Talk:State park/Archive 1

Proposed merge with Provincial park
Two articles, same topic; much of provincial park can be added as a 'Canada' section within state park. DA Sonnenfeld (talk) 09:11, 9 October 2016 (UTC)


 * Support generally, though the title of the unified article should be chosen carefully to avoid perceived US-centrism. Glancing down the list of examples at Federated state, "states" seems to be the most common term used to describe second-tier polities. The two articles have enough overlap that it doesn't make much sense to maintain them separately. This may also encourage a more world-wide view of the subject to emerge here, who knows.One possibly more inclusive term is regional park, though those may be managed by lower government entities than states/provinces, and just doesn't quite seem right for some reason. (And I have my own merger proposal going over there, which I admit I completely forgot about.) Antepenultimate (talk) 01:14, 11 October 2016 (UTC)


 * Oppose, weakly. The current version of this article is hopelessly US-centric. Most countries have equivalents. They are often called state parks, but in France or Colombia they are departmental parks, in Italy regional parks and so on. I would prefer a short article here that discusses the general concept, maybe refers to IUCN definitions and so on, but stays away from country specifics. Then for each country, including the US, have an article on state parks or the equivalent, discussing legal status, history, perhaps a list of parks. This article would provide an index to the country-specific articles. The article on Provincial park should move to Provincial park (Canada) - other countries have provinces. A chunk of this article should be split out to State Park (US) - many other countries have state parks, too many to be covered in one article. Aymatth2 (talk) 23:42, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

“Number of parks“ graphic
Something is a little off here. Alaska’s state park system has over 100 separate units, not fewer than 10. Possibly this graphic does not consider state recreation areas, recreation sites, historic sites, and marine recreation areas? If so that should be made clear as Alaska’s state park system is actually the largest in the U.S. by a very substantial margin. Beeblebrox (talk) 21:02, 6 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Upon closer inspection, this was created at Commons by a user who was active for one day, six years ago. So, it seems unlikely that any clarification of the methodology involved will be forthcoming and the image is likely to be WP:OR as well, so it probably shouldn’t be used in articles at all. Beeblebrox (talk) 21:09, 6 July 2018 (UTC)
 * That took a minute but it has now been deleted. Beeblebrox (talk) 20:18, 13 August 2018 (UTC)

"refimprove' template, Janaury 2018
A "refimprove' template have been added to the article because there are no citations supporting statements defining what a state park is.  Regards Cowdy001 (talk) 20:14, 17 January 2018 (UTC)