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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. No further edits should be made to this section.
The result of the move request was: Page moved.Wakanebe Wizard (talk) 12:47, 4 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
2014 Southeast Asian floods → 2014 South and Southeast Asian floods – I suggest to change the title (2014 South and Southeast Asian floods) and include the other affected South Asian countries such as Sri Lanka. As per today, there are 21 death and 800,000 people displaced in Sri Lanka. --AntonTalk 18:53, 28 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Sri Lanka is thousands of kilometres away; the flooding there should probably be treated separately, in its own article. --Paul_012 (talk) 20:52, 28 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I understand that it's part of the same storm system affecting Southeast Asia proper, so I think it deserves to be on this page. --Nicccky — Preceding undated comment added 17:37, 2 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I agree for Sri Lanka to be included because floods in Java, Indonesia with that in West Malaysia and Southern Thailand was also caused by a different storm system. Wakanebe Wizard (talk) 02:00, 3 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Already 7 days, this article should be moved now. Wakanebe Wizard (talk) 11:48, 3 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.
Should it be excluded as it's a completely different weather system (a tropical cyclone)? It could be on some other place, such as a potential article about that cyclone, not here. –HTD 15:10, 2 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
That means the floods at Northern Borneo and the Philippines were a separate weather system from those in the mainland SEA and Sumatra. That means it could go to typhoon's page, not here. The last cyclone isn't exactly a creation of the monsoon. The "Causes" section of this article stipulate that the flooding is caused by the southeast monsoon, not to the typhoon. –HTD 10:54, 3 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Correct, same goes to the floods in the Java island. But as this article was named as Southeast Asian floods, it covers the whole. This article still lack of contributor from most Southeast Asian countries, feel free to added more if you know the cause of Philippines floods. Wakanebe Wizard (talk) 11:38, 3 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
The scope is presumably limited to only what's found in the "Causes" section. "2014–15 Southeast Asian floods" theoretically could mean any floods that occurred/will occur from 2014 to 2015; of course, that's not the intention of this article, which is limited to the floods caused by the monsoon. –HTD 11:52, 3 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
The weather in Malaysia is characterised by two monsoon regimes, namely, the Southwest Monsoon from late May to September, and the Northeast Monsoon from November to March. The Northeast Monsoon brings heavy rainfall, particularly to the east coast states of Peninsular Malaysia and western Sarawak, whereas the Southwest Monsoon normally signifies relatively drier weather.
The article mentions of a "southeast monsoon". AFAIK, there is no "southeast monsoon". There's a northeast and southwest monsoon. Either way, either monsoon is a different weather system from the typhoon. –HTD 02:59, 4 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
§ Southeast Asia | Indonesia was garbled, contradictory, and ungrammatical, evidently due to non-native and/or machine translation.
I'm working now to clean it up,* consulting the references and using Google Translate to get the gist. --Thnidu (talk) 04:24, 5 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
* Cleaned it up, though roughly, and did some similar work and a little copyediting in other subsections of § Southeast Asia. To discuss this with me, please {{Ping}} me. Thnidu (talk) 04:58, 5 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]