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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 archived by Gog the Mild via FACBot (talk) 13 December 2020 [1].


Nominator(s): NoahTalk 23:37, 19 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

This article is about Hurricane Michael's meteorological history. Keep in mind that this article contains some technical aspects due to its nature (too much for a main storm article); I have attempted to dumb them down to the best of my ability, but that was difficult for some items. NoahTalk 23:37, 19 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Source review - spotchecks not done

  • The infobox says the Caymans were impacted, but I don't see that in the text
  • Which specific NWS documents are being copied vs just cited?
  • FN24: don't see those initials at the source, and then Landsea is cited as Chris in the next ref
  • FN25: the lab is the publisher in this case, and why include location here when it isn't present in other refs?
  • FN27 is incomplete
  • Date formatting is inconsistent
  • Support, with the caveat that I reviewed the article prior to FAC, and identified any issues I had with the article. My only slight concern was whether the article should've been split in the first place (given that the main Michael article is still on the short side), but assuming that article will be expanded, then this individual MH article would be needed. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 15:35, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support, well-written article. ~ Destroyer🌀🌀 16:34, 10 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose I do not believe we need an article on this, even with the main storm article expanded. The focus should be on the main storm article instead.--Jasper Deng (talk) 09:33, 13 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment. This article plus the main article on the hurricane add up to less than 7500 words, much of which is duplicated. That would not be a particularly long FA, so I see no reason for a separate article on the meteorological history yet. I am not going to oppose because I don't think there's consensus at FAC that "merge to main article" is a valid oppose reason, but I am disinclined to do a full review because I suspect a future merge is likely -- this is something that's happened at least once or twice in the past with small hurricane FAs. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 11:03, 13 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • I opened a merge discussion myself despite the standing moratorium as it shouldn't prevent us from improving articles. Merging the explanations as to how Michael did what it did would help people understand better. NoahTalk 12:32, 13 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Withdrawn by nominator.

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