Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/National Parks of the United Kingdom


 * 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
A WikiProject designed to improve the coverage of National Parks in the UK including all the individual national parks of the UK, matters to do with the parks (e.g.fracking, building in national parks, development) and other things that are related to the parks. In the future, this WikiProject could get child WikiProjects or task forces for the individual national parks (like there are individual WikiProjects for English counties, like Wiltshire or Warwickshire), this would help this WikiProject expand and stay active.  Seagull123  Φ  13:51, 30 June 2015 (UTC)

List of important pages and categories for this proposed group
 * national parks of the united kingdom (number of pages in the category: 6 )
 * geography of the united kingdom (number of pages in the category: 40 )
 * conservation in the united kingdom (number of pages in the category: 87 )
 * lists of national parks (number of pages in the category: 100 )
 * national parks of the united kingdom (number of pages in the category: 6 )
 * geography of the united kingdom (number of pages in the category: 40 )
 * conservation in the united kingdom (number of pages in the category: 87 )
 * lists of national parks (number of pages in the category: 100 )
 * lists of national parks (number of pages in the category: 100 )


 * 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.




 * Why do you want to start a new group, instead of joining one of these existing groups?
 * The other WikiProjects are too general and vague to properly deal with UK national park matters, while this WikiProject would be the right size to spend enough time dealing with these matters.

Support
Also, specify whether or not you would join the project.
 * 1)  Seagull123  Φ  13:51, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
 * 2) --Fadesga (talk) 01:58, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Discussion
Having worked on the Exmoor article and briefly looked at the other relevant articles, I think this may be too specific for a separate wikiproject. I believe there are 13 national parks in England and Wales and a couple in Scotland, and therefore I would suggest this might work better as a task force of WikiProject UK geography. An alternative might be to include Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty which are more numerous, but have a lower level of protection and face similar development and conservation issues (eg proposed fracking on the Mendip Hills). I doubt if there would be enough editors interested in the specific of National Parks to make this a viable project.&mdash; Rod talk 16:10, 30 June 2015 (UTC)


 * I agree that this seems like an overly specific WikiProject and would be adequately covered within WP UK geography and/or WP Protected areas. Fredlyfish4 (talk) 17:03, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
 * I concur with the above. I think a taskforce would be more appropriate - if there is a dedicated group of editors interested in this. I can help set up a taskforce as part of WikiProject Protected areas, but general UK geography (i.e. outside protected areas) wouldn't be part of it. -- ELEKHHT 03:07, 12 July 2015 (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.