Category talk:Geography

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Information for Users

 * This category is the Geography category.

This is a guide to aid in the designation of articles into categories and to aid in finding information

For new users the article "List of basic geography topics" will help in an understanding of the layout of this category.

Index

 * Branches of geography: Contains the sub-categories of physical and human geography and the various sub-fields of geography
 * Continents: Contains the categories relating to the present and past continents
 * Exploration: Contains information on explorers, navigation and surveys
 * Geocodes: Contains links to lists of phone area codes
 * Geographers: Contains links to articles on geographers and a list of geographers
 * Geographic images: Contains links to articles and galleries with images of interest to geography
 * Geography journals: Contains links to articles to academic geography journals
 * Geographic societies: Contains links to articles on Geographic organizations and societies
 * Geographic technology: Contains links to geomatics, GIS, Geostatistics and other spatial analysis tools
 * Geography terminology: Contains links to common geographical terms
 * Geography by place: Contains several other categories of geography by country and continent as well as links to lists of place names and locations
 * History of geography: Contains links to key events in the field
 * Surveying: Contains links to articles on surveying methods and civil engineering
 * Wikipedia geography: Contains articles relating to the links for templates and reference material on Wikipedia
 * Geography stubs: Contains a list of small articles that are in need of expansion


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New start page
As you can all see I added the portal. Do you think this is a good idea? I quite like it, with the warning at the top, makes the page more interesting. Otherwise it's just a bunch of topics with a definition of geography at the top. Obviously it still needs quite a bit of work and we can learn from all the other portals. I recommend that we scout around and find the best features of others and then try to copy them in improving the portal. --komencanto 08:26, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
 * This looks good, and is an excellent use of the Category pages and a way to be more informative for people linking from the front page. dml 11:46, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
 * this is the worst category page I've ever seen. why don't you use "Portal:" for this? On category i wanna qucikly find articles and subcats. Explaining what is "geography" belongs to Geography Tobias Conradi (Talk) 22:08, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Tobias, try hitting the  key on the number pad of the keyboard to quickly scroll to the bottom of the cat page. Then hit the up arrow on the keyboard to see more articles and cats. Ancheta Wis 09:24, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
 * There should be options for whether, and if yes, where, to include the portal. See bug 3494. Brianjd | Why restrict HTML? | 06:29, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

Why is this page locked??
I was just about to add a link to the geography portal and the commons and also clean up the page a bit but I can't because this page is locked. It's the only category page that is locked! What's with that? Can you at least give me a pass to make some changes? Thanks. --komencanto 00:38, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

Commons
Commons has images in this category. HenkvD 18:27, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Question about Image
It is unclear why there is an image of Delhi at the bottom of this page. The global image at the top represents the category well but the Delhi image seems out of place. There are no links to Delhi on the page. In addition to being a narrow slice of the geography topic, its position at the bottom of the page is also odd.

Replace? Remove?

Any thoughts?

Tobycat 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Cat in Wikiportal style
A proposed layout, in Portal style, for the Category page header, above the Category listings. Comments and improvements are invited. Ancheta Wis 5 July 2005 11:12 (UTC)
 * That's not a bad style although I've played around with it a bit on the original page because there were no 'edit' links. I made it more like most of the other portals in style. Do we have permission to incorporate portals and categories? Is that now wikipedia policy so to speak? Do we think it's a good idea? --komencanto 00:38, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

Unprotected
The category page is now unprotected. You may go ahead with any edits to the category page. Bratsche talk 5 pillars 02:33, July 13, 2005 (UTC)

Templates
Why are there about 30 templates on this page? It looks exactly the same as the portal page - why can't we just incorporate that (I suppose it's )? Brianjd | Why restrict HTML? | 09:39, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

Map of Earth
My browser says that the picture "Map of Earth" is unavailable. Brianjd | Why restrict HTML? | 06:15, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

Mine says 'forbidden'?! HenryLi 13:01, 20 September 2005 (UTC)


 * It seems to work now. Brianjd | Why restrict HTML? | 01:58, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

Categorisation
Why did you make this category part of the Top 10 category but with an inicial space: It doesn't look so good to me, mainly because it isn't sorted in the G block but instead, in a no initial block. jοτομικρόν | Talk 13:00, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Topography
Why is this category needed? What does it contain that is not present under other categories (especially). Should we make a subcategory under Physical Geography for terrain?

Note recent chanegs to the article topography,a nd the addition  of new articles Cartographic Relief Depiction and terrain. There is a good discussion in Talk:Topography for background. --Natcase 13:26, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

Geography is not a Social Science - please look at Social Science template - no geography there
It is not a Social Science but someone is repeatedly adding the Category:Social Sciences to Geography. -- Mattisse 02:51, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
 * As mentioned on your talk page read the article social science and list of academic disciplines and you'll find that geography is listed as a social science further many universities and geographical organizations list geography as a social science and place it in the social science faculties.AlexD 11:36, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Wikiproject Earth
Hello i have recently proposed the Wikiproject Earth. This Wikiproject`s scope includes this article. This wikiproject will overview the continents, oceans, atsmophere and global warming Please Voice your opinion by clicking anywhere on this comment except for my name. --IwilledituTalk :)Contributions —Preceding comment was added at 15:43, 30 March 2008 (UTC)