User blog:Money Hurricane/Hypothetical Hurricanes News: July 23, 2017

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News
July 23, 2017 — The past week has been relatively quiet on the wiki. Although there was not much particular drama to discuss, here are some other highlights of the week.

Twitter Management
Beginning on July 19, I have become the manager of HHW's official Twitter account, following approval from Hypercane. I will be posting important events on the wiki and just general 140-character tweets about the tropics. Stay tuned as the Atlantic season ramps up, that's when the fun will start. As well as that, I also run my own personal account, which will be synced with the wiki's Twitter.

Merger Not Happenin'
An idea proposed by Hypothetical Tornadoes user AlissaTheWiseWolf to merge all hypothetical weather wikis, including HHW, into one large wiki, soon sparked controversy from our users on the official Discord channel. Most opposed a merger, outlining that HHW was the original Hypothetical wiki that "started it all" and that it was simply too big to merge. Finally after this backlash, the supporters of this deal agreed to drop HHW and several of its affiliates from the deal. However, other, smaller and largely inactive wikis have been merged into Hypothetical Encyclopedia, founded several months ago by me and Hypercane. All of the wikis have had all pages imported and are now in the process of closure. The following wikis have been confirmed to NOT be taking part in the merger.


 * Hypothetical Hurricanes Wiki
 * Hypothetical Tornadoes
 * Hypothetical Tsunamis

These wikis will continue to operate and their pages will not be affected. Please see Hurricane Layten on Discord for more information about the merger.

That pretty much covers everything significant that happened this previous week. I hope you are enjoying your time here at HHW, and I will be back next Sunday with another update!

StAy TuNeD

~Reporter James

Atlantic vs. East Pacific Contest — 2017 Match

 * Update 10: Tropical Storm Don scores 1 point for the Atlantic, bringing the seasonal total to date up to 4.
 * Update 11: Category 4 Hurricane Fernanda scores 5 points for the East Pacific, bringing the seasonal total to date up to 14.
 * Update 12: Tropical Depression Eight-E scores 0 points for the East Pacific. The seasonal total to date remains at 14.