Wikipedia:WikiProject Seamounts

Welcome to WikiProject Seamounts, a collaboration area and group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of seamounts and related subjects. For more information on WikiProjects in general, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject and the Guide to WikiProjects.

Goals

• This WikiProject aims to enhance information on seamounts, volcanology, igneous petrology, and related articles.

Scope

• All articles about seamounts, mid-ocean ridges, and other oceanic mountain structures.
• Also articles about many types of seamounts (guyots, submarine volcanoes, submerged continental fragments) are within the scope.
• Articles about some oceanic species are included within the project's scope because of their association with seamounts.
• Articles about some marine protected areas which have been set aside primarily because of their seamounts.
• Articles about people, places, or other entities notable for their association with a seamount.

Please feel free to join the project and expand its scope in any necessary directions.

WikiProject Seamounts

Multibeam image of Denson Seamount, looking approximately northwest
Shortcut	WP:SEAMOUNT WP:SEAMOUNTS
Parent project(s)	Geography
Project banner template	{{WikiProject Seamounts}}
Userbox	{{User WikiProject Seamounts}}

Participants

Code	Result
{{Template:User WP Seamounts}}	This user is a member of WikiProject Seamounts	Usage
{{Template:User WikiProject Seamounts}}	This user is a participant in WikiProject Seamounts.	Usage

User	Areas of interest	Comments
Ceranthor (talk · contribs)
Black Tusk (talk · contribs)	Mostly submarine features in Canadian territory.	Helped getting Bowie Seamount to GA status.
Flappy Pigeon (talk · contribs)	I like seamounts; not sure why.	First article on seamounts: Northampton Seamounts
Resident Mario (talk · contribs)	Seamounts, duh	Focus on Hawaii; first GA Ferdinandea.
Reego41 (talk · contribs)	Seamounts in Tonga and Izu-Mariana regions	Nominated West Mata for GA, made multiple articles for seamounts

Please join the project!   (for instructions on joining, click the edit tab for this section)

Tasks clipboard

Assess articles in scope of the project.

• Add seamount categories to articles.
• Add {{Infobox Seamount}}, {{WikiProject Seamounts}}, and other seamount-related fields to pages within our scope.
• Expand seamount articles which are stubs, esp. by adding photos and references.
• Add the {{WikiProject Seamounts}} message box to talk pages of articles within the scope of this project, including appropriate assessments if needed.
• Assess all articles within the scope of the project.
• Add appropriate seamount type categories to articles, and verify the accuracy of any existing categories. See the section Categorization below.
• Add {{Infobox Seamount}} to articles if needed and missing, and add seamount-related fields to existing infoboxes if these are missing.
  Use {{convert}} templates to ensure accurate conversion of elevations, distances, areas, and volumes.
• Expand seamount articles which are stubs, especially by adding photos and (most importantly) proper references.
  Feel free to add on to this

Announcements

Featured content candidates: None at this time Good content candidates: None at this time

New articles: None at this time Current collaboration: None at this time

Peer reviews: None at this time Class reassessment: None at this time Input requested: None at this time None at this time Merge discussions: None at this time

Deletion discussions: None at this time Proposed deletions: None at this time Featured article reviews: None at this time Good article reassessments: None at this time

The root category for this WikiProject is Category:Physical oceanography. The major category, Category:Seamounts, should be reserved for articles about types of seamounts, while specific individual volcanoes and volcanic belts / fields / regions / zones should be listed in the appropriate subcategories.

Next, please ensure that it has the correct seamount type categories (one or more, in some cases):

Seamounts

Seamounts by sea or ocean

Seamount chains

Guyots

Submarine volcanoes

Seamounts

Volcanoes by sea or ocean

Submarine calderas

Submarine volcanoes of Indonesia

Former islands

Former islands by country

Islands of the Aral Sea

Ephemeral islands

Former islands from the last glacial maximum

Guyots

Wikimedia Commons has many images of volcanoes and volcanic phenomena, along with igneous rocks. Many of these photos would make useful additions to many of our articles here which may be lacking adequate illustrations.

However, we have built a subpage database, /Images that records many of the significant images used on Seamount and Seamount related articles.

Please see the Commons categories at right, or try searching Commons since many images available there are not properly categorized yet.

WikiProject Seamounts pages by quality
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In order to easily identify articles in need of attention, article assessments have been implemented. These are generated using the optional class and importance parameters in the {{WikiProject Seamounts}} project banner on an article's talk page: {{WikiProject Seamount | class= | importance= }}

Articles in need of expansion

The most important such article is Seamount.

In general, "B" class articles which are "Mid" importance or higher should be polished up and nominated as good articles.

The easiest way to find articles which fall within a particular intersection of quality and importance categories is to use the assessments worklist, which is transcluded from Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/WikiProject Seamounts articles by quality. Please the Assessment department for details.

Project watchlist

Using the bot-generated assessment logs, it is now possible to generate a watchlist which includes all articles within the project's scope. All of the logs have been combined into a single large file with all dates unlinked, so that the following link provides a single unified watchlist which should include all talk pages which have {{WikiProject Seamounts}} tags, along with their corresponding articles:

• Special:Recentchangeslinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Seamounts/Assessment/Log complete

It is also quite simple to generate a watchlist which includes only the talk pages:

• Special:Recentchangeslinked/Category:WikiProject Seamounts articles

Similar Wikiprojects

• Most (but not all) seamounts are also volcanoes, so they fall within the scope of WikiProject Volcanoes. But as the "Scope" above demonstrates, this project is far from being a mere subset of WikiProject Volcanoes.

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Geology is aimed to organize and expand geology specific articles.

Full code for Infobox:

{{Infobox Seamount                       
 | Name           = NAME
 | Depth          = DEPTH FROM SEA LEVEL
 | Height         = HEIGHT FROM SEA FLOOR
 | Map            = MAP SHOWING AREA
 | Map caption    = MAP CAPTION
 | Summit area    = 
 | Location       = APPROX LOCATION
 | Group          = 
 | Coordinates    = COORDINATES OF SEAMOUNT
 | Country        = TERRITORY OF _____
 | Type           = USE [[Submarine volcano]]
 | Volcanic group = 
 | Age            = APPROX AGE
 | Last eruption  = LAST ERUPTION
 | Discovered     = DISCOVERY YEAR
 | Discovered by  = DISCOVERER
 | First visit    = FIRST LANDING
 | Translation    = FOREIGN LANGUAGE TRANSLATION
 | Language       = LANGUAGE ORIGIN OF NAME
 | Pronunciation  = IPA PRONUNCIATION ASSISTANCE
 | Photo          = PHOTO OR ARTISTIC DEPICTION
 | Photo caption  = CAPTION
}}

Full Code for Category:

{{WikiProject Seamounts|class=|importance=
|needs-infobox=yes/no|needs-attention=yes/no}}

Infoboxes

Many Seamount articles are missing the {{Template:Infobox Seamount}} infobox; one of the main current goals of the project is to generate one for every notable seamount. However, there is also an extremely useful template for generating a "map" of the object from a blank map, via {{Template:Location map}}. Alternatively, you may grab a blank map, place a marker on it, and upload it. The perfered marker is File:Wallpaper group diagram legend rotation3.svg, which gives you (note that it has a white border, too)

Category:WikiProjects participating in Wikipedia 1.0 assessments