Template talk:Current weather event

message: A discussion was initiated, now archived at Talk:Hurricane Irma/Archive 2#Active hurricane disclaimer?, after someone added an ad hoc "Active hurricane disclaimer" notice on that page. It was concluded that this ad hoc notice was primarily redundant, except for the addition of an external link to a primary, official source of the latest weather information. It was then suggested that another parameter could be added here to  to allow such an external link. However, the debate then became inactive without any further action or consensus here. Cheers. Zzyzx11 (talk) 01:23, 8 October 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Apparently this disclaimer was also used on the Hurricane Maria page, and Hurricane Jose (2017), but this seems to have never been brought up on those talk page. Also it appears that a Template:Hurricane disclaimer was also created, copying this same "Active hurricane disclaimer", but deleted on grounds of WP:T2 - no disclaimer templates. Zzyzx11 (talk) 02:00, 8 October 2017 (UTC)
replies: text:  Personally, I think it would be a good idea to link to the advisories for weather events like a hurricane or tropical storm.  Not only would we be saying "Hey, don't use us to get current information," but also "Use this instead." Whoever said it's an important piece of information in the original discussion wasn't wrong. And before anyone points out something along the lines of WP:NODISCLAIMERS, the template itself is already a disclaimer.  We also (as recently as last year) invoked WP:IAR (specifically, ignoring NODISCLAIMERS) to make the change given just above this discussion, so there is a precedent for making changes if this type to this template. — Gestrid (talk) 06:38, 8 October 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I have now modified it to get something working, and then added it to Hurricane Nate (2017). However, I only added the unnamed value parameters of  and . I have not added any named parameter options for them yet. Zzyzx11 (talk) 10:48, 8 October 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Hold on.  I think we need more of a consensus in order to make the change, regardless of what the outcome of the last discussion was.  I know you're an admin, and you have probably already done this, but have you posted about this discussion to relevant WikiProject talk pages? — Gestrid (talk) 23:15, 8 October 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I did the recent bold changes because there is a wider community consensus to avoid inserting redundant or similar tags at the top of the page. This has been stated on WP:OVERTAGGING# and WP:CLEANUPTAG, among other guideline and essay pages. Right now, it is meant as an interim solution, as, again, it was recently posted on Hurricane Nate (2017). And as I stated, another user attempted to save this notice into the template namespace as Template:Hurricane disclaimer, but it got deleted under WP:T2. We can gather more input, but the wider community consensus regarding template tags would say to either merge these redundant "active hurricane disclaimer" notices or stop using them altogether. Zzyzx11 (talk) 04:40, 9 October 2017 (UTC)

text: The combined functionality seems alright to me. Why would there be an issue? Master of Time (talk) 19:48, 9 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Addition of an optional parameter to list a primary, official link to latest weather information