Wikipedia:WikiProject Oceans

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**WikiProject Oceans**

Shortcuts:	WP:OCEANS
Category:	Oceans
Project notice template:	{{WikiProject Oceans}}
Participant userbox:	{{User WikiProject Oceans}}
Has goals	Yes
Assessment	yes

Welcome to WikiProject Oceans. Some Wikipedians have formed this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Oceans and the organization of information and articles on this topic. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, please join the project, inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list below.

[edit] Goals

The goals of this project are to create, improve, and maintain articles relating to oceans.

[edit] Scope

The scope of this project will include the articles within the Category:Oceans, Category:Seas, and Category:Gulfs, given the often ill-defined boundaries between such bodies. However, should there develop other projects with overlapping scope, this project will deal primarily with those articles which do not fall within the scope of any of those other projects.

[edit] Guidelines

[edit] Open tasks

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Oceans:

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Here are some tasks you can do:

Requests: Antarctic Circumpolar Water, East Iceland Current, Endeavour Strait, Flinders Chase, Iceland Sea, South Aral Sea, Weddell Sea Bottom Water
Verify: Antarctic Bottom Water, Antarctic Circumpolar Current, Bering Sea, Gulf of Aden, Iceberg B-15, Ionian Sea, Japan Trench, Johnson's Corner, Moreton Bay, Sound (geography), Timor Sea
Expand: Coral Sea, Greenland Sea, Solomon Sea, West Pacific, Yellow Sea
Stubs: Aleutian Trench, Amundsen Sea, Bellingshausen Sea, Caernarfon Bay, Gerlache Strait, Gulf of Oman, Gulf Saint Vincent, Ross Sea, Scotia Sea
Update: Botany Bay, Wilkins Sound
Other: find links to orphaned Timor Current, add ISBNs and remove excessive or inappropriate external links from Aral Sea, check La Belle (ship) for GA status, improve citations or footnotes and remove excessive or inappropriate external links from MS Estonia

[edit] Participants

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

Evolauxia (talk · contribs) 09:48, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
Quizimodo (talk · contribs) 05:01, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
John Carter (talk · contribs) 16:49, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
Doug (talk · contribs) 00:50, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
Enviropearson (talk · contribs) (Interested in working on ecology related ares) 20:13, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
Shiftchange (talk · contribs) Interests include Australia, Antartica, Pacific and climate change
Cmapm (talk · contribs) 21:00, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Articles

Oceans articles		Importance
Oceans articles		High	Mid	None	Total
Quality
	FA			1	1
	B	2		2	4
	Start		2	9	11
	Stub			9	9
	Assessed	2	2	21	25
	Unassessed			51	51
	Total	2	2	72	76

[edit] Featured articles

[edit] Featured lists

List of Category 5 Pacific hurricanes

[edit] Featured pictures

[edit] Good articles

[edit] Did You Knows (DYKs)

[edit] Formerly recognized content

[edit] Former featured articles

[edit] Former good articles

[edit] Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team release version selections

[edit] New articles

Please feel free to list your new Oceans-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them, are at least over 1,000 characters, don't have any dispute templates on them, and cite their sources, should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Wikipedia Main Page.