Template:Did you know nominations/Typhoon Yancy (1990)

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The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 18:10, 27 August 2020 (UTC)

Typhoon Yancy (1990)

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Typhoon Yancy in August 1990

• ... that in August 1990, Typhoon Yancy (pictured) was the second deadliest typhoon of the Pacific typhoon season after Typhoon Mike?Typhoon_Yancy_(1990)#Impacts
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Moved to mainspace by Master of Time (talk) and SMB99thx (talk). Nominated by Evrik (talk) at 21:26, 12 August 2020 (UTC).

• @Master of Time, SMB99thx, and Evrik: When was this article moved to mainspace? It's a bit hard to tell with the history merge. Also, while this is a style issue beyond the scope of DYK, it would be nice to break up the "Meteorological history" section into paragraphs. John P. Sadowski (NIOSH) (talk) 01:18, 21 August 2020 (UTC)

• Moved on August 12. --evrik ^(talk) 02:12, 21 August 2020 (UTC)

• @Master of Time, SMB99thx, and Evrik: Okay! Long and new enough, within policy, QPQ done, Earwig finds no copyvios. Source does not confirm hook fact. Also, it would be nice to have a more interesting hook, though the article as written is kind of dry. The concept of a "mesoscale trochoidal oscillation" caught my eye. Is this unusual? Might make a good hook. John P. Sadowski (NIOSH) (talk) 22:30, 21 August 2020 (UTC)

• @John P. Sadowski (NIOSH): It's better to paste the line {{subst:DYKproblem|Typhoon Yancy (1990)|header=yes|sig=yes}} on the user talk pages than rely on pings. I've just left this notification on the nominator's talk page. Yoninah (talk) 23:48, 23 August 2020 (UTC)

• The original hook is taken from the lede. I have edited the "Impacts" section of the article to document that hook. --evrik ^(talk) 17:10, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

@Evrik: I still don't see it. The cited source [1] lists "Most Destructive Tropical Cyclones for the Month of November (1948-2000)" which isn't relevant. John P. Sadowski (NIOSH) (talk) 01:54, 26 August 2020 (UTC)

Upon striking China, the storm killed at least 216 people and caused an estimated $170 million in direct economic losses.The only storm with a greater impact was Typhoon Mike, which struck the central Philippines in mid-November, where landslides, flooding, and extreme wind damage to caused over 748 casualties and over $1.94 billion in damage (1990 USD).

• Alt1 ... that in August 1990, what would eventually develop into Typhoon Yancy (pictured) began as a low-level convective center on the eastern side of a monsoon depression?1990 Annual Tropical Cyclone Report (PDF). Joint Typhoon Warning Center. p. 105.

@John P. Sadowski (NIOSH): Here is another try. --evrik ^(talk) 05:06, 26 August 2020 (UTC)

@Evrik: The source still doesn't verify the fact. It says that Ruping caused more deaths than Yancy, but doesn't say that Ruping was the only storm that year to do so. ALT1 is uninteresting, unless there's a reason that development pattern is unusual. I still find the trochoidal oscillations interesting; more information can be found at e.g. [2]. I'm thinking something like the following. John P. Sadowski (NIOSH) (talk) 14:58, 26 August 2020 (UTC)

• ALT2: ... that the path of Typhoon Yancy (pictured) wobbled in a trochoidal pattern as it approached Taiwan?

• I'm okay with Alt2. Asking for another reviewer to approve Alt2. --evrik ^(talk) 15:11, 26 August 2020 (UTC)

Deferring to previous on requirements, the hook is accurate and soured. I duplicated the source to the relevant sentence and added page numbers. CMD (talk) 02:38, 27 August 2020 (UTC)

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