User talk:Karolina7

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Comments on your BIOL 345 proposal
My only serious concern is how you will establish a 'Neutral Point of View', since at present your main sources are promotional materials produced by YVR. For example, your list of topics matches that on the YVR sustainability page. Try to think of other airport- associated sustainability issues, ones that YVR may not be so happy to brag about. For example, what happens to all that de-icing solution they spray on planes? How do they handle spilled fuel? What about things other airports are doing but YVR is not? What do people who live near YVR (Burkeville) complain about? Are there articles in local newspapers about sustainability problems?

You should also probably plan to go out to the airport and have a good look around (i.e. not when you need to catch a plane). Take your own photos that you can use to illustrate your article.

Think carefully about whether you want this to be a separate page or a section in the current YVR page. I see that there's a big section on Accessibility but nothing on sustainability. Yunshui may be able to point you to some guidelines about this. Rosieredfield (talk) 00:33, 6 February 2014 (UTC)

Please do your composing and editing in a Wikipedia sandbox. This will help build your familiarity with Wikipedia and will also allow me to keep an eye on your progress, offering help if I think it's appropriate.


 * Hi Karolina. Just to add to what Rosie has said above, you will need to locate some sources which are independent of YVR in order to create an article - the ones in your sandbox at the moment would not be considered acceptable. Have a look at the answer to everything to get an idea of the sort of thing you'll need.
 * AFAIK we don't have any specific guidelines on sustainability in airport-related articles, though you might want to have a look at WikiProject Airports/page content to see how airport articles should be laid out. Yunshui 雲 &zwj; 水  08:54, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

Our Page
Hey Karolina! I started the template of our page, hopefully this is roughly what we were planning for it to look like lol. I created a separate sandbox for it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kaylerz/YVRsandbox So just get back to me to double check that it works and what not :)

Hey! I added the pictures I took at YVR onto our Sandbox, let me know which one's you think we should use for sure! Also, feel free to edit the descriptions and what not because I did them super fast just for the sake of being able to upload them lol. Let me know if you want me to send you any specific pictures too! --Kaylerz (talk) 06:47, 28 February 2014 (UTC)