Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Hurricane Fifi/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 not promoted by SandyGeorgia 14:34, 3 December 2009 [1].

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Hurricane Fifi

Nominator(s): –Juliancolton | ^Talk, User:Cyclonebiskit

• Featured article candidates/Hurricane Fifi/archive1

I am nominating this for featured article because after collaborating with User:Cyclonebiskit on what's likely among the top-5 most important Atlantic tropical cyclones, I think it's ready to be put to the test. The credit for most of the research goes to CB, and I did a bunch of copyediting to ensure the prose is good. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 00:01, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

Comments No dead externals or alt bugs here, but two dabs. Month Day, Year throughout. --an odd name 00:26, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

Fixed the disambig links Cyclonebiskit (talk) 00:38, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

Good Grief! I find it hard to believe a person could write about an historical subject without the year of the event in the first sentence. In fact, it is nowhere in the introduction at all (except in conversion rate). Date and location are absolutely basic information. Amandajm (talk) 10:40, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

• Fixed. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 13:08, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

• Comments - sources look okay, links checked out with the link checker tool. Ealdgyth - Talk 18:54, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

• Image review - Image copyright is fine. I would suggest straightening this image. It is crooked. Awadewit (talk) 17:27, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

• Dabs; please check the disambiguation links identified in the toolbox. Dabomb87 (talk) 20:50, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

• Corrected the three disambiguation links Cyclonebiskit (talk) 02:27, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

Anybody out there? :) –Juliancolton | ^Talk 01:38, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

Just me, apparently :) SandyGeorgia (Talk) 01:50, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

Oppose for now by Karanacs. I just realized that today is the official end of hurricane season :) That puts me in just the right frame of mind to review an article on the dratted things.

• Orlene storm traveled in an arced path - is that the appropriate way to refer to the storm is that a mistake?
• Is there any information on why so many in Honduras did not evacuate? Had there been a history of storms hitting and not causing a lot of damage? Was it too short notice? Did people not get the message?
• I'm not sure why the article includes information about the first report of damage. In most cases, the initial reports are quite wrong...was this one significant in any way?
• Are there any details on the specific impact to the economy of Honduras since the banana crop failed?
• An estimated 150,000 people were left homeless due to Fifi.[14][20] However, the Honduran government estimated that between 350,000 and 500,000 were left homeless.[21] - we need to know who estimated the 150,000 people homeless to judge its accuracy vs the official govt estimate
• Hundreds of people in the town of Wiwili clung to treetops and roofs along the Coco River. - any idea what happened to them?
• Instead of "Mexico and Arizona" should this be "Mexico and the United States"? This is the only place where a state is put on the same level as a nation.
• Why do we care that in 1980 "Frances" was used instead of Fifi? I'd remove this sentence.
• By the end of 1975, a local world fund set up at a church in New York had raised roughly $46,000 for victims of the hurricane -- this seems like excessive detail; we shouldn't highlight one group when I'm sure many other small groups were also raising money
• Need conversion for meters -> yds/feet in the Rebuilding section
• More seriously, I have comprehensiveness concerns. A lot of this is cited to newspapers, which I think is probably inadequate for a storm with this much impact. I've seen several books on disasters and risk management that mention this storm. Have those been consulted? I've listed below a few journal articles I found in a quick search of Google scholar. These all appear to have useful information, although I don't have access to more than the abstract and summaries.
  • Did the storm and the response to it have any impact on political stability in the country? The aftermath section does not mention any more long-term effects of the storm. This journal article [2] implies that there were.
  • The article contains nothing on the environmental impact of the storm apart from the human impact. This journal article [3] discusses the impact of the storm on bird migration....I can't access more than the abstract but suspect it may contain information that could be useful. Several journal articles also appeared to discuss erosion along the shores of Carrie Bow as a result of Fifi.
  • This [4] discusses land use policies and changes after Hurricane Fifi. Also [5]
  • Comparison of Carmen and Fifi conditions [6]
  • (Here's an article about housing 2 years after Fifi [7] and another about post-disaster housing [8] and possibly this one [9]

Karanacs (talk) 21:09, 30 November 2009 (UTC)

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