Talk:Cyclone Larry/Archive 1

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Before any more edit warring over it occurs, I've reinserted the number because it is highly important for information purposes. Remember that part of Wikipedia's advantage over traditional encyclopedias is to give links to the appropriate resources necessary to connect people during an emergency, as shown by Hurricane Katrina, when we had listings of the live television feeds that were going on. Titoxd(?!? - help us) 01:52, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Emergency phone number 

message: I've converted all the citations to <ref> format. Unfortunately, quite a lot of them will actually be invalidated in a couple of weeks, when the news websites purge them. I'm going to see if I can find any more sources to cite. Jude (talk,contribs,email) 02:10, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citations 

message: Congragulations!, you beat me by four hours in writing this article since I was looking forward in writing an article about this storm. Storm05 15:11, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Don't worry, you can still contribute! :p --AySz88^-^ 18:46, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: DRAT!!!

message: Shouldn't the currency be Australian dollars in the 'damages' part of the info box, not U.S. dollars? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.208.88.138 (talk • contribs) 01:39, 21 March 2006  
:I've changed it. The only source quoting a damage bill relates to the banana crop, so this will need to be updated when more figures are available. -- Adz|talk 07:12, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Apparently the damages were reported as AUD$1bn so updated as nessecary, but I added the ≈ cos I'm not sure what it was encompassing.--Tedd the Tiger 06:43, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Damages 

message: Why is there a Scientology link here? They are not a recognised emergency service in any state of Australia. I cannot seem to remove the link though. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.8.165.18 (talk • contribs) 05:04, 21 March 2006  
* Scientology is actually a religious movement, so I don't see why it has any relevance to this article. But the links appears to be gone now.--Storm Horizon 06:59, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links 

message: I have removed a reference to this blog for the following reasons:
* firstly, it is blog, and it has already been stated elsewhere that blogs shouldn't be cited as sources 
* that said, I don't actually see a problem with citing a blog if it is was written by a credible authority, but other claims in this particular blog make me wonder what Dr Jeff Master's sources were:
* the claim that this part of Australia is unused to severe tropical cyclones is inacurate (eg Cyclone Winifred) 
* the cyclone has cause hundreds of millions of dollars damage, not tens, 
* and Innisfail is not a popular drop off point for tourists going to the reef. 
I'm not a meteorologis and I'm not going to get into the technical points of the discussion being conducted above over whether the Cyclone was a Cat3 or Cat4 on the SS scale, but I think given that it is a blog and that it seems to be making similar arguments to those being made above (ie. disputed arguments), it shouldn't be cited as a source. At least not until that dispute is settled. -- Adz|talk 09:46, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Jeff Masters is an ex-hurricane hunter meteorologist and an expert on hurricanes.  He generally has reliable information, which is why I've used his blogs  somewhat-often as sources.  Apparently, in this case, he was wrong. --AySz88^-^ 22:54, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  removed reference to blog