Template:Did you know nominations/Storm Eva and 2015 Great Britain and Ireland floods

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by 4meter4 (talk) 16:03, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

2015–16 Great Britain and Ireland floods edit

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Carlisle Civic Centre amid floodwater

... that every river in Lancashire broke their highest levels during rainfall from Storm Eva (pictured), exacerbating the 2015–16 Great Britain and Ireland floods which have seen the UK's 24-hour rainfall record broken?

ALT1 ~~... that every river in Lancashire broke their highest levels during rainfall from Storm Eva (pictured), exacerbating the 2015–16 Great Britain and Ireland floods?~~

Reviewed: Alex Moffat (trade unionist)

Comment: Hook is over 200 characters, but I think this may be acceptable as there are two articles in it. The record-breaking river levels claim is located at the end of the second paragraph in Storm Eva#Impact. The sentence for the rainfall record is at the start of the section 2015–16 Great Britain and Ireland floods#Storm Desmond (5 December). Also it is worth noting that the rainfall record did not occur as a result of Eva; it was Storm Desmond, but that article is too old for DYK.

It has come to light that many media outlets were wrongly attributing Eva to the flooding. As a result the article has been substantially trimmed and may be facing deletion. I propose ALT2. Jolly Ω Janner 17:49, 8 January 2016 (UTC)

ALT2a ... that 341.4 millimetres (13.44 in) of rain fell at Honister Pass, Cumbria, on 5 December 2015 during flooding (pictured) breaking the UK's 24 hour rainfall record?
ALT2b ... that the UK's 24 hour rainfall record was broken on 5 December 2015 during flooding (pictured)?

Storm Eva's deletion discussion is over and it was kept. So here's a hook combining Eva and the flooding. It's a bit tricky to find an inline citation saying that Storm Eva exacerbated the flooding, but flooding occurred during Storm Eva's passage during the scope of 2015–16 Great Britain and Ireland floods. Jolly Ω Janner 07:48, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

ALT3 ... that Storm Eva exacerbated the 2015–16 Great Britain and Ireland floods (pictured), which have also seen the UK's 24 hour rainfall record broken?

To clear the backlog on this one, it might be easier to go for the one hook on the floods article; going by exactly what the Met Office source has gives us : ALT4 ... that the UK's two-day rainfall record was broken on 5 December 2015 during flooding in Thirlmere, Cumbria? Ritchie333 ^(talk) ^(cont) 15:30, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

The Met Office lists both on their climate extremes (URL). Jolly Ω Janner 18:34, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Created by Lacunae (talk). Nominated by Jolly Janner (talk) at 20:16, 31 December 2015 (UTC).

Full review still needed. BlueMoonset (talk) 05:50, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Both articles are new enough and long enough. They are free of copyvio concerns; the only hits on the copyvio detector are Wikipedia mirrors. They are well sourced. I strongly prefer Alt 3, which is cited in Storm Eva. 2015–16 Great Britain and Ireland floods has an orange expand section tag, so is not main page eligible until that gets taken care of. ~ ONUnicorn^{(Talk|Contribs)}problem solving 18:02, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

@ONUnicorn: Thanks for reviewing this nomination. I have expanded the section in question to an equal level of depth as the rest of the article and removed the tag. Jolly Ω Janner 06:30, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

- Good to go! ~ ONUnicorn^{(Talk|Contribs)}problem solving 15:05, 4 February 2016 (UTC)