Talk:Boundary Fire (2017)

Latest comment: 6 months ago by Premeditated Chaos in topic Why is it called the Boundary Fire?
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The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the Boundary Fire burned 17,788 acres (7,199 ha) of the Coconino and Kaibab National Forests in Arizona?
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Reviewer: GhostRiver (talk · contribs) 14:27, 26 January 2024 (UTC)Reply


Hello! My name is GhostRiver, and I'll be conducting this GA review. I will assess the article against the good article criteria. Once I complete my review, you will have seven days to implement the suggested edits.

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Infobox and lede

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  • I would mention in the lede the impact on US 180, as that's given significant weight in the body
  • As an Oxford comma girlie, I would suggest one after and leftovers from a previous wildfire, but MOS says either/or

Background

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Fire

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Aftermath

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  • $9,400,000$9.4 million
  • 3 percentthree percent per MOS:SPELL09
    •   Done 00:33, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
  • While the 2018 mountain peak closures specify that the burned foliage growth increases the risk of landslides, the 2017 source also includes this information, and it's more useful higher up so that the connection between the fire and landslides is immediately obvious

References

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  • All references are to reliable sources and are properly formatted

Other

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  • Earwig score looks good. Looking over the references, most "copied" sections are just proper nouns and statistical figures that can't be paraphrased.
  • No stability concerns – primary editor is the nominator
  • One image, relevant to article and Creative Commons licensed

General comments

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Putting on hold for now. Please ping me once everything has been addressed. — GhostRiver 15:00, 26 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

@GhostRiver: As requested. –♠Vamí_IV†♠ 00:34, 29 January 2024 (UTC)Reply
@Vami IV: I've made a couple additional tweaks. Passing now. — GhostRiver 16:03, 30 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

Did you know nomination

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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Lightburst talk 16:04, 20 February 2024 (UTC)Reply

  • ... that smoke from the 2017 Boundary Fire could be seen from the Grand Canyon? Source: Cowan, Emery (June 9, 2017). "Kendrick Mountain fire triples in size, Highway 180 to remain closed". Arizona Daily Sun. Archived from the original on June 17, 2023. Retrieved June 17, 2023.

Good Article by Vami IV (talk). Self-nominated at 20:11, 30 January 2024 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Boundary Fire (2017); consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.Reply

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
  • Cited:   - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith
  • Interesting:  
QPQ: Done.

Overall:   @Vami IV: Good Article, well sourced, no problems from copyvio, the one quotation has a citation, and the hook is interesting 🙂 My only concern is that the citation for the hook does not mention the Grand Canyon specifically. Is there a better citation for this hook that you can find before approving? Cheers! Johnson524 23:57, 30 January 2024 (UTC)Reply


TFAR

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Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Boundary Fire (2017) -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:59, 6 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

Semi-protected edit request on 30 May 2024

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Toralnob (talk) 10:51, 30 May 2024 (UTC)i would like to remove a comma mark before "and"Reply
  Not done for now: Where is the mentioned "and" located at? ABG (Talk/Report any mistakes here) 11:03, 30 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

Semi-protected edit request on 30 May 2024 (2)

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Please remove a comma before the word "and" and just keep it as it is in the below Sentence "The fire spread rapidly because of high temperatures, steep terrain, leftovers from a wildfire in 2000, and high wind speeds" Toralnob (talk) 10:55, 30 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

  Done ABG (Talk/Report any mistakes here) 11:07, 30 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

Incorrect temperatures listed

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Flagstaff has never recorded a temperature in the 100's Fahrenheit, much less the 110's or 120's. 97'F is the current all-time high record temperature for Flagstaff, according to the National Weather Service. In fact, Phoenix rarely sees temperatures in the 120's, and that city is over 5500 feet lower in elevation than Flagstaff at ~7000 feet above sea level. If those elevations are seeing the 120's, we have no hope of survival, just sayin :-) Hope this can be updated by someone with permission. Thank you! BeeInNorthAZ (talk) 20:47, 30 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

The referenced article cited in the Background section reported a temperature of 93'F for Flagstaff, with the 120'F attributed to Yuma, AZ, one of the most uninhabitable and unpleasant areas in North America during the summer. Air conditioning is the one and only reason humans are able to survive in Yuma. BeeInNorthAZ (talk) 20:54, 30 May 2024 (UTC)Reply
Thanks, fixed. Of course nature can be surprising sometimes, but 93 looks to be the correct number. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 21:02, 30 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

Why is it called the Boundary Fire?

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I may have missed it in the article, but it's not entirely clear to me why the fire is officially called the "Boundary Fire". What does the "boundary" refer to? Is it in reference to a distinct place (such as with the 2018 fire), or is it in reference to something like the "boundary" between the two national forests listed in the article? JJonahJackalope (talk) 15:43, 31 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

@JJonahJackalope, to my recollection there were no RS that specifically discussed the reasoning behind the name. ♠PMC(talk) 15:49, 31 May 2024 (UTC)Reply
My memory is that is is because it is on the "boundary" between two national forests -- Guerillero Parlez Moi 18:22, 31 May 2024 (UTC)Reply
I think that's the obvious answer, but there's no RS that explicitly said so. ♠PMC(talk) 18:33, 31 May 2024 (UTC)Reply