Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Typhoon Rusa/archive1

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Typhoon Rusa

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• Featured article candidates/Typhoon Rusa/archive1

Nominator(s): ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 20:33, 19 October 2012 (UTC) Jason Rees (talk) 23:09, 19 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I am nominating this for featured article because I believe it does a great job covering a significant typhoon just over 10 years ago. It struck South Korea and was the deadliest storm in 47 years. Hope you enjoy it! ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 20:33, 19 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

• Hurricanehink has invited me to help him as a co-nom in order to deal with some of the reviews.Jason Rees (talk) 23:09, 19 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Note: User:Hurricanehink has had to evacuate due to Hurricane Sandy so for the time being i will be responding to the comments.Jason Rees (talk) 18:47, 29 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
    • I am confirming that this is true. The eye will be passing very near me soon, so I'll likely lose power for the next few days. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 20:11, 29 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Comment by Jesse V.

• I noticed that the article has a couple of deadlinks and some connection timeouts. Please see its Checklinks entry. • Jesse V.^(talk) 00:27, 21 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

All of the links work fine for me. I think that toolserver thing is in error. It goes to Oanda, but the link in the article works fine. --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 00:51, 21 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Source review - spotchecks not done

• Is FN13 also Lexis Nexis?
• Some publications are missing italicization
• FN33: newspaper/agency?
• "Korea Herald" or "The Korea Herald"?
• FN39: page notation. Nikkimaria (talk) 13:36, 1 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed all of them but the italicization problem. Which ones are off, specifically, and what is the policy? Should all newspapers be italicized? And what if they are online sources but not strictly newspapers? --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 02:27, 3 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

• Support Great article of very high quality. The minor issues in sourcing (formats) are done, so it's good to go. —
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Lead

In South Korea, Rusa killed at least 233 people, making it the deadliest typhoon in over 43 years, - This is the deadliest typhoon within the country. Could you tweak the sentence to make that more clear?

Meteorological history

The next day, the agency estimated that the typhoon attained peak winds of 150 km/h (90 mph 10 minute sustained).[1] Around the same time, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC)[nb 4] estimated peak winds of 215 km/h (135 mph 1 minute sustained).[2] - I'm confused, does the "1 minute sustained" refer to the estimation of how long they would last? Otherwise, it would seem to contradict info later stated (After maintaining the peak winds for about 12 hours,).

Easy fixes. ceranthor 15:30, 4 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I fixed the bit about the deadliest bit in the country by adding "there". As for the winds, it refers to the average wind speed over either 10 or 1 minutes. The winds were at least 215 km/h over a 1 minute period, but over 10 minutes, it's only 150 km/h. They're just differences between the warning centers. Thanks for the support btw! --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 16:48, 6 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

• Support I was pretty happy with that state of this article when I GA reviewed it, and it is even better now.
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