The result was KEEP ALL as spinoff articles. Martijn Hoekstra ( talk) 14:25, 16 January 2012 (UTC) reply
As with the 1997 season, I thought I'd bring up a broader AFD on hurricane season timelines. These all follow the same logic. They're basically content forks of the season articles. They contain the same information on the same storms, with subtle differences (that is, the format). Several have been outright merged on their own, since they really didn't contain any additional content. Also included are all of the similar timelines, the ones that are not featured. Those are:
I am excluding all featured lists, as well as Timeline of the 2002 Atlantic hurricane season and Timeline of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season, since they are up for featured list candidacy right now. I also removed the timelines for 1995 Atlantic hurricane and 1992 Pacific hurricane, since both are rather notable seasons in the 1990s and warrant separate discussion.
Majority of the timelines listed are of stub or start class. In addition, all of them are solely based off the data from their respective warning centers. For the layman, that means the Atlantic timeline articles are only based off information from the National Hurricane Center, the same agency that classified those storms. It's a circular logic. If the NHC didn't classify the storms, then there wouldn't be info on those storms to put in the timeline. By contrast, if the Philadelphia Phillies didn't put a certain person on their website, and yet there are sources documenting a player in a certain year, you could have a non-biased and well-documented List of Philadelphia Phillies players in 2011 (or something). It may seem like a lot of timelines, but most of these have been swept under the carpet. They are simple and unabashed redundancies to all of their respective season articles. They contain minimal to no extra information, and if they do happen to have info that isn't in the main article, we can simply move it over. All in all, however, we need a discussion on this with a wide audience, ideally. ♫ Hurricanehink ( talk) 05:10, 6 January 2012 (UTC) reply