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Cyclone Ockhi[edit]

New pg for Cyclone Ockhi Alaha.cyclone (talk) 12:08, 2 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 2 December 2017[edit]

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: MOVED per uncontroversial technical request. (non-admin closure) KSFT ^(t|c) 19:33, 2 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Cyclone Ockhi (2017) → Cyclone Ockhi – Only storm named Ockhi. MarioProtIV (^talk/_contribs) 18:04, 2 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I have already made a request at Wikipedia:Requested moves/Technical requests. This isn't necessary. King Prithviraj II (talk) 19:10, 2 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

Scale showing intensity[edit]

It would be great if someone can provide a scale for the "Saffir–Simpson scale" on the track figure.Wjaugustyn (talk) 14:03, 6 December 2017 (UTC) Currently the colour of the dots cannot be interpreted. Wjaugustyn (talk) 14:07, 6 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Date format[edit]

What is this date format? Month followed by date? The article is a mess, with some sections using the standard ( date month ) and some using this ( month date ) format. Could we decide what format to use and stick to it? - ක - (talk) 16:48, 6 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I've actually gone ahead and standardized the date formats back to the one most sane people use. I hope anyone who overturns these edits will also take some time and explain why they're doing it. - ක - (talk) 16:59, 6 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Copyvio issues[edit]

Even just a quick glance at the impact sections of the article should raise red flags with how things are worded. Large chunks of this article are blatantly copy/pasted from news articles and there is a desperate need for this to be remedied. A quick glance with copyvio tools reveals multiple sources being copy/pasted beyond acceptable levels. More than half of the article needs to be rewritten to adhere to Wikipedia policy. ~ Cyclonebiskit (chat) 17:19, 10 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Kirogi[edit]

I have today had to remove information from the article about the remnants of Kirogi. This is because, in their Preliminary tropical cyclone report on Ockhi, the IMD treats the systems as two separate systems which have nothing to do with each other.

It is to mention that there was no remnant of any circulation system moving from Gulf of Thailand that intensified near Sri Lanka and later became cyclone, Ockhi over Comorin Sea

Jason Rees (talk) 15:55, 30 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Heading names disambig[edit]

So while I was reading the article, I noticed that there were a pair of headings saying Maldives and 2 triplets of headings saying India and Sri Lanka, respectively. They were in the table of contents. This will affect the section links, but I don't have a good idea about how to disambiguate the headings. Can somebody help? – Ben79487 (talk contribs) 20:19, 4 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]