Talk:Typhoon Rita (1975)

Typhoon Rita (1975) has been listed as one of the Natural sciences good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
Review: August 8, 2017. (Reviewed version).

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Did you know... that Typhoon Phyllis and Typhoon Rita were responsible for the majority of Japan tropical cyclone casualties in the 1975 Pacific typhoon season?

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GA Review[edit]

This review is transcluded from Talk:Typhoon Rita (1975)/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: TropicalAnalystwx13 (talk · contribs) 05:04, 8 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

"The depression initially meandered offshore Taiwan, but after turning west, Rita was upgraded into a tropical storm on August 19, only to turn back to the west." - It can't turn back west if it just turned west. Also, you call it by its name before saying it was upgraded to a tropical storm, which reads confusingly.
- Fixed and fixed. Y E ^Pacific ^Hurricane 05:34, 8 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
"Rita then accelerated to the north-northeasterly direction" - Just say it accelerated north-northeast, "to the north-northeasterly direction" sounds weird.
- That's me testing with shit. Y E ^Pacific ^Hurricane 05:34, 8 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
"Midday on August 22, the typhoon reached its peak intensity, with winds of 145 km/h (90 mph) and a minimum barometric pressure of 965 mbar (28.5 inHg)." - More specific inHg. No comma after intensity.
- Infobox has 3 sig figs and I think that's reasonable given the pressure. Pretty sure the latter is optional here. The FAC you just supported has 18 instances of ",with". What am I missing here? Y E ^Pacific ^Hurricane
"On the next day, Rita merged with a cold front before transiting into an extratropical cyclone." - Er no, if it was attached by a front it's extratropical. Tropical cyclones attached to fronts do not exist.
- This is the JTWC/JMA. Don't exactly prepare for logic. Y E ^Pacific ^Hurricane 05:34, 8 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
"ferry services was also disrupted by the storm" - "Services" is plural, so "was" should be "were."
- Whopps, fixed. Y E ^Pacific ^Hurricane 05:34, 8 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
"The depression did not developed further initially as it meandered offshore Taiwan" - Developed --> develop and move initially in front
- Ok, I see here. Y E ^Pacific ^Hurricane 05:34, 8 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
"Due to a weakening subtropical ridge east of Japan" - Wikilink subtropical ridge
- Done. Y E ^Pacific ^Hurricane 05:34, 8 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
"After becoming a typhoon, Rita accelerated gradually in a north-northeasterly direction as a shortwave trough approached the typhoon." - You start and end the sentence by mentioning it was a typhoon. I'd axe "the typhoon" at the end.
- Love it. Y E ^Pacific ^Hurricane 05:34, 8 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
"Midday on August 21, the typhoon reached its peak intensity, with winds of 145 km/h (90 mph) and a minimum barometric pressure of 965 mbar (28.5 inHg)." - Axe comma after intensity. Specific inHg pls.
- See above. Y E ^Pacific ^Hurricane 05:34, 8 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
"First tracking along the western coast, Rita, crossed the northern portion of Honshu before emerging back into the Pacific." - Axe the comma after Rita.
- Done. Y E ^Pacific ^Hurricane 05:34, 8 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
"At 00:00 UTC on August 23, Rita was downgraded to a tropical storm,[7] and transitioned into an extratropical cyclone 24 hours later,[1] after merging with a frontal zone south of Hokkaido,[4] though its remnants were tracked through August 25.[6]" - Break this up.
- Done. Y E ^Pacific ^Hurricane 05:34, 8 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
"Heavy rains caused landslides and flash flooding, which were responsible for extensive crop and property damage." - Axe the comma.
- I don't think so, given its connecting a dependent and independent clause. Same situation as here. Y E ^Pacific ^Hurricane 05:34, 8 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

That's all. TropicalAnalystwx13 (talk · contributions) 05:04, 8 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the review as always. Y E ^Pacific ^Hurricane 05:34, 8 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]