Talk:List of floods

New article
This list was split off the main flood article, mainly because it was taking up a good deal of bulk within that article. Thegreatdr 00:54, 16 April 2007 (UTC) pie pie p ie p      apples  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.23.76.3 (talk) 18:23, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

Accurate?
''One of Canada's most devastating floods occurred in southern Alberta in June 2005. The flooding affected many major metropolitan areas including Calgary. 72 deaths resulted from the three-week flood.''

I dont totally remember this but I don't think the flood was that bad. --Kuzwa 16:43, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

Revert to April
Looks to me that user 82.10.238.102 made a long series of nonsense edits to this page that need to be reverted. An editor with more experience is required as I'm unsure how to handle this. --Pat (talk) 03:57, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Changes to article
Unless other editors disagree I would like to do the following to the article.

1. Put all floods into date order

2. Ensure all floods appear both in “By chronology” section and “By region”

3. Ask for reference for those floods without a link to another Wikipedia article on the flood

Let me know if you feel this would improve the article or not Jniech (talk) 14:46, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

Recent updates complete
I have finishedn updating the article with more info, floods and so it makes more sense. I hope you like it! Ggoere (talk) 17:18, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

Possible new vandal 82.38.118.236 attacked this page
Could you please keep an eye on 82.38.118.236 as he has made an unneeded change (The UK is great! it said) that could be the start of a vandal attack. I have reverted it. I have messaged him to let him know that his actions were wrong. Hope you'll help! Ggoere (talk) 17:18, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

2010 floods
Is the sentence about the "ongoing" flood about the flooding now, that also hit Germany or is it the floods some weeks ago? SkySilver (talk) 22:52, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

Something's wrong
"Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, and Sabah suffered floods between December 2006 and January 2007. It killed hundreds and forced 100,000 people to be evacuated in Johor alone. Floods hit the country's capital Jakarta in January 2007, killing 80. It was the worst flood in Malaysia for over 100 years." The second part is missleading, it may seem that Jakarta is the capital of Malaysia, which it isn't, it's acutally in Indonesia. Drat70 (talk) 11:29, 28 October 2012 (UTC)

Expansion
For a few years, major flood events articles were routinely written and often made the first page under the news section; I helped from time to time to add those on this list when they weren't. I've not checked who used to work on those articles, but it was great work; it seems that unfortunately there are far less related news on Wikipedia recently (despite major floods still occuring in the world, of course). I doubt that there's any effort to censor such events on Wikipedia, my guess is that someone who did much of the work is no longer available. Although Wikipedia is not a climatic report center, it's a good resource for many, and a free, easily accessible one. Thanks to those who helped on this, and I encourage future contributors :) 76.10.128.192 (talk) 05:20, 28 March 2015 (UTC)

Canvey Island detail removed
The following removed from UK section as I think it was too much local info, and it was also already covered by North Sea Flood of 1953: "In Canvey Island 58 people were killed and many properties damaged, with 13,000 islanders evacuated. Survivors were temporarily housed in the newly built and as yet unused King John comprehensive school in nearby Hadleigh." FrankSier (talk) 02:12, 29 December 2015 (UTC)

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Orphaned references in List of floods
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of List of floods's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "NH": From Floods in the United States before 1901: NewHampshire.com NH floods. Retrieved on 2007-05-05. From Floods in the United States: 1901–2000: NewHampshire.com. NH Flood Information Retrieved on 2007-05-05. From Floods in the United States: 2001–present: NewHampshire.com. NH Flood Information. Retrieved on 2007-05-05. 

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 19:17, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

1938 Yellow River flood
Is there a reason this flood isn't listed? It was a deliberate act rather than a natural disaster, but the page doesn't specify that it only includes natural disasters. 2600:4041:5679:4200:A100:8C3B:A978:BFE7 (talk) 05:21, 5 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Do any other "intentional" floods initiated as an act of warfare appear in the list? I think most readers would not expect to find such events in a list of floods, which most of us associate with natural disasters (or human blunders).  General Ization  Talk  05:26, 5 December 2022 (UTC)

1957 Isahaya/Kyushu Flood
The link for the 1957 Isahaya flood redirects to the article about Isahaya, but there is an orphan article about the 1957 Kyushu flood that includes information about how it affected Isahaya. I think it would be more accurate to include information about flooding in the entire island rather than one city anyways, but I don't want to make such a big change without consulting anyone, especially since I'm very new to editing. There are a few other pages with this same issue. 1957 Kyushu flood article discussing the same flood described in the Isahaya article in much greater detail. FunnFinn (talk) 17:20, 30 November 2023 (UTC)