Talk:Climate action

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Should this be a broad concept article?

I noticed the tag for "broad concept article" added by Kleinpecan and supported by Clayoquot. While I agree with you to some extent in theory, I am unclear how we could put this into practice? I think the term "climate action" is used by different people for different things. Perhaps climate change mitigation is the main one but nevertheless I think a redirect to there would make the situation worse as it's often used also with other meanings. It's basically ill-defined in current usage, isn't it? Pinging also sadads, Dtetta and femkemilene. EMsmile (talk) 13:24, 21 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I have some doubts as to the value of developing climate action into a broader article. In addition to EMsmile’s concern about the variation in meaning, “Climate action” seems like an abstract concept, as opposed to the items listed on this page, which strike me as more concrete. How would this be fleshed out beyond the ideas contained in the list of pages that are referenced? Is there some category of general action these pages are missing? Is there some uniquely describable feature that would be captures in this article? Given the difficulty in keeping even the articles listed here up to date, I would be cautious about adding a new demand on editor’s time. Dtetta (talk) 14:56, 21 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The comments above persuade me that it would be best to keep this as a disambiguation page. Cheers, Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 16:26, 21 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I have thought about it further and made the first sentence a bit more like a definition: "Climate action (or climate change action) refers to a range of activities, mechanisms, policy instruments and so forth that aim to reduce the severity of human induced climate change or its impacts, namely:..." In this case, perhaps we could say it's no longer a disambiguation article but a list-type article or a stub? This would have the advantage that when someone wikilinks to it they don't get that notification that one shouldn't link to a disambiguation page. Would this work? EMsmile (talk) 17:31, 21 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Great idea! Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 18:11, 21 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks - I've changed it now to a list type article (I hope I did everything correctly). Probably the list will expand over time. EMsmile (talk) 08:48, 22 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I have trouble imagining it growing as a list though, that doesn't repeat the other articles. This is a good case study in how lists can severe disambiguation functions and vis versa, Sadads (talk) 11:49, 22 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

It might grow as we think of more (existing) Wikipedia articles that could be regarded as contributing to the suite of possible "climate action" measures. What did you mean by: "how lists can severe disambiguation functions and vis versa"? EMsmile (talk) 19:14, 22 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I imagine that was a typo - Sadads probably meant to say "lists can serve as disambiguation functions". Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 05:48, 24 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

"serve" yes, that was me typing quickly, Sadads (talk) 15:02, 24 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

OK, cool, I thought perhaps it was meant as sever = divide by cutting or slicing. - So overall we feel this is OK as a list for now? Any immediate to-dos remaining? EMsmile (talk) 17:20, 24 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]