Talk:Alberta Environment

Reviewed
The article Alberta Environment was reviewed by User:DragonflySixtyseven July 2014.oceanflynn 14:54, 18 July 2014 (UTC)

Agencies
I am working on adding content with inline citations regarding individual agencies. This is not a complete section yet.oceanflynn 17:38, 23 July 2014 (UTC)

Edited Article
I created the articles Alberta Environment on 19 June 2014 and Alberta Energy Regulator on 24 June 2014. By October 2014 the article Alberta Environment had 29 edits, 14,119 bytes, about eight articles linked to it, many wikilinks, about six sections and more subsections, an info box and over a dozen solid references with inline editing and inline citations. On 19 October 2014, a new user Alberta Brian (talk) cut and deleted the entire contents of the Alberta Environment article and pasted it into a "new" article he created entitled Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development. He did this to reflect the 2012 merger of Alberta Environmentand Energy Resources Conservation Board ERCB) into the new Environment and Sustainable Resource Development department. Little was added to the article when it was renamed. By creating a new article instead of renaming the original article, the history of 29 edit summaries of the original article was deleted and the original article was reduced to one sentence and as is noted, it is now underlinked. I am sure there is some kind of protocol when government departments undergo mergers and name changes whereby the original article is renamed and there is an automatic redirect for those who search for Alberta Environment (443 people since the change) as opposed to 177 visits to the Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development article)? I propose the deleted content be restored to the Alberta Environment article and the name be changed to Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development to reflect the merger with redirects from the original name Alberta Environment to this newly named article. Then the "new" October 2014 article Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development, can be deleted. Any changes made since October can be added to the renamed article. Alberta Environment has been cited many times as the development of the oil sands became highlighted in the news internationally. This article should not be gutted.Oceanflynn (talk) 17:31, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
 * I created the new page and deleted the old one to reflect the fact that Alberta Environment no longer exists, and describing the current department as such is incorrect. Listings of incorrect or slang titles for the department could be added to the existing article, but to misname the article to reflect these inaccuracies is counterproductive and misleading. There was an Alberta Environment department for many years so it would be more accurate to recreate that page to discuss the history of the department as it existed in the past and include a link to the new page. User:Alberta Brian

Request for comments
DragonflySixtyseven (talk) Bgwhite (talk) Could you please advise on the above? Thank you.Oceanflynn (talk) 17:38, 8 January 2015 (UTC)