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Hi. Please share your views on possible renaming of this article and its sub-articles here. Thanks. Rehman( +) 02:35, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
The source being used for this list does not include Alabama as a victim of Georges, despite the fact that the neighbors on either side are included. The only death in the U.S. from this hurricane occurred in Alabama, and there was signficant damage. In fact, in the storms in the last 35 years, this hurricane probably makes Alabama's top 5. Whatever the criteria for deciding what hurricanes affected what states are, I think this needs to be re-examined. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.17.114.142 ( talk) 01:29, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
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The article is titled "List of United States hurricanes", but the United States of America consists of more than just the 50 states: it includes Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa. I suggest that this article either be renamed, or be improved to also include hurricanes that have affected US territories. Minilek 02:57am, 19 September 2017 (UTC)
I don’t think the title has to be changed. The naming discrepancy for Guam/NMI and American Samoa can be mentioned in the lead. The trickier part will be documenting each storm for the territories. Are we including Palmyra Atoll? Johnston Atoll? Or just the main territories? When I made this article, it was intended for the 50+DC. I’m not opposed to adding PR, GUAM/NMI, or AS, I just want to make sure we add them while keeping the article at WP:featured list standards. Hurricanehink mobile ( talk) 01:25, 21 August 2018 (UTC)
All known hurricanes that have struck US territories have now been incorporated into the main article. Undescribed ( talk) 05:25, 28 August 2018 (UTC)
Because of that the chart contains data that is comparing apples to oranges. The historical record regarding island hurricane strikes pre-1950, before the current tracking and naming of storms is not at the same standard as the record of the US mainland.
Regarding the Northern Marianas Islands (relevant now thanks to Yutu), they have been administered by the US since 1947, but de facto since the US took them over from Japan in 1944. I'd hate to ask you to do more work, but in the interest of comprehensiveness, it would be nice if CNMI could be extended back to 1947 (or 1944). ♫ Hurricanehink ( talk) 14:52, 26 October 2018 (UTC)
A few notes about this section in the main article:
A count of 22 ("out of the 30 costliest Atlantic hurricanes") is in disagreement with the reference. I do not believe any similar count is stated explicitly in the reference but it is simple enough to count the small numbers involved in the tables now referenced in the article.
There are multiple issues with the Journalist's Resource reference ( link to reference). It is secondary to a primary ( link to primary source) given in the secondary itself. The secondary makes statements that are very different than the statements in the primary and it severely cherry picks.
There is a more recent study that is very similar to the primary one mentioned above, and has one contributor in common with it, Roger Pielke Jr. ( link to 1900 to 2017 study). I do not have the time right now, nor may I for a while, to add content to the Wikipedia article based on the more recent study. Anybody is welcome to try to make an objective contribution using it.
Jay Jor ( talk) 18:58, 1 October 2018 (UTC)
The separate tables for states should be merged into a single table sortable by state name, category, date, dollar amount of damage, amount of federal emergency spending, etc. Please discuss. CountMacula ( talk) 21:19, 4 January 2019 (UTC)
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Hi. Please share your views on possible renaming of this article and its sub-articles here. Thanks. Rehman( +) 02:35, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
The source being used for this list does not include Alabama as a victim of Georges, despite the fact that the neighbors on either side are included. The only death in the U.S. from this hurricane occurred in Alabama, and there was signficant damage. In fact, in the storms in the last 35 years, this hurricane probably makes Alabama's top 5. Whatever the criteria for deciding what hurricanes affected what states are, I think this needs to be re-examined. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.17.114.142 ( talk) 01:29, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
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The article is titled "List of United States hurricanes", but the United States of America consists of more than just the 50 states: it includes Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa. I suggest that this article either be renamed, or be improved to also include hurricanes that have affected US territories. Minilek 02:57am, 19 September 2017 (UTC)
I don’t think the title has to be changed. The naming discrepancy for Guam/NMI and American Samoa can be mentioned in the lead. The trickier part will be documenting each storm for the territories. Are we including Palmyra Atoll? Johnston Atoll? Or just the main territories? When I made this article, it was intended for the 50+DC. I’m not opposed to adding PR, GUAM/NMI, or AS, I just want to make sure we add them while keeping the article at WP:featured list standards. Hurricanehink mobile ( talk) 01:25, 21 August 2018 (UTC)
All known hurricanes that have struck US territories have now been incorporated into the main article. Undescribed ( talk) 05:25, 28 August 2018 (UTC)
Because of that the chart contains data that is comparing apples to oranges. The historical record regarding island hurricane strikes pre-1950, before the current tracking and naming of storms is not at the same standard as the record of the US mainland.
Regarding the Northern Marianas Islands (relevant now thanks to Yutu), they have been administered by the US since 1947, but de facto since the US took them over from Japan in 1944. I'd hate to ask you to do more work, but in the interest of comprehensiveness, it would be nice if CNMI could be extended back to 1947 (or 1944). ♫ Hurricanehink ( talk) 14:52, 26 October 2018 (UTC)
A few notes about this section in the main article:
A count of 22 ("out of the 30 costliest Atlantic hurricanes") is in disagreement with the reference. I do not believe any similar count is stated explicitly in the reference but it is simple enough to count the small numbers involved in the tables now referenced in the article.
There are multiple issues with the Journalist's Resource reference ( link to reference). It is secondary to a primary ( link to primary source) given in the secondary itself. The secondary makes statements that are very different than the statements in the primary and it severely cherry picks.
There is a more recent study that is very similar to the primary one mentioned above, and has one contributor in common with it, Roger Pielke Jr. ( link to 1900 to 2017 study). I do not have the time right now, nor may I for a while, to add content to the Wikipedia article based on the more recent study. Anybody is welcome to try to make an objective contribution using it.
Jay Jor ( talk) 18:58, 1 October 2018 (UTC)
The separate tables for states should be merged into a single table sortable by state name, category, date, dollar amount of damage, amount of federal emergency spending, etc. Please discuss. CountMacula ( talk) 21:19, 4 January 2019 (UTC)