Category talk:Geography

Information for Users This category is the Geography category. This is a guide to aid in the designation of articles into categories and to aid in finding information For new users the article "List of basic geography topics" will help in an understanding of the layout of this category. Index Branches of geography: Contains the sub-categories of physical and human geography and the various sub-fields of geography Continents: Contains the categories relating to the present and past continents Exploration: Contains information on explorers, navigation and surveys Geocodes: Contains links to lists of phone area codes Geographers: Contains links to articles on geographers and a list of geographers Geographic images: Contains links to articles and galleries with images of interest to geography Geography journals: Contains links to articles to academic geography journals Geographic societies: Contains links to articles on Geographic organizations and societies Geographic technology: Contains links to geomatics, GIS, Geostatistics and other spatial analysis tools Geography terminology: Contains links to common geographical terms Geography by place: Contains several other categories of geography by country and continent as well as links to lists of place names and locations History of geography: Contains links to key events in the field Surveying: Contains links to articles on surveying methods and civil engineering Wikipedia geography: Contains articles relating to the links for templates and reference material on Wikipedia Geography stubs: Contains a list of small articles that are in need of expansion

New start page

As you can all see I added the portal. Do you think this is a good idea? I quite like it, with the warning at the top, makes the page more interesting. Otherwise it's just a bunch of topics with a definition of geography at the top. Obviously it still needs quite a bit of work and we can learn from all the other portals. I recommend that we scout around and find the best features of others and then try to copy them in improving the portal. --komencanto 08:26, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

This looks good, and is an excellent use of the Category pages and a way to be more informative for people linking from the front page. dml 11:46, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

this is the worst category page I've ever seen. why don't you use "Portal:" for this? On category i wanna qucikly find articles and subcats. Explaining what is "geography" belongs to Geography Tobias Conradi (Talk) 22:08, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

Tobias, try hitting the <End> key on the number pad of the keyboard to quickly scroll to the bottom of the cat page. Then hit the up arrow on the keyboard to see more articles and cats. Ancheta Wis 09:24, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

There should be options for whether, and if yes, where, to include the portal. See bug 3494. Brianjd | Why restrict HTML? | 06:29, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

Why is this page locked??

I was just about to add a link to the geography portal and the commons and also clean up the page a bit but I can't because this page is locked. It's the only category page that is locked! What's with that? Can you at least give me a pass to make some changes? Thanks. --komencanto 00:38, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

Commons

Commons has images in this category. HenkvD 18:27, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Question about Image

It is unclear why there is an image of Delhi at the bottom of this page. The global image at the top represents the category well but the Delhi image seems out of place. There are no links to Delhi on the page. In addition to being a narrow slice of the geography topic, its position at the bottom of the page is also odd.

Replace? Remove?

Any thoughts?

Tobycat 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Cat in Wikiportal style

Geography Wikiportal
Historical geography Geography is the science that studies the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of Earth. A literal translation would be "to describe or write about the Earth". The first person to use the word "geography" was Eratosthenes (276-194 BC). Four historical traditions in geographical research are the spatial analysis of natural and human phenomena (geography as a study of distribution), area studies (places and regions), study of man-land relationship, and research in earth sciences. Nonetheless, modern geography is an all-encompassing discipline that foremost seeks to understand the Earth and all of its human and natural complexities—not merely where objects are, but how they have changed and come to be. Geography has been called "the world discipline" and "the bridge between the human and the physical science". Geography is divided into two main branches: human geography and physical geography. More about Geography...
Featured article This is the archive for articles displayed on the Geography portal. Today is March 5, 2012. Nominate an article To nominate a article for Portal:Geography, make the suggestion at Portal talk:Geography. Archive of articles 2006 • 2007 • 2008 • 2009 • 2010 • 2011 2012 January 2012 Nico Ditch (occasionally Mickle Ditch or Nikker) is a six mile (9.7 km) long linear earthwork running between Ashton-under-Lyne and Stretford in Greater Manchester, England. It may have been dug as a defensive fortification, but more likely it was intended to be a boundary marker. It was constructed some time between the 5th and 11th centuries AD. In the parts which survive, the ditch is 3–4 metres wide and up to 1.5 metres deep. Part of the earthwork is protected as a Scheduled Ancient Monument. Nico Ditch stretches six miles (9.7 km) from Ashton Moss (grid reference SJ909980) in Ashton-under-Lyne to Hough Moss (grid reference SJ82819491), just east of Stretford. It passes through Denton, Reddish, Gorton, Levenshulme, Burnage, Rusholme, Platt Fields Park in Fallowfield, Withington, and Chorlton-cum-Hardy, crossing four metropolitan boroughs of present-day Greater Manchester. The ditch coincides with the boundaries between the boroughs of Stockport and Manchester, and between Tameside and Manchester as far as Denton golf course. A section is now beneath the Audenshaw Reservoirs, which were built towards the end of the 19th century. The ditch may have extended west beyond Stretford, to Urmston (grid reference SJ78299504). February 2012 Chaco Culture National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park hosting the densest and most exceptional concentration of pueblos in the American Southwest. The park is located in northwestern New Mexico, between Albuquerque and Farmington, in a remote canyon cut by the Chaco Wash. Containing the most sweeping collection of ancient ruins north of Mexico, the park preserves one of the United States' most important pre-Columbian cultural and historical areas. Between AD 900 and 1150, Chaco Canyon was a major center of culture for the Ancient Pueblo Peoples. Chacoans quarried sandstone blocks and hauled timber from great distances, assembling fifteen major complexes which remained the largest buildings in North America until the 19th century. Evidence of archaeoastronomy at Chaco has been proposed, with the "Sun Dagger" petroglyph at Fajada Butte a popular example. Many Chacoan buildings may have been aligned to capture the solar and lunar cycles, requiring generations of astronomical observations and centuries of skillfully coordinated construction. Climate change is thought to have led to the emigration of Chacoans and the eventual abandonment of the canyon, beginning with a fifty-year drought commencing in 1130. March 2012 Portal:Geography/Featured article/March, 2012 April 2012 Portal:Geography/Featured article/April, 2012 May 2012 Portal:Geography/Featured article/May, 2012 June 2012 Portal:Geography/Featured article/June, 2012 July 2012 Portal:Geography/Featured article/July, 2012 August 2012 Portal:Geography/Featured article/August, 2012 September 2012 Portal:Geography/Featured article/September, 2012 October 2012 Portal:Geography/Featured article/October, 2012 November 2012 Portal:Geography/Featured article/November, 2012 December 2012 Portal:Geography/Featured article/December, 2012 sr:Портал:Географија/Изабрани Featured picture ==Current Selected picture== Selected geography picture Nominate a picture To nominate a selected picture for Portal:Geography, make the suggestion at Portal talk:Geography. Put on your user page You can put the selected geography picture on your user page, by using the template: {{Portal:Geography/Featured picture/{{CURRENTYEAR}}, week {{CURRENTWEEK}}}} Today is March 5, 2012, week number 10. Archive of pictures 2005 • 2006 • 2007 • 2008 • 2009 • 2010 2011 Week 1 Cerros de Incahuasi, a mountain in northern Chile. Photo credit: Luca Galuzzi Week 2 Week 3 Topographic map of the Falkland Islands. Image credit: Eric Gaba Week 4 Glen Canyon. Image credit: Christian Mehlführer Week 5 Kotor, Montenegro. Image credit: Ggia Week 6 Eilean Donan Castle, in Scotland. Image credit: David Iliff Week 7 Week 8 A panorama of the town of Keswick, nestled between the fells of Skiddaw and Derwent Water in the Lake District, Cumbria, England. Taken from about 3/4 of the way to the summit of Walla Crag. Image credit: David Iliff Week 9 A view of the Reguliersgracht (a canal) in Amsterdam at dusk. Image credit: Massimo Catarinella Week 10 A view of Champ de Mars from the Eiffel Tower. In the distance is Tour Montparnasse and the dome on the left is Les Invalides. Image credit: David Iliff Week 11 View of the Engadin Valley in Switzerland. Image credit: Murdockcrc Week 12 Week 13 Overhead view of Tartini Square. Image credit: MrPanyGoff Week 14 Aerial view of the island of Malé. Image credit: Shahee Ilyas Week 15 The village of Kingswear in England. Image credit: Herbythyme Week 16 Mount Hood reflected in Mirror Lake. Image credit: Oregon's Mt. Hood Territory Week 17 One of the canals of Amsterdam. Image credit: David Iliff Week 18 Monument Valley on the border between Arizona and Utah. Image credit: Moritz Zimmermann Week 19 San Sebastián, the capital of the Gipuzkoa province in Spain. Image credit: Keta Week 20 Lower Consolation Lake in Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada Image credit: Chuck Szmurlo Week 21 Antelope Canyon, a slot canyon located near Page, Arizona. Image credit: Luca Galuzzi Week 22 Week 23 Week 24 Week 25 Week 26 Kuznetsk Alatau, a mountain range in southern Siberia. Image credit: Dmitry A. Mottl Week 27 The valley of Briksdalen in Stryn, Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway. Image credit: Aqwis Week 28 Mount Lu, situated in the northern part of Jiangxi (江西) province in southeastern China. Image credit: Pfctdayelise Week 29 A panoramic view of Paris at night from the Maine-Montparnasse tower. Image credit: Benh Lieu Song Week 30 Week 31 Week 32 Week 33 Week 34 Week 35 Week 36 Week 37 Week 38 Week 39 Week 40 Week 41 Week 42 Week 43 Week 44 Week 45 Week 46 Week 47 Week 48 Week 49 Week 50 Week 51 Week 52	Did you know ... that the Upper Harz Water Regale (pictured), a network of dams, lakes, ditches, and tunnels built between 1536 and 1866 to supply water to the mines of the Harz mountains in Germany, is the largest of its kind in Europe? ... that the 1770 Port-au-Prince earthquake destroyed all the buildings of Port-au-Prince, in the French colony of Saint-Domingue (the future Haiti)? ... that the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami contaminated drinking water in wells along the east coast of Sri Lanka for one-and-a-half years after the event, according to the International Water Management Institute? ... that the early-February 1995 winter storm was the only major nor'easter of the 1994–1995 winter? ... that nearly all the trees and mangroves of La Ventanilla, Oaxaca, Mexico, were destroyed by Hurricanes Pauline and Rick in 1997? Showcase articles * Special topics - Geography * Featured articles * Things you can do This portal needs improvement so feel free to add anything you think relevant. The geography categories down below are also disorganized so you may want to improve their organization. A sampling of stubs you can improve: Bay of Pigs | Florida, Puerto Rico | Guantanamo | Strategic geography | Brent oilfield | Landscape ecology | Bottom crawler | Chemical oceanography | Marine reserve | Gulf of Mexico You might also find something here: Geography stubs | Geographical term stubs | Atmospheric science stubs | Oceanography stubs

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A proposed layout, in Portal style, for the Category page header, above the Category listings. Comments and improvements are invited. Ancheta Wis 5 July 2005 11:12 (UTC)

That's not a bad style although I've played around with it a bit on the original page because there were no 'edit' links. I made it more like most of the other portals in style. Do we have permission to incorporate portals and categories? Is that now wikipedia policy so to speak? Do we think it's a good idea? --komencanto 00:38, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

Unprotected

The category page is now unprotected. You may go ahead with any edits to the category page. Bratsche^{talk 5 pillars} 02:33, July 13, 2005 (UTC)

Templates

Why are there about 30 templates on this page? It looks exactly the same as the portal page - why can't we just incorporate that (I suppose it's {{:Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Geography}})? Brianjd | Why restrict HTML? | 09:39, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

Map of Earth

My browser says that the picture "Map of Earth" is unavailable. Brianjd | Why restrict HTML? | 06:15, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

Mine says 'forbidden'?! HenryLi 13:01, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

It seems to work now. Brianjd | Why restrict HTML? | 01:58, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

Categorisation

Why did you make this category part of the Top 10 category but with an inicial space:

[[Category:Top 10| Geography]]

It doesn't look so good to me, mainly because it isn't sorted in the G block but instead, in a no initial block. jοτομικρόν | Talk 13:00, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Topography

Why is this category needed? What does it contain that is not present under other categories (especially). Should we make a subcategory under Physical Geography for terrain?

Note recent chanegs to the article topography,a nd the addition of new articles Cartographic Relief Depiction and terrain. There is a good discussion in Talk:Topography for background. --Natcase 13:26, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

Geography is not a Social Science - please look at Social Science template - no geography there

It is not a Social Science but someone is repeatedly adding the Category:Social Sciences to Geography. --Mattisse 02:51, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

As mentioned on your talk page read the article social science and list of academic disciplines and you'll find that geography is listed as a social science further many universities and geographical organizations list geography as a social science and place it in the social science faculties.AlexD 11:36, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Wikiproject Earth

Hello i have recently proposed the Wikiproject Earth. This Wikiproject`s scope includes this article. This wikiproject will overview the continents, oceans, atsmophere and global warming Please Voice your opinion by clicking anywhere on this comment except for my name. --Iwilleditu^{Talk :)Contributions} —Preceding comment was added at 15:43, 30 March 2008 (UTC)