Wikipedia:WikiProject Geography

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Welcome to the Wikiproject Geography a project to better organize information in articles related to Geography. This page and its subpages 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:

To-do listfor Wikipedia:WikiProject Geography: edit · history · watch · refresh

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Lists to develop/expand/complete

TOP PRIORITY: Lists of basic country topics (one for each country) - these are general reference companions to the main articles on each country. Are your favorite countries covered yet? The lists completed enough to be transferred to article space can be found at Portal:Contents/Lists of basic topics#Geography and places.
List of geography topics (replace redirect with an article index. See List of psychology topics as an example).
List of geographers

Articles tagged for missing sources

Cartography

Needed articles

Geographical feature
Glossary of geography terms
Regions of North America (See Regions of Africa)
Regions of South America
Regions of Oceania
Demographics of Asia (See Demographics of Africa)
Demographics of Oceania

Articles needing clean up

Geography stubs (need expansion)

Cycle of erosion
Outer Continental Shelf -- needs categorization and article improvement.

Notice Board

Current Geography Collaboration of the Fortnight GeographyCurrently on Peer reviewCurrently on Featured article candidates

History of Earth
Palm Island, Queensland

Quneitra

Please see the Category:Geography articles by quality to asses the quality of geography articles and add the appropriate class.

Scope and Goals

Scope

Improve geography & related articles (including those related to Geographic information systems), and develop/maintain the navigation aids dedicated to geography: Overview of 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

Parentage

No parent of this WikiProject has been defined.

Participants

If you are a participant, you can keep in touch with project developments by adding Wikipedia:WikiProject Geography to your watchlist.

User can also add the following userbox to their userspace {{User wikigeogproject}}

User Areas of interest Comments Aude (talk · contribs) George Potter (talk · contribs) Qmwne235 (talk · contribs) Geographer (talk · contribs) Geographical Thought, Biogeography, Cultural Landscape, Humanistic Geography, World Geography and Geographic Distribution of Almost Everything! Full time H1B, Part time MS in Environmental Studies Mappychris (talk · contribs) Arkbar (talk · contribs) Urban Geography, Philosophy of Geography, Transport planning, Historical Geography, Socio-Economic Modelling Second year Geography BA student Bohunk (talk · contribs) Planning, GIS, Logistics, Statistics, Transportation, Urban-Rural issues, Geopolitics, Economics, Water Resource planning. 3rd/4th year Geography BSc student Cradel (talk · contribs) Superbfc (talk · contribs) Transport, Geology, Demographics, Anthropology, Urbanism, Planning, Historical Geography, Cartography Civil Engineer & Travel addict GeoW (talk · contribs) Economic Geography, Location theory and spatial analysis, GIS, History and philosophy of geography and others Master's degree in Human Geography Jordz (talk · contribs) Urban Geography, Geomorphology, Climatology, Language Geography, Political Geography BS Geography graduate SuzanneKn (talk · contribs) places, human geog, rivers BSC Hons Geog + geog teacher to A level Buaidh (talk · contribs) history of cartography, geodesy, GIS, energy, transportation, mountain ranges and peaks Professional Engineer and aspiring idiot savant. I can recite all of the hemispheres. Patar knight (talk · contribs) capitals, rivers, historical geography High school champion of geography (determined by contest) Cosmopolitancats (talk · contribs) Urban Geography; Perceptual Geography Geography Degree Seraphim84 (talk · contribs) General Geography, Geography in Secondary Education, Map and Aerial Photography Interpretation, Business Geography, Cultural Geography, and Historical Geography. Fourth year BS in Geography with a minor in Social Sciences and Secondary Education. Highfields (talk · contribs) Hobbies include Cartographyand Vexillology, Political Geography Expert on Capital Cities, can recite and remember all the capital cities of the world Quizimodo (talk · contribs) all aspects of geography: physiography, oceanography, political geography, urban geography JCPH (talk · contribs) All areas of geography. Londium (talk · contribs) I can work within many fields of Geography. A list of the specifics might take awhile to type and will take alot of space up. Not a Professional but I consider my knowledge to be above par. Iheartgeography (talk · contribs) Cultural geography, political geography, geography of population and migration, place and scale, globalization, transnationalism BA, MA and PhD in Human Geography Acs4b (talk · contribs) I'm interested in Cultural geography, Human geography, Urban geography, Demographyand Political geography. I don't consider my knowledge in Geography to be fantastic, since I am only in secondary school, but I think I'm still above average in this field (for someone my age, that is). To put it in another perspective, I know that Portugueseis the official language of Braziland I also have a knowledge of several capital cities of the world such as Berne(which is the capital of Switzerland), Antananarivo(Madagascar), Port Moresby(Papua New Guinea), Baku(Azerbaijan) and Andorra la Vella(Andorra). Wikipedia has obviously improved my geography skills. Avocadoman333 (talk · contribs) California Geography, I guess, would be my specialty, but I am good with general geography as well. Although I don't have any official qualifications for geography, I still am pretty good at it. Bart133 (talk · contribs) Geography in general - no specific area of expertise I don't have any official qualifications, but I tied for 11th in the 2007 National Geographic Bee. Blathnaid (talk · contribs) Ruennsheng (talk · contribs) Urban geographyI don't have any official qualifications as I'm just a junior in high school. Cooper-42 (talk · contribs) Human geography, in particular: Feminist geography, Cultural geography, Urban geographyBA in Human Geog.; Leeds, UK.

Currently MA student- Human Geog. Durham, UK.

Have been fiddling with various H.geog pages for some time now, mostly feminism and cultural geography.

Rosiestep (talk · contribs) Physical and cultural geography I've created and/or edited several island, lake, river, strait, Arctic, etc. articles. Gr8opinionater (talk · contribs) Meldshal42 (talk · contribs) Black Tusk (talk · contribs)

Pages needing Attention

Traveling around the World on Wikipedia: the lists of basic country topics

Along with the main article on each country, the lists of basic country topics should be considered top priority for development and maintenance, because they are the corresponding general reference resource on Wikipedia for each country. Based on a standard design each list presents its information in the same logical order, so that when completed, these lists will be the easiest way on Wikipedia to study countries or find general information about them.

Each list doubles as a general outline of knowledge about a country and as a table of contents (or fundamental site map) of the material about that country on Wikipedia. These lists are intended to be the next stage of evolution of navigation aid for browsing country-related information on Wikipedia, improving upon (and complementing) the presentation of country-related subjects in Wikipedia's category system.

One of these pages has been created for every country of the world and development is already well underway, but so far only a few have been transferred to the encyclopedia itself...

The countries completed enough that they have been transfered to article space can be found listed at Portal:Contents/Lists of basic topics#Geography and places. These still need finishing touches, articles or redirects need to be created for each of their redlinks, and the lists need to be embellished with maps and images.

The rest are in rougher stages of development (drafts) and can be found listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists of basic topics#Basic topics lists for countries.

Are your favorite countries covered in the encyclopedia yet, or are they still in the draft section?

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.

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.

Orography of Cúcuta Concern about organizing geography on a purely political geography basis. See Talk:Orography of Cúcuta.
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 Dispute on whether to include Japan's administration data over Liancourt Rocks when it's purely paperwork + whether the latest edits were done per consensus, at 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.

Request for review of article

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.

Geography of Saskatchewan is up for good article nomination. If anyone has any suggestions that could improve it to achieve GA that would be awesome.SriMesh | talk 03:27, 19 January 2008 (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

Articles needing Attention

Discussions and Structure

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Templates

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Talk Geography Portal

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Talk v • d • e Geographytopics General Geography · History of geographyLists Basic topics · Geographers · Geography of countriesBranches Human geography: Behavioral · Cultural · Demography · Development · Economic · Feminist · Health · Historical · Political · Regional · Urban ·
Physical geography: Biogeography · Climatology · Coastal · Environmental · Geodesy · Geomorphology · Glaciology · Hydrology · Landscape ecology · Limnology · Oceanography · Palaeogeography · Pedology · Quaternary scienceTechniques Cartography · Geographic Information Systems(GIS) · Geostatistics · Global Positioning System(GPS) · Remote sensing · Spatial data analysis · Qualitative methodsSocieties American Geographical Society · Association of American Geographers · European Geography Association · Geographical Association · Hong Kong Geographical Association · International Geographical Union · National Geographic Society · Royal Canadian Geographical Society · Royal Geographical Society · Royal Scottish Geographical Society · Russian Geographical Society · Saudi Geographical Society · Society of Woman Geographers · Société de Géographie

The geography Navigation has been designed to be placed at the bottom of articles relating to geography to provide an easy link to important articles. {{Physical Geography Sub-disciplines}}
Talk v • d • e General sub-fields of physical geography

Biogeography · Climatology & paleoclimatology · Coastal geography · Geomorphology · Glaciology · Hydrology & Hydrography · Landscape ecology · Limnology · Oceanography · Palaeogeography · Pedology · Quaternary science

The physical geography sub-discipline tag has been designed to be placed at the bottom of articles relating to physical geography to provide an easy link to important articles. {{Human geography2}}
Talk v • d • eSub-fields of and approaches to Human geographySub-fields

Cultural · Development · Economic · Health · Historical · Language · Marketing · Military · Political · Population · Religion · Strategic · Time · Tourism · Transportation · Urban

Approaches

Behavioral · Critical · Culture theory · Feminist · Marxist · Non-representational theory
Modernism (Structuralism • Semiotics) · Postmodernism (Post-structuralism • Deconstruction)

The human geography sub-discipline tag has been designed to be placed at the bottom of articles relating to human geography to provide an easy link to important articles. {{History of geography}}
Talk Geography History of geography

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Infoboxes

{{Country geography}} usable in "Geography of (Country)" articles, see Category:Geography by country.

Related Wiki Pages

Wikipedia articles on Geography

Wikipedia namespace and Meta-Wiki articles on Geography

Wikipedia:Geography
meta:Geography

Descendant WikiProjects

Human Geography

Historical Human Geography

Physical Geography

other

Related Wikiportals

New Wikipedia articles related to Geography

Please feel free to list your new Geography-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Wikipedia page. DYN has a 72 hr. time limit from the creation of the article.

Ladakh (PR)
Geography of North America (PR)

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Resources

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Requested moves:

Continental Divide (an article on the cordilleran divide in the western hemisphere, not on the landform in general, which is found at Continental divide), proposed to be moved to Great Divide over redirect. Discussed at Talk:Continental_Divide#Proposed_Move. Kablammo 22:19, 21 October 2007 (UTC)