I'm not sure how helpful it is, but yesteryear's word for "tsunami" was "typhoon". You might consider searching for typhoons as well.
Bob On 3/15/2011 9:42 AM, Carcharoth wrote: > Would anyone be able to help me track down examples of articles that > cover two or more things on the same page? I'm trying to work out why > we have articles that include "tsunami" in the titles, when there are > many events throughout history that caused tsunamis that don't include > that in the title. I tried searching for "and" in the title and found > these examples: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Sendai_earthquake_and_tsunami > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake_and_tsunami > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_2010_Sumatra_earthquake_and_tsunami > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/869_Sanriku_earthquake_and_tsunami > > But there are many other examples of tsunamis not "attached" to the > event that caused them. > > Most are here: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historic_tsunamis > > Articles on some of the causative events of the tsunami listed in that > article are: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoan_eruption > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1883_eruption_of_Krakatoa > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1700_Cascadia_earthquake > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1755_Lisbon_earthquake > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansei_Great_Earthquakes > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1908_Messina_earthquake > > There are also some tsunami with their own articles and none on the cause: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1771_Great_Yaeyama_Tsunami > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1952_Severo-Kurilsk_tsunami > > Ones caused by landslides are arguably correctly given their own article: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_Lituya_Bay_megatsunami > > However, it seems a bit of a mess at the moment. > > There are other disasters that take the form of causative event > followed by an effect that causes the most destruction. The two > examples I've seen used are Hurricane Katrina, where the storm surge > and flooding caused most of the damage (though almost any hurricane > that size that hits land will cause a storm surge and flooding) and > the firestorm that can take hold after some earthquakes (notably the > 1906 San Francisco Earthquake). > > On other words, tsunami are not something that occur by themselves. > They are caused by something, and I'm not sure that the currently > evolving practice of tacking tsunami onto the end of the title of > articles about the causative event is the right approach. It seems to > be a recent approach, and I'm not entirely sure where the best place > is to discuss this, as individual renaming discussions don't seem the > best place to get an overview of the whole effect. Where is the best > place to discuss naming conventions if no specific guidance exists? > Would it be the talk page of the 'Article titles' policy, or would a > more specific place (the 'events' naming guideline) be better? > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Article_titles > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Naming_conventions_%28events%29 > > Carcharoth > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
