General reference

For the scope of country (political division) coverage, see List of sovereign states.

Notice Board

Solicitations of comments on RfC's

A Request for Comment (WP:RfC) was posted Sunday, 17 July 2011 at the Talk page of South Sudan. It concerns the use of the definite article ("the") citations in the InfoBox and elsewhere of what the long form is of the country's name. It is my hope to have responses from academically aware editors devoted to Africa, geography, coutries, and British English. Hurmata (talk) 23:32, 17 July 2011 (UTC)

A Request for Comment was posted Thursday, 19 July 2012 at the Talk page of Wikipedia:Notability (geographical features). It requests suggestions on how to include consensus on which geographical features are non-notable in a draft policy proposal. G. C. Hood (talk) 16:48, 20 July 2012 (UTC)

A yet another FRC was posted in May 2014 in Wikipedia talk:Notability (geographic features) about promoting this essay to the guideline status. Staszek Lem (talk) 00:08, 18 May 2014 (UTC)

Scope

Improves geographical related articles (including those related to geographic information systems) and develop/maintain the navigation aides dedicated to geography: List of basic geography topics, List of geography topics, Glossary of geography terms, Geography-related portals and Geography-related categories.

Goals

1. Develop and implement a common structure to geography and its sub-fields
2. Clarify and improve topic structure
3. Ensure accessibility to the lay reader - with a simplified version and/or appropriate main article/daughter article structuring of scientific detail
4. Add more scientific detail (and sources) in appropriate articles
5. Develop some neglected aspects of the topic
6. Ensure NPOV
7. Get all geography articles up to A Class standard

Related projects

Task forces

• British Isles Terminology task force (WP:BISLES)

Project volunteers

Member identification

Members of WikiProject Geography should place one of the following lines of Wikitext on their user page to add it to Category:WikiProject Geography participants.

Wikitext	userbox	where used
[[Category:WikiProject Geography participants]]	none	linked pages
{{Template:User wikigeogproject}}	This user is a member of the Geography WikiProject.	linked pages
{{Template:User WP Geography}}	This user is a member of WikiProject Geography.	linked pages
{{Template:User WP Geography|invite}}	This user invites you to join WikiProject Geography.	linked pages

For other Geography user templates, see Category:Geography user templates.

Discussions and structure

• /Assessment – table of Geography articles by quality and importance
• List of all subpages of this page

Articles

• Cartography
• Geography
• Geographic information systems
• Geostatistics
• m:Geography

Review and assessment

Traveling virtually around the World on Wikipedia via country outlines

Develop the geographical outlines at Portal:Contents/Outlines#Geography and places.

These should be considered top priority for development and maintenance, because they are the general reference resource about Wikipedia's coverage of each geographical region.

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.

Articles needing attention

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

• Geography
• Environmental geography
• Geographical Information Systems
• Geography of Italy
• Geostatistics
• History of geography
• Human geography
• Philosophy of Geography
• Physical geography
• Technical Geography
• Urban geography
• Urbanism
• Geographical feature
• Exploration (1) Rating could be updated: "List"-->"Start" (2) Name could be updated: "Exploration"-->"Human Exploration"
• Geography of French Guiana
• Longitude Rating could clearly be updated. Anthere (talk) 22:52, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

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.

• Prypiat Requested move to Pripyat. Comments would be very welcome at Talk:Prypiat#RFM to Pripyat (with better justification & references)
• 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 Concern over whether the proposed infobox is neutral. See 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.
• Geography of Somerset. Debate about what should be in the new Geography of Somerset article & what should be in Geology of Somerset which is currently GA. see Talk:Geology of Somerset#Geography & Talk:Geography of Somerset.
• Sciberras Peninsula. Have completed a translation from French to English - however, I am a linguist and not a geographer so would welcome expert eyes to expand this. Beckettnoti (talk) 17:44, 23 February 2018 (UTC)
• Nova Scotia. Concern about Eurocentrism and the lack of proper inclusion of the local Wabanaki nation's histories and contemporary realities (especially as a party to foundational treaties). See Talk:Nova Scotia#Introduction & History sections

Requests for review of articles

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.

• North Sea is undergoing GA review, any assistance in this endeavour appreciated.SriMesh | talk 00:02, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
• I've been working on Fantasy cartography lately and would love some assistance and feedback! --Twomatters (talk) 06:54, 10 May 2022 (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

Peer review

• Ladakh (PR)
• Geography of North America (PR)

Templates

What to type	What it makes	What it's for
{{WikiProject Geography}} (talk)	Geography NA‑class This article 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 articles NA This article has been rated as NA-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. WikiProject Geography To-do list: Here are some tasks awaiting attention: 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	The project notice designed to be placed in the talk page of any article that has been or should be edited as part of this Wikiproject.
{{User WP Geography}} (talk)	This user is a member of WikiProject Geography.	Place this userbox on your user page to identify yourself as a member of WikiProject Geography.
{{User wikigeogproject}} (talk)	This user is a member of the Geography WikiProject.	Place this userbox on your user page to identify yourself as a member of WikiProject Geography who is a professional geographer.
{{User interest geography}} (talk)	This user is interested in Geography.	Place this userbox on your user page to identify yourself as having an interest in geography.
{{geo-stub}} (talk)	This article about a geographical location is a stub. You can help by expanding it.	The geography location stub has been designed to be placed at the bottom of small articles relating to geography of specific places that need to be expanded. Note that this stub is in practice virtually NEVER used. All geographical locations use continent-, country-, or subnational region-specific stubs, such as {{Oceania-geo-stub}}, {{Portugal-geo-stub}} or {{NovaScotia-geo-stub}}. A full list of these can be seen here.
{{geo-term-stub}} (talk)	This geographical term article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.	The geographic term stub has been designed to be placed at the bottom of small articles relating to geographical tertminology that need to be expanded.
{{geographer-stub}} (talk)	This biographical article about a geographer is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.	The geographer stub has been designed to be placed at the bottom of small articles relating to geographers that need to be expanded.
{{geography-stub}} (talk)	This geography-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.	The geography stub has been designed to be placed at the bottom of small articles relating to geography in general or geography as a scientific discipline, that need to be expanded.
{{cartography-stub}} (talk)	This cartography or mapping term article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.	The cartography stub has been designed to be placed at the bottom of small articles relating to maps and atlases that need to be expanded.
{{climate-stub}} (talk)	This climatology/meteorology-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.	The meteorology stub has been designed to be placed at the bottom of small articles relating to climatology and meteorology that need to be expanded.
{{marine-geo-stub}} (talk)	This article about a specific oceanic location or ocean current is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.	The marine geography stub has been designed to be placed at the bottom of small articles relating to specific marine locations and ocean currents that need to be expanded.
{{ocean-stub}} (talk)	This oceanography article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.	The oceanography stub has been designed to be placed at the bottom of small articles relating to oceanography that need to be expanded.
{{topography-stub}} (talk)	This article relating to a topographical term is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.	The topography stub has been designed to be placed at the bottom of small articles relating to topography that need to be expanded.
{{Geography topics}} (talk)		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.
{{Human geography}} (talk)		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.
{{Physical geography topics}} (talk)		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.
{{History of geography sidebar}} (talk)		The history of geography tag has been designed to be placed at the bottom of articles relating to the history of geography to provide an easy link to important articles.
{{Adjacent communities}} (talk)		A city related navigational template properly placed in the WP:Footers section.

Categories and subpages

• List of all subpages of this page

Resources

• Wikipedia:Geographic references

Wikipedia surveys

Deletion sorting

Geography-related deletion discussions are listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Geography.

Article alerts

Articles for deletion

• 02 May 2024 – Unveiling the Wealthy Legacy of Sindh's Culture and Traditions (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by ShelfSkewed (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
• 01 May 2024 – Deadman Crossing, Ohio (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Rosguill (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
• 01 May 2024 – List of ONS built-up areas in England by population (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by JMF (t · c); see discussion (11 participants)
• 01 May 2024 – Dawpool (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Orange sticker (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)
• 01 May 2024 – Pope, Tennessee (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by GMH Melbourne (t · c); see discussion (8 participants)
• 01 May 2024 – Furry, Mississippi (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Generalissima (t · c); see discussion (5 participants)
• 30 Apr 2024 – Palumbato Island (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by GreenLipstickLesbian (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)
• 30 Apr 2024 – Chak No.15/GD (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by CycloneYoris (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
• 30 Apr 2024 – Hatirjheel Thana (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by North8000 (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)
• 30 Apr 2024 – Megoulianitika (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Danners430 (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)

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Proposed deletions

• 28 Apr 2024 – Abeel Island (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Geschichte (t · c): Fails WP:NATFEAT. "Named natural features are often notable, provided information beyond statistics and coordinates is known to exist. [...] If a Wikipedia article cannot be developed using known sources, information on the feature can instead b ...
• 25 Apr 2024 – Swart Island (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Geschichte (t · c) was deleted
• 24 Apr 2024 – Furry, Mississippi (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Generalissima (t · c) was deproded by Liz (t · c) on 01 May 2024

Categories for discussion

• 26 Apr 2024 – Category:Beringia (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion

Redirects for discussion

• 09 Apr 2024 – Address (geography (talk · edit · hist) →Address was RfDed by Utopes (t · c); see discussion

Good article nominees

• 27 Apr 2024 – Western Ghats (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Magentic Manifestations (t · c); start discussion
• 14 Mar 2024 – Technical geography (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by GeogSage (t · c); see discussion

Featured article reviews

• 24 Jul 2023 – Geography of Ireland (talk · edit · hist) was put up for FA review by Z1720 (t · c); see discussion

Requests for comments

• 19 Apr 2024 – Climate change (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by Robert McClenon (t · c); see discussion

Peer reviews

• 26 Nov 2022 – Mexico–United States border (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by Meganfarley65 (t · c); see discussion

Requested moves

• 22 Apr 2024 – İskenderun (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Iskenderun by Aintabli (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be merged

• 30 Apr 2024 – Unveiling the Wealthy Legacy of Sindh's Culture and Traditions (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Culture of Sindh by Johnj1995 (t · c); see discussion
• 17 Jan 2024 – Akdağlar (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Anti-Taurus Mountains by LadyofShalott (t · c); see discussion
• 06 Nov 2023 – Imaging spectroscopy (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Imaging spectrometer by Fgnievinski (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be split

• 10 Dec 2023 – Western United States (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Peaceray (t · c); see discussion
• 29 Nov 2023 – Lesser Poland (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Piotrus (t · c); see discussion
• 28 Nov 2023 – Eastern Europe (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Piotrus (t · c); see discussion
• 15 Jan 2023 – Deep-sea exploration (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Pbsouthwood (t · c); see discussion
• 02 Jan 2023 – Geography of Hong Kong (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by 112.120.39.217 (t · c); see discussion
• 24 Dec 2022 – Geography of South Korea (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Piotrus (t · c); see discussion
• 26 Nov 2020 – Orography (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Lithopsian (t · c); see discussion
• 02 Aug 2020 – History of geodesy (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Fgnievinski (t · c); see discussion

Articles for creation

• 18 Apr 2024 – Draft:Tømra (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by SurgeFire (t · c)
• 14 Apr 2024 – Draft:Mount Drury (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by EditorNumber27 (t · c)
• 11 Apr 2024 – Draft:Alikhan (village) (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by User6000000 (t · c)
• 10 Apr 2024 – Draft:Marshall Hampton Reserve (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by FloridaArmy (t · c)
• 08 Apr 2024 – Draft:Map Men (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by JacobTheRox (t · c)
• 02 Apr 2024 – Draft:Świnoujście Beach (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Świnoujście Enthusiast (t · c)
• 29 Mar 2024 – Draft:Redwood Creek (Contra Costa County) (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Peter J. Caprio (t · c)
• 21 Mar 2024 – Draft:Piñon, Montrose County (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Wikishovel (t · c)
• 16 Mar 2024 – Draft:Oramel, NY (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Pshak (t · c)
• 05 Mar 2024 – Draft:Revaz Gachechiladze (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by ShotaNino (t · c)

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