Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Local Nature Reserves in East Sussex/archive1

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The list was promoted by PresN via FACBot (talk) 18:21:19 23 July 2019 (UTC) [1].

List of Local Nature Reserves in East Sussex[edit]

Featured list candidates/List of Local Nature Reserves in East Sussex/archive1

Nominator(s): Dudley Miles (talk) 19:46, 21 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

This is the latest in my nominations of lists of Local Nature Reserves and is in the same format as FLs such as Kent and Suffolk. Dudley Miles (talk) 19:46, 21 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

"As of February 2019, there are 26 LNRs in East Sussex" - update? We'll be in June next week

Updated to May. Dudley Miles (talk) 11:46, 26 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

"therefore making it the 28th largest ceremonial county in the United Kingdom" - the linked article says 33rd largest. Which is correct?

Not sure what I did here or whether I kept an old edit. I have deleted the comparison and provided new sources for area and population. The population estimate is much lower than shown elsewhere on Wikipedia (552,000 compared with 840,000) but I have gone with the figure shown by the County Council. Dudley Miles (talk) 11:46, 26 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

"This site has ancient woodland and species rich unimproved grassland" - I think "species rich" should have a hyphen (as indeed it does later on, I have just noticed).

Done. Dudley Miles (talk) 11:46, 26 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Think that's it from me..... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 07:51, 26 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks for the review ChrisTheDude. Dudley Miles (talk) 11:46, 26 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Support -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 21:23, 26 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks ChrisTheDude. Dudley Miles (talk) 17:01, 27 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Support – links are good, alt text is there, everything looks great. Great job to you! – zmbro _(talk) 14:51, 27 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks Zmbro. Dudley Miles (talk) 17:01, 27 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Local nature reserve is a common noun, and the title of this and the rest should be moved to match List of local nature reserves in Greater London and List of local nature reserves in Somerset.

This has been raised several times before. Local Nature Reserve is not a common noun but an official designation under the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949. It is one grade down from Site of Special Scientific Interest. Wikipedia is inconsistent whether official designations are capitalised, but in my view capitalisation is correct in order to signal to the reader that the term is a legal desigation, not a descriptive phrase. Dudley Miles (talk) 12:00, 31 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The Act never once uses the phrase "Local Nature Reserve" and "nature reserve" is always lowercase. This government page does not use capital letters. "Legal designation" is not a reason listed at Capitalization. I encountered this with List of national parks of the United States (legal designations described here) and it is quite clear that when discussing these collectively it's common, only proper when referring to a specific site.

The official Natural England site at [2] uses capitalisation for Site of Special Scientific Interest and Local Nature Reserve. They are designations and no one, including you in your review of Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Surrey/archive1, has suggested lower case for SSSIs. We need to be consistent and in my view capitalisation is correct, as I said above, to signal to the reader that the phrase is an official designation, not a description. Dudley Miles (talk) 17:48, 3 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

scheduled monument is also a common noun

Schdeduled Monument is an official designation under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979, not a common noun. Dudley Miles (talk) 12:00, 31 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Yet this act does not ever capitalize "scheduled monument". The article itself and Historic England do not agree with this. Reywas92^Talk 15:55, 31 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I accept that the argument for capitalisation is weaker here as the official site does not capitalise, but I think we need to be consistent and for the reasons above it is better to capitalise. Dudley Miles (talk) 17:48, 3 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

byelaws is not hyphenated Reywas92^Talk 06:50, 29 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Corrected. Dudley Miles (talk) 12:00, 31 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks for your review Reywas92. Dudley Miles (talk) 12:00, 31 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your further comments Reywas92. There are obviously arguments on both sides and we may have to agree to disagree on this. Dudley Miles (talk) 17:48, 3 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved comments from The Rambling Man (REJOICE!) 11:20, 22 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

Paras 2 and 3 in the lead need to be swapped.

Done. Dudley Miles (talk) 11:50, 10 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

"Other classifications" these are usually comma-separated.

I prefer spaces but I will change if you think it is necessary. Dudley Miles (talk) 11:50, 10 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Well I've reviewed dozens of these (haven't I?) and IIRC they all used commas. The Rambling Man (talk) 11:51, 10 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Yes I switched to no commas but I will switch back. Dudley Miles (talk) 13:41, 10 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Consider linking "liverwort"

Done. Dudley Miles (talk) 11:50, 10 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

"out of which 90 breed" no need for "out"

Done. Dudley Miles (talk) 11:50, 10 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

" 27 which are scarce and two " MOSNUM, cats/dogs: 27/2 or twenty-seven/two.

Changed to both alpha. Dudley Miles (talk) 11:50, 10 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Don't split refs 40em, let the template do its stuff since there are more than 10 refs.

Done. Dudley Miles (talk) 11:50, 10 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Ref 6: should be a spaced en-dash in the title.

Tried but I am not sure I have got it right. Dudley Miles (talk) 11:50, 10 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The Rambling Man (talk) 09:08, 10 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your comments The Rambling Man. Dudley Miles (talk) 11:50, 10 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Support my concerns addressed. The Rambling Man (REJOICE!) 11:20, 22 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Source review passed; promoting. --Pres N 18:21, 23 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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