Continuing Project: Improving New York State Parks articles

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Seems I've been spending a bit of time bringing the articles for many New York state parks up to a minimum standard. There seems no shortage of basic work to be done on many of these articles. Mostly I attempt to:

  • Improve article structure
  • Add an infobox with a map
  • Locate, upload and add an appropriate free image (if one exists)
  • Clean up the prose, remove promotional language
  • Add basic references

I would say Whetstone Gulf State Park serves as a pretty good example of what many of these articles look like before and after.

I'm also hoping that one day, there will be no redlinks or redirects in the State Parks section of the Protected Areas of New York template, but who knows when I'll get around to that. It would also be nice to fix up the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation page, which is quite sparse at the moment.

The List of Pennsylvania state parks and its map template ({{State parks of Pennsylvania map}}) would be nice to emulate if I ever have a spare year.

After some much-needed prodding (not that kind), I've started to play around with some table formats for the main NYSP list article at my NYSP list sandbox... which was finally moved to the mainspace on April 13, 2016! Still more to do there, but this is a big leap forward.

A list of what I've done so far:

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  1. Allan H. Treman State Marine Park
  2. Amherst State Park
  3. Amsterdam Beach State Park
  4. Battle Island State Park
  5. Bayard Cutting Arboretum State Park
  6. Bayswater Point State Park
  7. Beechwood State Park (Created)
  8. Belmont Lake State Park
  9. Betty and Wilbur Davis State Park
  10. Big Six Mile Creek Marina
  11. Blauvelt State Park
  12. Bowman Lake State Park
  13. Bonavista State Park Golf Course
  14. Brentwood State Park (Created)
  15. Bristol Beach State Park
  16. Buckhorn Island State Park
  17. Buffalo Harbor State Park (Created)
  18. Burnham Point State Park
  19. Buttermilk Falls State Park
  20. Camp Hero State Park
  21. Canandaigua Lake State Marine Park (Created)
  22. Canoe-Picnic Point State Park
  23. Captree State Park
  24. Catharine Valley Trail
  25. Caumsett State Historic Park Preserve
  26. Cayuga Lake State Park
  27. Cedar Island State Park
  28. Cedar Point State Park‎‎
  29. Chenango Valley State Park
  30. Cherry Plain State Park
  31. Chimney Bluffs State Park
  32. Chittenango Falls State Park
  33. Clarence Fahnestock State Park
  34. Clay Pit Ponds State Park Preserve
  35. Cold Spring Harbor State Park
  36. Coles Creek State Park
  37. Conesus Lake Boat Launch
  38. Connetquot River State Park Preserve
  39. Crab Island State Park
  40. Croil Island State Park (Created)
  41. Cumberland Bay State Park
  42. Darien Lakes State Park
  43. De Veaux Woods State Park
  44. Delta Lake State Park
  45. Devil's Hole State Park
  46. Dewolf Point State Park
  47. Donald J. Trump State Park
  48. Earl W. Brydges Artpark State Park
  49. Eel Weir State Park
  50. Evangola State Park
  51. Fair Haven Beach State Park
  52. Fillmore Glen State Park
  53. Fort Niagara State Park‎‎
  54. Four Mile Creek State Park
  55. Franklin D. Roosevelt State Park
  56. Franny Reese State Park (Created)
  57. Frenchman Island (Created - No longer a State Park)
  58. Galop Island State Park (Created)
  59. Gilgo State Park
  60. Glimmerglass State Park
  61. Golden Hill State Park
  62. Goosepond Mountain State Park
  63. Grafton Lakes State Park
  64. Grass Point State Park
  65. Hallock State Park Preserve (Created)
  66. Hamlin Beach State Park
  67. Harriet Hollister Spencer State Recreation Area
  68. Haverstraw Beach State Park (Created)
  69. Heckscher State Park
  70. Helen L. McNitt State Park (Created)
  71. Hempstead Lake State Park
  72. Highland Lakes State Park
  73. High Tor State Park
  74. Higley Flow State Park
  75. Hither Hills State Park
  76. Hook Mountain State Park (Created)
  77. Hudson River Islands State Park
  78. Hunts Pond State Park
  79. Iona Island State Park
  80. Irondequoit Bay State Marine Park
  81. Jacques Cartier State Park
  82. James Baird State Park
  83. Jones Beach State Park
  84. Joseph Davis State Park
  85. Keewaydin State Park
  86. Keuka Lake State Park
  87. Knox Farm State Park
  88. Kring Point State Park
  89. Lake Erie State Park
  90. Lake Superior State Park
  91. Lake Taghkanic State Park
  92. Lakeside Beach State Park
  93. Lodi Point State Park
  94. Long Point State Park – Finger Lakes
  95. Long Point State Park – Thousand Islands
  96. Long Point State Park on Lake Chautauqua
  97. Macomb Reservation State Park
  98. Mark Twain State Park
  99. Margaret Lewis Norrie State Park
  100. Mary Island State Park
  101. Max V. Shaul State Park
  102. Mexico Point State Park (Created)
  103. Mine Kill State Park
  104. Mohawk River State Park (Created)
  105. Montauk Point State Park
  106. Napeague State Park
  107. Nissequogue River State Park
  108. Nyack Beach State Park
  109. Oak Orchard State Marine Park
  110. Oquaga Creek State Park
  111. Orient Beach State Park
  112. Peebles Island State Park
  113. Pinnacle State Park and Golf Course
  114. Pixley Falls State Park
  115. Point Au Roche State Park
  116. Reservoir State Park
  117. Robert G. Wehle State Park (Created)
  118. Robert H. Treman State Park
  119. Robert Moses State Park (Long Island)
  120. Robert Moses State Park (Thousand Islands)
  121. Robert V. Riddell State Park (Created)
  122. Roberto Clemente State Park
  123. Rock Island Lighthouse State Park
  124. Rockland Lake State Park
  125. Sampson State Park
  126. Schodack Island State Park
  127. Selkirk Shores State Park
  128. Seneca Lake State Park
  129. Shadmoor State Park
  130. St. Lawrence State Park Golf Course
  131. Sterling Forest State Park
  132. Storm King State Park
  133. Strawberry Island State Park (Created)
  134. Sunken Meadow State Park
  135. Tallman Mountain State Park
  136. Taughannock Falls State Park
  137. Thompson's Lake State Park
  138. Trail View State Park
  139. Verona Beach State Park
  140. Waterson Point State Park
  141. Wellesley Island State Park
  142. Westcott Beach State Park
  143. Whetstone Gulf State Park
  144. Whirlpool State Park
  145. Wonder Lake State Park
  146. Woodlawn Beach State Park

To do

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Boat launches (low priority)

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Research

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Massapequa State Park, a former state park in Nassau County

Start date checks, per 50years, ~p10:

Basking in the accolades

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Holy smokes, somebody noticed! I tend to prefer working on unpopular articles, so this is a rare event indeed...

  The Original Barnstar
For your excellent work creating articles on the State Parks of New York state. Thanks very much for your excellent work, it is quite impressive! Carrite (talk) 14:52, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

And another! The improbability of it all boggles the (in fact, easily tired) mind.

  The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
Thanks for all your efforts with New York State parks. Beautiful photos, too! Kind regards, DA Sonnenfeld (talk) 10:40, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
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References

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  1. ^ "Schunnemunk Ridge Park, NY". Palisades Park Conservancy. Archived from the original on November 21, 2008. Retrieved October 29, 2016.
  2. ^ Natural Heritage Trust; New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation; New York State Council of Parks & Recreation (1975). Fifty Years: New York State Parks, 1924-1974. Natural Heritage Trust. p. 21.
  3. ^ National Parks Service Recreation Planning Division (December 31, 1950). State Parks: Areas, Acreages and Accommodations. U.S. Department of the Interior. p. 26. Retrieved November 21, 2015.
  4. ^ NYS Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (March 26, 2014). The New York State Statewide Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation Plan and Generic Environmental Impact Statement 2014-2019 (PDF) (Report). Retrieved May 28, 2015.
  5. ^ NYS Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (December 10, 2008). The New York State Statewide Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation Plan and Generic Environmental Impact Statement 2009-2013 (PDF) (Report). Retrieved May 28, 2015.
  6. ^ "State Park Annual Attendance Figures by Facility: Beginning 2003". Data.ny.gov. Retrieved May 27, 2015.
  7. ^ NYS Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (May 10, 2010). State Park Acquisition Record and Document Review (PDF) (Report). p. 17. Retrieved May 31, 2015.
  8. ^ "Acting Commissioner Beers' Testimony Before Assembly Standing Committee on Tourism, Parks, Arts and Sports Development; Assembly Standing Committee on Oversight, Analysis and Investigation". Parks.ny.gov. NYS Office of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation. December 13, 2010. Retrieved November 27, 2015.
  9. ^ Eisenstadt, Peter R.; Moss, Laura-Eve (2005). The Encyclopedia of New York State. Syracuse University Press. p. 1462. ISBN 9780815608080. Retrieved January 2, 2016.
  10. ^ "New York's Heartland: The development of the state parks program in central New York 1925-1950". The Preservationist. 8 (1). NYS Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation: 14–19. Spring–Summer 2004. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 27, 2008. Retrieved July 9, 2009.
  11. ^ "New York State Assembly Bill A03290 - New York State Park System Act". New York State Assembly. January 22, 2015. Retrieved April 10, 2016.