User talk:Random account 47/Global climate change


 * (William M. Connolley 22:24, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)) I took the liberty of moving this page from your user talk space to your user space, which is I think what you would have wanted. This leaves your user talk sapce free to talk about your user space... so the proposal is at:


 * User:Benapgar/Global climate change


 * Anyway: comments: its not unreasonable, but I can't see how it can replace the global warming page. If you come to wiki looking (as Joe Public) for climate change, you are not going to search for GCC. You are going to search for GW. And note that the GW page is already over 32k, so putting its text inside another page makes no sense from that POV either.

It's supposed to be a new page, not a replacement for GW.


 * (William M. Connolley 15:02, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)) THen why does it say: The 19th century to present global warming page would be much like the current (Global warming) page.?


 * I am talking about a (19th century to present global warming) page, not a (Global climate change) page. They would be entirely different pages. I had already updated the proposal to include this change. The current trend needs its own page, as it won't all fit on gl cl ch. User:Benapgar/Proposal--Ben 22:31, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)

My current idea for the GW page is that GW should either be divided up into "Global Warming" as a term, and theories on how it can happen, etc. and after that general information, "Global warming" as the current trend, with observations, and theories about the causes for this particular trend.

Or, create a new page (I suggested 19th century to present global warming, though that's too long) just for the current trend. I think this way will give a consistent style to entries on specific global climate changes, past and present (the other way would still help in my opinion).

I know Joe Public will search for either global warming, or climate change, but if the information they seek is only a single click away, or even just further down the page I don't think that will matter. If someone looks up "climate change" and only sees stuff about climate change in general, but then sees a link to "Global climate change" they'll think: ah, that's what I want, and go to the GCC page. Then they'll see that page, and find the "Current Global Climate Changes" and get to what they want. Or, they look up "global warming" and only see it described generally, and then they either see "Current global warming trend (sometimes simply known as Global Warming)" on that page, or a link to "Global Climate Change," or a direct link to "19th century to present GW," then they'll go to that page.

I would like GCC to be an overview page, or a home page, from which people can then learn about different things from it, rather than wandering through the topic. --Ben 01:05, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)