Talk:Household energy insecurity

Wiki Education assignment: Geographies of Energy and Sustainability
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Proposed merge and title
Hi everyone. I'd like to make a few proposals:

1) Proposal to merge: The issues described in the Household energy insecurity and Fuel poverty articles have a very high degree of overlap. I propose that these articles be merged. After merging, all incoming links to either article will point to the merged article. The merged article will have approximately the combined traffic of both articles. For reference, pageview statistics are |Household_energy_insecurity|Energy_poverty here.

2) What direction to merge things in: I think the Household energy insecurity article is currently of higher quality and is more up to date, so I suggest that   Fuel poverty be merged into Household energy insecurity rather than vice-versa.

3) What to call the merged article: Usually we make the title of an article the most common name of the subject in English (see Article titles). In this case, fuel poverty seems to be much more commonly used, with 24,900 results in Google Scholar. "Household energy insecurity" yields 259 Google Scholar results. Therefore, if Fuel poverty is merged into Household energy insecurity I propose the merged article be subsequently retitled as Fuel poverty.

Clayoquot (talk &#124; contribs) 20:32, 4 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your work and efforts. I nominated this for deletion during NPP but that after the discussion reversed and weighed in as "keep" on the basis that this topic should be covered somewhere.  I think that the merge is a good idea. Regarding  the title, I don't have a strong opinion either way but lean slightly towards "household energy insecurity". IMO it probably more accurately describes the more widespread situation. "Fuel poverty" sounds like something specifically related to fuel, while the reality is that it typically is poverty in general, with fuel being one of the many things that they have trouble affording.       Sincerely, North8000 (talk) 02:33, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your kind words. Let's make sure also feels the love, since she did all the work of writing this article. Clayoquot (talk &#124; contribs) 03:34, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks so much! I think it makes sense to merge the Household energy insecurity and Fuel poverty articles. I also lean slightly towards "household energy insecurity" regarding naming because it refers to more than just fuel - it relates to affording electricity which can be generated from non-fuel sources like wind, geothermal, solar, hydropower, etc and poverty in general like @North8000 mentions. BusyBee03 (talk) 01:35, 14 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Great! We have consensus for a merge. user:BusyBee03 would you like to try copying content from Fuel poverty to here? If you can do Step 1 of the merging process, I can help with the later steps if you like. Clayoquot (talk &#124; contribs) 18:41, 14 February 2024 (UTC)
 * P.s. I am also happy to do it if you would rather not. Take care, Clayoquot (talk &#124; contribs) 11:15, 17 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I'll start the merge process shortly. Clayoquot (talk &#124; contribs) 00:41, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

Future changes
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

In the next couple weeks, I will be revising and editing this article for an energy and sustainability course project. I would appreciate any feedback on my proposed edits, which I will be working on in my user sandbox. So far, my planned changes to the article include:


 * Updating and rephrasing/ refining personal behavior section
 * Adding more information on health effects and providing more information and emphasis on the effects energy insecurity has on low income families
 * Most likely going to add as a subsection in contributing factors
 * Adding a section on LIHEAP
 * Adding a section on sociodemographics
 * Possibly restructure the contributing factors section

More to come with details

Thanks! ~ Maxwynn (talk) 04:38, 19 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Great ideas. Please try to maintain a global overview of the topic without undue emphasis on any one region such as the U.S. LIHEAP, being a single program in a single country, should probably be covered in one sentence rather than a section. Regarding health effects, please make sure to use sources that comply with WP:MEDRS guidelines. Cheers, Clayoquot (talk &#124; contribs) 16:37, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

Frontiers in Public Health
The article has several citations to an article in Frontiers in Public Health. In a previous discussion on the Reliable Sources Noticeboard, many concerns have been expressed about whether this journal is reliable. Going forward, I think we should avoid using it as a source, especially for important or controversial claims. Clayoquot (talk &#124; contribs) 20:10, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

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