Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Hurricane Ioke

The following is an archived discussion of a featured article nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The article was promoted 20:06, 28 November 2007.

[edit] Hurricane Ioke

After working on it for about a month, I believe this article is now ready for featured article candidacy. It is well-written, comprehensive (I spent great amounts of time to find key information, such as the damage total), factually accurate (every statement is referenced with the Cite Web template), it is neutral, and it's stable (I've been the primary editor over the past while). It has a concise lead, appropriate sections, free images, and it's length is appropriate. I'll address any comments/concerns. Hurricanehink (talk) 16:24, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Is there anything else actionable I can do before this is promoted to FA? Hurricanehink (talk) 22:43, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

Do the rain dance. Titoxd^{(?!? - cool stuff)} 01:36, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

Support. Article is thorough, imaged and sourced fully. Another job well done by hink. I fully support passing.Mitch32^contribs 01:38, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

Pass & support. On the basis that this is quality, unlike many other on this FAC, and much like the other hurricane-related article you worked on. Great. Leranedo 03:24, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

• Comment.
  • I don't like such general wording like "...well to the southeast of Hawaiʻi" - it sounds dismissive.
  • "in the middle of August" -add year, I often skip the intro and begin reading articles at the first section, so can we add a year here.
  • "It slowly became better organized, and early on 20 August the disturbance organized into" -avoid organized twice in one sentence.
  • "the hurricane again restrengthened to Category 5 status." - second time it re-strengthened?
  • "Strong upper-level cyclones well to its northwest" - well? is there a better word? "well" sounds like it could be an adverb, noun, or verb here.
  • "Unofficially referred as a super typhoon by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC), Ioke remained at the equivalence of a Category 5 hurricane for about 12 hours after crossing the Date Line before beginning a slight weakening trend on 28 August;[12] this was caused by restricted outflow, which was credited due to increased inflow from the ridge to its north." -slow down...
  • "Prior to the typhoon passed just north of Wake Island," -what?
  • "1.15 inches (29 mm) at Bethel and 0.67 inches (17 mm)" - mm or cm? The Cattle Network?
  • <div style="clear:both;"></div> - didn't know about that trick.
  • annoying that the capital i/I and the lower case L/l look the same in this font.
  • "404 Not Found error" on Central Pacific Hurricane Center (3 August 2005). Tropical Storm Ioke Discussion Number 2. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Retrieved on 20 August 2006.
  • "^ a b Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology (2007). Actions and Recommendations for the 61st Interdepartmental Hurricane Conference. Retrieved on 14 October 2007." -narrow down where to look, like a page or section number, maybe split a and b into two different footnotes and use their appropriate titles in the linked summary.
  • "^ Chris Vadnais. "Teams fly to Wake Island to assess damage", Air Force Print News, 2006-09-13. Retrieved on 15 October 2007. ^ Chris Vadnais (17 September 2006). Airmen piece together Wake Island connectivity puzzle. Air Force Print News. Retrieved on 16 October 2007." - templates switch between cite news and cite web.
  • "# ^ Chris Vadnais. "Power pros 'wire' Wake Island", Air Force Print News, 2006-09-20. Retrieved on 16 October 2007. " -add a link?

--maclean 05:49, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for reviewing (really! It's been on FAC for over a month and this is the first real comment). I got most of that (including changing the "well to the southeast" to "far to the southeast"). Regarding the Cattle Network, yes, it was one of the few sites I found that reports rainfall from Ioke affecting Alaska, and yes, it is mm. The <div style="clear:both;"></div> is just a substituted version of Template:Clear. I don't think anything can be done regarding "annoying that the capital i/I and the lower case L/l look the same in this font". Everything else I got. Hurricanehink (talk) 17:22, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

What more is needed? I changed "well to the southeast" to "far to the southeast", the measurement is in mm, there's nothing I can do about i/I and l/L, and I split the reference to two pages. Hurricanehink (talk) 21:32, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

Support. Sorry, I had to leave, wasn't finished. They were minor points really. I don't expect anything on the i/L thing, it is just a comment. The Cattle Network is not ideal as a source but I guess it will do until something better can be found - but I would like to remove the word "record" from "...including daily rainfall records of..." which makes it sound like the rainfall was a record-breaking event. What do you think of "The system produced moderate to heavy precipitation across the western portion of Alaska, including daily rainfalls of 1.15 inches (29 mm) at Bethel and 0.67 inches (17 mm) at Kotzebue."? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Maclean25 (talk • contribs)

Oh, ok. Those rainfall amounts were records, though, for daily precipitation, which I think should be mentioned. It doesn't matter too much, and if you think its implication is skewed as it is, you can remove the word "record". Hurricanehink (talk) 01:05, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.