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This isn't notable enough, and not enough impact to warrent a storm article. Long storm histories only make it seem longer. I vote for a merge.
Hurricanehink15:39, 20 January 2006 (UTC)reply
The impact section is decent...this article could stay if it were fixed up. Although the storm was not particularly notable. The writing is atrocious however, starting with the first sentence which is blatantly wrong. Elsewhere the article is rife with bad spelling and bad grammar.
Jdorje18:16, 20 January 2006 (UTC)reply
Corrected some but not all, you need to point out what errors I made when writing this article because I found little when I looked at it.
Storm0518:27, 20 January 2006 (UTC)reply
Just looking at the impact section, over half of the sentences contain an error. And there's still the first sentence of the intro.
Jdorje19:32, 20 January 2006 (UTC)reply
This patient could live with extensive surgery. It killed the same number of people as Keith later that year. The writing is just a nightmare, I'm sorry. I'm not trying to hurt anyone's feelings but come on. --
§Hurricane ERIC§archive -- my dropsonde04:32, 21 January 2006 (UTC)reply
Apparently the 23 Guatemala deaths may have occurred while the storm was just a tropical wave, and thus are not attributed to Gordon. Even with 24 deaths, it would be 1 short of the cutoff necessary to get on the NHC's deadliest-hurricanes list, below which I don't think deaths alone can justify the article. Based on the mediocrity of the article and lack of damage...I change my vote to merge. —
jdorje (
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00:08, 1 April 2006 (UTC)reply
Yea, good work. It could use some preparations and more impact before being upgraded to B class. If possible, could the impact section be split up by area (have a section for Latin America, a section for Florida, and a section for Carolinas)? They are split up already, but not into their own sections.
Hurricanehink (
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13:16, 24 June 2006 (UTC)reply
"The developing system moved slowly northwestward across the northern Yucatán Peninsula. Later that day, the depression moved inland over the Yucatán Peninsula." So... the depression crossed the peninsula twice?
There's a neat radar image in the MH, but which one is Gordon? The mass of rain over Florida or the organized cluster of storms over South Carolina? If it was the one over SC, then the caption could say 'Extratropical remnants of Gordon...' If it was the one over Florida, perhaps you could try cropping the image?
"The Florida Division of Emergency Management in Tallahassee made a mandatory evacuation in Hernando County," I think instead of 'made' you should say 'issued an order for a...' since you don't 'make' evacuations.
"...with spotter reports and radar estimates indicating over 8 inches (200 mm) in Georgetown." I know you mention heavy rainfall earlier in the sentence, but I think it would be useful to indicate '8 inches (200 mm) of rain.'
"...standing water in excess of 2–3 feet (0.61–0.91 m) in many areas." You say excess, but then you provide a range with a maximum limit. Was it in excess of that range, or did standing water only fall in that range?
"In Delaware, precipitation totals at Newark and New Castle Airport reached 1.82 inches (46 mm), respectively." You provide one value and say respectively. Alternatively, you could say "...totals at Newark and New Castle Airport both reached..."
Every external link with the exception of "NHC (NOAA) Gordon," "Sky Chaser.com," "Hurricane Gordon Report," and "Hurricane Gordon" is a dead link. You could fix that.