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This page is within the scope of WikiProject Oceans, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of oceans, seas, and bays on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.OceansWikipedia:WikiProject OceansTemplate:WikiProject OceansOceans articles Project This page does not require a rating on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. WikiProject Oceans To-do List: edit history watch purge Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Article requests : List of oceanographers, create a comprehensive article on Concentrations of marine debris out of all the gyre and "garbage patch" articles Copyedit : Draft:Terrance (octopus) Expand : Coral Sea, Endeavour Strait, Greenland Sea, Solomon Sea Photo : find images for Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in the oceans Stubs : Oceanography stub articles, Marine geography stub articles, Aleutian Trench, Bellingshausen Sea, Caernarfon Bay, Gerlache Strait, Gulf of Oman, Iceland Sea, Draft:Terrance (octopus) Update : Botany Bay, Wilkins Sound, Mariana Trench, Challenger Deep Verify : Antarctic Circumpolar Current, Bering Sea, Gulf of Aden, Iceberg B-15, Ionian Sea, Japan Trench, Moreton Bay, Sound (geography), Timor Sea Other : add ISBNs and remove excessive or inappropriate external links from Aral Sea; check La Belle (ship) for GA status; improve citations or footnotes and remove excessive or inappropriate external links from MS Estonia

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Do we need a new article on marine resources? I think yes, but it should be very short, just like a list article perhaps. See discussion in draft space here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft_talk:Marine_resources . EMsmile (talk) 07:58, 25 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Housekeeping: we now have a stand-alone short article on marine resources.EMsmile (talk) 20:43, 25 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

"Coaster waters" does not have an article, so where should it redirect to? Please see discussion here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Coastal_waters (if no further inputs come in then I'll redirect it to marine coastal ecosystem). EMsmile (talk) 09:35, 30 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Housekeeping comment: Coastal waters now redirects to here: Coast#Coastal waters.EMsmile (talk) 20:44, 25 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Would anyone be willing to provide tips on getting this draft page approved? Draft:The Ocean Foundation

Thanks so much! Wikicontributor1993 (talk) 18:48, 25 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

A discussion is ongoing about creating a new stand-alone article for ocean temperature. Please take a look at the discussion on the talk page. The term used to redirect to sea surface temperature and is now currently a disambiguation page. EMsmile (talk) 20:42, 25 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Please see Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)#RFC on using maps and charts in Wikipedia articles. Rschen7754 15:37, 19 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The RFC, now at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Using maps as sources, has questions related to notability. --Rschen7754 06:12, 30 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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 ocean-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) 12:28, 22 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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) 19:29, 12 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]