Talk:List of protected areas of British Columbia

BC Parks Template
I have a template I use when expanding the stubs. You still have to do a bit of editing after using the template, but I find it saves quite a bit of time. I keep the editing page open, as well as the official BC Parks page for the park in question.

You can find the actual code for the template at Template:BCParks Boilerplate.

Table of Contents
It tried a different style of TOC, the advantage is compact general TOC with alphabetic TOC for sections; disadvantage: the top table of contents is manual, not automatic. Revert if you think it looks bad. Qyd(talk)23:57, 10 April 2006 (UTC)


 * I was getting used to its look ... but discovered it doesn't work properly. Clicking on any of the alphabetic TOC links under any of the section below Provincial Park (i.e. Protected Area) will bring you "up" the page to the corresponding letter under Provincial Park. Not the desired result for the action. So am reverting to the previous style. --Dogbreathcanada 06:43, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Protected Areas and Ecological Reserves
I've only stubbed the Provincial Parks, Conservancies, Recreation Areas, and Heritage Parks. I've not created stub entries for the Protected Areas or the Ecological Reserves. The reason is mainly notability. Not sure if a Protected Area (or Ecological Reserve) is notable enough to merit a Wiki entry. Anyone agree/disagree? Mind you, there's enough work at the moment with the Provincial Parks alone, that we can always return to this question at a later date. --Dogbreathcanada 07:27, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Waste
All of the subsidiary pages, of this page, are a waste of space on wikipedia. I will maintain that this page may be useful and beneficial I do believe that every park DOES NOT need its own page. There is no need to have a page for every single park that exists in BC (especially when many are insignificant), nor in any land. MBob 23:29, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I agree with you. However, there are about a dozen subsidiary pages that have real legit articles, but unfortunately its very difficult to locate them now that there are stub article for hundreds. I think the stubs should be removed and only be recreated if/when someone actually intends to create an article for it. A list of actual non-stubs can be seen in this old version of the canadian provincial park article (although, even back then there were several stubs) Kilrogg 04:40, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
 * OK at the beginning of my post I did say that ALL of the pages are a waste of space, that was a mistake. I believe more in my second or third statement of "I do believe that every park DOES NOT need its own page.  There is no need to have a page for every single park that exists in BC."  With that being said I will redefine my opinion as this "Not every park that exists (in BC) deserves a wikipedia article about it," and I completely agree with Kilroggs comment of "I think the stubs should be removed and only be recreated if/when someone actually intends to create an article for it." MBob 05:05, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

aight but still would it be okay to have a comprehensive list with simply the names in black and not linking to other articles?? TotallyTempo 01:55, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Sumas Mountain Provincial Park
According to BCGNIS - here - there is a Sumas Mtn Provincial Park, but I can't find it on the BC Parks page; BCGNIS is usually pretty good about updating - could this have been transferred ot hte City of Abbotsford or the FVRD as is the case with other parks in various palces being transferred to a muni/rd? Leaving it on the list for now; if someone can resolve this please amend Sumas Mountain (British Columbia) with the information.Skookum1 (talk) 15:51, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

add former parks section
I want to add a subsection at the bottom for former parks. This list-article has long had explicit direction in the lede, that "Any parks that are closed are not listed." However, it seems helpful to list former parks. I come to this from the ongoing AFD for one article, about Kledo Creek Provincial Park, which is currently listed in this list-article. It turns out that the park was de-commissioned in 2006, and there is not a lot of independent coverage about the park. It would seem helpful possibly to redirect from the article name to an appropriate section here, where brief mention can be provided, rather than having a separate article about it. Any other former parks can be listed, too. This would avoid the list-article from being "directory-like" (wp:NOTDIRECTORY) in that the list can cover notable former parks too. For many former parks and for many current parks, there can be just a mention here, without a link to an article, if the item is not clearly individually notable (consistent with sentiment in "Waste" talk page section above from several years ago). Any comments? If no comments, i'll go ahead and add sections in a few days probably. Hope this meets with agreement, but I am afraid there's not much activity here. -- do ncr  am  20:25, 17 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Actually i jumped ahead and just boldly added the section and changed the lede. Happy to discuss or be reverted and discuss. -- do  ncr  am  23:00, 17 September 2014 (UTC)

Table format
I'm also jumping into converting the list into a table format, to add more info including coordinates, so that the list is more useful. Starting with trying to add location (coordinates) and area of park and date established. Is there any good list of parks elsewhere to use as a model? Suggestions welcome. -- do ncr  am  23:03, 17 September 2014 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure that, with the amount of parks and protected spaces listed here, that a column with pictures is appropriate. These would be more appropriate in subject articles. I would advocate for their removal here. I would also advocate for all parks, protected areas, conservancies, and eco reserves to be listed in a single table. The table can include a column to denote which category they fall under. -- Natural  R X 21:32, 24 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Given the outdated nature of this article and the over-arching list purposes as per WP:LISTS, I am being bold and forging ahead. -- Natural  R X 16:32, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

Requested move 21 July 2016

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: Move unopposed. (non-admin closure) — Andy W.  ( talk  · ctb) 00:42, 30 July 2016 (UTC)

List of British Columbia Provincial Parks → List of protected areas of British Columbia – I have tried to boldly move this myself, but List of protected areas of British Columbia used to be a redirect to List of municipal and regional parks in British Columbia. This required a technical speedy delete, but in the two times I have attempted to do this, the admins do the exact opposite of what I'm trying to do. So I am doing an RM here to try and explain my case out in detail to prevent confusion, and get community consensus.

All other Canadian provincial and territorial lists of provincial parks are formatted with the same title: "List of protected areas of [province/territory]". I am expanding these lists to include other "protected areas" that are not "provincial parks", but are designated and maintain with similar protections, by similar agencies, as part of the broader provincial/territorial system. I have proposed deleting the redirect so that this article, "List of British Columbia Provincial Parks" could be moved to "List of protected areas of British Columbia" and therefore become consistent with other provincial and territorial lists. I have also ruled out merging the two due to the sheer size of content. -- Natural  R X 13:57, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: fulfilling this requested move will also require the undoing of the move by, who was the admin that misunderstood my G6 request, and moved List of municipal and regional parks in British Columbia to List of protected areas of British Columbia, which was not what I wanted to accomplish. -- Natural  R X 13:59, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Courtesy ping before I close this. I believe the moves are correct. — Andy W.  ( talk  · ctb) 00:41, 30 July 2016 (UTC)


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