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Hurricane season bars templates change

Overview change

The hurricane season button bars have had a major design overhaul recently. Everything is more user friendly, and every hurricane basin now relies on the same templates.

  • You no longer need to find the basin-specific template for the hurricane season you want, every basin works the exact same way
  • Scale legends are automatically handled by the template, no need to search for the templates, or create a custom table for it
  • Links to portal, categories, books, wikiproject, and Wikimedia commons are now handled automatically
  • Ability to link to list of storms, timelines, statistics, and other common articles

Four templates are used in total

All are documented on this page.

{{Hurricane season bar start}} change

Alright, first comes the start of the template. This is simple, just use 

{{Hurricane season bar start
 |region=
 |year=
 |type=
}}
parameter |year= |region= |type=
possible
values 		YYYY
YYYY–YY

Atlantic
Australian region
North Indian Ocean
Pacific
South-West Indian Ocean
South Pacific

cyclone
hurricane
typhoon

The basic idea is to match the title of the season. So for the 2005–06 Australian region cyclone season

  • |year=2005–06
  • |region=Australian region
  • |type=cyclone

In addition, if a list of storms, timeline, and/or statistics article exist for that season, add 

 |list=yes
 |timeline=yes
 |statistics=yes

If they do not exist, just leave them out (i.e. |timeline=no will still produce a link to the timeline)

{{Hurricane season bar button}} change

This is a bit more complicated than the first template, but is still straightforward. It goes like this 

{{Hurricane season bar button
 |intensity=
 |stormname=
 |strength=
 |linkname=
 |storminitial=
}}
parameter value
|intensity= See {{storm colour}}, use directly, aka
  • |intensity=cat1

and not

|stormname= Name of the storm, without year, etc..., aka
  • Arthur

Not

  • Arthur (1996)
|strength= Tropical Depression, Category 5, etc...
|linkname= Main article for this storm, e.g.
  • Tropical Storm Kyle (1996)

Alternatively, the "season#section" link, e.g.

  • 1996 Atlantic hurricane season#Tropical Storm Gustav
|storminitial= The initial for the storm. This is what is displayed as a button.


{{Hurricane season bar gap}} [optional] change

When there are over 14 buttons in a season insert {{Hurricane season bar gap}} between two {{Hurricane season bar button}} to make the button list split over an additional line.

  • Place them so the second line has as many buttons as the first one, or one less.

When there's over 28 buttons, use two {{Hurricane season bar gap}} templates.

  • The first and second lines should have an equal number of buttons.
  • The third line can have one or two less buttons than the first two lines.

When there's over 42 buttons, use three {{Hurricane season bar gap}} templates.

  • The first, second and third lines should have an equal number of buttons.
  • The fourth line can have one, two, or three less buttons than the first three lines.

And so on. This template has no parameters.

{{Hurricane season bar end}} change

This works just like {{Hurricane season bar start}}, except there is only three parameters. 

{{Hurricane season bar start
 |region=
 |year=
 |type=
}}

These are the same parameters as before, so use the same values.

If you did it right... change

If you did it right, you should end up with something that looks a lot like this

Tropical cyclones of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season

Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Scale
TD TS C1 C2 C3 C4 C5


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