User:Departure–
Former alt of DontBanMeThanks, once GeorgeMemulous, and now Departure–. Sometimes I edit, and I try not to break the rules (if I do, feel free to tell me on my talk page). I'm a bit of a bold editor when I feel like it, and often help out at WP:ITNC and WP:Help desk, as well as miscellaneous anti-vandalism work.
I consider myself a moderately competent, if BOLD and occasionally much too hasty editor. I've had daily edits since some time around February 2024, and am proud of that, but my editing varies severely week-to-week - some weeks, up to 50 edits a day, and others only 40 in a whole week. That may drop off significantly if this one guy does this one thing he says he doesn't know anything about, but I hope to leave Wikipedia an overall richer place than it was when I arrived as my main objective. One day I'll stop editing and maybe I'll come back, maybe I won't.
My current signature: Departure– (talk) 04:35, 29 November 2024 (UTC)
- Pages I've started:
- Severe weather sequence of July 13–16, 2024, 2021 Naperville–Woodridge tornado my first good article!, Ring of fire (meteorology), List of United States tornadoes in November 2024, Mountain Fire (2024) I made my draft two hours earlier, so it goes here!, Fultondale High School (2023–present), June 2022 Chicago supercell, Belvidere Apollo Theatre collapse
- Drafts I've started (feel free to contribute!):
- Draft:List of airports struck by tornadoes, Draft:1976 Jordan tornado, Draft:Tornado outbreak sequence of June 11–14, 1976, Draft:1967 Belvidere tornado, Draft:List of US tornado records by state, Draft:Warn-on-Forecast, Draft:Surf (condition), Draft:List of places hit multiple times by significant tornadoes, Draft:Tornado outbreak of November 2–5, 2024, Draft:2014 Mayflower–Vilonia tornado, Draft:2024 Tallahassee tornadoes
- Disambiguation and notable redirect pages I've created:
- Miscellaneous pages I've created:
- User:Departure–/Generic tornado outbreak, and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Peanut (squirrel) (yes, this absolute train-wreck of an AfD).
- Pages I've significantly contributed to:
- Pages that don't exist yet but I want to make if possible:
- 1972 North Chicago tornado, 2019 Dayton tornado, 2019 Dallas tornado, 2002 Indianapolis tornado, Daytime heating, List of US weather radar sites, 1969 East Pakistan tornado, as well as Leaded gasoline and Downtown Chicago which are independent of Tetraethyl lead and the Loop respectively and have easily enough coverage to warrant an article, perhaps even an FA-level one
Other: Nominated Hurricane Helene and the Fall of Damascus for ITN, as well as a few other things that ended up getting merged (2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, National Public Data breach, Water on Mars, etc.), made ITN hooks for Hurricane Milton and Valeriana (city), involved in the great Tornado records edit wars / revert festival of June 2024, often edit from an 800-way split anon-blocked IP, and over 2000 edits now.
Important links: Tropical Tidbits, weather.gov, Storm Prediction Center, SPC Archive, SPC Mesoanalysis, NCEI Event Database, IEM NWS product finder, Weather Prediction Center
An image I uploaded of a new tropical storm in the Gulf on 5 October 2024 because the yearly list article lacked an image. In a year of records, it was beautiful to see nature acting in moderation.
Featured topic
[edit]What the topic state is now:
What I want to see looking at the topic, hopefully by 31 March next year:
Tornado articles and drafts
[edit]Table stolen from User:EF5, one of the best contributors to the weather topic sphere. I know I can't stop anyone from stealing these topic ideas, so I ask that if you make these, make them good. Cheers!
| F#/EF# | State / Country | Date | Fatalities | Injuries | Article | Article state |
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| EF3 | Illinois | June 20, 2021 | 0 (1?) | 11 | 2021 Naperville–Woodridge tornado |  
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| F5 | Iowa | June 13, 1976 | 0 | 13 (?) | Draft:1976 Jordan tornado | 
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| EF2 | Florida | May 10, 2024 | 0 (2?) | 1 | Draft:2024 Tallahassee tornadoes |
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| F7 Maybe. | East Pakistan | April 14, 1969 | 922 | ? | 1969 East Pakistan tornado | 
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| F4 | Illinois | April 21, 1967 | 24 | 500 | Draft:1967 Belvidere tornado |
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| F3 | Indiana | September 20, 2002 | 0 | 130 | 2002 Indianapolis tornado |
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| F4 | Illinois | September 28, 1972 | 0 | 21 | 1972 North Chicago tornado |
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| EF1 | Illinois | March 31, 2023 | 1 | 48 | Belvidere Apollo Theatre collapse |  
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| EF3 | Tennessee | March 31, 2023 | 1 | 13 | Draft:2023 Covington tornado |
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I'm currently focusing on March 31, so I won't be focusing on individual tornadoes for the most part.