Category talk:Geography

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[edit] New start page

As you can all see I added the portal. Do you think this is a good idea? I quite like it, with the warning at the top, makes the page more interesting. Otherwise it's just a bunch of topics with a definition of geography at the top. Obviously it still needs quite a bit of work and we can learn from all the other portals. I recommend that we scout around and find the best features of others and then try to copy them in improving the portal. --komencanto 08:26, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

This looks good, and is an excellent use of the Category pages and a way to be more informative for people linking from the front page. dml 11:46, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

this is the worst category page I've ever seen. why don't you use "Portal:" for this? On category i wanna qucikly find articles and subcats. Explaining what is "geography" belongs to Geography Tobias Conradi (Talk) 22:08, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

Tobias, try hitting the <End> key on the number pad of the keyboard to quickly scroll to the bottom of the cat page. Then hit the up arrow on the keyboard to see more articles and cats. Ancheta Wis 09:24, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

There should be options for whether, and if yes, where, to include the portal. See bug 3494. Brianjd | Why restrict HTML? | 06:29, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Why is this page locked??

I was just about to add a link to the geography portal and the commons and also clean up the page a bit but I can't because this page is locked. It's the only category page that is locked! What's with that? Can you at least give me a pass to make some changes? Thanks. --komencanto 00:38, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Commons

Commons has images in this category. HenkvD 18:27, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Question about Image

It is unclear why there is an image of Delhi at the bottom of this page. The global image at the top represents the category well but the Delhi image seems out of place. There are no links to Delhi on the page. In addition to being a narrow slice of the geography topic, its position at the bottom of the page is also odd.

Replace? Remove?

Any thoughts?

Tobycat 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Cat in Wikiportal style

Geography Wikiportal
Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Geography/Intro
Featured article Antarctica is the continent at the extreme southern latitudes of the Earth, containing the South Pole. It is surrounded by the Southern Ocean and divided in two by the Transantarctic Mountains. On average, it is the coldest, driest, windiest, and highest of all the continents. With 98% of it covered in ice, Antarctica, at 14 million km², is the third-smallest continent (after Europe and Australia). Because there is little precipitation, the entire continent is technically a desert and is thus the largest in the world. There are no permanent human residents and only cold-adapted plants and animals survive there, including penguins, fur seals, mosses, lichens, and many types of algae. The name "Antarctica" comes from the Greek ανταρκτικός (antarktikos), meaning "opposite the Arctic." Although myths and speculation about a Terra Australis ("Southern Land") go back to antiquity, the first sighting of the continent is commonly accepted to have occurred in 1821 by the Russian expedition of Mikhail Lazarev and Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen. Antarctica is not under the political sovereignty of any nation, although seven countries maintain territorial claims, which are not recognized by other countries. Human activity on the continent is regulated by the Antarctic Treaty, which was signed in 1959 and prohibits any military activity, supports scientific research, and protects the continent's ecozone. (more...) Featured picture ==Current Selected picture== [edit] Selected geography picture Winter scene at Shipka Pass in Bulgaria. Image credit: Psy guy [edit] Nominate a picture To nominate a selected picture for Portal:Geography, make the suggestion at Portal talk:Geography. [edit] Put on your user page You can put the selected geography picture on your user page, by using the template: {{Portal:Geography/Featured picture/{{CURRENTYEAR}}, week {{CURRENTWEEK}}}} Today is April 3, 2007, week number 14. [edit] Archive of pictures 2005 • 2006 2007 [edit] Week 1 Pressure release of granite in the Enchanted Rock State Natural Area of Texas, USA. The photo shows the geological exfoliation of granite dome rock. Photo credit: Taken by Wing-Chi Poon on 2nd April 2005 [edit] Week 2 The trail of underwater mountains created as the the tectonic plate moved across the Hawaii hotspot over millions of years, known as the Hawaiian-Emperor seamount chain, or the Emperor Seamounts. Photo credit: NOAA [edit] Week 3 Generation of a tsunami. Image credit: Anthony Liekens, Koba-chan [edit] Week 4 Cumulonimbus capillatus incus cloud, floating over Swifts Creek, Victoria in Australia. Image credit: Fir0002 [edit] Week 5 A hygrometer is used to measure the relative humidity. Image credit: José Cruz/Agência Brasil [edit] Week 6 Tonoshō port in Shodoshima Island Kagawa Prefecture, Japan at night. Photo credit: 663highland 2006.10.28 [edit] Week 7 Drake Park, Bend, Oregon, United States on 27 December 2004. Photo credit: Erik Swanson [edit] Week 8 Mount Hood reflected in Trillium Lake, Oregon. Photo credit: Oregon's Mt. Hood Territory [edit] Week 9 Great Wall of China at Mutianyu. Photo credit: Ofol [edit] Week 10 Counties of Norway. Photo credit: Júlio Reis and João David Tereso [edit] Week 11 Whale watching ships in Húsavík, Iceland. Photo credit: Andreas Tille [edit] Week 12 The Earth's tectonic plates. Image credit: AzaToth, USGS [edit] Week 13 Mouth of the glacier Schlatenkees, near Innergschlöß and Alte Prager Hütte, Austria. Image credit: SehLax [edit] Week 14 Winter scene at Shipka Pass in Bulgaria. Image credit: Psy guy [edit] Week 15 Cyclone Catarina. Note the clockwise circulation of Southern Hemisphere cyclones, the well-defined banding features, and the eyewall of at least a Category 1 system. The coastline is visible under the clouds in the upper left corner of the image. Image credit: Astronaut photograph ISS008-E-19646 was taken March 7, 2004 on the International Space Station, provided by the Earth Observations Laboratory, Johnson Space Center. [edit] Week 16 Northern shore meadows of Sihlsee, an artificial lake near Einsiedeln in the Canton of Schwyz, Switzerland. Image credit: Markus Bernet [edit] Week 17 Night view of the Thirty-three arch bridge aka. Si-o-se Pol, built over the Zayandeh Rud river in Isfahan, Iran. Image credit: Marmoulak [edit] Week 18 Colorful reef fish, Pennant coralfish, Pyramid and Milletseed butterflyfish, school in great numbers at Rapture Reef, French Frigate Shoals of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Image credit: U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration [edit] Week 19 Landscape produced by a receding glacier. Image credit: Luis María Benítez, Lycaon (vectorisation)	Did you know Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Geography/Did you know Showcase articles * Special topics - Geography * Featured articles * Things you can do This portal needs improvement so feel free to add anything you think relevant. The geography categories down below are also disorganized so you may want to improve their organization. A sampling of stubs you can improve: Bay of Pigs | Florida, Puerto Rico | Guantanamo | Strategic geography | Brent oilfield | Landscape ecology | Bottom crawler | Chemical oceanography | Marine reserve | Gulf of Mexico You might also find something here: Geography stubs | Geographical term stubs | Atmospheric science stubs | Oceanography stubs

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A proposed layout, in Portal style, for the Category page header, above the Category listings. Comments and improvements are invited. Ancheta Wis 5 July 2005 11:12 (UTC)

That's not a bad style although I've played around with it a bit on the original page because there were no 'edit' links. I made it more like most of the other portals in style. Do we have permission to incorporate portals and categories? Is that now wikipedia policy so to speak? Do we think it's a good idea? --komencanto 00:38, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Unprotected

The category page is now unprotected. You may go ahead with any edits to the category page. Bratsche^{talk 5 pillars} 02:33, July 13, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Templates

Why are there about 30 templates on this page? It looks exactly the same as the portal page - why can't we just incorporate that (I suppose it's {{:Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Geography}})? Brianjd | Why restrict HTML? | 09:39, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Map of Earth

My browser says that the picture "Map of Earth" is unavailable. Brianjd | Why restrict HTML? | 06:15, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

Mine says 'forbidden'?! HenryLi 13:01, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

It seems to work now. Brianjd | Why restrict HTML? | 01:58, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Categorisation

Why did you make this category part of the Top 10 category but with an inicial space:

[[Category:Top 10| Geography]]

It doesn't look so good to me, mainly because it isn't sorted in the G block but instead, in a no initial block. jοτομικρόν | Talk 13:00, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Topography

Why is this category needed? What does it contain that is not present under other categories ( especially). Should we make a subcategory under Physical Geography for terrain?

Note recent chanegs to the article topography,a nd the addition of new articles Cartographic Relief Depiction and terrain. There is a good discussion in Talk:Topography for background. --Natcase 13:26, 20 November 2006 (UTC)