Wiki143:WikiProject Rocks and minerals
Template:WikiProject status Wiki143:WikiProject Rocks and minerals/Header This WikiProject's goal is to improve and maintain the quality of the articles, lists, templates, and categories within its scope, including rocks, rock units, minerals, mineral groups, gemstones, and related topics.
Specific goals:
- Bring every article and list in Category:WikiProject Rocks and minerals as close to Featured Article or Featured List status as possible:
- Make sure all articles are properly referenced.
- Maximize compliance with the Wikipedia manual of style.
- Clean up tagged articles.
- Make sure every article about a rock, mineral, or mineral subgroup/series has an infobox (see below)
- Standardize the formatting of Infobox rock and Infobox mineral and make sure all relevant parameters are included.
- Make sure all rock and mineral-related talk pages are tagged with both {{Category:WikiProject Rocks and minerals}} and {{Category:Geology}}
- Keep the WikiProject Rocks and Minerals community active, growing, and well-supported.
- Discuss the content of Rock and Mineral articles on Wikipedia and the direction that WikiProject Rocks and Minerals should take (see talk page).
- Define a standard infobox for use in rock and mineral entries (goal completed in late 2000s)
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Related Wikiprojects
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- WikiProject Gemology and Jewelry is closely related.
- Other related WikiProjects are WikiProject Elements, WikiProject Chemicals, and its Chemical infobox discussion.
- Also see the various discussions on infoboxes, currently broken into at least two areas: infobox and the infobox talk page.
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Participants
Discussions and worklists
Please do not use the below subpages for new discussion posts. Instead, please use the talk page.
Current templates
Infoboxes
For minerals, mineral groups, and mineral varieties:
For all rocks:
For rock units:
Stub tags
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Sidebar templates
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Barnstar
For recognition of contributions to the Rocks and Minerals Wikiproject, place Template:Tlsx on the recipient's talk page. It should look like this: Template:The Mineralogy Barnstar
Pages needing attention
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- University of Houston, Department of Geosciences, 'adopt-a-mineral' term paper for the course Geology 3370 - Introduction to Mineralogy, prof. Jonathan E. Snow, instructor
- Fall 2007: pabstite, atheneite, lawsonite, tschermakite, covellite, moissanite, wadsleyite, afwillite, wollastonite, iddingsite, penroseite, scheelite, sperrylite, santabarbaraite, celsian, julgoldite, krutovite, jerrygibbsite
- Fall 2009: chambersite, alacránite, coyoteite, balangeroite, calumetite, bursaite, cleusonite, colimaite, creedite, clearcreekite, campigliaite, changbaiite, cesanite, cervandonite, coconinoite, boleite, chaidamuite, ashburtonite, bilinite, baotite, bararite, athabascaite, coloradoite, bonaccordite, bystrite, bastnäsite, chamosite, bukovite, beraunite, ashoverite, bityite, cyrilovite, bergenite
- Fall 2011: garnierite, perhamite, geigerite, partheite, chrisstanleyite, schreyerite, carnallite, ullmannite, jarosewichite, murdochite, delafossite, maricite, lorandite, warikahnite, donnayite-(Y), satterlyite, dollaseite-(Ce), baddeleyite, alforsite, bornite, perovskite, coffinite, dickite, zanazziite, hübnerite, penikisite, braggite, huttonite?, kankite?
- Fall 2013: brazilianite, chalveticeite, hidalgoite, natromontebrasite, guyanaite, eveslogite, ephesite, hubeite, hiärneite, gordaite, greifensteinite, gugiaite, farneseite, ferrogedrite, ferronigerite-2N1S, franklinphilite, chatkalite, bicchulite
- Univ. Houston, Earth Materials, Mrs. Catlos: eveite (Fall 2010)
- Newbies: User talk:Tony00345 (pseudowollastonite, 2009), User talk:Friedshrimp007 (ericssonite, 2010), User talk:Rshah1018 (raspite and roselite, 2010), User talk:Jburke430 (chesterite, 2010), User talk:Kelhansard (cymrite, 2010), User talk:Molyru (grandreefite, 2010), User talk:Skibo112 (schäferite, 2010)
- July 2014: The entry for Fullers Earth[1] discusses only the cosmetic product. I don't have the expertise to edit this, but perhaps the British Geological Survey article at [2] is a good start if somebody has the time and inclination
- October 2020: Category talk:Bismuth minerals, Category:Radioactive minerals - a comment is needed about the radioactivity of bismuth minerals (to prevent edition warring)
Requests
- Request picture
- Add {{reqphoto|mineralogy}} to the talk-page of articles that require a picture. View the requests: Category:Wikipedia requested images of mineralogy
- Requested articles
- Note, critical mineral raw materials: most important mineral groups were known at the end of the XIX Century. Many U and uranyl minerals came later with the nuclear technology. Monazite, bastnäsite and loparite-(Ce) became important REE sources with the widespread use of electronics (monazite is not used because of the production of thorium waste as by-product). Rhodium and titanium is important too. --Chris.urs-o (talk) 07:36, 13 August 2016 (UTC)
- Wikipedia:Requested articles/Natural sciences/Environment and geology#Minerals
Assessment
Please refer to the assessment subpage for information on how to assess an article or list within the scope of this project.
Statistics
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