Talk:List of famines

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We need a list of historically significant famines. Especially, those brought about purposely by Communist governments. Or which occurred as a consequence of Communist policies like collective farms. The USSR and China killed more people this way than by anything in the List of massacres. --Uncle Ed 15:34, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

That goal does not sound very NPOV, but a well-rounded list is quite informative. -- Beland 06:39, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Statistics request

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This list would be even better if it had statistics on number of people affected or killed. I have made other such lists into sortable tables, which allows readers to rank the list by different columns, dynamically. -- Beland 06:39, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

List of natural disasters by death toll has a start. -- Beland 06:45, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Famine of 1866-1868; Not Finnish but Swedish/Finnish

This catastrophe was not unique for Finland. It also occurred in Sweden. As a matter of fact currently the Swedish version of that page only mentions the situation in Sweden. It seems to me that a page must have more or less the same subject regardless in what language it's written. Also, since due to close geographical proximity this natural catastrophe did largely occur in parallel in both Finland and Sweden, it would make sense to change the subject somewhat and write about the situation in both Finland and Sweden in the same article. --Smallchanges 14:54, 20 July 2007 (UTC)--