Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Massachusetts/Metropolitan Park System Task Force

Navbox
Please scroll down to continue the discussion below the navbox, which is here to illustrate the topic

There is the navbox, which is currently in development stages. It also serves as a launching pad for a more general discussion of the areas the Task Force can address. First: there are a few redlinks, and some ambiguous areas in general. Please take a look at what exists now, and we can edit them collaboratively once decisions are made. The basis for the navbox is of course the DCR page at http://www.mass.gov/dcr/metroboston.htm : going there you will see that, for the most part, the navbox is comprehensive. Left out are Upper Charles River Reservation and Lower Neponset River Trail. They should have articles, but I was unsure exactly what was going on with those when I made the navbox so I left them out. I called "Stodders Neck/Abigail Adams Park" by the redlink "Weymouth" (Weymouth Reservation piped) because that is what the DCR page name is, http://www.mass.gov/dcr/parks/metroboston/weymouth.htm – it appears to be under development. The existing List of Massachusetts State Parks also did that. The creation of the redlinked articles is our top priority, as far as I am concerned. Then we can focus on tightening up infoboxes, naming, organization etc. Thanks everyone so far for stepping up, this system deserves top notch treatment. Sswonk (talk) 02:50, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Weymouth Back River Reservation is the official name. Sswonk (talk) 00:03, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

Muddy River Reservation
I emailed the DCR asking for some clarification. Grk1011/Stephen (talk) 15:45, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
 * I emailed as well, earlier today before seeing this message. This is a strange case, as literally nothing other than the signs confirm the name "Muddy River Reservation". The DCR was heavily involved in a project called the "Muddy River Restoration Project". I think it is a Bureau of Engineers name, the DCR is a presence on the parkways with maintenance. There must be some kind of cooperative agreement with Boston Parks, it will be interesting to see what the responses are. Sswonk (talk) 17:48, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
 * I haven't gotten a response yet, you? Grk1011/Stephen (talk) 01:31, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
 * No, nothing. I sent my question to a park guide who had given me a business card. It's likely he has know way of finding out so just punted. I think, given the lack of response and the lack of presence of that reservation name on the internet, it is most likely that my theory is correct: the supervisor/manager who ordered the sign just made it up, or it exists only unofficially and internally. There literally is nothing supporting the existence of such a name, and if it did exist, it would just be a system of roads and streets, hardly comparable to Blue Hills, Beaver Brook, Charles River etc. Reservations. No sources, no official response, and not a big issue; we should simply leave it out of articles. If people write something on talk pages questioning its use on the signs in the article photos, we can just respond and tell them the facts as we know them. Sswonk (talk) 22:43, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

Roadways and NRHP listings
I asked this over at Talk:Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston, maybe it will get more visibility here:

Should the table at the bottom of Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston have a section listing all of the parkways (or roadway systems, if the individual roads don't have their own articles) that DCR manages and that connect or pass through those parks? (Conversely, at least some of the parkway articles ought to link back to that article and/or include the navbox, but don't.)

Also, should articles describing separate NRHP listings that fall within these parks (like Middlesex Fells Reservoirs Historic District and John Bottume House, to name two that recently crossed my radar) have an enumeration there (and possibly also in the navbox)?  Magic ♪piano 15:38, 26 March 2010 (UTC)