Talk:Office of Conservation Science

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Statedcnr (talk) 13:17, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

I will be adding a page for a Pennsylvania State Department on Wikipedia. Some in the office are concerned about the page being edited by other users since we are a state agency and the information we are presenting represents the state. There have been some other PA state agency pages that were changed and incorrect information was provided. Can we have this page protected so only we can make edits (once the page has been established)?

Also, I wanted to add an image and logo to the page, but from what I have read, I would need to be an autoconfirmed user before I can do that. Is there anyway around this or can someone else load the image so we can have it on our page? Statedcnr (talk) 13:43, 31 October 2008 (UTC) Statedcnr (talk) 19:26, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Regarding your first question, no, we can't do that. By being "autoconfirmed" your account has to be active for at least a week and have at least 20 (I think that's the number) edits to article space. Ten Pound Hammer  and his otters • (Broken clamshells • Otter chirps • HELP) 13:59, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

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Redirect
I believe this article should be redirected to Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. OCS appears to be simply an administrative subdivsion of DCNR, and after scrapping the advertisement/educational brochurey sections, what little bit we're left with turns out to be pretty much unverifiable. The Office of Conservation Science doesn't even have its own web page on the DCNR site (at least that I could find), and the mention of overseeing the Pennsylvania Natural Heritage Program and Wild Resource Conservation Program, which is pretty much the only notable part of the article, doesn't appear to be true (or at least verifiable). Neither the Wild Resource Conservation site or the PNHP site mention OCS, so we're really left with nothing much at all here. Sheep NotGoats  (Talk) 20:36, 31 May 2009 (UTC)