Wikipedia:WikiProject Mountains

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First, an important note for everyone to remember:

A few Wikipedians have gotten together to make some suggestions about how we might organize data in articles about mountains. These are only suggestions, things to give you focus and to get you going, and you shouldn't feel obligated in the least to follow them. But if you do not know what to write or where to begin, following the below guidelines may be helpful. Mainly, we just want you to write articles!

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Title

WikiProject Mountains

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Scope

This WikiProject aims primarily to provide a common layout for articles on named mountains. That is, a mountain that has been given a name (e.g. Mount Robson), not for articles just related to mountains (e.g. mountaineering).

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Parentage

The parent of this WikiProject is the WikiProject Geography.

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Descendant Wikiprojects

No descendant WikiProjects have been defined.

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Similar Wikiprojects

No similar WikiProjects have been defined.

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Participants

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Structure

A template will provide a common set of features on a mountain organized into a consistent format. The template will include an infobox, that contains the following attributes:

  • name of the mountain/peak
  • elevation, in both metres and feet. Metres should be listed first except for mountains in the United States, where feet is given first.
  • latitude and longitude
  • mountain range in which the peak is located within
  • date of first ascent
  • difficulty of easiest ascent (e.g. snow/ice climb, scramble, hike
  • topography map reference (e.g. 83E/03)
  • picture(s)

The body of the article should try to provide the following information:

  • history of the mountain, including how it received its name
  • geology
  • trail head and approach routes
  • timeline of ascents if it's a major mountain of the world; for example, any of the eight-thousanders.
  • detailed information on the first ascent including party members and nationality
  • common climbing routes (and grade)

After creating an article, add it to the relevant section on List of mountains by elevation. If there is an article containing a list of mountains for that country to which the mountain belongs, also add the new entry to that list (e.g. List of mountains of the United States).

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Categorization

If an article is added to the project, please also add it to one of the mountain categories: e.g. Category:Mountains of Canada, Category:Mountains of France, Category:Mountains of the United States. Also consider adding a link to the article to the appropriate list article, such as List of mountains of the United States.

If a country specific mountains category does not exist, then add it to one of the continent specific categories such as Category:Mountains of Europe or Category:Mountains of Asia. If those are not applicable, then add it to Category:Mountains. For a country that does not have a specific category yet, the general rule is to create a category for the country only when the number of existing mountain articles is five or more.

The current categorization framework is as follows:
Category:Mountains

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Hierarchy Definition

No classification of Mountains has been defined. Possible future possibilities could be by continent or major mountain chains.

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General Strategy and Discussion forums

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Templates

{{Infobox Mountain | Name = Mount Baker | Photo = Mount_Baker.jpg | Caption = Mount Baker from the northeast | Elevation = 10,778 ft (3,285 m) | Location = Washington, USA | Range = Cascade Range | Prominence = 8,881 ft (2707 m) | Coordinates = Template:Coor dms | Topographic map = USGS Mount Baker | Type = Stratovolcano | Age = <30 Kyr | Last eruption = 1880 | First ascent=1868 by Edmund T. Coleman and party | Easiest route=rock/ice climb }}

There is one infobox that makes any mountain infobox: Template:Tl. See an example, right, of the use of the template. This template has three required parameters:

  • Name
  • Elevation (metric units first, but Imperial units first for peaks in the USA
  • Location (State/Province, then country).

It has many optional parameters:

  • Photo (filename, no need for "Image:")
  • Caption (only if there is a photo)
  • Range (if applicable)
  • Prominence (if known)
  • Coordinates (for use with Template:Tl or Template:Tl)
  • Topographic map (map authority, map name)
  • Type (see List of mountain types)
  • Age (of rock)
  • Last eruption (if volcano, last major eruption, not steam)
  • First ascent (if not a hike-up mountain, year and members of expedition)
  • Easiest route
  • Grid_ref_uk
  • Grid_ref_ireland
  • Listing (if peak belongs to well-known list of hills, e.g., Munros)
  • Translation (if peak name is not English, it is good to provide a translation)
  • Language (if peak name is not English)
  • Pronunciation (if non-obvious)

The previous multi-template is now deprecated.

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Mountain template

Talk pages of articles about mountains are encouraged to use Template:Tl. The talk pages that do use this template are at Pages linking to Mountain. A sorted list of these pages is at List of mountains.

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Geolinks-US-mountain template

It is optional to add {{Geolinks-US-mountain}} to articles about US mountains. The template belongs at the end of the External Links section of an article. It takes two arguments: decimal degrees latitude of the peak, and decimal degrees longitude of the peak (remember W longitude is negative). The template generates 4 links to external web sites, to show maps and aerial photos centered on the specific mountain.

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Related, specialised infobox

British hills often come in pairs. For this situation, we have constructed a specialized template:

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Naming conventions

Articles should be named according to the most common name for a mountain. If alternate names exist, mention them in the article and create redirects for them to prevent duplicate articles. "Mount" will always be expanded in the article name. For example, Mount Logan and not [[Mt. Logan]]. A redirect for "Mt. <name>" should be created to prevent duplicate articles.

If a mountain name is not unique, the convention is to create a disambiguation page for the mountain. Then, all mountains by that name will be disambiguated by putting the political division name of the mountain in parenthesis after the mountain name. For example, Mount Columbia exists in both Alberta, Canada and Colorado, United States. The disambiguated pages are subsequently named: Mount Columbia (Alberta) and Mount Columbia (Colorado).

Some mountains/peaks have the same name in the same political division. For example, Granite Peak has been given to over 40 peaks in the United States alone with it existing multiple times within certain states. In this case, the naming convention is to add a distinguishing sub-classification of the political division. For example, in the United States, one would also add the county name: e.g. Brown Peak (Kern County, California). When this situation occurs as it does for Granite Peak and Brown Peak, the standard infobox template will not be used. Instead, a table listing the peak names and unique geographical information will be used. See Granite Peak and Brown Peak for examples of this table. In the case of US mountains, the USGS GNIS link should be maintained within the table and if an article is created for a peak, the USGS GNIS link should be replaced with the wiki link to the new article.

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Picture Gallery

Gallery of mountains contains a gallery of photos used by the project's articles. After adding a new picture, also consider adding it to this page.

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Resources

Some useful resources for information on mountains:

fr:Wikipédia:Projet/Géographie/Montagnes zh:Wikipedia:专题/山脉

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