Talk:Flood

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Section sizes

Section size for Flood (31 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	8,284	8,284
Types	642	12,486
Areal flooding	1,437	1,437
River flooding	4,164	4,164
Coastal flooding	1,644	1,644
Urban flooding	74	74
Intentional floods	4,525	4,525
Causes	1,685	10,597
Upslope factors	3,372	3,372
Downslope factors	1,466	1,466
Climate change	1,718	1,718
Coincidence	2,356	2,356
Negative impacts	608	12,755
Impacts on infrastructure and societies	1,378	1,378
Economic impacts	3,930	3,930
Health impacts	5,493	6,839
Loss of life	1,346	1,346
Positive impacts (benefits)	2,271	2,271
Protections against floods and associated hazards	57	7,209
Flood management	209	2,384
Flood management examples	2,175	2,175
Flood safety planning	3,557	3,557
Flood clean-up safety	1,211	1,211
Flood predictions	9,667	10,613
Flood risk assessment	946	946
Examples by country or region	445	445
Society and culture	152	370
Myths and religion	218	218
Etymology	1,360	1,360
See also	225	225
References	349	349
Total	66,964	66,964

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Computer network flooding?

Is there an article on flooding what is thisas occurs in computer networks? There is IRC floods and Denial-of-service attack but those are too specific. -- Myria 06:42, 4 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hi👋 guy this is so terrific day of this world 41.113.200.161 (talk) 20:01, 15 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Proposal to replace picture in the lead with a collage of 4 images

I am proposing to replace the picture in the lead with a collage of 4 images, like we have done at sustainable energy, climate change adaptation, sewage treatment and many other Wikipedia articles. The purpose would be to remove Global North bias, i.e. it's no coincidence that the picture that is currently in the lead is one of the Global North (Europe in this case). I also mentioned this about a year ago (scroll up in the talk page) although there I was referring to all the pictures in the article, whereas now I am only talking about the image(s) in the lead. EMsmile (talk) 11:18, 21 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki Education assignment: Research Process and Methodology - FA22 - Sect 200 - Thu

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 22 September 2022 and 8 December 2022. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): VenusL (article contribs).

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Semi-protected edit request on 14 March 2023

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I think that you should stop letting people edit this! 2607:FEA8:A41B:1500:B8D9:6019:6634:EE6 (talk) 20:20, 14 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: requests for increases to the page protection level should be made at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection. Actualcpscm (talk) 22:18, 14 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Overland flooding

I've added a paragraph about overland flooding, with documented information about the Red River Valley of the North, but I am neither a geologist nor a meteorologist, so if what I say is somehow inaccurate please correct. I would argue, however, that this is a phenomenon that is not mentioned in the article, so working from experience I tried to explain the most feared kind of flooding in this region consisting of two U.S. states and one Canadian province. James Postema (talk) 03:10, 9 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi User:James Postema thanks for that. Could you please add another one or two reliable sources for this new content? Also, are you able to broaden it so that it is not just specific about that particular Red River Valley? Mention examples of overland flooding from around the world? This is a high level article that should be global in nature. Thanks a lot. EMsmile (talk) 11:38, 26 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, EMsmile. I would fully agree that the information shouldn't focus on just the Red River Valley, but that's what I know, and I know it from having lived it. I was mainly seeking to add a photograph, then realized that the type of flooding we've had around here wasn't really included in the article, so I added my comments to the page. I think I would ask if other people know of examples elsewhere in the world. I could look up sources, I suppose (I teach college students how to do research papers), but it's really not my area of expertise and I've got other irons in the Wikipedia fire, so to speak. If others can't provide examples from elsewhere in the world, so that it seems like too much of a niche topic, then I would defer to others' judgment about keeping my additions or not. James Postema (talk) 02:51, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]