Wikipedia:WikiProject Rocks and minerals

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WikiProject Rocks and Minerals

This WikiProject's goal is to improve and maintain the quality of the articles, lists, templates, and categories within its scope, including rocks, rock units, minerals, mineral groups, gemstones, and related topics.

Specific goals:

Bring every article and list in Category:WikiProject Rocks and minerals as close to Featured Article or Featured List status as possible:

Make sure all articles are properly referenced.
Maximize compliance with the Wikipedia manual of style.
Clean up tagged articles.

Make sure every article about a rock, mineral, or mineral subgroup/series has an infobox (see below)
Standardize the formatting of Infobox rock and Infobox mineral and make sure all relevant parameters are included.
Make sure all rock and mineral-related talk pages are tagged with both {{Category:WikiProject Rocks and minerals}} and {{Category:Geology}}
Keep the WikiProject Rocks and Minerals community active, growing, and well-supported.
Discuss the content of Rock and Mineral articles on Wikipedia and the direction that WikiProject Rocks and Minerals should take (see talk page).
Define a standard infobox for use in rock and mineral entries (goal completed in late 2000s)

If you would like to help, please add yourself to the list of participants below!

Related Wikiprojects

Parentage

WikiProjects

WikiProject Geology

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Other

WikiProject Gemology and Jewelry is closely related.
Other related WikiProjects are WikiProject Elements, WikiProject Chemicals, and its Chemical infobox discussion.
Also see the various discussions on infoboxes, currently broken into at least two areas: infobox and the infobox talk page.

Mineralogy task force

Wikidata
Mineralogy Task Force

Participants

Carbonite09 - Well,Carbon is my thing
ebe123
elf
Hadal - naturally.
puggo (talk) 15:21, 22 March 2019 (UTC), as I learn[reply]
User:Ktsquare (Chemist in the making and amateur geologist)
Vsmith 01:40, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC) I have been working on mineral, rock & geology entries. Just found this project. Geologist and chemistry teacher.
Ixfd64 - as noted on my user page, geology has always been one of my interests, so count me in! (on hiatus)
LadyofShalott (talk · contribs) - particularly interested in igneous & metmorphic rocks
User:GeoWriter
User:Kevmin A contributer to Mindat.org from a number of years and a mineral collector
User:tharikrish Geologist
User:Presidentman
User:Utopes - Will help primarily with the igneous rocks and crystals.
user:Licks-rocks - grad student earth science, for now mostly working on fixing errors in articles.
User:Epsilon.Prota - Working mainly in mineralogy, with some focus on structural geology
User:Reconrabbit - there's a lot of overlap in mineralogy and inorganic chemistry!
I₂Overcome ^talk — My initial focus will be on bringing this mostly defunct project up to date, improving the formatting and implementation of Template:Infobox mineral, cleaning up the articles for silicate minerals, and writing new content in some needy areas.

Inactive

User:Chris857 - writing and expanding mineral articles
User:Vivian S Zitek - Mindat.org contributor and mineralogy enthusiast. Will primarily focus on mineral species, filling in missing data and carrying out maintenance. Vivian S Zitek 00:21, 10 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Tobias1984 Currently working with metamorphic and igneous rocks and will help out where I can. --Tobias1984 (talk) 15:09, 18 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
User:Qfl247 - Sed geo who considers himself very well rounded...
User:Abridged Physician, I like rocks! Abridged ^talk 20:49, 1 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Belovedfreakand adam really like chicken
AstroHurricane001 - I'll try working on pages related to rocks and minerals, etc.
Riffsyphon1024, geology student, also working on geologic formations and planetary geology articles.
DanielCD
Jll, periodically
A.Grace - Amature collector
mav (amateur geologist)
Greudin, sporadically.
chd, most of the time at the german wikipedia.
fiveless Sometimes, when I'm not doing something else on Wikipedia.
Ballista I enjoy adding geological info to articles and editing geological articles, so I join here, despite lack of time and special expertise.
Afrotrance
- Iotha, sporadically
Linnell, geology student
User:Jmpenzone, geoscientist/geologist
User:fossiliferous Geochemist
AlexNebraska (talk) 22:09, 10 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
User:Razorflame I love rocks and minerals and will help write and/or help any articles that need to be created or helped.
User:MED usgswrd -(MEDegnan) Geologist by training, interested in sedimentary and hydrothermal minerals
User:John Mortimore
User:Duanuys

Discussions and worklists

Please do not use the below subpages for new discussion posts. Instead, please use the talk page.

Current templates

Infoboxes

For minerals, mineral groups, and mineral varieties:

Infobox mineral

For all rocks:

Infobox rock

For rock units:

Infobox rockunit

Stub tags

Navigational boxes

Sidebar templates

Barnstar

For recognition of contributions to the Rocks and Minerals Wikiproject, place {{subst:The Mineralogy Barnstar|message|~~~~}} on the recipient's talk page. It should look like this:

		The Mineralogy Barnstar
		message name (talk) date/time

Pages needing attention

University of Houston, Department of Geosciences, 'adopt-a-mineral' term paper for the course Geology 3370 - Introduction to Mineralogy, prof. Jonathan E. Snow, instructor
Univ. Houston, Earth Materials, Mrs. Catlos: eveite (Fall 2010)
Newbies: User talk:Tony00345 (pseudowollastonite, 2009), User talk:Friedshrimp007 (ericssonite, 2010), User talk:Rshah1018 (raspite and roselite, 2010), User talk:Jburke430 (chesterite, 2010), User talk:Kelhansard (cymrite, 2010), User talk:Molyru (grandreefite, 2010), User talk:Skibo112 (schäferite, 2010)

July 2014: The entry for Fullers Earth[1] discusses only the cosmetic product. I don't have the expertise to edit this, but perhaps the British Geological Survey article at [2] is a good start if somebody has the time and inclination
October 2020: Category talk:Bismuth minerals, Category:Radioactive minerals - a comment is needed about the radioactivity of bismuth minerals (to prevent edition warring)

Requests

Request picture

Add {{reqphoto|mineralogy}} to the talk-page of articles that require a picture. View the requests: Category:Wikipedia requested images of mineralogy

Requested articles

Note, critical mineral raw materials: most important mineral groups were known at the end of the XIX Century. Many U and uranyl minerals came later with the nuclear technology. Monazite, bastnäsite and loparite-(Ce) became important REE sources with the widespread use of electronics (monazite is not used because of the production of thorium waste as by-product). Rhodium and titanium is important too. --Chris.urs-o (talk) 07:36, 13 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Wikipedia:Requested articles/Natural sciences/Environment and geology#Minerals

Assessment

Please refer to the assessment subpage for information on how to assess an article or list within the scope of this project.

Statistics

This table is automatically updated by Oleg Alexandrov's WP 1.0 bot. See the log for the latest changes.

Rocks and minerals articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA			2	3			5
GA	1		5	27			33
B	2	9	18	39		5	73
C	5	23	60	155		14	257
Start		23	140	652		9	824
Stub		1	28	1,086		4	1,119
List	1	1	24	35		1	62
NA			1	14	722		737
Assessed	9	57	278	2,011	722	33	3,110
Total	9	57	278	2,011	722	33	3,110
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 12,147			Ω = 5.26

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