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A fact from Flood myth appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 18 April 2004. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Deluge involving Noah or Utnapishtim in the Epic of Gilgamesh is a widespread theme in mythology?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2004/April.

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Perspective on flood myth in Jersey & Australia

Baraniuk, Chris (2022-10-03). "Memories of the End of the Last Ice Age, from Those Who Were There". Hakai Magazine. Retrieved 2023-01-10.

Peaceray (talk) 17:31, 10 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Or Nunn, Patrick; Cook, Margaret (1 January 2022). "Island tales: culturally-filtered narratives about island creation through land submergence incorporate millennia-old memories of postglacial sea-level rise". World Archaeology. 54 (1): 29–51. doi:10.1080/00438243.2022.2077821. ISSN 0043-8243. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 18:05, 10 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Other theories

Should I add a link to Immanuel Velikovsky, who iirc explained all of the Hebrew Testament with a comet hypothesis ?

Or is there already too much comet content>

Linlithgow (talk) 16:20, 25 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Too much already to add something so thoroughly refuted. Doug Weller talk 19:09, 25 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Erich Schmidt

Do I see a source from 1971, to support a source from 1931? Similar here. If this hypothesis has more support, more sources are likely available, including some more recent that may put it in perspective. Thanks, —Paleo Neonate – 11:09, 29 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Biblical Flood mostly missing

Is there a particular reason why the biblical Flood is almost entirely missing from this page (apart from a few offhand references)? It would seem to be one of the most prevalent versions of such a myth in contemporary mythology. FabBol (talk) 18:05, 10 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

You are correct, apart from images, where it seems over-represented, it's pretty much WP:LEAD-only in the current version. Perhaps it was removed when someone trimmed uncited text from the article, but that's a guess. It does have its' own article, Genesis flood narrative, but a paragraph in the Mythologies-section seems WP:DUE. Get a couple of good refs and be WP:BOLD. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 18:36, 10 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Well, this needs to be fixed. Per WP:SUMMARY, it should be covered here, just in highly-compressed detail since there is a main article on it. In its present state, this article is actually quite confusing in mentioning the best-known flood myth in the lead then never covering it the main body of the article. I suspect that coverage of it was removed by some Abrahamic religionist. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 22:10, 26 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Did some digging and found out there was coverage of the Biblical flood in the article's body too, but it was removed in 2021 with the justification that "it has its own article". I'll restore a paragraph about it. StephenMacky1 (talk) 23:06, 26 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, what a bizarre (albeit well-intentioned) editing choice. Thank you for unearthing it and helping to rebalance the article! FabBol (talk) 06:57, 27 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]