Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of nature reserves in Sri Lanka


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was delete and redirect to Protected areas of Sri Lanka. Spartaz Humbug! 20:04, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

List of nature reserves in Sri Lanka

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Contents seem to be a duplicate of List of national parks of Sri Lanka. Obi2canibe (talk) 17:38, 3 March 2018 (UTC)
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 * It is a duplicate of List of national parks of Sri Lanka. I would say A10, but it's hardly recent. Prince of Thieves (talk) 19:26, 3 March 2018 (UTC) — Striking per WP: SOCKSTRIKE. --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 00:54, 24 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Redirect to List of national parks of Sri Lanka as a plausible search term. If one were to list "nature reserves" specifically, surely this would only possess enough due weight to be a part of the national parks list unless specific independent notability were established.   Red Phoenix  talk  19:52, 3 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Nature reserves and national parks are not the same thing, they are completely separate designations. Prince of Thieves (talk) 19:54, 3 March 2018 (UTC) — Striking per WP: SOCKSTRIKE. --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 00:54, 24 March 2018 (UTC)


 * Redirect [was "Keep" but see my comment below] I too would think that Nature reserves are different than National parks, from usage elsewhere in the world, though there could be overlapping areas. But why does the current list of nature reserves only list places named X National Park?  Seems like some development is needed, and/or tagging for improvement.  The two lists are NOT duplicates. --Doncram (talk) 22:14, 3 March 2018 (UTC)
 * From this Sri Lanka Safari .Com source, there is Sinharaja Rain Forest and five other forest reserves, marine sanctuaries, etc., which seem to be nature reserves and which are not named "National Park". --Doncram (talk) 22:18, 3 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Protected areas of Sri Lanka has sections which explain the difference between parks vs. reserves, having to do with public access allowed or not. Since Nature Reserves seem to be a thing, it is fine to have a list of them, with pictures and sources and so on. --Doncram (talk) 22:21, 3 March 2018 (UTC)
 * There seems to have been move-warring/edit-warring going on with the article, where one editor is changing "Nature Reserve" to "nature reserve" in the article title and another changing the other way. There is a content dispute and behavioural stuff going on.  AFD is probably not the right venue for dealing with this. --Doncram (talk) 22:29, 3 March 2018 (UTC)
 * The dispute was two years ago, not necessarily an issue here. But good one on the research about the difference between parks and reserves. Prince of Thieves (talk) 22:40, 3 March 2018 (UTC) — Striking per WP: SOCKSTRIKE. --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 00:54, 24 March 2018 (UTC)


 * Blow up and start over per WP:TNT. This is currently a list of national parks, all of which are already in List of national parks of Sri Lanka. Nature reserves, Strict Nature Reserves, Forest Reserves, Marine Reserves, etc. (e.g. Hurulu Forest Reserve, Hakgala Strict Nature Reserve, Sinharaja Forest Reserve, not currently listed) are apparently separate designations distinct from national parks, as explained here and here. Clarityfiend (talk) 02:18, 5 March 2018 (UTC)
 * The map is also mislabeled. It shows national parks, not forest reserves. Clarityfiend (talk) 00:47, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete or redirect to Protected areas of Sri Lanka. Aside from all the issues I've enumerated, Protected areas of Sri Lanka covers pretty much the same ground (and much more) in much better detail. Clarityfiend (talk) 01:04, 9 March 2018 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, TonyBallioni (talk) 02:39, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep The topic is clearly notable per WP:LISTN – see Sri Lanka Ecology, Nature Protection Laws and Regulations Handbook. There are a variety of designations for protected areas.  These are clearly not the same as national parks and, even if they were, it would not be a reason to delete.  AfD is not cleanup. Andrew D. (talk) 11:50, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Comment, so at the moment we have Protected areas of Sri Lanka, List of national parks of Sri Lanka, and List of nature reserves in Sri Lanka, as a general wikireader if i am interested in this subject i want to be able to go to one wikipage and not worry about the official nuanced definitions between a protected area, national park, or nature reserve (let alone State forests?:)), do we really need 3 articles that could be covered by 1 with appropriate redirects? Coolabahapple (talk) 22:40, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
 * I propose we merge all three to Protected areas of Sri Lanka leaving redirects. Prince of Thieves (talk) 22:44, 11 March 2018 (UTC) — Striking per WP: SOCKSTRIKE. --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 00:54, 24 March 2018 (UTC)
 * I'd prefer to keep the national parks list intact and linked as it currently is from Protected areas (due to size considerations, among other things), but the latter is by far the best article. Nature reserves is definitely the runt of the litter. Clarityfiend (talk) 00:01, 12 March 2018 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Comment I !voted "Keep" above, but am changing to "Redirect".  Perhaps the List of nature reserves should redirect to Protected_areas of Sri Lanka which explicitly lists about 6 nature reserves.  It is not too long a list to require splitting out. --Doncram (talk) 21:42, 12 March 2018 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  Sandstein   09:32, 18 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Merge to protected areas of Sri Lanka. FloridaArmy (talk) 16:21, 18 March 2018 (UTC)
 * But there's no material to merge, so redirect is the correct decision, IMHO. The current list covers just national parks, and just provides their year of creation and their area (in acres and in hectares, oddly in two separate columns rather than using convert template in one column).  All that and more is in List of national parks of Sri Lanka, which is effectively a sub-article of the protected area list-article. --Doncram (talk) 17:43, 18 March 2018 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: Final relist to enable a firm consensus to form.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Exemplo347 (talk) 13:56, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete per nomination. At best, merge per recommendations by Clarityfiend and Coolabahapple. -The Gnome (talk) 19:54, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Technically there is a difference between merge and redirect. Merge requires there to be content to be merged, not present here.  I believe Clarityfiend is supporting redirect to the protected areas list.  Sorry about the repetition, but this AFD seems bizarre to me. --Doncram (talk) 16:54, 29 March 2018 (UTC)


 * Merge to List of national parks of Sri Lanka as most of the list entries share the words national park in their titles. Ajf773 (talk) 20:22, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
 * But that makes no sense! The topic "list of nature reserves in Sri Lanka" should redirect to the existing list of nature reserves (within the protected areas list, as Clarifyfiend suggests), not to a different list.  And the content, a list of national parks, is already in the list of national parks, so there is nothing to merge.  I dunno why this would be suggested. --Doncram (talk) 16:50, 29 March 2018 (UTC)


 * Comment If article is redirected or merged, it should be to its parent article Protected areas of Sri Lanka.--Obi2canibe (talk) 17:37, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Good enough. I honestly can't justify why i keep checking back here.  That comment seems to support redirect or merge, and there is nothing to merge, so IMHO it supports "redirect". --Doncram (talk) 23:47, 31 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Yes, you're right, there's nothing to merge. Redirect it is.--Obi2canibe (talk) 18:31, 1 April 2018 (UTC)


 * Redirect to Protected areas of Sri Lanka, as per the points raised above. Dan arndt (talk) 23:41, 1 April 2018 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.