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Ambitious goal

Eventually I want to work on creating an article for every U.S. state parks, scrolling through the lists just to Connecticut there's a ton of redlinks. I'm almost certain every state park at least has GNG coverage. I want to see if anyone else would be interested in this. 🌀Hurricane Wind and Fire, why'd you decline my draft? (talk, contribs)🔥 01:25, 8 August 2026 (UTC)

I'm sort of doing this for Florida at the moment. I just finished standing up a series of stubs for formerly redlinked state parks and trails. As far as I know, all of the public protected areas under the Florida Park Service have an article now.

I'm trying to bring all the Florida state park pages up to class B or higher so I may be state specific for a while. If anyone wants to join in, head down to WP:FLA and welcome to the Sunshine State! 🌴Operator 16 (talk) 12:51, 25 August 2026 (UTC)

National State Park Taskforce

I'd like to gauge interest in setting up a National state parks task force under this project. This would be limited to state parks within the United States and its territories.

The Gap

The main gap I see is that state parks are within project scope on paper, but the project specifically state "federal and to a lesser degree, state managed areas." The real impact of this is that over 10,000 state managed areas just took the back seat. Individual state WikiProjects, much like their government counterparts, have taken an individual approach to state park pages and this has lead to the same lackluster result. States like California and Pennsylvania are strong in their articles while most other states lag behind. There is no standard for state park pages so all of them vary wildly; most are neglected stubs collecting dust for decades. A single task force dedicated to state parks would be a much better fit for the work than 50 individual state-project subpages.

Scope

The scope of this would obviously be the 50 current US States plus territories. Above the parks are the various state agencies that manage these parks are also in scope. For Florida specific examples, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection had a page but the Florida Park Service (Division of Recreation and Parks) did not until I stood it up. I would imagine a similar gap exists in several other states as well. Finally, within scope will be the "List of (State) state parks" pages. Most of these pages have old maps and/or omit several state parks either due to redlinks or neglect.

Goals

My main interest is establishing a common feel between all the state park pages. A reader moving between the pages should encounter the same article structure, infobox layout, general history, natural features, and recreation options. Of course individual state WP's have their own set of rules and those will be observed. This would just be a common skeleton so that they are all useful and easy to read. I know for Florida, each state park has a Unit Management Plan so each park has solid history, geology, ecology, and hydrology no matter the popularity or significance of the park. I've been using this to unify many of the park page structures so far. I would also like to streamline the list of state parks pages. I went through and redid the List of Florida state parks page map and I think this would be possible to do in other state parks as well.

What do y'all think? Anyone want to join?

Let me know! 🌴Operator 16 (talk) 14:48, 25 August 2026 (UTC)

I'd be interested for Nevada and Utah but I'm busy with other projects for the near future. 🌀Hurricane Wind and Fire, why'd you decline my draft? (talk, contribs)🔥 16:18, 1 November 2026 (UTC)

Sounds like an interesting project! I won't commit to anything at the moment as I have a tendency to overcommmit to things and never follow through, but you might be interested in checking out Wikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand/National parks as this is a similar project over at the NZ wikiproject to try and bring all the national park articles up to GA status with a common structure. Might help to provide some ideas on how to go about it if nothing else? Turnagra (talk) 18:23, 1 November 2026 (UTC)

Featured List Help

I have been working on List of Florida state parks for a bit now orienting the work towards a Featured List nomination.

If anyone would like to look over the article and offer any pointers and or help review it later, that would be much appreciated. 🌴Operator 16 (talk) 17:43, 1 September 2026 (UTC)

Taunsa Barrage listed at Requested moves

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Uzh National Nature Park listed at Requested moves

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B is for Barnstar! - A WikiProject:Florida event

I am formally extending an invite to anyone in WikiProject Protected Areas to join WP:FLA's effort to bring Florida State Park articles to Class B or higher!

If anyone else brings a Florida state park article from stub/start to B-class, I will bestow upon them, a glorious barnstar. I'm trying to figure out if I can make a special state park barnstar (maybe with a panther or manatee on it) to up the ante. Those will undoubted be VERY limited (there are only 176 state parks) and SUPER desirable but related pages (like Alfred Barmore Maclay) may also be eligible for the very prestigious barnstar.

And for "second place," C is for Cookie! Anyone who brings a Florida state park article from stub/start to C-class will recieve a fresh cookie =D 🌴Operator 16 (talk) 22:05, 2 October 2026 (UTC)

Uzh National Nature Park listed at Requested moves

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Mukundara Hills National Park listed at Requested moves

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Atlin/Áa Tlein Téix'i Provincial Park listed at Requested moves

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Feedback requested

Hi, eventually I want to get Rancho San Rafael Regional Park to GA, I'd appreciate some feedback on sourcing, prose, and anything else you see I can add. Thank you! 🌀Hurricane Wind and Fire, why'd you decline my draft? (talk, contribs)🔥 22:29, 29 October 2026 (UTC)

I'll nominate for GA by the end of the month if I receive no feedback. 🌀Hurricane Wind and Fire, why'd you decline my draft? (talk, contribs)🔥 02:13, 30 October 2026 (UTC)