Talk:Effects of climate change on small island countries

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Hello! I have added this page as part of a university course! I would greatly appreciate any comments, suggestions, additions, or questions. Many thanks. (OLucier)

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I had a very fun time reading this article because it is about a section I did not know a lot about before I read your article, but think I have a much better understanding. Very great read! Your background information is very well presented and it gives the reader a good foundation. Maybe adding some current information and parts of latest research could be a good addition in general since the area is so broad. Also link back to the area of global warming in general so you get more traffic. Romildcp (talk) 04:23, 8 March 2016 (UTC)

I really like what has been added to this article so far. The descriptions of the Maldives and the Marshall Islands are very thorough, and I’d like to see more information about other island nations with the same comprehensiveness. Keep up the good work! I'm looking forward to seeing your final contribution. Jwang19 (talk) 13:40, 28 March 2016 (UTC)

I just copy-edited the entire article, adding wikilinks where appropriate. Regarding feedback, the lead section reads like the start of an essay, whereas it should be a summary of the rest of the article (see MOS:LEAD). Otherwise, informative and well written. RobbieIanMorrison (talk) 21:30, 11 September 2016 (UTC)

I definitely think the lead section could use some more summarizing. It could include environmental, social, political, economic, physical effects of climate change on island nations. The "trail of death" remark did not sit well with me, maybe try using just destruction, devastation, death, loss to emphasize the results of climate change. Also "a step in the right direction" carries bias, maybe use "a sep towards mitigating the effects of climate change". Everything in the article was relevant to the topic. I definitely see the opportunity to add additional information on the effects of climate change on island nations for the future. The links worked, which is always helpful. I appreciate you writing this article, it was informative and concise. Nobaldia (talk) 04:48, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

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Dismanteling of sinking islands

Just like with ships that are sunk for building artificial reefs, it's probably best that sinking islands too are dismantled (in which I mean all non-biodegradable and toxic material is removed). This would benefit the underwater life and ensure that less environmental damage is done. Can someone write something about it ? Genetics4good (talk) 17:22, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

Requested move 22 July 2022

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Moved to Effects of climate change on small island countries. Roughly the only things with consensus here are to add the word "small" (to clarify the exclusion of Australia), and also to switch the last word to "countries" for consistency with island country. (closed by non-admin page mover) — Ceso femmuin mbolgaig mbung, mellohi! (投稿) 07:47, 9 August 2022 (UTC)

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Effects of climate change on island nations → Climate change in Small Island Developing States – This follows a similar naming convention to other regions (e.g. Climate change in the Middle East and North Africa, Climate change in South Asia, etc.) and clarifies the scope of the article. There is already an article for Climate change in the Caribbean where many other island nations are, and most of the island nations listed here are from the Pacific. This name makes more sense to me. Arcahaeoindris (talk) 16:49, 22 July 2022 (UTC) — Relisting. — Ceso femmuin mbolgaig mbung, mellohi! (投稿) 05:09, 2 August 2022 (UTC)

An alternative proposed name would be Climate change in Small Island Developing States, as this would encompass the Maldives and SIDS in other regions, but would not include, e.g. developed island nations like the UK or Hong Kong. Arcahaeoindris (talk) 09:44, 23 July 2022 (UTC)

I've since changed the proposal from Climate change in the Pacific islands to the SIDS name. Arcahaeoindris (talk) 10:40, 23 July 2022 (UTC)

• Support Current name is obviously not right as does not include Australia. Chidgk1 (talk) 07:19, 28 July 2022 (UTC)
• Not sure: I like addition of the word "small" but I am not sure if we should change from "effects of" to "climate change in". There is a suite of articles on climate change by country or region, see here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Climate_change_by_country. Those articles are meant to include "everything" about climate change for that country, i.e. also the greenhouse gas emissions from that country or region and mitigation policies. Is this what you plan to do with this article as well? If not, then I think changing it to Effects of climate change on small island nations is better (I wouldn't use capital letters?). There is a small suite of articles on "effects of climate change on..." which this fits well into. See also a discussion here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Climate_change/Archive_4#Thoughts_on_climate_change_and_ecosystems_-_again_an_overlapping_article and here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Climate_change/Archive_3#Do_we_need_so_many_sub-articles_on_effects_of_climate_change? (these two discussion threads are both about articles in the group "effects of climate change on...". EMsmile (talk) 08:31, 28 July 2022 (UTC)

Or perhaps the article "Effects of climate change on small island nations" should be a sub-article for "Climate change in Small Island Developing States". EMsmile (talk) 08:33, 28 July 2022 (UTC)

Comment: Thanks, just to be clear my thoughts were that changing it to "climate change in SIDS" would be that it could also cover other aspects of climate change affecting these countries, such as the political and international relations issues discussed, not just effects. Arcahaeoindris (talk) 18:21, 28 July 2022 (UTC)

• Oppose a move to a title of impenetrable gobbledygook. The SIDS include Belize, Guyana and Suriname that are not islands, Singapore which is not developing, and Sint Maarten which is half an island and not a state. Support adding "small" to the current title per User:EMsmile for Effects of climate change on small island nations (and I'd prefer "island countries" to match the parent article). Otherwise, leave well enough alone. —  AjaxSmack  00:04, 31 July 2022 (UTC)

Hi User: AjaxSmack, the term Small Island Developing States (SIDS) is a "UN recognised" term, why do you say it's "impenetrable gobbledygook"? Do you mean because it's a mouthful? The advantage would be that it's well defined, with a proper listing behind it. It's surprising that Singapore is in that group but there are probably historical reasons for that. I am undecided on what's best. I think we are mainly thinking here of the low-lying islands that might disappear in future? We definitely need the term "small" added, because having Australia in the group of "island nations" wouldn't make much sense. EMsmile (talk) 09:08, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

No, it's not that it's a mouthful (the term is surprisingly transparent for bureaucratese); it's because it's highly inaccurate when 25 of the 58 entities (43%) called SIDS (using this list) are not islands, not developing or not states. Niue but not Tokelau? Singapore but not Hong Kong? Guam but not Hawaii? WP:OFFICIALNAMES serves us well here. —  AjaxSmack  01:53, 2 August 2022 (UTC)

Hi Arcahaeoindris, I am wondering whether a new, separate article on Climate change in small island developing states which then links to "Effects of climate change on small island countries" (I also think countries is better than nations here) would be better? I mean rather than renaming this one to Climate change in small island developing states. It depends if you have the new content at your finger tips, such as the political and international relations issues. EMsmile (talk) 09:08, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

• Oppose per WP:RECOGNIZABLE, and per MOS:CAPS and WP:NCCAPS ("small island developing nations" isn't a proper name, but a descriptive phrase).  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  09:34, 1 August 2022 (UTC)
• See also: Talk:United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing Territories#Requested move 14 July 2022, in which we're dealing with another phrase capitalized simply because UN likes to capitalize it.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  09:45, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

No that a complete misrepresentation of the comments there we're talking there about a list of territories characterised by the UN in a particular way. The above remark and the repeat on that talk page seems to be a call to arms by a group of editors who regularly comment "oppose" on any discussion involving capitalisation. They rarely have edited in the topic area and are imposing their own narrow interpretation of policy. Any closer should recognise that this is an organised lobby effort. WCM_email 10:04, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

Just to be clear that I oppose the proposed title (but not the use of "small", "states" or "countries"), but do not care about capitalisation and am not part of a lobby. —  AjaxSmack  01:53, 2 August 2022 (UTC)

That is fine, the remark wasn't directed at you and to be clear I am not the 2nd gunman on the grassy knoll. I have an alibi, I was attending playgroup on account I was 2 years old. WCM_email 08:12, 2 August 2022 (UTC)

Thanks. I just wanted to be clear that my opposition had a different basis. —  AjaxSmack  00:04, 4 August 2022 (UTC)

• Support Per UN style guide [1] this term is used as a common proper noun. WCM_email 10:08, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

  ??? Common nouns are not capitalized. And as far as I can find, that style guide doesn't mention this term except as part of the "Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States" which is the title of a programme. And cited sources using the SIDS wording, like this one, don't capitalize. Dicklyon (talk) 13:07, 3 August 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for bringing my error to my attention. The style guide of the UN treats this as a proper noun, I've provided a link for anyone to check for themselves. There is no need for you or your friends to harangue editors who comment. Please don't. WCM_email 17:09, 3 August 2022 (UTC)

But what about the substance of what you're claiming? As I said, I can't find what you're claiming at that link, just "Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States" in the part about capitalizing programmes. Dicklyon (talk) 04:11, 5 August 2022 (UTC)

• Oppose per AjaxSmack's comments. --Eldomtom2 (talk) 09:39, 2 August 2022 (UTC)
• Oppose per both AjaxSmack and SMcCandlish. No need for overcapped and inaccurate UN jargon here. Dicklyon (talk) 13:07, 3 August 2022 (UTC)
• Suggestion: So shall we just change it to Effects of climate change on small island countries for now? I.e. add the word "small" and change "nations" to "countries"? (check here for the difference between nation and country). EMsmile (talk) 08:02, 4 August 2022 (UTC)

Or Effects of climate change on small island states. Super Ψ Dro 22:24, 5 August 2022 (UTC)

• Support Almost anything is better than current name as obviously not right as does not include Australia.Chidgk1 (talk) 15:58, 6 August 2022 (UTC)

I would be fine with that as a compromise but prefer the Climate change in small island states or countries convention, as encompasses responses, emissions and not just effects, and follows naming convention for other region. The SIDS name is still my main preference though as it has a clear definition (I also dont have strong feelings about capitalisation) and many sources and reviews on this discuss SIDS specifically (see ref list). This article is clearly not about developed small island countries like the UK, or Hong Kong, Singapore or Taiwan and would make this at least a bit clearer. Arcahaeoindris (talk) 16:52, 6 August 2022 (UTC)

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Marshall Islands article split?

I think the Marshall Islands section is very long for the length of the article - perhaps could be split off into Climate change in the Marshall Islands. There is also content on the main Marshall Islands page, and there is plenty that could be written about the country's role on the international stage in calling for mitigation of climate change. Arcahaeoindris (talk) 17:23, 9 September 2022 (UTC)

• Support Seems to be enough info for you to start an article Chidgk1 (talk) 06:47, 12 September 2022 (UTC)
• Have gone ahead and done this. Thank you! Arcahaeoindris (talk) 16:01, 4 October 2022 (UTC)