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June 30, 2013	Good article nominee	Not listed
October 24, 2016	Peer review	Not reviewed
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Dan Nosowitz (2012-11-02). "Meet The Climate Change Denier Who Became The Voice Of Hurricane Sandy On Wikipedia". PopSci.
Phillip Bump (2012-11-02). "Meet the man who's kept climate change off the Hurricane Sandy Wikipedia page". Grist (magazine).
Ashley Feinberg (2012-11-03). "Most Of Your Hurricane Sandy Knowledge Is Coming From A Man Who Doesn't Believe In Global Warming". Gizmodo.
"Climate change denier scrubs Sandy's Wikipedia page". MSN. 2012-11-03.
Nick Farrell (2012-11-05). "Climate change censored on Wikipedia". TechEYE.
Mic Wright (2012-11-07). "Wikipedia's Hurricane Sandy page: a storm is still raging over references to 'climate change'". The Telegraph.

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Section sizes

Section size for Hurricane Sandy (62 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	9,797	9,797
Meteorological history	8,541	17,263
Forecasts	1,457	1,457
Relation to global warming	7,265	7,265
Preparations	20	69,170
Caribbean and Bermuda	4,898	4,898
United States	7,916	52,763
Southeast	335	2,771
Florida	533	533
Carolinas	1,903	1,903
Mid-Atlantic	24	28,933
Virginia	2,164	2,164
Washington, D.C.	2,158	2,158
Maryland	5,885	5,885
Delaware	2,510	2,510
New Jersey	5,573	5,573
Pennsylvania	1,920	1,920
New York	8,699	8,699
New England	4,498	4,498
Appalachia and the Midwest	8,645	8,645
Canada	11,489	11,489
Impact	6,941	76,408
Caribbean	79	10,842
Jamaica	2,097	2,097
Hispaniola	4,157	4,157
Cuba	3,122	3,122
Bahamas	1,387	1,387
Bermuda	1,145	1,145
United States	8,267	54,558
Southeast	21	9,955
Florida	5,369	5,369
North Carolina	4,565	4,565
Mid-Atlantic	24	24,816
Virginia	2,118	2,118
Maryland and Washington, D.C.	4,517	4,517
Delaware	2,706	2,706
New Jersey	2,553	2,553
Pennsylvania	2,965	2,965
New York	9,933	9,933
New England	4,300	4,300
Appalachia and Midwest	33	7,220
West Virginia	4,224	4,224
Ohio	1,123	1,123
Michigan	313	313
Kentucky	1,034	1,034
Tennessee	493	493
Canada	2,922	2,922
Aftermath	17	36,252
Relief efforts	14,032	14,032
Political impact	7,356	7,356
Financial markets impact	1,169	1,169
Infrastructure impact	9,680	9,680
Insurance fraud claims	1,797	1,797
Baby boom	834	834
Retirement	1,367	1,367
Media coverage	5,965	5,965
See also	736	736
References	17	98
Informational notes	50	50
Citations	31	31
Further reading	369	369
External links	4,408	4,408
Total	220,466	220,466

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Semi-protected edit request on 28 September 2023

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Hurricane Sandy happened at a unique time because the October Weather Pattern of 2012 was very unique. There was a trough in the Ohio/Tennessee Valley, while a ridge was parked in the open Atlantic. That created an alley for Sandy to come up the coast and make a sharp left hook towards South Jersey. The trough pulled the system towards the Jersey Coast. The impacts from this storm was catastrophic. There was lots of damaging winds, heavy rain and storm surge were huge issues for the tri-state area. Sandy became one of the costliest storms within the last twenty years. Sep166 (talk) 23:21, 28 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. JTP ^{(talk • contribs)} 00:01, 29 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 6 October 2023

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Please add Charleston WV set a month snow record due to the storm. Source: https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/2022-10-18-superstorm-sandy-snow 24.189.110.82 (talk) 20:01, 6 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Pinchme123 (talk) 03:21, 8 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Please add in the Pennsylvania section of the impact that Pennsylvania had their highest wind gust in state history of 81mph in Allentown. Source: https://patch.com/pennsylvania/bethlehem/sandy-brings-record-high-pa-wind-gust 69.123.50.215 (talk) 14:28, 9 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Done here. ~ Tails Wx 14:58, 9 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 21 January 2024

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Please add thd closure of Shenandoah national park in the impact section. https://hikinginthesmokys.blogspot.com/2012/10/as-of-tuesday-morning-hurricane-sandy.html?m=1 69.123.50.215 (talk) 19:23, 21 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done here with more detailed sources. --Alan W (talk) 23:25, 21 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Removal of timelapse video

The article used to include this time lapse video of the storm's life cycle: File:Hurricane sandy nasa satelite time lapse video.ogv in the meteorological history section, but it was removed in this edit on sept 23 2024: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hurricane_Sandy&oldid=1247140833. I'd like to suggest that video be reinserted; the edit summary doesn't seem to give a concrete reason for why it had to be removed, and I feel the video significantly added to the article in terms of understanding and visually grasping the storm's unusual life cycle. This seems to me to have been valuable content and I think removing it makes the article worse. 68.40.184.139 (talk) 05:32, 8 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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In between the second and third sentence of Hurricane Sandy#Virginia, please add: Blacksburg had their first measurable October snowfall in 50 years.^[1] 69.120.68.135 (talk) 22:15, 15 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

^ Superstorm Sandy not really Virginia’s storm, but it brought heavy October snow to Southwest Virginia, Cardinal News, October 26, 2022

[1] Superstorm Sandy not really Virginia’s storm, but it brought heavy October snow to Southwest Virginia, Cardinal News, October 26, 2022

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