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Speedy deletion nomination of File:2019 Beauregard tornado.png

A tag has been placed on File:2019 Beauregard tornado.png requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section F7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a non-free file from a commercial source (e.g. Associated Press, Getty Images), where the file itself is not the subject of sourced commentary. If you can explain why the file can be used under the non-free content guidelines, please add the appropriate non-free use tag and rationale.

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January 2025 GAN Backlog Drive

January 2025 GAN Backlog Drive
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Orphaned non-free image File:1974 Cincinnati F5 tornado.jpg

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User talk page archiving

Hello, EF5,

Your User talk page says, This user does not mind criticism so here is some. You seem to archive messages on your User talk page after only 24 hours! This is much too fast. I think you should leave at least a week's worth of messages if not a month's worth up on your User talk page. This would allow editors who left you a message to not have to go into your talk page archives to see what your response was. It is also not advised to add new messages to archived pages so by archiving a discussion you are cutting off possible new comments to it. It also would allow you more time to respond to messages as I can't imagine that you edit 7 days a week. I realize that you might like a blank talk page but I think that the benefit to you and other editors outweighs the cost of having a full User talk page. This is just a suggestion but I hope you consider it. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 06:41, 22 December 2024 (UTC)

 Done, thanks for the feedback. I used to have a very slow archiving system, so I guess I went a bit overboard. :) E_F⁵ 13:25, 22 December 2024 (UTC)

Top AfC Editor

		The Articles for Creation Barnstar 2024 Top Editor
		In 2024 you were one of the top AfC editors, thank you! --Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 14:44, 22 December 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of 1925 Tri-State tornado

The article 1925 Tri-State tornado you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:1925 Tri-State tornado and Talk:1925 Tri-State tornado/GA1 for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Lee Vilenski -- Lee Vilenski (talk) 16:44, 22 December 2024 (UTC)

PD-Automated

Hey EF5. I noticed you put a dashcam video of a fire tornado on your user page under PD-Automated - I really don't think that the license is valid. The description of PD-Automated states "pre-positioned" as in mounted CCTV, but this clearly wasn't. I'll also note that if the PD-Automated license there is valid, then free media for 2024 Elkhorn-Blair tornado and numerous others becomes available as a significant amount of storm chasers use dashcams - but they probably wouldn't be too happy having their footage distributed for free. Just letting you know. The full legal hammer hasn't swung one way or the other for PD-Automated but I can say with some certainty that dashcam likely wouldn't be on the "free" side. Departure– (talk) 23:17, 22 December 2024 (UTC)

It's produced by CalFire, so if not PD-automated then PD-CalFire. E_F⁵ 23:24, 22 December 2024 (UTC)

@Departure–: Based on some discussion I had on the Commons Copyright discussion board a while ago, the PD-Automated tag applies to any pre-positioned camera where the human had no direct intention of captured what was captured. For example, the very much pre-positioned camera by Max Olsen before Hurricane Ian does not qualify under it, despite being a 100% non-human operated, pre-positioned camera, since the intention of it was to capture Hurricane Ian's footage. File:Dash cam footage of the 2024 Lincoln tornado.webm on the other head, despite being a dashcam, would qualify under PD-automated as the intention of the dashcam (actually even confirmed by the RS media it was published by) was for insurance purposes for a company driver. I.e., the dash cam was for potential car insurance fraud incidences. It was not pre-positioned to capture a tornado. The PD-auto is when it involved a non-human operated camera where what was captured was not directly intended. Non-moving CCTV is always PD-automated since anything that happens (tornado, earthquake, robbery) is not the "human intended" capture for it. You might think a store CCTV would be intended to catch robbers and that would be correct. However, that specific robbery was not the intention. That is why Max Olsen's camera doesn't qualify but the dashcam for the Lincoln tornado would. Olsen placed it specifically for the storm surge so the intention was to capture exactly what was captured. I am not sure which file you are talking about, but hopefully this explanation helps. The Weather Event Writer (Talk Page) 23:28, 22 December 2024 (UTC)

It is a helicopter video of a fire tornado, and I believe that the camera was there for the intention of capturing fire shots, but not this specific fire, so I’m leaning towards pd automated applying here. the wildfire update guy that also writes about other weather (talk) 00:01, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

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DYK for 2022 Andover tornado

On 23 December 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article 2022 Andover tornado, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the 2022 Andover tornado (video featured) injured only three people, despite damaging more than 1,000 buildings? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/2022 Andover tornado. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, 2022 Andover tornado), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

 — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:02, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

Reversal of artist recon of TST 1925 as lead image

People can tell the difference between artwork and photographs, no? TheEditor7499 (talk) 00:53, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

Most tornado articles have an image of the tornado itself in the infobox. There are no images known to exist of the Tri-State, so any concept images remain in the body. Departure– (talk) 04:04, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of 2007 Greensburg tornado

The article 2007 Greensburg tornado you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:2007 Greensburg tornado for comments about the article, and Talk:2007 Greensburg tornado/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Tomobe03 -- Tomobe03 (talk) 16:41, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

Happy Holidays

Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2025!

Hello EF5, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2025. Happy editing, Abishe (talk) 23:05, 24 December 2024 (UTC) Spread the love by adding {{subst:Seasonal Greetings}} to other user talk pages.

Abishe (talk) 23:05, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

"Mayflower wedge" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect Mayflower wedge has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 December 25 § Mayflower wedge until a consensus is reached. Rusalkii (talk) 04:28, 25 December 2024 (UTC)

2021 Tri-State/1925 Tri-State

Would you be opposed to moving the 1925 page to just "Tri-State tornado"? I know the term "Tri-State tornado" nearly always refers to the 1925 tornado and not the 2021 tornado. I think it feels a bit clunky listing a term of which 90% of the mentions are with a rather unneeded disambiguator. Cutlass^Ciera 17:09, 25 December 2024 (UTC)

There's a move request on the Tri-State tornado outbreak page for the exact opposite reason. In my opinion, it isn't the primary topic; we've had over ten Tri-State tornadoes since 1880. E_F⁵ 17:18, 25 December 2024 (UTC)

However many tri-state tornadoes we've had the term "Tri-State" nearly always is used to refer to the 1925 tornado. I would just suggest keeping the tornado's article itself at "Tri-State tornado" and the outbreak at either "Tri-State tornado outbreak" or "Tornado outbreak of March 18, 1925" and then having the Monette-Bootheel-Cookeville at its current title. Cutlass^Ciera 17:32, 25 December 2024 (UTC)