Wikipedia:WikiProject Soil

The Soil WikiProject is a project to organize and improve articles related to Soil.

Articles maintained by this WikiProject are grouped in Category:WikiProject Soil by using the {{Soil}} template.

Soil, as meaning:

• The earthy material used in construction.
• The "different forms of earth on the surface of the rocks, formed by the breaking down or weathering of rocks."
• A "natural body comprised of solids (minerals and organic matter), liquid, and gases that occurs on the land surface, occupies space, and is characterized by one or both of the following: horizons, or layers, that are distinguishable from the initial material as a result of additions, losses, transfers, and transformations of energy and matter or the ability to support rooted plants in a natural environment.".
• The granular material on the surface of other celestial bodies. Lunar soil and Martian soil are terms in general use that fit within the context of this project.

Soil articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
GA			2	2			4
B	12	15	24	28		7	86
C	12	26	75	92		12	217
Start	3	23	133	363		50	572
Stub			18	232		47	297
List		1	3	7			11
Template					4		4
NA		1	7	18	206		232
Assessed	27	66	262	742	210	116	1,423
Unassessed						35	35
Total	27	66	262	742	210	151	1,458
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 5,776			Ω = 4.91

Tasks

1. Improve soils-related content at Wikipedia. See Suggested Soil WikiProject Tasks.
2. Assess soil-related articles for quality and importance. See Assessment Department and Change Log. Use {{Soil}}.
3. Monitor for vandalism and substandard edits. You can monitor all project articles |-1- |-2-| or narrow your efforts to your most active category.
4. Upload public domain soils images from USDA and USGS to Commons:Category:Soil. image source list • upload link
5. Collaborate on soil article tasks identified at WikiProject Ecology and WikiProject Ecoregions.

Participants

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New participants, simply add your name to this list using the template:(add me)

Active participans (at least 1 edit since July 1 2011)

• Ameki (talk · contribs)
• Bettymnz4 (talk · contribs)
• Chiton magnificus (talk · contribs)
• JakeVortex (talk · contribs)
• Paleorthid (talk · contribs)
• PBarak (talk · contribs)
• Vortexrealm (talk · contribs)
• Greenman-23 (talk · contribs)

Other participants

• Ansell (talk · contribs)
• HkFnsNGA (talk · contribs)
• Anlace (talk · contribs)
• Alloquep (talk · contribs)
• Drillerguy (talk · contribs)
• Jason Patton (talk · contribs)
• leobrien (talk · contribs)
• Luciasquirrel (talk · contribs)
• MartinBrummell (talk · contribs)
• MED usgswrd (talk · contribs)
• Rolinator (talk · contribs)
• Soil Physics (talk · contribs)
• SoilMan2007 (talk · contribs)

News

• May 2010 - template:Infobox soil has been created by talk. Feel free to modify it and to add it to soil articles.
• April 2009 - Earth Sciences book created.
• April 2009 - Added Category:Soil_articles_needing_attention.
• September 2008 - {{soil type}} infobox created. Supports Task 5, above.
• September 2008 - Nine project articles are selected for inclusion in WP Version 0.7 DVD. Given the opportunity of a two month reprieve, now is the time for project participants to review and improve these articles.
• July 2008 - The C-Class was added to the assessment scale, prompting a flurry of article improvement and reassessment, but also lengthening bot article assessment cycle from days to weeks.
• May 2008 - Another public domain soil profile photograph, Image:Narragansett_silt_loam_URI.png, is deleted as unsourced.
• April 2008 - Two public domain soil profile photographs, uploaded by briefly active User:Jimjet, deleted as unsourced. Jimjet did not specify that he took the photographs as an employee of USDA, and he did not respond to dispute their removal. Deleted photos were of George Demas (Image:GeorgeDemas.png), and a Paxton (soil) profile (Image:Paxton Soil.jpg).
• December 15 2007 - The article "Alfred Hartemink", apparently created by International Union of Soil Sciences Deputy Secretary General Hartemink about himself, survives AfD.
• December 1 2007 - Category:Soil created.
• September 17 2007 - Soil de-listed from good article status due to lack of breadth and a bias towards soil science.
• February 10 2007 - Soil achieves good article status.
• December 20 2006 - In an IUSS alert, emailed to 12,000 people, the International Union of Soil Sciences encourages members to contribute to Wikipedia, and alerts readers to be aware of this project.

• September 15 2006 - Soil is tagged as a Class A article for Wikipedia version 0.5 by Titoxd.
• September 13 2006 - Soil improved substantially in response to comments made during FAC consideration between September 4 and September 13.

Parentage

The parents of this WikiProject are Portal:Earth sciences and WikiProject Science.

Related projects, portals, and collaborations

WikiProjects

• Agriculture
• Biology
• Ecoregions
• Ecology
• Environment
• Geography
• Geology

Portals

• Portal:Geography
• Portal:Science
  • Portal:Agropedia
  • Portal:Earth sciences
  • Portal:History of science

Templates

• {{WikiProject Soil}} Posted to article talk page. Generates placement within an article assessment category structure.
• {{soil}} redirects to {{WikiProject Soil}}.
• {{soil type}} infobox template.
• {{soil-sci-stub}} Posted to article. Stub articles relating to soil science.
• {{soil-stub}} Posted to article. Stub articles relating to soil materials and soil resources. Under development. Currently redirects to {{soil-sci-stub}}.
• {{subst:SoilWelcome|yourusername}}. Posted to new Wikipedia user talk page.
• {{subst:SoilWelcome-anon|yourusername}} Posted to new anon user talk page.
• {{subst:SoilGreeting-new|yourusername}} Posted to user talk page.
• {{subst:SoilGreeting-exp|yourusername}} Posted to experienced user's talk page.

See also Wikipedia:WikiProject_Soil/Templates

Related Wikis

• Oregon State University's Soils (wiki)
• OpenAg.info's Soil Science Encyclopedia (wiki)

External links

• Wikiproject Watchlist - WikiProject Soil