Welcome to WikiProject Seamounts, a collaboration area and group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of seamounts and related subjects.
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Nominated West Mata for GA, made multiple articles for seamounts
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Open tasks
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Add the Template:Tl message box to talk pages of articles within the scope of this project, including appropriate assessments if needed.
Assess all articles within the scope of the project.
Add appropriate seamount type categories to articles, and verify the accuracy of any existing categories. See the section Categorization below.
Add Template:Tl to articles if needed and missing, and add seamount-related fields to existing infoboxes if these are missing. Use Template:Tl templates to ensure accurate conversion of elevations, distances, areas, and volumes.
Expand seamount articles which are stubs, especially by adding photos and (most importantly) proper references. Feel free to add on to this
The root category for this WikiProject is Category:Physical oceanography. The major category, Category:Seamounts, should be reserved for articles about types of seamounts, while specific individual volcanoes and volcanic belts / fields / regions / zones should be listed in the appropriate subcategories.
Next, please ensure that it has the correct seamount type categories (one or more, in some cases):
Script error: No such module "Side box".Wikimedia Commons has many images of volcanoes and volcanic phenomena, along with igneous rocks. Many of these photos would make useful additions to many of our articles here which may be lacking adequate illustrations.
However, we have built a subpage database, /Images that records many of the significant images used on Seamount and Seamount related articles.
Please see the Commons categories at right, or try searching Commons since many images available there are not properly categorized yet.
In order to easily identify articles in need of attention, article assessments have been implemented. These are generated using the optional class and importance parameters in the Template:Tl project banner on an article's talk page: {{WikiProject Seamount | class= | importance= }}
Using the bot-generated assessment logs, it is now possible to generate a watchlist which includes all articles within the project's scope. All of the logs have been combined into a single large file with all dates unlinked, so that the following link provides a single unified watchlist which should include all talk pages which have Template:Tl tags, along with their corresponding articles:
Most (but not all) seamounts are also volcanoes, so they fall within the scope of WikiProject Volcanoes. But as the "Scope" above demonstrates, this project is far from being a mere subset of WikiProject Volcanoes.
{{Infobox Seamount
| Name = NAME
| Depth = DEPTH FROM SEA LEVEL
| Height = HEIGHT FROM SEA FLOOR
| Map = MAP SHOWING AREA
| Map caption = MAP CAPTION
| Summit area =
| Location = APPROX LOCATION
| Group =
| Coordinates = COORDINATES OF SEAMOUNT
| Country = TERRITORY OF _____
| Type = USE [[Submarine volcano]]
| Volcanic group =
| Age = APPROX AGE
| Last eruption = LAST ERUPTION
| Discovered = DISCOVERY YEAR
| Discovered by = DISCOVERER
| First visit = FIRST LANDING
| Translation = FOREIGN LANGUAGE TRANSLATION
| Language = LANGUAGE ORIGIN OF NAME
| Pronunciation = IPA PRONUNCIATION ASSISTANCE
| Photo = PHOTO OR ARTISTIC DEPICTION
| Photo caption = CAPTION
}}
Many Seamount articles are missing the {{Template:Infobox Seamount}} infobox; one of the main current goals of the project is to generate one for every notable seamount. However, there is also an extremely useful template for generating a "map" of the object from a blank map, via {{Template:Location map}}. Alternatively, you may grab a blank map, place a marker on it, and upload it. The perfered marker is File:Wallpaper group diagram legend rotation3.svg, which gives you File:Wallpaper group diagram legend rotation3.svg (note that it has a white border, too)
