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WikiProject Glaciers

WP:GLACIER
Portals	Geography  Earth sciences
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Parent project(s)	Geography
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Welcome to the Glaciers WikiProject, a collaboration area and group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Glaciers.

(For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject and the Guide to WikiProjects).

Goals

• This WikiProject aims to enhance information on glaciers, glaciology and related articles.

Scope

• All articles about glaciers, glaciology, geologic and geographical impacts from glaciers, as well as climatological articles directly related to glaciers.

• Wikipedia:Guide to writing better articles

The parent of this WikiProject is the WikiProject Geography.

Projects covering other geographical features:

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Rivers
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Lakes
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Mountains

• Add infobox to articles.
• Add message box to talk pages related to this project.
• Expand List of glaciers, the list is underpopulated for European and Asian glaciers.
• Add and cleanup images listed at commons. Many images of glaciers can be found on the mainpage for the glacier category and subpages listed at Commons Category:Glaciers
• Expand articles listed as stubs which can be found at Category:Glaciology stubs
• A range of cleanup tasks are available at Cleanup listing.

Recent changes

List of abbreviations (help): D Edit made at Wikidata r Edit flagged by ORES N New page m Minor edit b Bot edit (±123) Page byte size change 26 April 2024 diffhist Heezen Glacier‎ 12:49 −1,015‎ ‎Aymatth2 talk contribs‎ (Redirect to parent, which holds all the available content. Article could be restored and expanded if more material shows up.) Tag: New redirect diffhist Maury Glacier‎ 12:48 −1,101‎ ‎Aymatth2 talk contribs‎ (Redirect to parent, which holds all the available content. Article could be restored and expanded if more material shows up.) Tag: New redirect diffhist Defant Glacier‎ 12:46 −1,314‎ ‎Aymatth2 talk contribs‎ (Redirect to parent, which holds all the available content. Article could be restored and expanded if more material shows up.) Tag: New redirect diffhist Böhnecke Glacier‎ 12:43 −1,105‎ ‎Aymatth2 talk contribs‎ (Redirect to parent, which holds all the available content. Article could be restored and expanded if more material shows up.) Tag: New redirect 25 April 2024 diffhist Clowes Glacier‎ 21:41 −925‎ ‎Aymatth2 talk contribs‎ (Redirect to parent, which holds all the available content. Article could be restored and expanded if more material shows up.) Tag: New redirect diffhist Fenton Glacier‎ 14:56 −780‎ ‎Aymatth2 talk contribs‎ (Redirect to parent, which holds all the available content. Article could be restored and expanded if more material shows up.) Tag: New redirect diffhist Mosby Glacier‎ 14:55 −1,006‎ ‎Aymatth2 talk contribs‎ (Redirect to parent, which holds all the available content. Article could be restored and expanded if more material shows up.) Tag: New redirect diffhist Haines Glacier‎ 14:55 −1,150‎ ‎Aymatth2 talk contribs‎ (Redirect to parent, which holds all the available content. Article could be restored and expanded if more material shows up.) Tag: New redirect diffhist Meinardus Glacier‎ 14:55 −1,417‎ ‎Aymatth2 talk contribs‎ (Redirect to parent, which holds all the available content. Article could be restored and expanded if more material shows up.) Tag: New redirect diffhist Douglas Glacier (Antarctica)‎ 14:54 −849‎ ‎Aymatth2 talk contribs‎ (Redirect to parent, which holds all the available content. Article could be restored and expanded if more material shows up.) Tag: New redirect diffhist Bryan Glacier, Palmer Land‎ 14:53 −705‎ ‎Aymatth2 talk contribs‎ (Redirect to parent, which holds all the available content. Article could be restored and expanded if more material shows up.) Tag: New redirect diffhist Wells Glacier‎ 14:53 −540‎ ‎Aymatth2 talk contribs‎ (Redirect to parent, which holds all the available content. Article could be restored and expanded if more material shows up.) Tag: New redirect 24 April 2024 diffhist Oxford Glacier‎ 22:49 +39‎ ‎A412 talk contribs‎ (Added {{Unreliable sources}} tag) Tag: Twinkle diffhist m Oxford Glacier‎ 22:49 +29‎ ‎A412 talk contribs‎ (+{{Greenland-glacier-stub}} using StubSorter) diff Rater )) Page curation log 22:48 A412 talk contribs marked the article Oxford Glacier as reviewed ‎ Tag: PageTriage diffhist Swann Glacier‎ 18:51 −910‎ ‎Aymatth2 talk contribs‎ (Redirect to parent, which holds all the available content. Article could be restored and expanded if more material shows up.) Tag: New redirect diffhist Squires Glacier‎ 18:51 −580‎ ‎Aymatth2 talk contribs‎ (Redirect to parent, which holds all the available content. Article could be restored and expanded if more material shows up.) Tag: New redirect diffhist Waverly Glacier‎ 18:51 −711‎ ‎Aymatth2 talk contribs‎ (Redirect to parent, which holds all the available content. Article could be restored and expanded if more material shows up.) Tag: New redirect diffhist Oxford Glacier‎ 16:45 +48‎ ‎Avocado talk contribs‎ (Adding short description: "Glacier in East Greenland") Tag: Shortdesc helper diffhist Barcus Glacier‎ 16:24 −1,510‎ ‎Aymatth2 talk contribs‎ (Redirect to parent, which holds all the available content. Article could be restored and expanded if more material shows up.) Tag: New redirect diffhist Johnston Glacier‎ 16:23 −1,003‎ ‎Aymatth2 talk contribs‎ (Redirect to parent, which holds all the available content. Article could be restored and expanded if more material shows up.) Tag: New redirect HotCat ) Rater )) Rater )) Rater )) diffhist Brown Glacier, Palmer Land‎ 13:15 −687‎ ‎Aymatth2 talk contribs‎ (Redirect to parent, which holds all the available content. Article could be restored and expanded if more material shows up.) Tag: New redirect diffhist Irvine Glacier‎ 13:13 −1,623‎ ‎Aymatth2 talk contribs‎ (Redirect to parent, which holds all the available content. Article could be restored and expanded if more material shows up.) Tag: New redirect diffhist Wetmore Glacier‎ 13:13 −1,362‎ ‎Aymatth2 talk contribs‎ (Redirect to parent, which holds all the available content. Article could be restored and expanded if more material shows up.) Tag: New redirect diffhist Strange Glacier‎ 13:12 −720‎ ‎Aymatth2 talk contribs‎ (Redirect to parent, which holds all the available content. Article could be restored and expanded if more material shows up.) Tag: New redirect diffhist Ketchum Glacier‎ 13:10 −3‎ ‎Aymatth2 talk contribs‎ (fix redirect) Tag: Redirect target changed diffhist Oxford Glacier‎ 13:03 −527‎ ‎Calmkelp talk contribs‎ (Removed infobox.. insufficient info) Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit diffhist Oxford Glacier‎ 13:01 +977‎ ‎Calmkelp talk contribs‎ (Infobox and ref improve) Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit diffhist Oxford Glacier‎ 12:42 +69‎ ‎Calmkelp talk contribs‎ (Added §References and some wikilinks) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit diff blog or free web host diffhist Hiawatha Glacier‎ 04:39 +109‎ ‎Telecineguy talk contribs‎ (→‎Possible impact structure: ref) 23 April 2024 diffhist Ueda Glacier‎ 22:18 −718‎ ‎Aymatth2 talk contribs‎ (Redirect to parent, which holds all the available content. Article could be restored and expanded if more material shows up.) Tag: New redirect diffhist Ketchum Glacier‎ 22:18 −980‎ ‎Aymatth2 talk contribs‎ (Redirect to parent, which holds all the available content. Article could be restored and expanded if more material shows up.) Tag: New redirect diffhist Matthews Glacier‎ 16:01 −777‎ ‎Aymatth2 talk contribs‎ (Redirect to parent, which holds all the available content. Article could be restored and expanded if more material shows up.) Tag: New redirect diffhist Spear Glacier‎ 15:57 −550‎ ‎Aymatth2 talk contribs‎ (Redirect to parent, which holds all the available content. Article could be restored and expanded if more material shows up.) Tag: New redirect diffhist Srite Glacier‎ 15:37 −1,034‎ ‎Aymatth2 talk contribs‎ (Redirect to parent, which holds all the available content. Article could be restored and expanded if more material shows up.) Tag: New redirect diffhist Hill Glacier‎ 13:52 −1‎ ‎Aymatth2 talk contribs‎ (fix redirect) Tag: Redirect target changed diffhist Stange Ice Shelf‎ 13:51 −1‎ ‎Aymatth2 talk contribs‎ (fix redirect) Tag: Redirect target changed diffhist Stange Ice Shelf‎ 13:17 −1,351‎ ‎Aymatth2 talk contribs‎ (Redirect to parent, which holds all the available content. Article could be restored and expanded if more material shows up.) Tag: New redirect diffhist Hill Glacier‎ 13:14 −825‎ ‎Aymatth2 talk contribs‎ (Redirect to parent, which holds all the available content. Article could be restored and expanded if more material shows up.) Tag: New redirect diffhist Talk:Weatherwax Glacier‎ 05:45 −64‎ ‎Nurg talk contribs‎ (it's a redirect) 22 April 2024 diff WP United States|OH=yes}}}}) Tag: AWB 21 April 2024 diffhist Demas Ice Tongue‎ 11:52 −717‎ ‎Aymatth2 talk contribs‎ (Redirect to parent, which holds all the available content. Article could be restored and expanded if more material shows up.) Tag: New redirect 20 April 2024 diffhist Cosgrove Ice Shelf‎ 20:56 −2,125‎ ‎Aymatth2 talk contribs‎ (Redirect to parent, which holds all the available content. Article could be restored and expanded if more material shows up.) Tag: New redirect diffhist Rosanova Glacier‎ 20:53 −1,538‎ ‎Aymatth2 talk contribs‎ (Redirect to parent, which holds all the available content. Article could be restored and expanded if more material shows up.) Tag: New redirect

Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.

If you'd like to display a WikiProject Glaciers userbox on your user page, you can use this link: {{Template:User WikiProject Glaciers}}. It will produce this:

• Deror (talk) 21:21, 14 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Kazmi 02:05, 21 June 2017 (UTC+1)
• SierraNevadan - Experience in Glacier National Park.
• MONGO 04:22, 14 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Walter Siegmund (talk) 21:10, 15 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• jonathan.s.kt 16:24, 18 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Peltoms 16:58, 24 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Geologyguy 18:45, 11 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Daniel.Bryant 14:19, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply
  ]
• Dentren | ^Talk 19:03, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Seattle Skier 22:02, 12 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Jespinos 04:04, 20 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Hydrogen Iodide 19:32, 20 March 2007 (UTC)[reply
  ]
• Milton25 20:44, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• --Aude (talk) 04:36, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• UBeR 16:49, 13 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• User:Shanbhag.rohan
• AlexNebraska (talk) 20:06, 12 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• LeheckaG
• OrangeMarlin ^{Talk• Contributions} 23:00, 12 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• talk) 21:34, 12 August 2008 (UTC)[reply
  ]
• Awickert (talk) 01:09, 30 November 2008 (UTC) - Continental-Scale glaciations[reply]
• Polargeo 06:38, 3 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• talk) 21:01, 8 February 2009 (UTC)[reply
  ]
• Michael E. Degnan, Jr. 18:22, 19 April 2009 (UTC) 18:22, 19 April 2009 (UTC) - Glacial Recession & the Hydrologic Cycle[reply]
• DiverDave - Interested in glaciers of Antarctica and South America, global climate change
• Jim Heaphy I have interest in and experience with the (mostly small) glaciers of California
• Dotconnect (talk) 18:03, 22 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• ZachG (Talk) 13:54, 30 July 2010 (UTC) - Alps[reply]
• Rebecca Williams -interests are remote sensing of glaciers and crevasse detection, climate change effects in Antarctica and Greenland, November 2011 (UTC)
• The Interior (Talk) 19:09, 15 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
• DanHobley (talk) 00:16, 21 October 2012 (UTC) - Mainly the geomorphological aspects of glaciers, and their hydrology[reply]
• Mark Buchanan (talk) 21:56, 24 July 2014 (UTC) - Improvements to Quaternary glaciation[reply]
• Erik Radio - Improve coverage of Glacier list and coordinates
• Wolf
  - Glaciers of Alaska and Montana
• Puddlesofmilk (talk) 21:08, 1 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Featured articles

• Retreat of glaciers since 1850

Candidates

Good articles

• Blue-ice area
• Illecillewaet Glacier
• Pine Island Glacier
• Crater Glacier

Featured pictures

• 
  Baltoro glacier region as seen from the ISS
• 
  Canada Glacier in Antarctica (Featured Picture on September 26, 2005 [1])
• 
  Eyjafjallajökull, Iceland (Featured Picture on November 29, 2005 [2])
• 
  Glacial Lakes in Bhutan (Featured Picture on February 14, 2006 [3])
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  Matanuska Glacier in Alaska (Featured Picture on February 27, 2013 [4])
• 
  Franz Josef Glacier in New Zealand (Featured Picture on June 11, 2013 [5])
• 
  Outflow of

  Schlatenkees Glacier

  in Austria (on Commons)
• 
  Schlatenkees in Austria (on Commons)
• 
  Perito Moreno Glacier in Argentina (on Commons)
• 
  Aletsch Glacier in Switzerland (on Commons)
• 
  Aletsch Glacier in Switzerland (on Commons)
• 
  Saleina Glacier in Switzerland (on Commons)
• 
  Aialik Glacier in Alaska (on Commons)
• 
  Byron Glacier in Alaska (on Commons)
• 
  Glacier du Géant

  on Mount Blanc (on Commons)
• 
  Climbers on glaciers on Alpamayo Mountain, Peru (on Commons)

Featured picture candidates

New articles

Please feel free to list your new Glaciers-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box the Main Page.

• Sulphur Glacier (October 2018)
• Southernmost glacial mass in Europe

Collaboration and review

• Peer review
• Assessment

Articles in need of improvement

• Ablation zone
• Accumulation zone
• Antarctic ice sheet (see talk page)
• Bergschrund
• Crevasse
• Glacial erratic
• Glacial history of Minnesota
• Glacial lake
• Glacial landforms
• Glacial motion
• Glacial striations
• Glacier strive to get this article to Featured Article level
• Glacier ice accumulation
• Glacier mass balance
• Glacier morphology
• Glaciology
• Holocene glacial retreat
• Ice cap
• Ice field (currently being improved)
• Ice shelf
• Ice stream
• Ice tongue
• Interglacial (Mostly climate related)
• National Snow and Ice Data Center lots of redlined links, general cleanup needed
• Névé
• Nivation
• Nunatak
• Proglacial lake
• Rock flour
• Rock glacier
• Surging glacier
  or similar?)

Glacier infobox

At right is an example of the infobox that can be used for glacier articles. Further instructions on the usage of the infobox can be found at the

.

Gannett Glacier (EXAMPLE)
Gannett Glacier on the north slope of Gannett Peak
Type	Mountain glacier
Location	Wyoming, U.S.
Coordinates	43°11′48″N 109°39′02″W / 43.19667°N 109.65056°W / 43.19667; -109.65056
Area	3.63 km2 (900 acres)
Terminus	Moraine
Status	Retreating

Helpful pointers:

• It is generally standard practice to have metric distances and areas in articles shown first with United States customary units second unless the article is about a glacier in the U.S. In scientific articles, metric is generally considered to be the standard and customary units are used only as a courtesy.
• Refer to the conversion templates to ensure all articles have both metric and imperial units. Generally, metric usage is sufficient in scientific articles. However to those unfamiliar with metric measurements, the conversion templates ensure both measurements are provided. Generally, a standard conversion template will appear as {{convert|1150|m|ft|abbr=on}} in the editing window, which allows as an example, 1150 meters to be converted to feet. The "abbr" is encoded to abbreviate both meters to "m" and feet to "ft" and this parameter can be removed from the template entirely when editing an article or type off instead of on to keep the full words. When saved, the example above appears as 1,150 m (3,770 ft) in the article. One can also use Google to make conversions by simply typing the distance or area and then to the conversion one wishes to make.
• Glaciers are sometimes more difficult to locate on a map than are mountains, so a query on a certain mountain known to be close the glacier may help narrow down the search.

Wikiproject messagebox

{{WikiProject Glaciers}} can be added near the top of talk pages. The template produces the following message:

Glaciers 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.GlaciersWikipedia:WikiProject GlaciersTemplate:WikiProject GlaciersGlacier articles
NA	This article has been rated as NA-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.

Userboxes

Code	Result
{{Template:User interest glaciers}}	This user is interested in Glaciers	Usage
{{Template:User WP Glaciers}}	This user actively participates in WikiProject Glaciers	Usage
{{Template:User WikiProject Glaciers}}	This user is a participant in the WikiProject Glaciers.	Usage

Stub articles

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All articles that are tagged as stubs automatically link to Category:Glaciology stubs.

Links to templates

• Template:WikiProject Glaciers Link to page which has the messagebox used on talk pages.

• talk page
  .

• Template:Glaciology-stub Link to page with stub template for glaciology related articles.

• Template:User WikiProject Glaciers Link to participant userbox.

Welcome to the assessment department of WikiProject Glaciers! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Glacier articles. While much of the work is done in conjunction with the

program, the article ratings are also used within the project itself to aid in recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.

• V1.0 index
  logs, sortings, stats, etc
• Glacier Project statistics – Statistics for our rating system
• Glacier articles by quality
• Glacier articles by quality log

List of known categories related to this project which needs cleanup, creation and further splitting into smaller subcategories. See

for clarification.

• Category:Glacier articles by quality links to subcategories that list all known articles related to this project, namely, the subcategories immediately below.
  • Category:FA-Class Glacier articles (Featured articles)
  • Category:A-Class Glacier articles (A-class articles) (this was deleted since it was not populated yet)
  • Category:GA-Class Glacier articles (Good articles)
  • Category:B-Class Glacier articles (B-class articles)
  • Category:Start-Class Glacier articles (Start-class articles)
  • Category:Stub-Class Glacier articles (Stub-class articles)
  • Category:Non-article Glacier pages (Category, project and template pages)
  • Category:Unassessed Glacier articles (Articles that have yet to be rated)

• Category:Glaciology stubs links to all stub articles related to glaciology, but not to glaciers themselves.

• Category:Water iceThis needs to be straightened out/blended with Bodies of Ice or made into an Ice Supercategory
  • Category:Bodies of ice Needs to be blended into below mentioned categories and deleted.
  • Category:Glaciology links to article related to glaciology and glacially influenced landforms.
    • Category:Glaciers
      • Category:Glaciers of Africa
      • Category:Glaciers of Antarctica
      • Category:Glaciers of Asia
        • Category:Glaciers of India
        • Category:Glaciers of Nepal
        • Category:Glaciers of Pakistan
        • Category:Glaciers of Tajikistan
        • Category:Glaciers of China
          • Category:Glaciers of Tibet
      • Category:Glaciers of Europe
        • Category:Glaciers of Austria
        • Category:Glaciers of Finland
        • Category:Glaciers of France
        • Category:Glaciers of Iceland
        • Category:Glaciers of Norway
        • Category:Glaciers of Sweden
        • Category:Glaciers of Switzerland
      • Category:Glaciers of New Zealand
      • Category:Glaciers of North America
        • Category:Glaciers of Canada
        • Category:Glaciers of Greenland
        • Category:Glaciers of Mexico
        • Category:Glaciers of the United States
          • Category:Glaciers of Alaska
          • Category:Glaciers of California
          • Category:Glaciers of Colorado
          • Category:Glaciers of Montana
          • Category:Glaciers of Nevada
          • Category:Glaciers of Oregon
            • Category:Glaciers of Mount Hood
            • Category:Glaciers of Mount Jefferson
          • Category:Glaciers of Utah
          • Category:Glaciers of Washington (state)
            • Category:Glaciers of the Goat Rocks‎
            • Category:Glaciers of Glacier Peak
            • Category:Glaciers of Mount Adams (Washington)
            • Category:Glaciers of Mount Baker
            • Category:Glaciers of Mount Rainier
            • Category:Glaciers of Mount St. Helens
            • Category:Glaciers of the North Cascades
            • Category:Glaciers of the Olympic Mountains‎
          • Category:Glaciers of Wyoming
      • Category:Glaciers of South America
        • Category:Glaciers of Argentina
        • Category:Glaciers of Chile
        • Category:Glaciers of Peru

• List of glaciers
  • List of glaciers in Africa
  • List of glaciers in the Antarctic
  • List of glaciers in Asia
    • List of glaciers of India
    • List of glaciers of Pakistan
  • List of glaciers in Canada
  • List of glaciers in Europe
    • List of glaciers in Norway
    • List of glaciers in Switzerland
  • List of glaciers in Greenland
  • List of glaciers in Mexico
  • List of glaciers in South America
    • List of glaciers of Chile
  • List of glaciers in the United States
    • List of glaciers in Glacier National Park (U.S.)
    • List of Mount Hood glaciers
    • List of glaciers in Wyoming

The parent of this WikiProject is the WikiProject Geography. A related WikiProject is WikiProject Mountains.

The Portal for Geography is the major parent portal for this project.

• National Snow and Ice Data Center
• Glaciers online, empahsizing the Swiss Alps
• World Glacier Monitoring Service
• Glossary of Glacier Terminology

Tools

Main tool page: toolserver.org

• Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
• Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
• Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
• Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.