Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Forests


 * The following discussion is an archived proposal of the WikiProject below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the project's talk page (if created) or the WikiProject Council).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The proposed WikiProject was not created

Description
ProjectDescription Rougieux (talk) 18:39, 4 May 2012 (UTC)


 * List of important pages and categories for this proposed group
 * old growth forests (109 pages in this category)
 * forests by country (73 Sub-Categories in this category)
 * old growth forests (109 pages in this category)
 * forests by country (73 Sub-Categories in this category)
 * old growth forests (109 pages in this category)
 * forests by country (73 Sub-Categories in this category)


 * List of WikiProjects currently on the talk pages of those articles
 * Please invite these and any other similar groups to join the discussion about this proposal. See WikiProject_Council/Directory to find similar WikiProjects.



The convention on biological diversity mentions that 1.2 billion people on earth depend on forests for their livelihood.
 * Why do you want to start a new group, instead of joining one of these existing groups?


 * 1) Other projects on Environment or Ecology are very broad in scope. Forests are a world for themselves :-)
 * 2) When I first created this page, I didn't know about WikiProject Forestry. Forestry focuses on forest management and conservation, the focus might seem too technical to users interested in other aspects of forests. If there is a wider community interested by forests, it would be nice to gather around a wiki project named "forest". The word "forest" alone is more likely to attract editors from biology, geography and social sciences.

Support
Please specify whether or not you would join the project.
 * 1) Rougieux (talk) 18:39, 4 May 2012 (UTC)

Discussion
To group efforts around articles related to forests and give an overview in the portal:forest. See Portal:Forest/Categories, there are many categories related to forests that would gain from visibility, forests are a very interesting cross-cultural topic. Hope someone will be interested to contribute. --Rougieux (talk) 18:39, 4 May 2012 (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 project's talk page (if created) or at the WikiProject Council). No further edits should be made to this page.