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Is this really article-worthy?

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I wouldn't say so numerically, and it is mostly a copyedit of the relevant sections in Tornadoes of 2010 and List of United States tornadoes in 2010. CrazyC83 (talk) 19:34, 31 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

There are some articles on outbreaks that had fewer tornadoes (the standard per the "Tornado Outbreak" page is "more than 6") and fewer injuries. The 1999 Salt Lake City tornado is an example of a single tornado with 1 fatality, and the November 2005 Iowa tornado outbreak has a similar number of tornadoes and limited injuries. There's also an article on the 2006 Westchester County tornado that had 1 tornado and 6 injuries - far fewer than this outbreak. Based on these precedents, I think this article is just fine. As for the copyedit approach - the answer is simple: I copied the original text (that I had contributed some to). I hope (with the rest of the Wikipedia community who cares about such things) to edit it to be more complete over the next few days / weeks, especially as final details in terms of damage estimates and final injury totals come out. 5minutes (talk) 22:53, 31 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well, the same outbreak did produce a killer tornado on Monday in the Bahamas (3 dead), so that gives some worthiness to the article if a combined article is created. CrazyC83 (talk) 00:51, 1 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have updated the article to include the Bahamian tornado (I'm using "Grand Bahama" as the county - I'll let someone else do the judgment on that one) and have included expanded sections on the Bahamian and High Point tornadoes. 5minutes (talk) 19:43, 1 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Will the Bahamian tornado get a rating, and if so, where do we find such information? Ks0stm (T•C•G) 04:04, 7 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
That is up to the Bahamas Weather Department. I'm not aware of them using any kind of tornado scale, since tornadoes are a rare event in the Bahamas (waterspouts, which do little damage that can be analyzed, are far more common). Based on the information, I'd personally call it an EF0 or EF1, but that's just my own opinion. 5minutes (talk) 17:57, 8 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Any further comments on this, or should we just go ahead and drop the merge proposal? 5minutes (talk) 13:26, 5 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Since it's now been almost 8 months since the last actual comment on merging this article, I'm going to remove the tag. 5minutes (talk) 13:17, 4 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Wake County

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Why is there nothing in here about the tornados that devistated Wake County? Raleigh was hit really badly. Shaw University had to close for the remander of the year. Many houses were destroyed. Historic Oakwood Cemetary and St. Augustine's College were also heavily damaged. Four children were killed in a trailer park, which became national news. Over 1500 people attended their Requiem Mass and the Pope himself wrote to the family. --Willthacheerleader18 (talk) 13:31, 13 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Because this is about the 2010 outbreak, not the mid-April 2011 outbreak.5minutes (talk) 00:39, 15 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Moved to Tornado outbreak of March 28–29, 2010 as proposed, given consensus to move the article from its current title, and a reasonable argument for consistency in including specific date ranges in tornado article titles. BD2412 T 00:38, 27 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

March 2010 Carolinas tornado outbreak → Tornado outbreak of March 28–29, 2010 – The most destructive tornado touched down in the Bahamas, and it’s kinda split on impact, this is a better title as it doesn’t give one precedent as ir discusses them equally. 160.72.80.50 (talk) 21:02, 9 January 2022 (UTC) — Relisting. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 22:55, 16 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  • Support This is an area where I think we probably need to be mindful of a geographic bias. While it's totally expected that the majority of the coverage and content in here may focus on the U.S., it seems a bit weird to have a U.S.-centric name and focus for an event where all of the deaths and some of the greatest destruction occurred in the Bahamas. --Yaksar (let's chat) 03:28, 17 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Disagree with the proposed name change, but Agree that the article name has geographic bias. Perhaps March 2010 Tornado Outbreak would work, or were there other outbreaks that have titles?Mozzie (talk) 10:34, 17 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    As the same IP as the initial proposer, I will say that in general, we include dates on tornado outbreaks. I am not opposed to it being named March 2010 tornado outbreak as long as the geographic bias is dropped. 108.58.9.194 (talk) 17:03, 17 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    I'm also fine with either (although if our typical approach is to include dates I guess I prefer that one for consistency).--Yaksar (let's chat) 17:24, 17 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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