Korolukc

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Comments on your BIOL 345 proposal

Good idea - here are some comments and questions to consider:

• Vancouver and area are doing quite a bit of stream daylighting, right? This is probably enough material for a stand-alone page, rather than continuing the current practice of creating a new section on one big stream-daylighting page.
• Have you read the Talk page and looked at the history of the existing daylighting page?
• What other Wikipedia pages will you link to?
• What other Wikipedia pages will you create links from, to your page?
• What independent sources of information are available?
• You should also probably plan to go to at least one stream that's been or is being daylighted, and take your own photos that you can use to illustrate your article. If this is not possible, maybe you can find photos on flickr and email the photographer for permission to use them.
• Please do your composing and editing in a Wikipedia sandbox. This will help build your familiarity with Wikipedia and will also allow me to keep an eye on your progress, offering help if I think it's appropriate.

Rosieredfield (talk) 03:31, 6 February 2014 (UTC)

Sorry I didn't mention this before...

... but you are aware that we already have an article on Daylighting (streams)? I'd been assuming that your sandbox is intended as additional content for that article, but it occurred to me today that this might not be the case. Yunshui 雲‍水 22:46, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

So I am just wondering what you would advise we do? Our original plan was to add to the existing plan, however Rosie had suggested we create a stand alone page and link it with the existing page. I'm just wondering what your thoughts are on the direction we go. -Courtney 19:03, 10 March 2014 (UTC)

I would say you're still better off adding to the existing page. The topic of stream daylighting itself is notable and encyclopedic, but the concept of stream daylighting in Vancouver is very niche. If you created a new page, you would probably find it tagged for merging with the Daylighting (streams) page before very long anyway, so you might as well put the information there to start with and have more control over it. The skill you'll need to demonstrate in doing so is summary-style writing; you'll need condense the information into a concise exposition of daylighting in Vancouver, and add it as a section to the (currently rather US-heavy) Example projects section of the existing page. Yunshui 雲‍水 08:27, 11 March 2014 (UTC)

Hey Rosie, I'm just wondering about your input on this topic also. Since we had already formatted our page for a stand alone page and our draft is due tonight, we're thinking of leaving it as is for now. And then depending on your input we can always moderate it later. -Courtney 18:29, 11 March 2014 (UTC)

I vote for following Yunshui's advice

But only after you've gotten your peer reviews from the other students. Best would be to add a note on your draft page or its talk page explaining that you now plan to merge it with the main Daylighting page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rosieredfield (talk • contribs) 02:16, 16 March 2014 (UTC)