Talk:List of stratovolcanoes

De-list?
This list is 100 items long but Category:Stratovolcanoes lists over 600 entries, which is comparable to the Smithsonian list of 700. Should we attempt to at least describe why these 100 are on this list? If we do not have any rationale for distinguishing these 100, then should we either delete the list or expand it to its full 600 entries? I reason why I dislike have a 100-item long list in this case is because the intended target of the list is clear-cut and stable, i.e. the definition of Stratovolcano and the list of Smithsonian 700 will probably not change for many hundreds of years to come. Why have a list of 100? It makes the project look odd, sloppy and incomplete.--75.25.136.186 (talk) 00:47, 15 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Wikipedia is by definition incomplete: this list even warns people that it is incomplete. You're certainly welcome to type in the other 500 stratovolcanoes. If you decide to do this, I would recommend applying a structure to the list (i.e., by continent and country), so that it provides more information than the category. A list of heights/last eruptions would be nice, too.


 * If you decide to nominate this article for deletion, I think you would have a difficult time: many lists are incomplete, that's not a reason to delete one. hike395 (talk) 07:48, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

Ive started to make a complete list. If anyone else already has already started, please tell me. Canationalist (talk) 00:12, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Reformat
This list needs a complete rewrite. The volcano classifications used to group the volcanoes are completely oppionative. There are no sourses given for any of these volcanoes that discribe them as active, dormant or extinct. Also, the volcano classifications are easily misleading even if there are sources that state the volcanoes as active, dormant or extinct. In some volcanological resources, volcanologists have discribed volcano classifications as bogus because it is not always easy to tell if a volcano is active, dormant, or extinct. Before the 79 AD eruption of Mount Vesuvius it was considered to be extinct. Soufrière Hills in the Caribbean prior to its 1995 activity is another example. I also doubt Mount Edziza is extinct. It would be better off to list the volcanoes by country so there would be no disputes.  Volcano guy  20:20, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I am re-organizing by geographic region using the United Nations country groupings list with minor alterations for countries that span the borders of continents, which I hope will put the volcanoes into the correct continents! I am putting islands in the geographical region closest to them, I hope. So as not to lose ALL of the extinct/active class I'm leaving it in brackets, with Extinct changed to May be Extinct. Volcanoguy or whoever follows me can clean up, correct, or erase as they please. --Monado (talk) 03:03, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

Glen Coe is neither a stratovolcano nor a super volcano. It is the result of several caldera forming eruptions that caused collapse at several centers and it is extinct. Scafells doesn't exist the place is Sca Fell in the English Lake District, and it too formed as a result of a series of caldera forming eruptions. Like Glen Coe the volcano is extinct. Iamlordofallthevolcanoes. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.2.97.216 (talk) 10:59, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

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Inclusion criteria
The first sentence of this list article states: "A list of stratovolcanoes active in geologically recent (Holocene) times follows below". The list, however, includes some stratovolcanoes that were extinct before the Holocene. Should the restriction to Holocene be removed from the inclusion criteria or should non-Holocene stratovolcanoes be removed from the list? GeoWriter (talk) 16:29, 7 December 2018 (UTC)
 * A look through the list's history clearly shows that it was you who added that sentence without realizing the list already had pre-Holocene volcanoes: . I personally do not see a good reason for listing only Holocene stratovolcanoes. Volcanoguy 17:57, 15 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Well-spotted, I'll remove the reference to Holocene. GeoWriter (talk) 11:50, 16 December 2018 (UTC)