Wiki143:WikiProject Geography

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Script error: No such module "Shortcut". Welcome to the Wikiproject Geography, a project to better organize information in articles related to Geography. This page and all subpages of this page contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please make suggestions and proposals on the talk page, and see the to-do list below:

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General reference

For the scope of country (political division) coverage, see List of sovereign states.

Notice Board

Current Geography Collaboration of the Fortnight
Geography
Currently on Peer review
History of Earth
Palm Island, Queensland
Rwanda
Currently in Featured article candidates
Currently in Featured list candidates
List of ISO 3166 country codes

Solicitations of comments on RfC's

A Request for Comment (WP:RfC) was posted Sunday, 17 July 2011 at the Talk page of South Sudan. It concerns the use of the definite article ("the") citations in the InfoBox and elsewhere of what the long form is of the country's name. It is my hope to have responses from academically aware editors devoted to Africa, geography, coutries, and British English. Hurmata (talk) 23:32, 17 July 2011 (UTC)

A Request for Comment was posted Thursday, 19 July 2012 at the Talk page of Wikipedia:Notability (geographical features). It requests suggestions on how to include consensus on which geographical features are non-notable in a draft policy proposal. G. C. Hood (talk) 16:48, 20 July 2012 (UTC)

A yet another FRC was posted in May 2014 in Wikipedia talk:Notability (geographic features) about promoting this essay to the guideline status. Staszek Lem (talk) 00:08, 18 May 2014 (UTC)

Scope

Improves geographical related articles (including those related to geographic information systems) and develop/maintain the navigation aides dedicated to geography: List of basic geography topics, List of geography topics, Glossary of geography terms, Geography-related portals and Geography-related categories.

Goals

Develop and implement a common structure to geography and its sub-fields
Clarify and improve topic structure
Ensure accessibility to the lay reader—with a simplified version and/or appropriate main article/daughter article structuring of scientific detail
Add more scientific detail (and sources) in appropriate articles
Develop some neglected aspects of the topic
Ensure NPOV
Get all geography articles up to A Class standard

Improve the bird's eye view

The entire subject and Wikipedia's coverage of it is intended to be summarized in the Outline of geography and its branch outlines. These are in turn is part of Wikipedia's outline system which is one of Wikipedia's main contents systems.

Please look it over and fill-in missing topics. If Wikipedia has an article or article section about those topics, please add links to them.

While analyzing the outline, please answer the following questions (and fix the outline as needed):

What's missing?
Is the structure of the outline (sections and indents) representative of the subject?
Does the outline help understand the relationships between the topics presented in the best way possible?

The overall purpose of the outline is to help readers comprehend the subject by showing what belongs to it, and within the subject what belongs to what.

The outline is a taxonomy of the subject, and also serves as a table of contents and navigation aid to browse Wikipedia's articles (and article sections) about the subject.

It is also a useful tool for the WikiProject to analyze, plan, develop, and revise geography-related material. It is a hub from which to organize geographical topics.

It was built as a "reverse outline", a structural model of an existing work, which in addition to being a summary of the work, can reveal the gaps and other weaknesses for revision purposes.

Please help improve it.

It's our bird's eye view.

Thank you.

Article structure

A general template/model of how geography articles should be structured, and particularly what sections and in what order, doesn't seem to exist yet. The most common models are however summarised in some related WikiProjects; some examples follow and can be used as inspiration until a guideline is developed.

Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities/Settlements: Article structure (very brief)
Wikipedia:WikiProject UK geography/How to write about settlements (with a lot of detail on section content)

Related projects

Parent

No parent of this WikiProject has been defined.

Offshoots

Other WikiProjects that fall within the scope of Geography include:

Wikipedia:WikiProject Demographics—this one seriously needs your help. The set of country demographics articles is in seriously sad shape.

Descendants

Human geography

Physical geography

Technical geography

Wikipedia:WikiProject Maps
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Geographical coordinates

Portals

Task forces

British Isles Terminology task force (WP:BISLES)

Project volunteers

Active members

To join WikiProject Geography, edit this section and insert the Wikitext #{{subst:me}} with your areas of interest into the following list of members in alphabetical order. Members should also place member identification on their user page.

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Former members

Thank you for your help! Please move your username back to the active list when you can participate again.

Member identification

Members of WikiProject Geography should place one of the following lines of Wikitext on their user page to add it to Category:WikiProject Geography participants. Template:Yytop Template:Yycat Template:Yy Template:Yy Template:Yy Template:Yyend For other Geography user templates, see Category:Geography user templates.

Discussions and structure

/Assessment Template:Dash table of Geography articles by quality and importance
List of all subpages of this page

Articles

Featured content

Featured articles

Ann Arbor, Michigan · Antarctica · Template:Spoken Australia · Bangalore · Bangladesh · Bath, Somerset · Belgium · Bhutan · Boston, Massachusetts · Buckingham Palace · Bryce Canyon National Park · Cambodia · Canberra · Cape Horn · Carlsbad Caverns National Park · The Catlins · Cathedral of Magdeburg · Chennai · Chetwynd, British Columbia · Chew Valley Lake · City status in the United Kingdom · Cleveland, Ohio · Colditz Castle · Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve · Dawson Creek, British Columbia · Death Valley National Park · Dogpatch USA · Template:Spoken Dorset · Eldfell · Gangtok · Geography of India · Geography of Ireland · Goa · Great Mosque of Djenné · Gyeongju · Template:Spoken India · Isan · Johannesburg · Kalimpong · Kerala · Lake Burley Griffin · Louisville, Kentucky · Malwa · Moorgate · Template:Spoken Mount Pinatubo · Mount Rushmore · Mount St. Helens · Template:Spoken Mumbai · National parks of England and Wales · Nepal · Oakland Cemetery · Palace of Westminster · Palazzo Pitti · Rondane National Park · San Jose, California · Sarajevo · Sealand · Seattle, Washington · Sheffield · Shoshone National Forest · Shrine of Remembrance · St Kilda · Suburbs of Johannesburg · Surtsey · Template:Spoken Waterfall Gully, South Australia · Yellowstone National Park · Yarralumla, Australian Capital Territory · Template:Spoken Yosemite National Park · Zion National Park

Former featured articles

Marshall, Texas: de-listed on 20 November 2007
Niagara Falls: de-listed on 14 July 2007
Pakistan: de-listed on 22 April 2009
Sikkim: de-listed on 6 July 2009
South Africa: de-listed on 13 February 2008
Zambezi: de-listed on 18 February 2009

Featured article candidates

Featured pictures

Featured picture candidates

New articles

Please feel free to list your new Geography-related articles here. Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Wikipedia:Main Page.

Quantitative geography
Frankland Range
Watersheds and basins
- Great Lakes Basin
- Lake Erie Watershed (Pennsylvania)
- Goose Lake Valley (south-central Oregon and northeatern California)
Tripolis (Pontus)
Pidurutalagala
Zomia (geography)
Caballo Mountains (New Mexico)
Technical Geography
Uncertain geographic context problem
Tobler's second law of geography
Arbia's law of geography
Internet GIS
Web GIS
Modifiable temporal unit problem
List of subranges of the Appalachian Mountains

Review and assessment

Traveling virtually around the World on Wikipedia via country outlines

Develop the geographical outlines at Portal:Contents/Outlines#Geography and places.

These should be considered top priority for development and maintenance, because they are the general reference resource about Wikipedia's coverage of each geographical region.

Developing and maintaining the "list of basic geography topics"

The list of basic geography topics is a general overview of geography. It is part of Lists of basic topics (the members of which share a common format), and is thus part of Wikipedia's table of contents system. It is incomplete and needs to be finished. The list also needs dedicated editors to watchlist it, to counter vandalism and to monitor its development. Finally, it needs to be maintained, to reflect changes on the presentation of the subject on Wikipedia (adding links to new relevant topics, updating links, etc.). Most importantly, since it outlines geography and is a key navigation aid for browsing geography topics on Wikipedia, the WikiProject Geography is the perfect caretaker for this page. Please adopt it, improve it and treat it with tender loving care.

Articles needing attention

Template:WikiProject cleanup listing

Geography
Environmental geography
Geographical Information Systems
Geography of Italy
Geostatistics
History of geography
Human geography
Philosophy of Geography
Physical geography
Technical Geography
Urban geography
Urbanism
Geographical feature
Exploration (1) Rating could be updated: "List"-->"Start" (2) Name could be updated: "Exploration"-->"Human Exploration"
Geography of French Guiana
Longitude Rating could clearly be updated. Anthere (talk) 22:52, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

Requests for comments on pages

This section is for short notifications of pages with problems, or where some attention is needed. If you list a page here, put a longer description on the pages talk page.

List of countries and dependencies by population A difference of opinion on which countries/territories should be ranked (all, or UN member only). Would appreciate comments and thoughts—see "Ranking" on talk page.
Prypiat Requested move to Pripyat. Comments would be very welcome at Talk:Prypiat#RFM to Pripyat (with better justification & references)
Cordillera Oriental, Bolivia Concern about organizing geography on a purely political geography basis. See Talk:Cordillera Oriental
Cordillera Oriental, Colombia Concern about organizing geography on a purely political geography basis. See Talk:Cordillera Oriental
Cordillera Oriental, Peru Concern about organizing geography on a purely political geography basis. See Talk:Cordillera Oriental
Liancourt_Rocks Concern over whether the proposed infobox is neutral. See Talk:Liancourt_Rocks.
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/History of West Eurasia could use the analysis of some from the Geography community.
Sněžka-Śnieżka. Concern about the awkwardness of a combined Czech-Polish name and the most appropriate route to a single English name, per WP:NCGN. Opinions of primarily geographic editors solicited at Talk:Sněžka-Śnieżka#Requested move.
Geography of Somerset. Debate about what should be in the new Geography of Somerset article & what should be in Geology of Somerset which is currently GA. see Talk:Geology of Somerset#Geography & Talk:Geography of Somerset.
Sciberras Peninsula. Have completed a translation from French to English—however, I am a linguist and not a geographer so would welcome expert eyes to expand this. Beckettnoti (talk) 17:44, 23 February 2018 (UTC)
Nova Scotia. Concern about Eurocentrism and the lack of proper inclusion of the local Wabanaki nation's histories and contemporary realities (especially as a party to foundational treaties). See Talk:Nova Scotia#Introduction & History sections

Requests for review of articles

This section is for notifications of pages which wish to be graded as a Good Article or would like support to be a Featured Article. If you list a page here, put a longer description on the pages talk page. Additionally, leave a copy of the longer description under the article name on the /General page.

North Sea is undergoing GA review, any assistance in this endeavour appreciated.SriMesh | talk 00:02, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
I've been working on Fantasy cartography lately and would love some assistance and feedback! --Twomatters (talk) 06:54, 10 May 2022 (UTC)

Adopt an article

Similar to the Collaboration of the week, but on a smaller scale, you might want to "adopt" an article. This would involve doing the research, writing, and picture-taking (if possible) for either a non-existent article or a stub. Of course, everyone else can still edit an adopted article, and you can work on other things too, but the idea is to find a focus for a while, to try and build up the number of quality articles the Project has produced.

Example article: User:Example

Peer review

Ladakh (PR)
Geography of North America (PR)

Templates

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What it makes

What it's for