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needs update but I don't have time
Split proposal
- The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.
This topic is vast and important. The article is too long. I will remove "Transition away from coal" since we have a article focused on that aspect: coal phase-out
Main recommendation: 1) An article about coal, period. What is it? Where did it come from? Many classifications (rank, grade). What is it used for? 2) The rest: mining (and economics), environmental impacts --Smokefoot (talk) 14:14, 19 May 2024 (UTC)
- Can you be more specific? There are already articles on coal mining and the health and environmental impact of the coal industry. Also I suggest excerpts, for example of coal phase-out. Chidgk1 (talk) 21:04, 20 May 2024 (UTC)
- That would make sense. This should be general and more separate more. FairfieldAve (talk) 01:17, 1 August 2024 (UTC)
- Agree with the recommendations. Topics related to coal covered by other articles should only be mentioned briefly with a link Ita140188 (talk) 10:28, 7 August 2024 (UTC)
- I agree the topic is vast and important. There is potential to reduce duplication within the article and move/remove less-important details that can be covered in sub-articles. I can spend some time on this this week. Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 19:50, 28 October 2024 (UTC)
- Since the "Transition away from coal" section has been removed as proposed, is it OK to remove the "It has been suggested that this article should be split into multiple articles." tag at the top of the article? I think everyone agrees on moving towards WP:Summary style so it might be time to move more towards execution rather than further discussion. Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 21:55, 28 October 2024 (UTC)
- @Smokefoot Can we close this now as it is still showing up on our list of alerts at Wikipedia:WikiProject Climate change? Chidgk1 (talk) 19:02, 30 October 2024 (UTC)
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
Coal power plants, pollution, and abatement/mitigation
As a heads-up, I'm planning to see if I can improve the sections on air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. In recent years there has been a lot of discussion about whether to phase out coal or "unabated coal". There is also a lot of discussion out there about "clean coal". The Coal article should help the reader understand the debates. I plan to bring in some relevant content from Carbon capture and storage and this Factcheck source. I'll try to do this without lengthening the article. Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 22:13, 28 October 2024 (UTC)
- @Clayoquot Great - I think you have improved it enough to nominate it as a good article if you want. I have a couple of other articles in the nomination queue as I almost always find the reviewers make really useful comments which help me improve articles Chidgk1 (talk) 19:20, 30 October 2024 (UTC)
- Regarding a nomination for Good article status, were you referring to the Carbon capture and storage article? The Coal article still needs quite a bit of work. Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 19:38, 30 October 2024 (UTC)
