Wikipedia:WikiProject Oceans

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WikiProject Oceans

Ocean  Marine life
Wikimedia Commons	Oceans
Parent project(s)	Geography
Project banner template	{{WikiProject Oceans}}
Userbox	{{User WikiProject Oceans}}
Assessment	Wikipedia:WikiProject Oceans/Assessment

Welcome to WikiProject Oceans. Some Wikipedians have formed this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Oceans and the organization of information and articles on this topic. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, please join the project, inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list below.

• The goals of this project are to create, improve, and maintain articles relating to oceans.

• The scope of this project will include the articles within the Category:Oceans, Category:Seas, and Category:Gulfs, given the often ill-defined boundaries between such bodies. However, should there develop other projects with overlapping scope, this project will deal primarily with those articles which do not fall within the scope of any of those other projects.

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Oceans: edit · history · watch · refresh · Updated 2024-04-12 Here are some tasks awaiting attention: 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

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

1. SofSalTur (talk · contribs) Editing for The Society for Marine Mammology, Working on environmental studies on marine ecosystems
2. Oc_iduro (talk · contribs) (I am interested in working on physical oceanography, Lagrangian Coherent Structure) 06:00, 25 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
3. Evolauxia (talk · contribs) 09:48, 8 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
4. Quizimodo (talk · contribs) 05:01, 1 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
5. John Carter (talk · contribs) 16:49, 25 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
6. talk · contribs) 00:50, 26 February 2008 (UTC)[reply
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7. Enviropearson (talk · contribs) (Interested in working on ecology related areas) 20:13, 30 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
8. Naiadpress (talk · contribs) interested in marine biology, oceanography and maritime culture; especially elasmobranchii and marine mammals. geology major, marine science certificate, lesbian mermaid
9. Cmapm (talk · contribs) 21:00, 20 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
10. talk · contribs
    ) (Interested in marine biology and oceanography)
11. Rehman (talk · contribs) (Interested in working on Physical Oceanography) 13:41, 18 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
12. DiverDave (talk · contribs) (Scuba diving, diving medicine, marine ecosystems, physical oceanography, abyssal and hadal zones) DiverDave 07:57, 17 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
13. Epipelagic (talk · contribs) 20:15, 6 May 2011 (UTC) Marine biology and physical oceanography[reply]
14. Scottveirs (talk · contribs) (I am interested in working on marine bioacoustics, marine geology and geophysics, and general oceanography.) 08:45, 13 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
15. Eaghassi (talk · contribs) I am interested in working on physical oceanography, though I can also contribute to other areas of marine science.
16. ShaneGero (talk · contribs) I am intersteed in working on marine mammalogy, marine bioacoustics, species diversity, and conservation issues
17. Asiaecica (talk · contribs) - Antarctic fur and Weddell seals
18. Duckduckstop (talk) 14:56, 8 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
19. Noah8956 (talk · contribs) I am interested in working on carbon cycling and biological pump
20. FridtjofNansen (talk · contribs) Graduate Student of phys. oceanography, interested in climate modeling and phys. oceanography in general
21. ClintonCimring (talk · contribs) Interested in water sports Clintoncimring (talk) 21:42, 8 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
22. Nataliabberchieri (talk · contribs) Interested in Pontoporia blainvillei
23. Perytone (talk · contribs) (Undergraduate student of Oceanography and Marine Sciences. I am interested in polar ecology, physiological adaptations to harsh environmental conditions and adaptation to climate change.) 13:04, 25 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
24. KimNiels (talk · contribs) ecology & oceanography, interested in drivers of vertebrate distribution/behavior
25. HopkinsLouise (talk · contribs) Graduate with an interest in anthropogenic impacts upon marine mammals
26. GemmaLaura (talk · contribs) Conservation graduate aiming to pursue a career in marine mammal cognition and communication
27. Charlotte.l.dempster (talk · contribs) marine mammal biology and conservation
28. Bynnej (talk · contribs) cetaceans
29. Lem6875 (talk · contribs) cetacean behavior
30. Gwyncann (talk · contribs) deep ocean trenches -- can we get a userbox for trenches?
31. Vickihamilton (talk · contribs) Marine mammal ecology
32. HoffmanJ7 (talk · contribs) Hawaiian Monk Seals, Hawaiian Spinner Dolphins, & Other Cetaceans
33. EMsmile (talk) 03:17, 28 October 2020 (UTC) I am interested in oceans from the perspective of Sustainable Development Goal 14 (SDG 14)[reply]
34. ASRASR (talk) 29 Oct 2020 Focusing on connecting marine science with SDG14 targets
35. Jturner20 (talk) 12 Mar 2021 Marine scientist and oceanographer interested in water quality, water clarity, sediments, aquaculture, and satellite remote sensing.
36. Arcahaeoindris (talk · contribs) Marine biologist and conservation practitioner, interested in anthropogenic impacts on marine ecology and marine protected areas.
37. talk · contribs
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38. SethHar (talk · contribs) Marine mammal ecology with a focus on odontocetes
39. PASTOR11 (talk · contribs) I Love anything involving water and want to preserve our oceans. I'm interested in ocean species and stoping water pollution.
40. AlchemistsFire (talk · contribs)
41. Tursi60s (talk · contribs) (I am interested in working on Updating Marine Mammal information. This user is editing for the "Society for Marine Mammology") 18:29, 12 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
42. Jyggalypuff (talk · contribs)
43. Karmur93 (talk · contribs) This user is an editor for the Society of Marine Mammalogy (SMM).
44. Odob23 (talk · contribs) Editing for the Society for Marine Mammalogy
45. burris.shelbyl (talk · contribs) Editing for the Society for Marine Mammalogy

Userboxes

Add one of the following

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[[Category:WikiProject Oceans participants]]	no userbox
{{User WikiProject Oceans}}	This user is a participant in WikiProject Oceans.
{{User WP Oceans}}	This user is a member of WikiProject Oceans.

Oceans articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	1		1	2			4
FL			1				1
GA	1	1	4	13			19
B	3	15	16	50		31	115
C	4	22	56	184		76	342
Start	2	21	68	426		217	734
Stub		3	25	426		296	750
List		2	2	29		13	46
Category					804		804
Disambig					8		8
File					31		31
Portal					1		1
Project					6		6
Template					63		63
NA	1	2	1	15	42		61
Other					34		34
Assessed	12	66	174	1,145	989	633	3,019
Unassessed						53	53
Total	12	66	174	1,145	989	686	3,072
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 9,921			Ω = 5.05

Article alerts

Articles for creation

• 02 Apr 2024 – Draft:Świnoujście Beach (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Świnoujście Enthusiast (t · c)
• 08 Mar 2024 – Draft:Atlantic Shark Institute (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Tomaskoeck (t · c)
• 03 Feb 2024 – Draft:Minorities in Shark Sciences (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Librarian-emm (t · c)

Featured lists

• List of Category 5 Pacific hurricanes

• Headlands and bays
• Ocean
• Sea

Please feel free to list your new Oceans-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them, are at least over 1,000 characters, don't have any dispute templates on them, and cite their sources, should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Wikipedia Main Page.

Collaboration and review

Collaboration of the week

• North Sea is undergoing GA review, any assistance in this endeavour appreciated.SriMesh | talk 00:01, 15 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Peer review

• Don't know how to do this properly, but I've been waiting about a month for the "rapid fedback on your new article" thing to pick up my first article, which is on August von Jilek - thanks, Nargoon.

Assessment

• {{WikiProject Oceans}}

Userboxes

Code	Result
{{Template:User WikiProject Oceans}}	This user is a participant in WikiProject Oceans.	Usage
{{Template:User WP Oceans}}	This user is a member of WikiProject Oceans.	Usage
{{Template:User interest oceans}}	Oceans of the Earth .	Usage
{{Template:User interest Arctic Ocean}}	This user is interested in the Arctic Ocean.	Usage
{{Template:User interest Atlantic Ocean}}	This user is interested in the Atlantic Ocean.	Usage
{{Template:User interest Indian Ocean}}	This user is interested in the Indian Ocean.	Usage
{{Template:User interest Pacific Ocean}}	This user is interested in the Pacific Ocean.	Usage
{{Template:User interest Southern Ocean}}	This user is interested in the Southern Ocean.	Usage
{{Template:User interest Caribbean Sea}}	This user is interested in the Caribbean Sea.	Usage
{{Template:User interest Mediterranean Sea}}	This user is interested in the Mediterranean Sea.	Usage
{{Template:User interest seamounts}}	This user is interested in Seamounts	Usage

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• List of all subpages of this page
• Category:Oceans
• Category:Seas
• Category:Gulfs

Related projects

• WikiProject Geography
• WikiProject Biology
• WikiProject Marine life
• WikiProject Fisheries and Fishing
• WikiProject Limnology and Oceanography
• WikiProject Sharks

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.

External watchlist

• Wikiproject Watchlist - WikiProject Oceans