Talk:2009 Brazilian floods and mudslides

A news item involving 2009 Brazilian floods and mudslides was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the In the news section on 3 May 2009.

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A news item involving 2009 Brazilian floods and mudslides was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the In the news section on 7 May 2009.

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Maranhão is not "next door" to Bahia; Santa Catarina is not a northeastern state! 81.84.183.217 (talk) 22:27, 3 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Santa Catarina is south of brazil, where massive raining left several homeless and deaths in the end of last year. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.104.94.48 (talk) 13:45, 7 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think the article is protected so please edit if you have genuine concerns over the geographical accuracy. The sources indicate much of the flooding to be in five northeastern states, though there is no reason to believe it has not spread elsewhere. --can dle •wicke 15:36, 7 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I made a few edits, hopefully fixed a few minor problems. -- 201.37.230.43 (talk) 14:23, 8 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Dates, please

I'd like to ask everyone who edits this article to please start including actual dates for the events (at least, say, the month), instead of writing things like "now" and "recently". I've seen quite a few articles on Wikipedia where the events mentioned were several years old, but nobody had bothered to go back and fix the "nows", "recentlys", etc. It's much easier to include the correct dates when we make the original edits than to go back in a year or two and try to figure out, "Okay now, did Bahia flood first and then Santa Catarina, or was it the other way around? And what about Maranhão?", etc, etc. -- 201.37.230.43 (talk) 14:41, 8 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think the sources go into that much detail... --can dle •wicke 15:51, 10 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

?? What kind of sources are people using for news events that don't have dates? I don't think that we should use sources like that. -- 201.37.230.43 (talk) 23:19, 16 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]