On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Nathan <nawr...@gmail.com> wrote: > The naming conventions page seems to be the best place to discuss it.
Yeah, I'll post there. Just one more post here... > I'm with Ian that a rigid convention for naming these articles is > unnecessary and perhaps counterproductive. Everything is caused by > something else, and there are reasonable arguments for varying between > 'earthquake' 'earthquake and tsunami' and 'tsunami' in article titles > based on the circumstances each describe. I've just remembered this example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_eruption_of_Nevado_del_Ruiz Which redirects to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armero_tragedy And for this earthquake: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970_Ancash_earthquake There is only the article on the destroyed city at the moment: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yungay,_Peru So I'm leaning towards the viewpoint that "2004 Indian Ocean tsunami" (without earthquake) is best. And for the earthquake to be split off to its own article (preferably titled 'Great Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake'). This would mean that in subsidiary articles where people currently write "following the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami of 2004", they would instead write "following the Great Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake and the resulting Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004", and there would be two links instead of one (if you look at the article, a split is not impossible and in some ways would help). There is actually a fairly well established de facto naming convention for earthquakes that includes the year and location. But it is complicated by the fact that some earthquakes are 'Great' and the year then gets dropped. But it seems nearly all our earthquake article titles have been standardised, and surprisingly the wiki didn't fall apart (I'm being slightly sarcastic here). Of course, things staying the way they are would also work just as well. Carcharoth _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l