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Project Templates

Project banner

Place {{WikiProject Geology|class=|importance=}} onto any new Geology article's talk page for it to be recognised and assessed under the project's scope. An article's assessment is generated from the class and importance parameters and helps organise relevant articles for improvement. When assessed, the class and importance parameters are filled in, like this:

{{WikiProject Geology|class=Start|importance=Mid}}

and the banner looks like this:

Shortcuts: {{WikiProject Geology}}, {{WPGEOLOGY}}, {{WPGeology}}, {{WP Geology}}

For more information visit the assessment page: Wikipedia:WikiProject Geology/Assessment

Userbox

{{User WikiProject Geology}}

This user is a participant in
WikiProject Geology.

This will add you to WikiProject Geology members. You can also just put [[Category:WikiProject Geology members]] at the bottom of your userpage.

Barnstar

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

	The Geology Barnstar
	message name (talk) date/time

Article templates

Infoboxes, navboxes and timelines

• {{Infobox Rockunit}} - for geological formations
• {{Geological period}} - for Geologic periods
• {{Geological era}} - for Geological eras
• {{Infobox mineral}} - for minerals
• {{Geology}} - navbox for geology-related articles
• {{Include timeline}} produces timelines like the ones you'll see at Late Devonian extinction.

Stubs

For a complete and up-to-date list, see Category:Geology stubs.

Template	Result	Usage
{{geology-stub}}		Generic geology stub template.
{{geologist-stub}}	This biographical article about a geologist is a stub. You can help the Wikiproject, WikiProject Geology, by expanding it.	Stub articles relating to geologists.
{{mineral-stub}}		Stub articles relating to minerals.
{{crater-stub}}		Stub articles relating to extraterrestrial geological features.
{{paleontologist-stub}}		Stub articles relating to paleontologists.
{{paleo-stub}}		Stub articles relating to paleontology.
{{petrology-stub}}		Stub articles relating to petrology.

Period properties

See also: Category:Geological period templates

Because details of periods are continually being refined, it is simpler to maintain a central list of dates, called by each article, than to amend every article individually when things change. It also saves having to look dates etc up each time!

• {{Period start}} and {{Period end}} return the date a period begins or ends in Ma.
• {{Ma}} returns the same, with a wikilink to the geological time scale. e.g. {{Ma|Cambrian}}.
• {{Period color}} returns the colour associated with a geological period (as determined by the IGU).

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.

Useful links

• ICS Subcommission for Stratigraphic Information
• GeoWhen Database
• Mindat Mineral Database
• Webmineral Mineral Database
• Oxford Digital Library of Key Historical Geological Texts
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Geology/List of pages by number of page views (March 2008)
• Categories
• Referencing tools