Talk:Chinese officials advise millions of residents to stay indoors amid historic gale force winds

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Non-English sources severely restrict the pool of potential reviewing editors. Non-English sources should be restricted to those absolutely essential, such as where there is only a single English source and the non-English source is required to corroborate the story and avoid potential copyright issues. It is strongly recommended you provide some guidance toward translation, or where such may be reliably and readily obtained, on the talk page. Human understanding is needed because automatic translation is not nearly good enough.

If using a non-English source to verify specific claims, consider marking the relevant statements with {{verify}} and providing an English translation of the supporting content on the talk page. —Michael.C.Wright (^Talk/_Reviewer) 15:40, 13 April 2025 (UTC)

Hi

• Non-English sources are discouraged, but are admissible if required.
• The usage of {{verify}} isn't officially required but is a @Michael.C.Wright's (and maybe a few other reviewers', but I don't know whose) personal preference as it is makes his (or their) reviewing easier. If article author does not want to spend time on this, you don't need to include it.
• I've done these minor edits (fixing date formats and putting fresher sources first at the top of the list). For @Wikiwide's reference, the date format required is "April 11, 2025", not "11th of April, 2025" or any other form.
• Is it 6 am or 6 pm on Thursday?
• The sentence "Issuing of such a high-level weather alert for Beijing last happened over a decade ago." isn't "current" and (as per inverted pyramid) needs to be moved to the end of the story, as last paragraph.
• Article body should, per the style guide, be in the past tense. Should be "heavy snow would be expected to occur", not "heavy snow is expected to occur". There are a few more words where this change is required. I cannot make it without being disqualified reviewing it as I would be significantly involved in editing.

Hope this helps. Gryllida (talk) 10:32, 14 April 2025 (UTC)

Review of revision 4849534 [Passed]

Revision 4849534 of this article has been reviewed by Gryllida (talk · contribs) and has passed its review at 12:31, 14 April 2025 (UTC). Copyright: Passed Newsworthiness: Passed Verifiability: Passed NPOV: Passed Style: Passed Comments by reviewer: I am reasonably happy with the current version. Please correct, if needed, within less than 24 hours after publication. 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 4849534 of this article has been reviewed by Gryllida (talk · contribs) and has passed its review at 12:31, 14 April 2025 (UTC). Copyright: Passed Newsworthiness: Passed Verifiability: Passed NPOV: Passed Style: Passed Comments by reviewer: I am reasonably happy with the current version. Please correct, if needed, within less than 24 hours after publication. 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.

Misquote

The article attributes a direct quote to Ma Xuekuan, chief forecaster at the Central Meteorological Observatory: "has the characteristics of long duration, wide impact range, strong wind force and high disaster risk." However, without access to the author's notes, it appears this line is paraphrased from the second CMA notice [1], which summarizes Ma’s remarks but does not present them as a direct quote.

The article also omits time zone identifiers and corresponding UTC conversions for stated times, as required by the style guide. This issue had previously been noted but was not addressed prior to publication.

In this edit summary, the publishing reviewer wrote "needs attribution, dropping a hint as i can only do minor edits for now." It is unclear who was expected to make the correction, or how they would know to do so. If attribution is required and a reviewer is unable to implement it directly, the article should be held until the issue is resolved or passed to another reviewer for appropriate correction. (That said, a reviewer can generally add attribution and remain uninvolved in the article’s development, as this is considered a minor, non-substantive edit.)

It also appears that an individual may have prematurely requested review of an article they did not originally author. While not prohibited, this is generally discouraged, as it can result in articles being pushed forward before they are fully ready for review. Additionally, there does not appear to have been explicit coordination between the three contributors on the article’s Talk or Collaboration page, which likely contributed to the gaps in readiness prior to publication. —Michael.C.Wright (^Talk/_Reviewer) 16:37, 14 April 2025 (UTC)