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I have a somewhat abandoned draft article you can help me with

I invite you and anyone else who wants to to edit Draft:list of particularly dangerous situation watches. It seems as if that article has sorta been forgotten about. We’ve only gotten down to 2020 (for completely listed and in some cases not even that far) and if I recall, the entries only go back to 2018. There’s still a lot more in IEM archives. Your help at expanding the list to mainspace ready format would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. (Ps I have sent this message or a variant thereof to a bunch of other people trying to get folk’s attention) West Virginia WXeditor (talk) 20:02, 10 June 2024 (UTC)

@WestVirginiaWX: I can help with that draft and look through the IEM archives to expand it, also providing images from SPC where available. Thank you for notifying me about it! ChrisWx 🌀 (talk - contribs) 06:08, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

I am having issues finding watches before 2005, as the PIL codes I know of for IEM (SVA/TOA for VTEC, WCN for PIL searches) don't seem to be kept that far back in time, so there may need to be discussion on how to deal with that. ChrisWx 🌀 (talk - contribs) 06:15, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

Well I guess I’m mistaken then. I just know that tornado and severe thunderstorm warnings do go back to at least 1991; and I know that blizzard warnings go back to at least March of 1993 because there are warnings from the blizzard of ‘93 on file. And I also know that high wind warnings go back intermittently to at least 1989. I just guessed by logic that watches would be the same way. I guess not. West Virginia WXeditor (talk) 09:24, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

But as for that issue. I don’t know how to help you there. The SPC archive goes back I believe to 2004; but beyond that, I don’t know. West Virginia WXeditor (talk) 09:25, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

But I’m glad you told me because I also had TornadoLGS searching for the watches too. And I had brought up the PIL code search on his talk page; Fortunately I was able to post a comment warning him not to go looking for PIL codes to watches that ain’t in the records; assuming he hasn’t read the original entry and chose not to respond. West Virginia WXeditor (talk) 09:38, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

@WestVirginiaWX: I believe that watches are the same way, because there are mentions of PDS tornado watches all the way back until April 2, 1982, but that they simply aren't stored by the archives. Perhaps we could include something in the article which states that reliable record keeping of the watches started in 2004, although the earliest was issued in 1982? That would be my idea on how to handle it, personally. I also think that both of these discussions (the one on this talk page and TornadoLGS' talk page) should be moved and centralized on the draft's talk page in order to have a central place we can discuss this issue on. ChrisWx 🌀 (talk - contribs) 19:42, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

Moved to Draft talk:List of particularly dangerous situation watches § How should we handle PDS watches with archival issues being present?

 – ChrisWx 🌀 (talk - contribs) 20:01, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

You mean the talk page of about a dozen people. I sent this to @Ks0stm; I sent it to @WeatherWriter; I sent it to @Sir MemeGod; I sent it to just about everyone I could find that was on a weather related talk page at the time. (Including unknowingly one of Lokicat’s sock puppets; we don’t need to go into that detail, thought he was a legitimate editor at the time, until I saw his name appear in a sockpuppetry investigation.) West Virginia WXeditor (talk) 20:07, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

I know, but my talk page and TornadoLGS' talk page were where the topic of watch archive problems was actively being discussed, so I wanted to move those discussions over to that discussion on the draft's talk page. ChrisWx 🌀 (talk - contribs) 20:19, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

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