Talk:1994 Pacific typhoon season/GA1

GA Review

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While this article, I feel, should not have many problems passing GA, if the review is not done before Thursday, it will be withdrawn from GAN/GAC/GAR, as I will be unavailable to modify it between December 5 and 15. Thegreatdr (talk) 06:32, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Hi, I will be reviewing this article which is currently up for Good Article nomination. I should have the full review out within a few hours. Cyclonebiskit (talk) 19:34, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

GA review (see here for criteria)

1. It is reasonably well written.

   a (prose): b (MoS):

   "The season started on January 4 with the formation of Tropical Depression One-W to the west of Yap, with the first tropical storm developing a few months later on April 1, and ended near the end of the year after Tropical Storm Bobbie dissipated in the open Pacific on December 25." Ended near the end of the year after..? (same thing goes for this sentence in the season summary)

   A few sentences later, you should link South Korea and have "mainland China" as the link for mainland China, not just mainland

   The Season summary seems like a copy of the lead, it's best to consider rewriting it to avoid repetition

   You alternate between km/h and knots as the wind speed from time to time, for consistency use knots with km/h in parenthesis

   "Tropical Storm Russ was one of just three storms to cause the Hong Kong Observatory to lift Tropical Cyclone Signal #3 in the 1994 season." Doesn't lift usually mean cancel, I know what context you're using it in but other readers might not

   The damages (cost value) are written a bit strange, US$...(1994 USD). The (1994 USD) explains which currency it is, so the US before the dollar sign isn't needed

   In the Super Typhoon Walt section, you mention a reverse-oriented monsoon trough, what is that?

   In the end of the Super Typhoon Fred section you say "amounting to over 1,000 fatalities and billions in damage (7.5 billion RMB),[32][1] or US$874.4 million (1994 dollars).[18]" the billions in damage should be removed and have just the actual cost.

   In the TY Kinna section, link Hachijojima

2. It is factually accurate and verifiable.

   a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):

   The end of the first paragraph of TS Russ needs a reference

   The end of the second paragraph of TY Tim needs a reference

   The end of the first paragraph of TS Vanessa needs a reference

   The end of the first paragraph of TS Yunya needs a reference

   The end of the Hurricane/Typhoon John section needs a reference

   The STY Zelda section has no references

3. It is broad in its coverage.

   a (major aspects): b (focused):

4. It follows the neutral point of view policy.

   Fair representation without bias:

5. It is stable.

   No edit wars etc.:

6. It is illustrated by images, where possible and appropriate.

   a (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):

7. Overall:

   Pass/Fail:

Found several minor things that need fixing including a few missing references. I'm putting this article on hold to allow you to fix the addressed issues. Cyclonebiskit (talk) 19:57, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Most of the issues are fixed. As for the RMB, that's the Chinese currency, so did you want me to remove the original chinese currency amount? I haven't gotten to rewording the season summary as of yet...will get to it later today. All of the winds should now be in a kn (km/h) format now, and the dollar amounts in a $44 million (1994 USD) format. I added the red wikilink for the Japanese town name per your request. Thegreatdr (talk) 08:47, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

An effort has been made to rewrite the season summary, to make it different from the lead. It's hard to be too different, as our project standards for season summaries in these articles are essentially a duplicate of the wikipedia standard for a lead. Thegreatdr (talk) 18:22, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Everything looks good now. I'm passing the article :) Cyclonebiskit (talk) 22:33, 3 December 2008 (UTC)