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 * 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) 00:32, 10 August 2017 (UTC).

Timeline of the 2015 North Indian Ocean cyclone season

 * Nominator(s): &mdash;  Iune talk  21:34, 18 June 2017 (UTC)

The 2015 North Indian Ocean cyclone season was a rather curious season. Despite the season being below-average in terms of cyclone activity, the Arabian Sea saw above-average cyclone formation with the bulk of cyclone formation occurring within the body of water (usually, the bulk of the activity occurs in the Bay of Bengal). Probably the most memorable aspects of the season were cyclones Chapala and Megh, which the Washington Post deemed as "twin freak cyclones" after them impacted Yemen and northern Somalia within days of each other. Chapala was the first storm to bring hurricane-force winds to Yemen in recorded history, and Megh was the worst storm ever to strike the Yemeni island of Socotra. Many of the other tropical cyclones in the season did not intensify much, though they brought historic flooding to Oman and the UAE (ARB 02), Gujarat (ARB 03), northeastern India, Myanmar and Bangladesh (Komen) and southern India (BOB 03) resulting in hundreds of fatalities in the region.

This article is the first that I've written in seven years, and as such I've based its structure and format off of some of the more recent WP:WPTC featured timelines, especially the Timeline of the 2013 Atlantic hurricane season. In addition to this, I've added the coordinates, which have been featured in some of the most recently created timelines for the project, such as the Timeline of the 2016 Atlantic hurricane season.

As a result, I believe that this timeline is ready to be reviewed here at WP:FLC to see if it meets the FLC criteria. &mdash;  Iune talk  21:34, 18 June 2017 (UTC)

Comments Support Otherwise, it's good. YE Pacific Hurricane  23:01, 23 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Any reason why you link tropical cyclone scales so many times? YE Pacific Hurricane  23:01, 23 July 2017 (UTC)
 * I ended up linking them each time a different IMD category was mentioned in the lead. Should I just link it for the first mentioned category (depression) and leave the rest unlinked? &mdash;  Iune talk  00:14, 25 July 2017 (UTC)
 * That's what I do in other basins, yes. YE Pacific Hurricane  01:11, 25 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Removed extra links to tropical cyclone scales, as per your suggestion. &mdash;  Iune talk  02:12, 25 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Why isn't tropical cyclones linked? YE Pacific Hurricane  23:01, 23 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Linked in the lead. &mdash;  Iune talk  00:14, 25 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Did the El Nino have any affect on the season? YE Pacific Hurricane  23:06, 23 July 2017 (UTC)
 * The IMD stated that the El Niño had depressed activity in the Bay of Bengal, so I added that to the lead paragraph. &mdash; <font style="font-family:Palatino; font-size:12px;"> Iune talk  00:23, 25 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Worth noting that IMD gives winds in 3 mins and JTWC gives them in 1 wind in the lead? YE <sup style="color:#666660;">Pacific <sup style="color:#666660;">Hurricane  23:01, 23 July 2017 (UTC)
 * I mention the 3-minute vs. 1-minute wind measurements in the second to last paragraph of the lead. &mdash; <font style="font-family:Palatino; font-size:12px;"> Iune talk  00:14, 25 July 2017 (UTC)

Comments by Dudley
 * "A total of twelve depressions were recorded, of which nine further intensified into deep depressions." I would delete the word "further".
 * Removed "further" from the sentence". &mdash; <font style="font-family:Helvetica;Arial; font-size:12px;"> Iune talk  00:56, 26 July 2017 (UTC)
 * "Activity began in June with Cyclonic Storm Ashobaa" This repeats what is said above. I would delete "Activity began in June with"
 * Reworded sentence to "In early June, Cyclonic Storm Ashobaa produced..." &mdash; <font style="font-family:Helvetica;Arial; font-size:12px;"> Iune talk  00:56, 26 July 2017 (UTC)
 * "estimated ₹16.5 billion". Few people outside India will understand the symbol. Perhaps replace with "16.5 billion Indian rupees"
 * I had originally linked the currency symbol to the appropriate article, though I see your point. I replaced it with your suggestion as it might be easier for non-Indian readers to immediately understand the currency being referred to. &mdash; <font style="font-family:Helvetica;Arial; font-size:12px;"> Iune talk  00:56, 26 July 2017 (UTC)
 * "became the first recorded tropical cyclone to produce hurricane-force winds as it made landfall in Yemen." This is ambiguous. You say the first to produce hurricane-force winds, but I assume you mean the first in Yemen, not generally.
 * Reworded to "became the first recorded tropical cyclone to produce hurricane-force winds in Yemen" &mdash; <font style="font-family:Helvetica;Arial; font-size:12px;"> Iune talk  00:56, 26 July 2017 (UTC)
 * "measured sustained wind speeds over three minutes". It took me a while to understand this. Maybe "measured wind speeds which were sustained for more than three minutes"
 * Actually, the winds reported by the warning centers were the average wind speeds recorded over a three/one minute period. I've reworded the sentence to make this clear for readers unfamiliar with meteorological measurements as "...and measured average sustained wind speeds taken over a three minute period, while the JTWC measured average sustained wind speeds taken over a one minute period..."; does this make it easier to understand for you? &mdash; <font style="font-family:Helvetica;Arial; font-size:12px;"> Iune talk  00:56, 26 July 2017 (UTC)
 * This article looks good. My queries are minor. Dudley Miles (talk) 09:51, 25 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Support. Dudley Miles (talk) 09:09, 26 July 2017 (UTC)


 * Support – All of my concerns have been addressed and I'm confident that the list meets FL standards. Giants2008  ( Talk ) 22:26, 1 August 2017 (UTC)

Source Review passed, promoting. -- Pres N  17:21, 9 August 2017 (UTC)


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