Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Local Nature Reserves in East Sussex/archive1


 * The following is an archived discussion of a featured list nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured list candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The list was promoted by PresN via FACBot (talk) 18:21:19 23 July 2019 (UTC).

List of Local Nature Reserves in East Sussex

 * Nominator(s): Dudley Miles (talk) 19:46, 21 May 2019 (UTC)

This is the latest in my nominations of lists of Local Nature Reserves and is in the same format as FLs such as Kent and Suffolk. Dudley Miles (talk) 19:46, 21 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Comments
 * "As of February 2019, there are 26 LNRs in East Sussex" - update? We'll be in June next week
 * Updated to May. Dudley Miles (talk) 11:46, 26 May 2019 (UTC)


 * "therefore making it the 28th largest ceremonial county in the United Kingdom" - the linked article says 33rd largest. Which is correct?
 * Not sure what I did here or whether I kept an old edit. I have deleted the comparison and provided new sources for area and population. The population estimate is much lower than shown elsewhere on Wikipedia (552,000 compared with 840,000) but I have gone with the figure shown by the County Council. Dudley Miles (talk) 11:46, 26 May 2019 (UTC)


 * "This site has ancient woodland and species rich unimproved grassland" - I think "species rich" should have a hyphen (as indeed it does later on, I have just noticed).
 * Done. Dudley Miles (talk) 11:46, 26 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Think that's it from me..... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 07:51, 26 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Many thanks for the review . Dudley Miles (talk) 11:46, 26 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Support -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 21:23, 26 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Many thanks . Dudley Miles (talk) 17:01, 27 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Support – links are good, alt text is there, everything looks great. Great job to you! – zmbro (talk) 14:51, 27 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Many thanks . Dudley Miles (talk) 17:01, 27 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Local nature reserve is a common noun, and the title of this and the rest should be moved to match List of local nature reserves in Greater London and List of local nature reserves in Somerset.
 * This has been raised several times before. Local Nature Reserve is not a common noun but an official designation under the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949. It is one grade down from Site of Special Scientific Interest. Wikipedia is inconsistent whether official designations are capitalised, but in my view capitalisation is correct in order to signal to the reader that the term is a legal desigation, not a descriptive phrase. Dudley Miles (talk) 12:00, 31 May 2019 (UTC)
 * The Act never once uses the phrase "Local Nature Reserve" and "nature reserve" is always lowercase. This government page does not use capital letters. "Legal designation" is not a reason listed at Capitalization. I encountered this with List of national parks of the United States (legal designations described here) and it is quite clear that when discussing these collectively it's common, only proper when referring to a specific site.
 * The official Natural England site at uses capitalisation for Site of Special Scientific Interest and Local Nature Reserve. They are designations and no one, including you in your review of Featured list candidates/List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Surrey/archive1, has suggested lower case for SSSIs. We need to be consistent and in my view capitalisation is correct, as I said above, to signal to the reader that the phrase is an official designation, not a description. Dudley Miles (talk) 17:48, 3 June 2019 (UTC)


 * scheduled monument is also a common noun
 * Schdeduled Monument is an official designation under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979, not a common noun. Dudley Miles (talk) 12:00, 31 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Yet this act does not ever capitalize "scheduled monument". The article itself and Historic England do not agree with this. Reywas92Talk 15:55, 31 May 2019 (UTC)
 * I accept that the argument for capitalisation is weaker here as the official site does not capitalise, but I think we need to be consistent and for the reasons above it is better to capitalise. Dudley Miles (talk) 17:48, 3 June 2019 (UTC)


 * byelaws is not hyphenated Reywas92Talk 06:50, 29 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Corrected. Dudley Miles (talk) 12:00, 31 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Many thanks for your review . Dudley Miles (talk) 12:00, 31 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your further comments . There are obviously arguments on both sides and we may have to agree to disagree on this. Dudley Miles (talk) 17:48, 3 June 2019 (UTC)


 * Support my concerns addressed. The Rambling Man (REJOICE!) 11:20, 22 July 2019 (UTC)

Source review passed; promoting. -- Pres N  18:21, 23 July 2019 (UTC)


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