Talk:Wildfire emergency management

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Date	Process	Result
May 18, 2012	Good article nominee	Not listed

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This article was part of a Wikipedia School and University Projects educational assignment called Emergency Response to Wildfires. To contact the project co-ordinator please leave a message at "User talk:Emplanning".

Final Wikipedia Project Evaluation (April 23, 2012)

This is an excellent, well researched and well written article, with very little grammatical or spelling errors. Use of citations is highly appropriately done. My comments are on mainly three areas:

1. Consider adding some more images to break the monotony of text.

2. Consider adding more internal relevant wikipedia links under a separate section titled 'See Also' and in your main text, so that your article is not considered an 'orphan' when moved to 'main space'. Refer to other wikipedia pages (FEMA) to see how they do this. For example, there is an extensive page on 'Wildfire' on wikipedia. Also if you type 'California fires' in Wikipedia, a number of related wikipedia articles come up, including the Oakland Hills Firestorm from 1991. Go through these links and any other you can find, and add links within your main text and/or under a 'See Also' section.

3. There are a few minor edits: - Instead of the generic title 'Case Study', consider something more specific such as 'Oakland Wildfire Case'. - I would suggest removing reference # 6 (from the online dictionary), its not really needed as you are giving the Sylves citation. - Reference #15 seems incomplete without the name of the organization (e.g. reference #17) - Reference #48 & 51 have a broken links

Overall, great work!!

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Emplanning (talk • contribs) 14:28, 2 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Feedback

Hey guys. I've been working on making some of the edits Anuradha suggested at the bottom of our page. I've taken care of Item #1, but feel free to add more images if you want. For #2, I added quite a few internal links to the intro section and my section. I didn't want to add too many to your sections, but again, feel free to add more. #3 - I changed the name of the case study section and I removed the dictionary reference she suggested removing. The references that she mentions as having broken links, I didn't want to mess with since they are not my references. Just wanted to keep you guys informed of the edits I made!--Scarbelc05 (talk) 16:08, 23 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hey guys, i have complete some edits, internal links, and added a image to the preparedness section. --Wpace3 (talk) 15:34, 24 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hey guys, yea I got my internal links done in my sections and I finally located an image I could use in my recovery section. So, I'm done too!--Patrickj05 (talk) 00:57, 25 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Adding a Photo

Hey guys! The easiest way I've found to add a photo is to go to Wikimedia Commons and find the photo you want to use. Once you've clicked the photo, there will be options above the photo. If you click the option that says "Use this File" with the Wikipedia logo (the W in the square box), it will give you the link. Copy and paste the link provided to use the photo as a thumbnail, and paste it into the text of our article. It will automatically put the photo on the right side of the page. If you want it on the left side, just click to edit the page, and in the image's link, before |thumb, enter this: |left|

That should move the photo to the left side of the page. Hope this helps! --Scarbelc05 (talk) 15:40, 23 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Introduction Issues

Hey, I reviewed over the case study section and corrected a few grammar and spelling errors. Just wanted to let you guys know in case you noticed some changes. Also, I was wondering if we should change the name of the General Information section to introduction and place the information at the beginning of the article in the section.--Patrickj05 (talk) 21:45, 16 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Jessica, I feel like we need to have some information prior to the table of contents. If you notice on any other wikipedia article, there is brief general info above the table of contents, so I think it needs to stay there. --Scarbelc05 (talk) 01:15, 17 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Peer Review

Just wondering if you guys got the email from Anuradha - she asked that each of us review a different group's page. I thought maybe I could do "Hazard Mitigation and Adaptation in the Outer Banks". I figured we could communicate which group we plan to review so we don't all do the same one. --Scarbelc05 (talk) 23:30, 10 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I just submitted my peer review under coastal hazards.--Wpace3 (talk) 20:33, 15 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I am going to do my peer review on the Hurricane Recovery in North Carolina.--Patrickj05 (talk) 21:58, 15 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Time Stamp Issue

Jessica, I haven't noticed anything off. --Scarbelc05 (talk) 23:28, 10 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hey guys, I was just reviewing over the timed logs for this assignment under the history. I noticed the times were off for the logs by a couple hours and just wanted to know if either of you were experiencing the same problem. --Patrickj05 (talk) 00:32, 10 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Citations

Hey guys, the citations are not the ones im using, also are we still doing the case study sections? --Wpace3 (talk) 18:16, 9 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Citations Used

Hey guys. Under the "Citations" Section, there's a couple references that haven't been used. These were not references that I found, so I do not want to remove them if someone is going to use them. If not, can whoever put them up take them down? If we aren't going to use them in our article, we don't need empty references hanging. Thanks!! --Scarbelc05 (talk) 15:49, 9 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Midterm Wikipedia Assignment Comments

Aces Group:
Article structure is well organized. Excellent work in putting together citations for the article sections, as well as the internal Wikipedia and external links that you can use for your article. I am looking forward to the first draft as you guys flesh it out.
(Emplanning (talk) 14:40, 16 March 2012 (UTC))[reply]

Section One

This is the text that you are going to verify with a reference.^[1]

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^[3]--Patrickj05 (talk) 04:41, 1 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ McGee, T.K., "Public engagement in neighbourhood level wildfire mitigation and preparedness: Case studies from Canada, the US and Australia", Journal of Environmental Management, 2011
^ Steelman, Toddi (2004). "Effective Community Responses to Wildfire Threats: Lessons from New Mexico". Society and Natural Resources. 17 (8): 679–699. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
^ Thompson, Matthew P. (2011). "Advancing effects analysis for integrated, large-scale wildfire risk assessment". Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 179 (1–4): 217–239. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)

--Scarbelc05 (talk) 23:42, 22 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Some suggested topics for the article include discussing the general information about wildfires, such as possible causes and damaging effects, in the first section. In the next section we may want to discuss methods for preparing for wildfires in terms of developing evacuation plans and wild fire safe community plans. The third section could discuss response to wildfires in terms suppressing fires and fire fighter techniques. The fourth section could analyze methods for recovering from wildfire damage to property and homes. A fifth section could describe mitigation in terms of standard codes and policies for effectively handling wildfires. An additional section could also analyze case studies of particular wildfire events within the United States. --Patrickj05 (talk) 00:21, 23 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Based on the sections we have identified thus far, Jessica is going to focus writing the "Recovery" section and one example of a wildfire. I will write the section on "Response" and one example of a wildfire. Bill (William) will write the section on "preparation" and one example of a wildfire. All three of us will equally contribute to the introduction and the section on "Mitigation". --Scarbelc05 (talk) 00:59, 23 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

All the information and material is on the page --Wpace3 (talk) 21:45, 1 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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[1] McGee, T.K., "Public engagement in neighbourhood level wildfire mitigation and preparedness: Case studies from Canada, the US and Australia", Journal of Environmental Management, 2011

[2] Steelman, Toddi (2004). "Effective Community Responses to Wildfire Threats: Lessons from New Mexico". Society and Natural Resources. 17 (8): 679–699. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)

[3] Thompson, Matthew P. (2011). "Advancing effects analysis for integrated, large-scale wildfire risk assessment". Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 179 (1–4): 217–239. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)

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