Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of plants of Collin County, Texas


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The result was   DELETE. Alexf(talk) 19:22, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

List of plants of Collin County, Texas

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So, will we have a list of every plant and/or every animal and/or every mineral in every single county in the United States? I think even listing by state is too fine a granularity. But what makes all of these plants different from the next county over, especially in a state like Texas where there are over 200 counties? Corvus cornix talk  23:13, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

Fine granularity is not listed as a valid reason for deletion in Deletion policy. A comprehensive list of flora or fauna for an area is useful for anyone studying nature in that area. Other lists for Texas have been useful to me. User:Gaberlunzi —Preceding undated comment added 23:26, 23 December 2010 (UTC).
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Texas-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 02:37, 24 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 02:37, 24 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. While a list of flora unique to a region might be encyclopedic and worthy of mention in the county's (or other appropriate subdivision's) article and/or the plant's article, a blanket article containing merely a listing of all flora present in a region seems trivial and unencyclopedic, especially when attributable to only one or two sources, one of which is also identified as a checklist and the other barely seems to add any valuable commentary to the article other than a few brief notes for a few such plants. Likewise, what distinguishes the flora in Collin County from that in, say, the other counties in the DFW area? In response to [F]ine granularity is not listed as a valid reason for deletion, the deletion policy does suggest "[a]ny other content not suitable for an encyclopedia" as being a valid reason for deletion. At the moment, this article is merely a list with no encyclopedic content, and appears to be a list for the sake of having a list that may be more appropriate on a local plant enthusiast's personal site. The argument that someone might find this "useful" similarly doesn't carry much weight. -- Kinu t /c  02:32, 25 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom. Fails WP:SALAT for being too specific. Clarityfiend (talk) 23:45, 25 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete, being extremely specific beyond reason is a valid reason for deletion. Nyttend (talk) 01:17, 27 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete - basically original research for it is based on a single primary source. Bearian (talk) 16:16, 27 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. (1) The reasons already given; (2) While a county is de facto notable, its flora may not be, especially if it is indistinguishable from adjacent counties--the article has no assertion of notability; (3) An article like this will likely be a magnet for additions by editors who know of additional species, but those additions are unlikely to be referenced and will be mistakenly attributed to the original reference.--Curtis Clark (talk) 17:32, 27 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete for reasons specified above.  coccyx bloccyx  (toccyx)  00:08, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
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