Talk:Hurricane Dennis (1981)

Todo

This one needs a full copyedit, with reorganization of the sections. Looks like decent content. Jdorje 06:59, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Uh, did I say decent content? The impact section is basically a stub. Jdorje 21:44, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

This storm isn't near notable enough for its own article. The article has minimal info and there's not that much to be said anyway. I say merge it. -- §HurricaneERIC§^Damagesarchive 01:11, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Sounds good. Hurricanehink 01:18, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Added more info, and against merge on this one because theres might be more info in the storm, but you probably have to go through the newspaper or tv news archives if you want more info on this storm (same thing to the other storms), the info on this storm is out there, you just have to find it somewhere. Storm05 16:21, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Some of the info you added is vague or trivial. It was a long lasting hurricane like Irene of 2005? What is that? It was one of two minimal notable hurricanes of the season. Notable is subjective. The storm was not that notable, and this should still be merged. Hurricanehink 16:26, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

I'm doing the best I can do to make this thing notable. Still against merge. Storm05 17:15, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

That appears to be your number one problem. You cannot make a storm notable. A notable storm is a storm that causes a lot of damage or kills a lot of people. Rainfall information and trivia does not mean the storm is notable. It might have been eventful for the time, but Wikipedia is a timeless encyclopedia (more or less). It is nice you are trying, but few storms are really notable. Only the most important storms should get an article. This is why many articles have been merged. You try and make an article for a lesser notable storm and add information, but the article is only a regular storm that did little. This is my thought about it, but I do not feel a storm like Dennis, or Ginny, or Daisy have enough impact or information to justify the existence of an article, simply based on their damage totals or death totals. They typically need more than $300 million (2005 USD) or over 25 deaths, and anything less than that isn't really notable. Hurricanehink 17:30, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

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GA Review

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Reviewer: Hurricanehink mobile (talk · contribs) 16:44, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

Review

• The tenth tropical cyclone, fourth named storm of the hurricane season - combine with an "and", since sentence is grammatically awkward now without it

• Done--12george1 (talk) 17:43, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

• Given article's length, could you trim down MH in the lead so it's only two paragraphs?

• Done--12george1 (talk) 17:43, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

• In the 3rd lead paragraph (hopefully 2nd in the future), you have two sentences starting w "Much of..." Please change one.

• Fixed--12george1 (talk) 17:43, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

• Many businesses and homes in city such as Homestead and Florida City suffered water damage. Fix

• Fixed--12george1 (talk) 17:43, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

• Further north - this will always be "farther" for anything related to length/direction. You do this twice.

• Fixed--12george1 (talk) 17:43, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

• wind shear prevented additional deepening.[3] Increasing wind shear caused Dennis to weaken - combine?

• Done--12george1 (talk) 17:43, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

• When did Dennis become ET, and where did remnants dissipate?

• The ET was at 00:00 UTC on August 22. CB gave me the Mariners Weather Log (the only source to talk about the ET stage) and it doesn't give the location. I'm guessing somewhere not too far south of Greenland, but that's just speculating--12george1 (talk) 17:43, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

• Any impacts for East Carib?

• I mentioned that there was heavy rainfall in Martinique, Saint Lucia, the Virgin Islands. Dennis was just a TD (and barely) by this point. I haven't seen more than that--12george1 (talk) 17:43, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

• Some United States Military vessels were went out to sea - "went" or "were sent?

• Fixed--12george1 (talk) 17:43, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

• At Homestead Air Force Base, 86 aircraft were evacuated. - shouldn't this be in previous para?

• No, they were evacuated because the base flooded. I'll clarify that--12george1 (talk) 17:43, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

• Approximately 650 acres (260 ha) of avocado trees were destroyed, causing a loss of more than 100,000 boxes. Damage to avocados exceeded $3.5 million.[ - find a way to say it in one sentence

• Better?--12george1 (talk) 17:43, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

All in all, decent. Hurricanehink mobile (talk) 16:44, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for the review!--12george1 (talk) 17:43, 28 June 2017 (UTC)