Talk:Banff National Park

message: *The geography section discusses mainly non natural features and that belongs more in a tourism section. Geography needs to emphasize the mountains, glaciers, rivers and how that these things were formed, with ages of the rocks and and maybe even broken down with a geology subheading. Mention the tallest mountains, lowest altitude, and the largest river.
*Try to get rid of all the redlined links with subarticles. I can help with the glaciers and a few things.
*Work to eliminate the singular sentences and turn them into paragraphs instead.
*There should be a small section on management of the park...the budget, fire/natural resource management.
Just trying to be helpful.--MONGO 07:36, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the feedback.  I'm not sure that I agree about the "geography" section, though.  I'll think about it, but the separate "geology" section does all that.  Somewhere, near the beginning of the article, it's important to explain the geography (what's where, the different sections of the park) to help orient the reader with later discussions. I completely agree on all the other points made. -Aude (talk contribs) 12:45, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: What the geography section does right now is to break the park into three regions, for further discussion.  This is ths same way my Gem Trek hiking maps are done (#3 - Icefields Parkway, #4 - Lake Louise, #5 - Banff townsite area).  Within that framework, perhaps I can integrate the geology and geography sections more. -Aude (talk contribs) 13:01, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I see, that works too of course. I'll try and help out with some stubs to fill in the relined links. I started Peyto Glacier so far and will work on others over the next ciouple of weeks.--MONGO 18:40, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggestions 

message: Maybe a little more expansion on Park Management...there is a section here that has more information:. Maybe some mention of forest fires, if there are many. I think after that, run it through spellcheck, make sure the references all work and then send it to peer review.--MONGO 03:34, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the encouragement.  Park management (including prescribed burns) and human impact need to be addressed more.  There's been plenty of controversy in recent years involving the business community, environmental groups, and Parks Canada.  I should have time to work on this over the weekend.  --Aude (talk contribs) 20:20, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Looking good 

message: I did a basic copy edit on the first third of the article, through the History section. There are a couple of things I saw but didn't fix: under Prison and Work Camps two successive sentences read as follows:
:"During World War I, immigrants from Austria, Hungary, Germany, and Ukraine were sent to Banff to work in internment camps. The camp was located at Castle Mountain, and was moved to Cave and Basin during winter." [my emphasis]
Either there was one camp or there was more than one camp. The sentences clash on that point. I'm here to polish form, not mess with content, so could someone with the requisite knowledge fix it?
Also, there are several instances where the name of a piece of legislation is italicized. Is this the proper style in Canada? It's not consistent throughout the article, anyway, because there are at least two non-italicized references to the National Parks Act. I'm a little too weary to do the research on this point. Rivertorch 06:04, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the copyedits.  Look good.  I'd say "camps" is correct, as there was one main camp along with smaller camps in Banff.  I have fixed the wording to reflect this better.  As for legislation, I really don't know if there is a standard.  In Canada, which is a featured article, the names of legislation are wikified and not in italics. I will try doing the same here, though will need to create stubs for these items of legislation. --Aude (talk) 13:50, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Minor last-minute clean-up 

message: Much more should be made of the origins of the park - openly modelled on Yellowstone - which from the first included provisions for the extraction of timber and mineral resources within the park boundaries. The Hot Springs were one asset that was to be protected by a national park, but the lesson of Yellowstone was that a park could also "protect" valuable resources. In addition to Bankhead and Anthracite, there were several other small mining towns in the park area in the early days, including Silver City and (if memory serves) Coppermine. From day one the park was an uneasy compromise between competing interests for supporters of a resort, of resource exploitation and of wilderness preservation.
Two other points, much more could be said of the issue of forest fires in the park and surroundings - forest fires were a regular and devasting occurrence (often caused or exacerbated by human activity) in the area, particularly in the early years. And more could be said of the uses of the region by native people before Europeans arrived - if I remember correctly, the hot springs were known to the aboriginal peoples of the region and used by them as a recreation ground. An intersting irony of the Park is that, although it is often assumed or said that the Park is an attempt to preserve nature in its pristine state, there is considerable evidence that even before Eurpoeans arrived the area had already been altered by humans and diverted from the pristine. Pinkville 02:53, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't have a huge amount of time right now to work on this article, to expand on these aspects.  For now, Jasper National Park and other articles are in rather poor condition and are higher on my to-do list.  But do intend to come back to it at some point, maybe write up an expanded subarticle on history of the park and other aspects.  When I do, I try to dig up more information on the points you make. Thanks for bringing them up. --Aude (talk) 20:42, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Resource exploitation and orgins of park

message: There has been some vandalizarion to the page and I am unaware of the correct information. The name of the Prime Minister has been changed. So other information has been added.User:Jbebeau 05:39, 21 November 2006
some1 vandilised and i cant fix it, help please.Sometimes1must 22:53, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  vandilism 

message: Could the location dot for the park be changed to red please?  I had a real job spotting it in amongst all the other green areas (which I assume are other national parks?)  It would stand out immediately if it were red. 81.147.147.86 (talk) 13:37, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. However, it appears it can't be done on this article. It is a template thing. Try posting your request here, referencing this discussion. Hwy43 (talk) 01:55, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Map 

message: We would like to add a section about wildlife management as a subheading in the Park Management section to expand it.
::good idea, Rjensen (talk) 22:53, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wildlife management section 

message: Minor lake in Banff National Park. Not notable enough for it's own article. Cbs527 00:55, 27 October 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: If it hasn't been subject to a PROD before, I don't see why not. In doing so, a link to this discussion can be provided to affirm how it appears to be an uncontroversial deletion. Hwy43 (talk) 03:40, 28 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge with [[Johnson Lake]] 

message: Any objections to throwing this article into the current pile of potential TFA reruns (currently being developed at User:Dank/Sandbox/2)? Any cleanup needed, apart from the  11 dead or dubious links? MONGO, did you want to have a look at this one? - Dank (push to talk) 23:47, 7 September 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Will look it over next 72 hours. If I don't prod me again.--MONGO 04:36, 8 September 2017 (UTC)

text: Came here now to check these dead links and that tool is apparently down. I shall check again in a day or two.--MONGO 20:09, 11 September 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: They said it would be up and down for a few days. - Dank (push to talk) 20:44, 11 September 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, commenced fixing these dead citations...will work on the rest in a few days as I can find time.--MONGO 21:49, 13 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  TFA reruns 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: This Article is already rated as a FA class article so I am hesitant to edit it, however it seems to lean heavily towards describing the history and biodiversity of the park (which is good) but is completely lacking on the tourism section which should explain what kind of facilities, infrastructure and attractions tourists can expect to find in the park as well as more information on how one can travel to and around the park. Since Jasper National Park is still a Start Class Article I am going to work on improving it first, however I would like to know if anybody has any thoughts or objections to a major expansion of the tourism section of this article. IDrive201 (talk) 01:39, 17 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tourism 

message: It would be nice to rerun this at WP:Today's featured article, but there's a fair amount of uncited text. Anyone want to look at that? - Dank (push to talk) 02:06, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  TFA?