Talk:Louisiana declares state of emergency as Tropical Storm Barry approaches U.S. coast

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Revision 4489404 of this article has been reviewed by Pi zero (talk · contribs) and has passed its review at 03:26, 12 July 2019 (UTC). Copyright: Passed Newsworthiness: Passed Verifiability: Passed NPOV: Passed Style: Passed Comments by reviewer: Although one might have a lead saying various officials in Louisiana have declared a state of emergency, one would then need to follow it up with details in later paragraphs, and there would be a certain awkwardness in explaining why the only ones actually mentioned would be the governor of the state and the mayor of New Orleans. That approach would also be far too intrusive for a reviewer to implement. The evident alternative is to specify in the lede that the governor declared a state of emergency; naming the governor in the lede would be awkward, when trying to minimize change to the existing text as it explains Louisiana is a US state. One does have to specify what area the state of emergency is being declared for. I dislike using "today"/"yesterday"/"tomorrow" when the date is different in UTC than in the time zone of the focal event (especially when the focal event is only a few hours away from UTC). I'd rather the final sentence were extensively rearranged to be structurally more dissimilar to source. The reviewed revision should automatically have been edited by removing {{Review}} and adding {{Publish}} at the bottom, and the edit sighted; if this did not happen, it may be done manually by a reviewer.

Revision 4489404 of this article has been reviewed by Pi zero (talk · contribs) and has passed its review at 03:26, 12 July 2019 (UTC). Copyright: Passed Newsworthiness: Passed Verifiability: Passed NPOV: Passed Style: Passed Comments by reviewer: Although one might have a lead saying various officials in Louisiana have declared a state of emergency, one would then need to follow it up with details in later paragraphs, and there would be a certain awkwardness in explaining why the only ones actually mentioned would be the governor of the state and the mayor of New Orleans. That approach would also be far too intrusive for a reviewer to implement. The evident alternative is to specify in the lede that the governor declared a state of emergency; naming the governor in the lede would be awkward, when trying to minimize change to the existing text as it explains Louisiana is a US state. One does have to specify what area the state of emergency is being declared for. I dislike using "today"/"yesterday"/"tomorrow" when the date is different in UTC than in the time zone of the focal event (especially when the focal event is only a few hours away from UTC). I'd rather the final sentence were extensively rearranged to be structurally more dissimilar to source. The reviewed revision should automatically have been edited by removing {{Review}} and adding {{Publish}} at the bottom, and the edit sighted; if this did not happen, it may be done manually by a reviewer.

Numerals and words for small speeds

I personally think numerals are best for low speeds and measured values, but the important thing is to be consistent.

If someone wants to change 3, 6, 1 and 2 to "three," "six," "one," and "two," then I'm not going to edit war over it, but be sure to get the 5 and 8 in the following paragraph as well. Having the article partially one way and partially the other is no good. Darkfrog24 (talk) 19:24, 13 July 2019 (UTC)

Consistency is the hobgoblin of small numbers, or something like that. Keeping in mind Orwell's sixth tip on better writing ("Break any of these rules sooner than say anything barbarous"), I've been somewhat reluctant to put a measure in words when it's only an integer due to low precision, especially when it's placed in context with other measures of the same sort that are not small. However, while I might stop artistically short of converting all these small numbers to SG-conformant words, it doesn't seem right to move further away from the SG. (If we did use digits rather than words, I'd use an en-dash rather than the word "to".) --Pi zero (talk) 20:01, 13 July 2019 (UTC)

I made a sort of general comment about scientific usage of numerals and units here. Personally I'm fine with words for small amounts, but I would definitely avoid combining words with abbreviations, e.g., "eight kph." I would either spell out "kilometers per hour" or numeralize "8." —mikemoral (talk · contribs) 21:36, 13 July 2019 (UTC)

Update notice

If and when it gets published:

{{update|Tropical Storm Barry makes landfall on Louisiana coast, strengthening to a category 1 hurricane|July 14, 2019}}

Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 19:38, 14 July 2019 (UTC)