User talk:Boyce Tankersley

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Proposed deletion of PlantCollections


The article PlantCollections has been proposed for deletion&#32;because of the following concern: "Unsourced, no indication of notability. I'm not finding any existing database with this exact name. The APGA does have a page for Plant Collections Network, which may have grown out of 'PlantCollections', but it isn't a database. There are 81 collections in the 'Collection Showcase', mostly organized by genus. Some of these collections are multi-institutional, but there are instances of multiple showcased collections for a genus, with each collection held by a single institution. The available data for each collection is a PDF document which doesn't necessarily list each accession (rather than just a total number of accessions for each species), and there doesn't appear to be any way to search across institutions when a genus has multiple collections held by different institutions. Whatever PlantCollections was supposed to be, it doesn't exist as described in the Wikipedia article."

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Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Plantdrew (talk) 19:12, 20 June 2023 (UTC)