Template:Did you know nominations/Typhoons in Taiwan
- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: rejected by reviewer, closed by Narutolovehinata5 talk 00:53, 19 September 2024 (UTC)
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Typhoons in Taiwan
- ... that missionary George Leslie Mackay recorded 19 typhoons affecting Taiwan in the 1890s?
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Created by TheNuggeteer (talk).
Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 15 past nominations.
🍗TheNuggeteer🍗 07:26, 23 August 2024 (UTC).
- I'll give this article a go.
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Policy compliance:
- Adequate sourcing:
- Some of the claims in the article need further citations. Just to name a few: "A Chinese word, Tai, (meaning Typhoon), appeared in multiple books originating from Taiwan" is not supported by the citation, as the source only notes that the word "probably appeared in Chinese literature". The first line of the lead, "Taiwan is one of the most typhoon-prone countries in Southeast Asia, just near the Philippines", is completely unsourced. The article has an internal inconsistency where the death toll of Typhoon Lekima is cited as having a death toll of 2 and 105, apparently from the same source. - Neutral: - The choice in which typhoons to cover in the article seems bizarre. For instance, Typhoon Morakot, despite being named in the article's lead as the deadliest typhoon to hit Taiwan, is given no mention in the "Typhoons" section of the article, while various, more minor tropical storms are.
- Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:
- Other problems: - The article suffers from information being in the lead that is not in the article itself (notably information about Morakot), and the "Typhoons" section violates WP:PROSELINE.
Hook eligibility:
- Cited: - On second look at the source, it appears that the hook is somewhat misleading. It claims that Mackay recorded 19 typhoons in his diary between 1871 and 1894, but it doesn't specifically specify the 1890s.
- Interesting: - Not that interesting imo. According to the article's lead, "Multiple typhoons enter Taiwan every year", so the fact that multiple typhoons entered Taiwan in a particular year is underwhelming, to say the least.
| QPQ: Done. |
There are too many issues from a cursory look that I doubt everything can be resolved in a timely manner. I'm going to say no as of now, but I'd be open to giving the article another look if major improvements are undertaken in the near future! Leafy46 (talk) 15:17, 16 September 2024 (UTC)