Talk:2019 Pacific typhoon season

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JMA (all tracks) // NOAA // WIS Portal

Name	Date Released
1901.Pabuk	February 15
1902.Wutip	April 3
1903.Sepat	August 5
1904.Mun	August 22
1905.Danas	August 23
1906.Nari	September 4
1907.Wipha	September 26
1908.Francisco	October 2
1909.Lekima	October 3
1910.Krosa	October 3
1911.Bailu	October 4
1912.Podul	October 4
1913.Lingling	October 18
1914.Kajiki	November 14
1915.Faxai	November 14
1916.Peipah	November 14
1917.Tapah	November 22
1918.Mitag	November 28
1919.Hagibis	November 29
1920.Neoguri	December 18
1921.Bualoi	December 18
1922.Matmo	December 24
1923.Halong	December 24
1924.Nakri	January 9
1925.Fengshen	January 9
1926.Kalmaegi
1927.Fung-wong
1928.Kammuri
1929.Phanfone

Concerns about this article

Emphasis on cost in opening sentence

I am concerned that the opening sentence emphasizes the cost of the season. While that's a relevant metric, there are a number of relevant metrics, many of which dessert mention ahead of cost. In an article about a specific season, a reader may be interested to see how the season compares to other seasons. Measures such as:

number of storms
number of storms by strength
number of storms making landfall
aggregate intensity (ACE)

are all metrics that are comparable over time. While cost is important, and deserves mention in the lead, it shouldn't be the opening metric. It's not comparable over time, partly because it is a nominal, not real dollars, and it doesn't adjust for increased cost of material.S Philbrick (Talk) 13:34, 12 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Editing issues

The second sentence of season summaries starts

The first was considerably inactive

. after examining the edit history I think this resulted from botched editing and should say

The first half was considerably inactive

. However, while that change might be trivial, it begs the question of sourcing. What reliable source says that the first half of the year in 2019 was "considerably inactive"?S Philbrick (Talk) 13:40, 12 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The biggest problem that this article suffers from is a lack of people who have the time, energy and experience to work it and the several sub-articles it so desperately needs. That is why you are seeing a lot of grammatical errors or errors where people have taken information directly from Facebook, satellite imagery, copied it from section to another without checking to ensure its true, etc etc. However, I maybe able to give it some love over the next few days.Jason Rees (talk) 15:52, 12 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]