a big deal, just trying to understand the logic behind the removal, since there was no edit summary. Elijahandskip (talk) 05:06, 2 April 2022 (UTC) Hey, Elijahandskip, I wrote in the edit summary but I've been having issues with them not working lately for some reason. I removed that sentence because the PDS tag is commonly used for confirmed tornadoes if it has a significant/EF2+ radar signature. Following that philosophy, we would be adding those sentences to hundreds of tornadoes each year. I don't think it's notable enough to be mentioned given that fact, unlike if it was a tornado emergency for instance. You're free to bring it up with the larger project if you strongly disagree with me though. TropicalAnalystwx13 (talk · contributions) 05:12, 2 April 2022 (UTC) That makes perfect sense actually. I do agree with you on that. Thanks for explaining it, and if the problems with the edit summary continue, maybe bring it up at Phabricator. Elijahandskip (talk) 05:16, 2 April 2022 (UTC) 1991 Andover tornado outbreak @TropicalAnalystwx13: Hey there! I have seen your recent contributions to the Andover tornado outbreak article. You've added the missing meteorological synopsis, and have begun working on fixing the table. I completed the reformatting process on that table a few months ago, but I had trouble finding information and sources to place on the table, other than what was already present in the previous versions of the article. Thank you so much for your help. I will be conducting a restructuring on the present sources (changing them to their simplified name version), and suppresing the "Refs" column, which is no longer present in the modern formatting guidelines. If you find any of my incoming edits unhelpful, please be sure to undo them. Mjeims (talk) 08:07, 21 April 2022 (UTC) No worries Mjeims, I'm in the process of rewriting the entire article so I can go ahead and take care of the rest of the table and references. TropicalAnalystwx13 (talk · contributions) 14:47, 21 April 2022 (UTC) I have seen your progress on the process of updating the tornado table on the article. I apologize myself for not helping you enough on this proyect. You've done a great job. However, you have added a type of column, that I had only seen before in the List of tornadoes in the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak, which is the "Date" column. I tried to rework the tables in that article back in December, but I had all my work reverted (I just realized it was you LOL!), and you explained that some "guidelines" existed that needed or included the column. It is something I have truly no seen outside of that article. If some sort of guideline exists, then I will gladly apply it to other tornado outbreak articles. But I wanted to ask you first about it. Mjeims (talk) 21:31, 26 April 2022 (UTC) Hey, Mjeims, combining individual days and using the date column is the standard set when that Oklahoma list went to featured list candidates. It should be the standard for every outbreak article of high quality. I haven't bothered to push the issue much since it's easier to edit the table when they're separate, particularly for larger outbreaks. Plus, each entry needs to be ordered to be sorted, and the numbering gets thrown off when tornadoes are still being confirmed. Ideally, all tables should be combined though. TropicalAnalystwx13 (talk · contributions) 22:16, 25 April 2022 (UTC) This is truly valuable information. But, aside from the "good article" tag placed on some articles, like the 2011 Super Outbreak article, what can help us identify "high quality" articles, and apply this formatting change to their tables? It's a large job, but if you feel like it needs to be done eventually, then it is no longer time to "not push" the issue, and get to it. I personally have some spaces of free time on my days, and can help with applying the change to different articles. But I feel like we still need the consensus of approval of other users. Mjeims (talk) 22:27, 26 April 2022 (UTC) Articles being nominated for GA/FL certainly need to be combined before nomination. All articles need it done, it's just a matter of someone putting that effort in. TropicalAnalystwx13 (talk · contributions) 22:37, 25 April 2022 (UTC) Forgive my stalking, but I disagree that these long list pages need to be combined all into one table, as that makes it harder on both the reader and the editor. I remember that review and I think it was poor on the reviewer's part to force that in order to pass a FL. United States Man (talk) 00:11, 26 April 2022 (UTC) (talk page stalker) @Mjeims: To your point about how we can identify high quality articles, the two things you might find useful are the Metadata gadget and the table at the top of WP:SEVERE. The table in particular is useful because you can click on the numbers to get a list of articles matching that assessment (example; all B-class WP:SEVERE articles). Ks0stm (T•C•G•E)  If you reply here, please ping me by using {{re|Ks0stm}} in your reply.  00:27, 26 April 2022 (UTC) WikiCup 2022 May newsletter The second round of the 2022 WikiCup has now finished. It was a high-scoring round and contestants needed 115 points to advance to round 3. There were some very impressive efforts in round 2, with the top seven contestants all scoring more than 500 points. A large number of the points came from the 11 featured articles and the 79 good articles achieved in total by contestants. Our top scorers in round 2 were: Epicgenius, with 1264 points from 2 featured article, 4 good articles and 18 DYKs. Epicgenius was a finalist last year but has now withdrawn from the contest as he pursues a new career path. AryKun, with 1172 points from two featured articles, one good article and a substantial number of featured article and good article reviews. Bloom6132, with 605 points from 44 in the news items and 4 DYKs. Sammi Brie, with 573 points from 8 GAs and 21 DYKs. Ealdgyth, with 567 points from 11 GAs and 34 good and featured article reviews. Panini!, with 549 points from 1 FA, 4 GAs and several other sources. Lee Vilenski, with 545 points from 1 FA, 4 GAs and a number of reviews. The rules for featured and good article reviews require the review to be of sufficient length; brief quick fails and very short reviews will generally not be awarded points. Remember also that DYKs cannot be claimed until they have appeared on the main page. As we enter the third round, any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed now, and anything you forgot to claim in round 2 cannot! Remember too, that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 (talk) and Cwmhiraeth Cwmhiraeth (talk) 10:39, 1 May 2020 (UTC) Promotion of Timeline of the 2020 Pacific hurricane season Congratulations, TropicalAnalystwx13! The list you nominated, Timeline of the 2020 Pacific hurricane season, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best lists on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived. This is a rare accomplishment and you should be proud. If you would like, you may nominate it to appear on the Main page as Today's featured list. Keep up the great work! Cheers, Giants2008 (talk) via FACBot (talk) 00:26, 9 May 2022 (UTC) Your GA nomination of 1978 Pacific hurricane season The article 1978 Pacific hurricane season you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:1978 Pacific hurricane season for issues which need to be addressed. ~ Cyclonebiskit (chat) 23:43, 15 May 2022 (UTC) June 2022 Good Article Nominations backlog drive Good article nominations | June 2022 Backlog Drive On 1 June, a one-month backlog drive for good article nominations will begin. Barnstars will be awarded based on the number and age of articles reviewed. Interested in taking part? Sign up here! You're receiving this message because you have conducted 5+ good article reviews or participated in previous backlog drives. Click here to opt out of any future messages. (t · c) buidhe 04:27, 28 May 2022 (UTC) Your GA nomination of 1984 Pacific hurricane season The article 1984 Pacific hurricane season you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:1984 Pacific hurricane season for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of KN2731 -- KN2731 (talk) 14:20, 1 June 2022 (UTC) Your GA nomination of Typhoon Yancy (1990) Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Typhoon Yancy (1990) you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of ArcticSeeress -- ArcticSeeress (talk) 14:21, 5 June 2022 (UTC) Your GA nomination of Typhoon Yancy (1990) The article Typhoon Yancy (1990) you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Typhoon Yancy (1990) for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of ArcticSeeress -- ArcticSeeress (talk) 16:02, 5 June 2022 (UTC) Your GA nomination of Typhoon Yancy (1990) The article Typhoon Yancy (1990) you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Typhoon Yancy (1990) for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of ArcticSeeress -- ArcticSeeress (talk) 18:22, 9 June 2022 (UTC) WikiCup 2022 July newsletter The third round of the 2022 WikiCup has now come to an end. Each of the sixteen contestants who made it into the fourth round had at least 180 points, which is a lower figure than last year when 294 points were needed to progress to round 4. Our top scorers in round 3 were: BennyOnTheLoose, with 746 points, a tally built both on snooker and other sports topics, and on more general subjects. Bloom6132, with 683 points, garnered mostly from "In the news" items and related DYKs. Sammi Brie, with 527, from a variety of submissions related to radio and television stations. Between them contestants achieved 5 featured articles, 4 featured lists, 51 good articles, 149 DYK entries, 68 ITN entries, and 109 good article reviews. As we enter the fourth round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met. Please also remember that all submissions must meet core Wikipedia policies, regardless of the review process. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is a good article nomination, a featured process, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. WikiCup judges: Sturmvogel 66 (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:51, 3 July 2022 (UTC) WikiCup 2022 September newsletter The fourth round of the WikiCup has now finished. 383 points were required to reach the final, and the new round has got off to a flying start with all finalists already scoring. In round 4, Bloom6132 with 939 points was the highest points-scorer, with a combination of DYKs and In the news items, followed by BennyOnTheLoose, Sammi Brie and Lee Vilenski. The points of all contestants are swept away as we start afresh for the final round. At this stage, we say goodbye to the eight competitors who didn't quite make it; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia, and we hope you will join us again next year. For the remaining competitors, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them, and importantly, before the deadline on October 31st! If you are concerned that your nomination, whether it be for a good article, a featured process, or anything else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. The judges are Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:45, 3 September 2022 (UTC) November 4-5 Tornado outbreak conflict Hello! I've recently read that you indeed published a draft for the meteorological synopsis for the ongong outbreak first, and you are right. You are in every right to either restore your version, or do so while keeping some of the elements i've added since. I apologize, and want to make clear that i'm not trying to edit-war you. Mjeims (talk) 03:48, 05 November 2022 (UTC) WikiCup 2022 November newsletter The 2022 WikiCup has drawn to a close with the final round going down to the wire. The 2022 champion is Lee Vilenski (1752 points), who won in 2020 and was runner up in both 2019 and last year. In the final round he achieved 3 FAs and 15 GAs, mostly on cue sports. He was closely followed by Bloom6132 (1732), who specialised in "In the news" items and DYKs, and who has reached the final round of the Cup for the past three years. Next was BennyOnTheLoose (1238), another cue sports enthusiast, also interested in songs, followed by Muboshgu (1082), an "In the news" contributor, a seasoned contestant who first took part in the Cup ten years ago. Other finalists were Sammi Brie (930), who scored with a featured article, good articles and DYKs on TV and radio stations, Kavyansh.Singh (370), who created various articles on famous Americans, including an FA on Louis H. Bean, famed for his prediction of election outcomes. Next was PCN02WPS (292), who scored with good articles and DYKs on sporting and other topics and Z1720 (25) who had DYKs on various topics including historic Canadians. During the WikiCup, contestants achieved 37 featured articles, 349 good articles, 360 featured article reviews, 683 good article reviews and 480 In the news items, so Wikipedia has benefited greatly from the activities of WikiCup competitors. Well done everyone! All those who reached the final round will receive awards and the following special awards will be made, based on high performance in particular areas of content creation and review. So that the finalists do not have an undue advantage, these prizes are awarded to the competitor who scored the highest in any particular field in a single round, or the overall leader in this field. Lee Vilenski wins the featured article prize, for a total of 6 FAs during the course of the competition and 3 in the final round. Kavyansh.Singh wins the featured list prize, for 3 FLs in round 2. Adam Cuerden wins the featured picture prize, for 39 FPs during the competition. Z1720 wins the featured article reviewer prize, for 35 FARs in round 4. Epicgenius wins the good article prize, for 32 GAs in round 1. SounderBruce wins the featured topic prize, for 4 FT articles in round 1. Lee Vilenski wins the good topic prize, for 34 GT articles in round 5. Sammi Brie wins the good article reviewer prize, for 71 GARs overall. Sammi Brie wins the Did you know prize, for 30 DYKs in round 3 and 106 overall. Bloom6132 wins the In the news prize, for 106 ITNs in round 5 and 289 overall. Next year's competition will begin on 1 January and possible changes to the rules and scoring are being discussed on the discussion page. You are invited to sign up to take part in the contest; the WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors, and we hope to have a good turnout for the 2023 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners and finalists, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:29, 6 November 2022 (UTC) WikiProject Weather: Map Dot & Template/Infobox Colors Dear project member, This message is being sent out to encourage new ideas and feedback on those proposed in regard to the colors debate for WikiProject Weather. For those who are unaware of what's been happening over the last year, I will give a brief summary. We have been discussing proposed changes to the colors of the dots on tropical cyclone maps and templates and infoboxes across the entire weather project in order to solve issues related to the limited contrast between colors for both normal vision as well as the various types of color blindness (MOS:ACCESS). We had partially implemented a proposal earlier this year, however, it was objected to by a number of people and additional issues were presented that made it evident this wasn't the optimal solution. We tried to come up with other solutions to address the issues related to color contrast, however, none of them gained traction and no consensus was generated. We need your help and I encourage you to propose your own scale and give feedback on those already listed. Keep in mind that we are NOT making a decision on any individual proposal at this time. 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The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate in the 2022 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. If you no longer wish to receive these messages, you may add {{NoACEMM}} to your user talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:11, 29 November 2022 (UTC) Nomination for deletion of Template:April 14–16, 2011 tornado outbreak/Map Template:April 14–16, 2011 tornado outbreak/Map has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Izno (talk) 10:18, 10 December 2022 (UTC) Inquiry about maps for two 2022 tornado outbreaks I'm just contacting you to inquiry about when/if maps will be made for the May 2022 Midwest derecho and the Tornado outbreak of November 4–5, 2022. Do you have a timeline for those? ChessEric (talk · contribs) 20:47, 29 December 2022 (UTC) @ChessEric: I'm finishing up NCEI updates for April/the year so far and then I'll go around and make/update maps. TropicalAnalystwx13 (talk · contributions) 21:54, 29 December 2022 (UTC) Welcome to the 2023 WikiCup! Happy New Year and Happy New WikiCup! The 2023 competition has just begun and all article creators, expanders, improvers and reviewers are welcome to take part. Even if you are a novice editor you should be able to advance to at least the second round, improving your editing skills as you go. If you have already signed up, your submissions page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and the judges will set up your submissions page ready for you to take part. Any questions on the scoring, rules or anything else should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will move on to round 2. The judges for the WikiCup this year are: Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email) and Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email). Good luck! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:17, 1 January 2023 (UTC) Thank you for updating! The Weather Barnstar As one of the original and most fervent editors of August 2020 Midwest derecho, I see your contributions and updates and wanted to let you know they are very appreciated! I also don't have as much experience with tornado records! ~Gwennie🐈｟💬 📋｠ 01:15, 19 January 2023 (UTC) New name I see I was like, who's this new dude? LOL! I was then going to go to your talk page and be like, "Hey TropicalAnalystwx13! Someone beat you in making the map for the Tornado outbreak of January 12, 2023 article." Then I realized it was you! Let me know when you're going to change your name next time! XD ChessEric (talk · contribs) 14:55, 24 January 2023 (UTC) TFL notification Hi, Wxtrackercody. I'm just posting to let you know that Timeline of the 2013 Pacific hurricane season – a list that you have been heavily involved with – has been chosen to appear on the Main Page as Today's featured list for February 24. The TFL blurb can be seen here. If you have any thoughts on the selection, please post them on my talk page or at TFL talk. Regards, Giants2008 (Talk) 22:29, 30 January 2023 (UTC) A barnstar for you! The Tireless Contributor Barnstar There were several different barnstars I could have put here (I originally going to go with citation one), but I think fixing up 8 months of tornado charts in eight days signifies someone who his working tirelessly to modernize and improve these tornado articles. Thanks for everything you do! However, I would ask that you let everyone in the project know when you decide to change your name. XD ChessEric (talk · contribs) 17:20, 7 February 2023 (UTC) February 2023 North American winter storm Ummmmm...the two articles you merged are for two totally different systems. Can you go back and check please? The February 2023 North American winter storm system moved offshore four days. ChessEric (talk · contribs) 17:39, 28 February 2023 (UTC) There are different individual lows, but the broader system those lows originated from are being considered the same in media. See this article for instance which lists the Midwest snow and ice storm, Northeast impacts, Southeast heat, and also snow moving southward from Oregon to California (which then moved east and became the derecho). wxtrackercody (talk · contributions) 17:42, 28 February 2023 (UTC) It talked about both, but the impacts were still from separate systems. Both just happened to be mentioned in the same article, which came out on the same day that the February 2023 North American winter storm moved ashore and dissipated. ChessEric (talk · contribs) 17:50, 28 February 2023 (UTC)

WikiCup 2023 March newsletter

So ends the first round of the 2023 WikiCup. Everyone with a positive score moved on to Round 2, with 54 contestants qualifying. The top scorers in Round 1 were:

• Unlimitedlead with 1205 points, a WikiCup newcomer, led the field with two featured articles on historical figures and several featured article candidate reviews.
• Epicgenius was in second place with 789 points; a seasoned WikiCup competitor he specialises in buildings and locations in New York.
• FrB.TG was in third place with 625 points, garnered from a featured article on a filmmaker which qualified for an impressive number of bonus points.
• TheJoebro64, another WikiCup newcomer, came next with 600 points gained from two featured articles on video games.
• Iazyges was in fifth place with 532 points, from two featured articles on classical history.

The top sixteen contestants at the end of Round 1 had all scored over 300 points; these included LunaEatsTuna, Thebiguglyalien, Sammi Brie, Trainsandotherthings, Lee Vilenski, Juxlos, Unexpectedlydian, SounderBruce, Kosack, BennyOnTheLoose and PCN02WPS. It was a high-scoring start to the competition.

These contestants, like all the others, now have to start again from scratch. The first round finished on February 26. Remember that any content promoted after that date but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Some contestants made claims before the new submissions pages were set up, and they will need to resubmit them. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed.

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Request for a map

I have a request for you. I'm trying to make my Great Lakes tornadoes of September 26, 1951 article an FA, but I don't have any public domain pictures I can put in. Can you make a map of the tornado paths for me? I would really appreciate it. ChessEric 06:59, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

@ChessEric: I missed this request at first, but I have a few issues. One, I'm not sure how useful a map that has 3 tornadoes will be. Two, it is not uncommon for older articles to lack images given lack of availability. But most importantly, three, I have concerns about this article being nominated at FA. FAs are meant to represent the most comprehensive account of an event, and this does not yet. Even after you hypothetically added newspaper reports, the length of this article will still fall well short of the standard FA nominated by the broader weather WikiProject. If it was me, I would take Ian's advice to withdraw and try my hand at a more significant event. wxtrackercody (talk · contributions) 19:09, 25 April 2023 (UTC)

Meh, I don't really have time to invest in another article right now. I'm still going to try, but I will acknowledge that this is difficult to push through. ChessEric 21:07, 25 April 2023 (UTC)

Requesting feedback for Template:Infobox weather event/Tornado

Hi, Wxtrackercody! I saw your comment on the infobox discussion page and thought of fixing the repetition you described. Right now, the row exists to show the maximum rating if both a TORRO intensity and a Fujita intensity were provided. There's two ways of fixing this: only showing the row when both parameters are showing, or have two color bars showing both intensities, like what we previously had for tropical cyclone infoboxes. You can also check out the comprehensive example set at User:Chlod/sandbox2. Which version do you prefer? Chlod (say hi!) 02:36, 25 April 2023 (UTC)

Hi @Chlod: I think Version B is better (especially since it matches hurricane precedent). wxtrackercody (talk · contributions) 18:17, 25 April 2023 (UTC)

@Wxtrackercody: Got it, I'll make the changes in a bit. Thanks for the help! Chlod (say hi!) 22:02, 25 April 2023 (UTC)

@Wxtrackercody: I forgot to consider that Version B would still need to have those "on the Fujita scale" links below the bar (they can't be on the bar itself due to MOS:CONTRAST violations). This might not look good with two bars. I've updated the sandbox template to reflect this. Would you still be down to use that version? Chlod (say hi!) 00:42, 26 April 2023 (UTC)

Yes, I think that is fine. Thanks! wxtrackercody (talk · contributions) 00:49, 26 April 2023 (UTC)

WikiCup 2023 May newsletter

The second round of the 2023 WikiCup has now finished. Contestants needed to have scored 60 points to advance into round 3. Our top five scorers in round 2 all included a featured article among their submissions and each scored over 500 points. They were:

• Iazyges (1040) with three FAs on Byzantine emperors, and lots of bonus points.
• Unlimitedlead (847), with three FAs on ancient history, one GA and nine reviews.
• Epicgenius (636), a WikiCup veteran, with one FA on the New Amsterdam Theatre, four GAs and eleven DYKs
• BennyOnTheLoose (553), a seasoned competitor, with one FA on snooker, six GAs and seven reviews.
• FrB.TG (525), with one FA, a Lady Gaga song and a mass of bonus points.

Other notable performances were put in by Sammi Brie, Thebiguglyalien, MyCatIsAChonk, PCN02WPS, and AirshipJungleman29.

So far contestants have achieved thirteen featured articles between them, one being a joint effort, and forty-nine good articles. The judges are pleased with the thorough reviews that are being performed, and have hardly had to reject any. As we enter the third round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed in round 3. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:15, 2 May 2023 (UTC)

List of United States tornadoes in June 2023

You added a link to Delta, Mississippi, but Delta has been a ghost town for 130 years. Thanks. Magnolia677 (talk) 21:40, 16 June 2023 (UTC)

WikiCup 2023 July newsletter

The third round of the 2023 WikiCup has come to an end. The 16 users who made it to the fourth round had at least 175 points. Our top scorers in round 3 were:

• Thebiguglyalien, with 919 points from a featured article on Frances Cleveland as well as five good articles and many reviews,
• Unlimitedlead, with 862 points from a high-scoring featured articles on Henry II of England and numerous reviews,
• Iazyges, with 560 points from a high-scoring featured article on Tiberius III.

Contestants achieved 11 featured articles, 2 featured lists, 47 good articles, 72 featured or good article reviews, over 100 DYKs and 40 ITN appearances. As always, any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met. Please also remember that all submissions must meet core Wikipedia policies, regardless of the review process.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk). MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:18, 8 July 2023 (UTC)

WikiCup 2023 September newsletter

The fourth round of the competition has finished, with anyone scoring less than 673 points being eliminated. It was a high scoring round with all but one of the contestants who progressed to the final having achieved an FA during the round. The highest scorers were

• Epicgenius, with 2173 points topping the scores, gained mainly from a featured article, 38 good articles and 9 DYKs. He was followed by
• Sammi Brie, with 1575 points, gained mainly from a featured article, 28 good articles and 50 good article reviews. Close behind was
• Thebiguglyalien, with 1535 points mainly gained from a featured article, 15 good articles, 26 good article reviews and lots of bonus points.

Between them during round 4, contestants achieved 12 featured articles, 3 featured lists, 3 featured pictures, 126 good articles, 46 DYK entries, 14 ITN entries, 67 featured article candidate reviews and 147 good article reviews. Congratulations to our eight finalists and all who participated! It was a generally high-scoring and productive round and I think we can expect a highly competitive finish to the competition.

Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them and within 24 hours of the end of the final. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. It would be helpful if this list could be cleared of any items no longer relevant. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.

I will be standing down as a judge after the end of the contest. I think the Cup encourages productive editors to improve their contributions to Wikipedia and I hope that someone else will step up to take over the running of the Cup. Sturmvogel 66 (talk), and Cwmhiraeth (talk)

WikiCup 2023 November newsletter

The WikiCup is a marathon rather than a sprint and all those reaching the final round have been involved in the competition for the last ten months, improving Wikipedia vastly during the process. After all this hard work, BeanieFan11 has emerged as the 2023 winner and the WikiCup Champion. The finalists this year were:-

• BeanieFan11 with 2582 points
• Thebiguglyalien with 1615 points
• Epicgenius with 1518 points
• MyCatIsAChonk with 1012 points
• BennyOnTheLoose with 974 points
• AirshipJungleman29 with 673 points
• Sammi Brie with 520 points
• Unlimitedlead with 5 points

Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's WikiCup, whether they made it to the final round or not, and particular congratulations to the newcomers to the competition, some of whom did very well. Wikipedia has benefitted greatly from the quality creations, expansions and improvements made, and the numerous reviews performed. All those who reached the final round will win awards. The following special awards will be made based on high performance in particular areas of content creation and review. Awards will be handed out in the next few days.

• Unlimitedlead wins the featured article prize, for 7 FAs in total including 3 in round 2.
• MyCatIsAChonk wins the featured list prize, for 5 FLs in total.
• Lee Vilenski wins the featured topic prize, for a 6-article featured topic in round 4.
• MyCatIsAChonk wins the featured picture prize, for 6 FPs in total.
• BeanieFan11 wins the good article prize, for 75 GAs in total, including 61 in the final round.
• Epicgenius wins the good topic prize, for a 41-article good topic in the final round.
• LunaEatsTuna wins the GA reviewer prize, for 70 GA reviews in round 1.
• MyCatIsAChonk wins the FA reviewer prize, for 66 FA reviews in the final round.
• Epicgenius wins the DYK prize, for 49 did you know articles in total.
• Muboshgu wins the ITN prize, for 46 in the news articles in total.

The WikiCup has run every year since 2007. With the 2023 contest now concluded, I will be standing down as a judge due to real life commitments, so I hope that another editor will take over running the competition. Please get in touch if you are interested. Next year's competition will hopefully begin on 1 January 2024. You are invited to sign up to participate in the contest; the WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors. It only remains to congratulate our worthy winners once again and thank all participants for their involvement! (If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.) Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:52, 5 November 2023 (UTC)

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Welcome to the 2024 WikiCup!

Happy New Year and Happy New WikiCup! The 2024 competition has just begun and all article creators, expanders, improvers and reviewers are welcome to take part. Even if you are a novice editor you should be able to advance to at least the second round, improving your editing skills as you go. If you have already signed up, your submissions page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and the judges will set up your submissions page ready for you to take part. Any questions on the scoring, rules or anything else should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page. Signups will close on 31 January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will move on to round 2. The judges for the WikiCup this year are: Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email), Epicgenius (talk · contribs · email), and Frostly (talk · contribs · email). Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:21, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:Tornado outbreak of January 22–23, 2012

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WikiCup 2024 February newsletter

The 2024 WikiCup is off to a flying start, with 135 participants. This is the largest number of participants we have seen since 2017.

Our current leader is newcomer Generalissima (submissions), who has one FA on John Littlejohn (preacher) and 10 GAs and 12 DYKs mostly on New Zealand coinage and Inuit figures. Here are some more noteworthy scorers:

• AirshipJungleman29 (submissions), with one FA on Hö'elün, two GAs on Mongolia-related articles, and two DYKs;
• Vami_IV (submissions), with one FA on Doom (2016 video game), one GA on Boundary Fire (2017), and 11 reviews;
• MaranoFan (submissions), with one FA on Holidays (Meghan Trainor song), a nine-article FT on 30 (album), and two DYKs;
• Skyshifter (submissions), with one FA on OneShot and one DYK;
• Sammi Brie (submissions), with five GAs and five DYKs on television and radio stations;
• voorts (submissions) and Elli (submissions), both with one FA and one DYK each.

As a reminder, competitors may submit work for the first round until 23:59 (UTC) on 27 February, and the second round starts 1 March. Remember that only the top 64 scoring competitors will make it through to the second round; currently, competitors need at least 15 points to progress. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAN, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges (Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs), Epicgenius (talk · contribs), and Frostly (talk · contribs)) are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:58, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

Merger discussion for Tornado outbreak of April 19–20, 2023

An article that you have been involved in editing—Tornado outbreak of April 19–20, 2023—has been proposed for merging with another article. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. The Weather Event Writer (Talk Page) 17:28, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

WikiCup 2024 March newsletter

The first round of the 2024 WikiCup ended at 23:59 (UTC) on 27 February. Everyone with at least 30 points moved on to Round 2, the highest number of points required to advance to the second round since 2014. Due to a six-way tie for the 64th-place spot, 67 contestants have qualified for Round 2.

The following scorers in Round 1 all scored more than 300 points:

• Generalissima (submissions), who has 916 points mostly from one FA on John Littlejohn (preacher), 15 GAs, and 16 DYKs on a variety of topics including New Zealand coinage and Inuit figures, in addition to seven reviews
• Vami_IV (submissions), who has 790 points from two FAs on Felix M. Warburg House and Doom (2016 video game), two GAs, one DYK, and 11 reviews
• AirshipJungleman29 (submissions), who has 580 points from one FA on Hö'elün, two GAs on Mongolia-related articles, two DYKs, and five reviews
• Sammi Brie (submissions), who has 420 points mostly from nine GAs and seven DYKs on television and radio stations
• MaranoFan (submissions), who has 351 points from one FA on Holidays (Meghan Trainor song), a nine-article FT on 30 (album), and three DYKs
• Skyshifter (submissions), who has 345 points from one FA on OneShot, one DYK and two reviews

In this newsletter, the judges would like to pay a special tribute to Vami_IV (submissions), who unfortunately passed away this February. At the time of his death, he was the second-highest-scoring competitor. Outside the WikiCup, he had eight other featured articles, five A-class articles, eight other good articles, and two Four Awards. Vami also wrote an essay on completionism, a philosophy in which he deeply believed. If you can, please join us in honoring his memory by improving one of the articles on his to-do list.

Remember that any content promoted after 27 February but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, feel free to review one of the nominations listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:41, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

File:Tornado outbreak of March 31 – April 1, 2023.png has been nominated for Featured Picture status

Hello wxtrackercody! It is my pleasure to inform you that an image you created and uploaded to Wikipedia, File:Tornado outbreak of March 31 – April 1, 2023.png, has been nominated for Featured Picture status! You can visit the nomination here! The Weather Event Writer (Talk Page) 18:11, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

WikiCup 2024 April newsletter

We are approaching the end of the 2024 WikiCup's second round, with a little over two weeks remaining. Currently, contestants must score at least 105 points to progress to the third round.

Our current top scorers are as follows:

• Sammi Brie (submissions) with 642 points, mostly from 11 GAs about radio and television;
• voorts (submissions) with 530 points, mostly from two FAs (Well he would, wouldn't he? and Cora Agnes Benneson) and three GAs;
• Generalissima (submissions) with 523 points, mostly from 11 GAs about coinage and history;
• SounderBruce (submissions) with 497 points, mostly from a FA about the 2020 season of the soccer club Seattle Sounders FC and two GAs;
• Tamzin (submissions) with 410 points, mostly from a FA about the drink Capri-Sun and three GAs;
• Kusma (submissions) with 330 points, mostly from a FA about the English botanist Anna Blackburne and a GA.

Competitors may submit work for the second round until the end of 28 April, and the third round starts 1 May. Remember that only competitors with the top 32 scores will make it through to the third round. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. Please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAN, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs. As a reminder, competitors are strictly prohibited from gaming Wikipedia policies or processes to receive more points.

If you would like to learn more about rules and scoring for the 2024 WikiCup, please read Wikipedia:WikiCup/Scoring. Further questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges (Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs), Epicgenius (talk · contribs), and Frostly (talk · contribs)) are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:06, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

WikiCup 2024 May newsletter

The second round of the 2024 WikiCup ended on 28 April. This round was particularly competitive: each of the 32 contestants who advanced to Round 3 scored at least 141 points. This is the highest number of points required to advance to Round 3 since 2014.

The following scorers in Round 2 all scored more than 500 points:

• Sammi Brie (submissions) with 707 points, mostly from 45 good article nomination reviews and 12 good articless about radio and television;
• Generalissima (submissions) with 600 points, mostly from 12 good articles and 12 did you know nominations about coinage and history;
• SounderBruce (submissions) with 552 points, mostly from a featured article about the 2020 Seattle Sounders FC season, three featured lists, and two good articles;
• BennyOnTheLoose (submissions) with 548 points, mostly from a featured article about the snooker player John Pulman, two featured lists, and one good article;
• voorts (submissions) with 530 points, mostly from two featured articles (Well he would, wouldn't he? and Cora Agnes Benneson) and three good articles.

The full scores for Round 2 can be seen here. So far this year, competitors have gotten 18 featured articles, 22 featured lists, and 186 good articles, 76 in the news credits and at least 200 did you know credits. They have conducted 165 featured article reviews, as well as 399 good article reviews and peer reviews, and have added 21 articles to featured topics and good topics.

Remember that any content promoted after 28 April but before the start of Round 3 can be claimed during Round 3, which starts on 1 May at 00:00 (UTC). Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed.

If you would like to learn more about rules and scoring for the 2024 WikiCup, please see this page. Further questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges (Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs), Epicgenius (talk · contribs), and Frostly (talk · contribs)) are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:38, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

April 25-28 map?

When you get the chance, will you create a map for the April 25-28 outbreak sequence to use in the infobox? No rush though. MarioProtIV (^talk/_contribs) 19:35, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

@MarioProtIV: At some point, yes. My laptop just suffered hard drive failure during my storm chase, so it'll be 2-3 days from now probably. wxtrackercody (talk · contributions) 04:21, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

Sounds good. And phooey for hardware failure :( MarioProtIV (^talk/_contribs) 04:32, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

It wouldn't be too much to ask for maps for some of the past recent outbreaks, would it? ChessEric 04:06, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

They're pretty time-consuming, but I'll whittle away at the outbreak list during the summer. wxtrackercody (talk · contributions) 04:56, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

I think a map for April 1-3 would be nice. West Virginia WXeditor (talk) 16:48, 31 May 2024 (UTC)

More tornado times need fixing

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I think there are a lot of times in List of tornadoes in the tornado outbreak of April 26–28, 2024 that need to be fixed. Can you confirm that for me? ChessEric 03:02, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

@ChessEric: Which day? I clicked on a random sampling of tornadoes from different WFOs on April 26 and all the times checked out. wxtrackercody (talk · contributions) 03:06, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

April 27-28 is the problem. ChessEric 03:09, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

Wait. I'm an idiot. Never mind. The NWS Norman confused me by putting all the tornadoes in their table under CST times instead of CDT. Forgot what I said. LOL! ChessEric 03:11, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

CS1 error on List of tornadoes in the tornado outbreak sequence of May 19–26, 2024

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April 2nd?

@Wxtrackercody: There is no QGIS map of the warnings/Convective outlook for April 1-3 like there are on the other articles. I think such a map would be beneficial. West Virginia WXeditor (talk) 16:46, 31 May 2024 (UTC)

I have a somewhat abandoned draft article you can help me with

I invite you and anyone else who wants to to edit Draft:list of particularly dangerous situation watches. It seems as if that article has sorta been forgotten about. We’ve only gotten down to 2020 (for completely listed and in some cases not even that far) and if I recall, the entries only go back to 2018. There’s still a lot more in IEM archives. Your help at expanding the list to mainspace ready format would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. (Ps I have sent this message or a variant thereof to a bunch of other people trying to get folk’s attention) West Virginia WXeditor (talk) 19:49, 10 June 2024 (UTC)

@Wxtrackercody, If you are going to reply, please do so on the article talk page. There is a similar discussion going on there. Do not reply here. Thank you. West Virginia WXeditor (talk) 21:43, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

WikiCup 2024 July newsletter

The third round of the 2024 WikiCup ended on 28 June. As with Round 2, this round was competitive: each of the 16 contestants who advanced to Round 4 scored at least 256 points.

The following editors all scored more than 400 points in Round 3:

• Generalissima (submissions) with 1,059 points, mostly from 1 featured article on DeLancey W. Gill, 11 good articles, 18 did you know nominations, and dozens of reviews;
• Skyshifter (submissions) with 673 points, mostly from 2 featured articles on Worlds (Porter Robinson album) and I'm God, 5 good articles, and 2 did you know nominations;
• Sammi Brie (submissions) with 557 points, mostly from 1 featured article on KNXV-TV, 5 good articles, and 8 did you know nominations; and
• AryKun (submissions) with 415 points, mostly from 1 featured article on Great cuckoo-dove, with a high number of bonus points from that article.

The full scores for round 3 can be seen here. So far this year, competitors have gotten 28 featured articles, 38 featured lists, 240 good articles, 92 in the news credits, and at least 285 did you know credits. They have conducted 279 featured article reviews, as well as 492 good article reviews and peer reviews, and have added 22 articles to featured topics and good topics.

Remember that any content promoted after 28 June but before the start of Round 4 can be claimed during Round 4, which starts on 1 July at 00:00 (UTC). Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether for a good article, featured content, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed.

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Thank you for fixing the times on the Hurricane Beryl tornado outbreak

It's amazing that I've been editing on Wikipedia for 4 years and I STILL can't get the UTC times right. Thank you for fixing them. ChessEric 22:35, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

List of F5 and EF5 tornadoes Improvement Time!

Hello there! I am sending this alert to all members of the WikiProject Weather and editors who have recently edited in the realm of tornadoes.

There is a large and important discussion ongoing, with the goal to completely overhaul and improve the List of F5 and EF5 tornadoes. The previous improvement attempt back in 2022/2023 gained almost no participation. This alert is being sent out so these discussions hopefully gain a reasonably-sized participation, so the F5/EF5 tornado article, one of the most viewed weather-related articles on Wikipedia, can be improved for all readers!

If you wish to participate, please visit: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Weather/Possible F5/EF5/IF5 tornadoes. The Weather Event Writer (Talk Page) 16:23, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Tropical Depression Two (2010)

Tropical Depression Two (2010) has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Dylan620 (he/him • talk • edits) 16:41, 11 August 2024 (UTC)

WikiCup 2024 August newsletter

The fourth round of the 2024 WikiCup ended on 29 August. Each of the 8 contestants who advanced to Round 4 scored at least 472 points, and the following contestants scored more than 700 points:

• Generalissima (submissions) with 1,150 points, mostly from 3 featured articles, 2 featured lists, 7 good articles, and 13 did you know nominations;
• Arconning (submissions) with 791 points, mostly from 2 featured lists, 8 good articles, 4 did you know nominations, and plenty of reviews;
• AirshipJungleman29 (submissions) with 718 points, mostly from a high-multiplier featured article on Genghis Khan and 2 good articles; and
• BennyOnTheLoose (submissions) with 714 points, mostly from 1 featured article on Susanna Hoffs, 2 featured lists, and 3 good articles.

Congratulations to our eight finalists and all who participated. Contestants put in extraordinary amounts of effort during this round, and their scores can be seen here. So far this year, competitors have gotten 36 featured articles, 55 featured lists, 15 good articles, 93 in the news credits, and at least 333 did you know credits. They have conducted 357 featured content reviews, as well as 553 good article reviews and peer reviews, and have added 30 articles to featured topics and good topics.

Any content promoted after 29 August but before the start of Round 5 can be claimed during Round 5, which starts on 1 September at 00:00 (UTC). Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. If two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether for a good article, featured content, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. Remember to claim your points within 14 days of earning them, and importantly, before the deadline on 31 October.

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Precious anniversary

Precious

Three years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:13, 17 September 2024 (UTC)

October 2024

On the meteorological history section of the October 2010 Arizona tornado outbreak and hailstorm article; you put “two separate cold-core lows over California and West Virginia”. And it was on there from 2022 until today. I think I got the state right; I put in Arizona, it could have been Nevada. But it definitely ain’t West Virginia. There wasn’t a cold core (or any) low over West Virginia that day, But that’s besides the point.

I want to warn you that regardless or whether or not you were acting in good faith; this can very easily be (and was) confused with vandalism and labeled as such. So I do advise you to be a little more careful. Thank you. Hurricane Clyde 🌀^{my talk page!} 06:50, 11 October 2024 (UTC)

@Hurricane Clyde: - The state was right. The broad pattern was characterized by bowling ball lows over the West US and the East US as per the SPC discussion. Please do not come to my page with wrong information accusing me of vandalism again. wxtrackercody (talk · contributions) 19:41, 11 October 2024 (UTC)

I wasn’t accusing you of vandalism; but it did confuse me and I reverted it erroneously believing (at the time) that it was vandalism, it wasn’t until I checked the page history that I saw that you had put that there (I thought it was going to be an IP that did it). At first I thought it was someone else who edited it. I checked the surface map; there was a low pressure over the eastern US but it was over New York/New Jersey. The WPC archives their surface maps. Hurricane Clyde 🌀^{my talk page!} 22:05, 11 October 2024 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2024 November newsletter

The 2024 WikiCup has come to an end, with the final round being a very tight race. Our new champion is AirshipJungleman29 (submissions), who scored 2,283 points mainly through 3 high-multiplier FAs and 3 GAs on military history topics. By a 1% margin, Airship beat out last year's champion, BeanieFan11 (submissions), who scored second with 2,264 points, mainly from an impressive 58 GAs about athletes. In third place, Generalissima (submissions) scored 1,528 points, primarily from two FAs on U.S. Librarians of Congress and 20 GAs about various historical topics. Our other finalists are: Sammi Brie (submissions) with 879 points, Hey man im josh (submissions) with 533 points, BennyOnTheLoose (submissions) with 432 points, Arconning (submissions) with 244 points, and AryKun (submissions) with 15 points. Congratulations to our finalists and all who participated!

The final round was very productive, and contestants had 7 FAs, 9 FLs, 94 GAs, 73 FAC reviews, and 79 GAN reviews and peer reviews. Altogether, Wikipedia has benefited greatly from the activities of WikiCup competitors all through the contest. Well done everyone!

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• Generalissima (submissions) wins the featured article prize for 3 FAs in round 4, and 7 FAs overall.
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• BeanieFan11 (submissions) wins the good article prize for 58 GAs in round 5, and 70 GAs overall.
• Fritzmann (submissions) wins the good topic prize for 6 articles in good topics in round 2.
• Sammi Brie (submissions) wins the good article reviewer prize for 45 GA reviews in round 2, and 78 GA reviews overall.
• BeanieFan11 (submissions) wins the DYK prize, for 131 Did you know articles overall.
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