Talk:Red Forest

A fact from Red Forest appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 3 April 2007. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Red Forest, near Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, gets its name from the ginger brown colour of its dead pine trees after the Chernobyl accident?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2007/April.

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Eerie red glow from the pine trees?

The source cited says "Four square kilometres of pine forest in the immediate vicinity of the reactor went ginger brown and died, earning the name of the Red Forest." There's no mention of an eerie red glow. That's a description from a science fiction novel. And this article was featured in the 'Did you know...' section today. When I saw this on the Wikipedia main page, I thought that it was a late entry for April Fool's Day. Ninquerinquar 21:19, 2 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It's bullsh!t.

-G —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 134.117.157.7 (talk) 00:43, 3 April 2007 (UTC).[reply]

Красная Пуща

"Красная Пуща" doesn't return many hits on Google search... Camptown 23:14, 2 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I think it was translated using something like Babelfish. It should probably be "Красный Пес". Alekjds ^talk 00:09, 3 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Merging with excisting article

I think this article is a little short to be on it's own.
Merging it with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster_effects would probably be a good idea. Even 18:51, 24 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned references in Red Forest

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Red Forest's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "iaea":

From Chernobyl disaster effects: "IAEA Report". In Focus: Chernobyl. Retrieved 2006-03-29.
From Belarus: Smith, Marilyn. "Ecological reservation in Belarus fosters new approaches to soil remediation". International Atomic Energy Agency. Retrieved 2007-12-19. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 05:30, 27 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

"Unsubstantiated" ?

I would say, since there are sources to support the tales of strange plant mutations in the forest, such as tree branches growing the wrong way and plants showing gigantish, the tales of a "forest of wonders" aren't really "unsubstantiated". Albeit that the name "forest of wonders" is of course a very subjective one. So I edited the article at this point. RagingR2 (talk) 12:18, 17 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Source articles

I found this article in my daily science reports, and thought it might be incorporated into the article under a new heading for effects on flora (as opposed to fauna, for which there is a section, though not named as such).
I also found this link, which appears to have a number of images of the Red Forest. - Jack Sebastian (talk) 15:44, 7 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]