Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/Hurricane Felix (1995)/1

Hurricane Felix (1995)

 * • Watch article reassessment page • GAN review not found
 * Result: Delist per consensus below. Geometry guy 19:58, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

Promoted in 2006. – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 16:52, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Lead is too short.
 * Meteorological history is not comprehensive, and relies solely on one source.
 * Several dubious facts, such as "Had the hurricane continued on its path, it would have made landfall on the night of August 16."
 * MoS breaches throughout.
 * References are not formatted properly.


 * Comment - Agree with above comments by, the lede indeed does not satisfy WP:LEAD, and though the article appears to have adequate citation coverage, the cites are not formatted properly, and there does appear to be heavy dependence on a small number of sources, especially in subsection 'Meteorological history. Cirt' (talk) 07:42, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

Comment
 * The lead definitely doesn't summarize the article adequately as it omits the Dare County evacuation of 200,000+ people.


 * The second sentence of the lead doesn't make sense as written. And there are other instances of unclear prose.


 * The paragraph on rebuilding in the Aftermath section doesn't really say the debate was about rebuilding beaches, and any beach, not just barrier islands. A main aspect of the article is factually inaccurate, poorly written , or both.

That said, the hypothetical land fall time seems to be extrapolated using simple arithmetic, and so is indisputable, and I don't think it's original research. Diderot's  dreams  (talk) 18:58, 11 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Delist per points above. Wizardman  21:32, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

Yea, as author of the article, I'm a bit too lazy to fix it up, so I don't mind it losing its GA status. Most of the content was written over three years ago, meaning unless an article was written perfect back then, simple band-aids will not work to keep its GA status. I do appreciate the new comments, and eventually I'll try to get around to them, but there's a bit much to do in its current form. ♬♩ Hurricanehink ( talk ) 00:19, 15 June 2009 (UTC)