Talk:1987 Black Dragon fire

Merger with Black Dragon Fire
Black Dragon Fire and 1987 Daxing'anling Wildfire refer to the same event and obviously need to be merged. "1987 Daxing'anling Wildfire" could be used as the article name after the merger.--Tomchen1989 (talk) 01:22, 12 May 2018 (UTC)
 * I second this.--Undescribed (talk) 15:39, 29 July 2018 (UTC)


 * Support Kraose (talk) 05:51, 8 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Support I agree. The only one problem is the entity name of this wildfire. --Pbice (talk) 19:25, 29 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Suppport, and agree with the initial merge proposal name. 1987 Daxing'anling Wildfire is more immediately understandable in English as Black Dragon Fire gives no context as to the location (my first impression of the title was it would be a work of fiction). The 1987 article is also considerably older. The fire did extend beyond Daxing'anling, but given that it started in this location that seems like a reasonable name. Klbrain (talk) 05:21, 27 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Support This article suggests the origin of Black Dragon is not established well in the book by that name, though the author is a Pulitzer Prize winner. Feller, Michael. Pacific Affairs, vol. 63, no. 3, 1990, pp. 385–386. JSTOR, . Another book review argues it is perhaps the only book available in English. Wiest, Nailene Chou. The Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 49, no. 1, 1990, pp. 132–133. JSTOR, . JenniferNM (talk) 06:31, 14 August 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅ Klbrain (talk) 21:27, 25 August 2019 (UTC)

Multiple issues
There are multiple issues on this article. For example, the lead section says 50,000 people were left homeless but the later section says 33,000. Additionally, this has been called the largest wildfire in history by multiple places sources, including the Guinness Book of World Records, but this article says it was the largest in the past 300 years and has differing information on this. -131.89.195.32 (talk) 17:07, 23 September 2020 (UTC)