Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Timeline of the 2009 Atlantic hurricane season/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 The Rambling Man 18:09, 28 February 2010.

Timeline of the 2009 Atlantic hurricane season

 * Nominator(s): Cyclonebiskit (talk) 21:55, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

I am nominating this for featured list because I feel that it meets all Featured List criteria, including alt text. All thoughts and comments are welcome. Cyclonebiskit (talk) 21:55, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This is a WikiCup nomination. To the nominator: if you do not intend to submit this article at the WikiCup, feel free to remove this notice. Mm40 (talk) 14:06, 13 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Support, issues addressed... – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 14:28, 24 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Dabs; please check the disambiguation links identified in the toolbox. Dabomb87 (talk) 04:12, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Done Cyclonebiskit (talk) 15:44, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

Support, all issues resolved. Dabomb87 (talk) 23:46, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

Comment. I was asked to comment here about the WP:ACCESSIBILITY of the diagram at Timeline of events. This diagram is implemented via the following HTML:    ...   Unfortunately when a visually impaired user visits this, they are given relatively little information about the image. The image has no alt text, and the W3C validator report lists several errors, all having to do with lack of alt text. Apparently the EasyTimeline feature was designed without accessibility in mind. Assuming that EasyTimeline can't be fixed easily, I suggest redoing the timeline as text, or perhaps as an SVG image or an image map, as that can be done accessibly. Eubulides (talk) 19:19, 14 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Have you asked the user or another user who knows how to work the easy timeline feature about adding alt text to it? Jason Rees (talk) 00:05, 16 February 2010 (UTC)
 * What's the status of this issue? Dabomb87 (talk) 22:21, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
 * I would sort it out myself but the HTML issues are in the actual Software and not the timeline. so we are left with a few options 1) add an SVG image, or table 2) Imagemap it 3)Find someone who is able to sort out the issues in the software timeline. or 4) Leave as is Options 1&2 would ruin the effect of the diagram in my opinion as in the 2009 PTS we are using the timeline as a contents section for the storms section as otherwise the contents list would be far too big. Option 3 - Erik Zachte who i know has access to it seems to be rather busy to sort it out and i dont know anyone else who could sort it so i personally would go with option 4 as i think the issue is unworkable but ill leave it to the main editors to figure it out.Jason Rees (talk) 23:48, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Well, my opinion is that the timeline, while very helpful, is not absolutely essential to readers' understanding; i.e., they can get the gist of the article without the aid of the timeline. Therefore, I think it's best to leave it as is and wait for the developers to come up with a fix. Dabomb87 (talk) 23:52, 21 February 2010 (UTC)

Personally, I think this is an issue that goes beyond this particular article. It obviously requires extension-wide changes (and it is indeed a fairly early extension, from 2004), so I'd rather we not go messing around with it for now. I'm also in agreement with Dabomb. – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 00:00, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

Support Mm40 (talk) 21:39, 26 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Comments from 
 * General
 * Have you notified User:12george1 of this nomination as he has had a significant amount of edits to this article as well.
 * Alt text, dabs, and external links check out fine.
 * Lead
 * As a result of the minimal damage caused by storms throughout the season, no names were retired from and thus remain available for the 2015 season - is the 'from' supposed be there? When I read the sentence, the 'from' seems awkward there.
 * As established within the Tropical Storm Grace FAC - the sentence about the retirement needs removing.Jason Rees (talk) 02:37, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
 * RemovedJason Rees (talk) 02:39, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Is the "Instituto Nacional de Recursos Hidráulicos" the title of the webpage or the publisher? If its the title, then this ref has no publisher.-- T ru  c o   503 02:24, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Umm theres no reference with the "Instituto Nacional de Recursos Hidráulicos" in this article. Jason Rees (talk) 02:37, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Oops, I was looking at the wrong list, sorry about that. The only problem that remains is contacting the other contributor to the article. T ru  c o   503 02:54, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
 * DoneJason Rees (talk) 02:56, 27 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Support-- T ru  c o   503 01:58, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

Support once my only comment has been dealt with - The lead currently contradicts the article in saying that Hurricane Ike was the only system to make landfall in the USA when Claudette made landfall in the US.Jason Rees (talk) 03:58, 28 February 2010 (UTC)


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