Template:Did you know nominations/Akbelen Forest


 * My reading of what has happened is that despite protests, the courts permitted the cutting. It happened over a period of weeks. It has ceased. Police barriers prevented access, but drone footage enabled the observation that it is about 60% cleared. Could more happen in future? Who knows. i.e. the cutting has stopped, past tense is correct. CT55555 (talk) 15:02, 21 August 2023 (UTC)
 * I take the opposite view here. Are there any sources that explicitly state that the cutting has finished or is this our own deduction? The two more recent sources in the article (Balkan Insider, 8 August, this one from later in August) both refer to the process in the present tense. Therefore the present tense seems more appropriate until we have definitive reporting that the cutting has indeed stopped. That's why I approved the hook. --GGT (talk) 21:01, 21 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Sorry, should have left a source before. says "Chainsaw teams that arrived to start felling trees a week ago have now finished their work" on July 31. Larataguera (talk) 11:24, 22 August 2023 (UTC)

What is the status of this nomination? Does the verb tense in the original hook need to change? Or are we still debating the facts? Cielquiparle (talk) 08:29, 3 September 2023 (UTC)
 * I reviewed recent articles (and there isn't a lot of news in the past week), and I don't think there's currently any cutting. But I also think it's a minor point, so I wouldn't like to hold up the nomination over it. I see Chidgk1's point about ongoing deforestation over a period of months or years. There is some recent coverage that discusses the cutting as if it were ongoing: The Guardian It is difficult to know how many trees have been destroyed so far.... So if there is no consensus to rephrase for past tense, I withdraw my concern. Larataguera (talk) 10:34, 3 September 2023 (UTC)
 * I also reviewed everything I could. I have a slight preference that I presented above, but I think we are splitting hairs. This is a multi year issue. We could debate if it is still ongoing or not (is it ongoing if the guys with the chainsaws took a 3 hour break? A 3 day break? A three week break?) I don't object to it going up as currently written. CT55555 (talk) 13:59, 3 September 2023 (UTC)