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Hah I've been there many times about feeling sorry/awkward over merge proposals. Yea, on one hand, there is a good honest effort to merge some of these shorter articles, which are probably too short to exist as a fully fleshed out article. On the other hand, by merging, it is getting rid of the work that editors did some time ago. At the same time, no one owns an article, and some of these GA's are from well over a decade ago, with minimal expansion or changes, and with minimal potential for further expansion. The last aspect is what's key to a lot of these recent GA's. A lot of the low-hanging low-notability articles were merged a while ago (ones that were truly fish storms with minimal impact), and now we're getting to the slightly less low-hanging articles. As you've noted on a few of the proposals, the mergers would improve the quality of the season articles, which is why, by and large, I'm usually a proponent for merging. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 21:06, 5 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

If you’re going to go through the GAR process, you need to be specific about the issues. With one, you were, and it’s a simple fix which doesn’t appear GAR worthy. The other three do not. Research the topics and be more specific. Thegreatdr (talk) 22:22, 7 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Thegreatdr: Sorry, I've been used to being quite unspecific since that's how most FARs and GARs have been operated on past articles by various editors. I have seen rationales in the past like "there must be updates by now" or something similar. If you do intend to work on all of these articles, I will give as much time as you need. Im not well-versed on any of these topics and the technicality makes it somewhat difficult for me. Every GA in the weather project is going to be checked before everything is said and done, just so you are aware. I did notice a trend in who was writing which types and thus why I quit reviewing broad-topic ones. I went through and did all History of X ones and that's when I noticed. It's honestly probably better that I stick to the ones that I am more familar with like storm articles. Noah, AA^Talk 00:45, 8 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

May I ask why? I would be willing to action this myself, but I would hate to see you make a hasty decision. Ks0stm ^{(T•C•G•E)}  If you reply here, please ping me by using ((re|Ks0stm)) in your reply.  03:23, 9 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I’ve honestly become quite disenchanted over the years and have found it increasingly difficult to be here. I have tried to find other ways to contribute but to no avail. between the lack of time, contributions seeming like work, and dealing with various types of drama, I feel I would be better off stepping aside entirely once I have gotten my affairs in order. Hurricane Noah (talk) 03:28, 9 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Wikipedia isn't supposed to work. You've seen half of the shit online, and how bad people can be at their worst. You actually give a shit, which is admirable, and I've always appreciated. I hope you reconsider leaving the weather WikiProject. I spent a lot of time discussing, contemplating, and implementing mergers, for similar reasons, to help guide and usher in the behemoth that is managing weather articles on Wikipedia. There is simply too much. So here's a floofy widdle kitty cat. Stare into its eyes. You don't want to disappoint the kitteh, do you?! The kitty doesn't want you to leave! And neither do I.

♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 02:32, 13 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I'm not sure that I want to leave forever, but I have had enough of WP for a while. I likely will be gone until at least May if not longer once this GAR wraps up. Hurricane Noah (talk) 17:45, 15 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Cheers! ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 01:25, 23 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

And also, yea, I completed all of the mergers. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 01:35, 23 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Hurricanehink: Thanks. Btw when I am doing these discussions, I am reviewing 200 articles at one time. Im not just looking at specific cases but rather at an entire set of articles to see how they all stack up. I have looked at the entirety of tranches 4–6. Noah, AA^Talk 21:32, 24 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

That makes sense how you've picked out the low-hanging articles that were borderline to obvious cases for merging. Of course tropical storms and depressions are likelier to have shorter articles, which are all later in the alphabet. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 21:54, 24 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hey. I know it's required to notify the writer about a GAR, but frankly, I stopped believing in the good article and featured article process years ago. My focus is to get the info right rather than to an arbitrary level, you know? I appreciate the notification though. Mitch32^{(it's you I like.)} 01:57, 23 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]