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Thanks. — Headbomb {^ταλκ_{κοντριβς} – WP Physics} 09:52, 15 March, 2009 (UTC)

Vog needs attention

It seems very unlikely that vog is only found in the Hawaiian Islands and nowhere else on earth. I've added {{globalize/USA}} to the article, and it needs to be expanded to describe similar occurrences of vog (or volcanic smog) elsewhere in the world. - Gilgamesh (talk) 05:02, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

Extraterrestrial volcanoes

Shouldn't there be an Category:Extraterrestrial shield volcanoes (etc) ? I noticed that some ET shield volcanoes are classified in the Category:Shield volcanoes, while many are not... 76.66.196.139 (talk) 12:25, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

If there are more than a handful, absolutely, it would be a good subcategory of "shield volcanoes". I'm no planetary expert though, so you or someone else will have to get it started. Awickert (talk) 17:28, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

Some volcano articles might have Category:Shield volcanoes because the subject may include shield volcanoes (e.g. volcanic fields) or they have a shield volcano history. BT (talk) 04:41, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

Memorial effort

As many of you might have seen in the Wikipedia Signpost, User:Fg2, who had been a significant contributor to much of our content related to Japan, has recently died. Some of us have decided to try to work to improve an article relative to his interests as a memorial to him, and the article chosen is Mount Fuji. This is also an article considered of "Top" importance by your project. I and I believe the rest of the people involved in the effort to improve this article in honor of Fg2 would more than welcome any input from members of this project. Thank you for your attention. John Carter (talk) 15:00, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province

Just did a massive expand and rewrite for this article earlier. BT (talk) 00:18, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:Golan_Heights#RfC:_Mountain_names

You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Golan_Heights#RfC:_Mountain_names. nsaum75 ^¡שיחת! 20:25, 27 November 2009 (UTC) (Using {{Please see}})

Category:Subduction volcanoes

Shouldn't Category:Subduction volcanoes be renamed? There's no subduction volcano article and I suppose the intended meaning is simply "volcano occurring over a subduction zone", in which case Category:Volcanoes over subduction zones would seem a more appropriate name. At the very least, the category should include a couple of sentences to clarify its scope, especially for non-expert readers. Pichpich (talk) 19:16, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

Rename would be nice, yes.

This category is ment to be for volcanoes that have formed by subduction, not just volcanoes over subduction zones. Plus, there are ancient subduction volcanoes that are no longer at subduction zones. Renaming the category as "Volcanoes over subduction zones" is unnecessary. BT (talk) 23:52, 23 December 2009 (UTC)

Reogranization

This project is among the worst in Wikipedia in terms of organization, participation, and documentation. To shame. We've got a barebones crew of active editors doing all the work, with a large bank of just-joined-did-nothing editors. I'm proposing, nay, doing, a restructuring of the project. The results so far are based at User:Resident Mario/sandbox. ResMar 18:30, 24 December 2009 (UTC)