Talk:2009 Gujarat alcohol poisonings

A fact from 2009 Gujarat alcohol poisonings appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 25 July 2009 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that more than 130 people died in July 2009 after consuming adulterated bootleg liquor in Gujarat, India, where alcohol consumption is prohibited?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2009/July.

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Not sure if this is a worthy article but more have died in this incident 3 days ago than in many airplane crashes, which is wikipedia worthy. User F203 (talk) 15:15, 10 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Isn't including the word 'tragedy' in the page title rather PoV? How about '2009 Gujarat hooch deaths'? Modest Genius ^talk 07:57, 25 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure about POV in using tragedy, but I also feel disaster is a more apt term trakesht (talk) 08:18, 25 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I think the slang term "hooch" is a bit informal for this article too, surely "illicit liquor" or "moonshine" would be a better title? Lankiveil ^{(speak to me)} 11:03, 25 July 2009 (UTC).[reply]

I had used this title as the media in India was almost exclusively using that term trakesht (talk) 15:11, 25 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

'disaster' does seem like a better, more neutral term. Also, 'moonshine' is even more slang-ish, and 'liquor' has different meanings in AmE and BrE (and presumably InE...) Modest Genius ^talk 21:55, 25 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]