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File:Hawaii Creek.jpg A rocky stream in the U.S. state of Hawaii Scope Scope This WikiProject is a collaboration to better organize and improve articles about the natural environment and the positive and negative effects of humans upon the biophysical environment. File:Edit-clear.svg Articles for cleanup A comprehensive listing of articles for cleanup that are tagged with this project's banner is available here. Goals The goals of this project include the following: Improve articles within this project's scope Create user-friendly navigation and linkages Organize articles categorically Maintaining objectivity and neutral point-of-view in environment-related articles Promote an awareness of the natural environment and world

File:Nuvola apps kword.png Ways to contributeTemplate:Spaced ndash (updated December 2024) Article tasks {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Environment/Article tasks}} Project tasks File:Nuvola apps korganizer.svg Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Assess : Tag new articles and assess environment articles Copyedit : Articles at [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Environment/Popular pages|Wikipedia: WikiProject EnvironmentTemplate:Spaced ndashPopular pages]] so that the assessment matches popularity Maintain : [[Wikipedia:List of controversial issues#Environment|Wikipedia:List of controversial issuesTemplate:Spaced ndashEnvironment]] (list needs to be culled and/or updated). Check for vandalized articles. Photo : Category: Wikipedia requested photographs of environmental topics Update : Fuel cell Verify : [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Environment/Unreferenced BLPs|WikiProject EnvironmentTemplate:Spaced ndash Unreferenced Biographies]] Other : #Check out Wikipedia:WikiProject Environment/Popular pages and improve the more popular articles. Note that assessment may need reviewing, or will be updated on the next dump. See: [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Environment|Wikipedia: WikiProject Deletion sortingTemplate:Spaced ndashEnvironment]] for articles that are nominated for deletion at Articles for deletion. Monitor: Related changes for Category:Natural environment, for vandalism and substandard edits Check: articles linked to natural environment ([[Special:WhatLinksHere/Natural environment|Special: WhatLinksHereTemplate:Spaced ndashNatural environment]]). Many would be more accurately linked to Environment (biophysical). Advertise this page to recruit more participants

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Pages needing attention

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++==Topic Overview== Topics that are part of this project include (but are not limited to):

• Built environment
• Climate change
• Global warming
• Conservation movement
• Environmentalism
• Environmental issues
• Environmental movement
• Environmental science
• Environmental social science
• Environment (biophysical)
• Environment (disambiguation)
• Natural environment
• Renewable energy
• Sustainability
• Waste & Waste management

Categories Categories

Further information: [[Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Environment/Archive_1#Hierarchy_definition|Wikipedia talk: WikiProject Environment/Archive 1Template:Spaced ndashHierarchy definition]]

Topics in the Natural environment category are occasionally ambiguously-defined and multi-disciplinary, and it may be difficult to create a categorical hierarchy based upon consensus.

Natural environment

Environmentalism

Nature writers

Climate

Nature conservation

Environmental design

Natural disasters

Ecology

Environmental organizations

Natural resources

Parentage and descendants

The "Environment" covers a wide range of academic disciplines but the major parent WikiProjects could be considered as:

• WikiProject Science
• WikiProject Politics
• WikiProject Sociology

The descendants of this WikiProject are:

• WikiProject Climate change
• WikiProject Pollution
• WikiProject Protected areas
• WikiProject Superfund

Related WikiProjects and Task Forces

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• WikiProject Agriculture
• WikiProject Alternative fuels
• WikiProject Climate change
• WikiProject Disaster management
• WikiProject Ecology
• WikiProject Energy
• WikiProject Engineering
• WikiProject Extinction
• WikiProject Fisheries and Fishing
• WikiProject Forestry
• WikiProject Hydrogen
• WikiProject International development
• WikiProject Pollution
• WikiProject Protected areas
• WikiProject Sanitation
• WikiProject Urban studies and planning
• WikiProject Water and sanitation
• WikiProject Wildfire

Related Task Forces:

• Environmental Record Task Force
• Toxicology task forceTemplate:Spaced ndashworks on articles related to toxic chemicals and effects on human health
• [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Lights Camera Wiki/Parks|WikiProject Lights Camera WikiTemplate:Spaced ndashParks]]
• [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Lights Camera Wiki/Wildlife|WikiProject Lights Camera WikiTemplate:Spaced ndashWildlife]]

Outside Wikipedia:

• AppropediaTemplate:Spaced ndasha wiki for issues related to Development and Sustainability, for material which is not suitable for Wikipedia. This includes original research, personal experience, and ideas. Areas covered include sustainability, sustainable development, appropriate technologies, and sustainable technologies and practices.
• Other green wikisTemplate:Spaced ndashsuch as Greenlivingpedia and Envirowiki are listed at Appropedia: Green wikis and development wikis, some on more specific areas (such as the Coastal wiki).

File:Icon tools.svg Tools

Main tool page: toolserver.org

• AutoEdTemplate:Spaced ndashA user script that helps to automatically make clean-up changes in articles, and it also allows for easy design, use, and customization of user scripts related to automated article cleanup.
• reFillTemplate:Spaced ndash Edits bare url references: adds title, dates, publisher, etc.
• ChecklinksTemplate:Spaced ndashEdit and repair external links
• Dab solverTemplate:Spaced ndashQuickly resolve ambiguous links.
• Peer reviewerTemplate:Spaced ndashProvides hints and suggestion to improving articles.

Tips

?	Use common sense. Ultimately, assume good faith on the part of others, be bold in editing because perfection is not required. See Wikipedia:Editing policy for more information. Before starting a new article! - Notability is a concern that must be adhered to. See Wikipedia:Notability (music) for more information. Need help starting a new article? See Wikipedia:Article wizard it will help you through the process of submitting a new article to Wikipedia.
I.	Use references. This is an encyclopedia, so remember to include a ==References== section listing websites, newspapers, articles, books and other sources you used to write the article. New articles and statements added to existing articles may be deleted if unreferenced or referenced poorly. See Wikipedia:Verifiability, Wikipedia:Cite_sources and Wikipedia:References for more information.
II.	Use proper spelling and grammar. This is a very important aspect of an article. There is helpful guidelines in regards to styles. See Wikipedia:Manual of Style (music) for more information.
III.	Use footnotes. Take advantage of the footnote ability Wikipedia has, instead of including html links inside the context include them as footnotes. See Wikipedia:Footnotes on how to use them.
IV.	Write a good lead. Be sure to write a lead that concisely summarizes the entire article into one or two paragraphs, which make sense to someone who may know nothing about the subjects in question. See Wikipedia:Lead section for more information.
V.	Stay on topic. Many articles are criticized for length; sticking to the subject matter helps eliminate this. See Wikipedia:The perfect article for more information.
VI.	Keep it simple. Remember that the average reader should be able to comprehend the erudition. Although you should use a broad vocabulary of regular, non-technical terms, do not provide such a quantity of locutions as to impel those who aspire to derive serviceable information from the article to consult a dictionary.
VII.	Use images if possible. Images enhance articles greatly, but only use them when they are necessary, and ensure that their copyright status has been specified and we are allowed to use it on Wikipedia. See Wikipedia:Images