Talk:List of anthropogenic disasters by death toll

Henry, political leaders, nonsense criteria
The Henry VIII numbers looked out of place, and sure enough they're originally sourced to the number of judicial executions ascribed to regular capital crimes (like theft), not religious crimes (if you look at actual rebellions and religious persecutions during his reign, the numbers executed, which were carefully recorded, was in the hundreds per each, not tens of thousands). The current criteria for political leaders includes "national policy", so are Medieval executions for felonies included, even though the essential "policy" remains unchanged for millennia?

Previous discussion from 2007 notes the inherent problem with this and the article's cruddy political leader criteria (or lack thereof), which seems to have never been addressed despite WP:LISTCRITERIA and other policies. In addition, sources on numbers are generally weak, not reflective of recommendations for covering historical topics such as WP:HISTRS.

Every citation needs review for rigor, with summary deletion for anything originating from nonrigorous sources. Also I suggest the political leaders section be deleted as inherently unworkable. Every other section needs clear list inclusion criteria. SamuelRiv (talk) 01:13, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

In the "Political leaders" section, the entry "Various Marxist-Leninist leaders" is a collection of a lot of leaders united by (various levels of adherence to) a political philosophy, whereas the other entries are single people or families. It seems very much out of place and should be removed. DKMell (talk) 00:31, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

War and Armed Conflict
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has only 57,381 deaths listed since 1948, surely that can't be right. On top of that, it's supposed to include non-combat deaths, wasn't a report recently released saying that the non-combat death toll could be in the hundreds of thousands? Further, the War and Armed Conflict section is only meant to include those where the highest estimate surpasses 100,000. If 63,647 is the highest estimate, why is it on the list in the first place? SirShaunIV (talk) 19:17, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

Halifax Explosion
The Halifax Explosion might be worth including. While it took place during World War I, it wasn't the result of enemy action and didn't happen in a war zone. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 17:04, 16 July 2024 (UTC)