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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 promoted by Giants2008 via FACBot (talk) 23:31, 8 January 2017 (UTC) [1].[reply]

Tropical cyclone naming

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Nominator(s): Jason Rees (talk) 21:43, 21 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I am nominating this for featured list because... after receiving feedback on it from other members of the project and an updated naming list. I decided that it was time that this was renominated for FLC.Jason Rees (talk) 21:43, 21 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Support

  • Since the systems can last a week or longer and more than one can be occurring in the same basin at the same time, the names are thought to reduce the confusion about which storm is being described. - I'd change the structure of the sentence. Start with "The names are thought to reduce confusion in the event of concurrent storms in the same basin." Same meaning, but shorter.
  • "The practice of using names to identify tropical cyclones goes back many years, with systems named after places or things they hit before the formal start of naming. " --> "Before the formal start of naming, tropical cyclones were named after places, objects, or saints' feast days." - something like this. The current writing is on the awkward side.
  • The lead should be reorganized. Keep general TC naming info in the first paragraph, then the history bit in the second.
  • The "Tropical cyclone naming institutions" table should be centered, not off to the right (and with text below, not squished to the side)
  • The links to the retired names in each basin should be linked in each basin, not all at once.
  • "Tropical cyclone formation is rare within the Mediterranean Sea and to the east of 120W in the Southern Pacific, as a result there are no naming lists for these areas." - cite
  • Be consistent whether you say "knots" or "kn"
  • Make sure the Papua New Guinea names are left-aligned (like all of the rest of the names)

These are my biggest qualms. It's a good list though, and it won't take much for me to support it. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 22:55, 21 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

  • All of your comments have now been dealt with and I decided to remove the part of the Med Sea, as i can not find a source for it and it technically comes under names assigned by FU Berlin.Jason Rees (talk) 22:56, 25 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Names are assigned in order from predetermined lists with one, three, or ten-minute sustained wind speeds of more than 65 km/h (40 mph) depending on which basin it originates. - to the outsider, they might not see the connection with the first half of this sentence and the second half. Perhaps do something like "Once storms produce sustained wind speeds of more than 65 km/h (40 mph), names are assigned in order from predetermined lists, depending on which basin it originates." I would include the bit about the 1/3/10 minute sustained elsewhere, but not in the lead, as it could be a bit too technical for non-experts.
  • "The practice of using names to identify tropical cyclones goes back many years, with systems named after places or things they hit before the formal start of naming." - I'd remove the first half of the sentence. It doesn't add much, and it sounds more concise with just "Before the formal start of naming, tropical cyclones were named after places they hit." Add the saint feast day bit here (I saw it in the lead, couldn't find it elsewhere)
  • "However, standards vary from basin to basin with some tropical depressions named in the Western Pacific, while tropical cyclones have to have a significant amount of gale-force winds occurring around the center before they are named within the Southern Hemisphere." - this should get more explanation (since the wording is similar to the lead). Split it into three sentences and explain sufficiently
  • "Papua New Guinea National weather Service" - capitalization of "Weather"
  • "A replacement name is then submitted to the committee concerned and voted upon but these names can be rejected and replaced with another name for various reasons." - is this specifically about PNG? If not, clarify.
  • General qualm about the article - there are 226 usages of "name/named/naming/names" in the article. Try going through and finding ways of rewriting without saying the word so many times.
  • Could you explain List E in "Southern Pacific Ocean (160°E – 120°W)"?

♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 17:07, 28 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I support then. It is a great list of the current tropical cyclone names, superior even to what the World Meteorological Organization has. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 04:48, 4 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Resolved comments from The Rambling Man (talk) 08:36, 27 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Comments

The Rambling Man (talk) 12:11, 6 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Comments. Support with the conditions all of TRM comments are addressed to his satisfactions. YE Pacific Hurricane 06:12, 17 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Support – Any major issues that existed before I reviewed the list were addressed above, a minor issue I presented to JR was fixed this morning, and I tweaked the prose mainly for punctuation errors. TropicalAnalystwx13 (talk) 20:11, 29 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Source review/spot-checks – All references are well-formatted and I found all but one to be reliable (more on that below). The link checker reveals no issues with any of the references. After looking at the sources and doing spot-checks on refs 3, 9, and 10, I have a few concerns.

  • The biggest issue is that most of the content from ref 9 is repeated almost verbatism in the article. If that was the intention, the article needs to indicate that it is incorporating text from NOAA; there's a template here that will do this for you when added. If not, it is purely plagiarism and needs to be reworded ASAP. Either way, this urgently needs fixing before I can consider promoting the list.
  • What makes reference 3 (Typhoon2000) a reliable source? I don't even think you need this one, as the GMA News article (ref 10) appears to cover the coordinates that are being cited.
  • Speaking of the coordinates, I'm not seeing the 20-degree AOR coordinate from ref 3. It mentions 21° and 25° at various points, but not 20°. The GMA News article also states 25°, if my memory is correct. Giants2008 (Talk) 21:15, 4 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • I've gone ahead and reworked that ref 9 material to avoid plagiarism. I can't immediately find any other instances of close or identical phrasing, so we might be good to go on that front. – Juliancolton | Talk 03:35, 5 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • Hmm... The author behind the website Typhoon2000 is very well respected and has been recognised as Mr Typhoon by various sources as he has provided a calm voice in the face of the storm, some very reliable forecasts and a lot of preperation work. However, I decided to remove the source and replace it with the GMA source just to make things easier. As for the co-ordinates, im pretty certain that it is in practise 20N but im not gonna quible with the sources and have moved it to 21N in order to be as broad as we can.Jason Rees (talk) 20:53, 6 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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