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This article is now the topic-of-the-day (today's "featured article") for 09-03-2022. In context, the article states: "In general, damage from Tropical Storm Carrie and its extratropical remnants was light." Gee old weather data is NOT important, especially with almost zero impact. Not really anything I find of human interest or historical significance. This "Climate Change" mentality on mainstream articles in WP is one reason I no longer support WP. I have many other issues, but IMO this weather-related article needs to die and WP needs to offer "featured articles" relevant to something that still impacts today's society. WP has done better in my past experience, and I might contribute again as soon as soon as they get their act together. WP is political, and when the day comes when I feel it is balanced, I will contribute again. Most "featured article"s seem to be picked at random. IMO focus on relevance to today.
Is there any more impact? The only damage mentioned is a collapsed structure, but that alone wouldn't total to over $1 million (1972 USD). 3 people died from boating accidents, but was it from collisions, rough seas, or something else? All sources need to be converted to {{cite web}}. It needs a good copyedit, but all in all, not too bad for a storm in this time period. Hurricanehink (talk) 18:26, 23 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I'll cpe soon as for the Cite Web, no dice (too complcated, looks like a confusing mess when seen in edit mode, easy to forget what to put this and that every time). Storm0518:45, 23 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, but you'll have to learn how to do it eventually. It's not too complicated when you learn each thing. First, <ref name="something>. That's easy. Just pick an easy name, so later on, you can just do <ref name="something"/> without having to put the entire cite web back in. Then, start the template for cite web by putting {{cite web| Simple enough. Next, put the author's name. author=Max Mayfield , for example. If no author is listed for a person's name, list the publisher or organization. For example, author=National Hurricane Center . After the author, put another | , and put the year like this, year=2003 . Then you put the title after another | , like this. title=2003 Atlantic hurricane season summary . After another | , you can either put the publisher if one exists by putting publisher=National Hurricane Center , or skip to the date you accessed the site like this; accessdate=2006-10-23 . After another | , put the url with the url command like this, url=www.nhc.noaa.gov . Then, close it up by adding }} after the url, and </ref> at the end of the reference. All together, that example would look like this. <ref name="something">{{cite web|author=Max Mayfield|year=2003|title=2003 Atlantic hurricane season summary|publisher=National Hurricane Center|accessdate=2006-10-23|url=www.nhc.noaa.gov}}</ref> It seems complicated, but once you try it and get used to it, it's easy. Hurricanehink (talk) 18:54, 23 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
"No significant impact" says it is a waste of time to even read it. Thank you WP for posting this trash - unimportant and not relevant even today. DeRavenSay (talk) 00:42, 4 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
It might be helpful to mention the peak in the lede. I also found it slightly awkward when you said "nearly weakened to tropical depression status". I would prefer reading "minimal tropical storm", or something.
Link baroclinic.
"Operationally, however, it was not recognized as such and assigned the name Carrie until 2200 UTC that day" - try rewording, it hurt my head a bit
"A physically small storm" - physical isn't really needed
Why did it slow and change its movement?
"and hostile conditions surrounding the tropical cyclone inhibited immediate further maturation" - that could be simpler :P
"The local resort industry suffered economical losses due to a portion of the Labor Day weekend seeing adverse weather from the storm, which impacted tourism" - that could also be simpler
All in all, it's a great read. With these few tweaks, I'll be happy to pass the GAN. I would even say that FAC could be in its future... ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 17:44, 19 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
