Talk:Wind/GA1

GA Review

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Hello David

I will review this article for GA.

On an intial read through ive spotted a couple of things

• "Wind speeds over much of the globe are measured over a ten-minute time frame, except the United States which uses a two-minute average."
  • Doesnt the US use 1 min? Also might be worth mentioning that India uses 3-Min.

• The button bar Meteorological variables needs to be at the bottom per the MOS.

• Wind speeds have various names associated with their average strength, such as breeze, gale, storm, hurricane, and typhoon.
  • Take out Typhoon since most of the Pacific/Indian and Atlantic oceans use Hurricane in their wind warnings. In addition link hurricane back to Tropical cyclone or Hurricane force???

Im placing this onhold for now and i will review it further later Jason Rees (talk) 10:20, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

The US has used 2-min sustained winds since our use of METAR began in 1996. I brought this up to NHC in 1996, and they were never concerned about the switch from 1 to 2 min sustained winds, because differences between the two are relatively minor. Still, it means NHC warns on a wind speed no one measures. If Indian uses 3-min, I'll have to find a source for that. Only the Western Hemisphere uses the term hurricane. Even in the Indian Ocean, they just use tropical cyclone or cyclone terms, as far as I'm aware. I'll have to look at the button bar, have limited experience messing with those. Thegreatdr (talk) 21:48, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

Adding the wikilink for TC under hurricane, and found a reference for India using 3 min average winds. Just because typhoon is a regional name doesn't mean it shouldn't be mentioned in this article, to avoid POV issues. India is a confusing one, because I also found an IMD source mentioning 2 and 10 minute averages to automated weather stations they were considering purchasing. Let me know what else needs to be done. Thegreatdr (talk) 00:48, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Ok evreything looks fine now so i will pass the GAN well done :) Jason Rees (talk) 21:02, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Some quick comments (originally made on Talk:Diffusion damping/GA1 because I'm an idiot). Some images don't have captions. The Bible passages seems completely irrelevant, it simply mention winds used either literally or metaphorically/poetically. Unless there's significant theology (more than simply Isrealites considered winds to be of divine origins [they considered everything to be of divine origin, so winds are not special there]) being developped around them, it should IMO be removed (unless there's some weird Isrealite wind worship that was going on at some point in time). The recreation section could use some expansion. I'm giving these comments more in line with WP:PR than with WP:GAN, since I don't know how GAN works and don't really care to find out. Headbomb {^ταλκ_{κοντριβς} – WP Physics} 04:20, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

I'll wait on more comment about the bible verses since we include other religions within the article. I expanded the recreation section to include a bit about glider take off and landings, which should be applicable to the other modes of "fun". The only image I see which doesn't have a caption doesn't appear to need one, since the description is within the article itself. Thegreatdr (talk) 19:26, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

Yes but wind itself was a significant theological aspect of the religions. Winds being mentionned in the Bible is no more noteworthy than winds being mentionned in any other book. Horses are mentionned in the bible too, but we don't include them in the horse article, as horses were not theologically important in the bible. As for the caption, WP:CAPTION says that all images need a caption, unless it's self-explanatory or merely decorative. I can't figure out what I'm looking at, so I doubt I'm looking at something self-explanatory, or merily decorative. Good job on expanding the recreation section, it's much better now. Headbomb {^ταλκ_{κοντριβς} – WP Physics} 20:07, 25 April 2009 (UTC)