Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Hurricane Michael (2000)/archive1


 * 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 not promoted by Karanacs 16:45, 11 May 2010.

Hurricane Michael (2000)

 * Nominator(s): 12george1 (talk) 15:00, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

I am nominating this for featured article because I feel it meets all of the criteria (WP:FACR). In addition, the article contains a comprehensive Meteorological history, as well as Preparations and impact info. Also, all images have appropriate captions and alt text. For these reasons and many more, I think it deserves featured article status. 12george1 (talk) 15:00, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment—have major contributors to the article, such as Juliancolton, be consulted before this nomination? (No dab links or dead external links.) Ucucha 15:02, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Contacted Juliancolton and just wrote a note on CrazyC83's talk. --12george1 (talk) 15:06, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Just confirming that 12george1 has my "permission" (not my article, of course) to nominate this. I think the lead could use some reworking, as a side-note. – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 15:14, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

Oppose. All in all, more work needs to be done. Hurricanehink ( talk ) 03:47, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
 * You need consistency with units. Sometimes you have imperial first, sometimes metric, and it varies whether they are abbreviated or not.
 * Needs US impact.
 * There are too many instances of passive voice - try rewording for more engaging prose.
 * Did the rainfall in Newfoundland do anything? You only focus on the winds, but 3 inches of rainfall could cause some flooding.
 * "Subsequent flights have been made into Hurricane Karen, Hurricane Isabel (while inland), Hurricane Juan and Hurricane Ophelia" - two problems with that sentence. First, Karen was a tropical storm when the flight occurred, and there should be a comma after Juan.
 * Did the hurricane not impact Nova Scotia at all?
 * The meteorological history needs date consistency.
 * The second sentence of the MH needs a complete rewrite. Only because I know the storm do I know what it means, but it needs work.
 * You should emphasize more that in 24 hours it went from a subtropical depression to a hurricane, quite an impressive feat.
 * Ref #6 (Discussion #12) doesn't cover all of the information that preceded it, since the citation in question is only a few lines long. This means there are reference problems.
 * Why did the storm move the way it did? Troughs? Ridges?
 * What allowed it to strengthen so much in its early life, and what allowed it to maintain its intensity later in its life?
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this page.