Talk:Jim Lynch (conservationist)

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Additional citations needed

@Chriswatkin1964 The citation #8 is not suitable, because it is a self-published website source. See: WP:SELFPUBLISH. However, a suitable secondary source could be the Forest & Bird magazine article that is indexed at the National Library here: https://natlib.govt.nz/records/21114216. Also, it appears that the Natural Wellington plan (1990) is available at the National Library. See: https://natlib.govt.nz/records/29859839 _Marshelec (talk) 05:49, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Further improvement

@Panamitsu I note that you have made some edits to this article previously, and want to ask if you would be willing to help out with further improvements. I have been working through a large amount of unsourced content added by another user, mostly in this diff. I have managed to find citations that support much of the content, but there is some content that is more like essay-writing that I can't currently support with independent sources. The section "National Impact" is the most problematic. If suitable sources cannot be found, perhaps it should be deleted. I have probably spent a bit too much time looking at this article, and a fresh pair of eyes would be great. Are you interested ? _Marshelec (talk) 19:59, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sure I'll take a look. Those edits were all semi-automatic and I honestly haven't heard of Lynch before so I can't promise much. ―Panamitsu (talk) 21:21, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I think one of the big problems is that a lot of the content is about Zealandia etc but not Lynch himself. Maybe it should be merged into Zealandia? ―Panamitsu (talk) 21:45, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for looking at the article and for your feedback. Yes, I think it would be helpful to relocate portions of the content into the Zealandia article. Lynch is recognised as the founder of Zealandia, and led some of the key work. Therefore, the bio article does need to describe his key contributions, but the detail could be relocated. As it happens, the Zealandia article needs work - I have just found a significant claim about the fence that is not supported by the citation (and I had to use the Wayback machine to find it anyway).

On a related note, the image of the fence in this article could be a copyright violation (and is of poor quality anyway). If an openly licensed version of that illustration could be found, it would be best in the Zealandia article, unless there are sources that provide more content about the role that Lynch took in the development and testing of the design._Marshelec (talk) 22:06, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes I do agree that his key contributions to Zealandia should be listed.

This page appears to have that same diagram but with less labels so I think it should be nominated for deletion on Commons. ―Panamitsu (talk) 22:16, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]