Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Environment/Archive 4

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Who’s currently active?

I’ve been adding the WikiProject Environment templates to articles this past month, and am currently the only active member of the Sustainability Task Force. Since the scope of this project is so vast, I’m wondering who is active in the overall WikiProject. I notice with some surprise that the To-Do section hasn’t been updated since 2016. Jusdafax (talk) 22:05, 1 May 2018 (UTC)

Hi Jusdafax! I am a new Wiki user, and am spending a semester on revising the "Environmental racism" Wiki page, which is under WikiProject Environment. Although this page has not been listed under the 'To do' list, I am hoping on improving its Neutrality. I also hope to help out with other articles within WikiProject Environment when I am done with the Environmental racism page. I just wanted to let you know that I am active in regards to improving articles in WikiProject Environment. Prisci8 (talk) 18:51, 25 September 2018 (UTC)

Template for discussion (Tfd)

There is a navbar associated with this WikiProject that has been nominated for deletion at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2018 October 6#Template:Holocene epoch. Please come to voice your opinion.  Paine Ellsworth  ^put'r there  11:50, 6 October 2018 (UTC)

Missing articles of authors of the recent IPCC 1.5 degrees report

I could not find a page where the following list could be pasted. It is a list of those authors who do not yet have a Wikipedia article. I hoped that this list could help the project to identify missing articles. Maybe move it to a page where it is more beneficial than on this talk page: Ismail A. El Gizouli, Sharina Abdul Halim, Amjad Abdulla, Myles Allen, Philip Antwi-Agyei, Fernando Aragón-Durand, Mustafa Babiker, Paolo Bertoldi, Marco Bindi, Rizaldi Boer, Sally Brown, Marcos S. Buckeridge, Inés Camilloni, Anton Cartwright, Wolfgang Cramer, Purnamita Dasgupta, Heleen de Coninck, Arona Diedhiou, Riyanti Djalante, Wenjie Dong, Pauline Dube, Kristie Ebi, Francois Engelbrecht, Solomone Fifita, Andreas Fischlin, Gregory Flato, James Ford, Piers Forster, Jan Fuglestvedt, Sabine Fuss, Xuejie Gao, Veronika Ginzburg, Joel Guiot, Collins Handa, Bronwyn Hayward, Yasuaki Hijioka, Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, Jean-charles Hourcade, Mark Howden, Stephen Humphreys, Daniela Jacob, Kejun Jiang, Mikiko Kainuma, Jatin Kala, Markku Kanninen, Haroon Kheshgi, Shigeki Kobayashi, Svitlana Krakovska, Elmar Kriegler, Debora Ley, Diana Liverman, Natalie Mahowald, Jose Antonio Marengo Orsini, Reinhard Mechler, Shagun Mehrotra, Rachid Mrabet, Yacob Mulugetta, Luis Mundaca, Peter Newman, Chukwumerije Okereke, Antony Payne, Joy Jacqueline Pereira, Rosa Perez, Ramon Pichs Madruga, Patricia Fernanda Pinho, Aromar Revi, Anastasiia Revokatova, Keywan Riahi, Joeri Rogelj, Joyashree Roy, Roberto Sánchez Rodríguez, Roberto Schaeffer, Roland Séférian, Sonia Seneviratne, Schultz Seth, Boris Sherstyukov, Drew Shindell, William Solecki, Linda Steg, Avelino G. Suarez, Taishi Sugiyama, Michael Taylor, Adelle Thomas, Petra Tschakert, Diana Urge-Vorsatz, Maria Virginia Vilariño, Morgan Wairiu, Henri Waisman, Rachel Warren, Guangsheng Zhou, Kirsten Zickfeld 80.71.142.166 (talk) 06:29, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

Featured quality source review RFC

Editors in this WikiProject may be interested in the featured quality source review RFC that has been ongoing. It would change the featured article candidate process (FAC) so that source reviews would need to occur prior to any other reviews for FAC. Your comments are appreciated. --IznoRepeat (talk) 21:49, 11 November 2018 (UTC)

Noise pollution in cities

Does anyone know where I can find good sources for noise pollution levels of cities around the world? If so, please be a dear and drop me a line at my talk page. Many thanks! Anna Frodesiak (talk) 22:18, 8 December 2018 (UTC)

Requested page move

There is a requested move at Talk:Environs (journal) that would very much benefit from your input. Please come and help! Paine Ellsworth, ed.  ^put'r there  21:53, 16 January 2019 (UTC)

Depopulating Ecology categories

For some reason, there has been the depopulation of some ecology categories (see Category:Ecology by country). It's hard to know what is going on or why, but I thought I would post here in case editors involved with the field knew if a problem was going on. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 04:23, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

Thoughts for Wikipedia:WikiProject Water

Hello. This is not directly related to this WikiProject, but I thought it would be best to get a wider audience on this. Please see this thread for discussions on a possible merger of the below three projects:

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Water (created on 14 June 2005)
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Water supply and sanitation by country (created on 24 November 2007)
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Sanitation (created on 3 December 2014)

. Thanks, Rehman 12:52, 22 February 2019 (UTC)

A new newsletter directory is out!

A new Newsletter directory has been created to replace the old, out-of-date one. If your WikiProject and its taskforces have newsletters (even inactive ones), or if you know of a missing newsletter (including from sister projects like WikiSpecies), please include it in the directory! The template can be a bit tricky, so if you need help, just post the newsletter on the template's talk page and someone will add it for you.

– Sent on behalf of Headbomb. 03:11, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

One of your project's articles has been selected for improvement!

Hello, Please note that Biodegradable plastic, which is within this project's scope, has been selected as one of Today's articles for improvement. The article was scheduled to appear on Wikipedia's Community portal in the "Today's articles for improvement" section for one week, beginning today. Everyone is encouraged to collaborate to improve the article. Thanks, and happy editing! Delivered by — MusikBot talk 00:05, 22 April 2019 (UTC) on behalf of the TAFI team

Nomination of Portal:Windmills for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether Portal:Windmills is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The page will be discussed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Windmills until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the page during the discussion, including to improve the page to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the deletion notice from the top of the page. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 10:34, 8 May 2019 (UTC)

Wyss Foundation Campaign for Nature

Hello! Back in late-April, the Wyss Foundation article's section on the Wyss Campaign for Nature was removed. I posted a comment at Talk:Wyss Foundation, seeking clarification and noting how the campaign is ongoing and has received significant coverage. I've "pinged" the editor who removed the content (User:Spintendo), as well as the editor who moved my draft (which I wrote and submitted for review on behalf of the organization) into the main space (User:Chetsford), but so far I've not received any replies. Might any WikiProject Environment members be willing to take a look and help determine how the Wyss Campaign for Nature might be mentioned in this article, if appropriate? Thanks in advance. Inkian Jason (talk) 17:14, 20 May 2019 (UTC)

@Jusdafax: I see you've made many edits to some of the WikiProject Environment project pages. I am currently looking for an active editor to help review the above request. Might you be willing to take a look? Inkian Jason (talk) 20:42, 22 May 2019 (UTC)

Lead Processing Plan Occupational Safety/Environmental Health Discussion at Doe Run Company

There is a discussion over at Doe Run Company that might interest people in this wikiproject about the safety, health, and environmental impacts of lead processing facilities. -Furicorn (talk) 21:40, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WPE listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Wikipedia:WPE. Please participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. Steel1943 (talk) 15:38, 13 June 2019 (UTC)

New Category:Climate activists ?

Re: Talk:Greta Thunberg#New Category:Climate activists ? Under this section heading, I have kicked off a generic discussion about the possible need for a new category. Perhaps it might be more suitable here, but I welcome any relevant participation. Another route might be to create the category, then immediately start a CFD. Comments please.PeterWD (talk) 11:17, 25 June 2019 (UTC)

New Wikipedia project proposal: "climate change"

For all editors who are interested, we're busy with putting together a proposal for creating a new Wikiproject called "Climate change" which will focus on managing, updating and improving all articles and other content related to the current climate crisis the world is facing. It will also count as an upgrade from the current climate change task force to a full project. Anyone who has any input or would like to put your name down in support of us, please make your way over to Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Proposals/Climate_Change and pitch in. You're very welcome! Thanks.

Cadar (talk) 07:53, 30 June 2019 (UTC)

Is this project inactive?

HellllLLLlllo? Can you hear me? Is anybody home? Hi! A contrib search of your project page turns up very little activity in the past few years. Is this project even alive? HelllllLLllllo ?

NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 21:53, 14 July 2019 (UTC)

Hi NewsAndEventsGuy, judging from the Climate Change Task Force talk page it seems this project is still active. its just that it seems as though the main WikiProject page is less active these days.--Discott (talk) 08:47, 26 July 2019 (UTC)

Heh... yes, well, since I'm one of the handful of eds generating activity at the CCTF I knew that, but thanks for noticing. By way of my clumsy question I hoped to learn if the rest of the project has a pulse? Nevermind, though, because the ship has sailed. The CCTF is going to convert itself to a project in its own right. Carry on! NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 11:21, 26 July 2019 (UTC)

African Climate Change workshop

Hello everyone. I want to let everyone know of and invite project volunteers help out with (should you be interested) in the African Climate Change workshop and edit-a-thon that Wikimedia ZA and South South North will be running from the 6-8 August 2019. The event seeks to introduce around 40 climate change experts to editing Wikipedia with a specific focus on adding to the topic of climate change articles on Wikipedia. A focus, although not an exclusive one, will be on climate change in Africa. More information can be found on the event page on meta here. --Discott (talk) 13:08, 30 July 2019 (UTC)

Biodegradable Plastics - Need Review

Hello Wikipedians.

My team has recently edited the Biodegradable Plastics page. Our goals were to clearly differentiate the types of biodegradable plastic and to communicate the distinction between biodegradable plastics, bioplastics, and oxodegradable plastics. Please review the page and let us know how to improve and if we reached our goals.

Thanks Khz7gy (talk) 14:36, 9 August 2019 (UTC)

Nomination of Portal:Sustainable development for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether Portal:Sustainable development is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The page will be discussed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Sustainable development until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the page during the discussion, including to improve the page to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the deletion notice from the top of the page. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 18:11, 19 August 2019 (UTC)

Nomination of Portal:Palatine Forest for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether Portal:Palatine Forest is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The page will be discussed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Palatine Forest until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the page during the discussion, including to improve the page to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the deletion notice from the top of the page. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 21:05, 21 August 2019 (UTC)

Update needed now that climate change TF is a full fledged (daughter) project

As you may know this projects inactive climate change task force recently roared to life and by popular demand was "converted" into a full-blown WikiProject in its own right. One housekeeping chore is to update this parent project page accordingly. If no one else (regulars here who know what they're doing) takes care of this, I'll eventually give it a project-newbie's go. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 17:13, 6 August 2019 (UTC)

I have updated the participants list by relisting inactive editors accordingly. Jusdafax (talk) 05:01, 28 August 2019 (UTC)

Nomination of Portal:Disasters for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether Portal:Disasters is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The page will be discussed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Disasters until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the page during the discussion, including to improve the page to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the deletion notice from the top of the page. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 20:23, 27 September 2019 (UTC)

Request for information on WP1.0 web tool

Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.

We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma (talk) 04:24, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

Climate Feedback and InsideClimate News on accuracy of claims by proponents of climate change denial

There is a noticeboard discussion regarding the use of Climate Feedback and InsideClimate News to describe the accuracy of claims made by proponents of climate change denial. If you are interested, please participate at WP:BLPN § Accuracy of claims made by climate change deniers. — Newslinger talk 01:40, 16 January 2020 (UTC)

• Interesting discussion, and speaking for myself, I'll look further into it, time permitting. Thanks for the notification! Jusdafax (talk) 10:04, 16 January 2020 (UTC)

Ecological grief

Hi all

I spent some time over the last few days expanding the article on Ecological grief, I would really appreciate some help with it, especially:

• describing the relationship between ecological grief and climate grief, its quite muddled in the article
• adding more information on how the topic effects different groups
• Finding more references, especially from academic sources
• I added some references to the end of the first line that I haven't read through yet to extract information

Thanks

John Cummings (talk) 00:51, 17 January 2020 (UTC)

• As you see, I took a quick look and caught a typo. I'll try to take a deeper look soon. I also rerated the article to Start class, since its clearly beyond a Stub. Cheers! Jusdafax (talk) 22:22, 19 January 2020 (UTC)

Xiye Bastida draft

I've been working on the draft for Xiye Bastida, a young indigenous climate activist and major organizer for Fridays for Future (would fall under this template). The draft had been left since September.

Starklinson (talk) 00:07, 4 February 2020 (UTC)

Starklinson, thank you for creating this article! I have moved the draft to article space. It was tagged as not yet being submitted for review, which is probably why nobody reviewed it before. There are a few lines in the Biography section that aren't complete sentences - if you could make them into complete sentences that would be great. Best wishes, Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 18:26, 4 February 2020 (UTC)

One of your project's articles has been selected for improvement!

Hello, Please note that Nature reserve, which is within this project's scope, has been selected as one of Today's articles for improvement. The article was scheduled to appear on Wikipedia's Community portal in the "Today's articles for improvement" section for one week, beginning today. Everyone is encouraged to collaborate to improve the article. Thanks, and happy editing! Delivered by — MusikBot talk 00:06, 24 February 2020 (UTC) on behalf of the TAFI team

15,000 photos of plants, plant diseases, and plant pests now in the public domain

I am pleased to inform you that all images at https://www.flickr.com/photos/scotnelson/ are now CC-0 public domain. If you find any of use, please upload them directly to Commons using the template {{Cc-zero-Scot Nelson}}, which contains the corresponding OTRS ticket. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 02:30, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

Requested move

There is a requested move at Talk:Rubicon Global that would benefit from your opinion. Please come and help! P.I. Ellsworth  ed. ^put'r there 17:14, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

Missing Information on EPA "One Cleanup Program"

Taking a bit of a project upon myself, regarding an EPA program I have found no reference to anywhere here. But that I have discovered effects multiple topics over several decades

So far, I have the following developments and information:

Possible articles affected:

- EPA

- York, Pennsylvania

- Harley-Davidson

Possible new articles:

-One Cleanup Program

Information sources located so far:

- https://www.yorksiteremedy.com/

- https://archive.epa.gov/oswer/onecleanupprogram/web/html/index.html

Please feel free to reach out if you want to help me with this project, or if you feel that it doesn't meet notability requirements. I'll have this tracked on my user talk page Darwulf (talk) 23:31, 5 May 2020 (UTC)

Superfund Site lists are out of date

I've completed Alabama already, working my way down through states. I could use someone to follow after me and check the formatting, grammar/spelling, and for any other issues. A resource link will be included on the talk pages for assistance in keeping these pages updated. Darwulf (talk) 01:49, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

Materials from the Open Global Glacier Model are now openly licensed

They can be found here, along with a set of engaging Jupyter notebooks on the matter, as per this tweet. -- Daniel Mietchen (talk) 22:26, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

Environmental impact of aviation in the United Kingdom

Environmental impact of aviation in the United Kingdom, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for an individual good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. buidhe 17:31, 15 June 2020 (UTC)

Request for comment about Greta Thunberg

If you are interested there is a request for comment about Talk:Greta Thunberg#Picture change. AnomalousAtom (talk) 10:46, 25 June 2020 (UTC)

Request for help about Colombian Activist

I'm a Wikipedia editor, basically in Spanish. I try to denounce the abuses of big companies and also what specific people and professionals do in their territory. I need support to maintain the article Camilo Prieto Valderrama, an environmental activist from Colombia. If you can help me, I appreciate it. --3erres (talk) 16:34, 5 July 2020 (UTC)

Uh-oh. Someone needs a refresher on WP:Neutral point of view. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 16:38, 5 July 2020 (UTC)

Looks like a successful article cleanup, and I have joined in with a "keep" vote. Jusdafax (talk) 07:54, 12 July 2020 (UTC)

FAR of Earth

I have nominated Earth for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. --Soumya-8974 ^talk _contribs ^subpages 18:02, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

Improving page

Hi all,

I would like to improve the Robert D. Bullard page so that it is B or even GA status. Could some more experienced editors recommend which areas to work on?

Apathyash (talk) 20:11, 4 October 2020 (UTC)

• I have taken a quick look at the Robert D. Bullard article. To upgrade from C class, I'd suggest further expanding the article across the board. Make sure additions are reliably sourced, per WP:RS. Best wishes! Jusdafax (talk) 05:07, 11 October 2020 (UTC)

AS03

Can someone look into the issues raised at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Sharks/Items_needing_attention#AS03 ? --Genetics4good (talk) 17:05, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

• Most of the discussion on that page is over 14 years old, and this is not an area I'm particularly knowledgeable about. Possibly someone else here can sort this out, however. Jusdafax (talk) 05:15, 11 October 2020 (UTC)

Draft:1995 UN Children's Conference on the Environment

I would be very grateful for any help you can offer in getting this draft page live: we are organising a 25th anniversary event for 9th November. LordLucasCD (talk) 19:09, 11 October 2020 (UTC)

Event invitation: November 21st ~ NYC COVID-19: Environmental Justice in Public Health Edit-A-Thon - ONLINE

November 21st, 11am-1pm E.S.T: NYC COVID-19: Environmental Justice in Public Health Edit-A-Thon - ONLINE
Hello WikiProject Environment! You are invited to join the Brooklyn based recycling organization Sure We Can for our 2nd NYC COVID-19 themed Wikipedia Edit-a-thon / translate-a-thon - ONLINE - this Saturday, Nov 21st, 2020 11am - 1pm. The edit-a-thon is part of Sure We Can's work with NYC Health + Hospitals to stop the spread of Covid-19. We plan to continue to work on translating the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City article into the many languages spoken in New York City; as well as, work on other ideas about how wikipedia could slow the spread of Covid-19. Please join us, we'd love to see you all (online). Saturday November 21 NYC COVID-19: Environmental Justice in Public Health Edit-A-Thon - ONLINE (optional RSVP on-wiki). 11:00am - 1:00 pm E.S.T online via Zoom (optional breakout rooms available)

--Wil540 art (talk) 17:35, 2 November 2020 (UTC)

Featured article review climate change

I have nominated Climate change for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Femke Nijsse (talk) 22:08, 6 December 2020 (UTC)

American environmentalists‎ listed as a subcategory of North American environmentalists

Is there a reason that the is classified as a subcategory of rather than the other way around? Yaakovaryeh (talk) 02:20, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

Carbon credit forests

Forests can be created to produce carbon credits. Requires GIS and other tools to find suitable locations though, help on this is appreciated: Carbon credit software tools --Genetics4good (talk) 14:38, 26 January 2021 (UTC)

Community advice

Please give me an advice on the ways to improve Draft:LastObject. It is a properly stated WP:COI contribution. This Danish company manufactures reusable alternatives to cotton swabs, tissue paper and other environment pollutants. It got quite a lot of publicity since 2018, esp. LastSwab, a recyclable cotton swab. The draft was declined by a reviewer with the comment "This submission does not appear to be written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. Entries should be written from a neutral point of view... Please rewrite your submission in a more encyclopedic format. Please make sure to avoid peacock terms that promote the subject". The comment is a bit general and I am asking for you advice on what parts of the article or what specific phrases need to be reworked. --Bbarmadillo (talk) 16:51, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

Request for feedback

Hello, I'd like to request feedback on the following draft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Global_Sustainable_Tourism_Council

I submitted 50+ days ago and haven't had it reviewed yet. Any feedback is welcome.Airizarry018 (talk) 03:55, 4 February 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Sandbox organiser

	Sandbox Organiser A place to help you organise your work

Hi all

I've been working on a tool for the past few months that you may find useful, especially if you create new articles. Wikipedia:Sandbox organiser is a set of tools to help you better organise your draft articles and other pages in your userspace. It also includes areas to keep your to do lists, bookmarks, list of tools. You can customise your sandbox organiser to add new features and sections. Once created you can access it simply by clicking the sandbox link at the top of the page. You can create and then customise your own sandbox organiser just by clicking the button on the page. All ideas for improvements and other versions would be really appreciated.

Huge thanks to PrimeHunter and NavinoEvans for their work on the technical parts, without them it wouldn't have happened.

Hope its helpful

John Cummings (talk) 11:25, 6 February 2021 (UTC)

Merger discussion for 100% renewable energy

An article that you have been involved in editing—100% renewable energy—has been proposed for merging with another article. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. Chidgk1 (talk) 15:33, 11 February 2021 (UTC)

Native Plants Journal

The article for the Native Plants Journal is up for deletion. In my opinion the journal is indeed notable and actively read in several fields of study. Any input from the members of this project would be appreciated! Thank you, Thriley (talk) 22:36, 13 February 2021 (UTC)

Please contribute to the discussion about how sea and ocean currently overlap

Please contribute to the discussion about how sea and ocean currently overlap and how this could be improved. See on the talk page here. In addition, see merger discussion of world ocean into ocean here. We need more inputs to the discussion. (and please don't just think of it as a "geography" question as there is more to it). EMsmile (talk) 04:25, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

Biomass article

The environmental impact of Biomass is depicted extremely positively on the biomass article. Reading that page, readers will literally learn that biomass is "the most important source of renewable energy." I find the page's portrayal of biomass startling given that the limited knowledge I have indicates that scientists see biomass far more skeptically (see for example this lengthy Politico piece and this shorter Guardian piece). I do not have substantive knowledge on the topic or the related scientific literature to contribute much to the page, however. Looking at the history of the page, it looks like a lot of content has been scrubbed and added in the last two years, primarily by one editor whose first edits on Wikipedia were to Bioenergy Europe, a lobbying group for the biomass industry. Input from folks with substantive expertise would be welcome. Snooganssnoogans (talk) 02:41, 27 March 2021 (UTC)

Yeah good call, this needs an awful lot of work. Who wrote that? says he wrote 87% of the page. I'll try to make some changes and restore what was removed. Reywas92^Talk 05:23, 28 March 2021 (UTC)

Proposed new Wikimedia sister project: Etiki

The Etiki Proposal is described thusly: "etiki aims to create transparency on the ethical and sustainable behavior of companies (or more generally: organisations)" in its first paragraph titled "Project Description." The proposal on is a Wikimedia page, distinct from Wikipedia.

I have no opinion or comment on the Etiki proposal at this time but am posting it here for the consideration of WikiProject Environment members and other interested editors. Jusdafax (talk) 16:44, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

Reuse of excreta - proposed name change

I am proposing a name change for the long established article Reuse of excreta. The discussion is here and input from a range of editors would be most welcome.  Velella  ^{Velella Talk}   17:23, 2 April 2021 (UTC)

Waiting for submission / Where is my pending article now?

Hi folks,

I worked for a week on my first article (about Marianna Muntianu, one of the 7 UN awarded Young Champions of the Earth in 2019). Whatever, I finally dared to ask for a review to convert the draft into a published text. The info popped up it would take about 4 months. Well... ok. BUT: Today I wanted to change sth. but can´t find the text anymore. I´m a bit nervous the work disappeared forever... Thanks, Uta — Preceding unsigned comment added by UtaNabert (talk • contribs) 20:43, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

Celebrate Earth Day with WikiForHumanRights 2021

I wanted to reach out to this WikiProjoect to invite you to meta:WikiForHumanRights which is focusing this month on "right to a healthy environment" which includes climate change and other environmental action. Please join us for:

• There is a writing Challenge with small prizes I hope you join: meta:WikiForHumanRights_Challenge.
• A live event on April 15 at 3PM UTC to launch the campaign: https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/04/02/live-event-join-us-for-the-launch-of-wikiforhumanrights-right-to-a-healthy-environment/
• Community lead events that you may want to join throughout the world, and especially in the MENA and African regions.

Here is the ping for the folks who are listed as active on the project:

Extended content

@Kku, Shyamal, Chriswaterguy, Clayoquot, Frappyjohn, Cocoaguy, OhanaUnited, Jedgold, Rohini, N2e, David Tornheim, Jusdafax, Annielogue, DASonnenfeld, Cullen328, Lawrencekhoo, Ebe123, Northamerica1000, Gandydancer, Gobonobo, Netherzone, Mietchen, Visionholder, Husain007, DENAMAX, Danimations, Seniorexpat, Sarr Cat, Vaselineeeeeeee, Nickrulercreator, Path slopu, KVDP, Prawnpringles, AlecGargett, Psychologist Guy, Apathyash, Quick, Spot the Quetzalcoatl!, Epant25, Stalinsunnykvj, Wikijen026, Battykin, Crisantom, DonneyC, Arcahaeoindris, and EnvironmentalEnthusiast:

Hope you get a chance to participate, Astinson (WMF) (talk) 23:46, 13 April 2021 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Retreat of glaciers since 1850#Requested move 7 May 2021

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Retreat of glaciers since 1850#Requested move 7 May 2021 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Vpab15 (talk) 16:50, 7 May 2021 (UTC)

Category:Science articles needing expert attention

You are invited to participate in a discussion Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Science#Category:Science_articles_needing_expert_attention about the following articles:

• Environmental radioactivity
• 16 articles primary about other disciplines. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 14:39, 12 May 2021 (UTC)

McDonald's Cycle Center at FAR

I have nominated McDonald's Cycle Center for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Z1720 (talk) 00:33, 23 May 2021 (UTC)

Global spread of plastic-eating microorganisms

Some maps showing the spread of sea-based bacteria like Ideonella sakaiensis, Zalerium maritimum, ... (see plastisphere article) should be made available there (i.e. are they present in places where there is much plastic debris, like the garbage patches, or on beaches and certain rivers (i.e. Citarum, ...), known to carry much plastic waste ?

Also, are these bacteria commercially grown for allowing cleanup volunteers to spread them on beaches containing fine plastic particles, which are difficult to remove by hand? Add info on the mentioned page. --Genetics4good (talk) 11:28, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

Stub Assistance

Hi there! I am a university student currently working on my first stub! I would love if someone could have a look at my progress! The stub is Serendip Sanctuary. Thank you Tangentcookie (talk) 06:05, 27 May 2021 (UTC)

Looks good - I made a suggestion on its talk page.Chidgk1 (talk) 06:11, 28 May 2021 (UTC)

Quick edit request

Can anyone spare 1 to 10 mins to look at my edit request at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Green_Party_(Turkey) Chidgk1 (talk) 06:16, 28 May 2021 (UTC)

Help

Hi there, I have been editing the Wikipage Saltuarius salebrosus could some experienced Wikiusers please have a look at my progress, and if possible grade the stub. Playground123 (talk) 04:39, 30 May 2021 (UTC)

Most viewed stub in this Wikiproject

List of natural phenomena 15,366 512 Stub--Coin945 (talk) 14:29, 30 May 2021 (UTC)

R.I. P. Christopher Stone, seminal environmental lawyer

The New York Times has a fantastic obituary here if anyone from this project wishes to create an article. He is literally the beginning of environmental protection law theory.4meter4 (talk) 17:34, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

Requested move discussion in progress

An editor has requested that Climate change denial be moved to a different name. Please join the discussion at Talk:Climate change denial#Requested move 8 July 2021. Thank you. --Sangdeboeuf (talk) 12:00, 8 July 2021 (UTC)

GAR notice

Ethanol fuel in Brazil, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Hog Farm _Talk 19:46, 10 July 2021 (UTC)

Preliminary musing about possible future merge proposal

Please see Talk:Human_impact_on_the_environment#preliminary_musing_on_a_merge_proposal and add any preliminary comment there. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 14:08, 19 July 2021 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Assisted colonization#Requested move 19 August 2021

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Assisted colonization#Requested move 19 August 2021 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject.  — Shibbolethink ^{(♔ ♕)} 02:04, 20 August 2021 (UTC)

Solar power reassessment

Solar power has been nominated for an individual good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Chidgk1 (talk) 17:15, 25 August 2021 (UTC)

Flexible-fuel vehicle

Flexible-fuel vehicle has been nominated for an individual good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Chidgk1 (talk) 09:22, 29 August 2021 (UTC)

Indirect land use change impacts of biofuels

Indirect land use change impacts of biofuels has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Chidgk1 (talk) 15:32, 29 August 2021 (UTC)

More eyes needed for wastewater and sewage articles

Myself and User:Thewellman have recently been working on the articles on sewage, sewage treatment, wastewater and wastewater treatment. I would appreciated if a few more editors could cast their eyes on these articles (including their talk pages) and help us improve them further. I think those topics are important enough to warrant more than just two editors. Thanks in advance. (you don't have to be an expert in sewage treatment to contribute in a meaningful way) EMsmile (talk) 02:12, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

Water pollution

Hello

Just a quick note to mention that the article Water pollution had been reviewed by an external expert Access to review notes here, as part of Wikipedia Primary School Research Project. Feedback welcome ! Anthere (talk)

By the way, I recently reworked this article, see here. EMsmile (talk) 02:13, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

Reviving WikiProject Zoo

Hello, WikiProject Environment members, I am reviving WikiProject Zoo as I feel many of the zoo articles are lackluster. If anyone is interested in helping out, please do so. -- PaleoMatt (talk) 17:25, 5 September 2021 (UTC)

Wyss Foundation: Request for review

Hello WikiProject members! I recently posted a request to the Wyss Foundation article talk page asking that editors review some proposed revisions that I shared there. The context is that an IP editor added some material to the Wyss Foundation article that is critical of the 30x30 conservation plan, which is okay, but I think the surrounding paragraph would benefit from some additional details. I'm refraining from making any edits myself because of my COI (I work for the Wyss Foundation). My request is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wyss_Foundation#Proposed_edits_to_Conservation_subsection

Hoping someone here can review what I'm proposing. Thank you so much! ZH for Wyss Foundation (talk) 18:55, 10 September 2021 (UTC)

Wind power

Wind power has been nominated for an individual good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Chidgk1 (talk) 18:02, 22 October 2021 (UTC)

GAR

Radioactive contamination from the Rocky Flats Plant, a page within the scope of this project, is up for Wikipedia:Good article reassessment. Please see Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/Radioactive contamination from the Rocky Flats Plant/1. Your help to improve the article or give feedback would be most appreciated! CaptainEek ^{Edits Ho Cap'n!}⚓ 05:07, 4 November 2021 (UTC)

• Thanks for the heads-up! Jusdafax (talk) 05:08, 4 November 2021 (UTC)

Photovoltaic power station

I have started an individual good article reassessment of Photovoltaic power station which was rated "good" in 2013 and I think it needs modernizing. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Chidgk1 (talk) 15:30, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

FAR of retreat of glaciers since 1850

I have nominated Retreat of glaciers since 1850 for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Femke (talk) 10:07, 5 December 2021 (UTC)

Environmental threats to the Great Barrier Reef

Environmental threats to the Great Barrier Reef has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Chidgk1 (talk) 15:07, 22 December 2021 (UTC)

Sea surface temperature

Sea surface temperature has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Chidgk1 (talk) 11:35, 6 January 2022 (UTC)

Congestion pricing

Congestion pricing has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Chidgk1 (talk) 15:04, 6 January 2022 (UTC)

Improving Japan#Environment

Hello,

Japan is currently going through a series to change to retain its FA status. If you can help make the "environment" section a better summary of the contemporary environmental issues and policy of Japan, that would be much appreciated! MSG17 (talk) 00:03, 9 January 2022 (UTC)

Nomination of Butadiene (data page) for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Butadiene (data page) is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Caffeine (data page) until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article.

DePiep (talk) 12:53, 15 January 2022 (UTC)

"Wildlife of country X" or "Biodiversity of country X"?

I am thinking of expanding Wildlife of Turkey. So should I rename it Biodiversity of Turkey? I mean is "wildlife" a subset of "biodiversity"?

I see some countries have "Wildlife ...." articles and some have "Biodiversity ...." articles and South Africa has both!

Chidgk1 (talk) 12:14, 21 January 2022 (UTC)

Comparing Category:Wildlife by country and Template:Biodiversity Worldwide, "Wildlife" is a much more common name so I'd keep it there. Reywas92^Talk 14:38, 21 January 2022 (UTC)

The "Environmental Diplomacy Project"

Thought you all might be interested in this project which "focuses on uncovering the documents that illuminate the policy debates and decisions that guided the United States in two key series of climate change negotiations," by one of my work colleagues at the National Security Archive. There aren't many articles there, but they may be helpful in improving some articles on here. --Historyday01 (talk) 16:20, 23 January 2022 (UTC)

RM of Acclimatisation society to Acclimatisation movement

 You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Acclimatisation society § Requested move 23 January 2022. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 20:23, 23 January 2022 (UTC)

Invitation to discussion: FAC 4 nomination of nonmetal

Please accept this note as an invitation to participate in the discussion of this latest FAC nomination for the nonmetal article.

Thank you. Sandbh (talk) 07:29, 4 February 2022 (UTC)

Reassessment of Good Article status for sustainability (March 2022)

One of the three dimensions of sustainability is the environment. Please note that I have listed this article for reassessment of its WP:GA status (which it got 11 years ago). I don't think in its current form it meets GA status and I think the label ought to be removed for now. We can later work towards regaining the GA status. Please see the discussion here. EMsmile (talk) 10:01, 29 March 2022 (UTC)

• Thank you for this notification. While I'm open to examination of the article's GA status via reassessment, I disagree that the GA status should be removed at once. I'd like to see more comments on that from members here, or from other people uninvolved in the topic. I'll comment further on the reassessment page linked above. Cheers! Jusdafax (talk) 23:46, 29 March 2022 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Ministry of Environment, Foresty and Tourism (Namibia)#Requested move 24 March 2022

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Ministry of Environment, Foresty and Tourism (Namibia)#Requested move 24 March 2022 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. _signed, 511KeV ^(talk) 15:08, 31 March 2022 (UTC)

Environmental impact of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine

I recently created an article for the Environmental impact of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Any help would be appreciated. Thriley (talk) 17:27, 14 April 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia Article on Six-pack rings

The article on Six-pack rings says NOTHING about the danger of these rings to wildlife. They cause strangulation, starvation and death of many seabirds and other wildlife. This information needs to be added under under the Environmental Concerns section, with the advice given by many environmental organizations to cut apart the plastic rings before disposal or recycling. ````

Note:

My apologies if this is not the correct place to offer a comment rather than an actual edit. This is one of my first times contributing and my first in many years. I am in a rush but at least wanted to make note of this concern in case someone else is able to address it before I am.

Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Crescent1661 (talk • contribs) 22:27, 20 April 2022 (UTC)

@Crescent1661 that is a great place to comment, but you could also do it yourself. If you need resources on editing check out: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Climate_change/Small_to_medium_tasks, Sadads (talk) 00:32, 21 April 2022 (UTC)

Lost Data on Page

Apologies, I'm new here and just trying to help.

On the following page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impacts_of_lithium-ion_batteries) located at the bottom of the paragraph headed "Hydrometallurgical Metals Reclamation" the paragraph suddenly ends. The linked article refers to (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrometallurgy).

"The amount spent over" doesn't give a lot of context, but the author's intent appears to be something about the cost of using hydrometallurgical metal reclamation in a specific case study.

(https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b03545) suggests that "The hydrometallurgical process is considered to be the most suitable method for the recycling of spent lithium-ion batteries."

(https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0956053X21001082) concludes "Under the tested conditions, lower incineration temperatures (400–500 °C) seem to favor the formation of CO and CO2, which reacts with the electrode material starting a carbothermic reduction and helps to improve the leaching efficiency of metals from LIBs without additional reducers that are usually needed."

(https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fchem.2020.578044/full) discusses the hydrometallurgical process for lithium in greater detail, and discusses some other leaching methods in detail.

I hope this helps. VoidMagi (talk) 09:04, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

User script to detect unreliable sources

Main page: User:Headbomb/unreliable

I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like

• John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14. (John Smith "[https://www.deprecated.com/article Article of things]" ''Deprecated.com''. Accessed 2020-02-14.)

and turns it into something like

• John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.

It will work on a variety of links, including those from {{cite web}}, {{cite journal}} and {{doi}}.

The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.

Do note that this is not a script to be mindlessly used, and several caveats apply. Details and instructions are available at User:Headbomb/unreliable. Questions, comments and requests can be made at User talk:Headbomb/unreliable.

- Headbomb {t · c · p · b}

This is a one time notice and can't be unsubscribed from. Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:01, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

One of your project's articles has been selected for improvement!

Hello, Please note that Soil, which is within this project's scope, has been selected as one of the Articles for improvement. The article is scheduled to appear on Wikipedia's Community portal in the "Articles for improvement" section for one week, beginning today. Everyone is encouraged to collaborate to improve the article. Thanks, and happy editing! Delivered by — MusikBot talk 00:06, 9 May 2022 (UTC) on behalf of the AFI team

Hazel Henderson, futurist and environmentalist writer

Writer Hazel Henderson has died. The nomination for Recent Deaths expires in six hours. Any help in improving the article would be appreciated. Thank you, Thriley (talk) 18:13, 29 May 2022 (UTC)

Requested move of Abiogenesis

A requested move of Abiogenesis to Origin of life is under discussion. Project members are invited to contribute. Chiswick Chap (talk) 12:24, 1 July 2022 (UTC)

Hanford Site Featured article review

I have nominated Hanford Site for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 01:26, 25 September 2022 (UTC)

Slovakia Rašov kasárne

toxic materiál 85.248.230.19 (talk) 20:05, 4 October 2022 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Alice Di Micele

The article Alice Di Micele has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

While there is a tenuous claim of significance (and so fails speedy), there is no claim of notability.

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. UtherSRG (talk) 01:45, 8 October 2022 (UTC)

Links to disambiguation page "Environmental conservation"

Could you help to fix the links to the disambiguation page Environmental conservation? There are 52 links to the page shown here which should probably be redirected to either Environmental protection or Nature conservation but it not always clear from the context which is more appropriate.— Rod ^talk 16:11, 18 October 2022 (UTC)

Requesting comments: New removed section on Global goals and reports in 2022

There is a request for comment at Talk:2022 § New removed section on Global goals and reports (Result:) that may interest members of this WikiProject.

Should section "Global goals and reports" (in any shape or form) about the state of developments regarding global goals in/as of a year be excluded from article 2022?

Please participate at the talk page. Prototyperspective (talk) 12:42, 1 November 2022 (UTC)

Good article review of Environmental threats to the Great Barrier Reef

Environmental threats to the Great Barrier Reef has been nominated for an individual good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Chidgk1 (talk) 14:31, 2 November 2022 (UTC)

FAR for Lung cancer

User:Buidhe has nominated Lung cancer for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:20, 19 November 2022 (UTC)

What should the fossil fuel phase-out article look like?

If you have a view please comment at Talk:Fossil_fuel_phase-out#Scope_and_structure_of_the_article?

Thanks Chidgk1

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Chidgk1 (talk • contribs) 06:52, 28 October 2020 (UTC)

Expand article for a DYK?

A stub is now in place for Electric tractor. Would make a great DYK! Oliveleaf4 (talk)

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Oliveleaf4 (talk • contribs) 20:50, 23 July 2022 (UTC)

AE appeal

This appeal at Arbitration Enforcement may be of interest to members of this project. Beyond My Ken (talk) 18:41, 4 December 2022 (UTC)

World Soil Day - deserving of independent article?

I believe World Soil Day is deserving of its own article. It has significant coverage and the year deemed International Year of Soil is getting further and further away from us.

• https://www.vaticannews.va/en/world/news/2022-12/world-soil-day-united-nations-environmental-awareness-earth.html
• https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/new-updates/world-soil-day-2022-history-significance-and-theme-of-the-day/articleshow/95995492.cms

Any thoughts on this? Either way, happy World Soil Day. - Wil540 art (talk) 00:37, 6 December 2022 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository

Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Femke (alt) (talk) 08:32, 7 February 2023 (UTC)

WikiProject Petroleum

Hello, there is a proposal to form WikiProject Petroleum, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Petroleum. Jerium (talk) 14:39, 8 February 2023 (UTC)

Featured Article Save Award for Hanford Site

There is a Featured Article Save Award nomination at Wikipedia talk:Featured article review/Hanford Site/archive1. Please join the discussion to recognize and celebrate editors who helped assure this article would retain its featured status. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 16:40, 4 March 2023 (UTC)

What climate/environment photos do you need? (Climate Visuals)

Hi everyone, Climate Visuals is working to increase the photographs available to Wikimedia Commons in their library and is seeking insights from the Wikipedia community about the climate change photos you need and would use.

(The Climate Visuals library is designed to increase the impact and engagement of climate change photography and information via their creative commons photo gallery and evidence base).

What are the specific climate- and environment-related topics that you need photos for? What articles or topic areas are you working on, or planning to work on, that could use more compelling photos?

Please do let me know below and I’ll pass the message on. Climate Visuals will use this info to collect and curate existing photos that would fill these gaps. Thanks! TatjanaBaleta (talk) 12:20, 22 March 2023 (UTC)

Project-independent quality assessments

Quality assessments by Wikipedia editors rate articles in terms of completeness, organization, prose quality, sourcing, etc. Most wikiprojects follow the general guidelines at Wikipedia:Content assessment, but some have specialized assessment guidelines. A recent Village pump proposal was approved and has been implemented to add a |class= parameter to {{WikiProject banner shell}}, which can display a general quality assessment for an article, and to let project banner templates "inherit" this assessment.

No action is required if your wikiproject follows the standard assessment approach. Over time, quality assessments will be migrated up to {{WikiProject banner shell}}, and your project banner will automatically "inherit" any changes to the general assessments for the purpose of assigning categories.

However, if your project has decided to "opt out" and follow a non-standard quality assessment approach, all you have to do is modify your wikiproject banner template to pass {{WPBannerMeta}} a new |QUALITY_CRITERIA=custom parameter. If this is done, changes to the general quality assessment will be ignored, and your project-level assessment will be displayed and used to create categories, as at present. Aymatth2 (talk) 19:54, 10 April 2023 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Carbon offset#Requested move 5 April 2023

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Carbon offset#Requested move 5 April 2023 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. MaterialWorks (contribs) 16:15, 12 April 2023 (UTC)

Institute of Conservation

Y'all may want to take a look at this article. It seems to be within the scope of this project, but needs some attention to bring it up to Wikipedia standards 76.14.122.5 (talk) 23:56, 15 April 2023 (UTC)

Featured Article Save Award for lung cancer

There is a Featured Article Save Award nomination at Wikipedia talk:Featured article review/Lung cancer/archive1. Please join the discussion to recognize and celebrate editors who helped assure this article would retain its featured status. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 15:56, 6 May 2023 (UTC)

Proposed merges

I propose a merge of Large marine ecosystem with Marine ecosystem. The former is not a large article, nor is it a particularly visible or high-quality one. Its greatest value is in describing NOAA's system which gives it its title - and that can be carried over without many issues. Its several paragraphs on ecosystem function would likely be a little more difficult to carry over, but they are also quite flawed (i.e. no external links in any references.)

The second merge I suggest is of ecological collapse with ecosystem collapse. Both are quite small and of limited quality. Can anyone suggest a difference between the two (preferably grounded in peer-reviewed science) which would make the former article worth keeping? InformationToKnowledge (talk) 18:07, 29 June 2023 (UTC)

I propose a third merger as well - that of space sunshade and space mirror (climate engineering). Discuss on the former's talk page. InformationToKnowledge (talk) 13:06, 16 July 2023 (UTC)

Environmental Working Group - discussions need more editors!

I'm working on the Environmental Working Group where more editors would be appreciated to improve coverage of this Non profit organisation. The talk page has a couple of discussions that have reached a bit of an impasse and more editors could help move things forwards.

• Talk:Environmental Working Group/Archive 2#Sunscreens: unexplained revert
• Talk:Environmental Working Group/Archive 2#PFAS pollution

Thanks and see you there! {{u|Gtoffoletto}}  ^talk 15:06, 27 July 2023 (UTC)

New category

I noticed we don't have a category for "Climate change sceptics" that could apply to plenty of people. There is Category:Climate change denial but that is not for biographies. On the opposite end we have Category:Climate activists. LibStar (talk) 03:24, 31 August 2023 (UTC)

New Wikimedia project

Hello everyone,

I am posting my question here since I am not aware of a better place on Wikipedia to discuss similar things. I was thinking of proposing a new Wikimedia project (i.e. a sister project such as Wikibooks or Wikiversity) that would deal mostly with environmental issues. This idea is not new and on the project proposal page there has been several proposals in the past (mostly in 2006/7), none of which became an actual project - either the proposed functionality/info could be included in Wikipedia or the proposal was rejected due to inactivity (see e.g. Wikinvironment and WikiEnergy). Now, almost twenty years later, the environmental crisis is worse than ever and when looking around me I am rather disappointed to see how many people just don't care about their own unsustainable lifestyle/bad habits/over-consumption. But even if one tries, it is sometimes surprisingly difficult to find relevant information about e.g. what the waste sorting policy is in a particular country/city/company etc.

And so I think it's worth trying to propose a new Wikimedia project that would focus exactly on this kind of information - information about environmental protection that is too detailed (say on the level of cities/neighborhoods) to be put on Wikipedia, and/or information that is akin to how-to pages and as such should not be put on Wikipedia (see the "Wikipedia is not a manual" policy). The project is not meant to replace existing Wikipedia pages but rather to supplement them. Most importantly, this way there would be a single centralized site collecting targeted information about environmental protection that would be maintained by a large open community of contributors and that could enjoy good visibility under the Wiki-family umbrella. I have more specific ideas in mind, but this post is already long enough anyway.

In order to avoid the unhappy fate of previous proposals on similar topics, I would like to first collect some feedback from people who (hopefully) share the same concerns/attitude as I do. Any feedback, including the negative one, is appreciated. Thank you! JozumBjada (talk) 20:45, 5 September 2023 (UTC)

Sustainable fashion article

Hi all. Please note that the article for Sustainable fashion is a bit of a mess and need of a major rewrite. If this important topic is of interest to anyone please feel free to make changes. Arcahaeoindris (talk) 16:31, 31 October 2023 (UTC)

Interesting article and it's tagged. It's not a topic I am familiar with but thanks for bringing it here. Perhaps one of the other members of this WikiProject can step up. Cheers, Jusdafax (talk) 05:36, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

Merger discussion for Global warming controversy

An article that you have been involved in editing—Global warming controversy—has been proposed for merging with another article. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. Chidgk1 (talk) 17:53, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

Merger discussion for Scientific consensus on climate change

An article that you have been involved in editing—Scientific consensus on climate change—has been proposed for merging with another article. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. Chidgk1 (talk) 13:50, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

Large amount of content removed from Mercury

Large amount of content has been removed from Mercury (element) recently. Would someone please take a look? --Dustfreeworld (talk) 02:08, 22 November 2023 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Mercury (element)

Mercury (element) has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 20:21, 21 December 2023 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Debate over China's economic responsibilities for climate change mitigation#Requested move 4 January 2024

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Debate over China's economic responsibilities for climate change mitigation#Requested move 4 January 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 21:44, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

Good article nomination for Chevrolet Volt (first generation)

Chevrolet Volt (first generation) has been nominated for a good article nomination. If you are interested in the discussion, feel free to review or comment on the article. Best, 750h+ (talk) 10:05, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Invasive species

Invasive species has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 22:25, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Hypoxia (environmental)#Requested move 10 February 2024

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Requested move at Talk:Rewilding (conservation biology)#Requested move 4 March 2024

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Discussion around forestry and climate change mitigation

@EMsmile has started a discussion at WikiProject Climate Change called "How to clean up the mess around trees and mitigation?". As part of that discussion, it has been proposed to merge a few of the forestry articles. If you could contribute to the discussion on that talk page to help find clarity on the way forward and also mention you are from this project that would be great Chidgk1 (talk) 18:31, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

Merger discussion for Sustainable forest management, Afforestation, and Proforestation

Articles that you have been involved in editing—Sustainable forest management, Afforestation, and Proforestation—have been proposed for merging with another article. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. Chidgk1 (talk) 07:05, 28 April 2024 (UTC)

RFC on Food and Health at Climate change

There is an RFC requesting that editors choose between one of two draft sections on Food and Health in the article on Climate change. Please take part in the RFC. Robert McClenon (talk) 04:26, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

FYI. The RfC can be found here:

• Talk:Climate_change#RFC:_Food_and_health_section

--David Tornheim (talk) 19:49, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Laboratoire des sciences du climat et de l'environnement#Requested move 27 May 2024

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Laboratoire des sciences du climat et de l'environnement#Requested move 27 May 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Safari Scribe^{Edits! Talk!} 01:16, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

Climate change sceptics

Why don't we have a category for this? There are many sceptics out there particularly on the right side of politics. We have a category for COVID-19 conspiracy theorists and this would be similar. LibStar (talk) 20:45, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

Zero carbon housing (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Someone conflated Net zero home with Zero carbon housing, by rewriting the article in June 2024 and adding Net Zero. Now the article is a mess. Its intro paragraph contradicts the succeeding paragraph, and will confuse readers into thinking they are the same, when net zero is not about zero emissions at all, but offsets. That would fit more into line with the other article Low-energy house -- 64.229.90.32 (talk) 22:54, 13 June 2024 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Ford Evos (concept car)#Requested move 17 June 2024

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Good article reassessment for Nature

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Request for evaluation of Groen (political party)

Hello! I hope it's okay to ask this here (I'm fairly new). I spent some time updating and improving this article Groen (political party) (Belgian Flemish green party). Checking the history, I noticed that several sections were written-removed-written-removed etc etc for having no neutral pov or no sources or... So I wanted to ask some input or evaluation of the page as it is now. I'm absolutely not claiming it is a very good article now, honestly it's just medium-good. But when I started it was such a mess and I put in some work so I hope people aren't going to delete it again. There are two tags: verification and update-needed, and I THINK both can be removed. (Except we just had elections, so actually it's going to be outdated very soon again. That was not so smart of me, but okay.) I hope that this can be the basis of a better article. Do you have any remarks or comments? Inktaap (talk) 17:56, 1 July 2024 (UTC)

Request for "No net loss wetlands policy" to be renamed

Hi all! I have been looking at the no net loss wetlands policy page and would like to propose its renaming to "No net loss policy in the United States" and subsequent creation of an article that discusses no net loss worldwide. Since no net loss policy approaches have expanded beyond just the US where this idea originated and this issue has already been tagged, I think this would be a helpful improvement to address the lack of worldwide view taken by the article while still retaining the content since I think it is too big just for a section. I am planning on working on this in a sandbox if anyone is interested in collaborating or has any other suggestions? Manxshearwater (talk) 12:02, 16 July 2024 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Tonlé Sap#Requested move 10 July 2024

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Tesla Model S at FAC

Hello contributors of the project, the article Tesla Model S, one of the most important electric vehicles of the 21st century, has been put up for FAC, if you would like to leave your comments, they'd be highly appreciated. Much thanks, 750h+ 13:14, 21 August 2024 (UTC)

FAR for Restoration of the Everglades

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PROD of Hairshirt environmentalism

There is a proposed deletion of Hairshirt environmentalism. The notability has been questioned; for certain the page needs serious attention. If nobody works on it and/or opposes the PROD then it will be deleted on Sept 20, 2024. If it is of interest to this project then please edit; I am neutral on the topic beyond thinking that a PROD might be hasty. Ldm1954 (talk) 22:02, 15 September 2024 (UTC)

The Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment

Perhaps someone from this WikiProject could take a look at The Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment and assess it (particularly with respect to WP:NORG and WP:NOBLE). The article was created directly in the main space by a student participating in a WP:WEP affiliated university course; so, it never really underwent any type of formal assessment (e.g. WP:AFC) and it doesn't seem to have yet been reviewed by WP:NPP. -- Marchjuly (talk) 01:04, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

Hi there, I just took a glance at it and it seems fine to me. It needs expansion, and hopefully someone here can get to that. I found the linked case interesting as well. Jusdafax (talk) 01:31, 17 December 2024 (UTC)

Traditional ecological knowledge and traditional knowledge discussion at WP:FTN

There is a thread at the Fringe Theories Noticeboard about the articles traditional ecological knowledge and traditional knowledge that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Please consider joining the discussion. Hydrangeans (she/her | talk | edits) 00:48, 24 October 2024 (UTC)

I took a look at a couple screens worth of that discussion. I did find it of interest, so thanks for the heads up. I’m going to think over what I perused, then try to get through the rest. Cheers! Jusdafax (talk) 01:41, 17 December 2024 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Bees and toxic chemicals

Bees and toxic chemicals has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 16:07, 12 October 2024 (UTC)

Happy to see this one retained a GA rating. Jusdafax (talk) 01:50, 17 December 2024 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Food waste in the United Kingdom

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OK, it has indeed been delisted because the sourcing was outdated, so here we have another good project for the WikiProject’s Article Tasks list, which also needs updating. Jusdafax (talk) 02:33, 17 December 2024 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

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• Since it was delisted, I’ve added this article to our task list. An important article, in my view. Jusdafax (talk) 08:12, 17 December 2024 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for High-level radioactive waste management

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Requested move at Talk:Environmental impact of aviation in the United Kingdom#Requested move 2 March 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Environmental impact of aviation in the United Kingdom#Requested move 2 March 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. —Alalch E. 19:22, 8 March 2025 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Environmental impact of aviation in the United Kingdom

Environmental impact of aviation in the United Kingdom has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Chidgk1 (talk) 12:52, 11 March 2025 (UTC)

Requested move discussion

An editor has requested that Particulates be moved to Particulate matter, which may be of interest to this WikiProject. You are invited to participate in the move discussion.. —Femke 🐦 (talk) 09:29, 8 May 2025 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:EPA (disambiguation)#Requested move 31 May 2025

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Proposed deletion of Hybrid reactor

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Good article reassessment for 100,000-year problem

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Requested move at Talk:Trina Solar#Requested move 24 July 2025

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Merger discussion for Environmental impact of wind power

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One of your project's articles has been selected for improvement!

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Good article reassessment for Death of Jairo Mora Sandoval

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Merge pedelec into electric bicycle?

One person has commented for and one against. I would like to close the discussion so if you have an opinion please comment at Talk:Electric bicycle#Merge pedelec into this article? soon thanks Chidgk1 (talk) Chidgk1 (talk) 04:59, 12 November 2025 (UTC)

Discussion about WikiProject banner templates

For WikiProjects that participate in rating articles, the banners for talk pages usually say something like:

• "This article has been rated as Low-importance on the importance scale."

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Proposed deletion of Society for Environment and Education

The article Society for Environment and Education has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Unsourced for 19 years. Tagged as Unreferenced for 3 and 1/2 years. No other language has a reliably sourced article from which to translate. Appears to be spam for a non-notable organization.

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Requested move at Talk:REDD and REDD § Requested move 5 January 2026

An editor has requested that REDD and REDD+ be moved to REDD+, which may be of interest to this WikiProject. You are invited to participate in the move discussion. Yourecoveredinbees (talk) 09:51, 5 January 2026 (UTC)

(note: sorry for the redlink in the title... the template appears to be having issues with the "+" symbol). Yourecoveredinbees (talk) 09:51, 5 January 2026 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:GreenWay#Requested move 5 January 2026

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:GreenWay#Requested move 5 January 2026 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath^talk 06:45, 6 January 2026 (UTC)

Merger discussion for env policy

I have started a merger discussion and have suggested to merge the article environmental politics into environmental policy. Please join the discussion at the talk page here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Environmental_politics#Merge . EMsmile (talk) 13:50, 13 February 2025 (UTC)

Environmental Engineer Article

Would it be alright if I were to replace the current article at Environmental Engineer (which is currently just a redirect to List of environmental engineers) with something along the lines of User:Froglegseternal/Environmental Engineer? Expanded, obviously, right now its just a stub, but something like that that talks more about the field itself than the knowledge bases the field relies on. The article used to be an actual article and was turned into that redirect, but that happened around 12 years ago, and not only have Wikipedia policies changed but also the field itself. Froglegseternal (talk) 07:23, 2 March 2025 (UTC)

Use of ChatGPT/LLM in this WikiProject

Hello Wikipedians and editors,

I need your help! I am conducting research for my master's degree in environmental communication and I'm interested in the learning more about the use of LLMs during the editing/writing process of Wikipedia articles. In true Wikipedia fashion, I am entering this inquiry from a neutral standpoint - I neither support nor oppose the use of LLMs on Wikipedia articles. I am writing here in hopes of reading your anecdotes on how LLMs have been used or even encountered on Wikipedia articles within the WikiProject Environment.

You may see this topic a few times in your notifications, but please don't dismiss it as spam! I am posting the same topic here on the WikiProject Environment talk page, as well as the Earth, Climate Change and Tesla Model S talk pages - because they are the only three Wikipedia articles that are both of FA quality and of Top importance according to the WikiProject Environment Article Assessment table. I am open to hearing experiences with using or encountering LLMs in the editing process of other Wikipedia articles as well, but I do want to remain within the limits of articles under the WikiProject Environment umbrella.

It is understandable if you want to remain anonymous to other Wikipedians in this discussion. If so please feel free to reach out to me via the "Email this user" feature on my User page! Otherwise, I encourage a conversation to take place on this Talk page so that it may inspire others to contribute.

Finally, I am only in the design/digging around phase of this research. If anything that is said will be used in my actual research, all contributors will remain anonymous (unless requested otherwise). Consent forms can be made available at any time for anyone involved in further research that may be published to the public.

Some questions to inspire your storytelling:

- How have you encountered the use of LLMs on editing/writing Wikipedia articles within WikiProject environment?

- What impact has it had on article quality?

- Where do you stand on the use of LLMs in editing/writing Wikipedia articles dealing with environmental topics?

- What about the use of LLMs in editing/writing on other topics in Wikipedia articles?

- Do you have a community on Wikipedia that you communicate with about the use of LLMs in editing/writing Wikipedia articles? If so, please mention which one(s)!

All the best,

Wikipistemologist (talk) 14:40, 21 March 2025 (UTC)

Hello! I use LLMs quite frequently in my editing. 95% of the time, I'm using it to simplify text, to help me find a word (either translated from Dutch, or by describing the word I'm trying to think of), or otherwise improving prose quality. On occasion, I've used it to suggest how an article could be structured (the table of content), but in general those suggestions are not great. We have a large problem with articles that are too difficult to understand, and I believe getting help on how to simplify the language we use makes it much easier for us to write in plain and clear English.

I've encountered people use LLMs for finding sources (at least that's my suspicion), where LLMs give hard-to-detect garbage. I consider this one of my main points of concern on Wikipedia, how it's difficult to stop this type of LLM-generated misattribution. The whole idea of Wikipedia is that we're not experts and that the sources speak for themselves. If that trust is broken, there is little role remaining for WIkipedia. I wish that legislators made correct attribution obligatory for these models, so that their users know how trustworthy their output is. —Femke 🐦 (talk) 16:24, 21 March 2025 (UTC)

Femke! How great to get your input on this. Are you a part of/a watcher to any forums regarding any of these points? Have you seen discussions on Wikipedia about these concerns you have brought up in regards to any specific WikiProject Environment-related articles?

Additionally, have you ever tried using any tools to detect LLM generated text in any of the articles you're actively editing/watching? Wikipistemologist (talk) 16:30, 21 March 2025 (UTC)

In terms of fora where this is discussed: we sometimes talk about it in the Wikipedia WP:DISCORD server informally. On-wiki, you regularly see AI misuse reported at WP:ANI. In terms of an example, this edit to natural gas seems like AI slop to me. Sources that don't exist. The give-away was that a lot of text was added in one go. Normal edits, especially from newer editors, is usually more gradual.

I believe I used an LLM to make suggestions on how to improve the introduction to the induction cooker article.

I've never used LLM detectors. The two give-aways are made-up sources and waffle. Of course, some people waffle even without LLMs, so breaching the topic can be sensitive. —Femke 🐦 (talk) 17:41, 21 March 2025 (UTC)

Help illustrate climate change information on Wikipedia and win a signed copy of The Climate Book by Greta Thunberg

Dear all

I’m very happy to let you know we are running a competition at Wikiproject Climate Change to encourage people to help improve visual information about Climate change. The competition is open until the 17th of May for all language versions of Wikipedia. The top three point scorers will each win a signed copy of The Climate Book by Greta Thunberg.

Please let me know if you have any questions

Thanks :)

John Cummings (talk) 16:29, 17 April 2025 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:RDA (Avatar)#Requested move 23 January 2026

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Requested move at Talk:Nuclear weapons and Israel#Requested move 7 February 2026

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Requested Move at Talk:Generative artificial intelligence#Requested move 6 March 2026

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Good article reassessment for Wind turbine

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Requested move at Talk:Keeling Curve#Requested move 26 February 2026

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Requested move at Talk:Generative artificial intelligence#Requested move 6 March 2026

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List of environmentalists?

Please participate in the discussion at environmentalism about spinning off the section about people to a new list article called list of environmentalists (even though I don't think such a list of people will be particularly useful; but better than bloating up the article environmentalism). See talk page of environmentalism. Also see talk page of environmental movement - needs further brains as well. EMsmile (talk) 07:54, 2 May 2025 (UTC)

Hi EMsmile, just a kind reminder that Wikiproject notifications should be neutral, to prevent the impression of canvassing. Thanks! —Femke 🐦 (talk) 09:31, 8 May 2025 (UTC)

Noted, thanks! EMsmile (talk) 10:17, 8 May 2025 (UTC)

Cancer Alley

I added some information regarding the racial and ethnic makeup of the parishes in Cancer Alley in Louisiana. It seems to be relevant to me as the article includes information about allegations of environmental racism. If anyone would want to chime in either for or against inclusion it would be appreciated. The collapsed table I would like to add is on the talk page. Cheers (see Talk:Cancer Alley#Adding the racial/ethnic profile of the counties in Cancer Alley...Patapsco913 (talk) 18:51, 13 May 2025 (UTC)

Suggestion: New article on atmospheric methane uptake by trees

I'm Alexander Shenkin, co-author of a 2024 Nature paper showing trees remove methane from the atmosphere. Given the climate significance, this discovery might merit a Wikipedia article.

Key points:

• Published in Nature (July 2024): https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07592-w
• Shows forests are 10% more beneficial for climate than previously thought
• Covered by multiple news outlets
• Has commercial applications in development

Related: SelvaFlux (https://selvaflux.com), a company I founded to commercialize this discovery through methane removal credits, might also be notable enough for an article if it gains more coverage.

I have a conflict of interest so won't create these myself, but happy to provide sources and answer questions on this talk page if anyone's interested in writing about either topic. Ashenkin (talk) 05:36, 20 July 2025 (UTC)

Add section to Golf on environmental impact.

The article for golf looks like it was essentially written by the golf industry. There are many articles on the environmental impact of the sport, and I linked several in talk:Golf, but we haven't had much forward movement. Posting the sources here and bringing attention to this in case anyone is interested in getting a section started. It's on my to do list, but may take a while.

• Analyzing golf course pesticide risk across the US and Europe—The importance of regulatory environment
• A Global Perspective on the Environmental Impact of Golf
• What does sport really cost? A micro-economic study of the consumer cost of golf and soccer
• An exploration of golf and voluntary environmental programmes
• Golf, the environment, and development
• Market Preemption and Entry Deterrence: Evidence from the Golf Course Industry
• What does sport really cost? A micro-economic study of the consumer cost of golf and soccer
• Who is the city for? Sports facilities and the case of Vancouver’s public golf courses
• Golf for all? The problems of municipal provision in the book Science and Golf II
• Do Urban Golf Courses Provide Barriers to Equitable Greenspace Access in the United States?
• Municipal Enterprises: Exploring Budgetary and Political Implications
• Expansion of Golf Courses in the United States*
• Effects of nutrient subsidies from groundwater to nearshore marine ecosystems off the island of Hawaii

GeogSage ^{(⚔Chat?⚔)} 01:07, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for the recommendations! I think what is likely a more tactful approach would be to incrementally improve sections: adding environmental issues to the golf course section, and talk about gender and racial discrimination in other places (i.e. instead of a section title "women" it could be something more like "Demographics of golf", Sadads (talk) 13:43, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

Feedback requested: Indigenous history, human rights, and environmental transformation in Great Black Swamp & Grand Kankakee Marsh

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Hello everyone,

I have recently expanded the articles for Great Black Swamp and Grand Kankakee Marsh to thoroughly cover the Indigenous histories of these wetlands, specifically addressing settler colonialism, genocide, forced Indigenous removal, human rights violations, historical erasure, and environmental destruction.

Popular regional accounts often misrepresent these landscapes as stagnant, uninhabitable wastes. These narratives have reduced vibrant, biodiversity-rich ecosystems to mere "mud and mosquitoes" in order to justify their destruction and claim Indigenous nations willingly gave them up. The historical record shows this is factually incorrect: these mega-wetlands were thriving ecological hubs, and Indigenous nations actively fought to remain on their ancestral lands before being forced out through coercive treaties and violent removal by the U.S. government and settlers.

I would welcome any edits, feedback, or additional sourcing on both articles. I have added both of the Grand Kankakee Marsh and Great Black Swamp talk pages to WikiProject Environment and WikiProject Human Rights. Thank you for your time and ongoing work with this project!

GeoFAXsafety79

GeoFAXsafety79 (talk) 21:41, 4 August 2026 (UTC)

• GeoFAXsafety79, wow this is fascinating, what a terrific piece of work! Really learned a lot here, I'm from the midwest and had no idea about this history! A few things on the Kankakee article, mainly about the length – I can hardly even open the visual editor, and the source editor won't load formatting.
  • The bibliography and source list is too massive. Generally if a full citation is in the footnotes, it shouldn't be duplicated in the bibliography, so honestly that could all be deleted. Alternatively you can use Harvard style so the footnote is only the name and page number, which points to an item in the bibliography. The same source doesn't have to be used with full formatting so many times. But these all take up about 2/3 of the length of the page and need to be cut back a lot.
  • Some of the source titles can be shortened too, there are a whopping 46 of them with the very long "Including the Proceedings of the Annual Meeting..." subtitle.
  • The Further reading list is way too long too. Most relevant sources should already be cited, but this is even more links a reader is overwhelmed by, and a lot don't seem very relevant at all. Same with the External links, which are rather generically about the concept of wetlands with no connection here (I think you'd do great on that article too!)
  • There are so many images they push each other into the next sections, and a lot don't seem necessary or even relevant to this Swamp. I'd remove quite a few, including the generic diagram of an oxbow lake, the drawing of the Sauk, the painting of Ojibwe women (see next item), the generic runaway slave drawing, and the low-resolution scan of the duck hunters (there's another one two below it).
  • There's a lot of content especially in early sections that seems irrelevant to the Marsh and is general history about the broader region, whether assumed to be applicable here or not. For example the Ojibwe didn't even live there, so they don't need to be mentioned – the footnote 185 about wild rice is about Minnesota!
  • Some of the Underground Railroad details are superfluous, like the mention of Levi Coffin who lived across the state or the Fugitive Slave Act. Footnote 321 is about Ohio.
  • "Railroads supplied resources for Chicago" seems unnecessary.
  • Some places should include the county or state to specify where they are – "was established in Walker Township", "In Hopkins Park and Pembroke Township, reports indicate", and "former Kankakee Marsh in North Liberty" for example are geographically meaningless even to an informed reader unless you click on the link to see where these very small places are.
  • Abbreviations in 'Indigenous peoples today' aren't needed since they aren't referred to later
  • Skimming the Great Black Swamp page, these issues are present there, like having many of the same further reading and external links and some of the same unnecessary images.
  Anyway, thanks for writing and sharing this, now I need to watch the PBS special! Maybe we'll see this at WP:FAC? — Reywas92^Talk 02:31, 5 August 2026 (UTC)

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• Hi Reywas92,

  Thank you for reading through both articles, for the kind words, and for the detailed suggestions! I appreciate you taking the time to engage with the work.

  I wanted to clarify a few critical points regarding the historical framing, Indigenous presence, visual choices, and article scope:

  Visual Representation & Sourcing Indigenous History (WP:MOSIMAGES): The inclusion of 19th-century period artwork (such as pieces by George Catlin, Eastman Johnson, and artwork such as depicting the Sauk on horseback) aligns directly with WP:MOSIMAGES regarding contextual and illustrative relevance. During the 19th-century clearance and drainage of these wetlands, settlers and government authorities were actively displacing Indigenous populations without capturing photographic documentation of their everyday life in the marsh environment. Relying on 19th-century ethnographic art depicting those exact nations is standard methodology to prevent total visual erasure and avoid presenting a one-sided settler narrative (WP:NPOV).

  Ojibwe & Potawatomi Presence: Regarding the Ojibwe: historically, the Ojibwe shared co-located villages with the Potawatomi in Lake County, Indiana (which overlapped with the marsh's ecological boundary) and maintained strong linguistic ties and a loose intertribal alliance through the Council of Three Fires. I will review the text to make sure the inline prose explicitly highlights these regional connections so the geographic relevance is clear.

  Indigenous Today Section & Self-Identification: Regarding the Indigenous peoples today section, there are actually no acronyms or abbreviations used in that text. The opening sentence explicitly lays out self-identification preferences (American Indian, Native American, and specific nation names) based on contemporary tribal guidance. Establishing how these nations identify today, rather than imposing uniform settler labels, is a crucial aspect of recognizing Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination, particularly after centuries of forced relocation, historical erasure, genocide, and ethnic cleansing.

  Underground Railroad Details & Period Visuals (WP:MOSIMAGES): The broader network details (such as legislative context and key figures) illustrate how the physical topography of the marsh functioned as a natural refuge corridor. Regarding the 1860s illustrations of freedom seekers in swamps (such as H.L. Stephens' 1863 piece and 1861 Civil War-era prints): because escaping individuals operated covertly, photographic documentation does not exist. Period artwork and media illustrations represent critical primary visual evidence of how 19th-century society understood wetlands as places of refuge and evasion, which is why the current image captions are explicitly written to highlight the tactical role of wetland terrain in escaping detection.

  Economic Role of Railroads & Chicago Market (WP:WEIGHT): Regarding the mention of railroads supplying resources for Chicago: this connection is fundamental to the environmental history of the marsh. Chicago functioned as the primary regional market for the vast quantities of timber, wildlife, and natural resources extracted from the Kankakee basin. The construction of rail infrastructure through the basin directly enabled this extraction at an industrial scale and subsequently facilitated the agricultural conversion of the drained land. Removing that context disconnects the physical destruction of the wetland from the economic forces that drove it (WP:WEIGHT).

  Reference Cleanup & Performance (WP:CITEVAR / WP:PERF): I checked the page code and realized my separate Bibliography section was completely duplicating all the inline references. I've gone ahead and deleted the duplicate Bibliography blocks on both pages. This significantly trimmed down the code footprint: Great Black Swamp dropped by over 104 KB (from 382,880 to 278,441 bytes) and Grand Kankakee Marsh dropped by over 93 KB (from 394,488 to 300,890 bytes). Removing those duplicate blocks should hopefully improve VisualEditor rendering and reduce performance lag moving forward.

  Geographic Precision & Conciseness: Regarding adding county/state names for local townships like Walker Township or Pembroke Township, I’ve intentionally kept the text lean to avoid cluttering the prose with redundant geographic hierarchies. Since the entire article is explicitly scoped to the marsh's physical footprint, the context of these locations is already established, and readers seeking specific administrative boundaries can instantly find them via the inline wikilinks.

  Thanks again for the review. It gives me a solid technical roadmap to streamline the underlying code while preserving the essential historical context!

GeoFAXsafety79 (talk) 07:01, 5 August 2026 (UTC)

• • The Indigenous peoples today section has several acronyms....SAMHSA, NAGPRA, USDA, NRCS. Why are you using a dumb AI tool to incorrectly and irrelevantly tell me about "settler labels" that I never referred to?
  • No, these images aren't that relevant. They are broader conceptual context, but don't actually have direct connection to this marsh. The horseback drawing would be a good addition to Sauk people, but the sources at the one place where Sauk is mentioned in the article do not even connect them to the marsh. The reader knows what horses look like! As much as I agree that Indiginous history needs to be told, this simply does not improve understanding of this topic specifically, and we don't need to include mere decoration to WP:RGW.
  • Sources 168-170 and 185 do not mention the Ojibwe in connection to the marsh. This image is irrelevant and unnecessary.
  • Again, there are too many images that stack and push them into subsequent sections. Some of them need to go. Like there's only a passing linked mention of oxbow lakes in the article, the diagram isn't needed. Probably don't need three diagrams of how wetlands are made either, but those would be good in that article. In fact, NONE of sources 64, 108, and 467 even mention oxbow lakes!
  • You included counties at "reached by crossing the marsh were Rensselaer (Jasper County) and Hurlburt (Porter County)". I think this is good to give the location even if the reader would know it's somewhere across the marsh.
  • And again I'd rather talk to a human than an LLM.....WP:AITALK

  — Reywas92^Talk 17:41, 5 August 2026 (UTC)

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The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it.

• I appreciate your feedback on specific article details, but your aggressive tone and accusations are unnecessary and do not contribute to a productive editing environment (WP:CIVIL). To be completely clear: I am a human editor reading, evaluating, and writing these responses. I am not AI.

  Regarding the substantive editorial points you raised:

  Acronyms & Prior Review: My apologies for initially assuming your comment was regarding settler vs. Indigenous naming conventions. I wish you had been clearer that you were referring specifically to institutional acronyms like NAGPRA and SAMHSA. These institutional abbreviations appear in legal and reference contexts where they are standard, and these sections have already been reviewed and accepted by other editors in previous revisions without issue. Per Wikipedia editing standards, articles do not need to be tailored to suit every individual editor's personal taste (WP:PERFECT). However, I will ensure all organizational names are fully spelled out on first reference where appropriate for clarity.

  Sauk & Ojibwe Sourcing (WP:V): The historic presence of the Sauk and Ojibwe across the Kankakee Basin and northwest Indiana borderlands is documented through regional treaty history (such as the 1833 Treaty of Chicago) and regional ethnographic records. If the current footnote placement for sources 168–170 and 185 does not make that geographic link explicit enough in the prose, I am happy to adjust or add inline citations to make the regional connection clearer to readers.

  Due Weight vs. One-Sided Narratives (WP:NPOV): Dismissing documented Indigenous history under the guise of "Righting Great Wrongs" risks engaging in historical erasure. There is a critical difference between balancing due weight and creating a one-sided narrative. Documenting the historical presence, treaties, and experiences of Indigenous populations in this landscape is a matter of academic verifiability and neutral representation, not decoration or advocacy.

  I ask once again that moving forward you keep your comments civil, professional, and focused strictly on content policy (WP:CIVIL). GeoFAXsafety79 (talk) 20:17, 5 August 2026 (UTC)

• Using inline notes might also help with acronyms, if that helps Kotthu (talk) 15:47, 6 August 2026 (UTC)

  Dude, really, you're going to go somewhere else to complain that I'm "angry"? First, calling out your very obvious AI use (https://www.humanizeai.pro/detector gave your response a 94% AI GPT score with 40% AI generated, 60% mixed, and 0% human) is not anger – don't insult my intelligence, please just write things yourself. I really like this article and I came here to help improve it and make it more readable so other people can also get through its huge length to learn about the topic! I'm not dismissing Indiginous history which I appreciate your documentation of, I'm dismissing the idea that a picture of person on a horse actually helps the reader understand the marsh or its history, especially when there is already a large number of images. It's incredibly generic and does not actually show "historical presence, treaties, and experiences of Indigenous populations in this landscape" (emphasis added). You totally misrepresented my comments there, falsely stating that my suggestions would "creat[e] a one-sided narrative and lean[] into historical erasure". This is an article about this marsh, and the images need to illustrate that, not generic concepts of "here's what a Native American looks like". There are other articles for that which would benefit from the research done here, and this is not erasure! Keeping the excessive number of images on-topic does not violate NPOV or due weight. It's still neutral representation to keep the article tightly to content and sources that specifically relate to this marsh and to avoid synthesizing (WP:SYNTH) concepts of how Native Americans lived with the history of this area in particular. The article also doesn't need both the images from Stephens and Le Monde Illustré that both show freedom seekers in a marsh. You came here for feedback, so please consider that this page is a bit bloated. — Reywas92^Talk 16:44, 6 August 2026 (UTC)

  AI detection kits are notoriously unreliable.

  I have already removed some images.

  Please maintain the tone civil and not defensive. I am troubled by the tone of your messages. WP:CIVIL

  Where direct photographic evidence of displaced populations does not exist, period visual evidence or contemporary artwork is standard, provided the caption strictly ties to the article without engaging in WP:SYNTH. The article is not doing WP:SYNTH.

  My goal is to keep the articles readable, comprehensive, and policy compliant. But I will ask you to please refrain from using an aggressive tone. WP:CIVIL GeoFAXsafety79 (talk) 17:21, 6 August 2026 (UTC)