Talk:Storm Emma (2018)

Requested move 14 October 2018

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The result of the move request was: MOVED (non-admin closure) Galobtter (pingó mió) 12:00, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

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Winter Storm Emma (2018) → Storm Emma (2018) – Per WP:CONSISTENCY. Using "Storm" before the storm name is a common practice for European windstorm naming. B dash (talk) 10:01, 14 October 2018 (UTC)

• Support per nom. I suspect this article was so named because of the snow/ice element, but seeing as a large number of European windstorms occur in winter and our naming policy is to title them "Storm X" rather than "Winter Storm X" then this should be moved to reflect that. This is Paul (talk) 11:02, 14 October 2018 (UTC)
• Support per nomination. --219.79.97.227 (talk) 11:57, 14 October 2018 (UTC)
• Oppose most of the articles of this type were moved to "Cyclone Name" for consistency some years ago.Lacunae (talk) 16:27, 14 October 2018 (UTC)

• I know that has been the case, but I've not heard this particular storm referred to as Cyclone Emma. We should use its WP:COMMONNAME. This is Paul (talk) 16:50, 14 October 2018 (UTC)

• Well perhaps that is a conversation to be had in the "Name Our Storms" warnings era.Lacunae (talk) 20:39, 14 October 2018 (UTC)

• Usually Storm named by Spain, Portugal and France will have a format "Storm X". I believe this is the common name, rather than "Cyclone X". --B dash (talk) 02:48, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

• Support per WP:CONSISTENCY. --158.182.178.168 (talk) 03:25, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

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Propose deletion/move material to windstorm season page and Beast from the east page.

I don't know why this storm merits an article of its own, it should probably be merged into 2018 Great Britain and Ireland cold wave or the relevant windstorm season page. It wasn't even investigated by Perils (https://www.perils.org/losses) and does not exceed their qualification criteria, which is generally the threshold used to assess notability of European windstorms.Lacunae (talk) 16:32, 14 October 2018 (UTC)

I've always wondered why we have two articles covering this subject. I was going to suggest moving the information from the cold wave to this article, particularly as that one includes some data relating to other countries outside the sphere of the British Isles. However, Storm Emma did not cause that cold spell, but perhaps prolonged it, so I think yours is the better suggestion. At some point let's have a go at merging it with 2018 Great Britain and Ireland cold wave, though I guess we can't do anything immediately since the move discussion will need to run its course. Storm Emma should have an entry on the relevant European windstorm page though. This is Paul (talk) 16:45, 14 October 2018 (UTC)