Talk:British Columbia Coast
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[edit] Coastline lengths 'n' stuff
I'm pretty sure I don't have the coastline figures accurate; could be 40,000 for all I know; it's more than the rest of the coastline by about that propotion or difference, whatever the n0,000 is.
History section has yet to be completed. I put section headings below that to give an idea where this is going but this was a draft and I did it in one go this afternoon. Maps soon. Probably should get used to putting things of this size together in the sandbox, but I'm working off the wikification of the regional geography right now and was setting this up for various interlinks already in place as links but without entries to go with them . . . This is a companion-piece, regionally-speaking, to British Columbia Interior, Lower Mainland, Coast Mountains, Pacific Northwest, Alaska Panhandle etc.
More later Skookum1 01:48, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Communities list vs First Nations list
I feel a little awkward separating these two; many individual First Nations are also single villages/locations and constitute communities; not having them in the communities list is a bit segregating; the whole point of the First Nations list is the respective sovereignties/cultures; whereas the communities list is meant to be places of note and which have services etc. The regional coalescences of First Nations political entities are probably what I should link to here to make it work, so there's not 400 First Nations communities listed (all with wildly-difficult to spell names).Skookum1 01:52, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Rivers associated with inlets
It occurred to me earlier while looking at another article somewhere (?) that the list of inlets and waterways here could be given greater context if the rivers associated with them were also listed; I think for formatting reason this would be best done as a table/boxformat but I'm open to suggestions; also in the same league are any named ranges, such as the Namu Range near the townlet of the same name, and overall the division between the Pacific and Coast Ranges. Examples of the river-inlet connection are Howe Sound-Squamish River, Toba Inlet-Toba River, But Inlet-Homathko/Southgate Rivers, Knight Inlet-Klinaklini River, Dean Channel-Dean River and so on. At present I've only marked Telegraph Passage, the outlet of the inlet-like Skeena estuary, but as far as a page describing the coastal geography may be a four-column system with inlet-waterway | islands/archipelagos | rivers | ranges might work. Anything else? Other than illustrative photos - I'm already working on a suitable map.Skookum1 03:10, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Re-organization
I've been meaning to come back here for a while to try and give this page some structure; no luck yet on the map, but maybe that's best as a group of maps is probably more suitable here than one big-area map only. This ties in with my main recommendation/agenda here, which is to break the page into sections for hte regions - North Coast, Central Coast, South Coast, and their respecvtive subregions, hwoever defined. This is partly because of links like Central Coast of British Columbia or North Coast of British Columbia, which I usually pipe directly to this article but could be instead British Columbia Coast#Central Coast or the three main subregions ccould be broken off as 'daughter articles". this ties into the problem of the asssemblage of links for inlets, waterways, islands and communities; gonna be far easier to consolidate them all within sections rather than by type, as the inlet/swaterways define the regions anyway. As it is the listing on List of British Columbia rivers is rather more complete/structured and already has basic subregions laid out, it's a matter of fitting islands/communities etc into those sections and hierarchy trees. I'd just move those over here straight away but some reorganization of this page is necessary first; also the rambling intro I penned long ago could obvoiusly be tightened up, and the discussion of usage would be best given a capital-U and examples come up with on the varying meanings of "out on the Coast", "down on the Coast", "down Coast", "Up Coast" and so on; as definition-citations we won't get but example-citations we can find. The further issue is whether or not to de-nationalize this and expand it to include inlets/islands of Alaska and Washington, and renamed it Pacific Northwest Coast......although their usages won't be the same.....hmmmm nice in concept, hard in practice...Skookum1 (talk) 19:13, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
