Talk:Encyclopedia of Conifers

This article was nominated for deletion on 17 September 2016. The result of the discussion was keep.

	Books portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Books. To participate in the project, please visit its page, where you can join the project and discuss matters related to book articles. To use this banner, please refer to the documentation. To improve this article, please refer to the relevant guideline for the type of work.BooksWikipedia:WikiProject BooksTemplate:WikiProject BooksBook articles
	This article is supported by the Reference works task force.

Plants Low‑importance

	Plants portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Plants, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of plants and botany on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.PlantsWikipedia:WikiProject PlantsTemplate:WikiProject Plantsplant articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

The content of this article has been derived in whole or part from http://www.coniferworld.com/. Permission has been received from the copyright holder to release this material under both the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license and the GNU Free Documentation License. You may use either or both licenses. Evidence of this has been confirmed and stored by VRT volunteers, under ticket number 2012022010002326.
This template is used by approved volunteers dealing with the Wikimedia volunteer response team system (VRTS) after receipt of a clear statement of permission at permissions-enwikimedia.org. Do not use this template to claim permission.

File:Encyclopedia of Conifers Volume I.jpg Nominated for speedy Deletion

The following images, used in this article, have been nominated for deletion:

File:Encyclopedia of Conifers Volume I.jpg, has been nominated for speedy deletion for the following reason: All Wikipedia files with unknown copyright status
File:Encyclopedia of Conifers Volume II.jpg has been nominated for speedy deletion for the following reason: All Wikipedia files with unknown copyright status

What should I do?

Don't panic; you should have time to contest the deletion (although please review deletion guidelines before doing so). The best way to contest this form of deletion is by posting on the image talk page.

If the image is non-free then you may need to provide a fair use rationale
If the image isn't freely licensed and there is no fair use rationale, then it cannot be uploaded or used.
If the image has already been deleted you may want to try Deletion Review

To take part in any discussion, or to review a more detailed deletion rationale please visit the relevant image page (File:Encyclopedia of Conifers Volume I.jpg)

This is Bot placed notification, another user has nominated/tagged the image --CommonsNotificationBot (talk) 13:22, 17 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright problem removed

Prior content in this article duplicated one or more previously published sources. The material was copied from: http://coniferworld.com/foreward2.html http://coniferworld.com/order.php. Infringing material has been rewritten or removed and must not be restored, unless it is duly released under a compatible license. (For more information, please see "using copyrighted works from others" if you are not the copyright holder of this material, or "donating copyrighted materials" if you are.) For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or published material; such additions will be deleted. Contributors may use copyrighted publications as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences or phrases. Accordingly, the material may be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with these policies. Thank you. MER-C 06:19, 19 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

File:Umbrella pine 'Mr.-Happy'.jpg Nominated for speedy Deletion

An image used in this article, File:Umbrella pine 'Mr.-Happy'.jpg, has been nominated for speedy deletion for the following reason: All Wikipedia files with unknown copyright status

What should I do?

Don't panic; you should have time to contest the deletion (although please review deletion guidelines before doing so). The best way to contest this form of deletion is by posting on the image talk page.

If the image is non-free then you may need to provide a fair use rationale
If the image isn't freely licensed and there is no fair use rationale, then it cannot be uploaded or used.
If the image has already been deleted you may want to try Deletion Review

To take part in any discussion, or to review a more detailed deletion rationale please visit the relevant image page (File:Umbrella pine 'Mr.-Happy'.jpg)

This is Bot placed notification, another user has nominated/tagged the image --CommonsNotificationBot (talk) 04:23, 25 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

File:Garden of Conifers.jpg Nominated for speedy Deletion

An image used in this article, File:Garden of Conifers.jpg, has been nominated for speedy deletion for the following reason: All Wikipedia files with unknown copyright status

What should I do?

Don't panic; you should have time to contest the deletion (although please review deletion guidelines before doing so). The best way to contest this form of deletion is by posting on the image talk page.

If the image is non-free then you may need to provide a fair use rationale
If the image isn't freely licensed and there is no fair use rationale, then it cannot be uploaded or used.
If the image has already been deleted you may want to try Deletion Review

To take part in any discussion, or to review a more detailed deletion rationale please visit the relevant image page (File:Garden of Conifers.jpg)

This is Bot placed notification, another user has nominated/tagged the image --CommonsNotificationBot (talk) 04:23, 25 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

NPOV (or rather, lack thereof)

The article reads like a promotional text and is riddled with terms like "extensively illustrated", "high quality", "have extensive knowledge of conifers". This is not an article, this is a promotion of the book. Kleuske (talk) 10:24, 6 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I don't see this as a promotional piece, particularly, although there is a whiff of copyvio that I should research when I have time. I can't decide whether to remove the NPOV tag or nominate the whole article for deletion. I'm sure it's a remarkable and comprehensive work, but I'm not sure if it's notable enough for its own Wikipedia article. Neither the authors, the British Conifer Society, nor the publisher have listings in Wikipedia, which makes me lean toward it being non-notable.

Discuss?

*Septegram*Talk*Contributions* 15:05, 3 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The article just went through the AfD and the decision was to keep. It does need to be copyedited for tone. BTW, it was published in cooperation with Royal Horticultural Society which does have an article. K.e.coffman (talk) 19:40, 3 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

LOL. I missed the AfD note at the top of the page. Thanks.

I've added a wikilinks to the RHS; it was only mentioned on the page as "RHS," which wasn't helpful.

Best regards,

*Septegram*Talk*Contributions* 21:46, 3 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]