Tropical Storm Kai-tak
- ... that the government used military trucks and bulldozers to rescue people from a tropical storm?
Improved to Good Article status by
TheNuggeteer (
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1. Nominator has 18 past nominations.
🍗TheNuggeteer🍗
01:35, 26 August 2024 (UTC).
- Article is in good shape, recently promoted to GA. The hook checks, though the provided source on bulldozers was incorrect -- I have changed it. It might not be the most interesting, given that trucks and bulldozers are commonly used in disaster recovery operations -- could you perhaps suggest a few ALTs?
- I would like to see source data information for File:Urduja 17 Animation.gif, but that is not strictly a requirement for GA, and the article would also benefit from some further copyediting. I can find no evidence of the supposed CC1.0 licence on File:Kai-tak imerg 13-18 december 2017 animated.gif and File:Analysis of Tropical Storm Kai-Tak.jpg, but both should be PD as the work of a US government employee. I can find no other copyvio, BLP or other serious concerns.
- QPQ needs to be done. UndercoverClassicist T·C 16:16, 26 August 2024 (UTC)
- Again, I'm not sure we've passed the threshold of interest there -- most tropical storms do that, and it's not particularly interesting that they do. Per WP:DYKINT:
The hook should be likely to be perceived as unusual or intriguing by readers with no special knowledge or interest
. Can you find anything in the article that would meet that -- for example, things which apply only to this particular storm, or might otherwise be surprising and motivate a reader to click on the article? UndercoverClassicist T·C 08:45, 27 August 2024 (UTC)
- @TheNuggeteer: Please provide a QPQ as soon as possible, as the nomination may be closed without warning if one is not given within a reasonable timeframe. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 09:53, 29 August 2024 (UTC)
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- I think the text of that one is good -- perhaps creates the false suggestion that the NPA was doing the rescue operation, though. I don't know the source very well but it smells a bit local/tabloidy to me -- have I read that wrong, or do we have a more authoritative source to corroborate? UndercoverClassicist T·C 06:02, 11 September 2024 (UTC)
- Yep, definitely local. But the source is regional, and has a three-or-four person editorial team, changed the wording of the hook a bit.
🍗TheNuggeteer🍗
09:20, 11 September 2024 (UTC)
- Great -- I've made a couple of my own tweaks for grammar, repetition and concision. We don't generally consider local news or tabloid journalism to be WP:RS -- did it make national or international news? UndercoverClassicist T·C 10:14, 11 September 2024 (UTC)
- What do you mean? The journal itself made national news on other news sources or the journal made national news?
🍗TheNuggeteer🍗
11:06, 11 September 2024 (UTC)
- Do we have a source that would qualify under WP:RS that supports this hook -- for instance, a piece of national or international news? UndercoverClassicist T·C 13:37, 11 September 2024 (UTC)
Found an article by the Straits Times. 🍗TheNuggeteer🍗
04:20, 12 September 2024 (UTC)
- That'll do it: approved ALT2. UndercoverClassicist T·C 06:12, 12 September 2024 (UTC)