Talk:2014 Ludian earthquake

2014 Ludian earthquake was nominated as a Geography and places good article, but it did not meet the good article criteria at the time (August 14, 2017). There are suggestions on the review page for improving the article. If you can improve it, please do; it may then be renominated.

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Two major earthquakes in Yunnan Province

The page 2014 Yunnan earthquake documents the earthquake in Yingjiang on May 24. Since Ludian earthquake also occurred in Yunnan in 2014. The title for the former article should be changed to 2014 Yingjiang eathquake.

Edit: Someone moved 2014 Ludian earthquake to 2014 Yingjiang earthquake. Ridiculous. Can you please read my comments more carefully? Yingjiang eathquake: May 24; Ludian earthquake, Aug 3. I said 2014 Yunnan earthquake should be renamed 2014 Yingjiang eathquake, NOT 2014 Ludian earthquake!128.189.191.60 (talk) 18:48, 3 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

That was not me. I was only fixing a typo in that page move. I just thought I should say... Dustin (talk) 18:52, 3 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Dude, I was not referring to you. I don't know who did. But anyway, can you please make the correct page move? Thanks. 128.189.191.60 (talk) 18:54, 3 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I cannot fix the problem because there are too many useless multi-edit redirects in the way. We'll probably have to wait a few hours now (if past instances are anything to go off). Dustin (talk) 19:01, 3 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, so I made a wild attempt at moving the pages around while avoiding the redirects (so we don't have an obviously incorrect title), and I have to some degree succeeded. I know the original page move by the other user was a mistake, as we all make, but I am glad to just have an accurate title now. Dustin (talk) 19:19, 3 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Great. Can you also move 2014 Yunnan earthquake to 2014 Yingjiang earthquake? Currently, the latter is only a redirect page. The point is, there shouldn't be a page called 2014 Yunnan earthquake, because, as I said, there are (at least) two major earthquakes in Yunnan this year. Neither of which should take this title.128.189.191.60 (talk) 19:57, 3 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I made about seven page moves until I got to here. I cannot move 2014 Yunnan earthquake, so I will request that the redirect at 2014 Yingjiang earthquake be deleted to make way. Then, within the next few hours I expect, we will finally have everything under proper titles. Dustin (talk) 20:01, 3 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

6.1 or 6.5 M_w?

Various sources including most Chinese ones state it's 6.5 (including zhwiki which rely on those sources), using the official statistics from China Earthquake Administration.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4] However, most English sources state it's 6.1, referring to the USGS source (see the article). How would we handle this conflict? Zhaofeng Li [talk... contribs...] 12:26, 6 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

According to the Chinese wiki article:

6.5 M_L is of Richter magnitude scale^[1]
6.1 M_w is of Moment_magnitude_scale^[2]

Kitiiy (talk) 13:33, 6 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Facepalm Didn't see the difference between them.

Zhaofeng Li [talk... contribs...] 13:59, 6 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The following text is excerpted from the article Moment_magnitude_scale:

"The scale was developed in the 1970s to succeed the 1930s-era Richter magnitude scale (M_L)."

Kitiiy (talk) 14:17, 6 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Suggested correction

Some names and numbers are confused. 173.71.11.34 (talk) 01:02, 18 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

too like a list

all the article is is a big long list of donations. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.246.229.114 (talk) 22:38, 23 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I'm glad you pointed that out. It's not very interesting and doesn't make for very good reading does it? Someday, someone that is interested may take it upon themselves to possibly remove the list or add content that makes it meaningful. Dawnseeker2000 22:49, 23 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I removed it Dreameditsbrooklyn (talk) 20:34, 27 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ 中国地震台网. "云南省昭通市鲁甸县6.5级地震". 中国地震台网. Retrieved 2014-08-03.
^ "M6.1 - 11km WNW of Wenping, China". United States Geological Survey. 3 August 2014. Retrieved 3 August 2014.

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:2014 Ludian earthquake/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Dawnseeker2000 (talk · contribs) 21:06, 13 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

This article has been assessed by the various WikiProjects as start (I bumped the article up from stub in August 2014 for WP:Earthquakes). The nominator has not made any improvements to the article and it isn't close to being ready for GA so I'm quick failing it.

What's happening here is that the nominator is a brand new editor with several hundred edits and about fifteen created articles. Each of these articles are no longer than several sentences, so the recommendation that I'm going to make is that the nominator not submit any further GA nominations until they have more experience at content creation under their belt. Expand what you've already started or find something else to work on. Shoot for getting five to ten articles up to B class before considering nominating anything for GA.

For clarity, this article has quite a bit of unnecessary content (this was pointed out on the talk page by 71.246.229.114 in September 2016). Also, the article is lacking basic information. There are a few paragraphs, but there is no real detail and it's obvious that not much effort was made to integrate all aspects. In other words, it's not a good article. There's essentially not much there except for the large tables. We need prose. At the moment the article stands at 3552 characters (578 words) "readable prose size". That's start class. Dawnseeker2000 02:25, 14 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

[1] China Earthquake Network statistics

[2] Government announcement

[3] China Earthquake Administration statistics

[4] Yahoo! Finance article

[DZTW-5] 中国地震台网. "云南省昭通市鲁甸县6.5级地震". 中国地震台网. Retrieved 2014-08-03.

[6] "M6.1 - 11km WNW of Wenping, China". United States Geological Survey. 3 August 2014. Retrieved 3 August 2014.

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