Talk:2009 swine flu pandemic in France

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A summary of this article appears in 2009 flu pandemic in Europe.

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Existence of this article[edit]

Why do we need this article? The section in the Europe article isn't very long, and the article on the French Wikipedia is even up for deletion. 70.29.212.226 (talk) 06:42, 19 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The French version of the article is well on its way to being deleted, having a 2:1 advantage in opinions favouring deletion. fr:Discussion:Grippe A (H1N1) de 2009 en France/Suppression 70.29.212.226 (talk) 12:19, 25 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This is an usual french masochist attitude and blindness common in these days on WP:FR, with a little salt of revolutionary sentiment. :-) Same attitude than the Chernobyl catastrophe, which radiations covered all Europe but, supposedly, not France.

Indeed, there is a taste for cold blood. They have kept articles on this pandemic for Canada, United States and Mexico, but not for France since there is no dead for now. HDDTZUZDSQ (talk) 00:47, 26 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It seems to me that the French Wikipedia is the France Wikipedia, since whenever I add things about say... Quebec, someone from France will delete it quickly, and most general topic articles are written about France, not applicable to situations in say... Quebec, or Haiti, or Belgium or Switzerland... 76.66.203.200 (talk) 06:12, 27 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, absolutely. And here, in a way, this is again the case : the french wikipedians have decided to delete an article which contains some facts about France that they want to hide or ignore, consciously or not. HDDTZUZDSQ (talk) 18:30, 27 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wrong name[edit]

The article uses the word "pandemic". But a pandemic, by definition alone, can only happen if several countries are affected by the same epidemic, at the same time.

Even then, locally, it remains an "endemic".

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandemic

"A pandemic is an epidemic of disease that has spread across a large region, for instance multiple continents, or worldwide."

I understand that you folks probably do not want to rename the article, but you can not refer to a local endemic as a pandemic - it would be a misnomer. 2A02:8388:1641:8380:1535:595B:9280:DF61 (talk) 18:56, 31 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]