Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Cleveland
List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Cleveland edit
How about another one of these, following Avon's successful candidacy. SP-KP 17:51, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
- Support. Provided you fill in the Acres column. Also please note the two minor edits I made: I added a break to stop the picture interfering with the table. It isn't needed when the table is in a new top-level section, but is for this short list. You may want to apply that to other such lists. The second edit was to fix the county ID in the reference URL. Was this a copy/paste typo or has that web site changed the IDs since you added the reference? If the latter then you may need to rethink using those URLs if they keep changing. If the former, then it would be good if you could try to find a volunteer to proof-read your links, figures, etc. You appear to be doing this on your own - perhaps there is a project page where you could recruit some extra help? Or look up the editors of related articles? Colin°Talk 08:32, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
- Thanks for those two edits. The URL was almost certainly a copy/paste typo. You're not quite correct in saying I'm doing articles on SSSIs on my own; I've done the bulk of the work to date, but several other people have since joined in. I think you are saying we should take these lists to peer review prior to FLC, is that right? SP-KP 18:18, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
- Well, not a full peer review - that could be a bit tedious after you've posted a few and folk realise there are dozens. I'm just suggesting that you pair up with someone and check each others links/figures/references/etc before FLC. I don't mean to imply you are being careless. Everyone makes mistakes that someone else spots easily but you would never see. Colin°Talk 00:21, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
- Comment: I agree with Colin on the acres thing. Also does this need to be List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Cleveland, England? Rmhermen 14:14, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
- Acres - yes, the intention is that this will be completed prior to the close of this discussion. Suicidalhamster has volunteered to do it; alternatively, I'm happy to do it if it's straightforward and someone can explain how. The Avon list reached FA status without ", England" being added to the end - is there a good reason why we need to do that on this page? If so, that's fine. SP-KP 18:18, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
- You can use google to make the conversion. Just type on the search field, for example, "12 acres to hectares" (without the quot. marks) and press enter. -- Rune Welsh | ταλκ 09:41, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
- Thanks for that; that shouldn't take too long for this page, with just 18 entries. For some of the longer lists, is there a way we could automate that task, do you know? SP-KP 09:45, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
- OK, done - probably a good idea if someone checks it as that's the first time I've converted a hectarage to an acreage and have no idea whether the numbers are right! SP-KP 09:52, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
- I've checked them all and fixed one. Then I went to check Avon and found one of the Hectares was wrong. The only automatic way of checking them is to put them in a spreadsheet and multiply by 2.4710538. It is a bit difficult to get them off the web page and into a column on the sheet - best to do this as you collect the info. However, I then noticed that many of the Avon acres were out by 1 decimal place. I discovered that the English Nature data sheets almost always give both values. They are converting from a more accurate source figure. So I would thoroughly recommend that you don't convert your 1-decimal-place value but instead use the value from the data sheet. If occasionally, the acre isn't given, then you can often convert from their 2-decimal-place value. I've now updated the article with more accurate values using this method. Note, the Pinkney and Gerrick Woods datasheet has hectares/acres that don't agree. I don't know which one is correct - do you have another source? Colin°Talk 16:58, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
- No, but I'll raise it with English Nature. Thanks for doing all of that checking work. SP-KP 20:20, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
- I've checked them all and fixed one. Then I went to check Avon and found one of the Hectares was wrong. The only automatic way of checking them is to put them in a spreadsheet and multiply by 2.4710538. It is a bit difficult to get them off the web page and into a column on the sheet - best to do this as you collect the info. However, I then noticed that many of the Avon acres were out by 1 decimal place. I discovered that the English Nature data sheets almost always give both values. They are converting from a more accurate source figure. So I would thoroughly recommend that you don't convert your 1-decimal-place value but instead use the value from the data sheet. If occasionally, the acre isn't given, then you can often convert from their 2-decimal-place value. I've now updated the article with more accurate values using this method. Note, the Pinkney and Gerrick Woods datasheet has hectares/acres that don't agree. I don't know which one is correct - do you have another source? Colin°Talk 16:58, 18 August 2006 (UTC)