Talk:List of environment topics
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This page is not for strictly scientific ecology topics. It is for ethical, economic, medical and political human-environment-relevant topics, some of which will be also on the list of ethics topics and list of economics topics. A rule of thumb: if the article talks about the likely impact on humans, it's probably an environment topic. If it doesn't, it's probably an ecology topic.
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[edit] Not so sure......
If you look at the introduction to this, the environment links to natural environment, which infers to me that this is only meant for natural topics Magicmonster 06:13, 12 August 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Two lists
Why? Ekem 23:33, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
Try 1900-1980 and 1981-Present. Or lists based on the decade. Orngjce223Orngjce223 23:21, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Progress report
- These were my current plans for this page (approximately in chronological order) until I saw the notice about the length of the page:
- adding topics under "D"
- adding topics under "C"
- adding topics under "B"
- adding topics under "A"
- restyling some lists under "Lists", to show destination page titles
- ensuring that, as much as possible, each list referenced in the main list is listed under "Lists" and vice versa
- checking Wikipedia guidelines for alphabetization involving:
- acronyms
- uppercase and lowercase letters
- spaces
- hyphens
- apostrophes
- periods (see E. coli)
- other punctuation (see the topics immediately following "Hurricane Katrina")
- correcting alphabetization as necessary
- adding, under each letter heading (except "J", "K", "Q", "X", "Y", and "Z", and maybe "U" and "V"), subheadings and an improvised table of contents like the one which I put under "Lists"
- adding topics under "1-9"
- adding subheadings and an improvised table of contents under "0-9"
- adding an internal link to a new page "list of environment topics by categories" (not to replace or to compete with "list of environment topics" or any category project on Wikipedia), but to provide a different option for managing thousands of topics (maybe 10,000).
- For "list of environment topics by categories", I have in mind 8 basic categories combined in 255 combinations, and a directory as well as a "search engine", all on one page. The "search engine" would have to be have to be on one page to work as planned. I was going to set up the page framework, without populating it with topics, and invite comments from the Wikipedia community on its practicality.
- If "list of environment topics" is not going to be on one page, then there is probably no reason for me to set up "list of environment topics by categories". Also, (if the page is not split by someone else first,) I would probably add to "list of environment topics" internal links to new pages as follows:
- list of environment topics/0-9
- list of environment topics/A
- list of environment topics/B
...
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- list of environment topics/Z
- list of lists related to the environment
- Then I would copy information as wikicode, heading by heading, to the new pages.
- Whether it involves subheadings and subsections on one page or headings and sections on separate pages, there is the same challenge of separating topics in such a way as to have short headings/subheadings and short sections/subsections. For example, many topics begin with the word "environmental" and many topics begin with the word "International".
I have found it convenient to have the whole list on one page as I add topics, sometimes checking things up and down the page. If the page is going to be split, is it possible for that to be deferred until after I have "essentially finished" adding topics under "D", "C", "B", "A", and "0-9" (possibly in mid-January of 2006)?
Here is another idea: We could split the page for people with browser limitations and/or connection limitations, but still keep a one-page version for people who prefer to use that. People could be linked first to the index page of the multi-page version, and then have the option of seeing the one-page version and/or the version by categories. (There might still be a question of which is the most up-to-date version.)
I invite feedback to these comments. Wavelength 01:27, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
- I have noticed no progress for a month and placed an ad-hoc example that goes by the above outline. If there are no further comments, I'll procede. As for now, I am hungry, and this is taking a long-a** time to complete. Cheers - Hard Raspy Sci 23:51, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Wiki markup for headings
Spaces were recently (03:26, 19 December 2005) removed from the wiki markup for the headings, but spaces are shown in the examples at Wikipedia:How to edit a page#Examples. Wavelength 21:01, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Removed links to pages
The following links to pages have been because they have been copied in parts to new pages.
[edit] list of environment topics:0-9 A-B
[edit] list of environment topics:D-E
[edit] list of environment topics:F-G
[edit] list of environment topics:H-K
[edit] list of environment topics:L-M
Wavelength 13:58, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Move them to Category:Nature?
I feel that all these articles should be sent to Category:Nature. Category:Environment is for anthropogenic effects on the environment yet many of the articles catalogued within thease pages are in no way repated to enviornmental issues. Alan Liefting 09:57, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Who links to List of environment topics?
By using the Google feature "Who Links to You?", I found that "Almanac of Policy Issues: Environment" ([1]) links to List_of_environment_topics. This is an indication of interest in the list. Wavelength 01:10, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
