Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Geologic timescale

Nice idea! The template should be expanded ; thinking about having all periods in one table with the current period (in ref to the article) having epochs and the current epoch not being a link (just bolded). We could even have color-coded heading bars to indicate either period (probably too many colors..) or era. --mav 07:03 22 Jul 2003 (UTC)

I think it's an excelent idea to expand the template to the periods. More than that i think it's megalomania. Each period has too many subdivisions see Jurassic for instance. Actually this project came to remind me the promisse i made myself to colaborate more in the geologic pages... Muriel

Top navigational templates
In attempting to utilize the EasyTimeline feature to create better navigational boxes for the geologic time periods, I have created a few working models at User:Moverton/Sandbox/Timeline. Maybe you can think of something that I have forgotten that would improve them. &mdash;Mike 09:15, Jan 27, 2005 (UTC)

Project directory
Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 00:08, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

JOINING
How do i join this project.Crocadog 18:16, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia Day Awards
Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 17:52, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

New Geotimeboxes
AMK152 proposed, in a series of edits on 27 December 2006, a geotimebox for various articles dealing with the Geologic time scale. For example: AMK152's edit of Hadean looked like this. See discussion at Template talk:Geotimebox. --

Susquehanna river predates Atlantic Ocean?
The article on the Susquehanna River contains the following paragraph, which I found bizarre:


 * Geologically, the river is extremely ancient, often regarded as the oldest or second oldest major system in the world. It is far older than the mountains through which it turns - the flow of the ancient Susquehanna was so strong that it was able to cut through the mountains even as they were forming from the collision of Africa and North America some 300 million years ago. Remarkably, the river's age means that it actually predates the Atlantic Ocean.

This all sounds very strange and implausible to me, and I was not able to confirm any of it independently. Many sources agree that the New River is the oldest in North America, and that the Nile is the oldest in the world. The Nile article says that the ancestral Nile only dates back 25MY.

Is any of this paragraph true? If not, can someone please correct (or delete) it? If it is true, please accept my apologies for bothering you about it.

Thanks. -- Dominus 01:14, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

I attempted to add a little bit of clarity to it, but since I'm not a geologist and Google searches didn't turn up much, I'd still suggest someone who knows what they're talking about should modify the paragraph again. I did add at least some sort of a citation and explanation, but it definitely still needs work TimBilly1224 23:06, 24 September 2007 (UTC)