Talk:2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami/Archive 5

message: I gues this is not the right way but after yesterdays quake I have already seen people mentioning the wrath of god because the first quake was 1 day after christmas and the second big one one day after easter. What are the chances of such events happening on these days? (and off course also the quake on boxing day 2003 in Bam Iran)
Thanks82.168.57.168 17:00, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  A Question -Statistical Data Wanted  

message: It is "Diego Leandro Moscato is my friend, please contact him, he lives in ituzaingo". I guess this may be a potential victim, so I'm putting it on the talk page. - Ta bu shi da yu 10:58, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Information removed that was added by [[User:201.254.22.99]] 

message: The Sri Lanka casualty figures are, obvoiusly, inaccurate. Someone should change them. Comrade Tassadar 02:37, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vandalism 

message: There's been a whole lot of stuff deleted and sundry silly changes - trouble is, the Wiki isn't working well at the moment, so I can't find what's missing easily for restoration. It needs a fairly major check-over, which should I think be done by a moderator with a temporary hold on all other edits until it is done - MPF 16:02, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: More vandalism

message: I may be missing something, but somebody blanked the page. 
Never mind, thanks Shmuel. Dralwik 01:52, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: What happened?

message: I believe it was Cantus that removed the country specific info into Countries affected by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake.  While I can see the reason behind this I can't help but think that such information was better incorporated in this article.  It is now quite difficult to get to the "Impact on..." articles as people now have to go through the "Countries affected..." article to get to them.  Should it be re-incorporated or should another way of linking these articles be arranged? violet/riga (t) 18:50, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I've also been unsure about the wisdom of the move.  One way to short-circuit the two-level drill currently required is to make the list of countries in the relevant section of this article links to the "Impact on" articles rather than to the country articles.  Thoughts? BanyanTree 19:08, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: This might be good in the table rather than within the article (with explainatory text). Zosodada 20:54, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)

text: I assume you mean the casualty figure table?  With a note at the bottom telling readers to click a nation name for more country-specific info?  [Yes.-Z.] That's not entirely intuitive but probably as good as my idea.  All this talk of tables has made me start wondering if the articles are stable enough for one of those neat boilerplate navigation sidebars, which would make finding "Impact on Somalia", for example, a lot easier. 23:10, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)

text: OK, I just replaced the table links and added a short note.  It certainly can't hurt. Do people think more needs to be done? BanyanTree 04:50, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removal of country-specific details 

message: This Tilly Smith story has a primary source that is fairly dubious. The UK "Sun". . . also, no mention of "bobbing boats" in cited article. I can't edit the page at the moment, something to do with my IP. Zosodada 01:23, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The story has been fairly widely reported, and the name of the teacher (Andrew Kearney) has been reported too. Try http://news.google.com/  It seems genuine. Don't know about bobbing boats, maybe that could be removed. -- Curps 03:32, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)

text: Here's a source (UK Telegraph) complete with bobbing boats. But I edited that detail out anyway for space.  -- Curps 03:35, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  Okay, but the Sun is the primary source for all articles on this; i counted 7, all crediting the Sun. This Telegraph does cite "bobbing" for sure -- verbatium. Thanks for helping to fix it. -- 152.163.101.10 05:16, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  The Sun was first to report it, but other credible sources have presumably verified before publishing.  I would be very surprised if the TV news in the UK haven't already interviewed Smith, Kearney and beach bystanders many times over by now, they always vigorously pursue human interest stories like this.  There is plenty of detail available: the school was Danes Hill Prep School, Leatherhead Road, Oxshott  If it was a hoax it would surely have been exposed by now.  As far as I know, the Sun has a reputation for sensationalistic tabloid reporting, but not for hoaxes. -- Curps 20:02, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Tilly Smith

message: Is it feasable to fast-track a Wikireader on this subject (including edited tsiunami and earthquake articles, as well as pages related to this disaster) for sale. Something around 50% of profits could be donated to an agreed charity. For greatest effect this would need to be done as soon as possible. There is the option of by-passing publishers by allowing trusted users to download PDFs, print well and sell in their locales? This user would then send raised money to the Wikimedia foundation. Anyone got any ideas? --Oldak Quill 20:08, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  A Fast-tracked Wikireader 

message: I would like to propose that the current article title be changed to "2004 Asian Tsunami" ... which is short & simple.
The term "AsianTsunami" has upto 50 hits in Yahoo and "Asian Tsunami" has 1,030,000 hits. Goggles seems to be joining-in too with "AsianTsunami" at 135 hits & "Asian Tsunami" with 3,350,000 hits.
Yes, the Earthquake happened in the Indian Ocean BUT it was the Asian Tsunami that affected a pan-asian area, news agencies and the media calls it the "Asian Tsunami Disaster" to term the event ... it is easier as a reference term than your "2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake that caused massive tsunamis that effected many asian counties ..." (mouth-full)
Change the title ... please. 
The tsunami was the cause of the massive deaths among the nations, not the earthquake per say ... and lots of people are calling it so NOT the Indian Ocean Tsunami or Earthquake !!!
Thank you.
: Ken, Singapore
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:And I would like to propose that you
stop spamming every single article related to this topic with an external link to http://www.asiantsunami.org/
:I think I will register the domain IndianOceanAsianTsunamiEarthquake.org and suggest that everyone change the name to that instead. -- Curps 01:16, 7 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  2004 Asian Tsunami as Article Title 

message: This would make more sense, as the tsunami hit some of Eastern Africa as well as Asia and all the damage was caused by the tsunami rather than the earthquate itself, jguk 19:03, 7 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  2004 Indian Ocean tsunami as article title