Talk:1992–93 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season

Colina
Do we have any evidence outside of EMDAT, that Colina did 14 deaths? I note that Reunion in their summary of the system say none while FIRINGA is saying that there was two deaths.Jason Rees (talk) 20:12, 19 April 2014 (UTC)
 * After doing some research i found this which may be from the Government of Reunion which gives a bit more credit to the two deaths.Jason Rees (talk) 20:18, 19 April 2014 (UTC)
 * What's wrong with the EM-DAT ref? That's very recent, and is generally considered reliable. Isn't it possible that some source didn't notice the other 12 deaths? --♫ Hurricanehink ( talk ) 16:48, 20 April 2014 (UTC)
 * The problem with the EM-DAT ref is that we have 3 sources including the Reunion Government, telling us that it is wrong in this case.Jason Rees (talk) 17:03, 20 April 2014 (UTC)
 * They're not saying it's wrong. They're just saying the storm killed two. It could be two who drowned from high surf, and the remaining 12 might've been from electrocutions or something. But we have a reliable source backing up the 14, so I'm putting it back in. ♫ Hurricanehink ( talk ) 17:13, 20 April 2014 (UTC)
 * You are trusting EMDAT to be right far too much here, when we have 3 reliable sources including the Reunion Government backing up the idea that there are only two dead. The MFR report tells me that there was no deaths which bearing in mind, it was probably written about a year after the system lends weight to the idea that there wasn't too many deaths on the island. The Fringa and Reunion Government tells us that there were 2 deaths on the island which sounds about right too me when i bear in mind the MFR report.Jason Rees (talk) 17:20, 20 April 2014 (UTC)
 * We could have ten sources from when the storm was active saying one thing, but historical perspective can change. My argument is that the Reunion government could have used some news source that only mentioned two deaths, whereas EM-DAT is an active disaster database. Hurricane Audrey was found much later on to have had many more deaths, based on census records and personal stories. We have it reliably backed up that the storm caused either 0, 2, or 14 deaths. Given that 14 is the highest, and the source is reliable, I think we should go with the 14. There's no way 12 people just didn't die. In any event, I emailed EM-DAT to hope to get more clarification. ♫ Hurricanehink ( talk ) 17:51, 20 April 2014 (UTC)
 * While I could see using 2, I do question how 12 ppl came back to life. Deaths are different from damage totals, because unlike damage totals, were they are often lowered later on, deaths toll (unless they were counted twice) usually only rise. YE Pacific  Hurricane 17:57, 20 April 2014 (UTC)
 * And those people would have to have been counted seven times. ♫ Hurricanehink ( talk ) 18:18, 20 April 2014 (UTC)