Talk:Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty

message: I propose that the Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty in England and Wales and the Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty in Northern Ireland pages are merged into one article. Currently the AONB England and Wales page is a near duplicate of the AONB page and the AONB Northern Ireland page is just a list. The pages could be more effectively managed if they are combined into one but split into sections for Introduction, England & Wales and Northern Ireland. This would have the benefit of reducing duplication of effort in maintaing two near-mirror copies of the same page and a separate list page, and also making the article more accessible to readers. I noticed that a previous merge attempt in 2005 was reverted a few months later without discussion, so I would like to hear what other people have to say about this proposal before taking action. Thanks. Road Wizard 20:51, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Correction, the pages do not appear to have been formally merged previously, just that the AONB page was redirected to the AONB England and Wales page. Road Wizard 21:34, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

text: Merge is now complete thanks to Karium. -- Blisco 17:50, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposed Merge

message: I've removed the appendage "AONB" from all the names in the list of AONBs, as it seemed somewhat redundant -- I hope no one objects. A large number of these were either redirects or piped links, so "North Pennines AONB" redirected to North Pennines and "Gower AONB" was piped to Gower Peninsula. In addition, there was already an article about Dedham Vale which appeared when I amended the redlink Dedham Vale AONB.
The remaining articles with redundant "AONB" in their titles probably ought to be moved if there is no need to disambiguate -- these being Arnside and Silverdale AONB (for which there is a redirect in place from Arnside and Silverdale), Surrey Hills AONB, Lecale Coast AONB and Ring of Gullion AONB.
I left piped links to "... AONB" in place in cases where the AONB is not coterminous with the area after which it is named (or in cases where I wasn't sure), even if the link is currently a redirect -- Anglesey being the best example -- to avoid problems if an article on the AONB is subsequently created.
Hope that all makes some kind of sense! --Blisco 18:24, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Deleted "AONB" from names in list

message: I have reverted an edit which added a list of AONBs to the body of the article. This was a good faith edit but this information is at the end of the article in the navboxes. However I do think that the boxes should be expanded by default - anyone know how to do this? --NHSavage (talk) 17:10, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: sorted - by editing the templates themselves I was able to allow the article to override the default autocollapse status.--NHSavage (talk) 17:25, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deleted list of AONBs in article 

message: I do not understand why the title is being changed in so many articles. Natural England, the official body for the AONB designation uses capital letters. See AONB page at Natural England website. --TimTay (talk) 20:31, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Natural England is wrong. Mooretwin (talk) 23:59, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

text: The front page of Mendip Hills AONB website uses capitals. Ditto Cotswolds AONB, Wye Valley AONB, North Devon and Tamar Valley. I can list every single one if necessary. AONB is a formal title it is not a description and capitals should be used on Wikipedia just as they are used by Natural England and every individual AONB publication. --TimTay (talk) 20:38, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Not all areas of outstanding natural beauty (as most would see them) are necessarily designated as Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). However, where they are not designated AONB, it is confusing to most readers to use that phrase. Ghmyrtle (talk) 09:19, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Capitalisation 

message: i expected to see a listing of the different areas. where is it? 78.146.240.209 (talk) 14:42, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: There's a link to them at the bottom of the article.   ♦ Jongleur100 ♦ talk 16:42, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  wheres the list of them? 

message: I've replaced the old map with a new one.  The old map was not very clearly drawn, and is out of date as it showed the South Downs (now a National Park) as an AONB.  However, the new map does not show Northern Ireland, and a request to the Graphics Lab for an NI-specific map (or expanding the new England and Wales map) has not so far produced results.  I will try again.  Ghmyrtle (talk) 15:37, 19 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Maps 

message: I removed the PR puffery added by Handlens, but I've included a wikified version of the link to Landscape scale conservation that he/she wanted.  86.6.26.122 (talk) 17:00, 6 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deleted Promotional Material 

message: People can see pictures and post to facebook Manma emotion (talk) 09:19, 30 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Beautiful pictures 

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message: Given that the article deals with AONBs in England, Wales and Northern Ireland it's a shame that the map only covers the first two - might someone with the ability to do so, create a new version of the AONB map or, alternatively a second one for N Ireland alone. thanks Geopersona (talk) 05:41, 21 July 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, but you need to make the request here.   Ghmyrtle (talk) 08:20, 21 July 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks Ghmyrtle - will do!  Geopersona (talk) 07:16, 23 July 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know what happened to my request - can't seem to find any trace of it - but it could also do with the Clwydian Hills extent being revised as the area was extended south to the Dee valley. cheers Geopersona (talk) 13:24, 13 September 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Could somebody else request (or make) the revised AONB map as it seems that my request has been lost! thanks Geopersona (talk) 12:00, 29 December 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: The request was dealt with here, following which the NI AONB map was added to the article.  If you want them combined on one map, it seems that the person who did the NI map couldn't do that, so you need to ask again.   Ghmyrtle (talk) 12:23, 29 December 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: And it needs now to take account of the extension of the Suffolk Coast & Heaths AONB. cheers Geopersona (talk) 05:36, 29 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  New map to include NI? 

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message: There is a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject UK geography#AONBs are no more on AONBs being re-named National Landscape and whether it applies to NI, leading to a potential split if the article is re-named. DankJae 13:33, 22 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Re-name discussion 

message: Would be a good topic to address. As a tourist I’d like to know about the full country 185.147.89.117 (talk) 08:01, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: AONBs only apply to Northern Ireland, as well as other parts of the UK. The rest of Ireland doesn’t have AONBs nor part of the United Kingdom. DankJae 08:55, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text:  Ireland has seven national parks - see too https://www.nationalparks.ie/ Then there are the non-statutory Geoparks of which there are five in the island as a whole, one of which is transnational. Even within the UK, AONBs in Northern Ireland differ slightly from those in England and Wales as they were established under different legislation.Geopersona (talk) 12:17, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why is the rest of Ireland not included?