Talk:Hurricane Katrina (1981)/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Curly Turkey (talk · contribs) 06:48, 8 December 2013 (UTC)

I'll take at look at this. Curly Turkey (gobble) 06:48, 8 December 2013 (UTC)

Prose

• link Grand Cayman (once in the lead, again in the body)

• Done--12george1 (talk) 22:19, 8 December 2013 (UTC)

• link waterspout? Is "waterspout" (lead) the same as "rough seas" (body)?

• Fixed. No, "waterspout is not the same as "rough seas". Someone misinterpreted the information from the source in the latter, and I forgot to fix it.--12george1 (talk) 22:19, 8 December 2013 (UTC)

• "the Brac Reef Hotel's Bar": is the the actual name, or was it "the Brac Reef Hotel bar"?

• The latter--12george1 (talk) 22:19, 8 December 2013 (UTC)

• you use {{convert}} in the body, but not in the lead. I don't think there's any guideline against that, but consistency would be nice

• True, it would be consistent to use templates for every unit of measure. However, the project of this article has standards where mph/km/h and mi/km have to be rounded to the nearest 5th digit when they are mentioned in the Meteorological history section. This also applies when mentioning the maximum sustained wind speed of the storm.--12george1 (talk) 22:19, 8 December 2013 (UTC)

• "the tropical depression at 2200 UTC", "depression until 1600 UTC": not "22:00", "16:00"? You do this consistently throughout the article, I'm just surprised—I'm not familiar with this usage, and I wonder how many readers are

• Again, it is sort of a project standard to display UTC times like this. Personally, I'm not sure it is really matters either way. FYI, we have had recent articles with that format pass FACs, such as Hurricane Nadine (2012).--12george1 (talk) 22:19, 8 December 2013 (UTC)
  • I guess the thing is that, even if it's "correct", it's unfamilar to most readers, and thus a likely target for random editors to "correct"— and if they don't correct all of them, but only the ones they happen to see, then you end up with inconsistencies. If you really insist on that format, you might want to protect it with {{not a typo}}. Curly Turkey (gobble) 08:05, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
    • Done--12george1 (talk) 19:45, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

• "the storm was not expected to pose a threat to the United States": this sounds ominous—as if later in the story the storm did pose a threat to the US

• Well, I can't exactly just remove that part. Let me know if you are against my idea.--12george1 (talk) 22:19, 8 December 2013 (UTC)

• "flood damage to watermelon, tomato and corn crops": WP:OVERLINK?

• Good call. Also, I'd think a potential reader would already know what watermelon, tomato, and corn are :P --12george1 (talk) 22:19, 8 December 2013 (UTC)

• "of the 15th running of the Benson and Hedges Gold Cup Race": link to International Stakes?

• Sure --12george1 (talk) 22:19, 8 December 2013 (UTC)

Images

• All clear:
  • File:Katrina 81 sat.jpg, File:Hurricane Katrina (1981).JPG: public domain images by government agencies
  • File:Katrina 1981 track.png: released into the public domain by the author
• I realize the infobox is getting in the way, but MOS:IMAGELOCATION recommends against opening a section with an image on the left as with File:Katrina 1981 track.png

• Every article in our project has it like that, no one at even an FAC has ever objected.--12george1 (talk) 22:19, 8 December 2013 (UTC)

• Alt text would be nice

• Not a Good Article requirement, but I will add alt text anyway.--12george1 (talk) 22:20, 8 December 2013 (UTC)
  • Sorry, usually I leave a disclaimer saying something along the lines of "not everything is necessarily required for GA yada yada yada". Curly Turkey (gobble) 08:08, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

Refs

• The refs all appear to be from legitimate government agencies or newspapers
• Can't access many of the articles, but I don't detect any plagiarism or close paraphrasing issues
• sometimes the dates of the articles precede their names, sometimes they come after

• That only happens when the author parameter is blank. I will fill them with |author=Staff Writer.--12george1 (talk) 22:19, 8 December 2013 (UTC)

———Curly Turkey (gobble) 07:16, 8 December 2013 (UTC)

Promoted. Looks like a Good Article to me! Curly Turkey (gobble) 21:47, 11 December 2013 (UTC)