Wikipedia:WikiProject Oceans

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WikiProject Oceans

To create, improve, and maintain articles relating to oceans
Shortcut	WP:OCEANS
Categories	WikiProject Oceans, Oceans
Portals	Ocean Marine life
Wikimedia Commons	Oceans
Parent project(s)	Geography
Project banner template	{{WikiProject Oceans}}
Userbox	{{User WikiProject Oceans}}
Assessment	Wikipedia:WikiProject Oceans/Assessment

Welcome to WikiProject Oceans. Some Wikipedians have formed this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Oceans and the organization of information and articles on this topic. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, please join the project, inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list below.

Goals

• The goals of this project are to create, improve, and maintain articles relating to oceans.

Scope

• The scope of this project will include the articles within the Category:Oceans, Category:Seas, and Category:Gulfs, given the often ill-defined boundaries between such bodies. However, should there develop other projects with overlapping scope, this project will deal primarily with those articles which do not fall within the scope of any of those other projects.

Guidelines

Open tasks

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Oceans: edit · history · watch · refresh · Updated 2024-04-12 Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Article requests: List of oceanographers, create a comprehensive article on Concentrations of marine debris out of all the gyre and "garbage patch" articles Copyedit: Draft:Terrance (octopus) Expand: Coral Sea, Endeavour Strait, Greenland Sea, Solomon Sea Photo: find images for Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in the oceans Stubs: Oceanography stub articles, Marine geography stub articles, Aleutian Trench, Bellingshausen Sea, Caernarfon Bay, Gerlache Strait, Gulf of Oman, Iceland Sea, Draft:Terrance (octopus) Update: Botany Bay, Wilkins Sound, Mariana Trench, Challenger Deep Verify: Antarctic Circumpolar Current, Bering Sea, Gulf of Aden, Iceberg B-15, Ionian Sea, Japan Trench, Moreton Bay, Sound (geography), Timor Sea Other: add ISBNs and remove excessive or inappropriate external links from Aral Sea; check La Belle (ship) for GA status; improve citations or footnotes and remove excessive or inappropriate external links from MS Estonia

Participants

Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.

1. SofSalTur (talk · contribs) Editing for The Society for Marine Mammology, Working on environmental studies on marine ecosystems
2. Oc_iduro (talk · contribs) (I am interested in working on physical oceanography, Lagrangian Coherent Structure) 06:00, 25 December 2015 (UTC)
3. Evolauxia (talk · contribs) 09:48, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
4. KSugi128 (talk · contribs) Editing for The Society for Marine Mammology
5. Quizimodo (talk · contribs) 05:01, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
6. John Carter (talk · contribs) 16:49, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
7. Doug (talk · contribs) 00:50, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
8. Enviropearson (talk · contribs) (Interested in working on ecology related areas) 20:13, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
9. Naiadpress (talk · contribs) interested in marine biology, oceanography and maritime culture; especially elasmobranchii and marine mammals. geology major, marine science certificate, lesbian mermaid
10. Cmapm (talk · contribs) 21:00, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
11. Warrah (talk · contribs) (Interested in marine biology and oceanography)
12. Rehman (talk · contribs) (Interested in working on Physical Oceanography) 13:41, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
13. DiverDave (talk · contribs) (Scuba diving, diving medicine, marine ecosystems, physical oceanography, abyssal and hadal zones) DiverDave 07:57, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
14. Epipelagic (talk · contribs) 20:15, 6 May 2011 (UTC) Marine biology and physical oceanography
15. Scottveirs (talk · contribs) (I am interested in working on marine bioacoustics, marine geology and geophysics, and general oceanography.) 08:45, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
16. Eaghassi (talk · contribs) I am interested in working on physical oceanography, though I can also contribute to other areas of marine science.
17. ShaneGero (talk · contribs) I am intersteed in working on marine mammalogy, marine bioacoustics, species diversity, and conservation issues
18. Asiaecica (talk · contribs) - Antarctic fur and Weddell seals
19. Duckduckstop (talk) 14:56, 8 June 2015 (UTC)
20. Noah8956 (talk · contribs) I am interested in working on carbon cycling and biological pump
21. FridtjofNansen (talk · contribs) Graduate Student of phys. oceanography, interested in climate modeling and phys. oceanography in general
22. ClintonCimring (talk · contribs) Interested in water sports Clintoncimring (talk) 21:42, 8 May 2019 (UTC)
23. Nataliabberchieri (talk · contribs) Interested in Pontoporia blainvillei
24. Perytone (talk · contribs) (Undergraduate student of Oceanography and Marine Sciences. I am interested in polar ecology, physiological adaptations to harsh environmental conditions and adaptation to climate change.) 13:04, 25 July 2019 (UTC)
25. KimNiels (talk · contribs) ecology & oceanography, interested in drivers of vertebrate distribution/behavior
26. HopkinsLouise (talk · contribs) Graduate with an interest in anthropogenic impacts upon marine mammals
27. GemmaLaura (talk · contribs) Conservation graduate aiming to pursue a career in marine mammal cognition and communication
28. Charlotte.l.dempster (talk · contribs) marine mammal biology and conservation
29. Bynnej (talk · contribs) cetaceans
30. Lem6875 (talk · contribs) cetacean behavior
31. Gwyncann (talk · contribs) deep ocean trenches -- can we get a userbox for trenches?
32. Vickihamilton (talk · contribs) Marine mammal ecology
33. HoffmanJ7 (talk · contribs) Hawaiian Monk Seals, Hawaiian Spinner Dolphins, & Other Cetaceans
34. ASRASR (talk) 29 Oct 2020 Focusing on connecting marine science with SDG14 targets
35. Jturner20 (talk) 12 Mar 2021 Marine scientist and oceanographer interested in water quality, water clarity, sediments, aquaculture, and satellite remote sensing.
36. Arcahaeoindris (talk · contribs) Marine biologist and conservation practitioner, interested in anthropogenic impacts on marine ecology and marine protected areas.
37. Pyrrho the Skeptic (talk · contribs)
38. SethHar (talk · contribs) Marine mammal ecology with a focus on odontocetes
39. PASTOR11 (talk · contribs) I Love anything involving water and want to preserve our oceans. I'm interested in ocean species and stoping water pollution.
40. AlchemistsFire (talk · contribs)
41. Tursi60s (talk · contribs) (I am interested in working on Updating Marine Mammal information. This user is editing for the "Society for Marine Mammology") 18:29, 12 April 2022 (UTC)
42. Jyggalypuff (talk · contribs)
43. Karmur93 (talk · contribs) This user is an editor for the Society of Marine Mammalogy (SMM).
44. Odob23 (talk · contribs) Editing for the Society for Marine Mammalogy
45. burris.shelbyl (talk · contribs) Editing for the Society for Marine Mammalogy
46. Snakesticks (talk · contribs) (ecology of the eastern Pacific, water quality, air/sea interactions, planktonic life, chemoautotrophic bacteria) 23:51, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
47. Naufragiosus (talk · contribs) Ocean law, policy, and so on
48. ObsessedWithBones (talk · contribs) (Editing for Society for Marine Mammalogy; researching skeletal anatomy and digit regeneration in marine mammals. Also want to add cultural information re: significance of Orcinus orca, Megaptera novaeanglia, etc. to First Nations peoples) 05:17, 10 October 2026 (UTC)
49. Dell.Dav (talk · contribs) Editing for The Society for Marine Mammalogy, focused on zoology and ecology 09:44, 24 October 2026 (UTC)

Userboxes

Add one of the following Wikitext expressions to your user page:

Wikitext	Userbox
[[Category:WikiProject Oceans participants]]	no userbox
{{User WikiProject Oceans}}	This user is a participant in WikiProject Oceans.
{{User WP Oceans}}	This user participates in WikiProject Oceans.

Articles

Oceans articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	1		1	2			4
FL			1			1	2
GA	1	2	2	9			14
B	7	16	19	71		55	168
C	4	25	67	234		120	450
Start	1	21	67	484	5	256	834
Stub		2	23	417	1	288	731
List		3	2	33		14	52
Category					987		987
Disambig					8		8
File					33		33
Portal					1		1
Project					6		6
Template					77		77
NA	1	1	4	19	74		99
Other					20		20
Assessed	15	70	186	1,269	1,212	734	3,486
Unassessed						3	3
Total	15	70	186	1,269	1,212	737	3,489
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 10,888			Ω = 4.95

Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team release version selections

• Headlands and bays
• Ocean
• Sea

New articles

Please feel free to list your new Oceans-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them, are at least over 1,000 characters, don't have any dispute templates on them, and cite their sources, should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Wikipedia Main Page.

Templates

• {{WikiProject Oceans}}

Userboxes

Code	Result
{{User WikiProject Oceans}}	This user is a participant in WikiProject Oceans.	Usage
{{User WP Oceans}}	This user participates in WikiProject Oceans.	Usage
{{User interest oceans}}	This user is interested in the Oceans of the Earth.	Usage
{{User interest Arctic Ocean}}	This user is interested in the Arctic Ocean.	Usage
{{User interest Atlantic Ocean}}	This user is interested in the Atlantic Ocean.	Usage
{{User interest Indian Ocean}}	This user is interested in the Indian Ocean.	Usage
{{User interest Pacific Ocean}}	This user is interested in the Pacific Ocean.	Usage
{{User interest Southern Ocean}}	This user is interested in the Southern Ocean.	Usage
{{User interest Caribbean Sea}}	This user is interested in the Caribbean Sea.	Usage
{{User interest Mediterranean Sea}}	This user is interested in the Mediterranean Sea.	Usage
{{User interest seamounts}}	This user is interested in Seamounts	Usage

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Categories

• List of all subpages of this page
• Category:Oceans
• Category:Seas
• Category:Gulfs

Resources

Tools

Main tool page: toolserver.org

• Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
• Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
• Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
• Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.