Portal talk:Volcanoes

New portal
Since WikiProject Volcanoes has now been active for over a month, it seemed to be the right time to go ahead and create a portal about volcanoes and volcanology. This is just version 1.0 today, and content will surely be expanded in the future, along with hopefully regular updates to the selected article, picture, and igneous rock. Please feel free to make any comments or suggestions either here, or at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Volcanoes. Thanks. --Seattle Skier (See talk tierS) 02:35, 25 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Good stuff! Well done. Eve 10:54, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

Geologizing the Golan Heights
I made an attempt to add some organized geology and vulcanism to Golan Heights, please give it a technical look-see; it is a 'start-class' article for the portal. Regards, CasualObserver&#39;48 (talk) 14:56, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

Volcano news
Should there be a section of volcano news (recent activity and eruptions, new discoveries, etc.)? --The High Fin Sperm Whale (Talk • Contribs) 22:01, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
 * I dont know. We'll see. Res Mar 20:34, 27 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Well, Mount Nyamuragira just erupted again. I think we had better add something about it before it isn't news anymore! --The High Fin Sperm Whale (Talk • Contribs) 18:31, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
 * ResMar set up a news section a few days ago. I've added the latest Nyamuragira eruption to it. -- Avenue (talk) 00:03, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
 * yeah, it's mostly comeplete now, a portal peer review and a portal fc and I'll be darned if it doesn't pass. The news does need maintaining, however. The one thing I don't like with Portals is the ton of maintanance involved...Res Mar 03:13, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

What's been done

 * Expanded Related portals
 * Expanded and organized Related wikiprojects
 * Created and populated Selected biography
 * Created and populated Selected quote
 * Created Featured work, What you can do, and Volcanoes topics sections
 * Created and populated Volcanoes news.
 * Created an populated Did you know (had to search every archive...what a pain that was! Oh well.)
 * Imaged and expanded Categories section
 * created Collaboration of the month section (based on the chem portal).
 * Added a pretty border and a few images to the image section.
 * Hope it's enough :) Cheers, Res Mar 03:21, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

Asphalt volcanoes?
What are these? Thanks.  -- 68.102.124.21 18:06, 26 April 2010
 * A type of mud volcano. Take a look at asphalt volcano. --GeoWriter (talk) 11:34, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

Deep Sea Drilling Project - Online Reports
For anyone looking for early material on Seamounts here is a link the full set of Deep Sea Drilling Project reports (1969 - 1987).

Deep Sea Drilling Project

Graham1973 (talk) 13:08, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

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Portal content selection criteria
Below is content selection criteria for this portal. North America1000 05:19, 13 May 2020 (UTC)

"Feel free to add Volcano related articles Featured articles"
 * Copied from Portal:Volcanoes/Selected article:


 * Note that article selection criteria for biographical articles was never provided at Portal:Volcanoes/Selected biography.

Portal updates
The following updates have been performed for the portal. North America1000 03:36, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Expanded the Topics section
 * 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 some selections moved to the main portal page from Portal:Volcanoes/Selected article and Portal:Volcanoes/Selected biography.
 * Expanded with the addition of more FA-class articles to the Selected article section (diff)
 * Added two FL-class articles (diff)
 * Expanded the Selected biography section with the addition of FA-class articles (diff) and a GA-class article (diff)
 * Additional articles added to the Selected biography section, to diversify and round-out the portal and provide a more comprehensive topical overview (diff)


 * Expanded portal with a new General images section, which displays images from various topically-related articles. North America1000 18:44, 9 September 2020 (UTC)