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To make it easier for readers, I recommend moving/renaming these articles to have titles including dates, for instance, <Second cholera epidemic (1829-1849)>. Then readers can know which article to go to, based on the period they are researching. This way, they have to open each article to find the period. Parkwells (talk) 16:44, 16 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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– Our naming conventions for health incidents and outbreaks prescribe a "when/where/what" format for article titles. Unless I'm mistaken, "nth cholera pandemic" is not a widely-used scholarly term, so these are all invented descriptions that flaunt the established convention without improving on the other naming criteria. larryv (talk) 07:27, 26 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Comment'. Is there an expert who knows more about the literature here? There don't appear to be any sources that back up this separation by year. And these dates imply that basically the entire 19th century was in a constant cholera pandemic, which seems to go against the meaning of the word "pandemic" - a surge of a disease *out of proportion* to its normal frequency. Nobody writes about Common cold pandemic (4000 BC - 2016) because the cold was going around during this period. Maybe these should all be merged into Cholera outbreaks and pandemics and then that renamed? If they're really called pandemics and separated out this way, fine, but I'm suspicious... cholera was just unfortunately very prevalent then, all the time. SnowFire (talk) 20:48, 26 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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 * [[:Seventh cholera pandemic (1961–75)]] → {{no redirect|1961–75 cholera pandemic}}
 – Our [[Wikipedia:Naming conventions (events)#Health incidents and outbreaks|naming conventions for health incidents and outbreaks]] prescribe a "when/where/what" format for article titles. Unless I'm mistaken, "''n''th cholera pandemic" is not a widely-used scholarly term, so these are all [[WP:NDESC|invented descriptions]] that flaunt the established convention without improving on the other [[WP:NC|naming criteria]]. [[User:Larryv|larryv]] ([[User talk:Larryv|talk]]) 07:27, 26 January 2016 (UTC)
+:*'''Comment''''.  Is there an expert who knows more about the literature here?   There don't appear to be any sources that back up this separation by year.  And these dates imply that basically the entire 19th century was in a constant cholera pandemic, which seems to go against the meaning of the word "pandemic" - a surge of a disease *out of proportion* to its normal frequency.  Nobody writes about [[Common cold pandemic (4000 BC - 2016)]] because the cold was going around during this period.  Maybe these should all be merged into [[Cholera outbreaks and pandemics]] and then that renamed?  If they're really called pandemics and separated out this way, fine, but I'm suspicious...  cholera was just unfortunately very prevalent then, all the time. [[User:SnowFire|SnowFire]] ([[User talk:SnowFire|talk]]) 20:48, 26 January 2016 (UTC)