Talk:List of Alaska state parks

message: I'd like to open this discussion back up so we can try, one way or the other, to get rid of all the redlinks in this article. I suggest we try an example as a test case for how we want to handle these, and I would further suggest that it be  Liberty Falls SRS. 
This is an absolutely gorgeous, and quite loud, waterfall on the side of a hill above the Copper River. The entire SRS is ten acres. There are ten campsites, all clustered along a very short loop road that one can drive in less than a minute. There are no hiking trails or other attractions of any kind, (and in fact the surrounding terrain is quite steep and dangerous) it's just a nice place to camp by a waterfall. The site has it's own page on the DNR website , a decent write up in the Milepost, and an entry at GNIS . 
That is enough to justify a short stub, but is that desirable? It most likely won't  ever be anything beyond a short stub because there's just isn't that much to say about it, being such a  a small facility centered around one feature. 
Alternately, we could say that any site like this, where we can verify its existence and write one or two lines of text, but there is no parent article to attach them to should just be briefly described here. The risk is that it may make this article difficult to navigate, but we may be able to mitigate that by turning it into a sortable table or something like that. 
Thoughts? Beeblebrox (talk) 03:11, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Well crap, was hoping for some real input here. As a counter example to Liberty Falls, I am thinking of writing up Captain Cook SRA. It is not one of the better-known parks, but it has a large campground, a substantial beach on Cook Inlet, a lake that now has its own article, hiking trails,a nd is the terminus of the Swanson River canoe trail. To me that is an easy pass to having a full, if brief article. What I don’t know squat about is how, if we do as suggested above, to make a fancy sortable table with all the information that would otherwise go here for items for which there si very little to say. Beeblebrox (talk) 20:37, 15 June 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: By the way that article is live. Beeblebrox (talk) 20:09, 22 June 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Kind fo talking to myself here, but in case anyone else is interested, in contrast to the Captain Cook SRA, which I felt merited its own article, I added content on the Blueberry Lake State Recreation Site to the article on Thompson Pass and created a redirect. I think this is the right approach for these really small parks. (Do camp there if you’re ever up that way though, it’s stunningly beautiful and there’s grayling in the lake.) Beeblebrox (talk) 21:44, 22 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: 2017 redux

message: I think the goal here, contrary to what I said a few years ago, should be to turn all these links blue. The DNR website alone provides sufficient information to add something, somewhere, on every unit in the system, and if you’ve got The Milepost you can add a little more in many cases. So for most of the small SRS/SRA locations a mention in a related article and creation of a redirect to that section is probably enough, for the larger and more popular parks full articles may be in order. It’s a big job and it’s going to take quite some time if I’m doing it all myself.... Any assistance in this endeavor would therefore be greatly appreciated. Beeblebrox (talk) 18:52, 23 June 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: It got nearly 3,000 views while featured on the main page. Beeblebrox (talk) 23:10, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

text: I would certainly welcome having a fancy sortable table and maps and all that if someone wants to put the work into coding it and setting it up. I'd suggest it still be split by region. We probably aren't ever going to have images from every single park unit unless someone with the necessary skills wants to spend some time searching for free images on Flikr or something. Beeblebrox (talk) 19:56, 16 August 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  , or wants to do some travelling.  I agree that it would be nice to have a table with maps. I'm going through categories, slowly, and updating rivers, mountains, glaciers and parks within the scope of Alaska. If you see anything that needs some attention I would be more than willing to take a look at it. --ARoseWolf 12:49, 18 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Goal

message: *New articles created for Birch Lake and Harding Lake detailing both the lakes and the parks 
*Captain Cook State Recreation Area created and nominated for DYK
*All other parks on Kenai Peninsula are now blue links, mostly redirects to new sections on area parks in already existing articles. 
Beeblebrox (talk) 19:06, 6 July 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: It got nearly 3,000 views while featured on the main page. Beeblebrox (talk) 23:10, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

text: I would certainly welcome having a fancy sortable table and maps and all that if someone wants to put the work into coding it and setting it up. I'd suggest it still be split by region. We probably aren't ever going to have images from every single park unit unless someone with the necessary skills wants to spend some time searching for free images on Flikr or something. Beeblebrox (talk) 19:56, 16 August 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  , or wants to do some travelling.  I agree that it would be nice to have a table with maps. I'm going through categories, slowly, and updating rivers, mountains, glaciers and parks within the scope of Alaska. If you see anything that needs some attention I would be more than willing to take a look at it. --ARoseWolf 12:49, 18 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Progress

message: Why do we need lakes from List of lakes of Alaska redirected to this article? It appears that there were articles on these lakes but those articles were since deleted per AfD discussions. They were then redirected to the State Parks article sometime after the deletion took place. --Tsistunagiska (talk) 18:25, 2 December 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry for the very late reply, which lakes are those? Beeblebrox (talk) 19:57, 16 August 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: If perchance you meant Moon Lake (Alaska) I fixed that one. Beeblebrox (talk) 20:15, 16 August 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thanks for fixing that. --ARoseWolf 12:50, 18 August 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: By the by, the afd involved was Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Grebe Lake (Alaska). Beeblebrox (talk) 23:17, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redirects