Talk:List of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll

African genocides section

Is there any good reason why African genocides should be listed, as they are here, in a separate section from other genocides? - 128.36.204.230 (talk) 00:57, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

I was wondering the same thing. If no one gives a good reason, it should be merged into the table with the rest of the genocides.--Wikimedes (talk) 09:48, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

At the very least it should be consistent - for example, the massacre of Tutsis in Burundi is listed in both the general table and the African Genocides section, but the Rwandan massacre of Tutsis (the larger of the two) is not. I would vote in favor of collapsing the separate African section and merging it with the general list. - Alexandriensis (talk) 19:44, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

Done. Sparkie82 (t•c) 07:49, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

Falun Gong persecution NOT genocide

The Falun Gong persecution needs to be removed from the genocide section. To call it genocide is as clear a misnomer as it gets and whoever put it there was clearly motivated by political bias. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.6.250.126 (talk) 19:56, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

I just reinserted information on different sources (including some judicial authorities) that have called the campaign a genocide. The determination of what is or is not genocide is always controversial, but the criteria employed here is whether notable sources have called these events genocides. This discussion on Falungong was played out and ultimately settled in the archives, if you want to revisit it.—Zujine|talk 20:17, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

Hindu Genocide - 9 - 13 th century AD

I came across some articles stating the number of deaths in the Hindu-Kush mountains between Pakistan and Afghanistan was as high as 80 mn - 100 mn making it the largest genocide in human history. In fact Hindu - Kush stands for Hindu deaths. See if we can find historical accounts of this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.197.126.107 (talk) 16:11, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

About neutrality of the article

One could add much more massacres in human history and it seems the existing ones in the article included according to global political climate. I think neutrality of the article is disputed tag should added on head of the page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.44.215.165 (talk) 05:19, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

It's probably better to discuss specific issues on the talk page or just make edits to indicate that statements are alleged with attribution. (According to A, X happened, however, this is disputed by B, who says that Y happened.) If there are notable incidents, with verifiable sources, that are not here, feel free to add them. Sparkie82 (t•c) 08:03, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

Merge proposal

Re: Merge List of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll and List of wars by death toll

• Don't merge - List of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll is a very long article and there are dozens of List of wars articles scattered throughout Wikipedia. It might make since to merge some of the others into a sortable table, but List of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll is really quite different. Sparkie82 (t•c) 08:44, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
• Hell no instead use the template {{main}} which looks like this:
  Main article: List of wars by death toll
  . Easy D O N D E groovily Talk to me 21:41, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

Wars included

Maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but it appears to me that the list of war's seem to be ranked from highest minimum number of deaths to lowest minimum number of deaths, bottoming out at about half a million dead. The American Civil War has a range of 600,000 to 700,000 dead, which has a higher number of minimum casualties than the last three conflicts listed, and with wounded would be much higher (articulating that dead and wounded haven't been merged into our traditional numbers as has occurred in some other conflicts). Given this, shouldn't the American Civil War be included on the list, especially considering that it is certainly better documented than many of the conflicts from antiquity listed here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.56.151.34 (talk) 12:41, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

Sorting.

The Afghan civil war appears at the top when you sort by % of world population. I thought it was because it lacked the leading zero (was just ".06%" previously), but the error still occurs since I changed it to "0.06%". No idea why that should be - it'll take someone more technically adept to sort it out I guess. And Gareth Bale should damn well stick to the left wing instead of roaming all over the park the daft Welsh muppet.

All the other entries had "ntsh|x" in double curly brackets starting off the last column. It appears to indicate the number to use when performing a sort. I added it for the Afghan wars and it sorts fine now.--Wikimedes (talk) 11:22, 11 March 2012 (UTC)