User:RockMagnetist/Priority geophysics articles

On this page I have tried to set some priorities for Geophysics articles that need improvement. These are among the most important articles by various criteria. Each link is preceded by an icon indicating the assessed quality of the article according to the Wikipedia quality grading scheme: stub, start, C, B, Good, A and Featured.

Some areas of geophysics are not well represented because they are highly cross-disciplinary and it is difficult (for me, at least) to isolate the geophysical content. I would love to get suggestions for other articles that should be in this list.

Most viewed

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Below are some of the most viewed geophysics articles with number of hits per day and comments on their needs:

  •  Alfred Wegener (1,088) - some sections are poorly sourced.
  •  Geophysics (340) - missing treatments of a lot of regions (near-surface, cryosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere)
  •  Geoid (339) - really skimpy on geoids of other bodies besides the Earth.
  •  Seismology (337) - history section is just a list; next to nothing about earthquakes; little on methods.
  •  Geosphere (303) - not sure why it is visited so much. Just a stub - does it merit more content?

"Vital" articles

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Wikipedia has a centralized list of Vital articles in a hierarchy. Level 1 is really basic stuff like Life. Geophysics starts to appear at level 3, but the Level 3 articles are in pretty good shape, so I'll just focus on Level 4 articles that have not already been mentioned.

  •  Geodesy - very poorly sourced
  •  Hydrology - some sections are just bullet lists; others have few or no sources
  •  Outer core - really skimpy; doesn't even mention the geodynamo
  •  Petrology - pretty skimpy and short of inline citations.

Other basic subjects

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Many of these subjects correspond to AGU sections or one of their main concerns.

Biographies

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For these prize winners, either the article doesn't exist or it is very short. Someone editing a biography of a living person should take the policy on biographies of living persons very seriously.

Kyoto Prize winners

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Vetlesen Prize winners

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Bowie medalists

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Other sources for ideas

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