Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Hurricane Sergio (2018)/archive1

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The article was promoted by Ian Rose via FACBot (talk) 30 September 2019 [1].

Hurricane Sergio (2018)

Nominator(s): Noah^Talk 18:32, 15 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I have spent a lot of time working on correcting the accuracy of and expanding Sergio's article. Although the impact was mainly minimal, I feel this article is now complete and satisfies the FA criteria. Noah^Talk 18:32, 15 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Image Review

Images are appropriately licensed. Nikkimaria (talk) 20:32, 17 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Support from Oof-off

Support - This article is comprehensive and covers all of the aspects of Sergio's life in a good amount of detail. In particular, the impact is extensively covered, and I can vouch that much time was put into making the impact as comprehensive as possible. The meteorological history is accurate and the sources are well-picked. The vast majority of the problems that were present before in the article, many of which have been pointed out here by other Wikipedia users, have been fixed already. I did fix one mistake which were related to improper use of "it's"/"its". Otherwise, the grammar and spelling is sound. I believe this article is worthy of feature article status. --Oof-off (talk) 03:07, 21 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

SC

Lead

It's a long first paragraph and contains ten uses of "Sergio" in twelve sentences: any chance some synonyms could be used, or even just an "it" or two?
Ditto para two – four "Sergio"s in six sentences. The same goes for the rest of the article, although to a lesser degree: there are a further sixteen in the body text, which could be trimmed here and there, particularly in the history section

Removed several mentions throughout the lead and MH. Noah^Talk 14:27, 20 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

History

"about 18 hours as system underwent": the system?

Fixed. Noah^Talk 14:27, 20 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

That's it. Very minor, but the heavy use of the name needs to be addressed first. – SchroCat (talk) 13:31, 20 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Support - all good now. - SchroCat (talk) 14:28, 20 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Sources

Note: I don't speak Spanish, so this refers to the English language sources only

The sources seem reliable for the subject covered.
Further searches showed no additional obvious sources that have been missed off.
Spot checks on six sources verify the content claimed.
The same spot checks showed no plagiarism or close paraphrasing.
There are some very minor formatting issues that need sorting:
- FN 13: "The Weather Channel. The Weather Channel." No need for the repetition – ditto on FN 28 "The Watchers. The Watchers"
- FNs 14, 15, 24 and 25: El Universal, Diario de Yucatán El Imparcial and El Sol de Mexico are newspaper titles and so should be italicised. – check there are no others on this too. Cheers - SchroCat (talk) 13:48, 20 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@SchroCat: That should be it. Noah^Talk 14:25, 20 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Pass the SR. Cheers - SchroCat (talk) 14:28, 20 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Support from Hurricanehink

With the caveat that I reviewed this article for A-class review, I believe this article passes all of the FA criteria, so I support the candidacy. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 13:59, 22 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Comments Support from KN2731

"Sergio was indeed a tropical storm, but unlike..." - no need to restate that Sergio was a TS, I think you can just start the sentence with "Unlike other tropical cyclones..."

Done. Noah^Talk 21:45, 25 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

"The storm had developed a well-defined eye" - missing "At this point," or similar

Fixed. Noah^Talk 21:45, 25 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

"After bottoming out as a low-end Category 3" - Category 3 is not a noun, add "hurricane"

Fixed. Noah^Talk 21:45, 25 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

"It unexpectedly acquired some annular characteristics on October 7, with the eye having doubled in size overnight" - large eye != annular, you may want to mention that rainbands dissipated too

Done. Noah^Talk 21:45, 25 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

"southern and eastern facing shores" --> "south- and east-facing shores"
- Actually after looking more closely at the source only the easterly swells were caused by Sergio, so mentioning the advisory for the south-facing shores was issued "As a result" of Sergio is misleading. ~ KN2731 {talk · contribs} 04:24, 25 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed. Noah^Talk 21:45, 25 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

"The Arizona State Fair was closed due to flooding, the first time in 'recent memory'." - I feel the comma interrupts the flow here, maybe something like "Flooding forced the closure of [etc.] for the first time..." or "...was closed for the first time in 'recent memory' due to flooding" would be better

Changed. Noah^Talk 11:45, 26 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

"70 mph (115 km/h) wind gusts" - 60 knots converts to 69 mph (111 km/h)

Removed rounding. Noah^Talk 11:45, 26 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

That should be it. ~ KN2731 {talk · contribs} 04:22, 25 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@KN2731: Should be everything. Noah^Talk 11:45, 26 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

All changes addressed, moving to support. ~ KN2731 {talk · contribs} 13:13, 26 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Closing note: This candidate has been promoted, but there may be a delay in bot processing of the close. Please see WP:FAC/ar, and leave the {{featured article candidates}} template in place on the talk page until the bot goes through. Ian Rose (talk) 22:47, 30 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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