Talk:Climate change in France

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Suggested changes to headings and structure

I suggest to change the headings and structure of this article to be in line with the template that has been proposed here for all articles of the nature "Climate change in Country X": https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Climate_change/Style_guide (see also discussion on that page's talk page). Anyone has any objections? If not, who's got time to give it a go? I am slowly working away at this for all the countries but would love some collaborators. EMsmile (talk) 03:44, 5 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Done. But the article needs more content. EMsmile (talk) 00:55, 18 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Updating this page

Hi, we are two students taking the Ecological Effects of Climate Change course at Uppsala university, as assingment for that course we are writing a draft to update this wikipedia page. Any tips for references are welcome or suggestions for preferable topics. Damon Groot 16:56, 19 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

You've done a great job with expanding this article, well done Damon Groot and team! Some small things I noticed during a superficial read:

Make sure you put references only at the end of the sentence, not mid-sentence (unlike for academic writing). This often means breaking a longer sentence in two.
The lead could be made a bit longer (4 paragraphs).
We should look for some images to illustrate this article.
It would be interesting to know a bit more whether the usage of nuclear power has reduced France's greenhouse gas emissions compared to other countries.

Chidgk1 what do you think of the improvements made? EMsmile (talk) 12:20, 31 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Damon Groot Good job - I learnt something interesting from it - did not know before that France had been affected so much compared to neighbouring countries. For pictures suggest you try to find a category like "climate change in France" or "heatwaves in France" or suchlike in https://commons.wikimedia.org/ - if you cannot find a suitable pic in 15 mins give up. Of course as a Brit I think the most important thing is whether UK or France were first to put 2050 net zero into law - presumably UK as it is not mentioned here :-)

EMsmile but I often put my refs after a comma even though I am not an academic. Would this pic be too much advertizing?

I was taught (when I started Wikipedia editing) to avoid putting refs in mid sentence. I looked around in the style guide to see what it says and found this here: "If a word or phrase is particularly contentious, an inline citation may be added next to that word or phrase within the sentence, but it is usually sufficient to add the citation to the end of the clause, sentence, or paragraph, so long as it's clear which source supports which part of the text." Would you agree that in general, it's best to have the ref after the fullstop? I think the advantage of this advice is also that it encourages people to use shorter sentences which improves readability and makes it easier for non-native English speakers. EMsmile (talk) 11:24, 1 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

and I think the photo is good but I find the snow a bit distracting. What do you mean by "a cooling electric car"? Perhaps better to find one without snow? EMsmile (talk) 11:24, 1 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

France article

I've also just written on the talk page of the France article because I think it should say something up to date about climate change and link to this article. See here. EMsmile (talk) 12:32, 31 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]