Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Maryland and Washington, D.C. hurricanes (1980–present)


 * 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 User:Scorpion0422 04:12, 1 June 2008.

List of Maryland and Washington, D.C. hurricanes (1980–present)
Alright, I know I only published this a few hours ago, but I firmly believe it passes the criteria. There might be some prose issues that I can't see, but if so they are probably very minor. Thanks, Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone  22:15, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Support - All resolved, good work. Marrio (talk) 20:52, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment - check for tense consistency. I see several past tense. ♬♩ Hurricanehink ( talk ) 14:50, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I think I got all of them. Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone  17:45, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Another problem is lack of 2008 USD's. Also, the dates are weird. How come the first sub-section is split by decade (1980-9), the next section is 6 years (1990-5), the next one is 4 years (1996-9), the next one is 4 years (2000-3), then the last section is (randomly) 2004-present. Grammar in the following sentence could be better; producing reported waves 12 ft (3.7 m) high. Just a little quibble. When saying, produces up to 2.70 in (69 mm) , it implies that rainfall reached up to, but still less than 2.7 inches. brushes the western border  - what does that mean? Tense consistency is needed; Tropical Storm Beryl's remnants track over western Maryland and produces. ♬♩ Hurricanehink ( talk ) 13:37, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I fixed the grammar mistakes. I'm trying to keep the sections as equal in size as possible, which is why the time periods vary. Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone  14:10, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I think it would be more important to have the sections equal in size, in terms of time. I can see the argument for keeping the sections in similar lengths, but it distorts the scale of time by splitting it the way it currently is. ♬♩ Hurricanehink ( talk ) 14:30, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
 * What would you say, five years? 10 years? I'm just concerned that one section will have a few storms, and another will have dozens. Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone  14:33, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Every other featured state hurricane list article does the same, which this article should be based off of. If there are too few, than have a larger time period, such as a decade. If there are too many, then split it down the middle (1990-1994, 1995-1999). ♬♩ Hurricanehink ( talk ) 15:51, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Done, I think. Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone  02:08, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2008 USD's still needed. Also, there are several unneeded Wikilinks, like to generator, corn, soy, hypothermia; all of those are common terms that don't add much value. ♬♩ Hurricanehink ( talk ) 22:13, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Done, although I think hypothermia does need a link, and I left it as such. Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone  22:34, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I just came over to look at some lists, considering the proposal at WT:FAC; this list has a mess of messed up WP:DASHes, using spaced emdashes where it should have spaced endashes. It's also missing WP:NBSPs.   Sandy Georgia  (Talk) 02:24, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I fixed the dashes, but I only found one or two missing nbsps. Could you please specify if there are any more missing? Thanks, Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone  02:34, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Support with a few questions. I just made a few changes to the lead. Is "brushing an area with light rainfall" normal in metereological writing? It sounds like a weird construction here, and it's used twice. The last two sentences of the Hurricane Isabel item come off as odd too (the part about DC) but I can't put my finger on why. The sentence The following table includes all storms from since 1980 which have caused reported fatalities in Maryland and Washington, D.C. has an obvious error, and I believe the "which" should be "that". Tuf-Kat (talk) 01:29, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes, to brush an area with light rainfall means to pass just offshore of a state, dropping light rainfall with the outer bands. I fixed that mistake. Thank you for your support and comments. Juliancolton Tropical <sup style="color:#666660;">Cyclone  01:36, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

Still Unresolved
 * I'm echoing matthew's bewilderment. What is the difference between a tropical cyclone, a hurricane, a tropical depression, and a tropical storm? I think you should clarify in the lead, or maybe make a key.
 * "No storms during the period have caused sustained hurricane strength winds, as only two in recorded history have done so. Hurricane strength winds are sustained winds of 75 mph (121 km/h) or greater." Perhaps you could say "...sustained hurricane strength winds (winds of 75 mph (121 km/h) or greater)..." Just seems a bit more efficient to say it that way.

Noble Story (talk) 13:30, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Noble Story (talk) 13:30, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Alright, I tried again. Any better? Thanks, Juliancolton <sup style="color:#666660;">Tropical <sup style="color:#666660;">Cyclone  13:38, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Additional Comments And that should do it. Matthewedwards (talk· contribs· count· email) 06:16, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Comments from « <font color="#9696A0" face="Snap ITC">Milk's Favorite <font color="#4D0100" face="Snap ITC">Cøøkie 
 * Per Wikipedia:Manual of Style (numbers), there should be a non-breaking space -  between a number and the unit of measurement. For example, instead of 350 mm, use 350 mm, which when you are editing the page, should look like: <tt>350&amp;nbsp;mm</tt>.
 * "List of Maryland and Washington, D.C. hurricanes from 1980–present encompasses 54 known..." - Avoid repeating the title.
 * "Hurricane Ivan was the deadliest storm, indirectly killing two women when a tree was blown on their house due to a tornado spawned by the system." - Do you have a reference?
 * Other than those minor comments, awesome job on the list. « <font color="#9696A0" face="Snap ITC">Milk's Favorite <font color="#4D0100" face="Snap ITC">Cøøkie  00:01, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Hey, thanks for the comments. Added the missing nbsps. Yep, the Ivan fact has refs in the body of the article. About repeating the title, because it tells what the list is and doesn't just say "This is a list of...", I think it should be fine. Juliancolton <sup style="color:#666660;">Tropical <sup style="color:#666660;">Cyclone  00:27, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Support - seems to meet all criteria. « <font color="#9696A0" face="Snap ITC">Milk's Favorite <font color="#4D0100" face="Snap ITC">Cøøkie  14:39, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
 * still a bit of over-linking regarding measurements. (Virginia then Charley; Erin then Josephine; Gordon then Ivan
 * link ft/m in Tammy/Twenty-one, and switch the in/mm link from Barry to Cindy
 * Jeanne has ref [2] placed mid-sentence
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