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Thank you for what you said on User talk:SlimVirgin - 19:40, 29 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Thank you, Gerda. mgiganteus1 (talk) 01:39, 30 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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Speedy deletion nomination of Cyathea × confirmis
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A tag has been placed on Cyathea × confirmis requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done for the following reason:
There is no other evidence than the source in the article that this species exists; probably a misspelling – see talk page.
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- Copied from soon-to-be-deleted article talk page:
- ==Doubtful species==
- No taxonomic database that I've looked at lists "Cyathea × confirmis" or "Cyathea confirmis". The International Plant Names Index has no entries for the specific epithet "confirmis". A Google Scholar search for
"confirmis" Cyatheaceae
produces no hits.
- There is a species Cyathea confinis C.Chr., now Alsophila confinis (C.Chr.) R.M.Tryon, whose distribution is given as Haiti, which fits what is said in the article.
- If there were a species originally named as "Cyathea × confirmis", the parents given in the article are now both in Alsophila, so it would need to be moved to that genus, but no such name exists.
- I conclude that the article should be deleted, as the name is either a misspelling in the source or here. Peter coxhead (talk) 06:07, 25 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Having consulted the original source, I can confirm that the same spelling is used there. If the name is not found anywhere else then it's probably a typographical error as you suggest. In any case, I support the article's deletion if the name has no currency outside this brief mention. mgiganteus1 (talk) 13:01, 25 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Ok, thanks for checking the original. I managed to get access to the full text of 16:07, 25 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Yep, that's fine by me. An alternative would be to redirect to the main Alsophila page where this information could be summarised under "Dubious species" or something like that. mgiganteus1 (talk) 17:22, 26 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Ok, thanks for checking the original. I managed to get access to the full text of 16:07, 25 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Having consulted the original source, I can confirm that the same spelling is used there. If the name is not found anywhere else then it's probably a typographical error as you suggest. In any case, I support the article's deletion if the name has no currency outside this brief mention. mgiganteus1 (talk) 13:01, 25 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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