Talk:Climate change in Ethiopia

Problems with this article
I see lots of problems with this article and have written about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Climate_change#Delete_the_Climate_change_in_Ethiopia_article?

I'll copy the discussion across now: ++++++ I am pondering if I should nominate the article Climate change in Ethiopia for deletion through WP:AFD. I have never done this before so I wanted to check in with you first. The article was created a year ago by a user who has since been blocked: User:The Supermind. I see loads of flaws in the article and feel I can't really trust any of the content there. However, an article on Climate change in Ethiopia would in principle be WP:notable of course but I suspect we would have to apply WP:TNT here. So we might be better off having no article on Ethiopia rather than such a bad one? Or we shrink it down to the bare minimum for now until someone has time to work on it? We do have a range of "climate change in country X" articles and they are useful (albeit have low pageviews generally): Category:Climate change by country. We also have a nice standard layout for them so if someone has time, they could easily build this up. Great job for students, for example. The standard layout is here. - NB, the main country article Ethiopia does link to the Climate change in Ethiopia article, so it would be nice to get it right. EMsmile (talk) 11:31, 16 October 2023 (UTC)


 * The chance of that article getting deleted in AfD is low, TNT is a hard case to make. If there is a TNT issue, you're much better off boldly redirecting it to an appropriate place. If you have more time, shrinking it by removing the problematic content would likely be preferable. CMD (talk) 11:55, 16 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your reaction. I think I'll then go down the route of removing problematic content (which is a lot of it, e.g. making it sound like every drought that's ever happened in Ethiopia is due to climate change...). If anyone has time to help with this effort, please jump right in. EMsmile (talk) 07:29, 17 October 2023 (UTC)

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I reworked the content now by deleting quite a few sentences. The previous editor had drawn a lot from this publication: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5578710/ and sometimes changed the wording so that source text integrity got lost. In addition, I think that publication itself made too many sweeping statements about how climate change "causes" droughts and floods - content that is not backed up by secondary sources like the IPCC AR 6. I added two excerpts to explain the complexity of climate change, droughts and floods. EMsmile (talk) 12:21, 17 October 2023 (UTC)