Knowledge (XXG)

Category:IUCN protected area errors

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WikiProject Protected Areas seeks to work with WCPA to correct the WDPA listings, facilitated by use of this category. Ideally, there should be no members of this category, but currently it is useful to have this category in order to facility Knowledge (XXG) data quality improvement. For discussion
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but appear to have been listed there by error. A place has been erroneously identified to be a protected area if there is verification that there is no natural environmental area at the site. Sites considered to be tentatively verified errors are included in this category as well. These are sites
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or similar Knowledge (XXG) category. However, for a site that is listed in WPDA, it remains verifiably, but erroneously, a protected area. This error category is provided to mark such situations, to support corrections in WPDA, external to Knowledge (XXG), and to support data quality in Knowledge
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which relies upon the WDPA as a basic source on which sites to categorize as protected areas, usually by including a Protected areas infobox. When an apparent error about the nature of a site is verified, it seems appropriate to drop the site from a given IUCN Category by dropping its Protected
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for which there is reasonable expectation that there is no natural area present, and for which sources describing the site do not mention any substantial natural area.
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and related Knowledge (XXG) categories appear not to be valid protected areas, in that they are not natural areas or that they are not protected.
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which covers the reverse situation, for when WDPA fails to lists a site that is a protected natural area.
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which may provide additional comments on the nature of errors for U.S. sites.
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The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
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Knowledge (XXG):WikiProject Protected areas/ProtectedAreasUS
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or to join in this endeavor, please comment in Talk area of
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Background: As of April 2008, numerous sites that appear in
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Protected areas by World Conservation Union category
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Index

World Commission on Protected Areas
protected areas
World Database of Protected Areas (WDPA)
Category:IUCN Category V
WikiProject Protected Areas
Category:IUCN Category V
WP:PAREAS
Knowledge (XXG):WikiProject Protected areas/ProtectedAreasUS
Category:IUCN protected area omissions
This list may not reflect recent changes
Castle Clinton
Washington Monument
Categories
WikiProject Protected areas
Protected areas by World Conservation Union category

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