Talk:List of environmental ministries

message: Does Wales have its own department ? -- Beardo 16:25, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: There is a Minister for Environment, Planning and Countryside[>] who I assume is head of a Department  for Environment, Planning and Countryside. See here .  Keithology  "Talk"  16:42, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Wales

message: I have added those Department of the Environment pages that I can find - please add those missing! TerriersFan 21:20, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Any more?

message: Is this a good idea? They are essentially the same government department type with a different name. Just like 'ministry for' and 'ministry of' are the same.  -- Patchy1 01:37, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Merge into List of environment ministries and further develop. See the List of agriculture ministries for a well done, somewhat related list. Thanks, DA Sonnenfeld (talk) 10:38, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Note: among related lists are List of ministers of the environment and List of ministers of climate change. DA Sonnenfeld (talk) 10:48, 29 November 2012 (UTC)

text: And see also: :Category:Environment ministries. Thanks, DA Sonnenfeld (talk) 13:46, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge discussion 

message: Some background may be helpful... 
* Recent history. Recent merge/ move history looks something like this: 
:<Environment ministry> merged with => <Department of the Environment>
:<Department of the Environment> moved to => <List of environmental ministries>
* Current direction. Suggested aim is to develop it into a comprehensive, value-added list-article focusing primarily on national-level agencies, such as List of agriculture ministries. 
* Scope. A key question in the current proposed merges may be how best to define the scope/ boundaries of this article. Environmental agencies cover a wide domain, and come under a variety of names, varying by country, and over time. My suggestion for this article is to remain focused primarily at the national level, to provide a comprehensive overview of primary environmental ministries for each country. 
* Role of disambiguation pages. Another key question in the current proposed merges is the continued value of concerned disambiguation pages. Arguably, they retain value as disambiguation pages, however main content should be focused in one or more comprehensive article(s), e.g. one at the global level, by country; additional articles at the national level, including country subdivision agencies. (As a reference here, see also :Category:Environmental agency disambiguation pages.)
* Redirects. Redirects from current disambiguation page article names, if that is changed, should go to the most appropriate (commonly referenced) comprehensive article. For some of the current disambiguation pages, that would be a country-level article, not this one. 
So my own, somewhat nuanced position on the proposed merge at this time... 
# Maintain and develop <List of environmental ministries> as the primary, comprehensive article on national environmental agencies, merging in especially national-level content from relevant disambiguation pages
# Maintain the disambiguation pages, except Ministry of Natural Resources; I think the others continue to serve a useful function as such.
# Where the disambiguation page contains primarily country subdivision linked articles, if those articles are primarily or exclusively for one country (Foo), better to redirect the plain version of the article title, if that is done, to "List of environmental agencies in Foo".
# The article, Ministry of Natural Resources, can, I think be merged with this one. 
Thanks, DA Sonnenfeld (talk) 02:48, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I would prefer to move all of the disambiguation pages to "Foo (disambiguation)" titles and redirect the primary topic titles here. The disambig pages are as likely to be confusing as helpful, especially if the term is linked with respect to a country that does not have a corresponding article for its department. bd2412 T 02:59, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree that adding "(disambiguation)" to the relevant disambiguation page titles would clarify their function. Thanks, DA Sonnenfeld (talk) 03:41, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

text: One problem that I see in full merge of the noted disambiguation pages is that most of those pages include links to articles on country subdivision environmental agencies. That should be beyond the scope of this article, in my view. For disambiguation pages (primarily or exclusively) related to subnational environmental agencies in the United States, for example, better for redirects of the current article titles to go to List of environmental agencies in the United States. The next problem is that some of the disambiguation pages currently include links to relevant articles -- still at the country subdivision level -- for multiple countries. The latter is one reason why I believe they continue to have a positive function, and should not be merged with this article, except for primarily national-level environmental agencies. Thanks, DA Sonnenfeld (talk) 03:52, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: The one article that I think can be merged successfully with this one is <Ministry of Natural Resources>. Thanks, DA Sonnenfeld (talk) 04:21, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text:  We already have several state and provincial agencies listed here because they happen to be called departments or ministries. Since the U.S. has its own list, what is basically left are the subdivision agencies of Australia and Canada, and there aren't that many. I see no reason to avoid listing the rest of the Australian and Canadian versions. In fact, since Department of Environmental Management and Department of Environmental Protection list only U.S. entities (except for one former Australian entity) both can redirect to the U.S. list. bd2412 T 13:11, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text:  I agree that it would be appropriate to add the Departments of Natural Resources of subdivisions of Australia and Canada to this article (though the 3 or 4 entries are all redlinks); while the Departments of Natural Resources of subdivisions of the United States can be merged with List of environmental agencies in the United States, if not already there. Thanks, DA Sonnenfeld (talk) 18:38, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text:  All done. Cheers! bd2412 T 13:08, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  New merge discussion 

message: Hello All!
I have found some more contacts for different environmental ministries or government bodies throughout the world.
Unfortunately I am not an experienced Wiki editor to create pages, and also I do not have too much time. I hope someone can help to create links and add these coutries direct site links to the list. 
By the way, almost all countries have FB page for their ministries, so if homepage is not working ar cannot be found, you can use that. :)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tico77 (talk • contribs) 15:33, 18 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  More environmental contacts 

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thread_title:  most polluted countries