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I added a 2023 study removed from the further reading section of climate change as a citation here. Accidentally hit submit on my phone before finishing the edit summary. Just clarifying here on talk. C.J. Griffin ( talk) 20:43, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
I've been working on the readability of the heat wave article. The penultimate section (Examples by country / United States) could benefit from some substantive edits, so I'm drawing this to the attention of editors following this page. The first paragraph mentions how 50 mln people were under heat advisories in 2019 and it was predicted that various highest low temperatures would be broken in the subsequent days. Presumably we now know whether records were broken so that could be updated. Or there may be a better example now from 2022 or even 2023. The third paragraph says deaths due to heat outnumber deaths due to all other forms of extreme weather. It compares them with deaths from floods and hurricanes, and mentions all other types of extreme weather at the end. But it does not include deaths from extreme cold. In many countries deaths from cold still exceed from deaths by heat. Again there may be a more recent period that could be cited. Jonathanlynn ( talk) 15:56, 27 July 2023 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: no consensus. In this move request, a clear majority supported moving the article, but consensus is not determined by counting votes but instead by quality of the arguments given on the various sides of an issue, as viewed through the lens of Wikipedia policy.
Through this lens, we find that the arguments in opposition to the move are stronger. They cite WP:COMMONNAME, and provide evidence for their arguments in the form of ngrams; those in support cite Google Trends, and while this is useful evidence it is significantly weaker than evaluating the use in reliable sources for ascertaining the common name.
Those in support cite WP:RETAIN, but no evidence is provided by either side as to what the original version of the article used, and those in opposition demonstrate that both versions are in wide use in British English; as such, we must discount this argument.
Considering this, we find that the strength of the arguments in opposition balance out the numerical support for the move, resulting in no consensus. ( closed by non-admin page mover) BilledMammal ( talk) 13:15, 20 August 2023 (UTC)
Heat wave → Heatwave – Reasons for move:
Thanks. 90.254.30.143 ( talk) 10:46, 6 August 2023 (UTC) — Relisting. — DaxServer ( t · m · e · c) 13:04, 13 August 2023 (UTC)
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Just added an ecological impact section under "Other Impacts" and included some more information under "Reduced GDP" and Floods." LzzeSu ( talk) 23:24, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
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I added a 2023 study removed from the further reading section of climate change as a citation here. Accidentally hit submit on my phone before finishing the edit summary. Just clarifying here on talk. C.J. Griffin ( talk) 20:43, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
I've been working on the readability of the heat wave article. The penultimate section (Examples by country / United States) could benefit from some substantive edits, so I'm drawing this to the attention of editors following this page. The first paragraph mentions how 50 mln people were under heat advisories in 2019 and it was predicted that various highest low temperatures would be broken in the subsequent days. Presumably we now know whether records were broken so that could be updated. Or there may be a better example now from 2022 or even 2023. The third paragraph says deaths due to heat outnumber deaths due to all other forms of extreme weather. It compares them with deaths from floods and hurricanes, and mentions all other types of extreme weather at the end. But it does not include deaths from extreme cold. In many countries deaths from cold still exceed from deaths by heat. Again there may be a more recent period that could be cited. Jonathanlynn ( talk) 15:56, 27 July 2023 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: no consensus. In this move request, a clear majority supported moving the article, but consensus is not determined by counting votes but instead by quality of the arguments given on the various sides of an issue, as viewed through the lens of Wikipedia policy.
Through this lens, we find that the arguments in opposition to the move are stronger. They cite WP:COMMONNAME, and provide evidence for their arguments in the form of ngrams; those in support cite Google Trends, and while this is useful evidence it is significantly weaker than evaluating the use in reliable sources for ascertaining the common name.
Those in support cite WP:RETAIN, but no evidence is provided by either side as to what the original version of the article used, and those in opposition demonstrate that both versions are in wide use in British English; as such, we must discount this argument.
Considering this, we find that the strength of the arguments in opposition balance out the numerical support for the move, resulting in no consensus. ( closed by non-admin page mover) BilledMammal ( talk) 13:15, 20 August 2023 (UTC)
Heat wave → Heatwave – Reasons for move:
Thanks. 90.254.30.143 ( talk) 10:46, 6 August 2023 (UTC) — Relisting. — DaxServer ( t · m · e · c) 13:04, 13 August 2023 (UTC)
This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 6 April 2024 and 3 May 2024. Further details are available
on the course page. Student editor(s):
LzzeSu (
article contribs).
— Assignment last updated by LzzeSu ( talk) 22:34, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
Just added an ecological impact section under "Other Impacts" and included some more information under "Reduced GDP" and Floods." LzzeSu ( talk) 23:24, 26 April 2024 (UTC)