Talk:List of Missouri conservation areas

Size of the full list
By the data I've found, there are 843 conservation areas. That makes for a very long list. I'm working on a way to programatically generate the full list as a table. I can include map links with °N, °W templates, and if I get ambitions I might use the coordinates to automatically determine county, and the county will identify the region. Unfortunately, the data does not include acreage as a property. If anyone who comes across this note has any suggestions on how to optimize the display of 843 entries, please let me know (here, and on my talk page). The full list, by the way, includes many small river and lake accesses. I'm pulling it from the KML file the department publishes on their website. --Kbh3rd talk  02:53, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

Full list (almost) in multiple articles by region
I've just finished uploading the list of conservation areas into 8 articles by conservation region, and adapted this article to that new reality. NOTE: Because of a couple of typos in the data I used to drive the scripts I wrote to generate all this, there are about 4 or 5 counties missing. I will adjust and re-run the scripts. I recommend not editing the table contents for now, or it will get overwritten when I update the lists. --Kbh3rd talk 01:30, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I've fixed that problem, and added metric conversion of area sizes while at it. Feel free to fix/enhance descriptions, and to wikilink rivers, species, etc., in the descriptions. --Kbh3rd talk  02:56, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

Claim of fair use for area descriptions
The short one- or two-line descriptions for each area were taken from the KML file published by the Conservation Department, and works of the State of Missouri are subject to copyright by the state. I claim fair use for the content incorporated in these lists on these grounds: --Kbh3rd talk 01:30, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
 * The Missouri Conservation Department does not derive any revenue from the sale of this information, so no monetary harm is done to the state by the use of the information here.
 * The information is published in mutiple places by the Department in order to broaden knowledge of its resources and programs; including the information here furthers the goals of the Department without any cost or burden to the Department or state.
 * Only the brief introductory paragraph from the description of each area, consisting of at most a few sentences, is included here. A link is provided to the Department's online Conservation Atlas for those interested in finding more information.  This usage is analogous to online news aggregators' use of blurbs of copyrighted text under the fair-use provisions of U.S copyright law.]
 * The few sentences used, per area, are plain, descriptive prose with no artistic content; there is likely not a substantially different way to state the same information.

Dead links
As originally written by Kbh3rd, these lists cited numerous pages on the mdc4.mdc.mo.gov server. The Missouri Department of Conservation has since redone their website and no longer uses that designation, which rendered all of the citations as dead links. Most of the Conservation Areas have pdf information brochures, the others such as Access Areas and Community Lakes usually have a brief information page. Some do not. All of these references need to be reviewed. I started on the List of Missouri conservation areas – Central region page, but as Kbh3rd remarked above there are over 840 Conservation Areas, so I may pause or stop after finishing the central region. --Bejnar (talk) 06:19, 14 February 2017 (UTC)

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