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1988 Atlantic hurricane season is a featured article; it (or a previous version of it) has been identified as one of the best articles produced by the Wikipedia community. Even so, if you can update or improve it, please do so.

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Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
December 8, 2007	Good article nominee	Listed
January 22, 2008	Featured article candidate	Promoted

Current status: Featured article

Images for each storm

Another year down. Hurricanehink 15:06, 22 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

As always, the pictures are great. Are far back do you think you're going to be getting these types of pictures? Are you using that historical satellite imagery (>1983) site? -- RattleMan 15:29, 22 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I'm going back to 1983 with the historical satellite imagery site. Earlier than that I'm not sure, but will upload every picture I see for every storm, important or not. I will be able to do 1982 and 1981 based on the Monthly Weather Review, but there's nothing for 1980, with the exception of Allen. I suppose we'll cross that bridge when we get there. Hurricanehink 15:37, 22 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Todo

This article needs some love. The three major hurricanes are the ones that have the least detail, quite backwards from what it should be. — jdorje (talk) 21:49, 8 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Trouble with numbers

Why the title of the unnamed storm is thirteen and not unnamed or six. juan andrés 03:43, 3 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It was the 13th TD. Hurricanehink 12:34, 3 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ahhh, thank you juan andrés 20:10, 5 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Tropical Depressions

Here's a page with information on each of the tropical depressions that did not become tropical storms. Hurricanehink (talk) 17:15, 18 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

TD 1

Seems to me that with all the damage TD 1 caused, it should have it's own article. Juliancolton 16:23, 16 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

If sufficent info is found then you or someone can try it. Otherwise, it should stay in the seasonal article.^Mitch32^contribs 16:26, 16 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ok. I found a little more info on it, but I will look for more. I think you are right about there not being enough info for a seperate article. Juliancolton 16:34, 16 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I doubt there is any more info. I tried doing an article, but there was not enough info. --Hurricanehink (talk) 17:58, 16 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

If there is enough info could I creat this article? Juliancolton (talk) 23:30, 26 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You don't need our permission. If you have the info, go ahead and create it. ---CWY2190^T^C 23:39, 26 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I personally doubt there's enough info, though, to justify separating it from the seasonal article. --Hurricanehink (talk) 23:41, 26 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fine. Just wondering, how big does an article usually have to be to justify an articles being there? Juliancolton (talk) 00:02, 27 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Probably about 10 kb.--Hurricanehink (talk) 00:12, 27 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, thanks. Just one more thing, some of the articles such as Tropical Storm Lee (2005) or other storm articles that did no damage have become GA's. Especially the ones in the 2005 hurricane season. How do i get my fish storm articles to GA? Juliancolton (talk) 00:23, 27 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well, they have to be very well-written. --Hurricanehink (talk) 00:42, 27 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I know that, but should a fish storm article be mostly storm history? Juliancolton (talk) 00:48, 27 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There should be some propose outside of the storm history. --Hurricanehink (talk) 19:02, 27 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ok. And I agree that an article about TD 1 would be impossible, as there is just nothing about this storm. Juliancolton (talk) 20:15, 27 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Which user left?

Juliancolton (talk) 21:17, 8 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, never mind. Juliancolton (talk) 16:22, 9 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Good article review

GA review (see here for criteria)

It is reasonably well written.
a (prose): See above b (MoS): See above notes.
It is factually accurate and verifiable.
a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):
It is broad in its coverage.
a (major aspects): b (focused):
It follows the neutral point of view policy.
a (fair representation): b (all significant views):
It is stable.
It contains images, where possible, to illustrate the topic.
a (tagged and captioned): b lack of images (does not in itself exclude GA): c (non-free images have fair use rationales):
Overall:
a Pass/Fail:

Congratulations. It passes all criteria. Sorry you left Good Kitty, You did such a good job with the article).^Mitch32^contribs 23:34, 8 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Copyeditor's thoughts

A big white space appears in the article between Tropical Depression Fifteen and Tropical Storm Isaac. I'd suggest moving things around a bit to reduce this space. I didn't move them because I wasn't sure what the <div style="clear: both"></div> was for or whether meddling might undo the stacking of the infoboxes. I'm sure a solution to this white-space problem exists.

I had a couple of other questions I couldn't resolve on my own. In the Tropical Depression One section, this phrase appears: "... killing a total of 37 people, including three others from electrocution." The word "others" made me wonder whether the total was 40. Or should the word "others" be deleted? My other question involves Tropical Depression Five. If TD Five "degenerated into a tropical wave" on August 26, what does it mean to say, "... the remnants had already redeveloped on August 30, about 180 miles (290 km) southwest of North Carolina"? What did they redevelop into?

Except for these three things, I don't see anything else. That doesn't mean nobody else will find anything, but I believe this article to be in good shape. Best of luck with the FAC. Finetooth (talk) 04:12, 9 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Another polishing

User:Tony1 was right about the semicolons in or near the lead and about the proliferation of questionable commas throughout. I may have added a fair percentage of those commas myself when I set off little sentence-opening phrases like "On August 5" with commas. They don't seem necessary and probably slow readers down for no good reason. I removed them. I also altered a fair number of other sentences to reduce the number of phrases tacked onto the ends of sentences with commas. Finetooth (talk) 22:26, 10 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Chris becoming extratropical

The summary for Tropical Storm Chris says that Chris become extratropical over South Carolina. However, the map doesn't show any transition to an extratropical system and instead uses circles for all of Chris's path. Is the summary wrong, or should the map use triangles for some of the track?