Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Cyclone Emma/archive1

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The article was not promoted by Karanacs 13:16, 31 August 2010 [1].

Cyclone Emma[edit]

Featured article candidates/Cyclone Emma/archive1

Nominator(s): Cyclonebiskit (talk) 18:02, 17 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Cyclone Emma was one of several storms during the 2005-06 Australian region cyclone season to have its name retired. Although it was the weakest of these storms, torrential rain produced by Emma resulted in some of the most significant flooding in Western Australia's history. The Murchison River, normally 500 metres in width swelled to 20 kilometres at the height of the floods. I believe I've covered as much of the event as possible and as such I'm nominating it for Featured Article status. All thoughts and comments are welcome. Cyclonebiskit (talk) 18:02, 17 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - no dablinks or dead external links. Nikkimaria (talk) 18:30, 17 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Did a run-through for orthodox Br/Aus Eng, etc, did some CE, fixed or provided some links and name typos. The sentence about the 60 firefighters and 18 volunteers raised eyebrows as rural/bush firefighters are usually firefighters. The 60 were SES not firefighters, aand the 18 were a mixture of volunteer squads (that were trained, not just random helping hands) and some more volunteers as well YellowMonkey (new photo poll) 02:07, 18 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sources comments

11 is a footnote, not a reference.
As a point of interest, can you say who "Gary Padgett" is? There appear to be no credentials on his website.
- Basically he used to write reports on Tropical Cyclones forming each month using data from the various official warning centers, who have also used him as a source.Jason Rees (talk) 20:58, 30 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Otherwise, all sources look OK. Brianboulton (talk) 09:58, 18 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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