Template:Did you know nominations/Effects of Hurricane Irma in Florida
- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 07:10, 9 February 2018 (UTC)
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Effects of Hurricane Irma in Florida edit
- ... that the effects of Hurricane Irma in Florida resulted in at least $50 billion (USD) in damage, far exceeding Hurricane Andrew as the state's costliest tropical cyclone?
- Reviewed: Song Jian
Created by 12george1 (talk). Self-nominated at 05:10, 24 January 2018 (UTC).
This was an article that was long in coming, but it is new enough (it was created months ago, but OK based on the date moved into mainspace), long enough (at 94,000-plus characters, it far exceeds the minimum), and within policy re citing sources (more than 200) and neutrality (though in all due jest, the article focuses almost entirely on the negatives of the hurricane and never seems to give the hurricane's side of the story). The hook is simple but broadly interesting and is properly sourced in the article. QPQ obligation has been met.However, 12george1, this analysis by Earwig's Copyvio Detector detects several possible matches that indicate possible violations of paraphrasing and copying rules. Can the nominator please address these concerns? Alansohn (talk) 04:48, 26 January 2018 (UTC)
- When comparing the article to the Select Committee on Hurricane Response and Preparedness report, there were some things that did in fact need to be rephrased. However, much of the other potential copyvios in that document were unavoidable, such as when I said the name of the committee itself, or there were some short portions that probably shouldn't have been highlighted, like "in the Florida Keys". And that seems to be the case with all of those urls listed. Anyway, I fixed the phrases and sentences that definitely needed rephrasing--12george1 (talk) 05:50, 26 January 2018 (UTC)
- Update: A new document released today by NOAA says $50 billion in Florida [1]. I've changed the hook and the information in the article accordingly--12george1 (talk) 19:04, 26 January 2018 (UTC)
