Talk:Great Sheffield Flood

message: I've removed the sentence "The flood resulted in more deaths than any other disaster in Britain before or since." because this is contradicted by List of natural disasters in the United Kingdom. Thryduulf 07:58, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: This article is fluent and well organized. Something that could be changed to further improve it is that you stated the variety of recorded numbers for deaths, yet still picked a specific set of data to report. This information could be better expressed as an approximation rather than a set number because of all the variety within the records. Also there are some places in the article that need some punctuation. Other than that the article as straightforward and informative, well done. Cmeyer8 (talk) 18:24, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Peer Review

message: The map shown is 120 years out of date by the time of the flood, and fails to show the location of the dam in relation to Sheffield; I will have a scout round for a more applicable map if I can. I hope no one would object to this edit? Mungo Shuntbox (talk) 10:49, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Better map possible? 

message: The title name is presented to show "flood" as part of a proper noun and this is not correct. As for as I can tell it is considered a "Great Flood" so the Great Flood of Sheffield would be more correct.
*Please note:
:There has been an on-going controversy on the capitalization of words in a title that normally are not capitalized. With few exceptions the word flood is not capitalized throughout Wikipedia as evidenced at Category:Floods and Category:Floods in the United States. Category:Floods in Canada list 19 like named titles (flood used in the title not as a first word or proper noun) and of these 6 capitalize "flood".
*Wikipedia policy:
:Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Titles#Capitalization states, "However, for names of Wikipedia articles and of section headings in articles and pages, generally only the first word and all proper names are capitalized in titles.". Wikipedia:Article titles#Article title format states, "Use lowercase, except for proper names". This supposedly narrows the criteria to determining if a word is part of such a "proper noun" or named as such as provided by reliable sources as the common name. the word "flood", in this instance, is clearly not part of a proper noun.
:I am always a proponent of using the common name when possible (exceptions for avoiding ambiguity) otherwise policy and title consistency should be followed. Otr500 (talk) 13:24, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Capitalization of "flood" 

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