Talk:The Wildlife Trusts partnership

Needs to merge with The Wildlife Trusts partnership Andy Mabbett 12:47, 26 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts

As of June 2004, the official name is the Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts and so this needs to be renamed.

Comment re: NPOV nomination

In need of a fairly thorough cleanup to make it suitable for Wikipedia and less like blurb churned out by the RSWT's PR department SP-KP 00:47, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

It certainly is. Furthermore I'm not at all sure that RSWT is the same thing as a 'wildlife trust', so possibly the body of this article needs to go the existing The Wildlife Trusts partnership, and a new article written for Wildlife Trust. Naturenet 07:05, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I've made a new page called Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts and put into it the best of this page and The Wildlife Trusts partnership. I would welcome any commnents and further contributions (logo, anyone?) before I redirect both this page and The Wildlife Trusts partnership to the new page at Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts. Naturenet 16:41, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

• I would advise against redirecting a page entitled "wildlife trust" to the new RSWT page; this implies that all "wildlife trusts" are affiliated to the RSWT, which is not the case; as far as I know, all county wildlife trusts are, so a redirect of that would be valid. This page is probably best cleared down, turned into a generic definition of a wildlife trust and transwikified to Wiktionary - SP-KP 17:06, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

• Can I make the same suggestion regarding the first sentence of the new page i.e. be clear the the RSWT is the umbrella organisation for the 47 county wildlife trusts; as things stand, the implication is that it is an umbrella organisation for all UK "wildlife trusts" - SP-KP 19:32, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I was not aware of that - perhaps you could make that modification yourself? I am aware that such distinctions are not unimportant! Naturenet 20:14, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I think I've unpicked this rather confusing oversupply of partnerships and trading names. I've made careful reference to the Wildlife trsuts website and official statements, noting that they call themselves 'local trusts' rather than 'county trusts'. Entire page filletted and all good stuff relocated to The Wildlife Trusts partnership, redirect made accordingly. New page made for Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts. NPOV notice removed. Naturenet 19:37, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

• Naturenet: good work - I've built on this by doing a few more tidy-ups and basically, all I think that remains to be done is to clear up the following problem: if I search for Wildlife Trust on the main Wikipedia page, I am taken to The Wildlife Trusts partnership page instead of my newly-created Wildlife Trust (disambiguation) page. The only solution to this, I think, is to delete the wildlife trust page. I would like to suggest adding this to Votes for Deletion; would you be OK with that? - SP-KP 21:44, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Ta! Good additions too. VFD sounds fine to me, I'll support it. Naturenet 07:34, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)

• OK - added the redirect page to Redirects for Deletion. Hope my explanation there makes sense - SP-KP 19:19, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Ah - a wiser head than ours seems to have resolved the problem much more simply. I'm happy with it as it now is. Suggest you might now consider removing the Redirect for Deletion. Naturenet 07:51, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

• Yep, I like this too. I think we now have a nice tidy set of Wildlife Trust pages. No excuse for me not to go back and finish off the National Vegetation Classification pages ... yawn!