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Hi. You may be familiar with the Philip Greenspun Illustration Project. $20,000 has been donated to pay for the creation of high quality diagrams for Wikipedia and its sister projects.
Requests are currently being taken at m:Philip Greenspun illustration project/Requests and input from members of this project would be very welcome. If you can think of any diagrams (not photos or maps) that would be useful then I encourage you to suggest them at this page. If there is any free content material that would assist in drawing the diagram then it would be great if you could list that, too.
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Obviously needs lots of work (e.x. Mount Garibaldi, Mount Cayley, Mount Meager, Mount Silverthrone). I have worked on geology and a lot of referening of these articles for quite a while but still need more info and detail other than geology (e.x. history, climbing, discovery, etc). Canadian Cascade volcanoes have produced major explosive eruptions and large landslides in the recent geological past, including The Barrier landslide in 1855-56, the major eruption of Mount Meager 2350 years ago, sending ash as far as Alberta. These observations are indications that Canada's major Cascade volcanoes are potentially active, and that their associated hazards may be significant. For this reason the Geological Survey of Canada are planning for developing hazard maps and emergency plains for Mount Cayley and Mount Meager volcanic complexes. They are closely related to the other Cascade volcanoes in the United States (i.e. Mount St. Helens, Mount Rainier, Mount Baker, etc).
In addition, volcanic disasters have occurred in Canada. During the 18th century, the Tseax River Cone eruption killed 2000 people. Anyways I'm asking for help from anyone willing to expend these articles into a GA and eventually an FA. Thanks. Black Tusk 19:23, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
I came across these two articles and wondered if there was merit in combining them, there must be a lot of overlap but would respect whatever the convention is around here. See Talk:Volcanism in Italy for more. FlagSteward ( talk) 13:11, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
Just to let everyone know, I have now finished rating every volcano article that didn't have either an importance or class rating! - 09/03/2008 I will get started on the article's that have no importance straight away!
Thanks rockyourworld ( talk) 22:18, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
I have noticed that the GVP website has been updated. Several volcanoes have been added and other volcanoes have been eliminated. Some VNUMs have been reassigned to other volcanoes. By way of illustration, Acotango is no longer listed on the GVP website, the VNUM that corresponded to this volcano now is assigned to Tambo Quemado and the previous VNUM of this latter volcano is no longer being used. I am unaware of the number of Wikipedia articles that are being affected by the update. Jespinos ( talk) 19:20, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi all. In the process of reverting some really random vandalism I did a google search for Christopher G. Newhall and discovered that he is a pretty notable guy and I think plenty worthy of an article. He seems to be described as one of the foremost volcanologists and the creator of the Volcanic explosiveness index and would, therefore, seem notable. I would appreciate input as i start building the article (just a talk page right now) especially if anyone has some real-world sources or a free image of him. Thanks ahead of time. Adam McCormick ( talk) 01:25, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
Does the Wikiproject have any need for ? If not, please delete. Thanks. GregManninLB ( talk) 17:27, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
This article is going to need a lot of clean up. It looks like there is a class project to update the article. There is a lot of good content there, but some of it isn't very encyclopedic and some of it probably belongs in other related articles. -- Burntnickel ( talk) 11:13, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
According to Talk:Mount Royal, Mount Royal has been added to this wikiproject. However, it is not a volcano, but an igneous intrusion mountain, which according to this page is not covered by the wikiproject. Can the box simply be deleted, or is there a process? - Montréalais ( talk) 18:38, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I see that a collaboration of the week (COTW) has been added, along with an unrelated "to do" list. The COTWs I've been involved with previously have used a public nomination and voting process, to try to establish which topics will attract the most editing interest. (For example, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Birds/Collaboration.) Should we do the same? I also wonder if we'd do better focusing on the topic over a longer period, e.g. a month or two, instead of just a week.
A separate "to do" list seems unnecessary to me; I'll merge it into the "Open tasks and guidelines" list above if no one objects. I'd also suggest that, while Mount Vesuvius is a good featured article target (top importance, A class), the other ones listed don't really seem ready for an FA push. -- Avenue ( talk) 01:57, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
This domain originally got flagged as spam and blacklisted because the domain owner added them to multiple articles on multiple Wikipedias triggering our spam monitoring system:
I was the admin who reviewed the site-owner's request to have them reviewed and I was impressed by the quality of these photos. I also determined this was a good faith mistake on the site-owner's part. He's agreed not to add anymore himself.
As one of Wikipedia's most notoriously fascistic, anti-spam admins, I never thought I would go promoting previously blacklisted links, but you may wish to take a look at some of these for individual volcano articles:
He also has links to some other image sites of interest.
-- A. B. ( talk • contribs) 16:13, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
Following a detailed discussion about how to make pictures available on Wikipedia via GFDL, I have decided to release all images on the site at 300x200 pixel resolution under GFDL. A notice to this effect has been placed on my personal Wikipedia page and also on the website at http://www.photovolcanica.com/Contact.html under the section "Photos". I cannot release them in higher resolution as the GFDL license would open the door to abuse by downstream commercial users. It is apparently not possible to make photos only available to wikipedia (see extensive discussions on Wikiproject:Birds section). Hope the small versions of the images may nevertheless be helpful to volcano page editors. Site could be added to editor resources if so wished by neutral editor
The pages on santiaguito(/santa maria), dallol, erta ale, oldoinyo lengai, stromboli, soufriere hills and augustine are the most extensively scientifically researched (by original literature search) and more detailed than the wikipedia pages and most of the present external links. These are likely also to be of text use to editors since they are largely encyclopaedic in character. Many of the other pages surpass the current equivalent wikipedia pages in information content and could be viewed by editors. Wiki editors are welcome to contact me for information. RRvolcanica ( talk) 18:14, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
I have nominated Surtsey because it does not seem to meet the featured articled criteria 1.(c), 2.(c), and 4. It is quite short, and is not of comparable length to current FA's. It is very under-referenced, and some of them aren't in the {{ cite web}} form at all, just in <ref> tags. I do not believe that this fits the FA criteria any longer. You are welcome to comment at the review. Dreamafter ( talk) 22:40, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
I looked first, rather than change it, but do you really want to have an assessment scale for WikiProject Volcanoes that assesses plate tectonics as "High" rather than "Top" importance? It's a bit strange, from a volcanologist's viewpoint. -- Blechnic ( talk) 04:39, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
Is this article ready? ~~ Meldshal42 (talk) 01:27, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
Are there any suggestions as to which article to focus on next? -- Burntnickel ( talk) 11:12, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
Done here. ~~ Meldshal42 (talk) 20:13, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
Should fiction indelibly associated with Pompeii fall under the project? I'm asking because The Fires of Pompeii ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views), an article about a TV episode set in Pompeii AD79, may be eligible. Sceptre ( talk) 12:19, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
The Volcanoes Wiki has been formed! Any users here interested in joining can consult me, or look over the site's contents. -- Meldshal (§peak to me) 19:59, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
I think we should have an election to see who should take up coordination of this project. I should think a lead coordinator and 2 assistants would be good. -- Meldshal [T] {C} 20:11, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
Is going through a Featured Article review, so please come and help improve this article to current featured article standards :) Judgesurreal777 ( talk) 05:46, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
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This article needs improvements for GA class. The issues that need attention are discussed on its talk page. Black Tusk ( talk) 23:55, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
I've done a major rewrite of the Hekla article adding a lot of referenced info. As I'm no expert and it is listed as being one of this project's top importance articles would anyone here mind casting their eye over it to check for glaring errors, ways it could improve etc. Thanks. JMiall ₰ 21:56, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
Once again there are people questioning the public domain status of images taken by Smithsonian Institution's employees. See [1]. It would be important to end this issue. Jespinos ( talk) 19:11, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
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The article, Volcanism on Io, is currently undergoing a peer review. Please take this opportunity to give the article a once over, submit a review, or Be Bold and help to improve the article. I hope to nominate the article for a Featured Article Candidacy in the next few days if all goes well. Thanks you, -- Volcanopele ( talk) 06:19, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
I nominated the ring dike at Pawtuckaway State Park for Did you know?. A geologic map or aerial photo of the ring dike would be much appreciated but I have not yet found one I can use. -- Una Smith ( talk) 16:17, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi all - just wanted to apologise for the fact that Category:Volcanology stubs is currently a mess. The stub type's been being used recently for individual volcanoes (against the consensus reached with this project and WikiProkject Stub sorting a couple of years back), rather than simply for as volcano science (volcanoes should simply have the relevant geo-stub indicating their location). Because of that, stubs on volcanology (i.e., the actual science) are currently swamped in several hundred articles on the volcanoes. This not only makes it harder to find those articles, but means that volcanology-stubs no longer follows the same standards as other stub types for earth sciences (such as geology-stub, tectonics-stub, or glaciology-stub - all of which are only for the science itself). Hopefully it won't take long to clear out the articles which shouldn't be in there, but any help in clearing it by members of your project would be more than welcome! Grutness... wha? 02:47, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
Mount Rainier has been nominated for a good article reassessment. Articles are typically reviewed for one week. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to good article quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status will be removed from the article. Reviewers' concerns are here. -- Malleus Fatuorum ( talk) 17:48, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
Please give your input at Wikipedia talk:No original research#Regarding maps being "primary sources" according to this policy. -- Rschen7754 ( T C) 12:06, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
We have a bit of a back-and-forth on an article for an unnamed submarine volcano. As the relevant Wikiproject, I hope that some uninvolved editors can give their opinion.
An article was created at Ibugos Undersea. Thinking that this wa sa strange name (and strangely capitalized), I first moved it to Ibugos. I then realized that Ibugos (or Ivuhos) is the name of the nearby island (no article yet), so I again moved the article, now to Ibugos (volcano), and turned Ibugos into a disambiguation. While not comletely happy with this name for the article (the volcano has no actual name), it seemed to me to be the most inline with WP:NC. The other editor moved it back, I moved it again, and then the other editor created the page again at Ibugos (Undersea)
So now we have two articles for the same unnamed volcano, one at Ibugos (Undersea) and one at Ibugos (volcano). Bad situation, so I would like some people here to decide on a good, definitive title where we can have one article on this. Fram ( talk) 15:03, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
The original contributor wrote a new article named Ibugos Undersea for a volcano in the Philippines which had no article, and had not been previously listed in the List of volcanoes in the Philippines.
Without consultation, Fram changed the name of the article and then the listing, and made some minor alterations "to make the article closer to the original (Smithsonian) source".
Fram made these changes, including a disambiguation page which would not have been necessary if he had left well alone, without any apparent knowledge of the subject. He also made his changes without consulting with the original contributor who had gone to all the trouble to research, write, and upload the new article in the first place. The greater proximity of Fram's edit to the Smithsonian, brings up the copyright issue.
The original contributor had referred to and linked the original article in various lists and other articles under the original name. The subsequent editor's unilateral actions nullified all this work.
The original contributor was not willing to be involved in edit warring, so started another article Ibugos (Undersea), and has been updating and improving that since, and intends to update it further. Ibugos (Undersea) is listed in other places on Wikipedia.
Part of the reason for the use of the name Ibugos (Undersea) was given on the talk page for Ibugos (Undersea).
There is a different volcano on Ibugos island itself. When it comes time to write an article for that volcano, Fram's unilateral action is going to make matters even worse.
The submarine volcano which was unnamed in the early 1980s, is now known within the volcanolgy department of the University of the Philippines as the Ibugos Undersea volcano.
The original contributor has edited each and every article for every listed volcano in the Philippines, and has contributed about one third of them as new articles. Fram's persistent desire to change the name of this one Philippines volcano article appears somewhat fixated.
If Fram would like to do the original work for one of the remaining unstarted Philippines volcano articles that would be considered helpful and constructive.
Gubernatoria ( talk) 16:11, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
In response to the third opinion requested at WP:3O, I have reviewed the discussion here, as well as the references provided in both articles, and Wikipedia's naming convention. As such, I would like to make the following suggestion:
I hope my opinion is useful to you. Thanks! (EhJJ) TALK 19:54, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
I've updated the volcanos section of one of my missing topics lists - Skysmith ( talk) 12:51, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
This now very famous doesn't have an article, but takes up most of the Eyjafjallajökull glacier article... probably should be split, for the very least, weighting reasons... 70.29.208.247 ( talk) 06:55, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
One of the articles tagged within the scope of this WikiProject is being reviewed at the moment. I'm leaving a note here to ask whether anyone active in this WikiProject has time to review the article ( David A. Johnston) and leave suggestions, either on the article talk page or at the review. As one of the contributors to the article, I will say at the review that I've left this notice here, but if you do leave comments at the review it would be helpful to those assessing the review if you leave a note saying how you became aware of the article. Thanks. Carcharoth ( talk) 12:11, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
Editors interested in Volcanic Explosivity Index may be interested in contributing at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2010_April_22#Category:Volcanoes_by_Volcanic_Explosivity_Index. -- SmokeyJoe ( talk) 01:24, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
The Spring makes everything new :) Wikipedia:Village_pump_(miscellaneous)#Flagged_protection:_update_for_April_22, Flagged protection on English Wikipedia is coming soon now. I'm expecting to lower the vandalism volume :) -- Chris.urs-o ( talk) 05:55, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
Nunivak Island: The location dot does not appear in the location map of the infobox template. Can somebody tell me, what tweak is responsible for that? -- Chris.urs-o ( talk) 07:35, 24 April 2010 (UTC)
I got a map and used it on Basin and Range Province#Volcanism, some abbreviations are on Laurentia#Volcanism on the western edge of the North American craton. Let's see if the community is happy with it. -- Chris.urs-o ( talk) 17:59, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
I created a stub: Mogollon-Datil volcanic field and rated it low importance. As the magma body of the Socorro Caldera ( Rio Grande rift) is uplifting the surface at a rate of 2 mm/year, I'd like to rate it a mid important article. -- Chris.urs-o ( talk) 18:06, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
I've updated List of submarine volcanoes to use the {{ convert}} template, and have removed the rowspan/colspan so that the table can be made "sortable". Is that beneficial? If so, I'd recommend the rest of the lists be updated (eventually) to use those conventions. (I have no scripting prowess, so cannot offer to help update them en masse). It just took a few minutes of copy&pasting, once I had the convert-template figured out; the only detail that was troublesome was changing the "significant figures" value for each (needs to be 2 or 3 sigfig, depending). HTH. -- Quiddity ( talk) 22:05, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
Names of volcanic fields are a pain. Almost each eruption, each caldera, each vent, each tephra gets a new name. Sometimes more than one. And on top of it, almost each paper uses the name of another landmark of the site to name the volcanic field. :[
The San Juan caldera cluster and the Socorro-Magdalena caldera cluster are quite amazing, and each caldera cluster must have a single magma source.
Geronimo volcanic field (also known as the San Bernardino volcanic field) is located at the northern end of the San Bernardino Valley, and the article is a stub. I propose to rename the article Boot Heel volcanic field (also known as Geronimo-Animas volcanic field), and make the Geronimo volcanic field article a section of it. The article would be still a stub.
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I think is a bit of WP:POV involved here. Where do the classifcations come from in the cinder cone, shield volcano, lava dome lists? Active, dormant and extinct can easily be misleading, given the fact many people classify the status the volcanoes differently. A dormant volcano can easily be refered to as extinct if it has not erupted for some time. One could say a volcano is active only because it is erupting or has erupted recently, another could say an active volcano is one that has any kind of activity, such as hot springs, earthquakes and fumaroles. Therefore, I think listing volcanoes by classification is a bad idea and should be listed by country or some other basic listing. BT ( talk) 18:20, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
Mount Kelut, Indonesia is listed incorrectly as being located in the United States in the list of cinder cones. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.50.143.34 ( talk) 14:17, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
I have just done some work on the Rinjani page including 2010 information up to date at beginning of may 2010 and extending the history and descriptive information. I hope it does not upset anyone but it seemed a little tired and was not up to date. Perhaps it needs a look over by those with a honed focus on the subject. Felix505 ( talk) 17:01, 9 May 2010 (UTC)felix505