Talk:Washington (tree)

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If anyone has a decent photo of this tree before it was damaged by the 2003 fire, please add it to the page. —Eoghanacht 15:38, 2005 Apr 7 (UTC)

I don't have one, but you can ask at Wikipedia:Requested images. -- hike395 15:55, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thanks, added it under N. American places. —Eoghanacht 16:05, 2005 Apr 7 (UTC)

I found two photos and linked to the page under External Links. Hope this helps. Rossumcapek 02:57, 28 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Location

Thanks for finding the tree location. The best I could do was locate the grove, which is why I placed the lat/long where I had. I split the first sentence just to clarify that the lat/long is for the tree itself. —Eoghanacht 17:32, 2005 Apr 7 (UTC)

trees

i cant find any info on trees

Requested move

This article has been renamed from Washington tree to Washington Tree as the result of a move request.

The following is a closed discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the proposal was - uncontested move. Keith D (talk) 22:23, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Washington tree → Washington Tree — Both external links and the intro to this article use capital "T." —LeSnail (talk) 02:38, 9 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Support. Appropriate capitalisation. Andrewa (talk) 13:59, 9 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support since it is not just any tree, it is the name of one tree. Tigeron (talk) 23:00, 11 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support, as per nominator and Andrewa. --203.94.135.134 (talk) 03:46, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

Any additional comments:

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Requested move 30 April 2025

It has been proposed in this section that multiple pages be renamed and moved.

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Links: current log • target log • direct move

Washington (tree) → Washington Tree
Adam (tree) → Adam Tree
Allen Russell (tree) → Allen Russell Tree
Boole (tree) → Boole Tree
Chief Sequoyah (tree) → Chief Sequoyah Tree
Floyd Otter (tree) → Floyd Otter Tree
Franklin (tree) → Franklin Tree
General Grant (tree) → General Grant Tree
General Noble (tree) → General Noble Tree
Genesis (tree) → Genesis Tree
Hart (tree) → Hart Tree
Hercules (tree) → Hercules Tree
John Adams (tree) → John Adams Tree
Lincoln (tree) → Lincoln Tree
Nelder (tree) → Nelder Tree
President (tree) → President Tree
Robert E. Lee (tree) → Robert E. Lee Tree
Sentinel (tree) → Sentinel Tree
Stagg (tree) → Stagg Tree

– The main guideline motivating these moves is WP:NATURAL, which prefers titles that are also commonly used (e.g. Washington Tree) vs a parenthetical disambiguator (e.g., Washington (tree)).

The main question is: what is the most commonly used name for all of these Giant Sequoia? Washington Tree or Washington tree? The capitalized form "Washington Tree" (and equivalent) seems to be the most common. See, e.g., Washington Tree Google ngrams, Boole Tree Google ngrams, General Grant Tree Google ngrams, President Tree Google ngrams.

There are two other considerations:

We just moved General Grant (tree) to General Grant Tree. These moves would make the article titles consistent with General Grant Tree, per WP:CONSISTENT
In 2008, there was a discussion (above) for moving Washington tree to Washington Tree. I don't believe there was discussion or any consensus in 2011 to move to Washington (tree). — hike395 (talk) 15:12, 30 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

Support as the page mover who closed General Sherman Tree. I think the same logic that applied there works on the majority of these. At the very least, Washington Tree should be restored per the above RM consensus. Bensci54 (talk) 16:30, 30 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]