Talk:List of disasters
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This is a pointless list, surely? Without defining the word 'disaster' and its scope, this could end up as a list ranging from the sublime to the ridiculous: a dropped piece of toast; an earthquake.
- If a disaster has an article about it in Wikipedia, then it's probably a significant enough disaster to appear on this list. If someone is able to write an article about a dropped piece of toast disaster and it survives VfD I see nothing wrong with listing it here. To address the issue of the great ranges of scope, how about adding subdivisions to the list based on lives lost, dollars in damages, etc? Bryan 06:25, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Totally missing are mining disasters. I know of one in Illinois that killed nearly 100. I hardly think that the 'Challenger' and 'Discovery' events qualify as disasters, nor does Three Mile Island.
- China has had several mining disasters that have killed hundreds. They are missing from this list. --JohnnyB 16:45, Feb 15, 2005 (UTC)
However defined, should not the cyclone induced tsunami in Bangladesh killing 138,000 people in 1991 be mensioned here? I cannot find anything about it at all anywhere in wikipedia. And I haven't found much about it elsewere on the web either. Rune 04:39, 04 Jan 2005 (UTC+1)
Do Sodom and Gomorrah belong on this list? There's no archaeological evidence those cities ever existed, let alone evidence that they were destroyed. Teflon Don 05:51, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
Air disasters
Air disasters on Wikipedia are referred to by airline and flight number - if you adopt this convention the links will work if articles are available. I've changed a few to start off... GCarty 12:45, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)