Portal talk:Environment

Scope
At present the portal has articles about environmental issues and science Rather than having overlap with other science portals I feel we should narrow the focus down to anthropogenic effects on the natural environment as given in environmental issues. Alan Liefting 11:22, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Please feel free to edit any section in the portal, especially the intro. I think there's many parts in the intro that we can improve.  OhanaUnited    Talk page   12:39, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

List of scientists opposing the mainstream scientific assessment of global warming
Are you aware of this article? Aside from the fact that the lemma itsself might be somewhat questonable, it might be important that people being well versed in the topic monitor that list, because otherwise it is likely to accumulate outdated and/or rectracted claims by various scientist, just to create an impression of a large scientific dissent regarding global warming.--Kmhkmh (talk) 22:15, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

Move
Portal:Environment → Portal:Ecology &mdash; The term environment portal is incorrect, "environment" refers to a physical/geographical location ie the surroundings. Correct is ecology portal. Please move. User:KVDP 17:51, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Someone is on a campaign, it seems. Please note WP:POINT, and adjust accordingly to ensure that WP:DISRUPT isn't occuring. I oppose this move for the same reasons that I oppose the move at Talk:Environmentalism. — Ω (talk) 04:49, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Please AGF. I disagree with KVDP's suggestion, but it's adequate to point out that article names are based on common usage.
 * I've removed the tag. I suggest we just call the discussion closed. (This conversation was deleted quickly after starting, which was inappropriate, and I've just restored it. So there wasn't much time for discussion, but we can reopen if someone thinks there's a case for the move. I think the proposal has next to no chance of succeeding, so I'm happy if we just drop it.) --Chriswaterguy talk 08:42, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

Selected articles
I suggest that all Selected articles now be of GA or FA standard, as we have plenty of high quality environment articles to choose from. And also suggest that many of the very short Selected article summaries be expanded into something more substantial. If there are no objections, I will revise accordingly. Johnfos (talk) 04:11, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
 * We currently have 27 selected articles, covering a diverse range of environmental topics. Of those, 6 are now FAs and 14 are now GAs, which means that the quality of the selected articles overall is really quite high. A more extensive summary of each of the articles has now been provided for readers. And the Current events section has been updated. Johnfos (talk) 02:09, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

Fuel synthesis?
What is the current state of the art in fuel synthesis? Dualus (talk) 02:22, 20 October 2011 (UTC)

Introduction: An Idealized View of Nature?
I'm struck by the idealized and one-sided view of the 'natural environment' as (re)presented in the introduction to this portal. It is as if the last 30,000 years of human history have evaporated. We humans, flesh and blood, are part of nature, not apart from it. Can we get beyond such a dualistic (humans <=> nature) perspective? Not easy, but I would argue, important. Thanks, DA Sonnenfeld (talk) 07:20, 3 April 2012 (UTC)

Hydraulic fracturing
There is a request for comment concerning the Hydraulic fracturing article. Beagel (talk) 18:43, 14 April 2012 (UTC)

Covering every plant in Gibraltar Botanic Gardens as part of GibraltarpediA
I help run a project called GibraltarpediA, we are trying to cover as much as possible in Gibraltar in as many languages as possible. The project is based on MonmouthpediA, where we created 550+ new articles in 30 languages in around 4 months, Monmouth became the world’s first Wikipedia town.

As part of GibraltarpediA we aim to cover every plant in the Gibraltar Botanic Gardens and create QRpedia codes (a type of bar code your phone can read through it's camera that automatically takes you through to a Wikipedia in your own language) in the garden to give people easy access to the information. As far as I know the first botanic garden to do this. A full list of the plants is available here, I would estimate around half already have some information in English but many have an article in other languages already.

We’ve started the Gibraltar Challenge to reward contributors where you can win books and tshirts etc. We’d really love people from WikiProject Environment to be involved, you can find out more by clicking here.

Many thanks

Mrjohncummings (talk) 18:30, 25 August 2012 (UTC)

Sustainability, sustainable development, and engineering emerging technologies
Due to a potential appearance of conflict of interest concerns I have started a Request for Comments on engineering sustainable development. Tim AFS (talk) 06:21, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

Please help! Edit war at Natural landscape
Natural landscape has come under attack by someone who is intent on destroying the natural in [Natural landscape]. I am confident that the encyclopedic definition of Natural landscape will be upheld. In the last few days the same individual has returned with an agenda it would seem. The agenda seems to indicate that there is no remaining natural landscape and therefore the entire Earth is a so-called place to be groomed for resources. I'm not saying that that is completely without merit, but the evidence is that there remains a lot of natural landscape on the Earth and therefor Natural landscape is a proper term that cannot and must not be diluted. Please, part of the problem is the lack of qualified editors for Natural landscape. Natural landscape is listed as included in the Environmental Portal. Thank you. I will now return and try to correct the damage to Natural landscape using the Help Desk as best I can. Rstafursky (talk) 21:05, 4 July 2014 (UTC)

Your project's image was broken...
...in Portal's See also section's Featured portal box. The code for the box references Portal:Featured content/Portals, so maybe your image there is the source of the problem.

Sorry all I can do is point this out! Hope this helps, —Geekdiva (talk) 19:07, 30 August 2016 (UTC)

Energizer Battery Packaging Plastic Type
What kind of plastic is used for the packaging of Energizer batteries? Specially I'm wondering what is the recycle code for the packaging of energizer batteries? Is it 01-PET? 05-PP? 06-PS?

I figure those are the most likely types of plastic. It is far too transparent of a plastic to be 02-HDPE and I don't think it would be 04-LDPE.

Any ideas?

Thanks ~Seth — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.35.132.173 (talk) 01:44, 19 October 2016 (UTC)

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Article and content selection criteria
Denoting this portal's article selection criteria all in one place on this talk page, for general reference. The nominations process on the subpages has not been in use for quite some time, and in some cases has not been used at all (e.g. See this Revision history). As such, the process is defunct at this time. North America1000 04:46, 27 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Copied from Portal:Environment/Selected organization: Feel free to add featured, top or high importance articles about Environment organizations.
 * Copied from Portal:Environment/Selected article: Feel free to add featured, top or high importance articles about Environment  to the above list.
 * Additionally, at the Selected article page, it was suggested by a user in February 2011 that only FA- and GA-class articles be added to the Selected articles section (diff):

"I would suggest that from now on new selected articles should be GA or FA to be considered for inclusion here, in order to maintain and improve the level of quality on this featured portal."
 * Copied from Portal:Environment/Selected biography: Feel free to add top or high importance Environment-related biographies to the above list.
 * Copied from Portal:Environment/Selected picture: Feel free to add pictures related to environmental issues to the above list.
 * Copied from Portal:Environment/Did you know:
 * General guidelines for nominations, loosely based on Did you know include:
 * Pick DYKs in articles that are interesting.
 * Look for articles that are over 1,000 characters in size - no stubs.
 * The "Did you know?" fact must be mentioned in the article.
 * Try to select articles that cite their sources, particularly the item mentioned.


 * Copied from Portal:Environment/Selected quote: Feel free to add Environment quotes to the above list.

Portal updates
The following updates have been performed to the portal. North America1000 03:59, 7 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Updated portal using Template:Transclude random excerpt, providing current, up-to-date information that is verbatim to article content. A consensus approving the usage of transclusion templates in portals was formed at this Village Pump discussion. Used selections from Portal:Environment/Selected organization
 * Expanded portal with a new General images section, which displays images from various topically-related articles.

More portal updates performed, listed below. North America1000 10:51, 8 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Updated portal using Template:Transclude random excerpt, providing current, up-to-date information that is verbatim to article content. A consensus approving the usage of transclusion templates in portals was formed at this Village Pump discussion. Used selections from Portal:Environment/Selected biography and Portal:Environment/Selected article
 * Added GA-class articles to the Selected biography section (diff, diff)
 * Added a FA-class articles to the Selected biography section (diff, diff)
 * Added GA-class articles to the Selected article section (diff)
 * Added FA-class articles to the Selected article section (diff – edit summary was erroneous, see this diff for explanation)