Wikipedia:WikiProject Geology/Resources

Project banner
Place onto any new Geology article's talk page for it to be recognised and assessed under the project's scope. An article's assessment is generated from the class and importance parameters and helps organise relevant articles for improvement. When assessed, the class and importance parameters are filled in, like this:

and the banner looks like this: Shortcuts: WikiProject Geology, WPGEOLOGY, WPGeology, WP Geology

For more information visit the assessment page: WikiProject Geology/Assessment

Userbox
User WikiProject Geology This will add you to WikiProject Geology participants. You can also just put at the bottom of your userpage.

Barnstar
For recognition of contributions to the Geology Wikiproject, place on the recipient's talk page. It should look like this:

Barnstar
For recognition of contributions to the Geology Wikiproject, place on the recipient's talk page. It should look like this:

Infoboxes, navboxes and timelines

 * Infobox Rockunit - for geological formations
 * Infobox geologic timespan - for the various kinds of geologic timespans
 * Infobox mineral - for minerals
 * Geology - navbox for geology-related articles
 * Include timeline produces timelines like the ones you'll see at Late Devonian extinction.

Period properties
Because details of periods are continually being refined, it is simpler to maintain a central list of dates, called by each article, than to amend every article individually when things change. It also saves having to look dates etc up each time!


 * Period start and Period end return the date a period begins or ends in Ma.
 * Ma returns the same, with a wikilink to the geological time scale. e.g..
 * Period color returns the colour associated with a geological period (as determined by the IGU).

Timeline templates

 * WikiProject Palaeontology/Phanerozoic time line
 * WikiProject Palaeontology/Devonian-Carboniferous time line
 * WikiProject Palaeontology/Devonian time line
 * WikiProject Palaeontology/Paleozoic-Mesozoic time line
 * WikiProject Palaeontology/Permian-Mesozoic time line
 * WikiProject Palaeontology/Permian-Triassic time line
 * WikiProject Palaeontology/Mesozoic time line
 * WikiProject Palaeontology/Mesozoic-Cenozoic time line
 * WikiProject Palaeontology/Triassic time line
 * WikiProject Palaeontology/Jurassic time line
 * WikiProject Palaeontology/Cretaceous time line
 * WikiProject Palaeontology/Cretaceous-Cenozoic time line
 * WikiProject Palaeontology/Cenozoic time line
 * WikiProject Palaeontology/Paleogene time line

Guidelines

 * See Guide to writing better articles.
 * Suggestions to Authors of the Reports of the United States Geological Survey (otherwise known as STA) is the style guide used at the USGS. Not Wikipedia-oriented, of course, but very useful for those puzzles involving English phrases and grammar peculiar to the earth sciences.
 * Wikiproject Geology/Notability is an essay on how notability, reliability, and due weight may be applied to articles on geologic topics.

Information sources

 * ICS Subcommission for Stratigraphic Information
 * GeoWhen Database
 * Mindat Mineral Database
 * Webmineral Mineral Database
 * Oxford Digital Library of Key Historical Geological Texts