Talk:January 2016 East Asia cold wave

Mongolia?

Was Mongolia's winter significantly worse than normal due to this storm? 98.67.178.250 (talk) 22:00, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

Inner Mongolia recorded its lowest temperature. Although I don't know how far the records go back. Jolly Ω Janner 20:40, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

And what about Siberia and the Far East? 124.217.189.48 (talk) 07:20, 2 January 2021 (UTC)

Unintentional humour

In the haste of covering a current event, it's easy for unintentional humour to appear. This sentence, in particular, probably needs rewriting:

Temperatures in Bangkok, Thailand fell to 16 °C (61 °F), and 14 people in Thailand died from the cold.

123.211.196.167 (talk) 20:33, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

Maybe you should rewrite it then. Jolly Ω Janner 20:35, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

I don't really see where the humour is here, but that might be because I'm from a warmer country. Regardless, I've rewritten the sentence. Alcherin (talk) 22:14, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

Geographical grouping

As this is a geographical-related event, the headings should be by geographical area. I understand people don't like grouping Hong Kong as part of "Mainland China", but are there any better geographical terms, which could be used to summarise "China" without infringing on Taiwan? Jolly Ω Janner 06:51, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Another approach may be to group Ghanzhou and Hong Kong and keep Inner Mongolia separate, as its climate is more like Korea than southern China... I don't claim to be an expert on East Asian geography, so maybe someone with more local knowledge can give an idea. Jolly Ω Janner 07:10, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

No, the current headings are about as neutral as you can get. The information on Hong Kong is detailed enough to warrant a separate section anyway. Alcherin (talk) 11:25, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Hong Kong, Mainland China and Taiwan are distinct geographical areas in themselves. Conventionally, when there are events that concern the region they are split into Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong (+Macau), even though Guangzhou and Inner Mongolia are thousands of kilometres apart. Subdividing Mainland China into regions would require more expansion on the effects of the cold wave on other parts of the country - Inner Mongolia is only mentioned as breaking a record low temperature and nothing else, so it would be a very short section on its own. Alcherin (talk) 16:11, 1 February 2016 (UTC)