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Eranston (talk) 21:32, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

Hey, so I'm wondering if you'd know someone or a group of people who are willing to help refurbish some old tornado outbreak articles. Mainly Tornado outbreak sequence of June 3–11, 2008# and June 2010 Northern Plains tornado outbreak# where I've contributed a bit to some of the tornadoes.

It'd be nice to have someone or a group lend a hand into these. Thanks for reading.

Eranston (talk) 21:45, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

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🌀Hurricane Wind and Fire (talk) (contribs)🔥 04:07, 24 December 2025 (UTC)

You did well. It’s too bad you say you won’t be very active on Wikipedia, you are a very promising editor.

Even if you aren’t very active, you can still join Wikipedia:WikiProject Weather. You would be a valuable addition. 🌀Hurricane Wind and Fire (talk) (contribs)🔥 04:14, 24 December 2025 (UTC)

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Sharkeston please!! help me out with my first draft on Draft:1945 Antlers tornado, i really want this tornado to have a page so this draft to be accepted so please help me! expand it with me! Kbbt12fais11 (talk) 15:38, 10 July 2026 (UTC)

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Thank you Sharkeston (talk) 17:31, 19 July 2026 (UTC)

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Hi Sharkeston

I hope you are doing well.

I am working on my Wikipedia draft. It is about the Akçamezra tornado near the Syria–Turkey border. The Akçamezra tornado caused a lot of damage.İt completly debarked mature pistachio trees, did ground scouring, and destroyed masonry buildings.İt is currently rated IF3+ on ESWD

Since İt is my first time making a Wikipedia article from scratch I am having a hard time to expand this article and to make sure everything is right.

I know you are good at making tornado articles. So I was wondering if you could look at my draft. I would really like to hear what you think and get your help.

Here is the link, to the draft:Draft:2026 Akçamezra Tornado

Thank you for taking the time to help me.

Also @EF5 suggested you. ⚡ StormL00ver ⚡ 15:29, 17 August 2026 (UTC)

Also This is the Skew-T date for the event ⚡ StormL00ver ⚡ 15:31, 17 August 2026 (UTC)

Hi,

Yes, I was notified earlier that I was one of a few key persons mentioned.

I see that your draft looks really well put together for the 2026 Akçamezra tornado. However, I am not that great with tornadoes that occurred outside of the United States, despite me not being American in the first place. For some universal things, I would add things like timestamps (if possible), and distances to nearby significant places (like tornado touched down 5 km southwest of [place]).

You can use my existing articles as inspiration, which I definitely would recommend. Best ones would be the 2019 Linwood, Kansas EF4 and 2012 West Liberty, Kentucky EF3 tornado articles. Sharkeston (talk) 15:45, 17 August 2026 (UTC)

Also remember that for these articles, I took multiple days to polish. Rome was not built in one day. Sharkeston (talk) 15:48, 17 August 2026 (UTC)

Thanks.Also is there any other thing I should improve? ⚡ StormL00ver ⚡ 16:00, 17 August 2026 (UTC)

You could lengthen the lead text (Top) section) and add a recovery process topic if notable coverage is strong in general, and long lasting. Other than that, I would say just add more citations. Sharkeston (talk) 16:04, 17 August 2026 (UTC)

İs this curently good enough?Don't worry I will expend it more. ⚡ StormL00ver ⚡ 16:28, 17 August 2026 (UTC)

Yes. Just focus on gathering more sources for citations. Sharkeston (talk) 16:31, 17 August 2026 (UTC)

Okay Thanks ⚡ StormL00ver ⚡ 16:34, 17 August 2026 (UTC)

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		I wanted to properly thank you for all the work you put into getting free tornado media onto Wikipedia, creating such detailed tornado articles, and going back and improving older articles, which not many people seem to do! It's a pleasure to work with you, and I look forward to continue working with you in the future! Lightbulb Noob (talk) 13:08, 18 August 2026 (UTC)

Thank you, C.H.U.D. Sharkeston (talk) 13:09, 18 August 2026 (UTC)

Rude Lightbulb Noob (talk) 13:52, 18 August 2026 (UTC)

No it stands for Cool and Highly Underrated Dude. Sharkeston (talk) 13:54, 18 August 2026 (UTC)

Whatever you say Lightbulb Noob (talk) 14:11, 18 August 2026 (UTC)

You are such a B.A.K.A. Sharkeston (talk) 14:17, 18 August 2026 (UTC)

Thanks For All The Help! :)

Also this is the Link:https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Ak%C3%A7amezra_Hortumu ⚡ StormL00ver ⚡ 15:38, 18 August 2026 (UTC)

It looks good, but if you can add an infobox (quick facts and statistics). Sharkeston (talk) 15:54, 18 August 2026 (UTC)

it is quite buggy on TR wiki and I had to remove them because of it. ⚡ StormL00ver ⚡ 15:56, 18 August 2026 (UTC)

I will try to fix it tho ⚡ StormL00ver ⚡ 15:56, 18 August 2026 (UTC)

Use the more universal ones such as the ones seen on the Russian or Portuguese versions of the 2011 El Reno-Piedmont tornado for example. Sharkeston (talk) 16:01, 18 August 2026 (UTC)

Actually I do not know if these would work. I am very much used to American tornadoes anyways. Sharkeston (talk) 16:02, 18 August 2026 (UTC)

Nope it doesnt work.İt needs to be turkish and currently there is no subject as weather events or tornadoes in TR wiki so the infoboxes became useless ⚡ StormL00ver ⚡ 16:03, 18 August 2026 (UTC)

I fixed it.I had to create a custom tornado infobox because there isn't one in TR wikipedia ⚡ StormL00ver ⚡ 06:14, 20 August 2026 (UTC)

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