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The list was promoted by PresN via FACBot (talk) 23:30, 24 January 2017 (UTC) [1].[reply]

List of Bermuda hurricanes[edit]

Nominator(s): – Juliancolton | ^Talk 03:24, 5 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi all, here to nominate what I believe to be some of my best work here on Wikipedia. The last nomination in early 2016 failed due to a lack of comments, as well as a couple niggling issues which have since been resolved. Throughout Bermuda's history, hurricanes have played a rather large role in its development and identity, and I'm confident that this is the single most comprehensive resource on Bermuda's hurricane impacts to be found anywhere. – Juliancolton | ^Talk 03:24, 5 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Support. The prose is spot on, which the exception of the opening sentence.

many of which have caused significant damage and influenced the territory's development. - this could be tighter, such as - many of which inflicted significant damage and influenced the territory's development."

Good work Julian. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 04:16, 6 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks for the kind words and support! I've made the suggested change. – Juliancolton | ^Talk 04:33, 6 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Support a comprehensive, well-written list. Just one note though--the Bermuda landfalls map needs alt text like the rest. TropicalAnalystwx13 (talk) 22:54, 6 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the review and reminder. Added alt text. – Juliancolton | ^Talk 18:01, 7 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

"The British Overseas Territory of Bermuda has a long record of encounters with Atlantic tropical cyclones". I would prefer "a long history".
"typical belt of recurving tropical cyclones" I have not come across "recurving" before. I assume it means cyclones which double back on themselves, but a link or a few words of explanation would be helpful.
"baroclinic enhancement" This links to Baroclinity, but I did not find there an explanation of baroclinic enhancement.
"As such, hurricane-related deaths are uncommon throughout the history of the territory." I would prefer something like "As a result, hurricane-related deaths have been uncommon since the early eighteenth century."
"Described as a "horde of ships" by Master Joseph Hinson of the schooner Chapman, vessels in the crowded harbour violently collide with one another." I don't think this sentence works. Perhaps "There are violent collisions between vessels, described as a "horde of ships" by Master Joseph Hinson of the schooner Chapman, in the crowded harbour."
"Force 11 winds are reported on the outer fringes of a distant hurricane." No change needed, but if one below the Beaufort maximum was recorded on the distant fringes, what might the force have been near the centre?
- Force 12 (64+ knots) is actually the minimum threshold for "hurricane" intensity - a Category 3 major hurricane would have winds of at least 100 kt, or Force 16 on the extended Beaufort scale. I'm not totally married to describing winds in terms of the Beaufort scale, if you think it's confusing or a little pretentious. I only use it a few times, anyway. – Juliancolton | ^Talk 04:25, 9 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
"20 to 30 ft (6.1 to 9.1 m)" Figures rounded to the nearest ten should not be converted to one decimal place.
I found the use of the present tense in the list very irritating, but the article is otherwise first rate. Dudley Miles (talk) 21:20, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
- Thank you for taking the time to read through and leave your suggestions! I used present tense for consistency with most of the similar FLs (List of New Jersey hurricanes, List of South America tropical cyclones, List of Florida hurricanes (2000–present), etc.) but I'm always open to changing it if there's a consensus to do so. Everything else has been fixed, I believe. – Juliancolton | ^Talk 04:25, 9 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Support. Dudley Miles (talk) 11:00, 9 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Source review

That might be the longest string of ref callbacks I've seen- a through bl. Anyways:

Formatting: you had an unhyphenated ISBN-10, which I've fixed to an ISBN-13; also, no need to include incorporation marks in company names otherwise we'd be awash in Ltd, Co, Inc, etc. The standard is also usually "last, first", but I suppose there's no harm in leaving it "first last".
Spotchecks: no problems found

Source review passed. Promoting. --Pres N 00:01, 24 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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