Talk:Tornado outbreak of April 8–9, 2015

Orphaned references in Tornado outbreak of April 8–9, 2015

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Tornado outbreak of April 8–9, 2015's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "apps.dat.noaa.gov":

• From Tornado outbreak of November 16–18, 2015: https://apps.dat.noaa.gov/StormDamage/DamageViewer/
• From Tornadoes of 2015: "NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit". Apps.dat.noaa.gov. Retrieved 2015-05-07.

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 01:39, 23 March 2017 (UTC)

Merge into 2015 Rochelle-Fairdale, Illinois tornado

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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the tornado alone isn’t significant enough to warrant a spinoff from the outbreak article, so normally it would be merged here. But given how that’s a GA and it isn’t, and the amount of information in the article, we shouldn’t merge that as there would be too much information lost. The other tornadoes aren’t notable as they caused low damage, no deaths and no injuries. As such, I am proposing this article gets merged, with a section on other tornadoes, similar to the 2013 Hattiesburg, Mississippi tornado, another case where an individual tornado warrants an article but not the whole outbreak. It’s a better choice with lesser information lost, as the outbreak information can be incorporated into the tornado article. 96.56.151.3 (talk) 17:43, 26 March 2022 (UTC)

The outbreak associated with it was fairly significant and the opposite was done with the 2017 New Orleans tornado (expanded to an outbreak) so I oppose this. --MarioProtIV (^talk/_contribs) 18:17, 26 March 2022 (UTC)

• Note: That was the reason why I expanded that article. ChessEric (talk · contribs) 00:13, 27 March 2022 (UTC)
• Oppose per above. United States Man (talk) 23:20, 26 March 2022 (UTC)
• Oppose– Honestly, if it were up to me, I would expand the 2013 Hattiesburg, Mississippi tornado article to include the whole outbreak, as I did with the Tornado outbreak of February 7, 2017. I do not agree with this merge. ChessEric (talk · contribs) 00:13, 27 March 2022 (UTC)
• Weak support I still think this is an unnecessary content fork, especially since this outbreak would not have been considered for an article without the Rochelle tornado. My main hesitance against a merge is the GA status of the Rochelle tornado's article. TornadoLGS (talk) 01:23, 27 March 2022 (UTC)
  • Comment Those opposed to this merge, would you support merging the other way around? TornadoLGS (talk) 01:43, 27 March 2022 (UTC)
    • I wouldn't support merging to the outbreak because I think this tornado is both significant enough, especially because of the Clem Shultz footage, and quality enough to remain it's own article. --Wikiwillz (talk) 01:37, 3 April 2022 (UTC)
• Oppose What others have said above. --Wikiwillz (talk) 01:37, 3 April 2022 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.