Talk:North Sea flood of 1953
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I'd say 895 Million guilder is a lot of money, period. back then or now (if we still had guilder of course) YggdrasilsRoot 19:18, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
[edit] What part of Holland?
The section on "The Groenendijk" first refers to "northern Holland", then "Holland", then "South Holland", then "Holland" again. Which is correct?
- I have no idea. All I had to work with when I did the copyediting was what it said in the article. I wasn't even sure if it meant "Holland" the provinces, or "Holland", the still fairly common English name for the whole country (i.e., the Netherlands). Tomer TALK 23:53, September 7, 2005 (UTC)
- Its really confusing, but the official name of Holland is the Netherlands. There are 2 provinces that have the name Holland, South-Holland and North-Holland. South-Holland was under direct threat in the "The Groenedijk" section, North-Holland in a lesser degree. I might go and fix it, but I'm too tired atm.Niels Brons 23:16, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
I changed the section and gave it a more "appealing" title. Nobody is interested in the Groenendijk. The heading "A disaster prevented" is more interesting. I also cleared the list with inundations, trying to make it more understandable for non-Dutch readers (Allthough I doubt if all Dutch people will know were the mentioned villages and towns are).Blue Henk 17:05, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] UK biased?
Is it me, or this article is UK-biased? I'm not English nor Dutch... After reading the article I understand that the flood was more important in the Netherlands in every aspect, but the facts concerning the Netherlands are presented always after those concerning the UK.
Well, indeed, there exists a List of natural disasters in the United Kingdom but not a List of natural disasters in the Netherlands nor List of natural disasters by country. The same can be said about List of United Kingdom disasters by death toll and List of Netherlands disasters by death toll... --euyyn 23:38, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
I'd agree, but only because this is the English language Wikipedia. I haven't checked, but I'd guess the reverse is true of the Dutch language version of this article. 81.77.17.131 19:28, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
I'm willing to reverse that order, so the information more relevant to the flood, the Netherlands' effects, are presented first. Anybody disagrees? --euyyn 01:32, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
- Completely agree with new order - it's always bugged me that the UK stuff came first (and I'm British). English-language Wikipedia means "Wikipedia written in the English language", not "Wikipedia that thinks England is more important". JackyR | Talk 22:55, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] I doubt it, the spelling Dike indicates US English
I've corrected dike to the dyke - the standard UK and Dutch usage, dike is a US transliteration.
