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Yeah you can bet the Fuck Tree wouldn't make it into any encyclopedia.
Have you considered that you just aren’t reading the cool encyclopedias?
Fair point. If you've got a connect I am all ears!
List of individual trees
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It’s Wikipedia. Make the change you want to see in the page.
"It’s Wikipedia. Make the change you want to see in the page." If it allows you to edit it in the first place or isn't reverted within five minutes.
Start with the "practice" articles that Wikipedia suggests when you begin as an editor. They might be stub articles, or articles with obvious issues, that you are expected to research and improve a little. Then edit articles where you have more domain expertise than the original authors.
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#113One of Wikipedia’s greatest contributions is collecting records like this that wouldn’t appear in a traditional encyclopedia.
I think the term for this is 'miscellany' . See Ben Schott's Original Miscellany, and follow-on books. One stand-out is 'Untimely Deaths of Pop Stars' with columns for recording 'Overdose', 'Defenestration' etc. (Check all that apply.) It also organizes weird units of measure, 50 US state conventions for dashed road lines (great example of graphical chart) and day of the week toasts onboard a ship.
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#114I'm sure everybody could name local examples of Trees of Mild Renown.
Mine is the Jollyman Oak, which stood in Jollyman Park on Stelling Road, Cupertino and was 160 years old before residential re-development crushed its root system.
I heard about its death via Facebook.
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#115It would be interesting to see the list of past trees. The most famous I can think of Donar's Oak (also called Thor's Oak), which was revered by Germanic pagans, and felled by Saint Boniface.
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My dumb butt thought it was gonna be a list of every tree in the world, all eight gazillion of them
This is a map of all trees in the Netherlands https://boomregister.nl/overzichtskaart-van-de-bomen-in-nede...
That’s cool. My ancestor planted some of them. He was a mayor.
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Wikipedia is and has always been a wiki; reverting bad or controversial edits has always been expected from day one. Also Wikipedia has developed an editorial line of its own, so it's normal that edits that go against the line will be put in question; if that happens to you, you're expected to collaborate in the talk pages to express your intent for the changes, and possibly get recommendations on how to tweak it so…
> reverting bad or controversial edits has always been expected from day one. How charming of you to think that the well-meaning contributor is going to happily smile and agree with you when you tell them that their well-meaning contributions are bad.
So far around 90% of my contributions have been accepted without discussion, from various accounts/IPs, also in recent months.