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Good articleWeather buoy has been listed as one of the Natural sciences good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
Article milestones
DateProcessResult
January 31, 2011Good article nomineeListed
Did You Know
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on February 7, 2011.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that automated weather buoys (example pictured) have been deployed to record weather information from the Earth's oceans since 1951?

Tsunami buoy?

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We also need material on tsunami buoys; would it make sense to include it here rather than as a separate article? Vicki Rosenzweig 04:56, 2 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

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This review is transcluded from Talk:Weather buoy/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Arsenikk (talk) 22:31, 31 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Comments
  • Avoid linking boldface, preferably link 'bouy' later in the article [not a GA criteria, fixed]
  • Avoid apostrophes in decades (1980s, not 1980's) [not a GA criteria, fixed]
  • State the full name before the acronym.
  • In general, avoid abbreviating measurements in prose without good reason (or for very long words, such as km/h). It tends to break up the prose and the text flows not as well. If you are worried about grammar and want a singular word, instead use adj=on. [perhaps not a GA criteria, fixed]
  • In the lead there is mention of legal processes; this is not described further in the article and is rather cryptic.
  • "Legal proceeding" is a disambiguation link
  • I am a bit concerned with the number of external links. They should only be included for sites which are directly related to the topic, and which contain information beyond what the article is capable of. At least the Canadian site (weather forecast), sailwx (weather forecast), Mariners Weather Log (should be incorporated as a ref or left out), Bouyweather (weather forecast). I am uncertain about Marine Data Services, but I am slightly reluctant as it is a supplier; perhaps an WP article is better, if the company is notable? The last two are fine.
  • Images and refs check out good.

Placing on hold. There are a few concerns, but the article reads well and I am more than happy to pass the article after the last few pieces are in place. Arsenikk (talk) 22:31, 31 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting article, and I'm glad I chose to review it. Congratulations with another good article :) Arsenikk (talk) 23:09, 31 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
There is a Coast Guard buoy tender (USCGC Hickory (WLB-212)) ported in our harbor, and I believe they deploy these as well as navigational buoys. They store spares right by the side of the road at the docks, I could probably get a picture of one that shows the parts that are usually submerged if that would be helpful. Beeblebrox (talk) 01:39, 7 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Map

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This article could use a map showing weather buoy locations, such as the one here: http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/ --151.203.225.121 (talk) 02:06, 7 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

We could for the fixed buoys. It wouldn't work very well for the drifting buoys, however. Thegreatdr (talk) 09:41, 7 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]