Talk:1929 Florida Hurricane

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1929 Florida Hurricane was a good article candidate, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. Once the objections listed below are addressed, the article can be renominated. You may also seek a review of the decision if you feel there was a mistake. Date of review: 3 December 2006

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[edit] Point of the article/Todo

While the quality of this is pretty good, is there a reason this has an article? It killed 11 and caused $1.5 million in damage. Today that would hardly justify an article's existence, let alone back in 1929. Hurricanehink 16:19, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

The $1.5 million was in Florida since the damage figures in the Bahamas (which took the worst of the hurricane) is unknown possibly in the $40-80 million (2005 USD) range. Storm05 16:22, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Be sure to find the Bahamas figure, if that is the reason for the article. Hurricanehink 16:30, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

The Bahamas figure is out there somewhere if I only knew what site its on then I could easly figure out the damage this hurricane did in the Bahamas. Storm05 16:39, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Also, I was banking on this to get B-Class in one day since the quality of the article is similar to your Hurricane Felix (1995) article. Storm05 16:48, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

It is very close, but you need the damage totals. For Felix, there was no damage directly from the storm, rather it was from waves and winds. Once you get the Bahamas damage total, it could be B class. Hurricanehink 19:33, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

I think the damage in the Bahamas is estimated to be about $1-2.5 million dollars (1929 USD) Storm05 13:43, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

You should find a source for that. Once you get that, it will be B class. I reverted you sourcing here, because you can't source a talk page. Hurricanehink 15:13, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Added metric units. Storm05 15:56, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Did you find damage totals yet? Hurricanehink 13:38, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

I found some damage totals and added more infomation. Storm05 16:09, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

<--- What is the correct damage total; $675,000 or $125,000? Hurricanehink 16:22, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

$675,000 Storm05 16:41, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

OK. I fixed a few things. More todo in general is sentence structure. Looking at the 2nd paragraph in the Florida impact, it is very messy. Wind and pressure reports should be in the storm history. Never use runon sentences. They are annoying to read and are typically easy to split into 2 or more sentences. How many tornadoes did the storm develop? Just to a general read-through to fix some of the blatant errors. I fixed some, but there are a lot left to find. Hurricanehink 21:34, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Here's a link that has some more good info. Hurricanehink 21:21, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Okay, I fixed some things and added an infobox picture, as for the wind and pressure readings, i dont know. Because alot of other hurricane articles have wind and pressure readings in the impact sections and you said that meteroligical conditions are the first thing to put in the impact section am i mistaken. Storm05 16:47, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

Scratch what I said about the pressure. I did a general copyedit, but what does this mean? A 150 mph (235 km/h) wind gust was recorded near Key Largo and a barometric pressure reading was recorded in Key West. A pressure reading was recorded? What was the pressure? Also, how can three tornadoes touch down in four cities? Did they move through those towns, of did they touch down in those towns? Generally, good job, and I think this one is up to B class. Hurricanehink 19:16, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Failed GA

I failed the GA nominee because it does not meet the GA criteria.

• It is well-written - Neutral: It's not terrible, but it's not compelling
• Factually accurate - Fail: 2 citations needed
• Broad in coverage - Fail: It says the damage was extreme in the Bahamas, but the article only mentions the damage was described as extreme and that six houses were destroyed. It hardly goes into detail there. Similarly, the intro says there were well-executed preparations, resulting in only three deaths. However, the preparations section only mentions hurricane warnings. It doesn't mention any actual preparations by people which resulted in fewer deaths
• Neutral POV - Pass
• Stable - Pass
• Images - Neutral. There's a drawing and a track map, but given the date it might be hard finding another one

Hurricanehink (talk) 04:53, 3 December 2006 (UTC)