Talk:Four-State Tornado Swarm

Four-State Tornado Swarm was a Natural sciences good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
September 19, 2009	Good article nominee	Not listed

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on July 3, 2009.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the Four-State Tornado Swarm of 1787 is considered to be the earliest example of a tornado outbreak on record?

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GA Review[edit]

This review is transcluded from Talk:Four-State Tornado Swarm/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Hello, I'll be reviewing this article for possible GA status. Cheers, Nikkimaria (talk) 01:26, 11 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm placing the article on hold to allow contributors time to address my concerns. Cheers, Nikkimaria (talk) 02:09, 11 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No progress has been made on the article in the past week; therefore, I'm going to decline to list it at this time. Please feel free to renominate the article once the below concerns have been addressed. Cheers, Nikkimaria (talk) 20:25, 19 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Writing and formatting[edit]

Consider adding at least one more paragraph to the lead
Is there a better section title than "Synopsis"?
"a strong northwest wind an hail stones" - grammar
Given that some tornadoes affected more than one state, might you title the table "Tornadoes by state of origin" or something similar?
Quotes that are not complete sentences should have ending quotation mark before punctuation
"but only slightly injured" -> "but was only slightly injured"

Accuracy and verifiability[edit]

Make sure that all quotations have citations
Citations needed for:

"leveled with the ground"
"feared mortally wounded."
A house's roof was destroyed, with pieces scattered 0.75 miles (1.2 km) away
Pieces of the house were found 3 miles (4.8 km) distant. A barn was "taken and entirely carried off" by the tornado, and was not found.
hail stones weighing more than 1 ounce (28 g) damaged crops and broke windows.

One author's name is spelled both "Ludlum" and "Ludlam" in the references. Which is correct?

Broad[edit]

Rather short for a good article, but covers the topic well

Neutrality[edit]

Take a look at WP:WTA - certain words introduce an editorial bias and should be avoided

Stable[edit]

No issues noted

Images[edit]

The image is tagged to be recreated using vector graphics
Not required, but I personally would appreciate a similar map showing the approximate paths of the tornadoes

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