Template:Did you know nominations/Effects of Hurricane Irma in the British Virgin Islands
- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. 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The result was: withdrawn by nominator, closed by Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 23:59, 17 July 2018 (UTC)
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Effects of Hurricane Irma in the British Virgin Islands
[edit]- ... that Hurricane Irma contributed to the population of the British Virgin Islands dropping by approximately 11%? Source: [1]
- ALT1:... that after Hurricane Irma it took nearly 6 months to fully restore electricity in the British Virgin Islands? Source: [2]
Created by Legis (talk). Self-nominated at 19:32, 8 June 2018 (UTC).
Article is new enough and long enough. There are a lot of sourcing problems:
- Source needed for the islands that Irma made landfall/direct hit on.
- Not seeing how source #6 supports the article content.
- The paragraph about Anegada needs a source.
- Same for the one that describes the timecourse of Irma's transit.
- I am not sure that all of the content of the "in the aftermath" paragraph is supported by the source.
- #19 does not explicitly link the death rate to Irma.
- I am dubious that LinkedIn is a good source for anything.
- "None of the banks" paragraph needs a source.
- "assisted the pressure on providing emergency accommodation" is an odd wording.
- The number of 150 released prisoners is not supported by the source, and neither is the claim of a deliberate release.
- "Prisoners were instructed to return to the prison at a later date. Perhaps unsurprisingly, not all of them did so. Although exact numbers were never provided, the authorities indicated that a number of the prisoners surrendered themselves voluntarily after checking on their families." also does not seem to be sourced and "Perhaps unsurprisingly" sounds like editorializing.
- Last sentence of that paragraph needs a source as does "Accordingly, the relief and recovery efforts had to be coordinated from a conference room in Peebles Hospital.".
- I am not sure if the Express is a good source for any looting related claim, and the source for the preceding sentence says nothing about what was being looted.
- "Subsequent weather events" paragraph needs sources.
- Sources #34 and #36 which are the same need to clarify where the info is found.
- #37 says nothing about the premier.
- "or approximately 5% of the population" and the last sentence of that paragraph needs a source.
- The whole curfew paragraph needs more sourcing, as the only source proffered seems to only cover part of the information.
- Source #41 does not support some of the numbers.
- Source #43 does not support all the claims.
- Source #50 appears to be circular.
- Source #52 does not support the content, it seems like it is synthesis.
- No copyvio or plagiarism that I can see. Hook #2 is more interesting but it needs a better source. Images OK. No QPQ needed. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 10:12, 10 June 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks, Jo-Jo Eumerus. All very useful and constructive. Being realistic, I am not going to have time to address all of those issues in anything kind of short to medium term timeframe. A lot of the sourcing issues arise because I started with recording key recollections from my own experiences, and then worked backwards to find sources to back-fill. But in terms of the DYK nomination, again - being realistic - I think it is probably just easier to scratch this one and push on with nominations from better sourced articles. Thanks. --Legis (talk - contribs) 12:11, 11 June 2018 (UTC)
- Formatting note: Since the nominated article is not Hurricane Irma but Effects of Hurricane Irma in the British Virgin Islands, the target article needs to be piped with more words, e.g. :
- ALT1a: ... that it took nearly 6 months to fully restore electricity after Hurricane Irma struck the British Virgin Islands? Yoninah (talk) 23:24, 12 June 2018 (UTC)
@Jo-Jo Eumerus: it has been one month since the last comments on this nomination. The nominator seemed to indicate that he wanted to withdraw it. A different editor has made some edits to the page since then. Have your sourcing concerns been addressed? If not, I will close this nomination as unsuccessful. Thanks, Yoninah (talk) 23:51, 11 July 2018 (UTC)
- Legis? Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 12:24, 12 July 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks, Jo-Jo Eumerus. All very useful and constructive. Being realistic, I am not going to have time to address all of those issues in anything kind of short to medium term timeframe. A lot of the sourcing issues arise because I started with recording key recollections from my own experiences, and then worked backwards to find sources to back-fill. But in terms of the DYK nomination, again - being realistic - I think it is probably just easier to scratch this one and push on with nominations from better sourced articles. Thanks. --Legis (talk - contribs) 12:11, 11 June 2018 (UTC)
