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  1. jthoppes

    Template/format for all locations

    Any chance we could have this template automatically appear when a user creates a new location page? (The same way the species template works for a new bird page.)
  2. jthoppes

    Template/format for all locations

    Very good, sounds like we're on the same page. I'll continue rearranging things in the western US and somebody shout "stop!" if I start drawing inconsistent lines...
  3. jthoppes

    Template/format for all locations

    I think this happens automatically, although I'm not quite sure how. I just tested the missing Georgia category I mentioned above, setting up a very brief stub for a location with a nesting colony of that typical southeastern pinewoods bird, the Red-cockaded Woodpecker. When I wrote...
  4. jthoppes

    Template/format for all locations

    Mentioned in the overview and inserted into categories, I absolutely agree. I would like to disagree about ownership in the titles. I think this is a bit of Anglo-American cultural difference, as so many more of the American sites are public land that it seems both entirely natural and a...
  5. jthoppes

    Template/format for all locations

    I've just set up a skeletal category page for the US National Wildlife Refuges, since I had three in my home state and just ran into another in Nevada. Suggest that similar pages would be a good idea for other agencies that run collections of preserves (US National Parks, RSPB, WWT, etc.)
  6. jthoppes

    Template/format for all locations

    I just created a general California page modeled on Andre's fine Switzerland example and brought some order to the local category page. Comments?
  7. jthoppes

    Template/format for all locations

    Andre, thanks for the hint. I just experimented with the move feature and it works fine. delia, even I think that stripping all titles is a bit excessive- there will be times when we need to preserve a few of these in the interest of clarity.
  8. jthoppes

    Template/format for all locations

    Some minor questions and a larger point. Andre mentioned above moving pages to a different title. I don't see an easy way to do this, but I'm sure I'm missing something since I've only been playing with the system for a couple of days. Any help would be appreciated. Second question: how do we...
  9. jthoppes

    Template/format for all locations

    I'll second what Andre and delia just said about excluding rarities from the checklist section, for the following reasons: 1. The checklist is noted as "Birds you can see here." It seems to me that this is a forward-looking description, aimed at guiding future visitors to the site in question...
  10. jthoppes

    Template/format for all locations

    Inspired by delia's taxonomy questions I went out fixed a few broken links myself, then put together a rough draft for my local patch. Having done that, I find myself with some questions about the proper format for titles: how much geographic information belongs in the title, and how much in the...
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