Talk:Fortingall Yew

message: Does it make sense to call a tree that is on an island off the coast of Europe the largest tree in Europe?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.107.0.96 (talk) 17:38, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Which continent do you suggest britian belongs to? Stupidstudent (talk) 18:19, 6 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Biggest in Europe

message: The "oldest in Europe" conflicts with Llangernyw Yew which is dated at 4-5,000 years. -- Shimmin Beg (talk) 16:08, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I may have missed it, but unfortunately they don't seem to be any credible citations on that article confirming this date or otherwise. Ben MacDui 16:45, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with Shimmin Beg - there are references on the Llangernyw Yew page, albeit not as footnotes in the main text.  There is also a reference in the text to dating done by the RBS and a plaque confirming this.  Giford (talk) 23:09, 18 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Status as oldest 

message: I had removed Flora of Scotland as a category because the category composition made clear that it was intended for species and articles on flora, not specific plants. I think it should be removed again. Hekerui (talk) 08:47, 13 October 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: The category makes no such claim and the composition includes Meikleour Beech Hedges, as it would any other notable specimens - unless and until they are sufficient in number to have their own sub-cat. Do you have an alternative suggestion? Ben MacDui 09:00, 13 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Categorization

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: There are lots of sources for the article, especially for the historic claims about the tree, but all the references point not to the actual source but, for example, to the Wikipedia article for the person who wrote the original source.
I thought that there was a way to include sources for documents and books that aren't available on the internet, so it shouldn't have been difficult for the original editor who included a source to do it properly so that we can all see something verifiable if we take the trouble to.   But the way it is now, it's not worth much because the source could be something totally imaginary, and how would we know?  It might as well have no source or reference at all.
  
For example, what is at present #4, which between the ref and /ref, reads:
:Hon. Daines Barrington, Transactions of the Royal Society, 1769.
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1700:EA01:1090:103F:423A:94D3:9140 (talk) 09:24, 10 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Invisible sources