User talk:Hilary Claffey

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I saw the page you wrote on the trees of Idomaland. Unfortunately there are several problems with that page. Firstly, it cites no reliable sources. The book on "Trees of Idomaland" that's mentioned might be one such source, but I couldn't find it on either Google Books or WorldCat; we'd need at least enough bibliographical information about the book to allow our readers to identify it. An ISBN would be nice, for example.

Furthermore, the article's scope seems rather vague, and parts of the content were irrelevant to that scope at all (for example, the people's farming proficiency seems irrelevant to the trees, unless we were discussing deforestation to create more farm land). It may be more useful for our readers to improve the articles on specific plants, for example Hymenocardia acida (which is discussed here in connection with both your book and medical research). The vegetation section of the Benué State article may benefit from a general overview of the flora in that state. We do not, however, currently have a separate article on Idomaland, and unless it's geographically or ecologically different from the rest of Benué, I don't think separate articles on the ecology of that subdivision would be useful.

Given this combination of a lack of references and less-than-optimal location, I'll propose the current article for deletion before too much work is invested there. Huon (talk) 23:28, 12 October 2014 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Trees of idomaland


The article Trees of idomaland has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * No indication of notability of this specific topic, no reliable sources beyond a single book unknown to both Google Books and WorldCat. Also WP:COI issues.

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article 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. Huon (talk) 23:29, 12 October 2014 (UTC)