A fact from Okinawa soba appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 7 February 2006. The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that during the era of Ryukyu Kingdom the noodle soup Okinawa soba could only be eaten by royalty until Okinawa's annexation by Japan in the late 19th century? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2006/February.

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It is a shame to point out that the Do you know? column is wrong. Here I summarize the main points in order to avoid further misunderstanding.

• First of all, Okinawa soba is a modern product. There was no such thing in Ryūkyū.
• Ryūkyū's records contain some fragmentary references to some kinds of noodles, but no one proves that they evolved into Okinawa soba.
• No source was cited by the original author Ginstrom ( talk · contribs) in 2006 [1]. I suspect that s/he, or his/her unspecified source, misunderstood a historical source in which its author, who was a very distant relative of the king, stated that he ate soba. Soba in this context refers to buckwheat noodles, not Okinawa soba.

-- Nanshu ( talk) 13:15, 16 September 2016 (UTC) reply

The entire name section is missing sources and seems like hearsay. SquallyZ06 ( talk) 14:09, 19 August 2019 (UTC) reply