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List of Local Nature Reserves in Buckinghamshire

List of Local Nature Reserves in Buckinghamshire (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

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Nominator(s): Dudley Miles (talk) 19:17, 3 July 2016 (UTC)

This is the fourth list of Local Nature Reserves (LNRs) in English counties I have nominated for FLC. LNRs are designated by local authorities for their biological or geological interest. Dudley Miles (talk) 19:17, 3 July 2016 (UTC)

Resolved comments from Giants2008 (Talk) 01:04, 22 July 2016 (UTC)

Comments – Minor comment, but should "bye-laws" have the hyphen? Our article on the subject doesn't, but I'm unsure how it's normally handled in British English, being American and all. The Oxford English Dictionary hyphenates the word, giving both "by-law" and "bye-law". Chambers and Collins, rather strangely I think, both offer a straight choice between "bylaw" unhyphenated and "bye-law" with the hyphen. Tim riley talk 05:55, 21 July 2016 (UTC) I think both are correct and I prefer bye-laws. Dudley Miles (talk) 19:17, 21 July 2016 (UTC) Sites: In Black Park, where it says "This site has heath, alder carr", the comma should be replaced with "and" to match the rest of the sentence. Fixed. Dudley Miles (talk) 19:17, 21 July 2016 (UTC) Note a: First word of "In Hillingdon" shouldn't be capitalized. Giants2008 (Talk) 02:18, 21 July 2016 (UTC) Fixed. Thanks very much Giants. Dudley Miles (talk) 19:17, 21 July 2016 (UTC)

• Support – With the fixes, I find the list to be of similar quality to the other ones in the category that Dudley has worked on. Nice job yet again. Giants2008 (Talk) 01:04, 22 July 2016 (UTC)

Support – Meets the FL criteria, and is of the same high quality as earlier FLs in the same series. Two v. minor points in passing: "anthill" is one word rather than two according to the OED and Collins and is one hyphenated word according to Chambers (Chairborough Road); and I don't suppose you meant to pluralise "deer" as "deers" (Warren Nature Reserve). – Tim riley talk 05:55, 21 July 2016 (UTC)

Many thanks Tim. Both your points are interesting. I have changed "anthill" to one word, although it looks wrong to me. OED quotes Smeathman 1781 as giving two words, but I fear that is not Sufficient Authority. I have also changed deers to deer. OED gives deers as "occasional", so not actually wrong, but on reflection deer does sound better. Dudley Miles (talk) 19:24, 21 July 2016 (UTC)

Support – only quibble is you could link county in the lead sentence. Otherwise it's pretty faultless, prose is sufficient, table is appropriately formatted and so are the references. Lemonade51 (talk) 01:07, 22 July 2016 (UTC)

• Link added. Thanks very much Lemonade. Dudley Miles (talk) 18:21, 22 July 2016 (UTC)

Source review - passed

• Formatting: No problems.
• Spotchecks: Checked refs 6, 16, 27, 38; no problems
• Completeness: No obvious sources missing

Promoting! --PresN 16:07, 4 August 2016 (UTC)

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