Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/A. R. Leding Cactus Garden


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.  

The result was delete. Sandstein 09:51, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

A. R. Leding Cactus Garden

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Garden no longer exists, apparently was removed when a bio building was expanded Bm gub 18:18, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete I was going to suggest a redirect to New Mexico State University Botanical Garden (per the proposed guideline at Places of local interest). However, this result worries me. In addition, this site only lists the place as directory-style information. Even if this place is verifiable, it's not notable. Grace notes  T  &#167; 18:43, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete Clearly not notable, particularly if the University thought so little of it that they built over it.--Anthony.bradbury 19:16, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete Ummm, probaly nn when it existed, and now that it's gone... a bit more nn? SkierRMH, 07:56, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep. This article has been around for well over a year.  The nomination seems to be saying that since it was removed it should be deleted.  Botanical gardens are likely to be consiered notable and one with a specific focus more so.  No longer existing is not a reason to be deleted from wikipedia.  Vegaswikian 03:27, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Let me expand the non-notability argument.  When I stumbled across the article, I thought I'd like to stop by and see the garden, so I asked an actual NMSU professor-emeritus where it was.   Neither he nor anyone in his family had never heard of it; he asked an actual NMSU plant biologist, and the plant biologist apparently had to ask around.  Perhaps it was the equivalent of the "Rich O. Alumnus Memorial Shrub Grouping" and the "Class of 1937 Dogwood" you find in odd corners of every college campus.   Only with cacti.   I hope they transplanted the collection when they de-memorialized it.    Alas, now we can only speculate about the glories of the garden that once was: "In addition to over 100,000 Lithops sp. planted personally by Louise Bourgeois, the A.R. Leding Cactus Garden had only a single cactus, a 1000-foot-tall saguaro which Norse myths say held up the sky.   Its hollow, poisonous spines exude drops of liquid gold which fall to the ground and are called as "Pele's Tears"; the shamans of the Chaco Canyon culture used this fibrous material to line nests in holes in the saguaro's trunk, where (unlike the distantly-related echidnas) they gave birth to live young.   The saguaro was eaten by vagabonds in 2005 and was replaced by the John Q. Endowment Memorial Cloud Forest, which evaporated in early 2006.  (this article does not cite sources.) "    Bm gub 08:55, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
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