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[edit] Merging inactive projects

WikiProject Climate change has become almost stagnant in the last year. I suggest either we revive it or that it is deleted and its duties taken over by WP:Environment. I think this wikiproject can still do a lot but i cant do it alone. What do you think? Seddon69 22:09, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

I think a lot of the interesting activity is taking place at the Env. Records Task Force page, although there certainly should be more activity there! Benzocane 18:52, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
Should we propose a merge? Since I went to their project's talk page and found that the last time someone made a response to a comment was in February 2007. It seems like people post comments there, but nobody replies. Also, the scope of climate change project completely falls inside this project. OhanaUnitedTalk page 20:46, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
I am also proposing merge with Wikipedia:WikiProject Energy development since the scope is almost identical and the project is inactive. The project is quite small in terms of participants and # of participants shrink over the 3 years of the project. OhanaUnitedTalk page 21:06, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
Support. I think merging the inactive projects, as Ohana has suggested, is a good idea. Johnfos 23:58, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
I personally believe they're inactive for a reason, so I doubt merging them will do anything meaningful. Of course, I don't oppose a merge at all. If you can make something out of the merge though, I would support it. ~ UBeR 20:30, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
Since the merge will be very likely to occur, scope of this project will be changed to include the merged projects (if it isn't covered at the moment). OhanaUnitedTalk page 21:30, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
If you all wanted to turn the merged projects into task forces, with separate assessments, let me know and I could at least set up the banner to basically give separate assessments. John Carter 21:47, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
Currently they don't have assessments, so after they are merged, they can be under the project's task force or just incorporate them into the main project. I don't think we need to setup more assessments when the current project's (WikiProject Environment) assessment is good enough. OhanaUnitedTalk page 16:21, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
Merge is completed. But I still need to convert {{climate change}} and {{energy development}} into {{environment}} OhanaUnitedTalk page 21:33, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

♠ The Climate Change/Global Warming issue needs its own project run by a committee of equal numbers of pro and anti human-cause global warming editors. It seems every article related to this subject matter is run by fanatics. You make a change and they'll undo it within five minutes. It looks like an edit war. These articles will devolve into very low quality material if something isn't done.--THE FOUNDERS INTENT TALK 04:04, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Mineral resources

I note that we don't have an article on this important topic. Perhaps someone here would be willing to work on one - it's surely among the top 20 or so most important topics in environmental science. Richard001 07:54, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Santa Barbara oil spill

I've just made a rather shocking and very dismaying discovery: There's no article about the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill. In fact, on all of Wikipedia, there are no more than a handful of passing references to this event. It's not even mentioned in the List of oil spills. Yikes! How on earth is this possible??? This is mind-boggling. In all seriousness, this is undoubtedly the most glaring omission I have ever found on Wikipedia (and, believe me, I've found more than a few). We are talking about the single event that was most directly responsible for launching the modern environmental movement on a mass scale. It's no mere coincidence that Earth Day 1970 took place just months later.

Especially with two oil spill eco-disasters currently under way, I hope I'm not alone in feeling that creation of this article should be a very high priority for this Project. I am in the middle of some very time-consuming things elsewhere on Wikipedia right now, but I promise that I will join in on a collaboration to write this article. Please reply here, and leave a note on my talk page, if you are interested -- especially if you've got good sourcing material. Regards, -- Cgingold (talk) 22:05, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

I saw your comments and I appreciate your suggestion to make an article on this oil spill accident. Most likely, I will start an article on this on coming Wednesday. OhanaUnitedTalk page 13:48, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
Crated a stub at Santa Barbara oil spill. -- Alan Liefting-talk- 21:40, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
Updated and moved to 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill. --Drh08 (talk) 19:50, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Environmental effects of oil shale industry

Environmental effects of oil shale industry needs expansion. Thanks. Beagel (talk) 17:40, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] FAR listing for Plate tectonics

Plate tectonics has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here.

[edit] Judaism and ecology could use some work.

Judaism and ecology is IMHO a good start but could use some work. -- Writtenonsand (talk) 13:39, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Greenspun illustration project: requests now open

Dear Wikimedians,

This is a (belated) announcement that requests are now being taken for illustrations to be created for the Philip Greenspun illustration project (PGIP).

The aim of the project is to create and improve illustrations on Wikimedia projects. You can help by identifying which important articles or concepts are missing illustrations (diagrams) that could make them a lot easier to understand. Requests should be made on this page: Philip_Greenspun_illustration_project/Requests

If there's a topic area you know a lot about or are involved with as a Wikiproject, why not conduct a review to see which illustrations are missing and needed for that topic? Existing content can be checked by using Mayflower to search Wikimedia Commons, or use the Free Image Search Tool to quickly check for images of a given topic in other-language projects.

The community suggestions will be used to shape the final list, which will be finalised to 50 specific requests for Round 1, due to start in January. People will be able to make suggestions for the duration of the project, not just in the lead-up to Round 1.

thanks, pfctdayelise (talk) 13:00, 13 December 2007 (UTC) (Project coordinator)

[edit] Free market environmentalism

Would anyone be interested in collaborating on the FME article? I think it would be good to get it to FA status in time to get it posted to the Main Page as TFA on April 22, 2008 (Earth Day). I know the basic principles of FME but will have to do some more research to become the mini-expert on the subject needed to bring it to FA status. If you want to learn more, a good starting point is http://www.perc.org/ . I just got done writing another FA almost singlehandedly and it was a rather arduous experience; I decided it's probably much more fun to have a co-author(s) to bounce ideas off of, share the gruntwork with, etc. If I hear nothing, I may delay it till Earth Day 2009; we'll see. Sarsaparilla (talk) 14:39, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The environment?

Perhaps this project should clarify what is meant by the term 'environment' at the top. An internal link would be a good idea. Richard001 (talk) 22:59, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Low-Carbon economy: neutrality challenged

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Low-carbon_economy

In the first section of Low-carbon economy the writers engage in a defense of Nuclear Power as a means to bring about a low-carbon economy.

In my opinion the merits and negatives of Nuclear Power have no place in the description of what a Low-Carbon Economy is, and this damages the neutrality of the article.

All reasonable means of bringing about a low-carbon economy should be mentioned equally and without bias. The defense of nuclear power against the "traditional 'environmentalist' movement" is totally unjustified.

I would make the change myself, but it would be a significant alteration and wish for some consensus on this matter.

Thank you.

Krishyaanis (talk) 06:45, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Sustainable city

Could members of this project take a look at this article, and the four other articles it is proposed to merge into it? Frankly, Wikipedia's organisation of articles relating to sustainable cities/eco-towns/ecopolises/blah blah whatevers is a complete shambles and needs thoroughly reorganising. The use of different terms in different countries seems to have resulted in a proliferation of articles about similar but subtly different localisations of the concept. Cheers, DWaterson (talk) 01:55, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Environment and society

I have created a Category:Environment and society. -- Alan Liefting-talk- 07:41, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Reminder of the Philip Greenspun Illustration project

Hi. You may be familiar with the Philip Greenspun Illustration Project. $20,000 has been donated to pay for the creation of high quality diagrams for Wikipedia and its sister projects.

Requests are currently being taken at m:Philip Greenspun illustration project/Requests and input from members of this project would be very welcome. If you can think of any diagrams (not photos or maps) that would be useful then I encourage you to suggest them at this page. If there is any free content material that would assist in drawing the diagram then it would be great if you could list that, too.

If there are any related (or unrelated) WikiProjects you think might have some suggestions then please pass this request over. Thanks. --Cherry blossom tree 16:49, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Lists of environmental topics

Lists of environmental topics and the associated pages have been renamed and a TOC template has been created. I have made a start on reducing the list of links on the pages to reflect the new title and the new intro that I have been adding. The lists need work to make them of use:

  1. reduce the lists to anthropogenic effects on the environment (there are many other lists for the superfluous links)
  2. tidy up punctuation
  3. add any missing entries
  4. give suitable annotation for links that are not self explanatory. -- Alan Liefting-talk- 21:19, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
Seems reasonable. The Transhumanist    22:33, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] CfD nomination of Category:Environmental threats

Category:Environmental threats has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Cgingold (talk) 22:59, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Requested articles

An article on ecodevelopment would be good, though I'm not exactly sure where I should put in a request - it could go under economics, society or ecology... Should the project create its own requests page? Richard001 (talk) 00:20, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Environmental technology template

I'd like to replace the Environmental technology template with one that matches the standard navbox style, i.e. horizontal instead of vertical, collapsing and typically placed at the bottom of article pages. I've done a mock up of what this would look like at {{User:Jwanders/ET}}. Figured this was a big enough change that I should post before going ahead with it. Please discuss here--jwandersTalk 22:03, 17 February 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Recycling

I've been working on expanding and improving the Recycling article over the past week. I think is coming well, and has reached a point where some collaboration would be helpful. There are a few areas that still need expanding and/or clean-up (history and methods, for instance), a couple of Economist articles which could be further fact-mined, and of course my many inevitable typos and grammar mistakes to correct ;-)

Also, if anyone has access to any other print resources, they'd be a great help; I've taken most of my additions to the article from the one book my local library had on the subject.--jwandersTalk 19:59, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Any input on my suggestion of a name change at criticism of recycling would be welcome too. Richard001 (talk) 04:18, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Environmental issues

I have populated and adjusted the articles and the subcats in Category:Environmental issues. Can you tell me how it looks? -- Alan Liefting- (talk) - 02:57, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

The links to individual entries (i.e. not in subcategories) look OK. However the subcategory Category:Pollution is just the existing main "Pollution" category. As such, it links to various pollution topics (e.g. under Air Pollution, Pollutants, Waste and Water Pollution) rather than issues. It would be more helpful to create a new subcategory specifically for pollution issues, broken down by air, water, etc. A few of the non-subcategorized pages could then be classified under this subcat., e.g. Sanitary sewer overflow would be under "Water pollution issues." Thanks for setting this up. Moreau1 (talk) 03:57, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
Pollution in general is an environmental issue. I had a quick look in the pollution category and I did not see anything that should not be included in a pollution issues category. -- Alan Liefting- (talk) - 22:03, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Category nominated for deletion

The related Category:Green Scare has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. You are encouraged to join the discussion on the Categories for Discussion page.


[edit] Environmental issues with the Three Gorges Dam

See Talk:Environmental issues with the Three Gorges Dam#Merge about a merge proposal. -- Alan Liefting- (talk) - 09:25, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] POV issues

The following have been tagged with POV templates and require discussion or editing to NPOV:

-- Alan Liefting- (talk) - 21:56, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Help needed at Marine debris

Lots of changes recently made to this article, a second-opinion copyedit would be very helpful. Thanks - 82.18.44.72 (talk) 14:04, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Global dimming GA Sweeps Review: On Hold

As part of the WikiProject Good Articles, we're doing sweeps to go over all of the current GAs and see if they still meet the GA criteria and I'm specifically going over all of the "Meteorology and atmospheric sciences" articles. I have reviewed Global dimming and believe the article currently meets the majority of the criteria and should remain listed as a Good article. I have left this message at this WikiProject's talk page so that any interested members can assist in helping the article keep its GA status. In reviewing the article, I have found there are some issues that may need to be addressed, and I'll leave the article on hold for seven days for them to be fixed. I have left messages on the talk pages of the main contributors of the article. Please consider helping address the several points that I listed on the talk page of the article, which shouldn't take too long to fix if multiple editors assist in the workload. If you have any questions, let me know on my talk page and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. Happy editing! --Nehrams2020 (talk) 05:48, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Hanford Site

The world's largest environmental cleanup project is up for Featured Article consideration at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates#Hanford. Welcoming all reviews. Thanks! Northwesterner1 (talk) 07:41, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Eco-terrorism

There is a hot debate under way on keeping or renaming Category:Eco-terrorism. Please join the discussion (it's already been relisted from March 28). Cgingold (talk) 19:27, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Environmental preservation

See Talk:Environmental preservation for a discussion on the deletion of Environmental preservation after I gave it a complete rewrite. -- Alan Liefting- (talk) - 23:13, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Good article icon

A proposal to add a symbol identifying Good Articles in a similar manner to Featured ones is being discussed: see Wikipedia talk:Good articles#Proposal. Cheers! Wassupwestcoast (talk) 19:35, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Vancouver, British Columbia meet-up

Wikimedia Vancouver Meetup

Please come to an informal gathering of Vancouver Wikipedians, Monday, May 5 at 6:30 pm. It will be at Benny's Bagels, 2505 West Broadway. We'd love to see you there, and please invite others! Watch the Vancouver Meetup page for details.

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Cheers! Wassupwestcoast (talk) 15:36, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] List of environmental reports

List of environmental reports has been created. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 22:16, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Cool. I hope Outriggr's script and the assessment template works with lists. OhanaUnitedTalk page 04:05, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Geography and ecology of the Everglades

In rewriting the Everglades article, I have created two satellite articles so the main Everglades article doesn't become too large (although it still might). I would appreciate it if you could look at this article and check for content or copy edit errors. Please know: my next article will be about Settlement, draining, and development of the Everglades, so there are few issues in this article that address the politics and development of the Everglades. Another future article will address Restoration of the Everglades. I intend to bring all satellites and the Everglades article to FA at some point. Thanks in advance. --Moni3 (talk) 14:26, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Probably best to ask at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ecology and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Geography. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 00:08, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Environment (biophysical)

I have created Environment (biophysical). It cam out of the need that I discovered when disambiguating links to the Environment page. Many editors assumed there was but one meaning for "environment" and that meaning is what I have described in the new page. I have not used any references yet but the large number of internal links to other major articles makes it less of a requirement. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 03:48, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] List of climate change topics

List of climate change topics is a copy of Glossary of climate change with a few other articles thrown in. There is no reason to have two pages that are essentially the same. I propose that this is turned into a list in the same style as List of conservation topics, List of architecture topics etc. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 20:42, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

I have now converted the list into a list by removing the descriptions. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 05:37, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] List of environment-related websites

I think there ought to be a page regarding environment-related websites, i.e. all the websites that promote helping the environment and such. For example, my friend started a website that outlines his plan to save polar bears from mass-extinction (one Styrofoam cup at a time...). I figure that Wikipedia probably doesn't want an individual article for every one of these pages, so possibly a whole list with the name of the site,a brief summary of what they do, and what sort of environmental problem they relate to. I figure this way any user could see the whole list and be able to find a site that maybe they'd like to support or something like that. Thoughts? Omega234 (talk) 04:38, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

If there are enough of them with their own articles, perhaps, but I don't like the idea of listing websites that are not notable enough for an article here. Something like the Open Directory Project is probably more suitable. Richard001 (talk) 05:25, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
edit conflict!!
There was a page called List of environmental websites that was created three times but since deleted. It was for articles in WP about environmental websites, not simply a list of external links. There is also Category:Environmental websites. What you want though is a directory of all enviro website and that is something WP is not. Search engines and directories such as dmoz are probably what you want. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 05:37, 10 June 2008 (UTC)