Talk:List of United States disasters by death toll

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1 God
2 merge
3 Don't merge
4 Chicago fire
5 9/11
6 Sortable table
7 Inclusion of "War" or not

[edit] God

I DON'T THINK THIS HURRICANE OF A THING IS FROM GOD BUT FROM THE THINGS THE DO AND THAT MAKES THINGS TO HAPPEN AND AND KILLING LIFES.TAKE A LOOK AT SOME PARTS OD AFRICA LIKE NIGERIA.IT IS A BLEESED COUNTRY AND GOD IS ALWAYS THEREWHEN WE NEED HIM.

Wikipedia is not an opinion forum. -- Beland 02:38, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] merge

Merge with other article G Clark 19:02, 10 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Don't merge

This list is obviously in early development. and would presumably include lots of disasters that are not natural, so how can it be merged in. ie natural disast list would be a subset of this. See List of United Kingdom disasters by death toll for comparison (obviously the model on which this list has been started). mervyn 11:38, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

I'm agreeing with Mervyn here - it's fledgling, and when complete will be much better. Daemon8666 14:41, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

perhaps two separate ones: natural and non-natural, and possibly a merged one in addition, but this should not be merged as it would leave nowhere to put non natural disasters.

I'm merging the two into a sortable table, so people can separate the manmade from the natural disasters if they would like, but can also easily compare them. -- Beland 02:38, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Chicago fire

---Umm, what about the Great Chicago Fire? From great chicago fire page: After the fire, 125 bodies were recovered. Final estimates of the fatalities ranged from 200-300, considered a small number for such a large fire. In later years, other disasters in the city would claim more lives: 571 died in the Iroquois Theater fire in 1903; and, in 1915, 835 died in the sinking of the Eastland excursion boat in the Chicago River. Yet the Great Chicago Fire remains Chicago's most well-known disaster, for the magnitude of the destruction and the city's subsequent recovery and growth.

shouldn't some of these be in here?

Added. -- Beland 02:03, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 9/11

2,749 died in World Trade Center on 9/11/2001

Added. -- Beland 02:03, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sortable table

The table sorting is mostly automatic, but there's more documentation available at Help:Sorting if anyone needs it. -- Beland 01:59, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Inclusion of "War" or not

Before this List is expanded further there should be a debate about whether acts of war are to be included in a list of disasters? I suggest not -- mainly because "war" is a different order of event from what is commonly thought of as "disaster". Also, disaster usually refers to a distinct event, rather than a series of events grouped over years. Am interested to read other thoughts on this. --mervyn 12:13, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Some related lists use the phrase "wars and disasters", which is fine if you don't consider war to be a disaster because it is usually intentional on at least one side. I do think it's useful to put both in the same table, to make it easy to compare across causes. -- Beland 22:24, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

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