Talk:Tropical Storm Arthur (2008)

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March 3, 2011	Good article nominee	Listed
April 5, 2011	Good topic candidate	Promoted

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on June 7, 2008.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the recent Tropical Storm Arthur was the first Atlantic tropical storm that formed during the month of May since 1981?

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Comisión Nacional del Aqua, in its report on Tropical Storm Arthur

OR?[edit]

Arthur is the first tropical storm to form in May since Tropical Storm Arlene in 1981. Other systems have formed (such as Subtropical Storm Andrea in 2007), but they have started out as subtropical. The formation of Arthur also marks the first time that a named storm formed in May for two consecutive years.

Isn't this technically WP:OR? I'm not saying it's false (I checked and confirmed it's true), but unless we can find a source that definitively states this info, it's definitively OR. I'm going to remove it. TheNobleSith (talk) 04:10, 1 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

We can verify it with HURDAT, so not really. Titoxd^{(?!? - cool stuff)} 09:19, 1 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Also, not everything that is unsourced is OR. OR would be, "XX Commons is considered the worst mall on earth", or "From the roadway, you can see an excellent view". This is just a case of lacking a reference, since I just copied that sentence from the 2008 AHS article. I see it's gone now, though...hmm... Juliancolton ^Tropical ^Cyclone 11:58, 1 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, I geuss I was wrong. Thank you for enlightening me, :). TheNobleSith (talk) 18:33, 1 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The phrase is still there, I just reworded it a little. I also think that it is misleading to say that this is the first time two named storms have formed in May. Only recently they changed the naming conventions and began naming subtropical storms, which is why there was a named storm in May 2007. It is entirely possible that, under these rules, there would have been plenty of consecutive years with named storms in May. Plasticup ^T/C 19:52, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Track map[edit]

I added a simple version of Arthur's track map that should be replaced by a better version when is available. -Ramisses (talk) 19:01, 2 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Done. I'll get to the EPac storms. -CWY2190(talk • contributions) 23:09, 9 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Do you use the same method Nilfanion and Jdorje do to generate the track maps? I'd really like to try my hand at those but I don't have the necessary items to run them. -- RattleMan 23:16, 9 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

SMN's TCR[edit]

Availalble here. Titoxd^{(?!? - cool stuff)} 19:11, 25 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Isn't that our old track map? Juliancolton ^Tropical ^Cyclone 19:25, 25 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

"Imagen cortesía: Wikipedia ©" - yep. Titoxd^{(?!? - cool stuff)} 19:31, 25 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Cool, I didn't even see that... Juliancolton ^Tropical ^Cyclone 19:32, 25 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Arthur's image[edit]

The image is not storm centered, could someone crop it a bit? Hurricane Typhoon Cyclone 04:08, 16 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It's good the way it is. The image shows the full storm and its location. Cyclone biskit 13:45, 16 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

todo?[edit]

what has to be done with this article before it's can be ga nommed? i need it for a featured topic i'm doin. --Viennaiswaiting (talk) 22:16, 27 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review[edit]

This review is transcluded from Talk:Tropical Storm Arthur (2008)/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Y E ^Tropical ^Cyclone 00:07, 3 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Nice article, but I have a few comments.

The lead should be expanded
- Better? --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 20:59, 3 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  - Yes. Y E ^Tropical ^Cyclone 03:04, 4 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
A minor copyedit might be useful on the last paragraph of the MH as such words as "disorganization" do not flow well IMO.
- OK, I think I smoothed it out a bit. --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 20:59, 3 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  - Good job. Y E ^Tropical ^Cyclone 03:04, 4 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
In the beginning of the preps/impact section "Tropical storm warnings" shoud link to the watches and warnings article.
- Whoops, k. --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 20:59, 3 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Any actual rainfall reports in Belize?
- I really tried, but I couldn't find any. Nothing in RW, media reports, and sadly Belize doesn't have a WMO report. --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 20:59, 3 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
"Winds from Arthur forced the closure of two of Mexico's three main oil exporting ports in the Gulf of Mexico due to rough seas" which ports?
- The source didn't say, and I couldn't find anywhere else. --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 20:59, 3 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
At the end of the third paragraph in the impact section, "Additionally, the government rushed food, water and clothing to around 13,000 people" the "to around" part makes no sense.
- Oh, I changed "around" to "about". It's not exactly 13,000 people... --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 20:59, 3 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Ok
"Arthur was the first tropical storm to form in May in the Atlantic since Tropical Storm Arlene in 1981. Since then other storms have formed in May, such as Andrea in 2007, but were subtropical. The formation of Arthur also marks the first time since 1934 that a tropical or subtropical storm formed in May for two consecutive years, and the first time ever that a named storm formed in May formed for two consecutive years.[1]" trivia, should be avoided, Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. YE ^Tropical ^Cyclone 00:07, 3 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Well, what part of that do you think is trivia? IMO, it's not so much trivial, so much as explaining the record it set. --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 20:59, 3 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
The last sentence is mainly trivial.
- Yea, good call. --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 03:10, 4 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the review! --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 20:59, 3 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

- - Passed. Congratulations.

Suggested Edit[edit]

In the first sentence, it says that Arthur was the first storm to form in may since 1981, but the previous year literally had a named storm in May. This sentence is entirely false. GoldGamer32 (talk) 03:38, 1 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]