Talk:Methuselah (pine tree)

How old?
"Methuselah is a 8-year-old[1] Great Basin bristlecone pine". What? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.40.217.206 (talk) 12:57, 30 March 2017 (UTC)


 * It was vandalism, subsequently fixed. Don't automatically believe everything you read in Wikipedia. —hike395 (talk) 16:14, 30 March 2017 (UTC)

Skepticism of age raised by Matthew Salzer
added a quote from the Washington Post where Matthew Salzer (from the University of Arizona Laboratory for Tree-Ring Research) was skeptical of the age quoted in Schulmann's original paper.

WaPo is surely a reliable source, but Salzer's results haven't undergone peer review yet. How shall we represent this in the article? — hike395 (talk) 05:02, 29 October 2022 (UTC)


 * Later --- added a sentence about the controversy in the main article, but not the lede. Open to other possibilities. — hike395 (talk) 05:19, 29 October 2022 (UTC)

Requested move 24 February 2024

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Adumbrativus (talk) 00:20, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

Methuselah (tree) → Methuselah (pine tree) – Disambiguate from other trees with the same name. * Pppery * it has begun... 22:21, 24 February 2024 (UTC) The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
 * Support, could be speedied. Hameltion (talk &#124; contribs) 15:07, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Support per nom.--Esprit15d • talk • contribs 23:31, 29 February 2024 (UTC)