Talk:Hurricane Boris (1996)

Hurricane Boris (1996) was a Natural sciences good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
June 8, 2009	Good article nominee	Listed
June 24, 2009	Good article reassessment	Delisted

Current status: Former good article nominee

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To Do

This is a very low start class article in my opinion so some things to do are to

Fix all Spelling mistakes
Expand lead
Find more Sources
Generally Expand
No Date wikilinking anywhere in the article including the Infobox

Jason Rees (talk) 14:54, 24 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

GA Reassessment

This discussion is transcluded from Talk:Hurricane Boris (1996)/GA2. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the reassessment.

Although this article was recently promoted to GA, I don't think the reviewer adequately read the article. I quickly spotted several mistakes in the article, there is a lack of wikilinks to WPTC Jargon in the Met history, the convert templates are using incorrect units, and overall it's a rather messy article. If requested, I'll do a thorough review here. Cyclonebiskit (talk) 15:18, 8 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delist - It obvious that a lot of work needs doing here including the removal of all the convert templates. Jason Rees (talk) 15:25, 8 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed completely. This shouldn't have passed. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 16:16, 8 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
While it shouldn't have passed, it would be nice if each of us tried to helpful and either be very specific as to all of the article's current problems, or even better, correcting some of the issues, instead of just delisting it out of disinterest. I did some work on the met section, including the proper units within the convert templates. Convert template use on its own does not force a downgrade to a GA article. Thegreatdr (talk) 21:14, 8 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thorough Review per request

Lead
- Hurricane Boris was the second in a series of storms to impact the Pacific coast of Mexico in the span of two weeks. to be more specific, say during June and July 1996 instead of in the span of two weeks
- Shortly after the hurricane made landfall along the south coast of Mexico midway between Lazaro Cardenas and Acapulco at this intensity. Comma after after; comma after Mexico; link Lazaro Cardenas and Acapulco to their respective articles
- Boris caused heavy flooding in southern Mexico that resulted in at least five fatalities; however a damage estimate is unknown. comma after however
- The last sentence isn't really needed since the first sentence states that other storms hit the region
Meteorological history
- The references are overused, if several sentences are from one source, just put the reference where that information ends.
- Boris originated from a tropical wave that moved off Africa on June 8. -> Hurricane Boris orginated from a tropical wave that moved off the west coast of Africa on June 8
- It passed near the Cape Verde Islands with no thunderstorm activity. The preliminary report doesn't mention the cape verde islands, so this is considered Original Research
- The wave continues westward, crossing Central America on June 23 as a very poorly defined on satellite imagery. -> The poorly organized wave tracked westward across the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea and entered the Pacific Ocean on June 23.

Note: I've just been informed by the primary contributor that the article is largely copy and pasted from another source. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 17:44, 24 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

There has been a general agreement on de-listing the article and based on copied information, the article will be de-listed from WP:GA Cyclonebiskit (talk) 17:48, 24 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]