Talk:Effects of Hurricane Beryl in Texas

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Hello, I am a student at TAMU, and I will be making edits to this page as per an assignment of mine. Please let me know immediately if there are any concerns. I will update with my edits. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 11alylove (talk • contribs) 02:17, 2 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi I noticed you keep undoing all my edits. That's fine, but I have a project regarding this wiki due tonight that I need to showcase my efforts in. I made a post in the Beryl's talk page weeks ago regarding this. Right now my focus in on formatting issues and NPOV. I understand you might have anther vision for this wiki, but I am using the Wikipedia formatting guidelines to help me. Can I use your input for my assignment? 11alylove (talk) 00:43, 16 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

No. Do not use my input, please. Columbia719 (talk) 03:34, 16 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@11alylove: I am an administrator and can help you format things correctly. Right now, the article has too many quotes, and seems like it was written a day after the storm, not with more than a year of perspective. Check out other articles on "Effects of Hurricane...", such as Effects of Hurricane Andrew in Florida, Effects of Hurricane Georges in Louisiana, or Effects of Hurricane Harvey in Texas. They all have either a background section or a preparations section first, which the article has none of. The impact section should have the "casualties", "power outages", and "economic damages", since those are all impacts. The impact section should be organized by area. I also question the damage total. The tropical cyclone report said the overall damage in the US was $7.4 billion, but doesn't specify how much was in Texas. I mention that because the article has this - "AccuWeather estimated a total U.S. economic loss of $28 billion to $32 billion, with most of it situated in Texas." This is clearly inaccurate and should be removed. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 21:06, 16 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Merge proposal

This article is only 2200 words and the main article is only 5400 words. The two could probably be merged and still be under 7,000 words, especially since most of Beryl’s information is in the main article. ~2025-36320-81 (talk) 14:00, 25 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Slight oppose, at that size, the article begins to get rather close to the point where resplitting would be necessary anyways. I might be able to update the article with some aftermath and make it more uncomfortable to remerge. ✶Quxyz✶ (talk) 14:31, 25 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I just copied preparations over from Hurricane Beryl; be mindful that I did that in your assessments. ✶Quxyz✶ (talk) 14:37, 25 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose - 44 deaths isn’t something to laugh about, and Beryl had some extensive post-storm affects in its aftermath. Especially in Houston, where more information can be added considering some of the impacts could be intertwined with how the aftermath of the May derecho over a month prior. Additionally, Quxyz’s points also stand with regard to article size as re-splitting would end up having to happen again anyway. MarioProtIV (^talk/_contribs) 15:17, 25 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

We are commonly merging articles until they reach 8,000 words, look no further then the current one at Hurricane Jeanne. I think that this should also be held to that standard. ~2025-36320-81 (talk) 17:48, 25 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I would take that comparison with a grain of salt on two fronts. Firstly, Jeanne is old enough where is has solidly transitioned from news to history (around 20 years) and is a lot more stable as a result. Secondly, Jeanne had an excessive number of subpages. I wasn't involved with Jeanne but I think I remember five subarticles. Beryl has two, with one being a separate tornado outbreak article. These points don't necessarily disprove yours, but I think it is good to have some extra consideration. ✶Quxyz✶ (talk) 18:25, 25 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Neutral - I believe the biggest issue with the article is the unusual format. By having the sub-sections the way it is, the article doesn't cover other things you'd expect, like houses damaged, schools damaged, offices being closed, etc. There's probably enough for an article here, but it needs to be reformatted. Otherwise it might be more useful including the info in the main Beryl article (which also covers the tornado outbreak, the Texas deaths, and some damage). ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 02:20, 26 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]