Talk:Tree of Ténéré

message: A short blog article with a picture of both the tree and the metal sculpture that replaced it: http://www.kirchersociety.org/blog/?p=726 (found via BoingBoing - http://www.boingboing.net/2006/06/06/sad_fate_of_the_last.html)
--HunterZ 19:49, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh man, when I got to the part about the drunk Libyan truck driver, I nearly died laughing.Bobanny 07:08, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

text: Wow, that was amazing... I got dizzy laughing so hard.Momo Hemo 16:47, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

message: The second image in the article seems to be missing. I'll edit out the link but could someone please check to see if they can still load the image http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Arbre-neu2.jpg. If it's missing (and is not merely missing for me) then it appears to also have gone missing from wikimedia commons http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Arbre-neu2.jpg.
Random Passer-by 01:26, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Missing Image?

message: The article mentions that the tree appears on a map with the scale 1:4,000,000. I was able to find it on a map (in the 7th Edition of National Geographic's Atlas of the World) with the scale 1:8,790,000. Why is the scale 1:4,000,000 significant, as opposed to some larger one?Spurius Furius Fusus 20:58, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Map Scale

message: This may be the saddest story I've ever heard
Yeah, this damn truck driver. How stupid can a single human being be?
:I fail to understand how anyone manage to hit the only tree in a 500 mile radius, no matter how drunk one is. Primadog 07:49, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This is really sad.. --Vosselmans 16:03, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: In Desmond Bagley's novel Flyaway it's stated that a French truck driver hit it in 1960.  Anyone know if this is true? Mr Larrington (talk) 15:24, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

text: Around 300, apparently . --Illythr (talk) 13:52, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  :'( 

message: I've made some merchandise for the Wikipedia store based on this article: [www.cafepress.com/wikipedia/2480746 Arbre du Tenere] section. Let me know what you think on the meta page. Tlogmer ( talk / contributions ) 01:04, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  This article in the Wikipedia store 

message: Does anybody have an idea how old this tree was (or might have been)? --Paul Pot (talk) 21:16, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: This was answered above: 300. --Voidvector (talk) 12:03, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  How old was this tree? 

message: Here is a great page with several photos of the Tenere Tree but it is in French.  Can someone figure out what it says and see about copyright issues with posting some of the images on Wikipedia?
Gallery of the Tree
Online discussion forums cannot be used as references as they are unverifiable. vıdıoman 23:46, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Those are photos in chronologic order. It says that a truck allready hit it between 1959 and 1967 and lost one trunk. But "forums cannot be used as references as...". --82.227.142.250 (talk) 09:51, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

text: According to the Desmond Bagley novel Flyaway it was hit by a French lorry driver in 1960, though how accurate this may be... Mr Larrington (talk) 10:38, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Need  A French Translator 

message: I like this article and I read it often. I think I figured out why such a horrible thing is so funny. The article starts out by describing the rarity of the tree. It then proceeds to describe the challenges the tree faced to survive. After that, the article talks about how sacred the tree is to the local population. In the next sentence, it gets hit by a drunk driver. No mention before this that the tree is no longer standing besides the word was. My suggestion for this article if you want to tone down the humor (which is not my desire for the article), would be to put in the intro paragraph something that more specifically states the tree was run down.Momo Hemo (talk) 15:39, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Possible Structure Change

message: It's not the only isolated tree in the Tenere: I have a photo of another 40 miles west of the A-d-T, just south of the basalt massif of the Adrar Azzouagar. It too is an Acacia.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.105.113.73 (talk) 04:14, 10 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, it starts off in the past tense--the tree was, etc. vıdıoman 03:14, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Get the facts straight

message: I found a bunch of sources and added them to the Vietnamese translation. If anyone has a little free time, feel free to work them into this article too. – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs) 08:53, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  More sources 

message: Tlogmer made a logo for the Arbre and posted it to Meta.  I think this was in the context of articles about amazing subjects that could be used for Wikipedia promotion.  But if it was for a formal international celebration, it might be appropriate to mention it here.  –SJ+ 02:03, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Logo for the tree 

message: I'm not a big Wikipedia editor and I'm terrified to do something wrong so I am proceeding as I understand to be correctly: the genus listed in the article should be updated to reflect taxonomic changes within Acacia, correct? Acacia raddiana/tortilis has been moved to the genus Vachellia; is there a reason not to change it?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.89.235.31 (talk) 20:07, 27 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vachellia vs Acacia?