Template:Did you know nominations/Cyclone Geralda
- The following discussion is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was no consensus to promote after three weeks. The sourcing deficiencies render this article unfit for the main page. Cunard (talk) 10:06, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
Cyclone Geralda (1994)
[edit]- ... that tropical cyclone Geralda of 1994 was one of the strongest tropical cyclones to hit Madagascar in recent times?
Created by Tatiraju.rishabh, self nom.
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- Sorry, fixed ! Rishabh Tatiraju (talk) 06:58, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
- I was unable to verify the hook and the sentence you added to the article in the sources you provided. Could you please tell me where it appears? Alternatively, you could consider writing a different hook which might be necessary. --Odie5533 (talk) 15:34, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
- A better hook maybe DYK ALT1: ... that Cyclone Geralda was one of the most intense tropical cyclones, in the South-West Indian Ocean (or Southern Hemisphere) with a pressure of 905hPa? I will help with expanding the article over the next couple of days so i will chuck the hook into the article in due course.Jason Rees (talk) 01:11, 2 September 2011 (UTC)
- Looks good :) Rishabh Tatiraju (talk) 14:06, 2 September 2011 (UTC)
- A better hook maybe DYK ALT1: ... that Cyclone Geralda was one of the most intense tropical cyclones, in the South-West Indian Ocean (or Southern Hemisphere) with a pressure of 905hPa? I will help with expanding the article over the next couple of days so i will chuck the hook into the article in due course.Jason Rees (talk) 01:11, 2 September 2011 (UTC)
- I was unable to verify the hook and the sentence you added to the article in the sources you provided. Could you please tell me where it appears? Alternatively, you could consider writing a different hook which might be necessary. --Odie5533 (talk) 15:34, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
- Sorry, fixed ! Rishabh Tatiraju (talk) 06:58, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
For clarity. Crisco 1492 (talk) 10:02, 12 September 2011 (UTC)
- The most serious problem with this article is poor article sourcing. Three of the sources are compilations of data, not prose-based accounts of the storm. The fourth source is an online video that I have not viewed. I can't tell where most of the article's content actually came from. This was a severe storm that devastated Madagascar, and a quick search finds some good content that could be used in the article, although I find discrepancies between the article and some of the sources I found -- I think some of the information in the article may be based on news reports during the storm, not the more accurate information compiled later. Sources that I found include: Greenpeace, quoting Reuters, Britannica.com, MediaHub (UK), UN, WMO, another WMO source -- see page 58, philly.com, and Dartmouth flood archives. --Orlady (talk) 14:59, 12 September 2011 (UTC)
- Its my fault that this article has not been expanded further and i will try and rectify that this evening. Regarding your sources comments, unless im very much mistaken there are no videos cited in the article and there is a prose based source the Reunion ATCR which is the one i presume you refer to as a Video.Jason Rees (talk) 15:35, 12 September 2011 (UTC)
- Ah! My mistake. I stand corrected, and I apologize. This link appeared to me to be an online video. If I wait long enough for the contents to load, then zoom the contents, I can see text in French and English. That is an excellent source. Be sure to cite it wherever you have relied upon it. --Orlady (talk) 16:20, 12 September 2011 (UTC)