Wikipedia:WikiProject Glaciers

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**WikiProject Glaciers**
Franz Josef Glacier, New Zealand
Shortcuts:	WP:GLACIERS
Portal:	Geography Portal
Wikimedia Commons:	Glaciers
Parent project:	Geography
Project notice template:	{{Messagebox glaciers}}
Participant userbox:	{{User WikiProject Glaciers}}

Welcome to the Glaciers WikiProject, a collaboration area and group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Glaciers.

(For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject and the Guide to WikiProjects).

Goals

This WikiProject aims to enhance information on glaciers, glaciology and related articles.

Scope

All articles about glaciers, glaciology, geologic and geographical impacts from glaciers, as well as climatological articles directly related to glaciers.

The Malaspina Glacier is so large that it can only seen in its entirety from space; this 1994 photo from STS-66, on a rare clear day, is of an area about 100 km (60 mi) across.

[edit] Guidelines

Wikipedia:Guide to writing better articles

[edit] Open tasks

Add infobox to articles.
Add message box to talk pages related to this project.
Expand List of glaciers, the list is underpopulated for European and Asian glaciers.
Expand article listed at Category:WikiProject Glaciers articles by quality, which links to the talk pages of articles associated with this project.
Add and cleanup images listed at commons. Many images of glaciers can be found on the mainpage for the glacier category and subpages listed at Commons Category:Glaciers
Expand articles listed as stubs which can be found at Category:Glaciology stubs

[edit] Participants

Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.

MONGO 04:22, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
Walter Siegmund (talk) 21:10, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
Jarfingle 16:24, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
Peltoms 16:58, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
Geologyguy 18:45, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
Daniel.Bryant 14:19, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
Dentren | ^Talk 19:03, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
Seattle Skier 22:02, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
Jespinos 04:04, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
Skyscraper Phoenix 19:32, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
Milton25 20:44, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Articles

[edit] Featured pictures

Perito Moreno Glacier, Argentina

Eyjafjallajökull, Iceland (on commons)

Canada Glacier in Antarctica

Glacial Lakes in Bhutan

[edit] Featured picture candidates

[edit] New articles

Please feel free to list your new Glaciers-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 the Main Page.

Glacier terminus

[edit] Collaboration and review

Collaboration of the week

Peer review

Assessment

[edit] Articles in need of improvement

Ablation zone
Accumulation zone
Antarctic ice sheet (see talk page)
Bergschrund
Glacial erratic
Glacial lake
Glacial lake outburst flood
Glacial landforms
Glacial motion
Glacial striations
Glacier strive to get this article to Featured Article level
Glacier ice accumulation
Glacier mass balance
Glacier morphology
Glaciologist...no article...currently redirects to Glaciology
Glaciology
Holocene glacial retreat
Ice cap
Ice field (currently being improved)
Ice sheet
Ice shelf
Ice stream
Ice tongue
Interglacial optimum (Mostly climate related)
Interglacial (Mostly climate related)
National Snow and Ice Data Center lots of redlined links, general cleanup needed
Névé
Nivation
Nunatak
Proglacial lake
Rock flour
Rock glacier
Surge (glacier) (Probably retitle to Surging glacier or similar?)

[edit] Templates

[edit] Glacier infobox

At right is an example of the infobox that can be used for glacier articles. Further instructions on the usage of the infobox can be found at the infobox talk page.

Gannett Glacier (EXAMPLE)
Gannett Glacier on the north slope of Gannett Peak
Type	Mountain glacier
Location	Wyoming, U.S.
Coordinates	43°11′48″N, 109°39′02″W
Area	896 acres (3.63 km²)
Terminus	Moraine
Status	Retreating

Helpful pointers:

If one knows the length and width of a glacier in feet, the area can be determined by multiplying the length by the width and dividing the result by 43,560. This will give one the acreage. To do metric conversions it is recommended one use Google by simply typing the distance or area and then to the conversion one wishes to make.
It is generally standard practice to have metric distances and areas in articles shown first with United States customary units second unless the article is about a glacier in the U.S. In scientific articles, metric is generally considered to be the standard and customary units are used only as a courtesy. Either way is fine.
Glaciers are sometimes more difficult to locate on a map than are mountains, so a query on a certain mountain known to be close the glacier may help narrow down the search.

[edit] Wikiproject messagebox

{{Messagebox glaciers}} can be added near the top of talk pages. The template produces the following message:

	This article is within the scope of the Glaciers WikiProject, a collaborative WikiProject related to glaciers and glaciology worldwide. It may include the Glacier infobox. If you would like to participate, you can choose to edit the article attached to this page (see Wikipedia:Contributing FAQ for more information).
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the assessment scale.

This template automatically adds article talk pages to Category:WikiProject Glaciers articles by quality.

[edit] Stub articles

{{Glaciology-stub}} can be added to the bottom of article pages related to this project. A stub is generally any article that doesn't have at least one reliable reference, two paragraphs of information and or lacks appropriate links to categories. Please add the stub template to the article page of articles which meet this criteria and as discussed at the stub guideline page.

All articles that are tagged as stubs automatically link to Category:Glaciology stubs.

[edit] Links to templates

Template:Messagebox glaciers Link to page which has the messagebox used on talk pages.

Template:Infobox Glacier Completed, changes are always possible, please contribute to the discussion at the talk page for the project or on the template talk page.

Template:Glaciology-stub Link to page with stub template for glaciology related articles.

Template:User WikiProject Glaciers Link to participant userbox.

[edit] Categories

List of known categories related to this project which needs cleanup, creation and further splitting into smaller subcatergories. See help:categories for clarification.

Category:WikiProject Glaciers articles by quality links to subcategories that list all known articles related to this project, namely, the subcategories immediately below.
- Category:FA-Class Glacier articles (Featured articles)
- Category:A-Class Glacier articles (A-class articles) (this was deleted since it was not populated yet)
- Category:GA-Class Glacier articles (Good articles)
- Category:B-Class Glacier articles (B-class articles)
- Category:Start-Class Glacier articles (Start-class articles)
- Category:Stub-Class Glacier articles (Stub-class articles)
- Category:Non-article Glacier pages (Category, project and template pages)
- Category:Unassessed Glacier articles (Articles that have yet to be rated)

Category:Glaciology stubs links to all stub articles related to glaciology, but not to glaciers themselves.

Category:Water iceThis needs to be straightened out/blended with Bodies of Ice or made into an Ice Supercategory
- Category:Bodies of ice Needs to be blended into below mentioned categories and deleted.
- Category:Glaciology links to article related to glaciology and glacially influenced landforms.
  - Category:Glaciers

[edit] Lists

List of glaciers

[edit] Related areas

The parent of this WikiProject is the WikiProject Geography. A related WikiProject is WikiProject Mountains.

The Portal for Geography is the major parent portal for this project.

[edit] Resources

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