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Scandal series

A template for the three historical drama television miniseries created by Blueprint Pictures Limited. 24.52.77.167 (talk) 01:04, 17 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Cite NOAA DAT

The NOAA Damage Assessment Toolkit is cited in around 100 articles on Wikipedia and is a very useful tools to find individual tornado surveys. The problem is, on the site, it can be a bit of a pain to find the specific tornado survey to verify any claim, as there's no links to individual surveys and you have to use the timeline built-in to the tool and there's nothing pointing towards the specific survey you're looking for. A {{cite noaadat}} or {{cite dat}} would help signficantly. The current DAT citation used on many pages looks like this:

{{cite web |author1=Various [[National Weather Service]] offices |title=Damage Assessment Toolkit |url=https://apps.dat.noaa.gov/stormdamage/damageviewer/ |website=DAT |publisher=[[National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration]] |date=2024 |format=Interactive map and database}}.

The most important arguments to take from a single survey are the points, lines, and polygons.

Points typically have "stormdate", "efscale", "office", "lat", and "lon" arguments;
Lines typically have "event_id", "stormdate", "startlat", "startlon", and "efscale" arguments;
Polygons typically have "efscale" and "stormdate" arguments.

The "efscale" argument can be "Tropical", "TSTM", "TSTM/Wind", "UNKNOWN", "N/A", "EFU", "EF1", "EF2", "EF3", "EF4", or "EF5". Each type also has a "comments" argument that is typically kept blank but sometimes contains useful information. As well, the "dod_txt" argument on points is useful. Since polygons don't have any other identifiers, it's probably best to have comments as a necessary argument, and stormdate as necessary as well. Also, an "access_date" argument much like on other cite templates would be appreciated, as new surveys are usually preliminary and data can changed or even be removed.

Departure– (talk) 18:53, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I came across this via my watchlist and some template to help cite the Damage Assessment Toolkit (DAT) would be actually really useful, but would be hard/complex to make I believe. The DAT has been a required tool by NOAA since 2013 (with some additions going back to 2011 even), so basically every-single weather article regarding tornadoes from 2011/2013-present cite the DAT. For instance, Tornadoes of 2024 cites the DAT 34 times (reference #5). The DAT also has it's own template on the Commons: {{PD-USGov-DAT}}, which is used for hundreds if not over a thousand images on the Commons right now (including a least 1 Featured/Picture of the Day).

DAT Background (Useful to understand it): The DAT, an interactive map/database, is where the U.S. National Weather Service inputs severe storm-related information. Users can use the DAT anytime and can access any information at any time by setting the date-range to include the event desired. The U.S. government conducts damage surveys following severe storms and then inputs the information into the DAT in 3 different ways: "Points", "Lines", or "Polygons".

"Points" are placed on specific locations on the map. These contain typically coordinates, the EF-scale rating information, the date the U.S. government surveys the location and what government office surveyed the location. Points also contain damage photos taken by the government (i.e. why the Commons' template above exists). The government also can add text-based statements/comments in the point information. Statements are added roughly 40% of the time.
"Lines" are placed to mark the center track of the tornado. They contain start/end coordinates, start/end times for the tornado, the EF-scale rating, the government office who surveyed the tornado, and typically statements/comments regarding the tornado's track. Statements/comments are added almost every time with these arguments and several Wikipedia articles do cite statements on DAT "Lines".
"Polygons" are placed to outline the tornado's intensity and/or track. They typically only have the EF-scale rating and date surveyed.

At least since 2013, the National Weather Service has been required to either (1) add points or (2) add a line or polygon to the DAT for every-single tornado in the U.S. Several tornadoes have all 3 aspects, but they are required to do one of those two things. That is why the DAT is cited for so many weather articles. To best understand the DAT, I recommend checking out the information on it for the 2013 Moore tornado (Moore, Oklahoma) by setting the date in the top right corner to May 19, 2013 to May 21, 2013. The reason a template of some kind would be useful is because the DAT is interactive and obviously always being "updated" with new tornadoes. The information is still accessible all the time and can be checked by any user, but it requires users to set the date and zoom-into the area on the map to see it.

During the 2024 GAN of the 2022 Pembroke–Black Creek tornado article, the DAT reference was even brought up, since the tornadoes from the previous week (which is what the DAT automatically shows) was not showing this two-year-old tornado. The DAT is technically archived in the wayback machine, but the archives do not allow users to change the dates. I.e., the archives are useless.

Hopefully that explained the DAT a little better for anyone who wants to try to make a citing template for it. The DAT has also been mentioned by RS media before (see this article), where they do mention it is easy to use, but users themselves have to do a manual "click" to see the information. The Weather Event Writer (Talk Page) 22:08, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Extended reality sidebar

This template should be the sidebar version of the Template:Extended reality footer. It should work pretty much like all other sidebar templates. Also, its sidebar image should be File:Extended reality types.svg. 67.209.129.23 (talk) 02:50, 11 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

LGBTQ+ media navbox:

I wish the links from LGBTQ+ media#See also could be made into a regular navbox to declutter the list and to increase accessibility on other pages. If you just make the template, I can add the links; I have worked with navboxes before. Perhaps it could look like Template:LGBTQ fiction, but again, don't worry about adding the links or the levels, or anything like that. Thanks!

JuxtaposedJacob (talk) | :) | he/him | 05:14, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

no longer needed, thanks.

JuxtaposedJacob (talk) | :) | he/him | 07:13, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Template:R from Cyrillic

There is no rcat template that categorises redirects from alternative scripts. Since languages that use the Cyrillic alphabet have a ton of redirect pages or their own articles in their romanised forms, I think this should be a step forward to categorising redirects from alternative scripts. My plan is to start with Cyrillic, then Greek, then Devangari, and so on until we get all scripts. 143.178.14.75 (talk) 16:08, 9 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Further (if exists)

While clearing out the nonexistent hatnote link backlog, I decided to look for templates that wouldn’t allow a red link to be put into a hatnote. Then I stumbled across the “if exists” hatnote templates! I found ones for see also and main article, but I was wondering if one could be made for further. This would really help and probably clear up some space in the backlog.

The template would look the same as the Further template, except that it would work with “if exists” parameters.

Noelle!!! (summon a demon or read smth) 21:18, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]