Talk:List of paterae on Io

Io Surface Feature Lists
Currently there are three lists here on Wikipedia listing the named features on Io: List of geological features on Io, List of paterae on Io, and List of mountains on Io. I propose a reorganization of these lists as well as an expansion of the information they hold in order to make these a bit more useful. As of now they seem to just contain a list of red links. I propose reorganizing them into the following lists: List of volcanic features on Io, List of mountains on Io, List of Regions on Io. The list of volcanic features on Io would contain the features in List of paterae on Io as well as the valles, Tholi, eruption centers, and flucti from the geologic features list. Because these represent different types of volcanic features, these lists would be kept separate. The List of mountains on Io would include the montes currently in there, plus the mensae, plana, and tholi (sense they are both mountains and volcanoes) from the geologic features list. Finally, regions on Io, listed as regiones in the geologic features list, would get their own separate list article.

In addition to reorganizing these lists, I also suggest adding in more information to these lists to make them more useful for the average reader. As you can see in the List of mountains on Io where I have already made these changes, I have added coordinates and size information for each feature. I propose the same for volcanic features and regions, plus maybe some indication of whether they are active or not. Finally, each list would include some introductory information, particularly to make it clear that these are lists of NAMED features, and don't contain every mouutain, lava flow, patera, etc. on Io. Additional information could include thumbnail images, morphologic type (for mountains), times seen active (for volcanoes), and plume height.

I'm looking for other editors who might be interested in helping on this project. My ultimate goal is to make a dent in the article to-do list above as well as get these lists to be an example for similar lists for other worlds. I will be copying this notice on the talk pages for the lists involved as well as the Io article. --Volcanopele (talk) 11:09, 17 January 2010 (UTC)