Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian history/Disasters
The History of disasters of Australia is an outline of natural disasters in Australia and its territories.
This page is a subpage of WikiProject Australian history.
| WikiProject Australian history - Disasters of Australia | |
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| Main Page | |
| Natural Disasters | |
| Bushfires | Cyclones | Drought | Earthquakes and Landslides | Floods | Storms | Tsunami | Heatwaves | Winter, snow, and cold | Biological | |
| People and Society Disasters | |
| Chemical | Shipwreck | Transport | Urban fire | Criminal act and massacre | War | Industrial | |
Tagging and Categorising Articles
Main page categories
The disasters of Australia category structure is:
- Main Category:Disasters in Australia
- Category:Aviation accidents and incidents in Australia
- Category:Earthquakes in Australia
- Category:Fires in Australia
- Category:Mining disasters in Australia
- Category:Railway accidents in Australia
- Category:Shipwrecks on the Australian coast
- Category:Shipwrecks of Western Australia
- Category:Shipwrecks of NSW
Talk page Template
Articles related to disasters in Australia should be tagged on the Talk page with {{WP Australia|history=yes}}
For full details about using this talk page template see Template:WP Australia.
Rating Articles
When tagging articles, the articles class and importance can be rated. Please see Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia/Assessment for details on assessment guidelines.
- |class= |importance=
Class
The following values may be used for the class parameter:
- FA (adds articles to Category:FA-Class Australia articles)
- A (adds articles to Category:A-Class Australia articles)
- GA (adds articles to Category:GA-Class Australia articles)
- B (adds articles to Category:B-Class Australia articles)
- Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class Australia articles)
- Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class Australia articles)
- NA (for pages, such as templates or disambiguation pages, where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:Non-article Australia pages)
Importance
The following values may be used for the importance parameter:
- Top (adds articles to Category:Top-importance Australia articles)
- High (adds articles to Category:High-importance Australia articles)
- Mid (adds articles to Category:Mid-importance Australia articles)
- Low (adds articles to Category:Low-importance Australia articles)
- The parameter is not used if an article's class is set to NA
Resources
- Natural disasters in Australia
- Natural Disasters - facts
- Natural Disasters
- South Australia - Natural Disasters
- List of disasters in Australia by death toll
Guidelines for Writing Natural Disaster Articles
Naming
If a disaster is widely known by a particular name, then the article should use that name as its title. For example:
If a disaster does not have wide recognition with a particular name, then it should be titled in the form {{date}} {{location}} {{disaster type}}.
Examples:
List of natural disasters
Cyclones
see Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian history/Cyclone disasters
Floods
Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian history/Flood disasters
Fires
see Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian history/Bushfire disasters
Earthquakes and Landslides
- 1983 Newcastle earthquake see - this link for details
- Thredbo landslide see - this link for details
Droughts
- Australian drought of 1979 to 1983 see - Natural disasters in Australia for details
- Australian drought of 1991 to 1995 see - Natural disasters in Australia for details
Tornados
- Bucca tornado of 1992 see - link for details
Heat Waves
Dust storms
- Duststorms of 1944 to 1945 see - this link for details
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Plagues
- Spanish flu in Australia, 1918-1919 see Spanish flu
- Bubonic Plague in Australia, 1900-1905 see Third Pandemic
- Polio epidemic in Australia, 1946-1955 (?)