Talk:List of historic places in British Columbia

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Wiki Loves Monuments in Canada - Lists of historic places[edit]

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Hello everyone!

A few days ago, I put raw data about Canada's heritage places in wiki tables for each provinces (btw, thank to Skeezix1000 for the agreement to go ahead with it, he's working manually since so long on similar lists and I didn't want to step on his toes). Anyway, you guys are very quick because BC already separate tables in regions... a big thank you for your help.

The only thing is that errors happened during the automation of the listings. InverseHypercube pointed this out on my talk page (see fr:User talk:Benoit Rochon#List of historic places in British Columbia). Also on our Flickr group, a member of the pool flagged that some IDs were wrong (see this picture for instance).

So for the next couple hours guys, may I ask you to hold your horses until I find what happen? I think I already know what happen, so I request another extraction yesterday, but the bot takes 20 hours to do this, I'll have news probably tonight. My apologies to people who work on this list, I hope to fix this asap.

Now anyone in Ontario found similar problems with List of historic places in Ontario? Thanks to let me know here, or even better, on my :fr:Talk page. Best regards, Benoit Rochon (talk) 14:14, 10 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Original research[edit]

Historic Places are Parks Canada, i.e. federal and the sources do not say what regional districts they're in; Parks Canada has its own region system; RDs are subprovincial and do not even have jurisdiction over BC Parks or historic/heritage designations, other than ones they designate on their own (some might). This page and its subpages, and associated category/ies, need revision to something more citable than dividing them up by RD; doing so is clearly original research.Skookum1 (talk) 15:09, 13 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Also, many of these "lists" have only one or two items, same with the categories; why there's a whole page and category (if only in French) for the federal building in Dawson Creek I just don't see; there's no need to have broken the province up this way, and is another demonstration of why I am against the use of RDs for things and affairs which do not concern them, and which it takes original research to compile in this fashion; but overcompartmentalization into one-two items per list/category is taking it too far.