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List of Local Nature Reserves in Bedfordshire

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Nominator(s): Dudley Miles (talk) 15:00, 3 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

This list follows the format of

List of Local Nature Reserves in Hertfordshire, which recently passed FLC, and I hope it will also be found to be of FL quality, Dudley Miles (talk) 15:00, 3 January 2016 (UTC)[reply
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Review by PresN

Recusing myself in order to review this list.

  • "As of January 2016 there are twenty Local Nature Reserves in Bedfordshire, eight in Bedford, eleven in Central Bedfordshire and one in Luton" - the 8/11/1 are the breakdown of the 20, so the comma after Bedfordshire should be a colon.
  • Cooper's Hill - "This Site of Special Scientific Interest has the best remaining area in the county of heathland" - best? What determines best?
  • Why is it "Galley and Warden Hills SSSI", not just "Galley and Warden Hills"? It's the only SSSI to get that callout in the name
  • This is how it is shown by Natural England. All names are as in the NE listing.
  • Henlow Common - "Plants include marsh marigolds and there are kingfishers and the river bank has otters and water voles." - and...and...
  • Marston Thrift - "Like Kings Wood and Glebe Meadows, this is a Site of Special Scientific Interest which ash and maple woodland on heavy clay." - which "has"?
  • Should Park Wood, Bedford just be Park Wood, since the disambiguator isn't needed in a Bedfordshire list?
  • Putnoe Wood - "Bird species include wood pigeons, blue tits and great tits" - seems consistent to link those three species, since you link other relatively common animals
  • I fixed a citation error that I'm not sure is usually directly visible to editors- line break inside of a citation title
  • Support, looks like you've gotten the pattern for these lists down. --PresN 01:26, 8 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Comments –

  • Cottage Bottom Fields: Not sure Wheatears should be capitalized.
  • Flitwick Wood: "with some ancient trees and others which have been recently planted." Should "been" and "recently" be reversed in order?

Giants2008 (Talk) 22:11, 16 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the comments Giants. Dudley Miles (talk) 22:34, 16 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Support – well up to the fine standard of its predecessors, and certainly meets FL criteria. I think there is an unintentionally repeated word in the Harrold-Odell Country Park row: "water water meadows". That apart, I have nothing but applause. – Tim riley talk 16:26, 2 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks Tim. Typo corrected. Dudley Miles (talk) 16:51, 2 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]


Resolved comments from —Vensatry (Talk)
Comments
  • Debold 'Bedfordshire' (as this isn't the parent article), but wikilink it.
  • Some PDF refs. need page nos.
  • Ref 5 has no page numbers. Pages added for ref 7 (and first sentence of para amended and ref added). Are there any others? Dudley Miles (talk)
  • "population estimated in 2015 at 630,000, with an increase of 10% over the previous ten years." The source says 640,000 and 11%.
  • " It is mainly rural, but still the fourteenth most densely populated county of England, with over half the population living in the two largest built-up areas, Luton and Bedford." I'm not sure about the urban/rural classification of places in England, but when you say more than 50 percent of the population lives in Luton and Bedford (both urban centres), how can you imply that the county is mainly rural?
  • I am not clear about your point here. Most of the area of the county is rural, but there are two small areas (relative to the size of the county) which have most of the population, so geographically the county is mainly rural. Dudley Miles (talk) 15:21, 6 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Yeah, that's why I wasn't very sure. In India, the urban/rural classification is done based on population. Not a big deal anyway, but perhaps could you clarify this? —Vensatry (Talk) 15:55, 6 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • How about if I add "Geographically," at the beginning of the sentence? Dudley Miles (talk) 17:07, 6 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • As of January 2016 - Date needs to be updated.
  • How about adding the 'Unitary authorities' in the location column?
  • I am doubtful. The article has seven columns, which my mobile phone can just cope with. Eight columns might be too much for small screens. Dudley Miles (talk) 15:21, 6 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • No need to have a separate column - add it in the same column. Don't worry about column width. See this one. —Vensatry (Talk) 15:55, 6 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • I have checked and my phone does cope with an extra column, even though it only shows the first 6 columns on the cricket ground list you pointed to. As a separate column will allow sorting on the borough, I have added it. Dudley Miles (talk) 17:07, 6 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]


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