Talk:Devon Bat Group

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This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page.

This article has no links to other Wikipedia articles. (May 2014)

 The opening sentence now links to the relevant Bat conservation Trust article.

 The "Links" at the bottom also include the parent organization: The Bat Conservation Trust page

This article is an orphan, as no other articles link to it. Please introduce links to this page from related articles; try the Find links tool for suggestions. (May 2014)

 This article is only a few hours old.

The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guidelines for companies and organizations.

(May 2014)

 The text indicates that the Devon Bat Group is one of many county bat groups coordinated by The Bat
 Conservation Trust. It has a constitution linking it to the BCT.

This article does not cite any references or sources. (May 2014)

 These will follow as the article expands

keoka 14:07, 29 May 2014 (UTC)

Devon Bat Group[edit]

As indicated in the article, this is a conservation group with a specific interest in the welfare of bats in the UK county of Devon.

There is more to add about the conservation work done by the DBG - this is only a start. Any comments will be welcome, along with further factual details relevant to bats in Devon.

keoka 00:06, 29 May 2014 (UTC)

Notability[edit]

While the current article is not very good, I would argue that the group is notable enough for inclusion. They do important survey and conservation work with large organisations like Natural England and South West Lakes Trust. Some examples of their work from the internet:

http://www.swlakestrust.org.uk/conservation/projects/bats-project Bat populations monitored at Roadford Lake by DBG
https://www.southwestwater.co.uk/index.cfm?articleid=9018 More bat conservation work with South West Water
http://devonbatproject.org/project-partners/ Greater Horseshoe Bat Project - partners
http://bigexeterbatsurvey.edublogs.org/ Exeter big bat survey 2015
http://www.pebblebedheaths.org.uk/about-us/funding-conservation-partners.ashx Surveying for the Pebblebed Heaths Conservation Trust
http://www.southhams.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=7027&p=0 Evidence from DBG used in application to re-open Hemerdon Mine

I would conclude from this evidence that the notability is established. Some of the above need to make it into the article of course. If there are no other comments, I will remove the notability template in a week. --NHSavage (talk) 21:39, 5 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]