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Introduction

Since a few years I have been wanting to put together a parks & reserves database, but I never came around to doing it. I wanted it to be thorough with names, locations, sizes, descriptions, maps and lots of other data. A great opportunity to achieve that and to share it with other people is given by Wikipedia. On this page you will find a tentative proposal for a WikiProject Protected Areas. Lots of things will probably still have to be discussed.
Please remember that these are only suggestions. In Wikipedia nobody can be forced into following certain methods or procedures. The goal of this project, like others, is to provide a way of organizing information about a particular subject. But if you want to follow a completely different way to do that, please go ahead. Your way is probably as good as this one, if not better.

Title

WikiProject Protected Areas

Scope

This WikiProject aims to provide information on all Protected Areas (from now on called PA’s) in the world. A PA as defined by The World Conservation Union (IUCN) is An area of land and/or sea especially dedicated to the protection and maintenance of biological diversity, and of natural and associated cultural resources, and managed through legal or other effective means. National parks are probably the best-known PA’s, but there are many other categories.

Parentage

None defined yet.

Descendant WikiProjects

None defined yet.

Structure

There shall be four article levels in this WikiProject:

  • Level 1: An article called "Protected area" shall discuss PA’s in general, as opposed to any particular PA. Since a PA is almost always associated with one country, it will provide an alphabetical list (with links) of countries that have PA’s. An extra item "International Protected Areas" will be added to the list for PA's that are shared by two or more countries.
  • Level 2: These articles shall discuss a particular country’s PA’s in general. It shall have an alphabetical list of PA types (such as National Park, Wildlife Sanctuary, ... / no links) which exist in that country, followed by a description. For each type (or combination of types) the existing PA’s will be listed alphabetically (with links). For a PA that lies in a dependent territory of that country a mention shall be made of that territory.
  • Level 3: In countries where all or part of the PA’s are not managed on a country level the level 2 articles will contain an alphabetical list of the states/provinces/... (with links) that manage the PA’s. The links to which they point shall be the level 3 articles. They shall have the same structure as the level 2 articles.
  • Level 4: These shall be the actual PA articles.

Formatting

Formatting of the level 1 article ("Protected area")

  • A general description;
  • A list of countries that have PA's (with links in the "Protected areas of X" format);
  • A link to the page "International protected areas".

Formatting of level 2 articles

  • A general description;
  • A list of PA types with a short explanation;
  • A list of PA's per PA type;
  • A list of states/provinces/... for PA's which are managed on that level (with links in the "Protected areas of X" format).

For a test article see: Protected areas of Australia

Formatting of level 3 articles

  • A general description;
  • A list of PA types with a short explanation (if that explanation differs from the explanation given on country level);
  • A list of PA's per PA type.

For a test article see: Protected areas of the Australian Capital Territory

Formatting of level 4 articles

  • A description. This should at least contain the PA's location ([state/province/...] (where applicable), [country name], [distance and direction from (a) major or well known city/cities]) and its main features/points of interest. If available, a map and one or more photos can be included;
  • A fact sheet containing:
    • Size: x ha (y acres) or x acres (y ha);
    • Date of establishment:;
    • Former name/type: name/type (period);
    • Managing authorities:;
    • IUCN category:;
    • UN World Heritage Area: year of inscription or "no";
  • References and dates (if the reference is a hardcopy, the date of publication shall be mentioned, if it is an online source, the date it was checked).

For a test article see: Namadgi National Park

Directory of participants

Anybody interested?

[1997 United Nations List of Protected Areas]
[National Parks Worldwide]
[The World Heritage List]

To be discussed

  • What if there are PA’s of the same type and with the same name in different countries/states/provinces/... ? => Disambiguation pages are probably the best solution.
  • Do we really need acres and miles? A discussion about that is going on in WikiProject Countries.
  • And probably lots of other stuff...

Note: Some consultation with the participants of WikiProject Countries is going on, since there are points of contact with the country articles (in particular level 2).

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