Talk:Hurricane Lester (1992)

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Good articleHurricane Lester (1992) has been listed as one of the Natural sciences good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
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DateProcessResult
February 9, 2011Good article nomineeNot listed
April 21, 2011Good article nomineeListed
Current status: Good article

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Regarding your revert: I made positive changes to the article (removed a false sentence which the sources did not back up and rephrased a poorly-spelled, poorly-worded sentence), so there's no reason you should be undoing them. Please note that WP:OWN does technically apply to all pages on Wikipedia (despite the rather one-faced title "Ownership of articles) - this would include user sandboxes. – Chacor 15:02, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
On the contary, the source and AMS source clearly states that lester (or the remnants of it) merged with andrew over central united states. (you probably just glanced though the source instead of actually reading it). Storm05 16:55, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Content wise, it's B class, though it needs a good copyedit and rewriting in multiple places. Hurricanehink (talk) 20:54, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The content may be B standard, but the quality of writing is poor. Start is more appropriate until a THOROUGH copyedit is done.--Nilfanion (talk) 23:33, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I gave it its needed copyedit, and thus raised it to B class. Hurricanehink (talk) 22:01, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Where is the source for the damage total? --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 05:14, 1 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I fixed that, for some reason Storm05 got that wrong. YE Tropical Cyclone 17:14, 16 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review[edit]

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Reviewer: ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 21:56, 31 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

  • First, the source for the opening sentence has a dead link. Please fix
  • The writing is overall pretty good, although a few things stood out
    • "and the southern portion continuing westward. The southern portion of the wave" - could you find a way to either combine sentences, or avoid the redundancy of saying "southern portion" twice?
    • "on August 20 while located about 275 miles (445 km) south-southwest of Manzanillo, Mexico" - two things. The "while located" is redundant, and you should say the Mexican province, not the country. You wouldn't say "Miami, United States", after all
  • Why did it track northwestward at first? There should be info in the discussions to say why. I'm assuming it's a ridge, since you mention one later, but you should really mention that when you first mention movement of the TC
    • Also, there's no need to say "The cyclone continued to the northwest" - when nothing changed. It's just redundant.
  • "Around this time, forecasters at the National Hurricane Center predicted the storm would not strengthen to hurricane intensity before making landfall." - two things. First, why didn't they think it would strengthen? More importantly, I think the wording should say "predicted the storm would remain at tropical storm intensity before landfall", since that is a more accurate reflection of what they were predicting.
  • "Lester weakened steadily as the storms" - I'm assuming you mean "storm"?
  • "about 10 hours" - 10 should probably be written out
  • "It maintained tropical storm status until it" - one of the "it"s should be written out as either "storm", "Lester", etc
  • The first sentence of the Mexico section gives little context. Where was Lester when the first TS warning was issued? How many hours before landfall? Just saying the date doesn't help much
  • "While it passed over the islands" - are you still talking about Socorro there? If so, those two sentences should be merged, as it's rather wordy and non-interesting, no offense
    • Why is the 23 mph important? That is such a non-event. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 00:53, 9 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • "causing it to roll 33° to each side and thus caused a large amount of cargo to go overboard" - slightly awkward wording, particularly since you use the verb "cause" twice but in different verb forms
  • Is there any reason the peak rainfall from the HPC report isn't mentioned in the article?
  • "Waves up to 20 ft (6.1 m) were recorded and the flash flooding caused 10,000 people to be evacuated from their homes" - did the waves cause the flash flooding? And you already mentioned the evacuations earlier in the article...
  • "Prior to the arrival of Lester in the United States, forecasters were anticipating the storm to move into Kansas." - that could use some clarification, as it starts the US paragraph, and I'm not really sure what you're trying to imply
  • Any reason Colorado is linked twice?
  • Was there any actual damage or impact in the United States? Right now it's limited to just rainfall, with no mention of flooding or anything.

--♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 21:56, 31 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Have any of these comments been addressed? If not, I'm afraid I will have to fail it today. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 16:02, 8 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'm going to have to fail it, I'm sorry. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 00:53, 9 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review[edit]

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Reviewer: 12george1 (talk) 03:46, 18 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

  • The opening sentence should probably have a reference, like East Pacific HURDAT.
  • It is projec tpolicy not to put ref sin the lead as there is no need.
  • "Not long after entering Arizona, it dissipated on August 24 over New Mexico." - What is this? It would be much better if you said something like this: "Not long after entering Arizona, Lester weakened to a tropical depression, and dissipated on August 24 over New Mexico."
  • Incorporated your suggestion
  • Why is $3 million converted to 2006 USD and not 2011 USD?
  •  Done
  • "and was responsible for 3 fatalities." - 3 should be spelled-out.
  • "moderate rainfall and minor flooding across southern California, Arizona and New Mexico, as well as rare August snow in the Rocky Mountains." - So there wasn't flooding in other states? The article later states that there was moderate flooding in Denver (Colorado).
  •  Done
  • "The depression attained tropical storm status late on August 20, upon which it was named Lester." Reword; it sounds like your implying that August 20 was named Lester.
  •  Done
  • "minimum central pressure of 985 mbar (hPa)." - Convert mbar to inHg, like this: 985 mbar (hPa; 29.09 inHg).
  • Fixed
  • "It degenerated into a tropical storm while crossing the Baja California Peninsula, and after passing through the northern Gulf of California it made a second landfall near Isla Tiburon in the state of Sonora." - This is kind of a run-on sentence; I would split those two sentences at "Baja California Peninsula, and after"; in other words, re-write as "It degenerated into a tropical storm while crossing the Baja California Peninsula." "After passing through the northern Gulf of California, it made a second landfall near Isla Tiburon in the state of Sonora."
  • Fixed.
  • How come I see it written as the "Government of Mexico" and then the "government of Mexico"?
  • Fixed.
  • Although the peak rainfall in the United States was mentioned, there is still nothing about the peak rainfall in Mexico.
  • Added.
  • All of the references have specific dates, but it is only written with the year in the article. The specific date of the preliminary report is on page 3.
  • The author of Reference #1, 7, and 9 should be Edward Rappaport, and the "National Hurricane Center" should be switched to the publisher parameter.
  •  Done
  • Add the first names on Reference #2 and 3.
  •  Done YE Tropical Cyclone 15:36, 19 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • On Reference 10 & 11, the author should be Associated Press.
Thanks for the review. YE Tropical Cyclone 15:36, 19 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Ok, that is good enough, I will now be passing this article. Congratulations,--12george1 (talk) 16:40, 21 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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