Talk:2008 South China floods

Name discussion copied from 'Summer 2008 China region floods'
Using "summer" in the title is ambiguous, as summer takes place during different times of year for the northern and southern hemispheres. I'm not sure what the precedence for this is, but I think a move would be a good idea. Mr. Absurd (talk) 22:38, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
 * How about June 2008 Southern China floods or, if you want to be all-inclusive, May-June 2008 Southern China floods? Bob Amnertiopsis ChitChat Me!  22:54, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
 * IMO the correct name is 2008 South China floods since there is no other flood so far. Actually wrong naming caused the redundancy with the other article. --Matthiasb (talk) 12:15, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Agreed "2008 South China Floods" seems much more accurate. Especially since Summer doesn't officially start until June 21st. These articles should be merged under the more proper heading.--Edwin Larkin (talk) 16:42, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

HK source links
The sources for the HK links at SCMP looks to be in the process of being moved to the archive section. Search "Record downpour kills two and brings chaos to swathe of city" at archive search and you will see it. Do the same for the other link. Benjwong (talk) 15:34, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

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exact numbers
The lead says 93 people died as of 30 May, then an additional 55 people in the second round (= 148), but the infobox shows "more than 200" dead. Then in the "May" section, we have conflicting numbers of 64 from China Daily and 59 according to the government. Later in the "June" section, we have 18 deaths as of 14 June (possibly some overlap with May deaths), and 63 more on 15 June, except two sentences later, it says that there are 169 dead. Finally at the end of the section, the death toll is up to 252, but this is unclear if it's the total from all the flooding or just in June.

Secondly, the lead mentions 1.3 million forced to evacuate by 14 June (not repeated elsewhere in the article), and then there were 1.66 million evacuations on 15 June. Although these seem like two separate incidents (meaning 2.96M people evacuated in total) that's not mentioned in the lead, so it's just confusing when you read it.

Lastly, the article reads like it was written during the floods and hasn't been updated since, so you have sentences like "From 25 May to 14 June, up to 18 people have died", when really it should be in the simple past tense because all this happened over 10 years ago. Pinging some of the people who worked on this:, ,. — howcheng  {chat} 18:00, 9 May 2019 (UTC)