Hurricane Boris (1996) was a Natural sciences good articles nominee, but did not meet the
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Although this article was recently promoted to GA, I don't think the reviewer adequately read the article. I quickly spotted several mistakes in the article, there is a lack of wikilinks to WPTC Jargon in the Met history, the convert templates are using incorrect units, and overall it's a rather messy article. If requested, I'll do a thorough review here.
Cyclonebiskit (
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15:18, 8 June 2009 (UTC)reply
While it shouldn't have passed, it would be nice if each of us tried to helpful and either be very specific as to all of the article's current problems, or even better, correcting some of the issues, instead of just delisting it out of disinterest. I did some work on the met section, including the proper units within the convert templates. Convert template use on its own does not force a downgrade to a GA article.
Thegreatdr (
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21:14, 8 June 2009 (UTC)reply
Thorough Review per request
Lead
Hurricane Boris was the second in a series of storms to impact the Pacific coast of Mexico in the span of two weeks. to be more specific, say during June and July 1996 instead of in the span of two weeks
Shortly after the hurricane made landfall along the south coast of Mexico midway between Lazaro Cardenas and Acapulco at this intensity. Comma after after; comma after Mexico; link Lazaro Cardenas and Acapulco to their respective articles
Boris caused heavy flooding in southern Mexico that resulted in at least five fatalities; however a damage estimate is unknown. comma after however
The last sentence isn't really needed since the first sentence states that other storms hit the region
Meteorological history
The references are overused, if several sentences are from one source, just put the reference where that information ends.
Boris originated from a tropical wave that moved off Africa on June 8. -> Hurricane Boris orginated from a
tropical wave that moved off the west coast of Africa on June 8
It passed near the Cape Verde Islands with no thunderstorm activity. The preliminary report doesn't mention the cape verde islands, so this is considered Original Research
The wave continues westward, crossing Central America on June 23 as a very poorly defined on satellite imagery. -> The poorly organized wave tracked westward across the
Atlantic Ocean and
Caribbean Sea and entered the
Pacific Ocean on June 23.