Some editors do not agree with articles of the form "Climate change in [some country]". This discussion page is to hopefully arrive at a consensus as to how information about anthropogenic climate change is incorporated into existing or new articles. It goes without saying that climate change in pre-history is not of relevance to the discussion on this page. Articles relating to his page can be found at Category:Climate change by country. -- Alan Liefting ( talk) - 23:40, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
These articles currently exist
Climate change and global warming are notable topics. It is becoming of increasing interest and if some commentators are to be believed it is the most important issue to ever face humanity. Here at WP we are tasked with recording the "sum of all human knowledge" - a laudable and long term goal. The goal has the constraints of the WP policy of notability and verifiability. Information pertaining to climate change at a national level is both notable and verifiable and is part of human knowledge.
Since WP has no constraints on size there is no reason why every country cannot have its own article on climate change related information. Obviously there are a few cases such as dysfunctional states for which climate change specific information is yet to emerge so an article will not be necessary. At this stage in the growth of WP there are some country article, and some state and regional articles as well as Climate change in the European Union.
The focus of our efforts should be on creating articles on individual countries and to create an overview article at
Climate change by country. --
Alan Liefting (
talk) - 23:40, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
An article hierarchy should look like this:
At present there is only a random selection of articles. -- Alan Liefting ( talk) - 03:12, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
The relevant articles section (which currently contains only articles of the form "Climate change in X') is quite useful. I notice that there are many redirects from 'Climate change in X' to currently-existing articles titled 'Climate of X' or 'Geography of X.' These sub-sections could clearly be split off at some point in the future. Would it be worthwhile to add these redirects to the current links section, or is that just a distraction from the current conversation?
On a similar note, there is a good conversation in the Article Hierarchy conversation. Would it be useful to add the sub-articles? Or, again, is this just a distraction for now. One reason to think about doing this is because there are some climate sub-articles (like Climate change adaptation in Nepal) that do not yet have an upper-level 'Climate change in X' page. Thanks for your thoughts! Jlevi ( talk) 00:16, 11 December 2019 (UTC)
Some editors do not agree with articles of the form "Climate change in [some country]". This discussion page is to hopefully arrive at a consensus as to how information about anthropogenic climate change is incorporated into existing or new articles. It goes without saying that climate change in pre-history is not of relevance to the discussion on this page. Articles relating to his page can be found at Category:Climate change by country. -- Alan Liefting ( talk) - 23:40, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
These articles currently exist
Climate change and global warming are notable topics. It is becoming of increasing interest and if some commentators are to be believed it is the most important issue to ever face humanity. Here at WP we are tasked with recording the "sum of all human knowledge" - a laudable and long term goal. The goal has the constraints of the WP policy of notability and verifiability. Information pertaining to climate change at a national level is both notable and verifiable and is part of human knowledge.
Since WP has no constraints on size there is no reason why every country cannot have its own article on climate change related information. Obviously there are a few cases such as dysfunctional states for which climate change specific information is yet to emerge so an article will not be necessary. At this stage in the growth of WP there are some country article, and some state and regional articles as well as Climate change in the European Union.
The focus of our efforts should be on creating articles on individual countries and to create an overview article at
Climate change by country. --
Alan Liefting (
talk) - 23:40, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
An article hierarchy should look like this:
At present there is only a random selection of articles. -- Alan Liefting ( talk) - 03:12, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
The relevant articles section (which currently contains only articles of the form "Climate change in X') is quite useful. I notice that there are many redirects from 'Climate change in X' to currently-existing articles titled 'Climate of X' or 'Geography of X.' These sub-sections could clearly be split off at some point in the future. Would it be worthwhile to add these redirects to the current links section, or is that just a distraction from the current conversation?
On a similar note, there is a good conversation in the Article Hierarchy conversation. Would it be useful to add the sub-articles? Or, again, is this just a distraction for now. One reason to think about doing this is because there are some climate sub-articles (like Climate change adaptation in Nepal) that do not yet have an upper-level 'Climate change in X' page. Thanks for your thoughts! Jlevi ( talk) 00:16, 11 December 2019 (UTC)