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Re: List of individual trees

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However obscure this page might be, I was there just a few days ago. Clicked on it from this article about a tree that was cut down, and it was apparently a big thing in the UK. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sycamore_Gap_tree

This was huge news in the UK when it happened. Massive public uproar for an illegal felling. The perpetrators were both jailed: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6295zv9101o

"What are you in for?"

Re: List of individual trees

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Several more https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Individual_physical_o... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lists_of_individual_a...

The list of animals has dolphins and birds but not humans?

It’s Wikipedia. Make the change you want to see in the page.

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The list of animals has dolphins and birds but not humans?

It’s Wikipedia. Make the change you want to see in the page.

With respect, that is naive. To demonstrate, create a new account and go ahead and make that change. It will be reverted. Wikipedia is not the democratic free-for-all it once was.

If you do perform that experiment and I am wrong, please come back and let us know.

Re: List of individual trees

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Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_superlative_trees

I've been to the Ancient Bristlecone Pine forest in Inyo County, CA where the Methuselah tree lives. Though I didn't get to see that specific tree because the sun was fast setting and I wasn't prepared to hike around in darkness, I had a pretty amazing experience being the presence of 4000- and 5000-year old trees.

Re: List of individual trees

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However obscure this page might be, I was there just a few days ago. Clicked on it from this article about a tree that was cut down, and it was apparently a big thing in the UK. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sycamore_Gap_tree

This was huge news in the UK when it happened. Massive public uproar for an illegal felling. The perpetrators were both jailed: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6295zv9101o

I can understand the outrage. Was there any motivation given for why they cut it down? Just vandalism?

Re: List of individual trees

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s Wikipedia. Make the change you want to see in the page.

With respect, that is naive. To demonstrate, create a new account and go ahead and make that change. It will be reverted. Wikipedia is not the democratic free-for-all it once was. If you do perform that experiment and I am wrong, please come back and let us know.

I’m here to let you know you are wrong.

I made an anonymous edit to the Wikipedia page of one of Hemingways short stories three years ago, and my edit is still there.

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