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Geography

This page is within the scope of WikiProject Geography, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of geography on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.GeographyWikipedia:WikiProject GeographyTemplate:WikiProject Geographygeography

WikiProject Geography To-do list:

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Article requests : See Requested articles/Social sciences/Geography, cities, regions and named places and Missing articles about Locations
Assess : Tag related article talk pages with {{WikiProject Geography}}. To help assess the quality and importance of geography articles, please see: Unassessed geography articles and Unknown-importance geography articles.
Cleanup : See Geography articles needing attention
Deletion sorting : Listed at Geographic related deletion discussions
Geographical coordinates : See Articles missing geocoordinate data by country
Infobox : See Geography articles needing infoboxes
Map : See Wikipedia requested maps
Notability : See Geography articles with topics of unclear notability
Photo : See Wikipedia requested photographs of places
Stubs : See Geography stubs

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Proposed swapping Vital article level 1 Human history with vital article level 2 Geography.

I have proposed swapping vital article level 1 Human history with vital article level 2 Geography. This would make geography a level 1 vital article. Please join the discussion here if you are interested. GeogSage ^{(⚔Chat?⚔)} 20:47, 29 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Talk:Mediterranean Basin#Requested move 13 November 2024

An RM asking to lowercase Mediterranean Basin to Mediterranean basin may be of interest. Randy Kryn (talk) 12:11, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion on re-naming individual fracture zone articles in sentence case

See Talk:Mendocino Fracture Zone as input from those familiar with outcomes of historic debates on capitalisation of geographical names may be helpful. ChaseKiwi (talk) 23:16, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

One of your project's articles has been selected for improvement!

Hello,
Please note that Gulf, which is within this project's scope, has been selected as one of the Articles for improvement. The article is scheduled to appear on Wikipedia's Community portal in the "Articles for improvement" section for one week, beginning today. Everyone is encouraged to collaborate to improve the article. Thanks, and happy editing!
_{Delivered by — MusikBot ^talk 00:05, 9 December 2024 (UTC) on behalf of the AFI team}[reply]

Policy question

At Indian Ocean, editors sometimes want to rename the Persian Gulf to the Arabian Gulf, perhaps because of a long-standing dispute over those names. I have been reverting those edits, not because I'm on one side or the other of the dispute, but just because we have to pick one and Persian Gulf seems to be the quasi-official name on Wikipedia.

Are my reverts consistent with policy? Can anyone cite policy saying so? Any other advice? Thanks, Mgnbar (talk) 21:18, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Possibly go through the subject article's talk page, including its archives, or the same for Persian Gulf naming dispute? I made a small attempt at the former, but gave up. —DocWatson42 (talk) 10:08, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Mgnbar: You're welcome. ^_^ DocWatson42 (talk) 12:48, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Guideline for the layout of geography articles, especially settlements?

Greetings and felicitations. Is there are guideline for the general layout of geography-related articles, especially settlements? I tend to see lede; name etymology, when present; history; geography (with climate as a subsection); and then things like economy and government/politics. Is this correct? —DocWatson42 (talk) 09:50, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Feedback requested at Proposed merger of Magdalena Medio articles

A discussion is open about a merger of two articles about the Magdalena Medio region of Colombia. Your feedback would be appreciated at WT:WikiProject Countries#Proposed merger of Magdalena Medio articles. Mathglot (talk) 20:06, 10 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Good article reassessment for Geography of Croatia

Geography of Croatia has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 00:57, 11 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Feedback requested at Amdo

I prefer the lead to be shorter and without some of the errors introduced. A new editor however has been focused on adding to it. They have also removed sourced information from the body. Here are the links to the edit history [1] and Talk:Amdo. Vacosea (talk) 22:58, 13 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProjects

Hello, how are you? Thank you. But tell me to join the project by Sunday! Is it filling in geography articles? Or is there another condition? Thank you. (VVWiki8 (talk) 16:10, 21 January 2025 (UTC))[reply]

Hi VVWiki8, WikiProjects are just groups of volunteers. If you want to volunteer to help out, that's usually all the condition there is. CMD (talk) 16:17, 21 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. Yes, I want to. How can I do that? (VVWiki8 (talk) 16:31, 21 January 2025 (UTC))[reply]

Working on Geography related articles is probably the core need. Other items can be found in Wikipedia:WikiProject Geography/to do. CMD (talk) 17:37, 21 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Good. Thank you! Happy editing! (VVWiki8 (talk) 17:49, 21 January 2025 (UTC))[reply]

Good article reassessment for Geography of Newfoundland and Labrador

Geography of Newfoundland and Labrador has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 16:13, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]