Template:Did you know nominations/1930 Atlantic hurricane season
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The result was: by Hawkeye7 (talk) 04:22, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
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1930 Atlantic hurricane season
[edit]... that during the 1930 Atlantic hurricane season, only one tropical cyclone made landfall, but it resulted in an death toll estimated to be between 2,000 and 8,000?
ALT1: ... that during the 1930 Atlantic hurricane season, the only tropical cyclone that made landfall resulted in a death toll estimated to be between 2,000 and 8,000?- Reviewed: Not a self-nomination
Improved to Good Article status by 12george1 (talk). Nominated by Oceanh (talk) at 09:28, 6 July 2014 (UTC).
Promoted to Good Article status on July 6. Article is neutrally written, long enough and uses extensive in-line citations. A QPQ is not required as this is not a self-nomination. Spot-checking doesn't turn up instances of unduly close paraphrasing, copyright violation or plagiarism. Both of the proposed hooks are short enough, interesting and verified with reliable sources, principally the NOAA site. I have taken the liberty of changing "an death toll" to "a death toll" in the alt 1 hook. Cbl62 (talk) 22:39, 8 July 2014 (UTC)
I've returned this from prep as I can't verify that this was the only hurricane of the year to make landfall, that statement is sourced to a raw database file which I have no idea how to interpret. Gatoclass (talk) 08:33, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
- That's fine Gatoclass. We are only interested in the first and third columns of that file. The first column has either the date in YYYYMMDD format or the hurricane number, and the third column has an L if the coordinates of that line means it made landfall. If you scroll through the file to the entries starting 1930 you will see that there is only one L in the third column for that year's data under the tracking data for the second hurricane. (Now I am expert in HURDAT data and baseball statistics. Next KUNG-FU!) Belle (talk) 09:15, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
- At the very least, a note should be added to the article to that effect, because readers will have no more clue to interpreting the data there than I do. Gatoclass (talk) 09:37, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
- Paging 12george1. Please come to the white phone in reception where you a have a call about interpreting HURDAT2 data. I've add an external link to the pdf explaining the tracking data format, but maybe you want to move it somewhere that is better connected to the data file. (I still haven't got to grips with citation formats, maybe I should do that rather than pushing hands. Be water, my friend) Belle (talk) 09:54, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
- At the very least, a note should be added to the article to that effect, because readers will have no more clue to interpreting the data there than I do. Gatoclass (talk) 09:37, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
- ALT2: ... that the one tropical cyclone to make landfall during the 1930 Atlantic hurricane season killed between 2000 and 8000 people? EEng (talk) 02:00, 20 July 2014 (UTC)
As 12george1 hasn't edited for over a month, Gatoclass is on low-power editing at the moment and the only change requested was perhaps a bit of formatting, I think this can go through with EEng's ALT2 without too much risk of the fabric of space time being torn apart (I'll let you know if I see it starting to fray, but you keep an eye out too; I don't want to turn round and see the past smashing into the future.) Belle (talk) 18:10, 5 August 2014 (UTC)