Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Antarctica

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When you start this up, there is some work done on Antartic explorations from an Australian perspective at Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian history/Exploration which I will be grouping. We could link projects. SauliH 19:24, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Map needed
 It is requested that a map or maps be included in this article to improve its quality.
Wikipedians in Antarctica may be able to help!

the Antarctica series of articles could really use one or more SVG maps to use as a base to build on. The existing maps are good in so far as they go but being bitmaps are hard to extend and improve.

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[edit] Live?

I think this project has enough support to go live now.A mcmurray (talk • contribs) 07:04, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Assessment

There is now an assessment page for the project. There is also a list of the existing assessments at Category talk:Antarctica that any members who want to do assessments can use. John Carter 17:39, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Scope?

"This project covers the creation and maintainence of articles related to the continent of Antarctica, its geology and geologic history, geography, climate and lifeforms. It aims to expand Wikipedia's resources on Antarctica in a fair and accurate manner."

The first clause in the scope above suggests that this project is all things Antarctica. But the subsequent items in the project scope point to a limit of natural history. Subsequently, I am not clear what fits this project and what doesn't. For instance, do we include polictical history articles such as the Antarctic Treaty System?

If the scope is all things Antarctica, won't we be duplicating the comprehensive index already maintained by a bot? Instead, "the project's stated goal is to build a "comprehensive guide." Thus, I am unclear what makes this project a guide and not an index.--Fishdecoy 12:33, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

Sorry for the delay in changing the original scope of the project from its original creation. The changed was actually proposed on the proposed project page, but when I moved that page I forgot to change the scope to reflect the comments there. And I'm not sure what is meant by saying this project is a guide and not an index, because I don't think that it is necessarily intended to be either. It is to be a project of people who can try to improve and maintain articles, which isn't really either of the above items mentioned. John Carter 18:00, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
John, your description above of this initiative as being a "project of people" makes good sense. Still. I was thrown off by the project template's reference to creating a "a comprehensive and detailed guide to Antarctica."--Fishdecoy 17:11, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
I hadn't actually noticed the phrasing there before. I hope it is a bit clearer now, after I changed the language a little. John Carter 17:17, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Antarctopelta

I just rewrote the Antarctopelta article tonight if you would like to reassess it. : ) Sheep81 11:12, 11 May 2007 (UTC) (WP: DINO)

So noted. Good work. :) John Carter 17:56, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Quality assessment completed

I believe that all the articles in the Category:Antarctica have now been assessed for quality. I would welcome input from any member of the project at Wikipedia:WikiProject Antarctica/Assessment/Importance for what level of importance to assign to the various articles. I do believe that we should focus the bulk of our attention on the Top and High importance articles. Anyway, any input is welcome. John Carter 15:28, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for all the categorization!--Fishdecoy 17:04, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
I'm working on the Terra Nova Expedition article... I think it should be assessed "High" importance because it meets all the criteria (in my opinion). How is this done? I've been muddling around for about 15 min, can't figure it out. When I finish editing it I may get the quality re-assessed too. thanks! Zatoichi26 03:30, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
Adding "importance=x", with "x" being the importance (Top, High, Mid, or Low). John Carter 16:29, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
OK, I see now. Thanks for the help - Zatoichi26 01:15, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Distance to south pole?

Is it possible for some of the articles on Antarctic research bases to say how far they are from the South Pole? Especially the inland ones like Concordia Station. I think this can be calculated from the geographical co-ords provided in the article. Carcharoth 12:48, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Antarctic maps

Is there a map available showing various locations in Antartica, such as Concordia Station and the other research stations? I tried to follow the geo-cords link to Google Maps at that article, but because Google Maps uses a Mercator projection, the map was next to useless. Any ideas on how to get round this? Carcharoth 12:50, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Chinese Antarctic program

Missing from Wikipedia so far. Mporter 10:45, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Category

In the tagging of the categories that make up the project - cat simply does not fit as well as NA so I have replaced. If someone really wants to revert to cat - there will be need to tweak the template - of which I am not adept - cheers SatuSuro 03:29, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Please note that Warlord - John Carter has re-located all the cats to NA now anyway - many thanks to him SatuSuro 12:13, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DYK candidate: Plateau Station

Because of the recent visit by the Norwegian-U.S. Scientific Traverse of East Antarctica (which also should get its own article, at Plateau Station, I have created the initial draft of an article about the station. Edits to improve it in general and in particular for the DYK inclusion would be welcome. Also, it'd be great to find some PD photographs of the station, which I would think might exist somewhere. --Leifern (talk) 02:39, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] South Pole article

Hi

I'd like to request that someone knowledgeable write a paragraph or two at South Pole#Territorial claims. Obviously we still want to link to the main articles for the full detail, but for the sake of the completeness of the South Pole article I'd like to see a brief summary here, with particular reference to the status of the US station, and how their permanent presence there is viewed internationally in terms of potential territorial claims. It would also be intersting to explain what happens to the sector claims at the pole: presumably they all converge at a mathematical point? Anyway, if someone feels up to doing this it would be great. 86.133.245.64 (talk) 21:32, 6 March 2008 (UTC).

[edit] Stubs

Hi all - I've just extended the information on Antarctica stubs on the project page - there are now three separate stubs directly relating to antarctica - two geography stubs and one more general one for any other stub articles relating to the continent. Grutness...wha? 00:01, 11 April 2008 (UTC)