Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Biodiversity, Protected areas & Environment of India

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Help expand following stub class articles

 * WWF-India (Stub class, needs to be worked upon)

Atulsnischal (talk) 14:33, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Categories For Discussion: change from Protected areas "of" India to Protected areas "in" India
Hi to members of this wikiproject. I have been doing what I thought was non-controversial cleanup work within WikiProject Protected Areas WP:PAREAS on the Protected areas in the United States.

There is an ongoing "Categories For Discussion" proposal to rename a whole bunch of U.S. subcategories to use "Protected areas of" the U.S. or "of" a given U.S. state, rather than "in" the U.S. or subregion. The discussion is here: Categories for discussion/Log/2008 May 9. It was pointed out that these renames would be inconsistent with categories in other nations. I plan to expand the CFD proposal, or create a new one, to propose changing "Protected areas of Australia" to "Protected areas in Australia", and the same for other countries. I don't want to step on toes, but this should apply also to rename Category:Protected areas of India to Category:Protected areas in India, and make corresponding changes "of" to "in" for various subcategories, so I want to give you notice here before and/or while I compose the proposal. I will watch / participate in discussion here.

The basic reasoning: "Protected areas" is a designation of a world-wide body, the IUCN, and no nation designates Protected Areas, so I believe that it is proper to describe "Protected areas in" a given nation or subregion, rather than Protected areas of the nation. Nations do designate their own National Parks and National Monuments and so on, so it is proper to say "National Parks of the United States" or other nation, but National Parks are not "of" a subregion so there should be subcategories like National Parks in Alabama (a U.S. state).

The implementation would all be done automatically, by a bot that will implement the rename for all articles in any affected category. A notice of proposed change of category name will be posted in each category, so that adequate notice will be given to anyone maintaining/watching any affected category.

By the way, a big batch of category renames was done for U.S. National Historic Landmarks "of" any given state to National Historic Landmarks "in" the given state, a few months ago.

I hope this should be recognized as an improvement or neutral, and not be problematic. Please do comment! doncram (talk) 01:35, 12 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Please see Categories for discussion/Log/2008 May 13 which proposes renames for various categories of protected areas in India, as well as much more. doncram (talk) 20:31, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Kindly assist in developing these articles

 * Kashmir stag
 * Pygmy hog
 * Wild Asian Water Buffalo

Thanks

Atulsnischal (talk) 02:07, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

WP:INDIA Tagging with TinucherianBot
TinucherianBot can automatically tag articles with WP India Banner as to the talk page of articles without the project banner. It can also add the workgroup paramaters like "|kerala=yes|kerala-importance=" etc ,if needed. The currently supported workgroups are Kerala,  Maharashtra,  Andhra pradesh, Tamil Nadu,  Gujarat, Bengal, Goa, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka , Punjab,cities,  Cinema, Literature, Protected Areas of India, History, Politics, states, Geography,Maps,Districts and Tamil.

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 * My bot will run on the categories in WikiProject Protected areas of India/AutoTagging regularly or upon request. Should be need any more categories to be added, Discuss here and add them. --  TinuCherian  (Wanna Talk?) - 11:34, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Watchlists
To help this workgroup patrol existing articles for vandalism/recent changes, Ganeshbot has created the WikiProject Protected areas of India/Articles page. This page will be updated on a regular basis. Please do remind me if I forget. :) It contains articles that were tagged with the India banner and fall under the scope of this workgroup. Please let me know in case of any questions. Thanks, Ganeshk  ( talk ) 11:35, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

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User:WolterBot has created a WikiProject Protected areas of India/Cleanup listing page; it contains the articles that fall under the scope this workgroup and have cleanup tags on them. See this page for more information on this works. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks, Ganeshk  ( talk ) 04:04, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

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Congratulations to team
Kaziranga National Park is "Today's featured article" on English Wikipedia main page.

Atulsnischal (talk) 07:04, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

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stub template
What is the stub template for Protected areas of India? Could not find it out. Thanks. --GDibyendu (talk) 12:27, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

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Problem with Infobox Indian Jurisdtction template?
Is there a problem with the Indian Jurisdiction infobox? Am presently trying to improve Namdapha National Park article and was looking around for infoboxes to steal, but the good ones (like in Eaglenest Wildlife Sanctuary & Kaziranga National Park) have some stray code displaying on the top. Can somebody look into this? prashanthns (talk) 08:08, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Reported in the talk page of the template.--GDibyendu (talk) 15:42, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks!prashanthns (talk) 07:17, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

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Banni grasslands
Kindly help improve this article I created in time.

Thanks mrigthrishna (talk) 03:24, 23 December 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Banni grasslands
....... Just for information, the above article received this from DYK (Pasted from my talk page).

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After we finish betterment work article by article, we can make some DYK suggestions here: Template talk:Did you know, to feature it on wikipedia main page.

mrigthrishna (talk) 20:43, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

Chari-Dhand Wetland Conservation Reserve
Kindly help improve this article in time too.

Thanks mrigthrishna (talk) 07:20, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

Rann of Kutch
Kindly help improve coverage from this area; Separate articles need to be created for (will need good map/satellite images when possible):

1) Greater Rann of Kutch 2) Little Rann of Kutch

NOTE: Also articles for all major wildlife and bird sanctuaries in this area have to be created/improved as and when possible.


 * Kutch Desert Wildlife Sanctuary
 * Narayan Sarovar Sanctuary
 * Kutch Bustard Sanctuary
 * Indian Wild Ass Sanctuary


 * Indian Wild Ass would be another article from the area. While here might as well improve Kiang, the Tibetan wild ass article, specially it's range and include Ladakh in India as well in Kiang's range.

Thanks mrigthrishna (talk) 06:03, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

mrigthrishna (talk) 13:32, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

MAKING A "MAP" FOR WIKIPEDIA

We need a MAP of Gujarat clearly showing: 1) Great Rann of Kutch 2) Little Rann of Kutch This wikipedia map of Gujarat can be used on both separated articles 1) & 2)

To make this map please refer to the map in the following article among others that can be found:
 * Bounties of a bleak landscape - The Little Rann of Kutch is hot, dry and salty, but it has rich biodiversity. by DIONNE BUNSHA; Volume 23 - Issue 08 :: Apr. 22 - May 05, 2006; Frontline Magazine; India's National Magazine from the publishers of THE HINDU

Kindly request appropriate "wikipedia map makers" to create this map.

mrigthrishna (talk) 21:03, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

Hispid Hare & Indian Hare
Kindly help improve this article about the rarest of mammals Hispid here/Assam Rabbit from India.

Looks like article on common Indian Hare is a stub till now too.

mrigthrishna (talk) 02:42, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Database

 * ENVIS Centre: Wildlife & Protected Areas (Secondary Database); Wildlife Institute of India (WII)

mrigthrishna (talk) 20:31, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

Improve article Karvi shrub
If u have some reference books kindly improve this article I created with some scientific references. We need a photo Gallery for this one too.

Thanks

mrigthrishna (talk) 20:31, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

This article needs a/some photos.

mrigthrishna (talk) 01:03, 20 February 2010 (UTC)

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 * If we work or notice the work of other editors who have been doing great work on this theme, kindly leave an invite on their talk page requesting them to also join this project.

mrigthrishna (talk) 01:03, 20 February 2010 (UTC)

1) Ecologically Sensitive Areas/Ecologically Fragile Areas (India) & 2) Buffer zones (India)
Hi

When u get time, can u develop above articles or write ups regarding India to include in the list of protected areas and elsewhere. Also see, , ,

mrigthrishna (talk) 19:24, 20 February 2010 (UTC)

Unreferenced living people articles bot
Okip  00:02, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

Protected areas of India articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
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Kaziranga National Park
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National parks navbar
I find the National Parks of India navbar really inconvenient, and am suggesting improvements at Template talk:National Parks of India. -- ELEKHHT 02:37, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

Changing the scope of WikiProject Protected Areas of India
Hello everyone,

I want to start a discussion about WikiProject Protected Areas of India. We do not have too much activity in the group and the number of articles that this WikiProject looks after is also very small (only 442 as per date).

We have another issue, we do not have any Task Force to deal with green issues, biodiversity or environment.

So I propose that WikiProject Protected Areas of India becomes WikiProject Biodiversity, Protected areas & Environment of India with an enlarged scope.

Please comment below. AshLin (talk) 17:55, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
 * As the original creator of this Wikiproject, I would support the above proposal by AshLin. Lets make the group working. Amartyabag   TALK2ME  18:21, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Although I am not a member of this taskforce (but WikiProject Protected areas), the proposal makes sense to me, given that besides its currently small scope there is also full overlap with WikiProject Protected areas. -- ELEKHHT 22:34, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
 * In the absence of any dissenting voice, I take it as accepted & shall start making the changes. AshLin (talk) 10:36, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

Nauradehi - potential merger candidate?
Hi, I created the article Nauradehi Wildlife Sanctuary, thinking it didn't exist, but I recently discovered that the article Noradehi. Would this be a good candidate for a merger/move? Nauradehi seems like the more popular and accurate spelling, and the article "Noradehi" concerns the wildlife sanctuary only.

Also, it would be great for all the talk of Nauradehi concerning Cheetah Reintroduction in India to link to the proper article. Thanks! Abp47 (talk) 20:55, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

Khajuraho Group of Monuments
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Articles related to Khajuraho Group of Monuments (one of the world heritage site) can be considered for this portal. Media related to the monuments is also available at wikicommons. Arhitecture of these monuments have common features.

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 * Southern Group of Temples
 * Chaturbhuj Temple
 * DulaDeo Temple
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 * Kandariya Mahadev Temple
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 * Devi Jagdambi Temple
 * Chitragupta Temple
 * Vishwanath Temple
 * Nandi Temple
 * Parvati Temple

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Merge discussion for Ghughua Fossil Park & Mandla Plant Fossils National Park
From what I can find Mandla Plant Fossils National Park seems to be a made up park, probably created by the initial article author, A quick look at google maps shows that the purported location of the park is actually the location of the Ghughua Fossil Park. I suggest either wholesale deletion of this article, or redirection and history merge into Ghughua Fossil Park. I'm notifying recent editors of that article and relevant wkiprojects.-- Kev min  § 01:29, 16 September 2021 (UTC)