Wikipedia:WikiProject Seamounts

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Seamounts and Submarine volcanoes.

Wikimedia Commons has many images of volcanoes and volcanic phenomena, along with igneous rocks. Many of these photos would make useful additions to many of our articles here which may be lacking adequate illustrations.

However, we have built a subpage database, /Images that records many of the significant images used on Seamount and Seamount related articles.

Please see the Commons categories at right, or try searching Commons since many images available there are not properly categorized yet.

In order to easily identify articles in need of attention, article assessments have been implemented. These are generated using the optional class and importance parameters in the {{WikiProject Seamounts}} project banner on an article's talk page: {{WikiProject Seamount | class= | importance= }}

The most important such article is Seamount.

In general, "B" class articles which are "Mid" importance or higher should be polished up and nominated as good articles.

The easiest way to find articles which fall within a particular intersection of quality and importance categories is to use the assessments worklist, which is transcluded from Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/WikiProject Seamounts articles by quality. Please the Assessment department for details.

Using the bot-generated assessment logs, it is now possible to generate a watchlist which includes all articles within the project's scope. All of the logs have been combined into a single large file with all dates unlinked, so that the following link provides a single unified watchlist which should include all talk pages which have {{WikiProject Seamounts}} tags, along with their corresponding articles:

• Special:Recentchangeslinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Seamounts/Assessment/Log complete

It is also quite simple to generate a watchlist which includes only the talk pages:

• Special:Recentchangeslinked/Category:WikiProject Seamounts articles

• Most (but not all) seamounts are also volcanoes, so they fall within the scope of WikiProject Volcanoes. But as the "Scope" above demonstrates, this project is far from being a mere subset of WikiProject Volcanoes.

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Geology is aimed to organize and expand geology specific articles.

{{Infobox Seamount                       
 | Name           = NAME
 | Depth          = DEPTH FROM SEA LEVEL
 | Height         = HEIGHT FROM SEA FLOOR
 | Map            = MAP SHOWING AREA
 | Map caption    = MAP CAPTION
 | Summit area    = 
 | Location       = APPROX LOCATION
 | Group          = 
 | Coordinates    = COORDINATES OF SEAMOUNT
 | Country        = TERRITORY OF _____
 | Type           = USE [[Submarine volcano]]
 | Volcanic group = 
 | Age            = APPROX AGE
 | Last eruption  = LAST ERUPTION
 | Discovered     = DISCOVERY YEAR
 | Discovered by  = DISCOVERER
 | First visit    = FIRST LANDING
 | Translation    = FOREIGN LANGUAGE TRANSLATION
 | Language       = LANGUAGE ORIGIN OF NAME
 | Pronunciation  = IPA PRONUNCIATION ASSISTANCE
 | Photo          = PHOTO OR ARTISTIC DEPICTION
 | Photo caption  = CAPTION
}}

Full Code for Category:

{{WikiProject Seamounts|class=|importance=
|needs-infobox=yes/no|needs-attention=yes/no}}

Many Seamount articles are missing the {{Template:Infobox Seamount}} infobox; one of the main current goals of the project is to generate one for every notable seamount. However, there is also an extremely useful template for generating a "map" of the object from a blank map, via {{Template:Location map}}. Alternatively, you may grab a blank map, place a marker on it, and upload it. The perfered marker is File:Wallpaper group diagram legend rotation3.svg, which gives you (note that it has a white border, too)