Talk:2021 Timor Leste earthquake

Proposed merge of 2021 Banda Sea earthquake with 2021 Timor Leste Earthquake
Same event, 2021 Banda Sea earthquake was the earlier article created by just about half an hour JW 1961 Talk 22:04, 29 December 2021 (UTC)


 * Support: However I think we could expand parts of this article into the other without just deleting the page (for instance, the infobox). Sincerely, Dunutubble (talk) 22:12, 29 December 2021 (UTC)
 * As of my time stamp, this is the better of the two article (the other being a 2 line stub) so maybe just take the references from that and add here, with that other article subsequently being made into a redirect? JW 1961 Talk 23:50, 29 December 2021 (UTC)
 * @Joseywales1961 - you are right. It looks like it has improved to a good extent. Dunutubble (talk) 01:49, 30 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Support merge. Clear duplication, and the sooner the merge is done, the better -- to avoid duplicated effort.  Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 01:53, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

Timor Leste is not the right name tho. This quake occurred closer to the Lesser Sunda Islands of Indonesia. I assume the creator used Timor Leste because of the USGS event page title M 7.3 - 121 km NNE of Lospalos, Timor Leste.--Dora the Axe-plorer (explore the morgue) 04:47, 30 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete Both articles. Not a notable earthquake. --Dora the Axe-plorer (explore the morgue) 06:14, 30 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Comment Just found out the "improvement" was a direct copy of the Tectonic setting section of 1852 Banda Sea earthquake article which I wrote so that does not really count. No further information has been added to either of the pages. --Dora the Axe-plorer (explore the morgue) 06:14, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

Support merge with lemma "2021 Banda Sea earthquake", as the earthquake was close to Indonesian Maopora island. Two houses crashed on Indonesian Moa island, south of it. On Timor-Leste have been only a few houses minor damaged and a 10 km long earth fissure appeared in Suco Uailaha. Some photos of these minor damages in Timor-Leste are available on Commons. --J. Patrick Fischer (talk) 12:57, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

These are the same event. The correct title is with Banda Sea, because the epicentre was near Romang (island) in Indonesia. East Timor was just given as a waypoint in some early reports, but it is in Indonesia in Banda Sea. The article with the correct title, with Banda Sea, was created almost an hour before this needless duplication.Fulmard (talk) 20:18, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

Also the creator of this article replaced the original name that was already present in lists https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_earthquakes_in_Indonesia&diff=1062696576&oldid=1062654089 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_earthquakes_in_2021&diff=1062660051&oldid=1062659446 Fulmard (talk) 20:27, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

Deletion
I do not believe this article is necessary, for all we know it has afflicted much lives to be significant. Moctiwiki (talk) 05:26, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

Correction: I meant to say it has not afflicted much lives to be significant. Moctiwiki (talk) 05:27, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

JW 1961 Talk 12:16, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

Transclusion
At the very least, acknowledge that the bulk of the article was a direct copy of the Tectonic setting section of 1852 Banda Sea earthquake which I wrote.--Dora the Axe-plorer (explore the morgue) 06:14, 30 December 2021 (UTC)