Talk:Meteorological history of Hurricane Wilma

Meteorological history of Hurricane Wilma is a featured article; it (or a previous version of it) has been identified as one of the best articles produced by the Wikipedia community. Even so, if you can update or improve it, please do so.

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The text of the entry was: Did you know ...that Hurricane Wilma set records for the lowest recorded pressure and the smallest eye of any Atlantic hurricane?

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Not a bad start, and I'd give it a B if it wasn't for one thing. The lead is excessive, both in length and level of detail, three short paras comparable to that in Meteorological history of Hurricane Katrina would be better. In particular, most of the technical prose and the windspeed figures should not be needed in the lead. Other issues are relatively minor, but could do with addressing before GAC/FAC. The prose is overly technical in general, an eye to simplifying it throughout would be beneficial. Diffluence is not a concept restricted to meteorology; there's no need for (meteorology) in the redlink. The dates are also badly formatted. A final thought, just satellite imagery isn't good; a bit of variety would be better (IIRC I raised this with the Katrina article). Perhaps I should make an animation for the FL landfall from NEXRAD?--Nilf anion (talk) 20:42, 17 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Really, start class? Is that just to spite me? Very well, I addressed the lede and some other little things. Hurricanehink (talk) 22:04, 17 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No, not to spite you - to make you fix something that needed it. B now, I wouldn't raise to A without getting more opinions first. I'd be against that until the dates are sorted.--Nilf anion (talk) 00:17, 18 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I was just kidding. ~~What is the problem with the dates?~~ Hurricanehink (talk) 00:58, 18 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I see the problem with the dates, I'll fix them. Hurricanehink (talk) 00:58, 18 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

What about combining first and second landfalls and putting demise on its own? Or maybe split second and demise and make them their own sections? Good kitty 03:01, 18 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Demise is only one paragraph, so I don't really see a need to split it off. Hurricanehink (talk) 05:09, 18 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It does not seem right that this is a featured article. I think it sould be delisted until it is expanded a bit. Wikisaver62 (talk) 10:13, 26 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please elaborate on your viewpoint. This is far from the shortest FA on enwp; consider the fact that there are no length requirements for FA, other than that they have to be comprehensive. How long a "comprehensive" article is depends on the availability of sources and how in-depth they are. --Aqwis (talk – contributions) 10:56, 26 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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The image was released by NOAA, which did not specify a copyright. Per http://www.weather.gov/disclaimer.php, The information on government servers are in the public domain, unless specifically annotated otherwise, and may be used freely by the public. I don't know much about image licencing tags, but maybe it should be changed to PD rather than Fair Use. Plasticup ^T/C 19:28, 10 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Overlinking within the article

This is an article which passed FA four years ago, when we wikilinked everything and anything under the sun. The wikilinking does not satisfy MoS criteria at this time, particularly regarding redirects and overlinking. The good news is that there is no linkrot, so these issues are of the nuisance variety. I'm going to give it a week for someone else to fix the remaining issues, or I'll send it to FAR. I had to check it over myself to be sure, but if it doesn't pass FAR, it falls to B class, not GA. Thegreatdr (talk) 21:00, 7 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'm wondering whether we need to link some things once in the lead, and once further down. Some links, like eyewall replacement cycle, seem pretty crucial to understanding the chronology of the event, so I left it and some other jargon-like terms linked twice. I'm also wondering if we should simply delink all city/place names, other than the key ones (Cozumel should stay, etc). Juliancolton (talk) 21:21, 7 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I did some work on the top third of the article...and the overlinking was for terms such as NHC, recon, the TC article, and place names, not to mention the usual redirects (Atlantic hurricane to NATC, an issue I fixed). I have no problem with linking to places on their first occurrence, which is one of the guidelines for wikilinking non-locations. Thegreatdr (talk) 21:24, 7 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry for the problems from four years ago. I was young and naive. The good news is that mere overlinking is not in violation of the FA criteria. I'm rather busy this week, but I'll try to tackle it tomorrow or on the weekend. Thanks for the heads up about it though. --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 00:05, 9 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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WP:URFA/2020

Duplicate links
Reference formatting is inconsistent
Needs alt text
Quite a bit of meteorological coverage from the academic world that is not included here.

Listing at WP:FARGIVEN per the above. Noah^Talk 14:54, 5 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

CCI check not done. Noah^Talk 14:54, 5 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Hurricane Noah: Have these concerns been addressed? If not, would you like to nominate this to WP:FAR, since you can more effectively explain the concerns for this article? Z1720 (talk) 18:04, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No, these concerns have not been addressed. I don't think I would be able to nominate at FAR since I'm likely to be tied up between work and some family issues. Noah, BSBA^Talk 02:09, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]