User talk:Hope A Ncube/sandbox/Weather Hazards In Zimbabwe
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editI am not convinced by the title. At a minimum remove the capital letter from « In ». But does not seem a well followed approach (I do not see any entry per country in Category:Weather hazards). Given the tone of the article, I would suggest it could belong to Climate in Zimbabwe or Climate change in Zimbabwe.
But ultimately, I would say it is fine to keep under this title. Make sure it is properly connected to related articles though.
For ref #1, I would suggest putting the direct link to the country profile : https://climateknowledgeportal.worldbank.org/country/zimbabwe instead of the general portal.
Ref #5 is 404
REf#10 îs weird. The title seems wrong, but when you get to it, it is an article about miners... so not working reference.
Ref #20 is 404.
I personally find the article too heavy in explaining what are the definition of each weather hazard. I am also not really convinced we need references to external websites to explain what frost or lightning are... Wikipedia articles (which are properly linked already) should be sufficient. It simply looks a bit overkill in the effort to source ;) I understand the desire to source, fueled by some feedback about lack of sources... but here... I think it is a bit too much :) Well, it is no reason I think to remove that info now (please do not feel you have too). Just a thought for the future.
If there could be more illustrations, it would be awesome. There is the good picture about drought. Anything about impact of storms or cyclones maybe ?
Otherwise, I think the article is well constructed and balanced. I like the mitigation paragraphs. The one thing I feel it misses is to be better connected with related articles, in particular related to climate, climate change, or to similar articles to nearby countries etc. it feels a little bit too standalone and there are few links provided to feed my curiosity in the topic if I wanted to dig in further.
The last thing is that it seems very much to keep about « the last 100 years or so ». I’d love to see a notion of whether climatologists saw a change over this « past century ». For example, does this cyclone ana visits more often, less often, harder, or softer ? What are the trends ? Is the situation static or does some situations tend to happen less often or more often? Of course, it may be that there are no trustworthy stats. But when I see average surface temperature here https://climateknowledgeportal.worldbank.org/country/zimbabwe, I can not help think that maybe frost may be less a hazard today than it was in the past ? Unless ice balls ?
Anyway, this would be the part I think would improve the article IF some good sources of information may be found about this. This would probably not be in main stream press, but rather scientific studies.
Great job and happy to see you guys continue on the climate change topic !!!! Anthere (talk) 09:39, 27 August 2024 (UTC)