Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Tropical Storm Hermine (1998)/archive1


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The article was promoted by SandyGeorgia 23:40, 11 July 2009.

Tropical Storm Hermine (1998)

 * Nominator(s): – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 15:41, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

I can't quite think of a clever nomination statement, but I'll just say this: if you didn't know that Tropical Storm Hermine was the eighth tropical cyclone of the 1998 Atlantic hurricane season, you need to read this article! – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 15:41, 10 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments -
 * Newspapers titles in the references should be in italics. If you're using cite news, use the work field for the title of the paper, and the publisher field for the name of the actual company that publishes the paper. (I noticed USA Today, but there may be others)
 * Please spell out abbreviations in the references. I noted NOAA and USGS
 * Otherwise, sources look okay, links checked out with the link checker tool. Ealdgyth - Talk 15:48, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Should be fixed. – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 15:55, 10 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Clearly, my life was a dull and dreary place before I learned that Hermine was the eighth tropic cyclone of the hurricane season (Hermine? what kind of name is that?)
 * Images : check out, all free and such. (yawn)
 * Sources : Shoot me an email, I have a handful of stuff I found of LexisNexis that may or may not be useful for some minor additions (conflicting sources on highest winds, some comments about market impact, some more impact tidbits.)
 * More when I feel like it. -- Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs ( talk ) 16:13, 10 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Support looks up to stuff for me. Cyclonebiskit (talk) 00:58, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Support the additions have done a lot for the article. I believe it meets comprehensiveness, image, ref, and style criterion (I will run through and do my best to correct any flaws I can see in regards to prose). -- Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs ( talk ) 19:04, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
 * I've copyedited the length of the article, mostly cleaning up commas and excising some redundancy. I also left some inline comments about certain areas where it was unclear to me, a storm neophyte (diff). One question: not really due to WP:BLP concerns, since the man is dead, but out of privacy should we excise the name of the shrimper who was killed? It's not like he's notable for anything else or his name is essential to the article. -- Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs ( talk ) 19:04, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Done, and addressed the inline queries. Thanks for the copyedit and support! – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 19:29, 26 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments It's pretty good. Could use some fit and finish, particularly in the following areas:
 * I've noticed this in other tropical storm articles, but why the propensity for using phrases like "towards the south" instead of the simpler "southward"? I suggest this make its way into your WikiProject style guide, if you have one.
 * Likewise, phrases like "to the northeast of the center" and "to the east of the center" can lose "to the" without changing the meaning.
 * "Initially, it was believed that Hermine's remnants contributed to the development of Hurricane Karl; however, this was not confirmed." I'm more curious than anything else, but how did you extract this information from the source given? I don't see Karl mentioned in this bulletin. Also, change to "this belief was not confirmed" to avoid the ambiguity.
 * Tropical Depression 11 was the precursor to Karl. – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 22:43, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
 * "On Grand Isle, a mandatory evacuation order was declared ..." Which Grand Isle are you referring to? You're linking to a disambig page. If it's the same one as earlier in the para, remove the link.
 * There's some overlinking present. Please don't link place names such as New Orleans multiple times. Also.. "oxygen", "mosquito", maybe others.
 * "said that the storm 'obviously...played a part' in the man's death" MoS problem.. check WP:ELLIPSES.
 * -- Laser brain  (talk)  21:02, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
 * All done. Thanks for the review! – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 22:43, 2 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Comment: The inro. conflicts with the final section. The intro says otherwise, the effects from Hermine were minor., But the final section tells me that the effect of Hermine was to compound the problems caused by Frances and other storms and that the combined effect was disastrous to a loss of millions of dollars to farmers. This fact needs to be reflected in the first paragraph in a statement such as "While hermine was not of itself a severe and damaging storm, the effects combined with thos of other storms that season....etc" Amandajm (talk) 16:09, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Good idea, thanks. – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 16:25, 4 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Support Wow, 28 days and the FAC is not closed yet. Well anyway, to me, it meets all criteria. Great Article to read. Darren23 (Contribs) 22:24, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
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