Talk:Tornado outbreak and floods of April 28 – May 1, 2017

Title of page
recently moved this page to "Tornado outbreak and floods of April 28–30, 2017" early this morning. While this is certainly an ok title, it also seems to forget that there was a major winter storm on the cold side of this as well, which was why I moved it back. However, I think there should be some sort of consensus as to how this should be officially named, which was pretty much how we handled the page naming of the late December 2015 system from December 26–27, 2015 tornado outbreak to December 2015 North American storm complex, since that had a similar setup and composition.

Here's my proposal on how we could handle this:
 * Option A: Leave title as is (April 2017 North American storm complex) – Illustrates all major points of the storm system, including the flash flooding, snowstorm and tornado outbreak. I am not currently gonna move it to "Late April – early May 2017 North American storm complex" if this is the consensus as for one, it is a lengthy and garbled title (also unencyclopedic) and two, most of the impacts were felt in the month of April. (total votes: 0)


 * Option B: Change/revert title to Tornado outbreak and floods of April 28–30, 2017 – Focuses on the tornadoes and floods which to some people seem to be the main problems with this system. If this is reached, met. history would have to be re-written to include severe weather setup and winter storm/flood impacts would be moved to the "Non-tornadic impacts" section or whatever name would be fitting, sort of how the tornado outbreak of January 21–23, 2017 is setup. (total votes: 2)


 * Option C: Change title to something like 2017 Central United States floods and tornado outbreak – Similar to above, but follows layout similar to 2015 Texas–Oklahoma flood and tornado outbreak (which I think might need to be changed IMO). (total votes: 0)

Please leave your thoughts below and be aware that any inappropriate responses/attacking others for choosing a title that you don't like will be removed. --MarioProtIV (talk/contribs) 17:09, 30 April 2017 (UTC)

I think this article should be listed as April 28-30 tornado outbreak and flooding, with a section about the winter storm towards the bottom. Having monitored the situation all weekend myself, its obvious that the tornado outbreak and flooding were far more significant than the winterstorm was, and so I think the winterstorm should have a section of its own on the page, and then focus mainly on the outbreak and flooding, with another main page for the Canton tornadoes, as there is a lot of sources to be used in the making of a main article as far as that is concerned. Hurricane Layten (talk) 19:55, 30 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Keep outbreak title: Leave title as Tornado outbreak and floods of April 28–30, 2017 main notable part of system is the outbreak and the floods.--Halls4521 (talk) 02:34, 1 May 2017 (UTC)


 * Change to Option C2:Severe weather complex in the United States (April 2017)  -- Rationale: need date (April 2017) and location (Central United States) to scope the article to this particular weather system... and need a name like "severe weather complex" to encompass tornadoes, floods, and snow. Peace MPS (talk) 16:48, 1 May 2017 (UTC)
 * That is a bit too complex, and we can just have the snow impacts in a different section. Per WP:PRIMARY the most significant event from the system were the tornadoes and floods, which is the basis for the current title. --MarioProtIV (talk/contribs) 16:58, 1 May 2017 (UTC)
 * I disagree. I think "Tornado outbreak and floods" is too complex, and doesn't even make sense if you are including snow in the article. MPS (talk) 13:21, 2 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Tornado outbreak of February 23–24, 2016 and tornado outbreak of January 21–23, 2017 both had snow yet we included it in a "Non-tornadic impacts" section, due to the tornadoes having way more weight then the snowstorm (this is where WP:PRIMARY comes in). WP:IDONTLIKEIT is not a fusible excuse to change to a more complex title which would just further complicate issues. --MarioProtIV (talk/contribs) 13:27, 2 May 2017 (UTC)
 * By your logic, we should call this article Tornado outbreak of April 28 – May 1, 2017 and have the snow AND THE FLOODS be ancillary aspects of the tornado event. It is not a matter of me not liking it, it is a matter of making sensible/defensible/logical decision that most editors can live with. Is your disagreement with the phrase weather complex? Perhaps we could use weather system instead. Peace, MPS (talk) 13:33, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

Canton EF3+
Why are we not highlighting the deaths? It seems like it would be something that should be highlighted or bolded. Greendevil32 (talk) 12:31, 1 May 2017 (UTC)
 * I can't seem to find it but I remember there was a consensus not to bold deaths, however perhaps may be able to find it. --MarioProtIV (talk/contribs) 14:21, 1 May 2017 (UTC)

"Mayhem" and "Significant" storm
There has been recent disagreement between myself and User:MarioProtIV over whether to start the lede with saying the storms were a series of significant weather events that caused mayhem in the central United States, versus were a series of severe weather events that affected central United States, ... my contention is that the words "significant" and "mayhem" are excessively dramatic words that can be modified to represent just the facts. To avoid a WP:REVERT WAR I suggested taking it to the talk page to see what other editors have to say about this. Peace, MPS (talk) 16:43, 3 May 2017 (UTC)
 * "Mayhem" is definitely excessive wording. TropicalAnalystwx13 (talk · contributions) 18:32, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

Requested move 19 February 2022

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 

The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Jack Frost (talk) 11:07, 27 February 2022 (UTC)

Tornado outbreak and floods of April 28 – May 1, 2017 → Late April - Early May 2017 North American storm complex – More conscise and also allows for blizzard to be mentioned 12.246.51.130 (talk) 14:18, 19 February 2022 (UTC) The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.