Talk:Climate change in Maldives

Coral Atolls "float" with sea level changes?

This Post describes Darwin's explanation of how coral atolls, like the Maldives, "float" or rise and lower with changes in sea level. This Darwin text seems to agree with Willis Eschenbach's synopsis. I'm not a geologist so I am hesitant to just edit the article, but this would seem to undermine the claim that rising sea levels envisioned by anthropogenic global warming models would lead to the Maldives ending up under water. 209.159.37.194 (talk) 17:37, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

Date and citation formats

'All of the dates (at least, in citations) are improperly abbreviated, and almost all of the URLs are broken. I've fixed some of them, but a lot more work needs to be done to bring this article up to minimum Wikipedia standards. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 06:19, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

The article also has a mix of two (at least marginally) acceptable reference formats; I think going to a straight < ref>{{cite web}} format would be better, although some argument could be made for (modified) Harvard referencing. I don't want to make those changes without consensus. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 06:24, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

I'm replacing them all with {{cite}} templates, as there are too many whitespace characters for no apparent reason. I'm also going to correct the misattributions as I go, although the article will still require many changes to bring it up from press release standards. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 13:54, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

NatGeo

It was a travel magazine published by the National Geographic Society, not a "special report". Still, perhaps, a reliable source, but odds are against it. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 14:06, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

AFD / Stub?

I'm inclined to think this article is unsalveagable. It contains almost nothing that would be in a "proper" article. Personally I'd delete it (because I think all the "Climate change in X" articles are bad, but I'm aware that's not a popular opinion. So perhaps it should be stubbed down and rebuilt? William M. Connolley (talk) 21:43, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

No-one said anything, so I'm redirecting it William M. Connolley (talk) 20:27, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

I agree with you on this issue; however, some of the material should be moved to other Maldives articles. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 20:43, 14 September 2010 (UTC)