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[edit] FAR listing for Plate tectonics

Plate tectonics has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here.

[edit] Mount Royal

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)

Yes, Mount Royal has a process. It's the extension of a vastly eroded ancient volcanic complex, which was probably active about 125 million years ago, and was formed by a volcanic hotspot. Black Tusk 18:41, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Collaboration of the Week and to do list

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)

I've merged the two to-do lists, as promised. -- Avenue (talk) 02:55, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Photovolcanica.com: potential external link for images of some volcanoes

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)

[edit] WP:FAR nomination of Surtsey

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)

[edit] Collaboration of the Month

Are there any suggestions as to which article to focus on next? --Burntnickel (talk) 11:12, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

How about the Anahim hotspot article if that turns into a GA? Black Tusk 16:45, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
That would be fine with me. I've already been working on it. --Burntnickel (talk) 18:38, 13 June 2008 (UTC)