Talk:Cyclone Lam/GA1

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Reviewer: Seattle (talk · contribs) 02:15, 28 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Comments:

Images check out in terms of copyright

No DAB links, no dead links

warm waters and favorable conditions what constitutes "favorable conditions"?

Clarified. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 05:01, 4 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

classified it as a Category 1 Australian tropical cyclone intensity scale doesn't make grammatical sense

Added a word or two. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 05:01, 4 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

to the equivalent of a minimal hurricane what's a "minimal hurricane"? can you clarify?

I linked. A minimal hurricane is the bare minimum for what constitutes a hurricane (having winds of 75 mph). ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 05:01, 4 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

two storms of such intensity of what intensity? can you clarify?

Cat 4. Clarified. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 05:01, 4 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

the system developed a central dense overcast, which is "which is" unnecessary here

I kinda disagree. Otherwise, it isn't clear that it's describing what the central dense overcast is. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 05:01, 4 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

equivalent to a minimal hurricane. again, what's a "minimal hurricane"?

It's linked here. Is the above explanation make sense?

At around 16:30 UTC UTC could be linked earlier in the section

Heh, it's already linked earlier. Removed the duplicate. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 05:01, 4 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

If the JTWC tracked Cyclone Lam until February 22, why is its dissolution date listed as February 20 in the infobox? Do you have a reference for the February 20 date?

Good question. The infobox is based on dates from the Bureau of Meteorology, which is the official warning agency for the region. The JTWC is mostly for American based, but they're still widely used worldwide, albeit unofficial. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 05:01, 4 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

In addition, Lam's landfall on February 19 marked the third latest date for Australia to receive its first landfall, and the latest since 1988. sentence unclear; what does "landfall" mean?

Explained. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 05:01, 4 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The origins of Lam ambiguous phrase

How so? It's the formative stages of the storm. Or, should I literally say that? Heh. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 05:01, 4 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Can you link "anemometer"?

Surely. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 05:01, 4 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Damage on Elcho Island totaled $47 million (AUD, $37 million US$) odd formatting

Eek, good call. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 05:01, 4 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

In Ramingining, where's this? Can you link or describe?

Linked. It's a city. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 05:01, 4 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thousands of people were homeless or displaced I would rather that you quote "thousands" here, as it seems vague, and I'd like to show that vagueness isn't from our article

OK. I wish I had something more specific, but it's a fairly sparsely populated region without hard stats sometimes. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 05:01, 4 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Where's the Waterhouse River? Can you link or describe?

There is no link for it on Wikipedia. However, I don't think it's fairly important. It's just a river in Australia where some heavy rainfall occurred. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 05:01, 4 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The government also requested military assistance, which responded by sending sentence awkwardly constructed; you could just say "The government sent a Royal Australian Air Force plane with emergency supplies to Darwin"

Works for me! ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 05:01, 4 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

"Sky News" italicized in one reference, not italicized in the other.

Fixed ref. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 05:01, 4 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

"ABC Australia" italicized in three references, not italicized in another

Fixed ref. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 05:01, 4 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Who published reference 23 ("Cyclone Lam and Cyclone Marcia: Twin severe storms a 'first' for Australia")?

Added. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 05:01, 4 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Any update to the tent city? Seattle (talk) 02:15, 28 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Blame another cyclone! ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 05:01, 4 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Duplication detector checks: Checked references 26, 21, and 20 based from this revision. No copyright violations detected.

Spotchecks from same revision: checked reference 28, citation for one dog killed referenced, reference 30, for three Northern Territory daily rainfall records referenced, and reference 15, which needs to be identified as a .txt file in our citation, for JTWC wind speed indication of 185km/h, which I couldn't find. I also couldn't find that the JTWC tracked the storm until February 22. Can you explain reference 15 to me? Thanks. Seattle (talk) 23:42, 28 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The 2nd to last column shows the peak winds in knots, which is then converted to mph and km/h. Ref 15 also goes from most recent data point to the oldest, showing that the agency tracked Lam until Feb. 22. Hope that makes sense, and thanks for the review! ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 05:01, 4 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Ref 15 needs identification that it's a TXT file. Otherwise, looks good. Seattle (talk) 21:01, 4 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Done! ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 00:59, 5 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]