Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Typhoon Nabi/archive1

The following is an archived discussion of a featured article nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The article was archived by Ian Rose via FACBot (talk) 01:24, 26 July 2015 [1].

Typhoon Nabi

Nominator(s): ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 18:11, 16 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This article is about a powerful and damaging typhoon over 10 years ago. I noticed that it could be a ten year anniversary storm in a few months, so I wanted to nominate it. Other hurricane editors agree it's likely the best source of information for this particular typhoon, which I believe is one of the most important criteria for an FAC. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it! ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 18:11, 16 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Image review

File:SuperTyphoonNabi.jpg: source link is dead. Nikkimaria (talk) 22:15, 19 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I fixed it. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 15:54, 30 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Comments by Dudley

"winds equivalent to that of a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale. By contrast, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) estimated peak 10 minute winds of 175 km/h (110 mph)". A contrast should be of two things by the same standard, not a scale with a wind speed.

Good call, changed. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 23:34, 11 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

"a high school football game on Okinawa was canceled" I doubt whether this is significant enough to mention compared with the other effects.

Hah, I had a feeling. I just included it because there wasn't too much info for okinawa. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 23:34, 11 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

"Gusts reached 72 km/h (45 mph) at the international airport on Guam, the highest in all of 2005." Is this significant? It does not seem high compared with wind speeds elsewhere.

True, but we usually mention whatever meteorological statistics we have for each territory. If this was in the Atlantic, for example, we'd include wind gusts in Bermuda, even if they weren't that strong. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 23:34, 11 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

"The storm ultimately ended up bypassing the island, sparing the strongest winds and producing gusts of 85 km/h (53 mph).[" "sparing the strongest winds" sounds odd.

OK, I switched it around to "the storm's strongest winds bypassed the island". Does that work? ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 23:34, 11 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

slope failure redirects to landslide but maybe still worth linking.

That works. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 23:34, 11 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

"heavy rainfall flooded several rivers," Can you flood a river. I would say caused rivers to overflow.

I wasn't sure if they overflowed or not, so I just said "increased levels". ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 23:34, 11 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

overflown river - Wiktionary defines overflown as the past participle of overfly.

As well as overflow. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 23:34, 11 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

"Closed markets and decreased supplies caused the price of beef to reach record levels following the typhoon" Presumably in Iwakundam, but this should be clarified.

Nationwide, actually! ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 23:34, 11 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

"On November 8, nearly two months after the dissipation of Typhoon Nabi, President George W. Bush declared a major disaster declaration for the northern Marianas islands." No change needed, but is it normal for it to take so long to declare a disaster?

Sometimes it's longer. Usually there is a territorial assessment, which is sent to FEMA. Unfortunately, they were rather busy in 2005 ;) ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 23:34, 11 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The word "damage" is repeated excessively, but this is probably unavoidable as I cannot think of a good synonym.

Yea, that's kinda a perennial problem with cyclone articles. It needs to be a word that is stronger than "affected" (which literally means that 1 mph winds could be reported in a region) but not so severe as "destroy" (for which there are many synonyms). It's a peculiar word for which there aren't many synonyms. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 23:34, 11 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

A first rate article. These points are minor. Dudley Miles (talk) 19:03, 7 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I missed these comments! Thanks so much for the review. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 23:34, 11 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Support. Dudley Miles (talk) 19:56, 12 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Closing comment

I'm afraid that after remaining open almost six weeks we still have quite some way to go before achieving enough commentary and support for promotion, so will archive this shortly. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 01:23, 26 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Closing note: This candidate has been archived, but there may be a delay in bot processing of the close. Please see WP:FAC/ar, and leave the {{featured article candidates}} template in place on the talk page until the bot goes through. Ian Rose (talk) 01:24, 26 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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