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The following is an archived discussion of a featured list nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured list candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The list was promoted by The Rambling Man 19:11, 10 May 2010 [1].

List of storms in the 2006 Pacific hurricane season edit

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Nominator(s): ♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 01:56, 25 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The 2006 Pacific hurricane season was a rather busy one, and unusual how most of the storms affected land. After a lot of tiresome editing, fixing up refs from four years ago, and getting reviews from three talented editors, I am ready to take the plunge and get another million comments for this list. It's the sole outstanding article I need for a featured topic several years in the making, so I hope you like it. ♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 01:56, 25 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support Great project collaboration when the article was first written, now deserves to be featured at last. Leave Message, Yellow Evan home

Resolved comments from The Rambling Man (talk) 06:33, 26 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comments
  • "east of 140ºW" any chance (for non-experts) that you could add "longitude" there?
  • "in the eastern Pacific basin." I'm confused why Pacific basin is linked to Pacific hurricane.
  • You've got both $ and USD for US dollar, and you link the second of the them rather than the first... any reason why?
    • I'm specifying the year in which the damage occurred. Some might assume it was inflated, but I'm specifying it was not. --♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 17:37, 25 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • "season officially began on May 15 " vs "The season began on May 27" would it not be better to say "The first hurricane of the season formed on May 27" (or similar) rather than have two start dates for the season? Especially when you go on to say "On May 27, 12 days into the season,"
    • Actually, the season did begin on May 15, so I changed the wording to "Tropical activity began on May 27." --♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 17:37, 25 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • I think second strongest should be hyphenated.
  • See Also in the TOC template should be See also.
  • I probably ask this too often, but you have imperial units first for speeds and distances, but then suddenly metric for some rainfall, but not all rainfall. Is this a source thing? I would be tempted to add a note somewhere regarding the sources including a note about the accuracies (e.g. you have a rainfall to the nearest 1/100th of an inch)...
    • Sorry, that was bad consistency about the metric vs. imperial, and all should be imperial first, now. What do you have in mind for the note? The sources sometime vary (usually to 1/10th of an inch, but sometimes it's converted from mm). --♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 17:37, 25 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Any reason why the pressure values in the nice templates with each storm aren't converted into Imperial (e.g. inches of mercury?)
    • The main reason is that inches of mercury isn't used much anymore, especially by tropical cyclone warning agencies. That template (the mini-infobox) is used across the project, so I wouldn't really be comfortable changing it, but I'll check with other project members. --♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 17:37, 25 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • "were reported..[9]" spare period here.
  • Under Daniel, you abbreviate CPHC again, you've already done this in the lead, just use the abbreviation.
  • "eyewall replacement cycles" what are these? Totally mystifying to a non-expert.
  • 1580 -> 1,580 to be internally consistent.
  • "rode out the " a shade colloquial for me.
  • 3C you relink International Date Line, no need.
  • You use ITCZ without expanding it.
    • I had it expanded earlier, but I thought it'd be better if I expanded it in each section. --♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 17:37, 25 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • not in parenthesis -> parentheses.
  • "EPac total is 120.4750" what's this?
  • Ref 3 has a format issue.
  • Ref 72 seems to be using a different language template from the others.
  • Ref 86 uses NOAA while Ref 87 uses National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Be consistent.

The Rambling Man (talk) 15:54, 25 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks a lot for the review. There was only one aspect I wasn't quite sure of. --♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 17:37, 25 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
The note would be an attempt to explain quite how you came to your various accuracies, significant figures etc, based on the sources you use. As I said, an accuracy of 1/100th of an inch (or even .1 mm) seems way over the top, and unlikely to be true! The Rambling Man (talk) 18:08, 25 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
OK, does that work (added a note)? With rainfall totals, usually rounding to 1/100th of an inch is standard, so hopefully it all makes sense. --♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 03:58, 26 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support - Ive just read the article and think its ready to become an FL.Jason Rees (talk) 18:02, 29 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment There are several dead links; please check the toolbox. Dabomb87 (talk) 22:46, 29 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comments. Generally well written list, but I have a few comments:

  1. The list contains not only storms and hurricanes, but also tropical depressions. However they are not even mentioned in the leading section. At least their number (6?) should be stated together with the number of storms and hurricanes (first sentence).
  2. Tropical activity began on May 27 but The season officially began on May 15 . Why did the season began earlier than the activity?
  3. Hurricane Ileana moved off the coast of Africa on August 8. It entered the Eastern North Pacific on August 16 and developed into a tropical depression on August 21 near Acapulco. From this it follows that a Hurricane (sic!) turned into a depression, for the first time in history!

Ruslik_Zero 19:16, 4 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

First, thanks a lot for the copyedit and the look-through. I added the depressions to the lede (good catch). I didn't put them in the first sentence, since I chose to start the article with a more interesting sentence, and tropical depressions are generally not as important as named storms. The season is the official timeframe, as marked by the warning center. Storms form within the season, so hence why the first storm was 12 days after the start of the technical season. As for Ileana, heh, I suppose that could be confusing based on the wording, so I fixed it. Hope it's better now. Hurricanehink (talk) 20:46, 4 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support. I think all problems have been resolved. Ruslik_Zero 10:45, 5 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support - As per above; nice work! --Yueof theNorth 17:25, 9 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]


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