Talk:2015 Southeast Africa floods

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Source for future article update, please do not delete - http://www.trust.org/item/20150123160911-7f0c3 :) Also, if anyone wants to start, this is a major weather event that should have a decent size article, yet for some reason we are still stuck with this stub! 82.139.113.21 (talk) 16:22, 23 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Renaming?

I feel like the name "2015 Malawi Floods" is non-inclusive of other areas. I propose to rename this article to "2015 Southeast Africa Floods" or something along those lines. Thoughts? Nicccky (talk) 23:33, 25 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This is an article about a floods in Africa but;

Please note:

There has been an on-going controversy on the capitalization of words in a title that normally are not capitalized. With few exceptions the word flood is not capitalized throughout Wikipedia as evidenced at [[Category:Floods]] and [[Category:Floods in the United States]]. [[Category:Floods in Canada]] list 19 like named titles (flood used in the title not as a first word or proper noun) and of these 6 capitalize "flood".

Wikipedia policy:

Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Titles#Capitalization states, "However, for names of Wikipedia articles and of section headings in articles and pages, generally only the first word and all proper names are capitalized in titles.". Wikipedia:Article titles#Article title format states, "Use lowercase, except for proper names". This supposedly narrows the criteria to determining if a word is part of such a "proper noun" or named as such as provided by reliable sources as the common name. The word "flood", in this instance, is clearly not part of a proper noun.

I am always a proponent of using the common name when possible (exceptions for avoiding ambiguity) otherwise policy and title consistency should be followed. Otr500 (talk) 19:43, 1 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]