Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Tropical Depression Ten (2005)/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 promoted by Karanacs 20:41, 21 July 2009.

Tropical Depression Ten (2005)

 * Nominator(s): – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 04:30, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

I am nominating this for featured article because, though at first it appears rather insignificant, I feel it's a fairly substantial storm—at least as far as tropical depressions go. It never directly affected land, and as a result there's really not much to write about it. However, its remnants contributed to the formation of Tropical Depression Twelve, and in turn Hurricane Katrina. I realize that as the article is so short, the prose will likely be heavily scrutinized; however, I've spend the past hour or so proofreading it word-by-word, and I think it's more-or-less up to snuff. Hopefully you'll agree. – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 04:30, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

Image review: Everything looks fine. Steve Smith (talk) (formerly Sarcasticidealist) 07:57, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

Support by criteria I don't feel that this article really is worth being featured by per my own standards, I'm supporting it since it meets FA criteria. I only have one small quibble with the article; at the end of the Met. history you say TD 12, I'd rather it be put as Tropical Depression Twelve since that was it's official designation. Cheers, Cyclonebiskit (talk) 04:06, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Done. Thanks for the support and comments. – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 04:08, 29 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments - sources look okay, links checked out with the link checker tool. Ealdgyth - Talk 16:04, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

Weak Support I do agree with Cyclonebiskit that this article meets FA criteria, but it is not really as good as other FA's I've seen, but because it meets all criteria, I will support it. Darren23 (Contribs) 13:42, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Well, please do list any potential improvements to the article. :) Thanks for the support nonetheless. – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 15:26, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

Support- the MH is comprehensive, I might add. -- An ' ha ' mi  rak  21:31, 6 July 2009 (UTC) Support - Whilst i dont think this meets my own critera for FA as it had no impact etc, i have too Judge it by the FA Critera which i think it meets.Jason Rees (talk) 21:51, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment. Done; thanks. Images need alt text as per WP:ALT. Please see Template:Infobox Hurricane/testcases for possible alt text for the lead image. Eubulides (talk) 01:13, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Added. Thanks! – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 01:20, 14 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Weak support I know very little about hurricanes but it looks comprehensive. Minor quibble: the last line of the impact section juts out to the left under the image (on my browser at least, which is WIE). This looks a tad ugly. Is it possible to move the image up or down to change this? -- EA Swyer Talk Contributions 18:37, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I adjusted the image alignment, so it looks better on Firefox, but I haven't checked it on IE etc. – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 19:12, 19 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Support - with comments:
 * On August 8, a tropical wave emerged from the west coast of Africa and entered the Atlantic Ocean. Tracking towards the west, the depression began to exhibit signs of convective organization on August 11.  - Both of these sentences need cites, as they involve dates. Along with the Aug. 13 sentence.
 * This stuff is cited a couple sentences down, so do I really need duplicate the footnote for every line? – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 16:32, 21 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Late on August 13, it was described as "beginning to look like Irene-junior as it undergoes southwesterly mid-level shear beneath the otherwise favorable upper-level outflow pattern". - Cite after the quote
 * Done. – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 16:32, 21 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Upon being designated, the depression comprised of a large area of thunderstorm activity, with curved banding features and expanding outflow - was comprised
 * Fixed. – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 16:32, 21 July 2009 (UTC)


 * By early August 14 the shear had substantially disrupted the storm, leaving the low-level center of circulation exposed from the area of convection, which was also deteriorating. - cite
 * See question above. – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 16:32, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

Otherwise, brilliant prose.  ceran  thor 16:06, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Cheers for the review and support. – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 16:32, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
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