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Former good articleMeteorological history of Hurricane Michael was one of the Natural sciences good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.
Article milestones
DateProcessResult
September 12, 2020Good article nomineeListed
December 13, 2020Featured article candidateNot promoted
January 10, 2021Good article reassessmentDelisted
Current status: Delisted good article

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Agree to merging of article(s) as per CONSENSUS and SPLIT. Those objecting to a merge overwhelmingly state opposition due to the resultant size of the merged article, which, though large, is not a deal breaker for a stable article that will probably not be much further expanded in the future. They state the article has enough information to stand on its own; however, much of this information is already to be had in the main hurricane article. The encyclopedia does not need two articles for every hurricane that comes along, unless the meteorological history of such a storm is somehow largely notable apart from the storm itself. This argument was not raised and doesn't appear to be the case anyway. Also note, nothing prevents such an article from being further advanced along the quality-scale as one objector argued. Those favoring the merger state editing policies, e.g.: WEIGHT and especially FORK as the main reasons to support the merge. The projected size of the merged articles would be near 110K, not an absolute impediment to an article which would probably not grow more in length. Therefore, the merger should occur. Someone interested and/or knowledgeable should enact the merge taking care to preserve all non-redundant, pertinent information. I would suggest the prior, reverted-merger edit to be a good starting point. Non-Administrative closure-- GenQuest "scribble" 20:53, 5 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

As others such as Hurricanehink, Jasper Deng, and Mike Christie have pointed out, this shouldn't exist. I suggest that we just go ahead and merge it as it mostly is just a redundant WP:CFORK. Yes, there is a 3-month moratorium on merging, but that shouldn't be getting in the way of us improving articles when it is quite clear something shouldn't have been made to begin with. WP:IAR applies to this. NoahTalk 12:19, 13 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

An exception has been granted for this discussion. See this discussion. LightandDark2000 🌀 (talk) 04:22, 30 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose I think there is enough information to keep the article.ChessEric (talk · contribs) 02:43, 14 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support If there's consensus for an exception to the moratorium. @ChessEric: The question is whether it would be WP:DUE weight to split the article and it very much would not be for Michael.--Jasper Deng (talk) 06:21, 14 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    • @Jasper Deng: I'm not sure why you needed to ping me there just to tell me about WP:DUE, but okay; thanks for telling me about it. I'm always into learning new things about how I can improve myself on here and it helpful to know that. However, I stand by my thinking that there is enough information to keep the article. I also want to add that there was much uncertainty with the Cat 5 upgrade despite the rapid intensification before landfall (which should be explained thoroughly) given the questionable SFMR wind data readings in recent years. I also believe that a long explanation into a Category 5 that wasn't operationally considered one is needed, especially since the Florida panhandle had never seen a Category 4 landfall, let alone a Cat 5. I respect LightandDark2000's opinion on this (after all, it is the article he made), but I believe it is necessary to keep this article and not bloat the main article as this was a high impact storm.ChessEric (talk · contribs) 20:46, 14 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Actually, Hurricane Noah is the one who started the Meteorological history article for Hurricane Michael. But I'm also an experienced editor on WPTC. LightandDark2000 🌀 (talk) 04:22, 30 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose because it would bloat it and then it can't be FA. 170.24.150.111 (talk) 13:01, 14 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support per WP:CFORK. This article can be consolidated into the main Michael article while retaining all of the important information. A wild guess on the final prose size of Michael's article given sufficient expansion on impacts outside Florida and aftermath would be 50-70 kB without any splits. While on the large size, a split is not necessarily required at that length as the bulk of prose would be relating to Florida. ~ Cyclonebiskit (chat) 21:07, 14 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose. There's more than enough information here to maintain a separate article. The splitting off of Florida would actually create a larger article than this one. It's best to be consistent.  ;). Thegreatdr (talk) 23:54, 14 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak OpposeNeutral. Michael has an interesting met history. I had a good life as a TC, RI'ing all the way up to landfall. Then it became a hurricane-force ex. cyclone that had a long life and made it all the way to Spain. Noah has done good work on this, and I don't want to see it wasted. However, if a merge is necessary for Michael to be an FA, I will oblige. DUE weight concerns are valid. ~ Destroyer🌀🌀 02:11, 15 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support at the moment. The met history is pretty basic, compared to other storms. When the main Michael article is done, if it's too lengthy for size concerns, then perhaps this could be split off again, but given how long the Michael article is now, it could handle the extra few paragraphs that are in this article. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 17:37, 24 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support The article is really just a content fork. Everything in this article can easily fit in the main article. 🐔 Chicdat  Bawk to me! 12:50, 25 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I wouldn't say easily, it would be ~55 kB. Around the border length if a split is needed. We can probably trim part of the Florida info. --Hurricane Tracker 495 13:32, 25 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
To clarify my argument why I'm supporting the merge, please see my reply below. SMB99thx my edits! 04:38, 28 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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This discussion was improperly closed by SMB99thx, in my view, and as such I've undone it. While they claimed "anyone can close [the] discussion", they were involved in the voting and closed a non-unanimous discussion only 10 minutes later. Per WP:MERGECLOSE: "In more unclear, controversial cases, the determination that a consensus to merge has been achieved should be made by an editor who is neutral and not directly involved in the merger proposal or the discussion." Although this discussion has been open for two weeks, scattered voting remains and it should not be closed. Keep in mind that strictly counting votes is not how consensus is achieved, the strength of arguments is and I would prefer an uninvolved editor oversee the closure of this discussion in the future. ~ Cyclonebiskit (chat) 01:48, 28 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Copied to Target-Page Talk. GenQuest "scribble" 20:55, 5 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Closed merge

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Closing this discussion, as no other objections have been raised since the initial objection was lodged. For the record, I do not see any issues with the way in which the discussion in question was closed. Non-administrator closure-- LightandDark2000 🌀 (talk) 20:44, 10 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Ackkkkkk, not agreeing to the merging closer. It reads like they just want it merged, and that they regard Hurricane Michael as simply not notable enough for split articles. I think Michael is comparable to a Katrina, a Dennis or a Gustav which I see have split Wikipedia articles. If ultimately most people want it merged, that's fine. I'm just dissatisfied with the rationale of the recent merge close.--CyclonicallyDeranged (talk) 05:54, 6 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
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