Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of California tornadoes/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 promoted by PresN via FACBot (talk) 00:25, 11 May 2024 (UTC).

List of California tornadoes

 * Nominator(s): ♫ Hurricanehink ( talk ) 20:12, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

I am nominating this for featured list because I moved to California, and was worried about how lacking the information on Wikipedia there was about tornadoes. You might not care about them because they're so common, but certain places get them more than others, and certain areas are more populated than others, so their effects might be disproportionately more impactful than, say, the middle of a corn field (which does happen a lot in California too). How often do they happen? And where? I'm glad you asked, because I wanted to figure out these questions, and more!

Caveat up front. First, it's been a few years since I've nominated anything. Second, I'm not 100% that I identified every individual tornado, as they're not always reported, or verified by a reliable source. I largely used the National Weather Service, the National Climatic Data Center, and on occasion, corroborating news sources. There are a few different types of weather events that are included, such as waterspouts which went from the water to land (thus making them an official tornado), fire whirls (or fire tornadoes, yes, that's a thing and they're terrifying), landspouts and gustnadoes. After a fairly extensive search over the last nine months or so, I'm fairly sure that the article is comprehensive, well-written, well-cited, formatted to the standards that are expected, all that good stuff that makes for a featured list. But I have my blinders on, and I fully acknowledge that I might've made a mistake here or there, in which case, I'd love to fix it. If you have any minor or large issues, I'll do my best to address them. And if you enjoyed the article, then thanks for the read. ♫ Hurricanehink ( talk ) 20:12, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

Dylan620
Howdy HH, long time no talk! Hope you and yours are doing well. I'm saving this space for an image review; should be done in the next two to three days. Dylan 620 in public/on mobile (he/him • talk) 09:11, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Apologies for the slight delay; I had planned to post this yesterday or the night before, but I needed to (a) address comments on a GAN I'd submitted, (b) recover from a particularly lousy night's sleep, and (c) do some digging through California legal documents to verify the status of one of the images here. The image review passes; details below.
 * All of the present images contribute encyclopedic value to the listicle.
 * Image sources check out across the board. Page numbers for a few of them were lacking at the time of nomination, but I took it upon myself to fix this issue over at Commons; see my recent edits there.
 * All images are appropriately licensed. I note that the original Flickr upload for the image, which was taken by the Los Angeles Fire Department, claims full copyright. However, assuming my reading of the law is correct, the California Public Records Act states that images taken by California government agencies are in the public domain, thus overriding the Flickr claim.
 * All images have sufficient alt text.
 * The image review aside, I did notice a minor prose-related issue that prevents me from being able to fully support just yet. While the dates for most of the entries are followed by an en dash (good), there are also multiple instances where the date is followed by a hyphen (not so good). Once this is rectified, I will be able to offer my full support. Dylan 620  (he/him • talk • edits) 18:14, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
 * No worries - I changed all of the hyphens. Thanks for checking out and adding the page numbers. ♫ Hurricanehink ( talk )  21:52, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
 * No prob HH – everything looks good to me now. Support. Dylan 620  (he/him • talk • edits) 17:15, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

MPGuy2824
 * Tables need captions, which allow screen reader software to jump straight to named tables without having to read out all of the text before it each time. Visual captions can be added by putting + caption_text as the first line of the table code; if that caption would duplicate a nearby section header, you can make it screen-reader-only by putting + instead.
 * Tables need column scopes for all column header cells, which in combination with row scopes lets screen reader software accurately determine and read out the headers for each cell of a data table. Column scopes can be added by adding !scope=col to each header cell, e.g.  becomes.
 * You should make the country name in each row as a header cell and add need row scopes on the "primary" column for each row, which in combination with column scopes lets screen reader software accurately determine and read out the headers for each cell of a data table. Row scopes can be added by adding !scope=row to each primary cell, e.g.  becomes   (on its own line).
 * Please see MOS:DTAB for example table code if this isn't clear. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 09:03, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the comments, but sorry for the delay, it was a dank weekend. ♫ Hurricanehink ( talk ) 19:57, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
 * I added a caption for the county table, and also tweaked the caption for the other tables.
 * As for your second comment, could you clarify? For the second, do you mean the table with the months or by time period? There no column for !year. As for your other comment, I changed the counties so they have the scope.


 * I meant that as a general example. Specifically, for this list, in the Tornadoes by county table, the cells of the header row (County, EF/FU, etc) need column scope. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 09:37, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Also consider removing the "width=100%" for that table. It leads to a more compact table from which it is easier to gain insights from the data. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 10:07, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
 * OK, I think I got that, can you double check ? ♫ Hurricanehink ( talk ) 21:01, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Support promotion. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 05:09, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

Image review from Z1720

 * No licencing concerns
 * Alt text used
 * No px used
 * Captions are fine
 * File:Dolores 2015-07-15 1755Z.jpg: Source link is broken. Is there an archived version of the link?
 * File:Carr Fire tornado 1.jpg: I added a page number

Just one concern. Z1720 (talk) 15:01, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the image review, . I re-uploaded the image of Dolores. I couldn't find the exact version of the link, as the version I saw online had the land outlined. Rather than finding the original, I just opted for the slightly different version of the same storm. ♫ Hurricanehink ( talk ) 21:20, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Concerns have been resolved, I can support based on the image review. Z1720 (talk) 21:22, 27 April 2024 (UTC)

Promoting. -- Pres N  18:57, 10 May 2024 (UTC)


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