Talk:Five themes of geography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

WikiProject Geography
Geography Portal

This article is supported by the Geography WikiProject, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage on Geography and related subjects on Wikipedia. Please participate by editing the article Geography, or visit the project page for more details on the projects.
??? This article has not yet received a rating on the assessment scale.
A fact from Five themes of geography appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on February 14, 2006.
Wikipedia
Five themes of geography was a good article nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There are suggestions below for improving the article. Once these are addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

Reviewed version: February 9, 2007
Peer review Five themes of geography has had a peer review by Wikipedia editors which is now archived. It may contain ideas you can use to improve this article.

[edit] Created

I just created this article over the course of 3 hours using information from my History textbook. Enjoy it. ~ Flameviper 22:40, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] GA failed

Good job on creating the article in such a short period. I had a similar textbook listing the same exact themes, so I understand the information. However, this is not Good Article quality since it fails several criteria:

  1. It is well written - This article looks okay as to how it is written, however, I don't know if you've just copied down word for word the definitions in the textbook or compiled the information. By the way, the only words that should be using bold font in this article should be Five Themes of Geography, which should be in the intro sentence as you are describing what the article is about. Everything else should be regular font.
  2. It is factually accurate and verifiable - You have one textbook as a reference, but you have no inline citations for your information, so again, I don't know what you may or may not have copied or written yourself. I recommend getting more sources and include inline citations after any statement that may be questioned for verifiability.
  3. It is broad in its coverage - You cover the five themes well enough, but you should delve deeper into the topic. Are these themes accepted by all geographers/textbooks/universities? Or is this just one topic described by this one textbook only. You could also include more information on how these themes are applied to geography, not just the definition.
  4. It follows the neutral point of view policy - This looks NPOV, so good job on that.
  5. It is stable - I don't see any problems with stability, nor foresee any in the future.
  6. It contains images, where possible, to illustrate the topic - The images are well utilized in the article as providing examples for the themes. Perhaps you could add a few more images to represent all of the themes.

For the above reasons, I will not pass this article as a Good Article, so it has failed its GAC at this time. However once the above problems are fixed, and you find more sources, I suggest trying to nominate it again in the future. --Nehrams2020 22:35, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

I'm graduating from UWG this May with a double major in history and human geography, so this is something that's well within my academic field. I'm going to expand and improve the page but I don't have a basic geography textbook handy at the moment. This information is accurate, though, and I know that the textbook Human Geography In Action covers it. I just don't have a copy on hand to provide a citation and before I add one, I'd like to double-check the article against a geography text.

--Moonsword 01:33, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Region definition

The definition of "region" seems vague. By this definition, Japan and Jamaica could be considered a region, because they are both islands with names starting with J. It seems to me that the definition is intended to refer to contiguous, adjacent, or proximate locations. However, as I am no expert on geography, I won't edit this page, but leave the suggestion for more learned minds to evaluate. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.39.191.81 (talk) 00:08, 15 February 2007 (UTC).

In geograpy, the definition of region is vague. The real problem with it is that the current (i.e., before I started editing :p ) definition is missing a word. Specifically, it's missing the word "spatial". Geography itself has a tremendous emphasis on spatial relationships. Moonsword 01:33, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
I have attempted to expand this section with information off the top of my head. Hopefully I can continue to expand this entire article whenever I have some free time and access to my books back home. -Matt- 18:20, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Please read WP:CITE; you can't just add stuff "off the top of your head". --Mel Etitis (Talk) 23:03, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

OK. I placed my info up again this time with a reference at the bottom so maybe the citation police wont go and delete things just for the heck of it anymore. In the future it's a lot easier to just ask for citation rather than go delete happy.-Matt- 00:37, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
Please see WP:CIVIL. Also, in the future, it might be a lot easier to just provide the citation rather than forcing someone to ask for it. Remember the responisibility is on you--the person who provides the information--to source it, not others. Metros232 00:40, 25 April 2007 (UTC)