Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Conservation Worldwide/Archive 1

Renata, just some first comments on this WikiProject: Guy 09:42 Oct 14, 2002 (UTC)
 * It looks really promising! I'm intrigued to what it could lead...
 * I notice you have created a number of subarticles (eg. Australia/Conservation). If I'm not mistaken, Wikipedia is in the process of getting rid of subarticles (have a look at what they're doing at WikiProject Countries). Subpages are generally transformed into normal article pages. So, Australia/Conservation would become Conservation in Australia (Or should "in" be replaced by "of" - I'm not sure).
 * I have taken the liberty of redirecting this WikiProject to WikiProject Conservation Worldwide as is the standard name for a WikiProject. I also moved the WikiProject Protected Areas to become a subproject of this one.

It would have been nice if you had corrected the title when I first quoted it in my most recent message. Now I have dozens of links to fix. Renata

Renata, I'm sorry I didn't notice it the first time. As I've said, I only had a quick look at it before (and I was quite tired), so it must have escaped my attention. However, I don't see why you have dozens of links to fix. Every link that points to WikiProject Conservation worldwide will now be redirected to WikiProject Conservation Worldwide (click these two links and you'll see). So what is there to fix? Also, you've only created 3 subpages: Australia/Conservation, Republic of Ireland/Conservation and United Kingdom/Conservation. This hardly counts as "dozens", does it? Or am I missing something? Guy 20:39 Oct 14, 2002 (UTC)

Hello Guy, thanks for the reply. I forgot about the redirection! But I've put the link on other sites as well, e.g. Conservation and others. As to creating subarticles, how could the main page function without them? It would take ages to load and to scroll down. People would just get fed up with it. I also would not be able to work on it anymore as my PC is very slow and crashes a lot. Frankly, if I can't make subarticles, I would have to stop working on it. Until this is clarified, I'll continue with National Parks, Wiildlife Trusts and National Trust pages, but not the WikiProject, I think. Regards, Renata.

Renata, even if you've put the link on other pages, it will still work (I've checked the link on Conservation and it works perfectly). *Every* link which points to the "old" page will automatically be redirected to the "new" page. I honestly don't see the problem. As to the subarticles, there may be a misunderstanding here. I'm not 100 percent sure for which pages the term is used exactly (but pretty sure nevertheless). AFAIK it's used for pages with a slash ("/") in it, with the term before the slash denoting the main article and the term after the slash the name of the subarticle. From what I've seen, the common practise seems to be to drop the slash and use words instead (eg. Australia/Conservation would become Conservation in Australia. I'm not at all implying that the contents of Australia/Conservation should be written in the main WikiProject article. All I'm saying is that it's probably not a bad idea to move it to Conservation in Australia. Guy 11:45 Oct 15, 2002 (UTC)