Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Tropical Depression Ten (2005)/archive1

The following is an archived discussion of a featured article nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The article was promoted by Karanacs 20:41, 21 July 2009 [1].

Tropical Depression Ten (2005)

Nominator(s): –Juliancolton | ^Talk 04:30, 27 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Featured article candidates/Tropical Depression Ten (2005)/archive1

Featured article review/Tropical Depression Ten (2005)/archive1

I am nominating this for featured article because, though at first it appears rather insignificant, I feel it's a fairly substantial storm—at least as far as tropical depressions go. It never directly affected land, and as a result there's really not much to write about it. However, its remnants contributed to the formation of Tropical Depression Twelve, and in turn Hurricane Katrina. I realize that as the article is so short, the prose will likely be heavily scrutinized; however, I've spend the past hour or so proofreading it word-by-word, and I think it's more-or-less up to snuff. Hopefully you'll agree. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 04:30, 27 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Image review: Everything looks fine. Steve Smith (talk) (formerly Sarcasticidealist) 07:57, 28 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Support by criteria I don't feel that this article really is worth being featured by per my own standards, I'm supporting it since it meets FA criteria. I only have one small quibble with the article; at the end of the Met. history you say TD 12, I'd rather it be put as Tropical Depression Twelve since that was it's official designation. Cheers, Cyclonebiskit (talk) 04:06, 29 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Thanks for the support and comments. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 04:08, 29 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Comments - sources look okay, links checked out with the link checker tool. Ealdgyth - Talk 16:04, 29 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Weak Support I do agree with Cyclonebiskit that this article meets FA criteria, but it is not really as good as other FA's I've seen, but because it meets all criteria, I will support it. Darren 23 (Contribs) 13:42, 3 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Well, please do list any potential improvements to the article. :) Thanks for the support nonetheless. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 15:26, 3 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Support- the MH is comprehensive, I might add. --An ha mi rak 21:31, 6 July 2009 (UTC) Support - Whilst i dont think this meets my own critera for FA as it had no impact etc, i have too Judge it by the FA Critera which i think it meets.Jason Rees (talk) 21:51, 6 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. Done; thanks. ~~Images need alt text as per WP:ALT.~~ Please see Template:Infobox Hurricane/testcases for possible alt text for the lead image. Eubulides (talk) 01:13, 14 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Added. Thanks! –Juliancolton | ^Talk 01:20, 14 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Weak support I know very little about hurricanes but it looks comprehensive. Minor quibble: the last line of the impact section juts out to the left under the image (on my browser at least, which is WIE). This looks a tad ugly. Is it possible to move the image up or down to change this? -- EA Swyer ^Talk _{Contributions} 18:37, 19 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I adjusted the image alignment, so it looks better on Firefox, but I haven't checked it on IE etc. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 19:12, 19 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Support - with comments:
On August 8, a tropical wave emerged from the west coast of Africa and entered the Atlantic Ocean. Tracking towards the west, the depression began to exhibit signs of convective organization on August 11. - Both of these sentences need cites, as they involve dates. Along with the Aug. 13 sentence.

This stuff is cited a couple sentences down, so do I really need duplicate the footnote for every line? –Juliancolton | ^Talk 16:32, 21 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Late on August 13, it was described as "beginning to look like Irene-junior as it undergoes southwesterly mid-level shear beneath the otherwise favorable upper-level outflow pattern". - Cite after the quote

Done. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 16:32, 21 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Upon being designated, the depression comprised of a large area of thunderstorm activity, with curved banding features and expanding outflow - was comprised

Fixed. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 16:32, 21 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

By early August 14 the shear had substantially disrupted the storm, leaving the low-level center of circulation exposed from the area of convection, which was also deteriorating. - cite

See question above. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 16:32, 21 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Otherwise, brilliant prose. ceranthor 16:06, 21 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Cheers for the review and support. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 16:32, 21 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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