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Animal attack

Everything in the article is relevant to the topic, but it can be quite vague; it does not go into detail about certain cases. Several places were marked with  Citation Needed  so it makes me think this is more of a quick observation article that has a underlying biases opinion. It does not exactly say what could cause these animal attacks or the severity of the bites; it seems to be more of a scare tactic I think.

This article was last edited of December 2018 but I do not believe the statistics were actually updated for this article. This article needs more information, it needs to discuss the cases of the animal bites instead of just saying a kids have been taken to the hospital due to animal attacks. It needs to say what attacked the child and what was the situation that caused this to happen. There is also not an opposing argument.

There are parts of this article where the author tries to be neutral but it just comes off more as an opinion what statistics added to it. For instance, animal attacks have been identified as a major public health problem. and, animal attacks are a cause of human injuries and fatalities.. These statements hardly have proof and the odds are not in the favor of these statements.

This article is overrepresented and underrepresented, statistics and statements about bites are extremely overrepresented to be correct, but the details that could back up these claims more and the details about the stories are wildly underrepresented.

The links to this article work and do help the article to an extent but not all of the information was used. For instance in the article it is stated that an animal attack/dog bite is quite more frequent that a lightning strike hitting someone, well they forgot to mention that a dog bite is a 1 in 112,400 chance of happening.

The references are reliable, the information is coming from experts companies that they know what they are talking about. The author however only uses information that helps prove their point.

This article in the talk page is part of different wikiprojects but it is constantly being edited. Multiple people have had to fix errors and have the author need to be more specific and how the author is missing information over the topic. Not many agree with the information being represented.

~ Dara Poehl

Copyedit an Article:

There were very few mistakes in the article, a few that I found are in the paragraphs pasted below and the mistakes are bolded:

'' The outbreak was caused by a vigorous upper-level trough that moved into the Southern Plains states on April 25. An extratropical cyclone developed ahead of this upper-level trough between northeastern Oklahoma and western Missouri, which moved northeast.[17] Conditions were similar on April 26, with a predicted likelihood of severe thunderstorms, including an extended threat of strong to violent long-track tornadoes throughout the afternoon and evening hours; mixed-layer CAPE values were forecast to be around 3000–4000 J/kg, around east Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas. The storm mode on April 26 was predicted to include mostly discrete tornadic supercells during both the afternoon and the early evening, shifting over to a mesoscale convective complex, with more of a threat of damaging winds and hail during the nighttime '''hours. [18''']

As the storm system moved eastward toward the Ohio, Mississippi, and Tennessee Valleys on April 27, a very powerful 80–100 knot mid-level jet stream moved into the Ohio and Tennessee Valleys behind the trough and created strong wind shear, along with a low-pressure center moving quickly northeastward across those areas on April 27. During the afternoon of April 27, CAPE values were estimated to be in the range of 2000–3000 J/kg across Louisiana and southern Mississippi, with the moderate instability moving northeastward across the southern Tennessee Valley; additionally, temperatures across the southeastern United States ranged from the 70s°F (mid-20s°C) to the lower 90s°F (near 35 °C). Helicity levels ranged from 450–600 m2/s2, which supported some significant tornadic activity and strong to violent long-track '''tornadoes. [19]'''

A total of 56 severe weather watches were issued by the Storm Prediction Center (SPC) over those four days in the outbreak area. This included 41 tornado watches—10 of which were Particularly Dangerous Situation (PDS) watches—and 15 severe thunderstorm '''watches. [20'][21] The SPC assigns numbers to each severe weather watch issued starting at the beginning of each year; the organization unsuccessfully used two of their allocated watch numbers during this outbreak (numbers 208 and 209).[22] 

Sentence corrections:

'' Conditions were similar on April 26, with a predicted likelihood of severe thunderstorms, including an extended threat of strong to violent long-track tornadoes throughout the afternoon and evening hours; mixed-layer CAPE values were forecast to be around 3000–4000 J/kg, around east Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas. ''

The changes I would make to this sentence would be '  evening hours. Mixed-layer CAPE values were forecast to be around 3000-4000 J/kg around east Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas.’’'''

This article was well written and was hard to find any mistakes.

~Dara Poehl

Copy Edit 2
A high risk of severe weather was issued for April 26 for portions of Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas along and near the Interstate 30 corridor as conditions became even more favorable for extreme weather. A large PDS tornado watch with very high possibilities for tornadoes was issued for that same area that afternoon. Widespread tornado warnings were then issued in that area later that evening.

An upper-level negatively-tilted trough with two embedded shortwaves generated two surface lows that propagated generally east. One of the surface lows tracked northeast along the Mississippi River into Wisconsin as it occluded. Tornado watches were issued for the Lower Great Lakes during the afternoon hours as supercell thunderstorms developed along the warm front lifting north across central Michigan. Two tornadoes touched down in Michigan and caused damage to farm structures. Further east, severe thunderstorms caused scattered wind damage and large hail across Pennsylvania and New York. Two-inch-diameter hail was reported in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania. An isolated supercell moved across Central New York throughout much of the afternoon, producing golf ball-sized hail in Syracuse and spawning a very brief EF1 tornado in Verona Mills, which primarily caused damage to trees. Another tornado — this one being in Gilbertsville — caused significant damage to a school's athletic field.

The second surface low corresponded to an area of strong upper level divergence ahead of the downstream shortwave. As the low formed across Texas and deepened while moving east, a tightening pressure gradient force further strengthened the low-level jet, therefore creating a broad warm sector across the southeastern states. This also generated stronger wind shear, providing better organization for the supercell storms as a result. Numerous tornadoes touched down across several states, including Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas. Most of those tornadoes were weak, but a few of them caused considerable damage. A long-tracked wedge tornado caused EF2 damage in rural portions of Texas and Louisiana. An EF3 tornado destroyed structures and caused severe damage at Fort Campbell, Kentucky as well. A total of 55 tornadoes were confirmed the 26th, although no fatalities occurred.

''' No changes were needed in this copy edit portion. Everything makes sense and is quite informative of the events that took place on April 26th. All of the shortcuts work appropriately. '''

 `````Dara Poehl 

Editing of Article: Citations, activity 9
Option B:  59 touched down in Alabama  this is saying 59 Tornadoes touched down when in fact is was 29 confirmed in Central Alabama and 62 across the state of Alabama.  'In total, there were 29 confirmed tornadoes in Central Alabama on this day, and 62 confirmed tornadoes across the State of Alabama. '' from the new article. Citation: US Department of Commerce, & Noaa. (2016, September 29). Historic Outbreak of April 27, 2011. Retrieved from https://www.weather.gov/bmx/event_04272011 '''


 * 1) US Department of Commerce, & Noaa. (2016, September 29). Historic Outbreak of April 27, 2011. Retrieved from https://www.weather.gov/bmx/event_04272011
 * 2) This is a primary article, that is a popular/academic source I believe. I find this article beneficial because it is written by experts in that field.
 * 3) On This Day: 2011 Tornado Super Outbreak. (2018, August 09). Retrieved from https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/2011-tornado-super-outbreak
 * 4) This also is a primary article written by an academic source. This article is written by people who are also experts in the field and collect and keep data/information over events in the environment.
 * 5) DeMonia, R., & Birmingham News. (2011, July 07). Alabama's April 27 tornado death toll includes some unconventional victims. Retrieved from http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2011/07/alabamas_april_27_tornado_deat.html
 * 6) This is a secondary source. I find it beneficial because they still got their information from experts, but they also give a different angle which is nice to have.

Wikipedia Part D
Step 3 : Not many questions arise from the article. I learned how tornadoes can form, different types, their destruction and different ones that have touched ground and have destroyed cities/towns. Also have learned some of the most destructive tornadoes that have touched ground.

Step 5 : Some key words I used were: April 26 2011 tornado, worst tornado touch down in Alabama, 2011 Alabama tornado

Step 7 : https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/04/110428-tuscaloosa-birmingham-alabama-news-tornadoes-science-nation/

https://www.britannica.com/event/Super-Outbreak-of-2011

These sites are relevant because they are similar to the article that I chose and give the same information. I determined these cites credible because one is by the national geographic organization and the other is an online newspaper.


 * 1) Monster Alabama Tornado Spawned by Rare "Perfect Storm". (2016, April 30). Retrieved from https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/04/110428-tuscaloosa-birmingham-alabama-news-tornadoes-science-nation/
 * 2) Rafferty, J. P. (2018, April 19). Super Outbreak of 2011. Retrieved from https://www.britannica.com/event/Super-Outbreak-of-2011

Wikipedia Part A - Contributing images and media files
Would not let me upload the picture so here is the link for it - https://www.google.com/search?q=images+of+how+tornadoes+form&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS730US730&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=_InFqrSJ1P5YVM%253A%252CXzdQmJ5AzChcxM%252C_&vet=1&usg=AI4_-kR9Yfq0i9NzgyNmypg6NoROkFV1Sg&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi5v8Xf0eLhAhVEOK0KHe3yDfcQ9QEwBnoECAYQEA#imgrc=rtAE6ao2U89SwM:&vet=1

APA Citation of image:

(n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.google.com/search?q=images of how tornadoes form&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS730US730&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=_InFqrSJ1P5YVM:,XzdQmJ5AzChcxM,_&vet=1&usg=AI4_-kR9Yfq0i9NzgyNmypg6NoROkFV1Sg&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi5v8Xf0eLhAhVEOK0KHe3yDfcQ9QEwBnoECAYQEA#imgrc=rtAE6ao2U89SwM:&vet=1

This would be useful in the article because it helps show and describe what happens in order for a tornado to form.