User:Inkian Jason/African Parks

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Lady Liuwa in Liuwa Plain National Park, November 2012

Elephants in Liwonde National Park

Entrance to the Majete Wildlife Reserve in May 2014

Park ranger at Nkhotakota

On behalf of the nonprofit conservation organization African Parks via the Wyss Foundation, and as part of my work at Beutler Ink, I am working to create and improve several related Wikipedia articles. I have created this page to outline the goals and scope of the project, disclose my conflict of interest, and maintain a progress report. I invite editors to follow along, ask questions, and discuss proposed article improvements, on this page and/or on individual article talk pages.

Given my conflict of interest, I will not edit articles directly in the main space and ask independent editors to review drafts and edit requests for accuracy, neutrality, and verifiability. During this project, African Parks has provided feedback to ensure accuracy, and I have worked hard to draft neutral, appropriately-sourced content that complies with Wikipedia's guidelines and manual of style. I am happy to address any questions or concerns that may arise throughout this project here, or on my user talk page. Thanks in advance for your consideration and help. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks! Inkian Jason (talk) 18:45, 14 September 2017 (UTC)

Disclosure

The Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use require that all editors disclose their "employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which they receive, or expect to receive, compensation". I am familiar with the paid-contribution disclosure and enjoy working with fellow Wikipedians to make improvements to articles, openly and transparently. The following template will appear on all talk pages associated with this project:

{{Connected contributor (paid)|User1=Inkian Jason|U1-employer=Beutler Ink|U1-client=[[African Parks]] via the Wyss Foundation}}

Goals

• expand and improve articles related to the nonprofit conservation organization African Parks  Done
• create Wikipedia articles for missing notable national parks  Done
• create a category to group related pages  Done
• create a navigation template to group related articles and facilitate navigation between them  Done
• add an infobox to the African Parks page, with the organization's logo  Done

Scope

The following articles are included within this project's scope:

• African Parks Network African Parks (see Talk:African Parks)  Done
  • Bangweulu Wetlands ecosystem Bangweulu Wetlands (see Talk:Bangweulu Wetlands)  Done
  • Chinko (see Talk:Chinko)  Done
  • Gambela National Park Gambella National Park (see Talk:Gambella National Park)  Done
  • Garamba National Park (see Talk:Garamba National Park)  Done
  • Liuwa Plain National Park (see Talk:Liuwa Plain National Park)  Done
  • Liwonde National Park (see Talk:Liwonde National Park)  Done
  • Majete Game Reserve Majete Wildlife Reserve (see Talk:Majete Wildlife Reserve)  Done
  • Nkhotakota Game Reserve Nkhotakota Wildlife Reserve (see Talk:Nkhotakota Wildlife Reserve)  Done
  • Odzala National Park Odzala-Kokoua National Park (see Talk:Odzala-Kokoua National Park)  Done
  • Zakouma National Park (see Talk:Zakouma National Park)  Done

Progress

General

• I am currently working on draft articles for Chinko Project and Nkhotakota Game Reserve, and will be publishing a draft article for Liwonde National Park in my user space for editor review soon. Stay tuned! Inkian Jason (talk) 18:45, 14 September 2017 (UTC)
• October 9–10: Posted notifications about this ongoing project at WikiProject Africa, WikiProject Protected areas, and WikiProject Africa's Protected areas task force, inviting editors to follow along and help out by reviewing edit requests and updating articles appropriately. Inkian Jason (talk) 15:50, 10 October 2017 (UTC)
• October 19: Posted notifications about this project at WikiProject Ecology and WikiProject Environment. Inkian Jason (talk) 16:25, 19 October 2017 (UTC)
• June 5: I published User:Inkian Jason/Template:African Parks for community review, and posted a note on the African Parks article's talk page re: creation of navigation template and category. Inkian Jason (talk) 18:23, 5 June 2018 (UTC)
  •  Done The markup was used to create Template:African Parks, and the navigation template was added to the following articles on June 5: African Parks, Akagera National Park, Bangweulu Wetlands, Bazaruto National Park, and Chinko. Inkian Jason (talk) 19:33, 5 June 2018 (UTC)
  •  Done The navigation template was added to the Garamba National Park, Liuwa Plain National Park, Liwonde National Park, Majete Wildlife Reserve, Nkhotakota Wildlife Reserve, Odzala-Kokoua National Park, Pendjari National Park, and Zakouma National Park articles on June 6. Inkian Jason (talk) 14:14, 6 June 2018 (UTC)

• June 6: Submitted a request for the creation of Category:African Parks. Inkian Jason (talk) 14:31, 6 June 2018 (UTC)
  •  Done Category:African Parks (organisation) was created on June 7, and added to all existing African Parks-related articles. Inkian Jason (talk) 19:44, 7 June 2018 (UTC)

African Parks

• On September 25, I submitted a request at Talk:African Parks to move the article from "African Parks Network" to "African Parks", which is the organization's legal and more commonly used name. Inkian Jason (talk) 18:17, 25 September 2017 (UTC)
  •  Done The page was moved on October 3. Inkian Jason (talk) 15:45, 3 October 2017 (UTC)
• On June 1, I saved this draft for community review (see Talk:African Parks). Inkian Jason (talk) 01:47, 2 June 2018 (UTC)
  •  Done The article was updated on June 4. Inkian Jason (talk) 14:51, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

Link requests
2/13: Requested to change "African Parks Network" to "African Parks" at West Lunga National Park (talk). Inkian Jason (talk) 22:51, 13 February 2018 (UTC) 2/14: Requested to change "African Parks Network" to "African Parks" at Southern African lion (talk). Inkian Jason (talk) 05:17, 14 February 2018 (UTC)

Bangweulu Wetlands

Bangweulu Wetlands ecosystem

Wattled crane in Bangweulu

• On April 2, I published a draft article for community review (see Talk:Bangweulu Wetlands ecosystem). I also proposed moving the page from "Bangweulu Wetlands ecosystem" to "Bangweulu Wetlands". Inkian Jason (talk) 20:53, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

 Done The article was updated and moved on April 2. Inkian Jason (talk) 02:28, 3 April 2018 (UTC)

• On April 2, I removed Bangweulu from Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon/Core stubs - Zambia. Inkian Jason (talk) 02:33, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
• Links were updated at Bangweulu (diff), Central Province, Zambia (diff, diff), Chambeshi River (diff), Congo Pedicle (diff), Index of Zambia-related articles (diff), Lake Bangweulu (diff, diff), Lavushi Manda National Park (diff), List of freshwater ecoregions (WWF) (diff), Luapula River (diff), Northern Province, Zambia (diff), Outline of Zambia (diff), and Wildlife of Zambia (diff). Inkian Jason (talk) 02:41, 3 April 2018 (UTC)

Chinko

• On March 20, I published a draft article for Chinko for community review. Inkian Jason (talk) 17:12, 20 March 2018 (UTC)
  •  Done The draft was moved into the main space on March 27. Inkian Jason (talk) 15:45, 27 March 2018 (UTC)
  • Additionally, redirects were created for Chinko Project, Chinko Project Area, and Chinko Nature Reserve. Inkian Jason (talk) 15:46, 27 March 2018 (UTC)
• On March 27, I submitted a request to add Chinko to the List of protected areas of the Central African Republic (see talk). Inkian Jason (talk) 15:55, 27 March 2018 (UTC)
  •  Done Link was added on March 29. Inkian Jason (talk) 15:37, 29 March 2018 (UTC)
• Additionally, I submitted a request to link "Chinko" at Wildlife of the Central African Republic (see talk). Inkian Jason (talk) 15:55, 27 March 2018 (UTC)
  •  Done Link was added on March 27. Inkian Jason (talk) 20:52, 27 March 2018 (UTC)
• 3/28: Removed "Chink Project" and "Chinko Project Area" from Wikipedia:Requested articles/Business and economics/Organizations, per Talk:Chinko. Inkian Jason (talk) 15:44, 29 March 2018 (UTC)
• On April 1, the article was nominated to appear on the Main Page: Template:Did you know nominations/Chinko. Inkian Jason (talk) 15:54, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

On 29 April 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Chinko, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Chinko Nature Reserve in central Africa provides a habitat with the genetic diversity needed to reestablish animal populations in neighbouring regions? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Chinko. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Chinko), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Gambella National Park

• On April 4, I published a draft article for community review, and proposed moving the page from "Gambela National Park" to "Gambella National Park". Inkian Jason (talk) 22:21, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
  •  Done The article was updated and moved on April 5. Inkian Jason (talk) 14:25, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
• On April 5, the park's spelling was updated at Template:National Parks of Ethiopia. Additionally, I removed "Gambela National Park" from Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon/Core stubs - Ethiopia with this edit. Inkian Jason (talk) 16:15, 5 April 2018 (UTC)

Garamba National Park

Garamba National Park

• On April 10, I submitted a request to implement an expanded draft saved at User:Inkian Jason/Garamba National Park (see Talk:Garamba National Park). Inkian Jason (talk) 01:59, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
  •  Done The article was updated on April 12. Inkian Jason (talk) 17:41, 12 April 2018 (UTC)

Liuwa Plain National Park

• March 29: Submitted an expanded and updated draft for consideration at Talk:Liuwa Plain National Park. Inkian Jason (talk) 15:29, 29 March 2018 (UTC)
  •  Done The article was updated on March 29. Inkian Jason (talk) 21:11, 29 March 2018 (UTC)
• March 29: I removed "Liuwa Plain National Park" from Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon/Core stubs - Zambia, per Talk:Liuwa Plain National Park. Inkian Jason (talk) 21:12, 29 March 2018 (UTC)

Liwonde National Park

• October 2: Submitted an expanded and updated draft for consideration at Talk:Liwonde National Park, and posted a note at WikiProject Malawi. Inkian Jason (talk) 17:48, 2 October 2017 (UTC)
  •  Done The article was updated on November 1. Inkian Jason (talk) 15:36, 1 November 2017 (UTC)
• On November 8, User:Smmurphy created Template:Did you know nominations/Liwonde National Park with possible "Did you know" hooks. Inkian Jason (talk) 21:39, 8 November 2017 (UTC)

On 29 November 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Liwonde National Park, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Liwonde National Park has a population of approximately 12,000 large mammals (elephants pictured) and more than 380 recorded bird species? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Liwonde National Park. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Liwonde National Park), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

• On March 15, I submitted a request to improve the "Big cats" section. Inkian Jason (talk) 17:07, 15 March 2018 (UTC)
  •  Done The article has been updated. Inkian Jason (talk) 17:33, 19 March 2018 (UTC)

Majete Wildlife Reserve

• November 17: I submitted a request at Talk:Majete Game Reserve to move the article from "Majete Game Reserve" to "Majete Wildlife Reserve". Inkian Jason (talk) 20:44, 17 November 2017 (UTC)
  •  Done The article was moved on November 24. Inkian Jason (talk) 17:58, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

Link requests

2/23: Requested to change "Majete Game Reserve" to "Majete Wildlife Reserve" at Kapachira Falls (talk). Inkian Jason (talk) 16:48, 23 February 2018 (UTC)  Done The article has been updated. Inkian Jason (talk) 15:37, 26 February 2018 (UTC) 2/23: Requested to change "Majete Game Reserve" to "Majete Wildlife Reserve" at Southern African cheetah (talk). Inkian Jason (talk) 16:55, 23 February 2018 (UTC) 2/23: Requested to change "Majete Game Reserve" to "Majete Wildlife Reserve" at Nkhotakota Wildlife Reserve (talk). Inkian Jason (talk) 17:05, 23 February 2018 (UTC)  Done The article has been updated. Inkian Jason (talk) 15:38, 26 February 2018 (UTC) 2/23: Requested to change "Majete Game Reserve" to "Majete Wildlife Reserve" at Shire River (talk). Inkian Jason (talk) 19:53, 23 February 2018 (UTC) 2/23: Requested to change "Majete Game Reserve" to "Majete Wildlife Reserve" at Liwonde National Park (talk). Inkian Jason (talk) 19:57, 23 February 2018 (UTC)  Done The article has been updated. Inkian Jason (talk) 20:50, 23 February 2018 (UTC) 2/23: Requested to change "Majete Game Reserve" to "Majete Wildlife Reserve" at Chikwawa (talk). Inkian Jason (talk) 19:58, 23 February 2018 (UTC)  Done The article has been updated. Inkian Jason (talk) 21:13, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

• March 19: Submitted an expanded and updated draft for consideration at Talk:Majete Wildlife Reserve. Inkian Jason (talk) 15:18, 19 March 2018 (UTC)
  •  Done The article was updated on March 22. Inkian Jason (talk) 19:26, 22 March 2018 (UTC)
• On March 26, I removed Majete as an entry at Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon/Core stubs - Malawi, per Talk:Majete Wildlife Reserve, since the article is not longer a stub. Inkian Jason (talk) 19:26, 26 March 2018 (UTC)

Nkhotakota Wildlife Reserve

Nkhotakota Wildlife Reserve

• On October 17, I submitted a request at Talk:Nkhotakota Game Reserve to move the article from "Nkhotakota Game Reserve" to "Nkhotakota Wildlife Reserve", which is a more commonly used name, not to mention the name used by African Parks. Inkian Jason (talk) 20:30, 17 October 2017 (UTC)
  •  Done The article was moved on October 25. Inkian Jason (talk) 15:49, 25 October 2017 (UTC)
• November 28: Submitted an expanded and updated draft for consideration at Talk:Nkhotakota Wildlife Reserve. Inkian Jason (talk) 18:37, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
  •  Done The article was updated on November 30. Inkian Jason (talk) 18:37, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
• The redirect Nkhotakota Wildlife Preserve was created on November 30. Inkian Jason (talk) 18:21, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
• On December 3, User:Cwmhiraeth created Template:Did you know nominations/Nkhotakota Wildlife Reserve with a possible "Did you know" hook. Inkian Jason (talk) 15:39, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

On 18 December 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Nkhotakota Wildlife Reserve, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Prince Harry assisted with relocating 500 elephants to the Nkhotakota Wildlife Reserve in Malawi? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Nkhotakota Wildlife Reserve. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Nkhotakota Wildlife Reserve), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Link requests

2/20: Requested to change "Nkhotakota Game Reserve" to "Nkhotakota Wildlife Reserve" at List of protected areas of Malawi (talk). Inkian Jason (talk) 18:29, 20 February 2018 (UTC)  Done The article has been updated. Inkian Jason (talk) 23:03, 20 February 2018 (UTC) 2/21: Requested to change "Nkhotakota Game Reserve" to "Nkhotakota Wildlife Reserve" at Lake salmon (talk). Inkian Jason (talk) 16:35, 21 February 2018 (UTC)  Done The article has been updated. Inkian Jason (talk) 19:55, 21 February 2018 (UTC) 2/21: Requested to change "Nkhotakota Game Reserve" to "Nkhotakota Wildlife Reserve" at Ulendo Airlink (talk). Inkian Jason (talk) 16:38, 21 February 2018 (UTC) 2/21: Requested to change "Nkhotakota Game Reserve" to "Nkhotakota Wildlife Reserve" at Southern African cheetah (talk). Inkian Jason (talk) 20:00, 21 February 2018 (UTC)  Done The article has been updated. Inkian Jason (talk) 16:43, 22 February 2018 (UTC)

Odzala-Kokoua National Park

• On February 13, I submitted a request at Talk:Odzala National Park to move the article from "Odzala National Park" to "Odzala-Kokoua National Park", which is a more commonly used name, not to mention the name used by African Parks. Inkian Jason (talk) 17:26, 13 February 2018 (UTC)
  •  Done The article was moved on February 21. Inkian Jason (talk) 15:10, 21 February 2018 (UTC)
• On February 21, I submitted an edit request to remove unsourced content from the article. Inkian Jason (talk) 21:52, 21 February 2018 (UTC)
  •  Done The unsourced content was removed on February 22. Inkian Jason (talk) 16:41, 22 February 2018 (UTC)

Link requests

2/21: Requested to change "Odzala National Park" to "Odzala-Kokoua National Park" at List of national parks in Africa (talk). Inkian Jason (talk) 20:15, 21 February 2018 (UTC)  Done The article has been updated. Inkian Jason (talk) 18:48, 22 February 2018 (UTC) 2/21: Requested to change "Odzala National Park" to "Odzala-Kokoua National Park" at Index of Republic of the Congo-related articles (talk). Inkian Jason (talk) 20:19, 21 February 2018 (UTC)  Done The article has been updated. Inkian Jason (talk) 18:04, 22 February 2018 (UTC) 2/21: Requested to change "Odzala National Park" to "Odzala-Kokoua National Park" at Template:National Parks of the Republic of the Congo (talk). Inkian Jason (talk) 20:26, 21 February 2018 (UTC)  Done The template has been updated. Inkian Jason (talk) 15:29, 19 March 2018 (UTC) 2/21: Requested to change "Odzala National Park" to "Odzala-Kokoua National Park" at World Network of Biosphere Reserves in Africa (talk). Inkian Jason (talk) 20:28, 21 February 2018 (UTC)  Done The article has been updated. Inkian Jason (talk) 17:25, 22 February 2018 (UTC) 2/27: Requested to change "Odzala National Park" to "Odzala-Kokoua National Park" at Central African lion (talk). Inkian Jason (talk) 22:39, 27 February 2018 (UTC)  Done The article has been updated. Inkian Jason (talk) 17:10, 28 February 2018 (UTC) 2/27: Requested to change "Odzala National Park" to "Odzala-Kokoua National Park" at Haberlandia odzalaensis (talk). Inkian Jason (talk) 22:41, 27 February 2018 (UTC)  Done The article has been updated. Inkian Jason (talk) 16:00, 28 February 2018 (UTC) 2/27: Requested to change "Odzala National Park" to "Odzala-Kokoua National Park" at Petrocephalus arnegardi (talk). Inkian Jason (talk) 22:45, 27 February 2018 (UTC)  Done The article has been updated. Inkian Jason (talk) 18:36, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

• On March 15, I submitted an expanded and updated draft for consideration at Talk:Odzala-Kokoua National Park. Inkian Jason (talk) 18:45, 15 March 2018 (UTC)
  •  Done The article was updated on March 18. Inkian Jason (talk) 14:17, 19 March 2018 (UTC)

Zakouma National Park

• March 29: Submitted an expanded and updated draft for consideration at Talk:Zakouma National Park. Inkian Jason (talk) 22:12, 29 March 2018 (UTC)
  •  Done The article was updated on March 29. Inkian Jason (talk) 01:05, 30 March 2018 (UTC)