Talk:Gabriola Island
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I'd like to add material about wildlife other than birds, flesh out the bird section, wikify the whole article as I just did with the turkey vulture, add a link to the Gabriola Museum, mention the library, add material about geology, history, geography, climate, boating and fishing. Something about the flora would be good too. Also, the article needs attribution here and there. I'll have to hunt for sources. It might be worth mentioning the publication "Shale" and the island newspaper, which I believe is called "The Sounder." Also, a description of the road system or perhaps a map of it would be good. Finetooth 03:06, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Metric conversions
Oops. I don't mean to start an edit war over the conversions. I just "fixed' several then noticed that User:Peter Horn had changed some of the conversion templates I added several months ago. I suppose several things might be at issue here. I spelled out the main units, metric in this case, because of the following advice in the Wikipedia Manual of Style: "In the main text, give the main units as words and use unit symbols or abbreviations for conversions in parentheses; for example, a pipe 100 millimetres (4 in) in diameter..." I found this advice here. I think I need to change a few more instances to make the whole article internally consistent. Also, I'm trying to round off to the nearest significant figure. Some room is left for debate here, but I think the island high point, for example, should be rounded to 525 feet to match the 160 metres. Finetooth (talk) 18:52, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
