Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian history/Tsunami disasters
The History of disasters of Australia is an outline of natural disasters in Australia and its territories.
This page is a subpage of WikiProject Australian history.
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Tagging and Categorising Articles
Main page categories
The disasters of Australia category structure is:
- Main Category:Disasters in Australia
Talk page Template
Articles related to disasters in Australia should be tagged on the Talk page with {{WP Australia|history=yes}}
For full details about using this talk page template see Template:WP Australia.
Rating Articles
When tagging articles, the articles class and importance can be rated. Please see Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia/Assessment for details on assessment guidelines.
- |class= |importance=
Class
The following values may be used for the class parameter:
- FA (adds articles to Category:FA-Class Australia articles)
- A (adds articles to Category:A-Class Australia articles)
- GA (adds articles to Category:GA-Class Australia articles)
- B (adds articles to Category:B-Class Australia articles)
- Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class Australia articles)
- Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class Australia articles)
- NA (for pages, such as templates or disambiguation pages, where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:Non-article Australia pages)
Importance
The following values may be used for the importance parameter:
- Top (adds articles to Category:Top-importance Australia articles)
- High (adds articles to Category:High-importance Australia articles)
- Mid (adds articles to Category:Mid-importance Australia articles)
- Low (adds articles to Category:Low-importance Australia articles)
- The parameter is not used if an article's class is set to NA
Resources
- Natural disasters in Australia
- Natural Disasters - facts
- Natural Disasters
- South Australia - Natural Disasters
- List of disasters in Australia by death toll
Guidelines for Writing Natural Disaster Articles
Naming
If a disaster is widely known by a particular name, then the article should use that name as its title. For example:
If a disaster does not have wide recognition with a particular name, then it should be titled in the form {{date}} {{location}} {{disaster type}}.
Examples:
List of tsunami disasters
A great number of the following events are drawn from Events By Category at the Emergency Management Australia - Disasters database.
Major events
These are more than likely to be notable, but please move down to Minor events section if you believe they are not.
- 1868 1868 SE Coasts New South Wales / Tasmania and Far South Coast Western Australia Tsunamis Dead= Injured= Affected= Homeless= Est Cost=$0M
- resources - EMA Disasters Database
- 1960 1960 Queensland ,Tasmania and New South Wales Tsunami Dead= Injured= Affected= Homeless= Est Cost=$0M
- resources - EMA Disasters Database
- 1977 1977 Cape Leveque, Western Australia Tsunami Dead= Injured= Affected= Homeless= Est Cost=$0M
- resources - EMA Disasters Database
- 1994 1994 North-West Coast, Western Australia Tsunami Dead= Injured= Affected= Homeless= Est Cost=$0M
- resources - EMA Disasters Database
Outside Australian Waters
The 2004 tsunami is included as a reference, and possible Australian article. To what extent was Australia/Australians directly affected? Is there notability for a stand alone article, or material to be added to existing articles?
Current article states "Australians will be asked to observe a minute's silence at 11.59am." - was this a once off request, or an annual event. The tense of the sentence implies that it is yet forthcoming, but was this minutes silence in Jan 2005?
- 2004 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake Dead=273636 Injured= Affected= Homeless= Est Cost=$0M
- resources - EMA Disasters Database
Minor events
These events are more than likely not notable. Please check and move to Major events section above if you believe notability exists. If a non-notable event is listed please do not delete immediately, but use <s></s> to strikethrough the text and add a signature using ~~~~. This way others can also review the event.