Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Protected areas/Archive 6

Project scope clarification

There is a disconnect between the first paragraph:

This WikiProject aims primarily to provide information on all protected areas in the world.

and the third paragraph:

Protected areas are those which a higher level governmental entity manages, maintains and or oversees directly. For instance in the United States, this would include primarily federal and to a lesser degree, state managed areas, but rarely those managed by a county or city.

The disconnect plus the subjective qualifiers make it hard to decide if an article should be tagged with this project. There is also land owned by NGOs such as The Nature Conservancy.

I wrote a program to generate a list of articles that are in a protected area category that aren't tagged with this project. Clarification of this projects scope would help me determine which ones to manually tag. --Bamyers99 (talk) 23:07, 4 May 2014 (UTC)

Hi Bamyers99. I think there is not really a consensus here on the scope of the wikiproject, but it would be great if your raising the question, with a good offer to help, could lead us to come to some consensus. Back in 2007-2008, there was productive-seeming discussion about defining this project's scope to be sites that are actually listed in the United Nations Environment Programme's (UNEP's) list of protected areas, and/or the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)'s World Database of Protected Areas (WDPA) database. And/or that should be listed there, with possibility of collaboration back-and-forth to have UNEP/IUCN update their database sensibly. (See discussions archived here and in sections before and after.) At the time there was clearly some bad data in IUCN's database, both in terms of erroneous inclusions of inappropriate areas, and of erroneous exclusions of valid protected areas. There was some momentum developing for this Wikiproject to proceed, in cooperation with IUCN's director who contacted this Wikiproject and was interested, but that didn't work at the time.

I think starting anew could mean working with IUCN and/or with UNEP's World Conservation Monitoring Centre, see http://www.unep-wcmc.org/. That organization currently states that there are 22,599 Protected Areas in the United States, covering 12% of the United States, per http://beta.unep-wcmc.org/#?dashboard=show (not sure if that URL will work for you, but it is what shows for me).

Anyhow, I think it is necessary to work with a list (although it can be an evolving list) that is maintained by IUCN or another entity, to determine which sites are protected areas to be covered by this wikiproject. --doncram 23:58, 4 May 2014 (UTC)

I think there is consensus that all IUCN listed areas are within the scope of this WikiProject, but I wouldn't add at this stage areas with lower level protection only. It is only useful to tag articles if editors here are willing and able to take care of all tagged articles. There was a similar bot tagging in November 2011 which I requested from DodoBot. It included only pages that are clearly in scope, as included in the categories listed here. This increased the number of tagged articles by about 1,000. I think at this stage as the number of tagged articles is increasing, it would be also useful to think of more taskforces. --ELEKHH^T 10:16, 5 May 2014 (UTC)

I have created a list of protected area designations from around the world at User:Bamyers99/sandbox/List of protected area types (the page name should be designations instead of types). I don't know if this list is suitable for a real article. I am going to feed some of these to the new article bot.

Re: "Using a list": I don't see a need to use a third party list for determining if an article is of interest to this project. Those lists are always going to be out of date because of their data collection methods. It is usually not that hard to figure out if an article is of interest using either the lead or the designation.

Re: "Working with IUCN/UNEP": Protected Planet maintains two sets of data. 1) Entity submitted (govt, etc.) 2) Community submitted (anyone). The community submitted data is not a reliable source for the IUCN category, etc. unless there is a verifiable reference tied to the community update. This would be hard to verify if using a database dump from them to update article info boxes.

Re: "Editors willing to care for all tagged articles": I don't think that is possible for many wikiprojects. I can't predict what future editors will be willing to do. The importance field is there for denoting project priority. --Bamyers99 (talk) 01:11, 7 May 2014 (UTC)

You can't predict future participation, but it can go both ways: WikiProjects can fail for having too broad scope as well. Overlapping with other WikiProjects is also undesirable. I suggest to be cautious. In your list, some general terms such as "state forest" can have different meaning in various countries. In Australia for instance state forests are often production forests managed by the state forestry authorities. --ELEKHH^T 08:52, 7 May 2014 (UTC)

Infobox protected area

Infobox protected area has been proposed for merger at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2014 May 17#Template:Infobox protected area. --ELEKHH^T 09:42, 18 May 2014 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Earth

There is an ongoing Wiki Loves Earth photography competition on Commons. Over 20,000 images have have been uploaded so far from about a dozen countries. Many of these images can be useful for illustrating protected areas articles. The competition is open until the end of May. --ELEKHH^T 10:48, 18 May 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Cape Byron Marine Park

Here's an AfC submission that's up for review. You may wish to take a look. —Anne Delong (talk) 04:00, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

Threatened species known to occur in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area

Hi All

I started an article Threatened species known to occur in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area, it still needs a lot of work and would appreciate some help. It's quite a complex job that would help others to be done systematically, please see the talk page for notes and information.

Many thanks

--Mrjohncummings (talk) 23:15, 22 June 2014 (UTC)

US Army Corps of Engineers and protected areas

I find that many articles on reservoirs and other facilities built and still maintained by the US Army Corps of Engineers have been placed into 'protected areas of xx county' categories simply because of the USACE connection. The articles do not show that the reservoirs and etc. have been designated a protected area by any federal or state authority such as the National Register of Historic Places and so on. Is this USACE connection sufficient to categorize these as 'protected areas'? Hmains (talk) 02:06, 4 July 2014 (UTC)

Could you provide some examples of which articles you're talking about? Fredlyfish4 (talk) 02:21, 4 July 2014 (UTC)

Yes, I was just thinking of that. Oologah Lake Robert S. Kerr Reservoir. Hmains (talk) 02:26, 4 July 2014 (UTC)

And Webbers Falls Lake. I first noticed these in connection with McClellan–Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System facilities, but there are many more. Hmains (talk) 02:30, 4 July 2014 (UTC)

My initial response to this was no, USACE management is not sufficient for to be considered a protected area. However, they do provide a significant level of environmental protection in some circumstances. In my opinion these areas a reservoirs/lakes/landforms first, but I have often seen articles about a geographic feature such as these that also include surrounding protected areas that have not been written as their own article yet (such as XX state park as a subsection within XX reservoir). Fredlyfish4 (talk) 02:43, 4 July 2014 (UTC)

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Use of Infobox in articles about Ramsar Sites

Hi, I am currently writing an article about a Ramsar site in Australia and am wondering if it is appropriate to include the Protected areas infobox. My reading of the general subject material suggests that Ramsar sites are outside of the IUCN system of categories. Regards Cowdy001 (talk) 07:35, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

In short, yes it is appropriate to include the protected areas infobox. However, this depends on which Ramsar site you are writing about. If the the site is primarily a lake (see Caddo Lake) or other geographic feature then you should use its corresponding infobox. If the site is part of a larger protected area (see Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge) or doesn't seem to fit elsewhere, then use the protected areas infobox (see Francis Beidler Forest). Particular Ramsar sites may or may not have appropriate IUCN designations, but you can leave this field blank in the infobox. In all these cases it is preferred that you designate it as a Ramsar site by including the embedded designation at the bottom of the infobox. Fredlyfish4 (talk) 13:32, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply - I will take the advice on board. Regards Cowdy001 (talk) 18:51, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Earth

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Proposal for a new WikiProject

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Protected Planet website

Hi everyone, I recently noticed the use of the Protected Planet (PP) website (http://www.protectedplanet.net/) as reference in an article about a conservation park in Australia. It is reported as being “the online interface for the World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA), a joint project of IUCN and UNEP.” The subsequent use of PP has revealed the following pluses, minuses and interesting aspects.

PLUSES - for information collection purposes, it is useful as protected areas are shown on a map which can be ‘clicked’ to reveal protected area names or identifying details. Within articles, it is useful as an “external link” as the webpage for each protected area has a map which allows the reader to visualise the extent of protection. Also, it is useful where it contains information not available elsewhere (i.e. identifying details associated with private protected areas) and where there is a shortage of “reliable sources” subject to the “reliability” of the content (please refer comments below).

MINUSES - however, it can be unhelpful and/or “unreliable” for reasons such as the following:

• National point of view - the minimum information on each page is presented from a national perspective which may not helpful to situations such as Australia where the vast majority of protected areas were controlled by state and territory governments.
• Currency - I have found that content can be out of date; in one case so far, a major protected area declared over 2 years ago is not included. This is probably due to PP replying on the relatively slow flow of information passing to IUCN/UNEP from national agencies, sub-national agencies and so on.
• Overlapping protected areas - there are circumstances where protected areas created under separate statutes overlap each other with the result that graphical information applicable to only one protected area is shown (and therefore “clickable”) at the expense of the other protected areas.
• Content out of align with national policy - further to the comment re “overlapping” above, areas such as Ramsar sites and Biosphere reserves which are shown on PP and which in the case of Australia are not listed on official lists of protected areas published at state and national level (i.e. CAPAD). This leads to problems such as those discussed above in “overlapping”. In one case, a Ramsar site is given priority over the protected areas within its boundary and whose establishment, in at least one case, pre-dates it.

INTERESTING - entries are all linked to the Wikipedia (discussed briefly on http://www.protectedplanet.net/about) even if there is no specific article present at the time. There may be some opportunities in respect to this particular PP initiative. Also, there may be an extra activity required to improve the Wikipedia. In one case, I upgraded an article for a large geographical feature to include a list of protected areas within its extent after I noticed that a number of PP entries linked to that article. Regards Cowdy001 (talk) 00:28, 8 October 2015 (UTC)

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Converting List of New York state parks to a sortable table

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Oregon Refuge occupation - name of the group at AFD

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Adding all Man and the Biosphere Programme reserves to Wikidata

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Open license descriptions of all UNESCO biosphere reserves is available

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I'm very happy to say that UNESCO has made the official descriptions of all Biosphere Reserve sites available under a Wikipedia compatible license. Currently around 440 (out of 670) of the Biosphere Reserves do not have an English language Wikipedia article.

These descriptions can be used as the missing Wikipedia articles with very little adaption. I have created a Wikidata query and a set of instructions to help people create the missing articles.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiProject_UNESCO/Create_Biosphere_Reserve_Wikipedia_articles_from_UNESCO_descriptions

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Thanks very much to Navino Evans who did all the data importing into Wikidata (a herculean effort) and Andy Mabbett for helping me with the instructions.

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Should we use image galleries to illustrate ecosystems in parks?

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Creating Biosphere Reserve articles from official UNESCO descriptions

Dear all

UNESCO has made the official descriptions of all Biosphere Reserves available under a CC-BY-SA license. I have created a guide will help you create missing English language Wikipedia articles for the Biosphere Reserves using the official descriptions. Please let me know if you have any questions.

Many thanks

--John Cummings (talk) 12:36, 4 November 2016 (UTC)

Hi John Cummings, While I could not get your guide to work, I was able to do the following four stub class articles being the balance of outstanding articles for Australian biosphere reserves - Barkindji, Mornington Peninsula and Western Port, Hattah-Kulkyne and Murray-Kulkyne, Great Sandy. Regards Cowdy001 (talk) 09:34, 6 November 2016 (UTC)

Cowdy001 wonderful, thanks very much for trying it. Could you tell me what the problem you were having? I want to expand this to more text from other UNESCO programmes so I would really like to understand where it can be made better.

Thanks again

--John Cummings (talk) 20:35, 6 November 2016 (UTC)

I tried again and was able to produce an article for the And Atoll (biosphere reserve). The mistake that I made on my previous attempt was that I did not carefully read the instructions and got distracted with the code on the first window on the first step. The only improvement that I think is required is to mention that ‘visual editing’ needs to be used for ‘Step 3: Attribute the text’ rather than ‘source editing’. I have added the four articles that I recently prepared for biosphere reserves in Australia to Wikidata. I have the following additional comment. The map showing the Biosphere Reserves that do not have English language Wikipedia articles now shows six sites in Australia including the former reserve at Macquarie Island. All of these sites have existing WP articles which have Wikidata IDs that are different from those nominated for the biosphere sites. What is the best course of action? For example, should I create ‘redirects’ for these articles and add these to Wikidata? Regards Cowdy001 (talk) 19:50, 7 November 2016 (UTC)

Cowdy001, thank you very much for the feedback, I've added a line to the instructions with a link to the Source Editor instructions. I'll have a look at the Wikidata items and try and work something out, this is a recurring issue because often the Biosphere Reserve and the protected area inside it often share the same name but are actually different areas (the Biosphere Reserve is larger). --John Cummings (talk) 13:43, 8 November 2016 (UTC)

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Updates to Wikipedia articles about national parks in Africa

On behalf of the nonprofit organization African Parks via the Wyss Foundation, and as part of my work at Beutler Ink, I am working to create and improve several Wikipedia articles related to national parks in Africa. I created this page to describe the scope of the project and provide updates about my progress.

So far, I've submitted an expanded and updated draft for consideration at Talk:Liwonde National Park, and posted a note at WikiProject Malawi. I will likely be posting similar notes at other WikiProject Africa task forces for parks in other countries, once drafts are published.

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I would suggest that it would be helpful to save the original source first in your draft and then work on it. That way we can use the history feature to easily compare your updates and expansions to the current article. Rmhermen (talk) 19:10, 9 October 2017 (UTC)

@Rmhermen: Thanks for the suggestion. In most cases, I am creating new drafts completely from scratch, but I will try to remember to do this before saving new drafts in the future. Inkian Jason (talk) 19:42, 9 October 2017 (UTC)

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Wikipedia has many thousands of wikilinks which point to disambiguation pages. It would be useful to readers if these links directed them to the specific pages of interest, rather than making them search through a list. Members of WikiProject Disambiguation have been working on this and the total number is now below 20,000 for the first time. Some of these links require specialist knowledge of the topics concerned and therefore it would be great if you could help in your area of expertise.

A list of the relevant links on pages which fall within the remit of this wikiproject can be found at http://69.142.160.183/~dispenser/cgi-bin/topic_points.py?banner=WikiProject_Protected_areas

Please take a few minutes to help make these more useful to our readers.— Rod ^talk 18:08, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site listed at Requested moves

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Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park listed at Requested moves

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National Scenic Area (Scotland) listed at Requested moves

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Odzala National Park listed at Requested moves

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