Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/2007 Atlantic hurricane season

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The article was promoted by User:SandyGeorgia 00:15, 31 July 2008 [1].

2007 Atlantic hurricane season

Nominator(s): Juliancolton ^Tropical ^Cyclone

The article went through a PR recently, passed GA today, and now I'm taking the final step in the process. That said, I feel it is certainly good enough, but I am often proven wrong in these cases. So, tell me what needs to be done. Thanks, Juliancolton ^Tropical ^Cyclone 01:07, 19 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

~~http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWFiles2007.nsf/FilesByRWDocUnidFilename/C94B2E6F0580A9E64925734200064866-Full_Report.pdf/$File/Full_Report.pdf deadlinks~~

Otherwise links checked out with the link checker, sources look okay. Ealdgyth - Talk 12:48, 19 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deadlink removed. Thanks, Juliancolton ^Tropical ^Cyclone 18:19, 20 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

All images check out fine; appropriately tagged etc. I'll try to take a full look tomorrow. —Giggy 12:07, 21 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comments - Very nice and clean without autoformatting and thorough use of NBSPs. —Mattisse (Talk) 22:32, 22 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Support as it seems to be well done. I have just a few concerns.
- Some passive voice
  - Forecasts of hurricane activity are issued each year by noted hurricane experts Philip J. Klotzbach, William M. Gray, and their associates at Colorado State University
    - Fixed. Titoxd^{(?!? - cool stuff)} 18:26, 25 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  - Klotzbach noted that while the team was predicting an active season (okay, not technically passive, but why not "team predicted"?)
    - Fixed. Titoxd^{(?!? - cool stuff)} 18:26, 25 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  - El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) conditions were also noted to have been slightly cooler (this one might be justifiable)
    - I think the emphasis should be on El Niño on this sentence, so I would prefer passive voice there. Titoxd^{(?!? - cool stuff)} 18:26, 25 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  - 15 people were killed and hundreds of homes destroyed after the passage of Hurricane Dean
    - Fixed. Titoxd^{(?!? - cool stuff)} 18:26, 25 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  - Six deaths were reported there, and in Puebla, 169 houses were destroyed
    - Fixed. Titoxd^{(?!? - cool stuff)} 18:26, 25 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  - United States was affected by five Atlantic storms during the season
    - Fixed. Titoxd^{(?!? - cool stuff)} 18:26, 25 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  - The names Dean, Felix, and Noel were retired by the World Meteorological Organization
    - Fixed, sort of. Titoxd^{(?!? - cool stuff)} 18:26, 25 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Possibly more, but it looks overall pretty well-written. Tuf-Kat (talk) 02:47, 25 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - Just a picky little thing from a stat-geek. In the "Pre-season forecasts" section you say that "[t]he potential for at least one major hurricane to affect the U.S. was increased" when in fact you mean the estimated potential. The scientists don't know the actual potential, just their estimate of it. My first stat professor drilled this into my brain. The sentence is also in the passive voice, but I'm not too concerned about that. Plasticup ^T/C 03:46, 29 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Good point, got it. Cheers, Juliancolton ^Tropical ^Cyclone 13:50, 29 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Suppot; chose a section at random and the prose was excellent, only had to make one minor change. I think it meets all criteria. —Giggy 09:54, 29 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Support ~~Comments~~ - The 2007 Atlantic hurricane season was an active Atlantic hurricane season I recommend changing "active" to "busy". Just kidding, the article looks great. Here are my thoughts:

Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale is linked to three times, plus once in the infobox and twice more in the "Season Impact" tables. I don't have a problem with the links in the templates, but just one wikilink in the body of the article should suffice.
Since you calculated the season's total damage, Hurricane Dean has been revised downwards. Sources now say that the storm caused US$2.2 billion of damage. See the storm article (and its talk page) for details.

Units:

The first instances of "miles", "km" and "mbar" are not wikilinked. It also spells out "miles" twice before switching to the abbreviation "mi". WP:MOSNUM says to spell it out once, as you did with most other units.
You may want to add inHg conversion for the mbars that have already been given.
In "October–December" nautical miles are used for the first time. It might be less confusing to stick with statue miles (and km) throughout. If not, the first instance of "nmi" needs to be spelled out and wikilinked.
The first instances of ft and m (in the Impact section) need to be wikilinked. "Feet" should be spelled out in its first instance.
In the ACE section knots are mentioned for the first time. It makes sense to use knots here as that is how ACE is defined, but you should wikilink its first instance.

All in all, very good. Do you have intentions of building a Featured Topic, a la 2003 Atlantic hurricane season? Plasticup ^T/C 18:40, 29 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Done with everything. I am considering working on a featured topic for the season, but it depends on whether the Hurricane Dean article is brought up to at least GA status by somebody. ;-) Thanks for the comments, Juliancolton ^Tropical ^Cyclone 21:08, 29 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Be careful, that editor working on Hurricane Dean is a bit sketchy. Changes look good, adding my support. Plasticup ^T/C 21:34, 29 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Juliancolton ^Tropical ^Cyclone 22:39, 29 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Support - Nice job Julian. --Meldshal (§peak to me) 11:35, 30 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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