Talk:Disasters of the Century

American?
Why is this called an American documentary series, if most of the disasters are Canadian? 76.66.197.2 (talk) 10:59, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

Episodes
Here is a list of the 42 hour-long episodes in the order shown on retrotv:

LIVING ON THE EDGE

BLACK WEEK

NATURE'S FURY

WASHED AWAY

Out of Control

HUMAN ERROR

From The Inside Out

CRITICAL MASS

Lost at Sea

IT CAME FROM THE SKY

FINAL DESTINATION

IN AN INSTANT

WHEN THE EARTH MOVES

Up in Flames

Lost in Transit

Eye Of The Storm

Death in the Water (note slight difference in title)

Communities under Siege

Death and Profits

When Laughter Turns to Tears

From Above

The Wrong Choice (note slight difference in title)

Loki's Revenge

Industrial Nightmares

All Fall Down

By Their Own Doing

Rising From the Ashes

Stormy Waters

Homes Swept Away (note that Britannia Beach was shown in Death in the Water not Communities under Siege & Cyclone Tracy was not shown in NATURE'S FURY)

Islands Under Attack

Deadly Elements

No Survivors

Friends and Families (note slightly different title)

Collision Course

Fire and Ice

Against the Elements

The End of the Line (note slightly different title)

Death in a Small Town

Life in Disaster Row

Head On

FULL STOP

Out of the Blue

96.88.198.77 (talk) 05:17, 8 February 2019 (UTC)

GOCE first pass- removing a ton of unnecessary content
Placing a warning here before undertaking this intimidating task: this article was listed at GOCE, and I'm taking a pass at it. The only way forward I can see to make sense of the massive episode list is to cut a huge amount of text, as it appears to be originally copypasted from an outside source in full and is almost unnavigable.

It guts me to do this, I lean towards inclusionism more than deletionism overall, and over the years since this huge wall of text got placed here many editors have done great work in adding wikilinks and trying to make good use of the raw material. Still, there's no way a more technically skilled Wikipedian will be able to move the episode guide content into an appropriate template as tagged, unless the majority of confusing wordage is trimmed in this manner first. Feel free to ping me directly for response in this thread if you have any questions or concerns!

As I'm pretty new to GOCE I'll also tag in other guild editors to review, rather than mark the CE complete myself. Chiselinccc (talk) 03:11, 17 August 2023 (UTC)


 * As a first step, I've taken this really extensive preamble out of the Episodes section- I had to read this paragraph 3+ times to start to understand what it's communicating. Personally, I feel this level of detail is more appropriate for a blog or enthusiasts forum than Wikipedia: we should be stating things we CAN source in the article, not building a bigger mindmap of the topic to chase down missing information (that's what Talk pages are for!).
 * So, pasted unaltered for posterity:
 * NOTE: This series is offered in two formats:  65 half hour episodes and 42 hour-long episodes.  As a result, to make the 42 hour-long episodes, 19 of the half-hour shows are used twice.  Due to this fact - and the fact that so far an episode list for the half-hour version hasn't been located to date - any extraneous titles have not been able to be matched.  What follows is the information we have regarding the hour-long shows, however there may be duplications in the list as it currently shows more than 42 episodes, as well as some titles that haven't been matched to anything listed.  Any additional additions or corrections are most welcome. Chiselinccc (talk) 03:16, 17 August 2023 (UTC)
 * After reviewing the MOS pages for Television Episode Guide templates, I actually feel somewhat capable of trying it out myself in the process of this CE - knowing the specific allowable values for those table columns helps me identify what text from this list is usable.
 * Given the unique nature of this show's format and topics, I may try to tweak a few columns away from the standard template so that we can retain information about the disasters covered in known episodes. I will need to do this at a full computer though, so for now I'm just taking a final quick mobile pass to fix any obvious errors and remove unencyclopedic language. Chiselinccc (talk) 03:24, 17 August 2023 (UTC)