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202:"The 2013 Hattiesburg, Mississippi tornado was a large and violent EF4 multiple-vortex wedge tornado that devastated portions of Hattiesburg, West Hattiesburg, and Petal, Mississippi, as well as smaller communities and rural areas in the same area, during the late afternoon and early evening of Sunday, February 10, 2013." lead is lengthy, I suggest splitting it up to something like "The 2013 Hattiesburg, Mississippi tornado was a large and violent EF4 multiple-vortex wedge tornado that devastated portions of Hattiesburg, West Hattiesburg, and Petal, Mississippi. In addition, the tornado affected smaller communities and rural areas in the same area, during the late afternoon and early evening of February 10, 2013." 614: 566: 679: 643: 597: 522: 467: 49: 396:
Unfortunately, I am going to have to fail this article. Normally, with this few numbers of concerns, I'd leave this on hold, However, given my first and last two concerns, I am failing this. I am not trying to be mean or discoruage you, and this is not personal by any means, but there are just too
241:"To the northeast of Petal, the tornado began to weaken, causing EF1 to EF2 damage to numerous roofs and downing many trees." what does "EF1 and Ef2 damage mean. Yes, I know what it means, but to the average person may or may not know. 397:
many issues for me to be sorted out in a few weeks. However, I hope you continue to work on the article, and do get it to GA. Good luck to your future work on this article. I hope all my suggestions above or below are helpful.
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Why was this article GAN'd so soon? The tornado just occurred 10 days ago. This months NCDC won't be out for several months probs, after all.
286:"was rated as a low-end EF4, with winds up to 170 miles per hour (270 km/h)." abbreviate units as you do earlier in the article per the MOS. 99: 344:"including the basketball gymnasium that had undergone renovations just a few weeks before." IMO just say "gym" as that is more common. 673: 693: 456: 440: 424: 406: 388: 372: 356: 337: 321: 308: 295: 282: 266: 250: 234: 214: 195: 182: 163: 489: 588: 82: 551: 205:
I don't see any need to mention what day of the week the tornado was on. I suggest removing the "Sunday" in my above comment
650: 312:" 64 deaths occurred in Lamar and Forrest Counties alone with that tornado." again, don't start a sentence with a number. 17: 742: 745:; it allows shorter articles, articles that do not cover every major fact or detail, and overviews of large topics. 662: 536: 725: 540: 481: 23: 772: 654: 580: 509: 606: 573: 222: 688: 451: 435: 419: 401: 383: 367: 351: 332: 316: 303: 290: 277: 261: 245: 229: 209: 190: 177: 157: 729: 788:, in itself, a requirement. However, if images (or other media) with acceptable copyright status 669: 528:(a) it contains a list of all references (sources of information), presented in accordance with 685: 631: 627: 448: 432: 416: 398: 380: 364: 348: 329: 313: 300: 287: 274: 258: 242: 226: 206: 187: 174: 153: 257:
Why do you mention impact in the meteorological synopsis. I'd give impact its own section.
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This requirement is significantly weaker than the "comprehensiveness" required of
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appropriate and readily available, then some such images should be provided.
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Can you merge the last two paragraphs in the aftermath as they are short?
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to split or merge content, good faith improvements to the page (such as
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In addition, I have three comments that are borderline GAN material.
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can be used for in-line citations, but not both in the same article.
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