Talk:Ocean color

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"Ocean Color" - very much "start class"
So, I started reading this article and quickly stopped. The quality is very poor, and those who have helped to bring it to its present point should feel thoroughly ashamed of themselves. For example, a few sentences into the article we have, "Large quantities of water, even in a swimming pool, would appear blue as well." As well as what?

A few sentences later we find, "In water, absorption is strong in the red and weak in the blue and so red light is absorbed quickly in the ocean leaving blue." Who would care to explain what "red light is absorbed quickly" means? Do we mean quickly in the temporal sense? I didn't think so. In the spatial sense? Perhaps. It's not scientific language. In fact it's rubbish.

Come on Wikigeeks: let's get this one sorted out. Cancel your single-handed-love-ins this weekend and let's see if you can bring this article up to some kind of standard?

Major update (August 2021)
Hello all, I made some serious updates to the page Ocean color. My updates included reorganizing, adding many in-text citations, re-writing some paragraphs that needed more explanation, and adding several images. I also created the page Ocean optics, which is a closely related field, but which includes a broader range of topics than ocean color. Please feel free to respond on this talk page if you would like to suggest further improvements to Ocean color. Thanks.
 * Thanks for that, . Please remember to sign your comments on the talk page with the four tildes so we know your login name and date, thanks. EMsmile (talk) 04:47, 26 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Please also make the lead longer (should be a summary of the article). I aim for 4 paragraphs or 600 words. If the lead is good we could think about transcribing it to the ocean article, rather than just linking from ocean. You can see that we have used quite a few excerpts in the ocean article already. - One option is to move the current paragraphs at ocean to the lead of this article, then transcribing the first two paragraphs of the lead. I can explain excerpts further if you are not familiar with them yet. EMsmile (talk) 04:47, 26 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Thank you, I think your idea to move current paragraphs at ocean to the lead of this article, then transcribe the first two paragraphs of the lead, is a good idea. I am not sure how to do this, explanations would be much appreciated! Jturner20 (talk) 18:01, 26 August 2021 (UTC)
 * I have made this change now. You can see how it's done by looking at the source editor for ocean color and ocean. At the moment, I have transcribed the second and third para of the lead but this can still be changed. You probably want to build up the lead more so that it becomes a proper summary of the article (I recommend 4 paragraphs or up to 600 words). EMsmile (talk) 04:28, 27 August 2021 (UTC)

Image collage for the lead
I propose that you create an image collage for the lead, taking 3-4 photos. Image collages are easy to do, see e.g. for marine biology, sustainable energy, ecosystem, city. You should either have exactly one image, or an image collage in the lead, but not 3 separate images. EMsmile (talk) 04:30, 27 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the suggestion, I tried doing this. I also resized some more images throughout the article. Please feel free to adjust as you see fit. Jturner20 (talk) 16:16, 15 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Looking good, but I think the fifth image for the photo collage in the lead is perhaps too many / too big? Take it back down to four? The caption is also incredibly long which makes it difficult to read. EMsmile (talk) 02:40, 13 October 2021 (UTC)

Ocean color?
The article topic is "Ocean color". Yet somehow we manage to include all water colors with pictures of rivers and lakes. We have moved WP:OFFTOPIC, and need to either purge this broader creep from the article, or rename the article to something more appropriate for this broader coverage. 182.239.148.72 (talk) 00:24, 14 February 2023 (UTC)

A Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for deletion
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 * Greens and blues of the ocean color from NASA satellite data. Original from NASA. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel. - 45638539034.jpg