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

The list was not promoted by User:Scorpion0422 23:42, 30 December 2008 [1].

Timeline of the 1997 Pacific hurricane season

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I think that this is a really good timeline so I am nominating it.--क्षेम्य Tranquility 20:57, 29 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. I see a lot of errors and clumsy mistakes.

  • The lede is outright confusing. The 1997 Pacific hurricane season was the most active season since the 2001 season - how can 1997 be anything since something happened four years later?
  • The first paragraph should mention that Paka extended the CPAC season.
  • After Andres, four more tropical depressions formed
    • This sentence is vague, as it seems natural more depressions would form after the first of the season.
  • This high activity trend continued into July, August too as 5 more tropical depressions formed in July and 8 in August and September.
    • This sentence is poorly written. If you're trying to explain monthly activity, you should be a little more careful and know exactly what you want.
  • the trend of high activity abruptly stopped as only 5 tropical depressions formed in the months of October, November and December
    • Is it natural for such an abrupt stop? If so, then maybe explain that such a drop in activity is fairly common.
  • There are three sentences on Linda in the lede - try combining them into one, as it's supposed to be a timeline, not an article.
  • making 1997 only the third hurricane season since 1949 to have a storm in December
    • I think this sentence is WP:OR. I can only find one other December storm than Paka in the basin since 1949 (Winnie 83). That needs to be fixed.
  • Watch out for linking. A lot of them are redirects, so you should fix them to make sure they're going where you want them to go.
  • I haven't even gotten to the body of the article, but the lede is enough for me to oppose. ♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 21:44, 29 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose Several errors in the timeline data.

  • Add time in PDT (for storms in the Eastern Pacific) and HST (for storms in the Central Pacific) times and put UTC in parenthesis.
  • Add when the major hurricanes reached their peak intensity
  • Not all of the storms have a starting location, i.e. 1800 UTC - Tropical Depression Three-E forms.
  • 1800 UTC - Tropical Depression Two-C forms near the International Dateline. can you give the distance from the nearest notable island?
  • 1200 UTC - Tropical Depression Three-C forms southeast of the Hawaiian Islands. same as above
  • 0600 UTC - Tropical Depression Four-C forms southeast of the Hawaiian Islands. same as above
  • Where did all the storms dissipate?
  • The image captions aren't meant to be sentences so remove the periods and shorten them.
  • The 1997 Central and Eastern Pacific hurricane seasons officially end. end -> ends
  • The references don't need to have (in English)
  • There are a large number of errors in the main body of the timeline that need to be fixed, so until they are addressed, I'm opposing this article. Cyclonebiskit (talk) 22:00, 29 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Since that I won't be on wikipedia that much for the next few days, I am withdrawing so I can have more time to fix the article.--क्षेम्य Tranquility 17:01, 30 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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