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Recommend adding dates to titles

To make it easier for readers, I recommend moving/renaming these articles to have titles including dates, for instance, <Second cholera epidemic (1829-1849)>. Then readers can know which article to go to, based on the period they are researching. This way, they have to open each article to find the period. Parkwells (talk) 16:44, 16 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 26 January 2016

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: moved. No prejudice against a merge later on. Jenks24 (talk) 08:32, 3 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

– Our naming conventions for health incidents and outbreaks prescribe a "when/where/what" format for article titles. Unless I'm mistaken, "nth cholera pandemic" is not a widely-used scholarly term, so these are all invented descriptions that flaunt the established convention without improving on the other naming criteria. larryv (talk) 07:27, 26 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. Is there an expert who knows more about the literature here? There don't appear to be any sources that back up this separation by year. And these dates imply that basically the entire 19th century was in a constant cholera pandemic, which seems to go against the meaning of the word "pandemic" - a surge of a disease *out of proportion* to its normal frequency. Nobody writes about Common cold pandemic (4000 BC - 2016) because the cold was going around during this period. Maybe these should all be merged into Cholera outbreaks and pandemics and then that renamed? If they're really called pandemics and separated out this way, fine, but I'm suspicious... cholera was just unfortunately very prevalent then, all the time. SnowFire (talk) 20:48, 26 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- I wouldn't be opposed to merging them. They're all relatively short and don't contribute much beyond the summaries in Cholera outbreaks and pandemics. (Aside: The WP:RM page says that a bot notifies relevant WikiProjects about RM discussions, but that seems to be inaccurate [or doesn't work the way I expect]. I'll solicit feedback from a few). larryv (talk) 03:49, 27 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Since it's pretty quiet here, support moving these articles for now, and a merge can happen later, perhaps. SnowFire (talk) 02:21, 2 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Lock this article against vandalism

People trying to change dates Kmoragas (talk) 13:16, 23 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Additions

I will be adding more information about Cholera outbreaks prior to 1817. LucioFulci (talk) 17:20, 6 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I will be adding some more information about the Cholera outbreaks after this time period to add context to the article as a whole. Zach Lienemann (talk) 17:33, 6 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Evaluation

This article was very insightful and relies on lots of sources for its information. Because much of the information is numerical, the sources can be trusted and the numeric information taken at face-value from this article. It was an educational read. ~~~~ Emmam19 (talk) 04:35, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]