User talk:JinelleC09

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Hi Jinelle, Im looking forward to working with you on this Wiki page. To give you a bit of my background, I'm a freelance producer and painter and mother of 2 boys (Nate & Cohen). I plan to finish my degree - BA-art history by september. I love hiking, skate skiing, cycling and painting and doing just about everything with my boys.

I was thinking about our brief chat yesterday and have searched Wiki for Urban chickens and Urban beekeeping.

I searched the following links on Wiki:

URBAN BEEKEEPING Beekeeping https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beekeeping Urban or backyard beekeeping https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beekeeping#Urban_or_backyard_beekeeping Urban beekeeping https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_beekeeping

The pages seem well defined but there is no mention of Vancouver beekeeping.

A quick google search yielded many resources for us to develop an Urban beekeeping page for Vancouver that could include city regulations about keeping bees, Vancouver bee hives on top of city hall and at the convention center, local bee keepers, or the hives for humanity project on the downtown east side. LOTS of published information - sources to credit. I also have a close friend who is a bee keeper and lives a couple blocks away so we could take some of our own pictures to illustrate the page. I think there is also room to add some Vancouver reference to the main bee keeping page as Vancouver seems to be doing a number of interesting things with hives that are not happening elsewhere.

URBAN CHICKENS

Urban Chicken https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_chicken

- This page had a broom warning - reflecting that the articles tone needed work. My assumption is that they are referring to the long list of concerns noted in the article. Vancouver is highlighted but no mention of chickens is made on the Vancouver page so we could develop an urban chicken page for Vancouver similar to the one referred to in beekeeping.

While I am happy to do either I feel much more inclined to go with bee keeping as there seems to be may more credited sources available about interesting stuff happening in Vancouver. Also, I think the Urban beekeeping page is strong making it a more natural jump for us to go to Vancouver specific beekeeping. The argument for Urban Chickens would be that the main page needs work too so we could fix this up and a link to Vancouver Urban chickens. Im a bit concerned that this may be taking on too much though.

I'm going to User talk to the others who are doing gardens to see if any of them are planning to do ne of these 2, might help with the decisions.

Your thoughts?

Paulajgill (talk) 19:15, 29 January 2014 (UTC)paulajgillPaulajgill (talk) 19:15, 29 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comments on your BIOL 345 proposal

This is a great idea. Here are a few comments and questions to consider:

What other Wikipedia pages will you link to?
What other Wikipedia pages will you create links from, to your page?
You might want to speak with a couple of Vancouver beekeepers, to get their perspective on issues you might otherwise overlook.
Please do your composing and editing in a Wikipedia sandbox. This will help build your familiarity with Wikipedia and will also allow me to keep an eye on your progress, offering help if I think it's appropriate.

Rosieredfield (talk) 01:21, 6 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]