Wikipedia:WikiProject Ecology/to do

New article requests

Please add requests for new articles here, including missing articles updated by the bot below in the "Pages needing attention" section. The goal is to have no broken links from articles on sustainability, environment, or ecology. This list is indiscriminate. If there are specific items on this list you are interested in, add them to the approriate area in Requested articles (probably science)

Article requests:

Apparent competition
Autobesity (Wikidata)
Chapelin (Food chain)
Chemlawn philosophy (Pollinator decline)
Combustion emissions (Dead zone)
Competition-colonization trade-offs (Competitive exclusion principle)
Dieoff (Ecocide)
Ecosystem function
Ecological unit (Ecosystem)
Erosion of biodiversity (Biodiversity)
Fair agreement on benefit sharing (Biodiversity)
Fair agreement (Bioprospecting)
Fatal Light Awareness Program (Light pollution)
Fluvial deposits (Desert)
Global Mining Initiative (Sustainability)
Nuclear Waste Repository Act (and about 30 other environmental acts, Environmental Protection Agency)
Nutrient flow (Synecology)
Pleistocene Horned Gopher (Ecological selection)
Resource competition (Competitive exclusion principle)
Rogers Lake Playa at Edwards Air Force Base, California (Desert)
Seed crop (Pollinator decline)
Small-subunit ribosomal RNA (Biodiversity)
Temperate Deserts (Biome)

Expand articles

Expand any of the articles listed in Ecology stubs, tagged with the {{ecology-stub}} template.

Cleanup

Articles needing cleanup:

Verify

Verify new articles by adding reliable references.

Wikify

Add internal links to articles:

Add {{Portal|Ecology}} to the See also sections of ecology-related articles. This places the following portal link in articles:

Categorization

Categorize ecology-related articles:

Tag new articles in Category:Ecology, Category:Natural environment and Category:Sustainability as such (within those categories).
Reclassify article categories: change categories in articles to more appropriate and relevant categories, or provide multiple categories where appropriate
Identify pages needing attention
Add ecologists and other notable scientists into List of ecologists

Create templates

Create useful templates for use in Wikipedia articles:

Create a template to link soil types, and write articles on each soil type (e.g. FAO soil classification)
Create a template to link ecozones and ecoregions, and label countries or regions with their ecozone
Create a template to link ecotope articles
Create a template to link various -spheres such as biosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere
Create a template to link Endangered species + add them all to Category:Endangered_species

Note: Subcategories, rather than templates, would often be appropriate

See also: WikiProject Ecoregions is tackling ecoregions, ecozones, etc.

Completed templates

~~Create a template to link biological interaction articles. e.g. Parasitism, Symbiosis~~ (done)

External pages

Discuss with organizations the possibility of licensing their information under GNU FDL or a compatible license

Automation

Create tools to automate and generate a "requested articles" list.

Article assessment

Add the {{Ecology}} project template on talk pages to enable article assessment, then assess per assessment criterion.

In the process, determine how many articles fit within this topic. Develop or use bots to mark articles to quantify ecology-related articles and to encourage editors to assess them.

Ecology articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		2	2	1			5
FL			1				1
GA	1	10	20	13			44
B	5	33	62	66		21	187
C	10	62	141	315		129	657
Start	3	47	158	540		322	1,070
Stub		9	40	415		128	592
List		4	11	111		18	144
NA		5	12	22	805		844
Assessed	19	172	447	1,483	805	618	3,544
Unassessed						1	1
Total	19	172	447	1,483	805	619	3,545
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 12,179			Ω = 4.77