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Master of Time

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This user page belongs to the Wikipedia editor of the username Dustin V. S.

My name is Dustin. I have been part of this project since February 2013. I have made use of the encyclopedia even longer. When I first registered this account, I chose "Dustin V. S." as my username. Why not choose a more creative name that isn't just based on my given name and my initials? In truth, I cannot say why.

I am younger than the great majority of editors here* and have not yet fully worked out my interests, but the areas I am most interested cover certain sciences and history. I also find interest in current and/or recent events and may often find myself editing topics in that area.

With regard to sciences I am most interested in, I edit meteorological articles most frequently, although I also edit other articles within the field of Earth sciences such as those pertaining to earthquakes. Meteorological topics which I edit are encompassed within one main Wikiproject and three specific Wikiprojects: Meteorology, Non-tropical storms, Severe weather, and Tropical cyclones. Meteorology is an especially important subject for me on Wikipedia because it is the topic in which I first started editing. In September 2013, not a long amount of time after the controversial downgrade of the 2013 El Reno tornado to EF3, I spent much time reading and learning about a specific National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office located in the city of Norman, Oklahoma. I found several articles about National Weather Service forecast offices but was shocked to find that an article did not exist for the Norman office, so I decided that even if it was the only thing I ever did on Wikipedia, I would make it my goal to make sure that the office received an article. So I started a draft at User:Dustin V. S./National Weather Service Norman, Oklahoma and started putting together the new page bits and pieces at a time. It was my very first article, and as such, it was not particularly good. All that aside, I was proud of the work I had put into it and in October 2013, I published the page to mainspace via copy-paste as I was not yet aware of Wikipedia's "Move" function. After I published the page, I decided it was not good enough, so I decided to ask a question on the help desk. Almost immediately after that, I attempted to return to my article to find that it had (unjustly, I thought, and still think to this day) been speedily deleted. I.. didn't take it well. In the end, a user going by the name of "Charmlet" requested that the page be userfied, and the page was restored and moved to User:Charmlet/National Weather Service Norman, Oklahoma. Over the next several months, I would occasionally make improvements to the draft, but the page remained where it was until May 2014. In the meantime, I moved on to other topics including those in those relating to tornadoes and the 2013–14 winter.

In March 2014, following discussion in the preceding month at about whether to merge Late 2013 North American cold wave with Early 2014 North American cold wave, I came up with an idea; why not create an article for general events in the North American winter? This article could contain summaries of winter weather events similar to the way tropical cyclone season articles contain summaries for tropical cyclones. The criteria for inclusion couldn't be as well-defined, but said article could contain brief summaries of events with articles and link to their articles with {{main}} and at the same time contain summaries for not-as-notable events such as the late 2013 North American cold wave. My idea was that if the said article were created, Late 2013 North American cold wave could just be merged in as a new section. Sadly, this didn't work out as I planned, with the article being merged into Early 2014 North American cold wave for a reason I cannot completely ascertain, but I still went ahead with creating the article, 2013–14 North American winter storms. My idea didn't work out as well as I had planned; few people made any effort to improve and expand the article, likely because the bulk of winter was already over. This wasn't the end of my idea though, and I would put into play again in the not-so-far future.

In May 2014, I began editing the 2014 Pacific hurricane season article. Where I live, I am not (at least directly) affected by tropical cyclones of stronger than tropical depression intensity with the exception of very, very rare scenarios, but since I had taken time to edit and work in most of the other weather-related areas of the encyclopedia, I decided, "Why not?" From there, I became a very active editor in not only the 2014 Pacific hurricane season article, but also the 2014 Atlantic hurricane season and to a lesser extent the 2014 Pacific typhoon season article (especially the Hurricane/Typhoon Genevieve article). I have been an active editor in WikiProject Tropical cyclones since then.

In early-June 2014, in light of an ongoing outbreak of earthquakes in the state of Oklahoma, I created a draft in my userspace. Over the following nine months, I put a significant amount of work into this draft, expanding it and adding information as the event progressed. The draft underwent multiple name changes before I ultimately moved it to mainspace under the title 2009–15 Oklahoma earthquake swarms in April 2015. So far, this has been one of my greatest projects.

In August 2014, I decided that Typhoon Abe of 1991 deserved an article, so I set out on creating said article. I created a user space draft, but I soon abandoned the project. I eventually returned to the draft much later in June 2015. I resumed work without an obvious stimulus; maybe I felt bad that I had been given so much help by WikiProject Tropical cyclones without ever going through with an article of my own. All that aside, through my efforts, I managed to build and shape the new article. Following a successful nomination, Typhoon Abe (1990) became my first good article.

On winter solstice 2014, the first day of astronomical winter, I created a draft: Draft:2014–15 North American winter. This was partly based on my 2013–14 North American winter storms idea from nine months prior, but this time, I had a much more developed plan. The article was partly modeled on tropical cyclone season articles and partly modeled on annual tornado season articles. I soon published the article to main space as 2014–15 North American winter, and it was not long after that when other editors started to contribute. This article to date has been more successful than its predecessor, with about half of the material in the article being added by editors other than me.


*at least in relation to April 2011 statistics which possibly may have changed; smallest pie section[1]

 
  • Caption: Extremely intense Category 5 Hurricane Patricia. Hurricane Patricia is the most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded in the Western Hemisphere and the second-strongest tropical cyclone ever recorded. Intensifying from a tropical storm to a Category 5 hurricane in only 24 hours and from there intensifying to one of the strongest tropical cyclones on record six hours later, Hurricane Patricia had a minimum barometric pressure of 872 millibars (872 hPa; 25.75 inHg) and maximum one-minute sustained winds of 215 miles per hour (345 km/h). Hurricane Patricia made landfall in Mexico as a violent system, but casualties were low. As the strongest-recorded system in the Western Hemisphere and second to only Typhoon Tip among strongest tropical cyclones ever recorded worldwide, Hurricane Patricia is also the strongest storm to ever be monitored by the National Hurricane Center. This image was taken by GOES East at 14:45 UTC (9:45 a.m. CDT) on October 23, 2015.
Image Credit: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Environmental Visualization Laboratory, taken from GOES-13

About

Why I Am Interested in Weather

I have broad interests. I am interested in sciences, history, mathematics, futurism, and innumerable other things. But one thing that I find particular interest in is weather and earthquakes. The reason?

To start, I often feel that the world is simultaneously immense, a place of unbelievable possibilities, but at the same time restricted to an incredible extent by physical law. A particular wish of mine is to see beyond the Solar System, to other planets, other galaxies, and beyond. Despite my wishes, we are restricted from even going beyond our local planetary system, and interstellar travel is nothing more than an impracticable idea. I hope beyond hope that an immense scientific breakthrough of sorts will occur, but there is no guarantee that such an event will ever take place. Unless some sort of near-lightspeed travel, wormhole, or other means of interstellar travel were to be developed, we are apparently trapped here. Of course, I will always hope, but progress so far is slow to the point that it is not enough to satisfy me. Not only is there no sufficiently high-speed form of interstellar travel, but there also isn't any form of suspended animation that would allow any human to live through a trip using current technology. All of these factors come together and dampen my hopes.

Weather, earthquakes, and volcanoes are directly observable. We can be affected by them and interact with them without the need of some yet-to-be-contrived technology. Weather in particular affects me everyday, and it allows me to experience that incredible power of the world here and now. I have been affected by numerous weather events throughout my life, and as such I feel an immensely stronger sense of motivation when it comes to their study. My geographic region of the world is more prone to tornadoes and severe thunderstorms and as such, I have higher exposure in all forms to these types of events.

All of this said, I would change in an instant if I truly knew of some sort of viable form of interstellar travel, suspended animation, or other means of expanding my world. I hope that some day on of these means will be discovered, but until then, I will continue to focus on weather and natural disasters.

Public domain sources

Among the sources I favor most are sources in the public domain. Public domain sources allow material to be used with minimal restrictions. When I use public domain sources (particularly sources from the federal government of the United States) on Wikipedia, as with non-public domain sources, I always ensure that I attribute said sources. One thing I like about public domain sources is that I don't have to worry about copyright violations; as with other sources, I do what I can to reword, but I don't need to put in a huge amount of effort when it comes to doing so because I am not required to so as to avoid unintentionally plagiarizing. I still put in at least a minimal amount of effort when it comes to rewording, but I don't need to apply nearly as strict standards to these sources as to other sources. There is a broad variety of public domain sources across the Internet and elsewhere, and I feel that these sources play a huge part in building Wikipedia to be what it is.

Other

Date formats

I strongly dislike DMY date format, as it is the most inferior of the three possible formats as it starts with small units instead of large units. YMD is the most superior and logical, but sadly, "2024 October 28 isn't an accepted format, so the best I can do is use MDY which I can justify by the use of the comma in October 28, 2024 (at least it maintains Month-Day order). Commas are often used to signify that the following text was moved from the beginning to the end, so I like to think that the comma in MDY formati is used to indicate that the year originally was at the beginning but was separated and moved to the end for convenience. The reason I place MDY above DMY is that year is usually not a requirement, and Month Day is better than Day Month.

List of interests

Some of my interests include, but are not limited to the following:

Ideas

These are some Wikipedia ideas which I think would be good in practice.

  • Main Page should be moved to Portal:Main because it is a portal in terms of its make, and there isn't actually a real-world thing called "Main Page", so it shouldn't be in main space at all.
  • Pressing the "enter" key while editing edit summaries should "not" automatically submit, as it happens half the time I type quotations and causes me to prematurely submit the edit when I was still writing my edit summary and didn't want to submit.

Pages Created

Articles Created

Templates Created

Redirects Created

  • Several

Barnstars

  The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
I noticed your absolutely prolific editing. Thank you very much! Cheers and Thanks, L235-Talk Ping when replying 15:37, 15 August 2014 (UTC)
  The Special Barnstar
For being a tireless contributor, a great photographer (I love the photos, by the way :)), a consistent vandal-fighter, and for just being an awesome user in general. I award you this barnstar in light of your achievements, and to express my gratitude.   LightandDark2000 (talk) 22:27, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
  The Tropical Cyclone Barnstar
For your continuous contributions to the field of tropical cyclones. It's great to have a new editor help out with our ever-expanding (and often chaotic) archives of these dangerous storms.   LightandDark2000 (talk) 23:01, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
Images on Wikimedia Commons

Images

I have uploaded all of the images / animated GIFs in this section; there are other images which I may add to this section in the future as well. See below:

Works of others I uploaded

Images from the EVL

These are some of my favorite images. These images usually fit desktop backgrounds, and they all originate from the Environmental Visualization Laboratory here.

Own works

Works of others I like

Userboxes

 This user loves thunderstorms.
  This user is really fascinated by the weather.
 This user is interested in history.
 This user enjoys overcast weather.

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 This user has visited 15 of the 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.15
 This user is an Aquarius.
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  This user has a keen interest in learning about Chemistry.
 This user is interested in geology.
 This user is interested in volcanoes.
 This user is interested in meteorology. 
 This user is interested in history.
 This user enjoys the weather most when the sky is at least partly cloudy.
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—in theory.
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ymdThis user prefers ymd over dmy and mdy.dmy
mdy
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Interesting facts

Weather

  • The strongest tornadoes are far stronger than the strongest tropical cyclones... depending on how one looks at it. Tropical cyclones contain more energy than tornadoes by far if only because of their sheer size, and tropical cyclones can even produce the right conditions under which tornadoes become capable of forming. However, on a local scale, the strongest tornadoes are the most violent storm-based phenomenon on Earth, with winds exceeding 300 mph. These tornadoes can be so powerful as to completely destroy even the most well-built of structures.
  • Under just the right conditions, tropical cyclones can develop or even intensify over land. Events such as these have been referred to as "tropical cyclone maintenance and intensification events" (TCMIs). Tropical cyclone maintenance and intensification events, while uncommon, have occurred on multiple occasions. One of the most notable examples occurred in 2007 after Tropical Storm Erin made landfall in Texas. The remnants of the storm made their way inland, but shortly after entering Oklahoma, the storm unexpectedly reintensified. The storm's sustained winds increased to tropical storm force, and a precipitation-free eye formed, with a clear hurricane-like signature on radar. At it's peak intensity over Oklahoma, Erin was more powerful than it had ever been over the ocean.
  • The tornado in El Reno, Oklahoma on May 31, 2013, while it was only rated an EF3 on the Enhanced Fujita scale, is believed to have contained some of the highest winds ever recorded. The primary reasoning for which it was not rated an EF5 tornado was because there was no EF5 damage found in the area. A likely reason for this is the severe paucity of damage indicators in the area. Another important fact is that none of the subvortices known to contain these extremely intense winds impacted any structures that could be used in the damage survey. As a result of each of these factors, the rating has been greatly disputed among meteorologists.

Earthquakes

 
Graph of 3.0+ magnitude earthquakes on the moment magnitude scale known to have occurred annually in Oklahoma through September 24, 2016 – a drastic increase can be seen starting in about 2009.
  • The 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami is the costliest natural disaster in world history at an estimated economic cost of US$235 billion as estimated by the World Bank. The earthquake was a powerful megathrust earthquake which occurs on a subduction zone.

Oklahoma earthquakes

Main article: 2009–16 Oklahoma earthquake swarms
  • Many earthquakes have been occurring in interior regions of the United States in recent years. Some of these earthquakes have been occurring in large "swarms". One of the most significant examples of these strange occurrences lies in the US State of Oklahoma; earthquakes in Oklahoma, especially in central and north-central areas of the state, have increased in frequency by an extreme amount. The annual total for earthquakes greater than or equal to moment magnitude 3.0 rapidly increased in number. The annual average for 1970 to 2008 was approximately 1.6, but starting in 2009, this number rapidly increased each year, with a brief decrease in 2012; the 2014 total of 3.0+ magnitude earthquakes through May 2 was higher than the entire yearly total for 2013, at over 140 earthquakes. This number is believed to be so high as to actually overcome the US State of California in terms of total earthquakes greater than or equal to moment magnitude 3.0. The number of earthquakes in Oklahoma increased by about 50% from October 2013 to May 2, 2014, prompting the United States Geological Survey to issue an uncommon "Earthquake Advisory" for Central Oklahoma warning of the elevated possibility of damaging, 5.5+ magnitude earthquakes. This was the first advisory in the United States ever issued east of the Rocky Mountains.
    • Source – "Record Number of Oklahoma Tremors Raises Possibility of Damaging Earthquakes". United States Geological Survey; Oklahoma Geological Survey. May 2, 2014.
    • Additional information and graphics may be found in the following PDF file of the Town Hall Meeting on June 26 –
      "Recent Earthquakes: Town Hall Meeting, June 26, 2014" (PDF). Oklahoma Geological Survey. June 26, 2014.

History

  • The usage of the so-called "first, second, and third worlds" actually once had meanings that differs from the more common meanings today. "First world" referred to the United States and its allies, "second world" referred to the Soviet Union and its allies, and "third world" referred to observer states which were not directly involved.

Present

  • On October 8, 2014, a total lunar eclipse occurred and was observable over much of North America and the adjacent Pacific and Atlantic, peaking at about 1055 UTC (5:55 a.m. CDT).[2]
  • While the United States receives a significant amount of attention for tense racial relations, it is actually one of the least racist countries in the world. Those receiving attention for racism are but a vocal minority. Some countries such as South Korea, however, have very extreme racism permeating society.

Special pages

WikiProjects

Wikis

Article subjects that interest me

Project pages

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