Talk:1982–83 El Niño event

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I added additional information pertaining to the ecological and societal impacts of this event, as well as adding details pertaining to specific storm systems that this event caused. Csmalls99 (talk) 01:50, 28 October 2016 (UTC)

Hello! My name is Carson Clements, and I am the assigned student editor for this article. While I will do my best to address the issues that I will point out shortly with the article in its current state, any help or assistance in regards to finding reliable sources, updating any aspect of the article, adding new information, or anything else related to improving this Wikipedia page is greatly and gratefully appreciated. Without any further ado, allow me to convey my thoughts on the current state of this article in paragraph format.

In terms of content within this article, there was no information that was irrelevant to the topic, and nothing stood out as a distracting section. Every link appears to function properly and there is nothing egregious regarding the article stub itself. However, the amount of information provided by this tragically-short article is severely lacking in terms of depth, especially when compared to other El Niño events linked below the list of references. Furthermore, while none of the information provided appears to be out of date, there is a disproportionate amount of information that could be added to the stub, with the entire page needing a serious renovation. On a more positive note, this page does do a sufficient but brief job in noting a few of the consequences as a result of the event, but it fails to discuss the meteorological synopsis of this particular occasion of the El Niño phenomenon nor does it dive into the details in any manner, much less an easily comprehensible but scientific approach. Continuing on that optimistic outlook, the tone of the article is neutral yet informative, not straying from Wikipedia's main purpose of being a usable, informative site that everyone who reads through its pages can understand the topic of each article. In general, the sources cited by the article are reliable, unbiased, and factual sources; however, the fact that this article only possesses 5 sources in total is concerning. While these sources work together well to create an article with an appropriate tone, the issue lies within the fact that there simply isn't enough content that can be pulled from these sources to make a suitably lengthy article to fully discuss and explain this topic. Finally, I've noticed that this article has seen a severe lack in activity on the talk page. While that isn't by itself a bad sign, this absence of communication combined with the rest of the information regarding the current state of this article concerns me. I hope that through my efforts (and others who are willing to contribute alongside me), we'll be able to turn this article from a stub to a hub.

Bad jokes or puns aside, I'll be working diligently on modifying this article, to the best of my abilities, until it is a complete, informative, yet not overly technical discussion of the 1982-1983 El Niño event. To anyone who has made it this far through my message, thank you for reading it and for your volunteer work on not just this page but on Wikipedia as a whole. Hopefully I'll be able to begin updating this article soon. Carson Clements (talk) 08:33, 16 September 2019 (UTC)

Hey, I've found some sources for this article that might be worth looking further into in regards to content for this page. I'll link them below.

Barber, Richard T.; Chavez, Francisco P. (23 January 1986). "Ocean variability in relation to living resources during the 1982–83 El Niño". Nature. 319: 279–285 – via Nature.

Cane, Mark A. (16 December 1983). "Oceanographic Events During El Niño". Science. 222: 1189–1195 – via JSTOR.

Glynn, Peter W. (1988). "El Niño—Southern Oscillation 1982-1983: Nearshore Population, Community, and Ecosystem Responses". Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics. 19 (1): 309–346. doi:10.1146/annurev.es.19.110188.001521.

McCulloch, Malcolm T.; Gagan, Michael K.; Mortimer, Graham E.; Chivas, Allan R.; Isdale, Peter J. (1994-06-01). "A high-resolution Sr/Ca and δ18O coral record from the Great Barrier Reef, Australia, and the 1982–1983 El Niño". Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 58 (12): 2747–2754. doi:10.1016/0016-7037(94)90142-2. ISSN 0016-7037.

Quiroz, Roderick S. (1983-08-01). "The Climate of the "El Niño" Winter of 1982–83—A Season of Extraordinary Climatic Anomalies". Monthly Weather Review. 111 (8): 1685–1706. doi:10.1175/1520-0493(1983)1112.0.CO;2. ISSN 0027-0644. Carson Clements (talk) 03:33, 18 September 2019 (UTC)

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 20 August 2019 and 3 December 2019. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Carson Clements. Peer reviewers: Shodges34.

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