Talk:2019–20 Australian bushfire season

is removing the cost too much to ask for
I think its tarnished the money
 * It's a perfectly reasonable infobox field. Mitch Ames (talk) 03:39, 6 January 2023 (UTC)


 * Yes but surely deaths should be higher up in the infobox than costs Chidgk1 (talk) 17:00, 22 February 2023 (UTC)


 * No, I think having deaths as the last item makes sense. Your eyes will notice the deaths at the end of the box.--Jack Upland (talk) 00:26, 23 February 2023 (UTC)

Fact check needed

 * 81% of the Blue Mountains World Heritage Area burned.

Is this accurate? It seems very high. Jack Upland (talk) 00:39, 23 February 2023 (UTC)
 * The source following that claim does NOT mention it. Delete? HiLo48 (talk) 04:42, 23 February 2023 (UTC)
 * I'd say so. I know the area fairly well and there's no way 81% was burnt.--Jack Upland (talk) 05:07, 23 February 2023 (UTC)
 * The claim has been restored. It is actually featured on page 6 of the report that's downloadable from the website listed as a source. But it can't possibly be true.--Jack Upland (talk) 04:54, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
 * This says "More than 60 per cent of the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area was fire-affected and more than half of this burnt with high or very high severity."--Jack Upland (talk) 06:18, 3 April 2023 (UTC)

disparity between sidebar and article claims of area burnt
the sidebar claims that the burnt area was "Approximately 30000 square kilometer", and is entirely unsourced (also doesn't conform to the australian english style), while the body of the article sources the royal commission and claims "24.3 million hectares (60 million acres; 243,000 square kilometres; 94,000 square miles". personally i trust the latter value, given the fact that it has a source, and is much more congruent with of the papers i've read on the topic

the unsourced 30000km2 value is from fluffysandbox's edit on 08:42, 14 January 2023‎. i'm going to update the figure to the 243000km2 value for now, but just pointing this out in the talk

edit after checking: fluffysandbox is also a sockpuppet of a user who's got a history of making a load of erroneous incorrect edits 😔 You know i had to do it to em and i did what had to be done (talk) 04:04, 25 May 2023 (UTC)