Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Koca Porsuk

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The result was no consensus. (non-admin closure) -- Dane2007 ^talk 22:00, 14 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Koca Porsuk[edit]

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The article is about a very old yew tree. There are multiple issues:

The name of the tree seems to be original research, coined by editor, unsupported by any source.
The age of the tree is not supported by a reliable scientific source. Many trees have unverified ages. I cannot find a primary source for the age, only newspaper accounts. Hence, tree may fail the notability criteria

—hike395 (talk) 23:57, 16 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Keep The name "Koca" means "old" in Turkish and monumental trees are named similairly. "porsuk" is the word for "yew" respectively. Name isn't coined by editor but people call those trees that way. Minister of forests in Turkey and academics mention the tree being the oldest. It's a relatively new discovery and notable indeed.--Kafkasmurat (talk) 18:26, 7 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Environment-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 00:36, 17 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Organisms-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 00:36, 17 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Turkey-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 01:21, 17 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 03:10, 23 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 07:07, 30 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, MBisanz ^talk 03:11, 7 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Tempted to merge to the page on yews - Taxus baccata. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 11:06, 8 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Weak delete. I'm not sure that "old yew" is a name for this tree so much as a description. It's awfully generic; I'd expect that a proper name for an individual tree would often include a geographical term for it's location (or a similarly distinctive term). It was recently discovered and the government is planning to add it to a nature reserve, which presumably may lead to it being given a name. No prejudice against recreating the article when the tree can be shown to have a name. It doesn't seem any less notable than much of what's in Category:Individual trees (not that we have any clear notability guidelines for individual trees). Finding coverage on this tree is tricky as most sources are unlikely to be in English; I'm sure there must be a reliable source for the age of the tree, but I don't have the Turkish fluency to find it. Strongly opposed to a merge to Taxus baccata. List of trees would be a more appropriate target if this were to be merged. Plantdrew (talk) 00:42, 10 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.