Talk:Aliso Canyon Oil Field

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I am a long-time Wikipedian. I am also an uppaid political figure active in the Aliso controversy. I have made a simple and well-sourced change after someone backed out a similar but unsourced change citing the number of families affected. The number appearing here before these changes was clearly outdated. I also updated the quantity of gas released, including an updated source.

Another set of changes made today that were then backed out changed "leak" to "blowout." With 100,000 tons of natural gas released, blowout is an appropriate term. It is already used in 11 places in the body of the Wikipedia main page for this section. On that main page, you will also find it used in the headlines of eight of the references cited (and many more can easily be found including the refereed science paper I added as a source here for the amount of natural gas released), showing that there are plenty of neutral third-party sources using the term prominently. The change to use blowout here should be restored, but I won't be the one to do it. RichardMathews (talk) 22:32, 4 February 2017 (UTC)


 * I agree with you that blowout is the correct term. Both terms have been used in press coverage. Explosive, uncontrolled releases of this size are correctly termed "blowouts". Looks like there has been some back-and-forth between "leak" and "blowout" on the other article, as can be seen in this rather icky line: "Many people believe that while the word "leak" has been used to describe this catastrophe, it is actually a "blowout".  Antandrus (talk) 23:18, 4 February 2017 (UTC)