Talk:Earth science
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The list of Earth Science topics - this is at risk of just becoming one huge list of anything that's related. Should we perhaps weed it down only to include the Earth Science disciplines (i.e. geology, oceanography, geochemistry, geophysics etc)? cferrero
- This isn't my area, but I suggest you Be bold in updating pages :-) -- Tarquin 17:50 Feb 21, 2003 (UTC)
I agree that a list of quite specialised discliplines (-ologies) is unhelpful here, especially without any context i.e. general field under which they fall. These lists of topics need at least to be organised into which sphere of the Earth they apply to (i.e. geosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, cryosphere etc.) or possibly removed to pages covering that general area. Otherwise people new to this field will just get put off.
- Since no-one objected to this suggestion above, I'll have a go. You can all pull me apart afterwards ;) Tonderai 18:51, 3 Dec 2003 (UTC)
- These are the aspects changed:
- Position Earth Science as a subset of planetary science (which covers all planets), and a special case because it is the only known life-bearing planet.
- Introducing the major topic areas based on the '-spheres' of the Earth - I think this is the clearest way to set out the main areas. Tonderai 19:39, 3 Dec 2003 (UTC)
- Also introduced major areas of systems approaches to Earth science
- Hopefully I've introduced some kind of logical framework to this now, whether it is the right one I don't know. Should provoke some debate anyway. Also, the subject list is heavily biased towards geology, and many of the links are non-existant or very short stubs. I think this area needs some work ;) Tonderai 21:58, 3 Dec 2003 (UTC)
I removed It is analogous to the term "Life Science" because it isn't. Life sciences includes things like optometry and psychology. Earth sciences does not. Source: [1] (http://www.aston.ac.uk/lhs/teaching/). Angela 18:18, Sep 19, 2003 (UTC)
Hi: In Opera 7, the top of the Earth Science page (language listing) spills into the logo - I don't know that this is an editable issue but may be more of a coding issue - haven't checked out many other pages but the couple of others I viewed seemed to be ok. Jules (julian@jrickards.ca.nospam)
Should we actually title a list "partial list of"? Surely we should put "list" if we aspire to list all (and put a note in talk so the rest of us can fill them in) or if it is intended to stay selective "list of major"... or whatever // (talk)--BozMo 19:59, 10 May 2004 (UTC)