Wikipedia:WikiProject Geology/Resources

Project Templates

Project banner

Place {{WikiProject Geology|class=|importance=}} onto any new Geology article's talk page for it to be recognised and assessed under the project's scope. An article's assessment is generated from the class and importance parameters and helps organise relevant articles for improvement. When assessed, the class and importance parameters are filled in, like this:

{{WikiProject Geology|class=Start|importance=Mid}}

and the banner looks like this:

Geology Start‑class Mid‑importance

	Geology portal Wikipedia:WikiProject Geology/Resources is part of WikiProject Geology, an attempt at creating a standardized, informative, comprehensive and easy-to-use geology resource. If you would like to participate, you can choose to edit this article, or visit the project page for more information.GeologyWikipedia:WikiProject GeologyTemplate:WikiProject GeologyGeology articles
Start	This article has been rated as Start-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

Shortcuts: {{WikiProject Geology}}, {{WPGEOLOGY}}, {{WPGeology}}, {{WP Geology}}

For more information visit the assessment page: Wikipedia:WikiProject Geology/Assessment

Userbox

This user is a participant in
WikiProject Geology.

This will add you to WikiProject Geology participants. You can also just put [[Category:WikiProject Geology participants]] at the bottom of your userpage.

Barnstar

For recognition of contributions to the Geology Wikiproject, place {{subst:The Geology Barnstar|message|~~~~}} on the recipient's talk page. It should look like this:

	The Geology Barnstar
	message name (talk) date/time

Barnstar

For recognition of contributions to the Geology Wikiproject, place {{subst:The Mineralogy Barnstar|message|~~~~}} on the recipient's talk page. It should look like this:

		The Mineralogy Barnstar
		message name (talk) date/time

Article templates

Infoboxes, navboxes and timelines

{{Infobox Rockunit}} - for geological formations
{{Infobox geologic timespan}} - for the various kinds of geologic timespans
{{Infobox mineral}} - for minerals
{{Geology}} - navbox for geology-related articles
{{Include timeline}} produces timelines like the ones you'll see at Late Devonian extinction.

Stubs

Template

Result

Usage

{{geology-stub}}

This geology article is a stub. You can help the Wikiproject, WikiProject Geology, by expanding it.

Generic geology stub template.

This article about an extraterrestrial geological feature is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Stub articles relating to extraterrestrial geological features.

This article about geochronology is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Stub template for all things regarding geologic time.

This article about stratigraphy is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Stub template for stratigraphic units.

This biographical article about a geologist is a stub. You can help the Wikiproject, WikiProject Geology, by expanding it.

Stub articles relating to geologists.

This article about geomorphology is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Stub template for geomorphological features.

This geophysics-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Stub articles relating to geophysics.

This glacier-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Stub template for all things connected to glaciers and glaciation.

This hydrology-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Stub template for hydrology.

This article about a specific mineral, mineraloid, or rock type is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Stub articles relating to minerals.

This mining-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Stub template for mining.

This article about a paleontologist is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Stub template for paleontologist.

This paleontology article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Stub template for paleontology.

This article related to natural gas, petroleum or the petroleum industry is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Stub template for all things oil and gas.

This article related to petrology is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Stub template for petrology

This article about a regional geological feature is a stub. You canhelp Wikipedia by expanding it.

Stub template for regional geology.

This tectonics article is a stub. You canhelp Wikipedia by expanding it.

Stub template for tectonics and structural geology.

This volcanology article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Stub template for volcanoes.

Period properties

Because details of periods are continually being refined, it is simpler to maintain a central list of dates, called by each article, than to amend every article individually when things change. It also saves having to look dates etc up each time!

{{Period start}} and {{Period end}} return the date a period begins or ends in Ma.
{{Ma}} returns the same, with a wikilink to the geological time scale. e.g. {{Ma|Cambrian}}.
{{Period color}} returns the colour associated with a geological period (as determined by the IGU).

Timeline templates

Guidelines

See Wikipedia:Guide to writing better articles.
Suggestions to Authors of the Reports of the United States Geological Survey (otherwise known as STA) is the style guide used at the USGS. Not Wikipedia-oriented, of course, but very useful for those puzzles involving English phrases and grammar peculiar to the earth sciences.
Wikipedia:Wikiproject Geology/Notability is an essay on how notability, reliability, and due weight may be applied to articles on geologic topics.

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