Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Plant Encyclopedia


 * 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. Courcelles 11:06, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

The Plant Encyclopedia

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No mention of notability and I can't verify anything mentioned in this article through secondary sources. The wiki itself appears to largely be a clone of Wikipedia articles, e.g. content has been lifted from our article on Sedum (the lead paragraph in particular) and imported into their article with no mention of the text's creative commons license or origin (not itself a reason to delete the article, but proves the subject of the article is not notable yet). The more notable website Dave's Garden doesn't even have its own Wikipedia article yet. Rkitko (talk) 22:23, 28 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Websites-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 13:16, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete No sources outside of the encyclopedia itself noting its notability. --Kleopatra (talk) 17:34, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment. Agree with nominator, but creator of the article must have a chance to provide any references to publications about this site. I hope such publications exist. If not, this should be deleted per per WP:Notability. Unfortunately. Biophys (talk) 19:43, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
 * The creator was notified and has not provided sources. I've also done extensive searching for anything on this to satisfy notability; the closest I come is a press release on a press release service website. There has been no newspaper coverage or even blogs. The top google hits (for "The Plant Encyclopedia" + "Aden Earth", since googling the name "The Plant Encyclopedia" alone brings up tons of other websites) are all self-promotion, e.g. his own websites, twitter accounts, facebook profiles, and his Wikipedia user page. I'm satisfied I have not missed anything that would fulfill notability requirements for this website. Rkitko (talk) 20:03, 3 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Then delete. Biophys (talk) 22:30, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
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