Tornado outbreak of April 2, 2006 was a Natural sciences good articles nominee, but did not meet the
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I made that name just for the lack of a better name. (It would change to Early-April 2006 if another one happens later in April)
CrazyC8323:43, 2 April 2006 (UTC)reply
Right. Keep it until we have another April outbreak (later this week?), or a widely used public nickname for this outbreak. —
BazookaJoe04:15, 3 April 2006 (UTC)reply
Of course, that outbreak (April 5-7) could be not article-worthy, like last Thursday's moderate outbreak. I don't want to be making up nicknames, so we should either use dates (but not specific days like April 2, 2006 unless it is absolutely necessary) or geographic areas in naming outbreaks.
CrazyC8304:27, 3 April 2006 (UTC)reply
Isn't it a little soon to be putting up lists of tornadoes? I know that in Indiana and Illinois the NWS won't be sending out survey teams till later on today.
Devildiva13:30, 3 April 2006 (UTC)reply
It's best to keep track ahead of time. If they are confirmed to be false, they get removed. New confirmations get added. The F? signifies a tornado that has yet to be officially confirmed.
CrazyC8315:07, 3 April 2006 (UTC)reply
(The terms Early, Mid and Late cannot be used, since it would still be the first week of April - those are the prefered terms; Early-month between 1st and 10th, Mid-month between 11th and 20th and Late-month between 21st and 31st of a month)
CrazyC8323:22, 4 April 2006 (UTC)reply
I like "April 2006 Tornado Outbreak #2" - and we can create a disambiguation page to help sort things out. Now to see about weather proofing my camera...
Rklawton00:36, 5 April 2006 (UTC)reply
There was a video taken of a very brief "landspout" near Georgetown KY. Any idea how that might be classified? (NWS hasn't put out official report on it yet)
Brando03 April 5
It's hard to say. Brief mention should be made, but if it is not classified as a tornado, it should not be in the chart.
CrazyC8320:04, 5 April 2006 (UTC)reply
Yep, I'm trying to think about how to rename this, since in all likelihood, an article will be needed for today and tomorrow's outbreak. (We have a 2 or 3-day outbreak coming it seems)
CrazyC8318:31, 6 April 2006 (UTC)reply
GA failed
As of 8 November 2006, per
WP:WIAGA, I failed this article for
GA status, per following issues:
(1.a) - the prose is not good enough. It needs some copyediting from somebody who is not familiar with the subject. I found some long sentences that are better to be chopped into 2-3 small but crisp sentences. For example in this sentence: "Farther north, the initial thunderstorm development in eastern Missouri quickly developed into a squall line, eventually becoming a derecho that produced many embedded - and generally weak - tornadoes and widespread wind damage across Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio. Springfield, Illinois, which was struck by two tornadoes less than a month earlier, was hit again by tornadoes and damaging straight-line winds of up to 80 mph (129 km/h), as was the St. Louis, Missouri area.". I found also others in the article.
(1.c) :
per
Wikipedia:Embedded_list, the article contains lengthly list in Confirmed Tornadoes section, that should be moved separately as
list article. Just introduce the tornado outbreak occurs in several cities simultaneously and point as wikilink to the list of the tornado outbreak.
per
Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Images, avoid gallery and instead use interwikilink to Commons with template {{
Commons}}. Anyway, most of the images are located in Commons.
there are some orphaned sentences that should be merged with other paragraphs.
(1.d) - there are technical jargons that should be briefly explained, though it is wikilink, to help a non-specialist reader to understand the article easily without clicking to other articles. For instances: supercell, long hail, squal lines, derecho, etc.
(2.a) - there are some unsourced facts. I've put some tags there to fill its source.
(2.b) - citation style in the References section does not conform with
WP:CITE. The list of sources at the bottom of the table are given as embedded link, while others are given as footnote. Please make a consistent citation style, per
WP:CITE.
(3.a) - the subject is Tornado Outbreak in several cities in U.S. simultaneously at that date. However, there is little information about the tornado description in all of those cities. Putting as a list is not enough, as I've explained above. The meteorogical history of the tornado is also not given, illustrated by maps. I think there a lot of freely available maps for this event in U.S. governmental sites, similar with other meteorogical articles.
Conclusion: my main concern is the heavy list. So I failed this article for GA for the moment. When the above issues are resolved, then the article can be
renominated back. If you disagree with my reviews above, you can always ask for re-review in
WP:GA/R. Cheers. —
Indon (
reply) —
10:16, 8 November 2006 (UTC)reply
I have just added archive links to 2 external links on
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