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GA Review

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

Reviewer: Ed! (talk · contribs) 15:55, 28 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]


Looking at this one. —Ed!(talk) 15:55, 28 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]


GA review (see here for criteria) (see here for this contributor's history of GA reviews)
  1. It is reasonably well written:
    Lead
    • The lead should include some discussion of material losses and numbers of cares burned (details of strong interest to the casual reader.)
    • Added the estimated economic damage, and it already includes number of homes burned. "Number of cares," is this a typo?
    Events
    • It would be helpful to start with a discussion of local weather at the time of the fires starting. Was it a dry season? How much rain had they seen that month? Wind?
    • Added some relevant info, thanks for pointing that out.
    • "...sent the crew to fight a wildfire in Oregon rather than contain the local fires" -- Which fire in Oregon? Does it have a page?
    I couldn't find any sources naming the specific fire (and 2014 Oregon wildfires and Category:2014 Oregon wildfires don't exist), so I couldn't add this. I think the main point here is that the firefighters were sent out of state (and that it's coincidental that the fires began near a smokejumper base). I could also move this to the lawsuit section since it relates to that, I only put it here in order to be more chronological.
    • "...At around 8:00 pm that evening," -- Please include local time zone here and elsewhere.
    • Fixed
    Aftermath
    • Is there a better geographic sense of where was affected? What counties or towns were most strongly affected?
    • Added more detail
    • I note one lawsuit estimates damages. Are there any details on total estimated damages? I know in CA for instance they sometimes collect details on how many insurance claims were made for a big wildfire. The state Department of Insurance sometimes put these out. Also, insurers will sometimes report major write-offs, especially significant ones, to the SEC. That might require knowing who the big insurers are in the affected areas, though.
    • The only number I could find was $98 million in the HistoryLink essay, I've added this.
    • Any note of what the biggest WA fire was before this one?
    • Added this info
  2. It is factually accurate and verifiable:
    No problems here.
  3. It is broad in its coverage:
    • Any info about other widlfires in other states during this season? Might make sense to talk a bit about if this was a particularly bad season or if it was just local weather conditions that left this an isolated case.
    • Added more about some fires in the same region in the following year, which I admit was a big omission. I didn't add anything about other 2014 Washington fires because they weren't that notable and there isn't a lot of sources out there about them. I think people will understand that this was a particularly bad season since I've added that it was the largest in the state since 1901.
  4. It follows the neutral point of view policy:
    No problems here.
  5. It is stable:
    No problems here.
  6. It is illustrated by images, where possible and appropriate:
    Copyright checks out on images.
  7. Other:
    • Dup links, copyvio, dab links and external link checkers all return no problems.
    On Hold pending some fixes. —Ed!(talk) 19:00, 28 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    @Ed!: Thanks for the feedback. I've done what I can, but I'm willing to work on it more if necessary, let me know what you think. —Surachit (talk) 06:29, 31 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    @Surachit: This all looks good. Passing GA now. —Ed!(talk) 01:37, 2 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]