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Most studied super-eruption

I've tagged this declaration and moved it to the bottom of the lede section over concerns that it's a fairly trivial statement. It's probably obvious enough just looking at the vast number of refs and WP:ELs currently listed, and I can't even conceive of a List of super-volcano eruptions by amount of study article. At the same time, I suspect the supporting refs could be repurposed to say something more relevant and meaningful, so I didn't want to throw the baby out with the bathwater.... -- Kendrick7^talk 01:12, 22 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

There are articles where I could fill a whole Lancaster Bomber with these tags and happily drop them. Not the case here. I could possibly see how it may have been jarring in its original place, but if this eruption really is so important that the comment is true then I think it good to put it in the lede. Excessive detail would (exagerating to show the point) be: John Doe swam in the lake in 1949. If there are no further objections, I would like to remove the tag at the end of the month. Op47 (talk) 21:02, 2 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Conflicting estimations of occurance

The first sentence says "occurred some time between 69,000 and 77,000 years ago". Then, in the next section the time frame is given as "The Toba eruption or Toba event occurred .... about 75000±900 years Before Present (BP)".

± 4,000 or ± 900? — Preceding unsigned comment added by SteveOak (talk • contribs) 07:34, 11 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

[Citation needed] tag on third paragraph should be removed.

The tag has been applied to this sentence:

>>Both the link and global winter theories are highly controversial

The discussion of the controversies presented in the body article, all properly cited, is evidence that the matters are controversial. No source could be more authoritative than that. In any case, the description is in the nature of a prelude to the material that follows rather than a claim of fact about the subject. It thus does not call for citation.

DavidPreston (talk) 01:13, 24 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Self-contradicting

Twice it is stated (correctly) that the eruption did not significantly alter the climate of East Africa. So how in the world could it nearly wipe out humanity? The claim is heavily contested anyways.^[1]^[2] Bataaf van Oranje (talk) 17:44, 21 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Minor issue with reference to H. Florensis

Was just looking at the article after reading about new research conducted on H. Florensis which would suggest information in the Toba article is now inaccurate.

This article says that H. Florensis' survival after 50,000 YBP is now considered to be an open question. Newer research is finding a lack of H. Florensis fossils post-Toba.

Just asking if this needs to be updated or is there further clarifying information?

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+== Minor issue with reference to H. Florensis ==
+Was just looking at the article after reading about new research conducted on ''H. Florensis'' which would suggest information in the Toba article is now inaccurate.
+[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/humans-real-hobbits-indonesia_us_56fec60fe4b083f5c607b12c? This article] says that ''H. Florensis''' survival after 50,000 YBP is now considered to be an open question. Newer research is finding a lack of ''H. Florensis'' fossils post-Toba.
+Just asking if this needs to be updated or is there further clarifying information?
+[[Special:Contributions/205.186.52.204|205.186.52.204]] ([[User talk:205.186.52.204|talk]]) 08:19, 4 April 2016 (UTC)