Talk:1860 Atlantic hurricane season/GA1

Latest comment: 13 years ago by Juliancolton in topic GA Review

GA Review

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Reviewer:Hurricanehink (talk) 00:27, 25 July 2011 (UTC)Reply

Great job for a season this far back. It's very close to GA status, but I noticed a few errorz.

  • "until the dissipation of the known system on October 24" - I wasn't sure whether you meant "last known system" or something else
  • "reached the equivalence of hurricane intensity on the modern-day Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale" - technically the SSHS has categories. The 64 kt being a hurricane was established before the SSHS. Maybe mention the scale in the second half of the sentence when you do mention the categories?
  • "The first hurricane was also the strongest by both winds and pressure" - I'm not sure why the "also" is there
  • "As a rule" - ehh, I'm not a fan of that wording when describing the three storms collectively
  • I think in the methodology section, you should specify that the barometric pressure readings were estimates as well
  • I think you should avoid the local time in the H1 section, considering the infobox on the right uses the UTC times and every other hurricane article does the same
  • "although it dissipated a couple days later." - was it confirmed the storm dissipated? Or were there just no more ship reports?
  • "and 300 head of cattle in the flood on Cat Island" - that's an incomplete sentence (unless you mean the cattle were ruined o.O )
  • "It is first detected" - any reason for present tense?

Also, any reason you didn't use the Partagas info directly? There seems to be a lot of good info there.

I'll put it on hold for now, since I think the issues are small enough, and that Partagas paper easily enough to incorporate, to accomplish finishing it within one week. --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 00:27, 25 July 2011 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for the review; I think I addressed all of your specific points, and I added some details on shipping threats from the Partagas paper. Juliancolton (talk) 20:23, 25 July 2011 (UTC)Reply