Talk:Effects of climate change on the tropics

Merging into other existing articles?

Please see a discussion on the WikiProject Climate Change talk page about this article here. The discussion could continue there or here (maybe better to continue here but the WikiProject talk page was a good place to alert other editors). EMsmile (talk) 14:35, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

In order to move this forward, I am copying below the discussion that took place at WikiProject Climate Change talk page (see link above):

Climate change effects on tropical regions was created the other month. It's a very encouraging effort by a new editor, but I don't see how this article can be kept. Logically, its presence would necessarily entail articles on midlatitudes and high latitudes, and I don't think this subdivision would be practical. You could argue we already have Climate change in the Arctic and Climate change in Antarctica, but the former is clearly a special case, and the latter is more akin to the continent-scale articles like Climate change in Europe.

I would propose moving the material on tropical forests to the subsection of effects of climate change on biomes, and the ocean/reef material to any of the related articles. (The section on adaptation seems very general, and probably does not have anything we don't include elsewhere already.) Does anyone have other ideas? InformationToKnowledge (talk) 05:29, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

Hmm, I am not sure. The article can be improved. I like the simplicity of the title, not much knowledge required to understand what that is about, so a good entry point. An even simpler title could be: "Climate change in the tropics". Other articles at the same level could be:

• Climate change in temperate regions
• Climate change in polar regions, linking to Climate_change_in_the_Arctic and Climate_change_in_Antarctica

I think such articles can be short and sweet, pointing to main articles for details per region.

An other idea: convert it to just a category. Uwappa (talk) 10:55, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

I hadn't seen this article before, thanks for pointing this out. I support the suggestion by User:InformationToKnowledge, and don't think that a stand-alone article is suitable. The other "climate change in xx" articles are for countries or political regions, like the EU. Artic and Antarctica are exceptions to this rule. Pinging the person who crated this article, User:OliveTree39. And I guess further discussions should take place on the talk page of that article. Thanks for the alert, I2K! EMsmile (talk) 14:34, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

If there are no further objections in the next few days then I propose to move ahead with the proposal made by User:InformationToKnowledge, so that's: "I would propose moving the material on tropical forests to the subsection of effects of climate change on biomes, and the ocean/reef material to any of the related articles. (The section on adaptation seems very general, and probably does not have anything we don't include elsewhere already.)". EMsmile (talk) 10:23, 19 April 2024 (UTC)