Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Atlantic hurricanes before 1600/archive1


 * The following is an archived discussion of a featured list nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured list candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The list was not promoted by Dabomb87 17:49, 19 August 2011.

List of Atlantic hurricanes before 1600

 * Nominator(s): bender235 (talk) 10:45, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

I am nominating this for featured list because it is finally completed and entirely sourced. In my opinion it meets FL criteria. bender235 (talk) 10:45, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
 * I suggest a rename to "List of pre-1600 Atlantic hurricanes". There's no notion of season introduced in the article, and the word 'season' appears in the prose and list exactly twice. --Golbez (talk) 15:31, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Actually, I think it should be moved to something like "List of Atlantic hurricanes before 1600", to be along the lines of List of Atlantic hurricanes in the 17th century. ♫ Hurricanehink ( talk ) 17:39, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
 * I agree with you that the current name is inconsistent. However, there are still articles like 1800–1809 Atlantic hurricane seasons (and so on) although there weren't officially defined seasons at that time, either. Also, your argument has a flaw: if we can't use the term "season" because it wasn't defined until 1850, we also can't use the term "hurricane", don't you think? --bender235 (talk) 08:52, 5 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Well, to be fair, the storms listed here have retroactively been labeled as hurricanes. That isn't the case for the seasons. As far as I know, there are any indications of a hurricane season until the 1900s, but the project has it labeled back to 1850 for convenience. As for the 1800-1809, I think that will and should be changed at a later point once that article is made better. --♫ Hurricanehink ( talk ) 12:47, 5 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Just a heads up, the article was moved. --♫ Hurricanehink ( talk ) 03:23, 6 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Regarding an issue raised by TRM, count me in favor of merging the list and adding sorting. You probably don't need to make the notes column sortable, but sorting would be beneficial in the others.  Giants2008  ( 27 and counting ) 01:52, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
 * support and in favor of the name change Pumpkin Sky  talk  01:30, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment there is no source for the 1529 hurricane in Puerto Rico. Another thing is that reference #57 is missing the author (Al Sandrik and Chris Landsea), the date (May 2003), and the publisher (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration). Actually, one more thing, reference #35 is missing the publisher (Puerto Rico Hurricane Center).--12george1 (talk) 01:42, 23 July 2011 (UTC)

I would say split-up the damage or description and the notes column into two like is done on List of Kraft Nabisco Championship champions, so that it could be more easily accessed instead of having to find them at the end of sentences. I would gladly Support if that is done!SaysWhoWhatWhenWhereWhyHow? (talk) 22:04, 17 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Comment "This is a list..." FLs don't start like this anymore. Also, in the damage/notes columns, sentence fragments should not have periods at the end. Dabomb87 (talk) 14:44, 18 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Comment - could you split up this sentence? It's incredibly long. --♫ Hurricanehink ( talk ) 17:15, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
 * "Even data from the early years of the Columbian era is suspect and incomplete because the distinction between a hurricane and an extratropical system was not drawn by Renaissance scientists and sailors and because European exploration and colonization of the regions affected by hurricanes did not begin in earnest until the mid-16th century."


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