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List of Category 5 Pacific hurricanes edit

This list is complete, comprehensive, useful, has pictures, and is referenced. As this is a dynamic list, future Category 5 hurricanes will have to be added as they form, but this is all of the known Category 5's up to now.

This is a self-nomination. Miss Madeline | Talk to Madeline 22:48, 4 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose for now - quite nice and close to featured. However, wording needs to be revised. Eg: no self reference ("The scope of this article is..."), the first paragraph is one sentence that just repeats the title, you might want to expand "Statistics" section to give more background (like don't leave the 1st sentence in the section alone), revise some awkward phrasing (like "strongest winds were not measured due to the lack of technology in reaching the strongest winds" or "but no one was around to notice them") or strong words (like "excellent geostationary satellite coverage" or "was badly underestimated"). I believe these can be fixed quite quickly and then I will move to support. Renata3 16:48, 6 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I changed the lead, revised awkward wording, and changed the strong wording. The reason for the self-reference is because not everyone knows that only eastern Pacific tropical cyclones are called typhoons. Should I still remove the paragraph about the scope? Miss Madeline | Talk to Madeline 21:16, 6 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The language is a little better (but not excellent). You don't need to delete anything, just rephrase to eliminate the direct self-reference. But then I took another look and I saw that Statistics and Climatology setions are in need of expansion, they are just too short. I know it is supposed to be a list, but still they look very stuby. Also, an optional thing, but could you find a map of the region (north of equator and west of dateline) so it is very clear what are you talking about. There should be plenty of free Pacific maps. Renata3 01:07, 7 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I removed the explicit self-reference. I added included an explanation of why Category 5's are rare outside of El Nino years and included the definition of sustained winds. Miss Madeline | Talk to Madeline 18:33, 10 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Comment the article looks quite good, but I'd try to change the following: I'd align the tables side by side to get rid of the whitespace in the middle of the article. Also it would be nice (but not mandatory) to have inline references, since this is a longish article. -- Run e Welsh | ταλκ 03:30, 12 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]