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The result was: promoted by The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 03:18, 9 December 2015 (UTC)

Wildlife of Turkey, Anatolian diagonal edit

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~~... that the Anatolian diagonal is a significant feature of the flora of Turkey?~~

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5x expanded by Cwmhiraeth (talk). Self-nominated at 09:04, 21 November 2015 (UTC).

@Cwmhiraeth: Reference 2 in Anatolian diagonal (and #9 in Wildlife of Turkey) which is used to support the hook is a holiday company website - i.e. not a reliable source. I can email you a copy of this which looks like it should contain the same information. Length and age wise they are fine. This and this are also not RS. The hook could do with some work to give a little more detail - as it is Anatolian diagonal sounds like it could be a species of plant. SmartSE (talk) 12:49, 22 November 2015 (UTC)

Also spotted this close paraphrasing:

Anatolia is one of the foremost world sources of plants which have been cultivated for food, and the wild ancestors of many plants which now provide staples for mankind still grow here.

The country is one of the foremost sources in the world of plants that have been cultivated for food, and the wild ancestors of many crops that now provide man's staple diet still grow in the country."

SmartSE (talk) 12:56, 22 November 2015 (UTC)

That sentence in the lead is one of only two sentences that formed the article when I started expanding it. I have now rewritten the lead. The article you mention would be useful, thank you, and I will see what I can do about replacing the unreliable sources.

I had difficulty in thinking how to word the hook because the diagonal separates the country floristically and this article is meant to be about the wildlife in general. I might scrap this as a two article hook and concentrate on the Anatolian diagonal alone, or scrap the whole thing. I have just written the Wildlife of Yemen, and that is a much better article. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 14:13, 22 November 2015 (UTC)

@Smartse: Thank you for the paper. I have rewritten much of Anatolian diagonal. How about

ALT1 ... that the Anatolian diagonal is a significant feature in the distribution of the flora of Turkey? Cwmhiraeth (talk) 20:19, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the edits. Anatolian diagonal and the hook are good to go

but flora of Turkey still contains the unreliable sources, so is

for now. If it's not easy to fix, just remove the information and link to Flora and vegetation of Turkey in the hook instead (there's no mention of the divide there yet). SmartSE (talk) 21:00, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

@Smartse: Thanks. I have replaced the two unreliable sources. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 07:45, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

@Cwmhiraeth: Sorry to be a pain but, ref 10 is still the first non-RS I mentioned. SmartSE (talk) 23:01, 25 November 2015 (UTC)

OK, I have removed it. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:03, 26 November 2015 (UTC)

Thanks. We're good to go. SmartSE (talk) 21:44, 26 November 2015 (UTC)