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Chernobyl disaster

Where is the reference for the 39000 dead in the Chernobyl section? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 145.131.179.248 (talk) 13:37, 11 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned references in List of disasters by cost

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of List of disasters by cost's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "costliest":

From Hurricane Georges: Blake, Eric S; Landsea, Christopher W; Gibney, Ethan J (August 2011). Costliest U.S. Hurricanes 1900 – 2010 (unadjusted) (PDF). National Hurricane Center/National Climatic Data Center (NOAA Technical Memorandum NWS NHC-6). United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Weather Service. p. 11. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 27, 2012. Retrieved November 27, 2012. {{cite report}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
From Hurricane Isabel: Blake, Eric S; Landsea, Christopher W; Gibney, Ethan J (August 2011). Costliest U.S. Hurricanes 1900 - 2010 (unadjusted) (PDF). National Hurricane Center/National Climatic Data Center (NOAA Technical Memorandum NWS NHC-6). United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Weather Service. p. 11. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 27, 2012. Retrieved November 27, 2012. {{cite report}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 03:37, 15 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Disease outbreaks

Should this article include disease outbreaks? Those are very costly. For example, SARS-Cov-2 as of 6th, Feb 2020 is estimated to be already the costliest outbreak at over $62 billion: https://www.hpnonline.com/infection-prevention/crisis-planning-outbreak-response/article/21124499/coronavirus-becomes-worlds-costliest-epidemic-at-over-62-billion — Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.235.176.232 (talk) 22:10, 16 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Economic impacts of large disease outbreaks are exceedingly difficult to effectively quantify, even by the already troublesome standards of hurricanes and droughts. But assuming proper references are made, epidemics and pandemics would seem to meet the qualifications. They are already specifically listed in Template:Disasters, so that's good enough for me. Qwertygiy (talk) 23:44, 23 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I don't think it should be included 2001:BB6:3163:1200:7179:E98E:7ADC:2DCC (talk) 22:07, 8 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

1998 Montreal Ice Storm not listed

Some estimate up to 5 billion in damage 66.131.202.46 (talk) 17:04, 8 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Chernobyl Disaster Is Not $2T when adjusted for inflation

The $700B figure is from a research paper calculating 30 year impact (1986-2016). So it's unfair to adjust from 1986 to 2023/4. Instead, the figure should be around 900B to adjust from 700B in 2016. 24.191.7.123 (talk) 21:00, 2 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Problem

I don't know if it is simply a bug on my PC but all of the references are listed as expired and the inflated cost for most of the disasters are broken, what happened? Nagito Komaeda the Second (talk) 20:00, 19 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It's not you or your hardware. This is happening across many articles right now, so it's something systemic. Dawnseeker2000 20:55, 19 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Incorrect references

Hello Nagito Komaeda the Second! In this edit, you added references for Hurricane Roxanne. But they don't seem correct to me. One is obviously bad: it expects a citation named "TCR", but such a citation is not defined in this article and that generates a visible undefined referencing error. Are you able to provide the correct reference definition so it can be fixed?

Also, the citation to the National Hurricane Center report about Hurricane Opal and makes no mention of Roxanne at all, and doesn't even contain a concrete number for Opal's damages. This citation seems completely irrelevant -- what am I missing? -- mikeblas (talk) 16:21, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the notice, I will correct the referece for Hurricane Roxanne and remove it if I am unable to until a proper reference can be found. Nagito Komaeda the Second (talk) 17:24, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

After analyzing I will remove Hurricane Roxanne, at least for now as it is literally stated that not all damage could be distinguished from Hurricane Opal, thank you once again for noticing Nagito Komaeda the Second (talk) 17:32, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the fixes! -- mikeblas (talk) 19:01, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Er, but it looks like Zzzs foiled your attempt at cleanup. They must not have been aware of this conversation; I can't fathom why they want bogus and broken references hanging around. Maybe the right approach is to combine Roxanne and Opal into one row in this table. -- mikeblas (talk) 19:05, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I was unaware of that. Reverting... Also, please don't ping me. _ZZ^Z 'S 19:26, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]