Talk:Hurricane Isaac (2000)

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April 8, 2012	Good article nominee	Listed
February 14, 2014	Good topic candidate	Promoted

Current status: Good article

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Merge?[edit]

I strongly believe this should be merged. It is a more-or-less copy of the TCR, and has next to nothing outside of the SH. There's about a dozen SPAG (spelling and grammar) errors, and there's really little need for such an article. --Hurricanehink (talk) 02:23, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Whatever. Wikipedia is really starting to annoy me. (No offense) Juliancolton (talk) 02:58, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed, it must differ pretty significantly from the TCR. Try to spell out numbers ("Hurricane Isaac was the 13 tropical cyclone, and 5th hurricane of the 2000 Atlantic hurricane season" should be "Hurricane Isaac was the thirteenth tropical storm, and fifth hurricane of the 2000 Atlantic hurricane season"). Wikilinking is a little sparse, and the damage figure is "$0,000" ;) Since it didn't affect land or cause major fatalities or damage ($0,000 :)), it isn't inherently notable enough for its own article. Good try though! -- RattleMan 03:36, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Todo[edit]

Now that the article has been recreated (which I assessed as low importance, since it did little of importance), it needs some general cleanup. A different infobox pic would be good, as the current one has a lot of white space. --♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 03:47, 7 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I fished one out of the GOES Hot Stuff site where I got Daniel from this year. While it's not peak intensity or color (and personally, I miss that awesome "ghost boomerang" next to Isaac in the old picture), it fixes the spacing problem. I don't doubt better can be found, but I'm using this for now. (And unfortunately, the file name I uploaded it by has the wrong date. It's been a long day.) (EDIT: Upon consideration, I cropped Joyce from the picture as well, because, in my opinion, it's about 20 times better than the old one. I have it on the seasonal page.) Jake52 My island 08:12, 13 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds good, nice. --♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 15:34, 13 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review[edit]

This review is transcluded from Talk:Hurricane Isaac (2000)/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Keilana (talk · contribs) 16:38, 5 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Will actually do the review when I'm on a better computer (around 4-5 hours from now) Keilana|^{Parlez ici} 16:38, 5 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

This article looks great! I just saw a couple minor things that could be fixed.

Why does your first reference show up as "nb 1"?

It is actually a note and not a reference--12george1 (talk) 20:19, 7 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- OK, I found it to be kind of awkward. Maybe it would be less awkward if you either put a simple explanation in parentheses (e.g. "it re-strengthened into a major hurricane (above Category 3) on September 28) or just linked to the relevant section of Saffir-Simpson scale. Keilana|^{Parlez ici} 04:24, 8 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Do you need to put "SST's" in parentheses? If you do, then it should be "SSTs" because it's a plural.

Fixed--12george1 (talk) 20:19, 7 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

"it restrengthen into a major hurricane" should be "it restrengthened into a major hurricane"

Fixed--12george1 (talk) 20:19, 7 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

"very cold could tops", did you mean "cloud tops"?

Fixed--12george1 (talk) 20:19, 7 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Throughout the article, I would find it helpful to have more wikilinks. I don't have a background in meteorology, so when you're using the terminology (which is great), I have to look all sorts of things up, and I think the average reader would have to do the same.

Can you name any specific terms you would like wikilinked?--12george1 (talk) 20:19, 7 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Stuff like "convection", "wind shear", "tropospheric", "anticyclone", etc. Keilana|^{Parlez ici} 04:24, 8 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed--12george1 (talk) 17:52, 8 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Did the UK do anything to prepare for the storm? If so, that would be useful information.

Probably not. Usually locations do not prepare for a storm if it is already extratropical.--12george1 (talk) 20:19, 7 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Then that's all good. :) Keilana|^{Parlez ici} 04:24, 8 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

This is quite well sourced. Nice job!

I'll keep an eye on this page, and can't wait to see it get promoted! :) You did excellent work here. Keilana|^{Parlez ici} 15:19, 7 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

One more thing I noticed: in the last sentence, you don't need to say "a bird called the" about the blue-winged warbler. It would be way less clunky if you said something like "After Isaac passed the British Isles, a Blue-winged Warbler was seen for the first time in Europe." Keilana|^{Parlez ici} 04:24, 8 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed this, too--12george1 (talk) 17:52, 8 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Then in that case, I have no qualms about promoting this. :) Keilana|^{Parlez ici} 18:06, 8 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]