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Hello. I just made Mastitis in dairy cattle but I have no idea what I'm doing. Should it be "dairy cows" or "dairy cattle"? Mooooooooo Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 13:16, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
Perhaps if you don't know what to call a cow it may also be true that you aren't qualified to write this entry. I'm just sayin...
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Iäve updated my list of missing agriculture topics - Skysmith ( talk) 13:09, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
My husband and I have in our basement an International Harvester Freezer. My father brought it from the farm and it ran until about 10 years ago. I know it has to be about 60 yrs old. It's very heavy. I'm wondering do you want an antique. (marge C.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.224.112.77 ( talk) 03:33, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
Is there one? What is the general naming convention for goat articles, if anyone knows, and where is it specified? On List of goat breeds, it appears to be random (some are Xbreed (goat), some are Xbreed, some are Xbreed Goat, etc. I'd like to see them standardized, but it's not high priority, I suppose. To me, Xbreed goat (lower-case g and no parenthesis) makes simple sense as a naming convention, with the other variations redirected to those standard names, but there seemed to be some contrasting thought in the review to try to move Oberhasli (goat) to Oberhasli goat, (one of the page's current redirects). Apparently that was the wrong venue for that proposal anyway, as it was speedily closed as 'wrong forum,' but the responses received there seem to indicate that there is already a naming convention in place for goats. Comments? duff 10:23, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
Is Agriculture an Industry? Often today there are many activities that are described as "industry" that do not conform to my idea of what industry really is. I fear this creates a distortion of understanding, and is often used either to downgrade the importance of an economic activity (such as agriculture), or to suggest a different legitimacy than is really possessed (e.g. the meat industry). I see from various definitions elsewhere [1] [ [2]] that my understanding of "industry" is a narrow one, and the economics context is what is taking over. This makes the word much less useful or even a meaningless addendum (for example, the financial services industry, or the tourism industry, where "sector" would be more appropriate). I think my understanding is best reflected by my (false, but more valid!) memory of the four statues on Holborn Viaduct: Industry; Commerce, Agriculture, and Academia. (In fact [ [3]], the statues represent: Agriculture, Commerce, Science and Fine Art!) Nevertheless, the statues do raise Agriculture to one of four major categories of (Victorian) activity, and so emphasise its importance to our well being, and, indeed, to all our civilisations. If we start thinking of agriculture and agricultural activities as industrial, we are lumping it in with all sorts of more recent activities, and risk bringing industrial mindsets to an activity that seems to me to have fundamental uniquenesses (e.g. living creatures and plants, food, weather and soil dependence) which, if more clearly understood, would likely enhance our lives. So I suggest that WikiProject Agriculture adopts a policy of using the word industry only in its narrow sense (diligence, or manufacture of things) and adopts agriculture as a preferred term. David Hirst 12:17, 8 August 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dynamicpricing ( talk • contribs)
Please see discussion at Talk:Ear tag#Article content and title about merging some of these. Richard New Forest ( talk) 22:29, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
Please see discussion at Talk:Livestock Unit#Rename and merge about merging these very similar articles to Livestock Unit (which is the fullest). We also need a suitable name for the merged article. Richard New Forest ( talk) 22:29, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
Do folks think this article is notable per WP:ORG? It was speedily deleted in July and recreated in August. I'm not sure how notable co-ops are, and I can't find much in the way of independent sources. Perhaps someone associated with this project knows more about this. Otherwise, I can bring it to AfD. Thanks, P. D. Cook Talk to me! 17:26, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
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Could someone here please clean up the content fork Reticulum (anatomy) and Reticulum (stomach)? 69.3.72.249 ( talk) 19:46, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
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Per a topic at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Wine#Grape questions (related to a FAC), I was wondering if anyone knew of a good article that discusses quarantine standards in regards to propagation and distribution restrictions. There is a stub, Plant quarantine, that I just flagged as being part of WP:PLANT, but I was wondering if you guys knew of something better. This is for the Thomcord FAC. – VisionHolder « talk » 22:47, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
I'm working on the goat article, trying to beef it up from an ag perspective. Is there a particular livestock animal article that other ag project editors find well-done, that would be good to use as a framework (subjects included, order of topics, ect)? Kerani ( talk) 19:31, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
As this is a listed task: my proposed solution is to divide the breed lists by utility. (Meat, fiber, work, milk, egg, etc.) And then possibly sub-divisions (nation of origin, other species specific characteristic). While not a perfect solution, I do see that this has been started in several breed lists already. I think this division will emphasize the 'livestock' characteristic of each animal - ie, that these agriculturally important animals were selected for specific use, and not randomly created. Kerani ( talk) 12:49, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
Looks like this is the talk page for Wikipedia Sheet Mulching [ [4]] The article has Advantages and Disadvantages. I found an informative page explaining how sheet mulching or lasagna gardening can cause pollution and a spike in oil use, by not recycling. In certain urban areas.
Read: http://www.mdvaden.com/lasagna_gardening.shtml
The points are all valid. There are a lot of websites, some municipal, affirming that pollution increases and oil use increases if cardboard is not recycled. So the question is what is the best way to list this disadvantage to the Wikipedia article? The expert's page won't work for a reference. But municipal or related Wikipedia pages should be fine. Which paper or cardboard sites do others recommend for a reference? Here is one example, a most-basic page: https://utahrecycles.org/cardboard.php
Just search for cardboard recycling plus the keywords and sulphur dioxide and oil. Those should give search results to choose from. Some pages have longer explanations. It may take several references for this.
The tree expert's page referenced the Wikipedia articles on sulphur dioxide [ [5]] and on paper recycling [ [6]]. So its pretty factual. ThreeWikiteers ( talk) 16:06, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
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Hi everyone! I've been working on American Livestock Breeds Conservancy and have managed to get it up to GA status. I would like to take it to FAC at some point soon, and am trying to gather comments from as many editors as possible beforehand. I'm especially interested in any projects or studies that they've done that I'm missing, but comments on any aspect of the article would be appreciated. Thanks in advance, Dana boomer ( talk) 23:32, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
I have just created {{ Infobox sheep breed}} (based on {{ Infobox chicken breed}}). It probably needs further work - I don't know what breed standards and so on might apply. However, please feel free to make use of it now, as I have done on Dorper (sheep). Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 21:19, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
I have been informed that I should seek permission to add your banner to an article. Should Broadcast seeder be tagged with WP Agriculture? 65.93.15.213 ( talk) 05:30, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
Right now we have a 2 sentence NPOV stub, Great grain robbery, with loads of cites and references. Should we rename to Russian Grain Deal, 1973? Should all the grain deals with Russia be in one article? This article badly needs help from experts. Trilliumz ( talk) 04:26, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
Hi WikiProject Plants members! The United States Education Program is working with a class for the current term on Geography of Crop Plants, and we're looking for some experienced Wikipedians with an interest in the subject area to support the class as Online Ambassadors. If you're interested, apply now!.-- Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation ( talk) 15:36, 19 September 2011 (UTC)
I would like to notify WikiProject Agriculture that a proposal for a WikiProject Poultry has been made, since many poultry articles are marked as falling under WikiProject Agriculture. If anyone would be interested in this project being created, go to the link given and please add a comment showing your support, or giving any reasons that the project should not be created. Anjwalker ( talk) 03:52, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
I have adopted the Hog Island sheep as part of Wikipedia:WikiProject AP Biology 2011 and have nominated it for peer review. As the article falls within the scope of this WikiProject as well, I think that perhaps someone from this project might be interested in giving it a look over and pointing out any flaws or areas for potential improvement. Thanks in advance— Der Elbenkoenig ( talk) 03:21, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
Please see the talk page for Infobox chickenbreed, to view the proposal that Infobox chicken breed be changed to Infobox poultry breed, allowing for the use of the infobox on domestic turkey and duck pages. Your comments on this proposal would be appreciated. Anjwalker Talk 08:49, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
Please fix it. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ Contribs. 11:04, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
Could we please just rename the portal to "The Agriculture Portal"? AgGuy ( talk) 18:22, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
Hey everyone. Please take a look at User:The ed17/NARA to brainstorm ideas and a structure on how we can help the National Archives ExtravaSCANza. My hope is that the success of this event will ensure that others will be organized in the future, even without Dominic as a Wikipedian-in-Residence, so we all benefit from the high-quality, formerly non-digitized media uploaded to the Commons. Thanks, Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 10:50, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
I have noticed an increasing problem with the List of chicken breeds article, which falls under both Wikiproject Agriculture and Wikiproject Birds; many of the breeds on the list which have red links, have them for a good reason. They don't exist! - I can find no mention of many of the breeds on these breeds anywhere on the net, or in my poultry books and the various poultry standards. I have removed some of the problem fake breeds already, but there appears to be a large amount of them and going through them all is a job that would take more time than I have. It would be helpful if some other people would help me track down this problem and stop this continued spamming of the list. Anjwalker Talk 10:09, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
I've asked here for a change to this infobox, in order to remove the current limitation to poultry breeds recognised by the APA. There appears to be no technical obstacle, so all that's lacking is some sort of editor consensus that such a change is desirable. Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 15:00, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
Does anyone have one of these kicking around the barn? We need a snapshot. Many thanks. Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 06:45, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
I know it's a longshoreman thing, but I just thought it might be a barn thing too. :) Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 06:46, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
Nevermind. Exists as Longshoreman's hook. Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 07:08, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
There was a little sun today. I hope one or more of these may be of use. I don't know what you think, but it seems to me that these and that posted by :bdk: may be sufficiently different in both form and function from the longshoreman's tool to merit their own tiny page?
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I'm currently advocating for a merger between multiple articles that describe cereal growth stage scales, viz. Zadoks scale, Feekes scale, and BBCH-scale (cereals). I would appreciate any suggestions or comments you have to add to the discussion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pusillanimous ( talk • contribs) 21:17, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
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I have proposed a new group to work on the broad topic of human-animal interaction. It can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Human-animal interaction. Any input would be more than welcome. John Carter ( talk) 21:29, 24 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi gang, I have noticed that we now have virtually identical navboxes, one for the bottom {{Agriculture footer}} and one down the side {{Agriculture}}. Seems to me we need one or the other, but not both, and once we decide, maybe to merge them via bot or something. Help? Thoughts? Montanabw (talk) 17:03, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi all I want to add a section "women and agriculture in Sub Saharan Africa" to the article 'gender roles in agriculture' and also improve the introduction of the article. Any comments or suggestions are most welcome. Thanks Diksha41 ( talk) 20:54, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
Hello all! I'm interested in editing the "Fair trade" article to include examples of specific commodities like coffee, cocoa, and clothing and textiles. I want to look at the differences in labor practices for these commodities and see how (or whether) fair trade companies actually promote sustainability and fair labor practices. I will also edit the rest of the article to correct for criticisms that the article is not neutral throughout. I will draw sources from journals such as Journal of Business Ethics, Research in Economic Anthropology, Clothing and Textiles Research Journal, and World Development. Any and all suggestions are welcome as I attempt to make the "Fair trade" page more comprehensive. Allisonshields ( talk) 04:32, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
Does anyone else think we need article on Agriculture in Foo, where Foo is regions or states with high importance in agriculture? California is the one I am thinking of mostly, but there are definitely others, that are smaller than the national level. Mercurywoodrose ( talk) 09:15, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi All! I am proposing a change to the Poulty template. Please look at and leave comments on the talk page for {{ Poultry}}.__ DrChrissy ( talk) 17:11, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
This may be relevant to the interests of any and all rice and plant-breeding enthusiasts here.
Much to my surprise, sources for the article Organic food have to satisfy WP:MEDRS. Recently I added a some text, based on a agricultural journal, only to see it removed due to it not being indexed by Medline. The guy doing this operates quite aggressive, so I need more people to check this article, as I think it is not neutral and hijacked. Your input please here: Talk:Organic food#WP:MEDRS The Banner talk 18:54, 24 November 2012 (UTC)
Are there any Development / Policy wonks who would know about the writings of Arthur T. Mosher? I have one source that talks about an influential three volume series that he wrote, but does not name it. And then I have other sources talking about his "influential" "Getting Agriculture Moving:" but that source calls it a small book, which doesnt mesh with the description of 3 volume work. Can anyone shed some light? -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 18:26, 24 November 2012 (UTC)
Hello, I am reaching out here on behalf of the Malaysian Palm Oil Council (MPOC), which I have been helping improve Wikipedia articles on palm oil related topics. I have prepared two revisions to update the Social and environmental impact of palm oil article and am looking for editors to review these changes, which I suggested on the talk page last week. The revisions introduce new information and supporting references, and suggest the replacement of out of date information.
As my requests are on behalf of the MPOC, I will not make the additions myself and hope that someone here will look at them for me.
Although it appears that this talk page is not very active, I am hopeful that a knowledgeable editor might see this request and be interested in taking a look at the full request on the talk page. I'll be checking this page as well as the article talk page for any questions. Thanks in advance. YellowOwl ( talk) 20:58, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
Request for comments at Talk:Organic_milk#RFC The Banner talk 03:41, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
See Talk:North Carolina Commissioner of Agriculture WhisperToMe ( talk) 21:15, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
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I'm a student at NC State and I would like to create a page on the polled dorset breed that was developed here. The dorsets page mentions it, but I think they deserve their own page. Is this something that I could do? Rebaduck ( talk) 01:30, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
file:CFIA-ACIA heraldic emblem.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 65.92.180.137 ( talk) 00:44, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
The usage of Beet is under discussion, see talk:Beet -- 65.92.180.137 ( talk) 05:04, 29 March 2013 (UTC)
Members of WikiProject Agriculture might find this website to be a useful source of information.
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Christmas tree cultivation, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for an individual good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article.-- FutureTrillionaire ( talk) 20:17, 16 June 2013 (UTC)
Template:infobox tractor has been rated top-importance for this project, according to its talk page, and it's now nominated at Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion#Template:Infobox_tractor. I didn't see where you were notified, so I'm posting this notice. -PC -XT + 03:31, 30 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I am trying to re-work Requested Articles. It was suggested that I get individual WikiProjects involved with their section, which, in the case here, is here All I am asking you to do is to go through the requested articles here, and see if they are worth an article or not. If they are, please feel free to create them and remove them from the list. If they are not, please just remove them from the list with an appropriate comment.
If you have any questions, please just ask on m talk page. Thanks for your help, Mat ty. 007 07:17, 2 August 2013 (UTC)
Input from this project may be helpful at Wikipedia:Dispute_resolution_noticeboard#Genetically_modified_food_controversies.-- Canoe1967 ( talk) 20:16, 7 August 2013 (UTC)
See Talk:Roundup (herbicide)#RfC: Un-merge from Glyphosate?
Thank you. Binksternet ( talk) 23:13, 20 August 2013 (UTC)
image:Strip till rig.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 ( talk) 04:48, 22 August 2013 (UTC)
Template:Cairns Group member countries ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 ( talk) 02:06, 1 September 2013 (UTC)
Missing topics about Agriculture updated. - Skysmith ( talk) 08:12, 29 August 2013 (UTC)
Since the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy changed its name and website to The Livestock Conservancy, we could use some help updating all the references to the organization's old name and URL. More discussion is here. Thanks! Steven Walling • talk 00:16, 3 September 2013 (UTC)
There is a group of images here on Commons that needs to be classified according to the breeds of the animals. The category's parent, commons:Category:Unidentified breeds may also be an area you guys could help out in! -- TKK! bark with me if you're my dog! 23:30, 14 September 2013 (UTC)
Would anyone be able to help me with a lede for History of sheep? I'm awful at ledes (I mean, look at Bedlington Terrier for an example) and I'm going to attempt one but it probably won't be up to snuff. -- TKK! bark with me if you're my dog! 21:33, 15 September 2013 (UTC)
I hope this is of interest to at least some people here: Wikimedia UK and Jisc are running an editathon at the Royal Veterinary College on November 20th. We will focus on common diseases that vets see in everyday practice, but contributions with any relevance to veterinary science are welcome. This is a free event, and in-person and online participation is encouraged. See the event page for more details. Cheers, MartinPoulter Jisc ( talk) 15:57, 11 September 2013 (UTC)
image:IIA Delegates.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 65.92.181.39 ( talk) 04:17, 25 September 2013 (UTC)
Template:Hortibox ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.112 ( talk) 05:40, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi for anyone interested - there is a proposal for rual community engagement in Australia - see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Rural_Community_Engagement
Although looking at broader acreage agriculture and communities in grain growing areas and the issues that are related it might be of interest. Please check it out satusuro 00:01, 22 October 2013 (UTC)
A single-purpose account called User:Nor-Feed created the page Botanical additives. Although the page cites apparently reliable sources on the effects of various herbs added to animal feed, there are no sources to establish the notability of botanical additives as a class, nor to verify some general (not particularly controversial) claims. Editors from this WikiProject may be able to lend a helping hand. (By the way, Nor-feed is apparently the name of a feed supplier specializing in "natural additives".) Cnilep ( talk) 01:40, 14 December 2013 (UTC)
It's that machine with the giant fluffy car wash rollers and the chickens are the cars. We really need an image of one. Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 23:00, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
I also see it as cropping calendar. It is the table thing that says when a crop is ready for harvest. I can't find anything at Wikipedia.
I'm interested in starting something about this. Maybe not an article about the idea, but more of an almanac-type thing. I'm talking about actual tables.
But, I have a sneaking suspicion that things are different all over the planet. But maybe there's a way to organize it where it would be immediately usable, and further development would make it more precise. I just don't know.
This UN site has one, but it doesn't work for beans. Let me rephrase that: It doesn't work at all.
Please advise. Many thanks, Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 11:16, 3 November 2013 (UTC)
An article on the crop calendar or farmer's calendar seems an excellent idea. I don't know where it would begin, but it would surely include the works on agriculture of Columella, Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus Palladius and Pietro de' Crescenzi, all of which include such calendars. Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 00:23, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
Suggestion: The pages Sheep shearing, Shearer, and Shearing shed have similar content. All could all be incorporated under the main topic of Sheep shearing, with Shearer and Shearing shed redirected to parts of the main article. Thoughts? -- AslanEntropy ( talk) 17:34, 28 December 2013 (UTC)
I have proposed that Meat market be merged to Butcher. Discussion is at Talk:Meat market#Merge discussion. Cnilep ( talk) 08:31, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
Editor Robsinden has been going through a number of breed navboxes such as Template:Horse breeds of France removing redlinks and non-linking text, claiming that his edits are justified by WP:NAVBOX. Most of those navboxes were, I think, created by me. Others including Montanabw, Dana boomer and Steven Walling have at various times contributed to or commented on them. I'd like to know what they and others think of the recent edits.
WP:NAVBOX includes the text "Each link should clearly be identifiable as such to our readers. In general text colors should be consistent with Wikipedia text color defaults, so links should be blue; dead links should be red; and red and blue should not be used for other (non-link) text." (my bolding). Redlinks and non-linking text are clearly contemplated and provided for.
Among the stuff Robsinden has removed from the French horses navbox is the caveat: "These are the horse breeds considered to be wholly or partly of French origin. Many have complex or obscure histories, so inclusion here does not necessarily imply that a breed is predominantly or exclusively French." Given that the origin of animal breeds can be a highly contentious topic, particularly where national boundaries or national identities have changed (as for example in the case of the Lipizzaner), I believe a disclaimer of this sort to be advisable at the very least. What do others think? Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 15:40, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
Oh, where to begin? This appears to apply to multiple navboxes, so let's discuss all here. (Deep breath)... Montanabw (talk) 18:53, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
Rob, it is YOU who do not understand how navboxes work; there is no guideline or policy that says "navboxes should be as small as possible..." and yada, yada. That is your own opinion and your own interpretation of the MOS. You fail to understand words like "GUIDELINE" , "NORMALLY" and you over-interpret Bidirectionality. I urge you to read WP:DONOTDEMOLISH which is applicable here, and also, please stop edit-warring. Montanabw (talk) 19:55, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
Consensus among a limited group of editors, at one place and time, cannot override community consensus on a wider scale. For instance, unless they can convince the broader community that such action is right, participants in a WikiProject cannot decide that some generally accepted policy or guideline does not apply to articles within its scope.Consensus is demonstrated by the guidelines. Why do you think these guidelines do not apply to you? -- Rob Sinden ( talk) 08:53, 14 February 2014 (UTC)
Oh, and, as far as WP:BIDIRECTIONAL goes, JLAN's note that you don't need to link the list if all the articles are also in the navbox is also applicable in the other direction; we don't want over 400 articles in a single navbox when we can simply link to the List of horse breeds. You interpretation becomes a reducto ad absurdum one if you were to take it literally. List articles are not as useful as navboxes for the casual user who wishes to browse breeds, it requires reloading a list page repeatedly, whereas the navbox allows direct browsing from one article to the next.
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As far as NOTRED goes, two statements there directly contradict your interpretation, Rob: 1: "Do not create red links to articles that are not likely to be created" -- here, as both JLAN and myself are explaining, there WILL be articles created and they are being actively created for the French horse breeds even as we argue this issue. 2. Your continued reversion of Template:National members of the International Federation for Equestrian Sports is also wrong, as a clear exception is: "An exception is red links in navboxes where the red-linked articles are part of a series or a whole set" End of story. Montanabw (talk) 20:11, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
Red links generally are not included in [...] navigational boxes, [...] since these navigation aids are intended to help readers find existing articles.These may or may not be part of a "whole set", but as the template is unsourced, and they are not even mentioned on the article, then we don't know. In any case, a "whole set" would be a list of years or similar. But a navbox is not a useful navigation aid if it contains five active links and about fifty redlinks. That template also includes a LOT of unsuitable links which fail WP:BIDIRECTIONAL. Unless the template is present at the destination article, the navbox does not provide a navigational aid. Simply - it doesn't provide you with a way of navigating back to where you are - that is its intended functionality. However, as this template does not fall within the scope of this WikiProject, would suggest that you take that discussion to the correct talk page. -- Rob Sinden ( talk) 08:53, 14 February 2014 (UTC)
There's nothing to discuss here: Rob Sinden is correct, and those who are wrongly using navboxes as data collections (rather than as navigational aids between articles, which is their purpose) are, well, wrong. This demonstrates one of the most commonly-encountered social problems with Wikipedia, which is that people focus on trivia to the exclusion of everything else: insistence on sticking disclaimers everywhere, and pathological inclusion over focus on the important. All of the detail here belongs in actual articles: the box exists solely to help people flick between similar articles quickly, and anything which gets in the way of that (redlinks, disclaimers, footnotes) diminishes its value. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) ( talk) 10:41, 14 February 2014 (UTC)
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Dear agricultural experts: This old Afc submission will soon be deleted as a stale draft. Is this a notable topic, and should the article be kept and improved? — Anne Delong ( talk) 19:43, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
Are you any good with chickens, or do you know anyone into chicken breeds? The Polish chicken is a most weird article. Mostly opinions, I think. Hafspajen ( talk) 22:11, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
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We need some images over there. If you have a camera and a shovel, or one of those new camera-shovels, please help.
Many thanks, Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 17:51, 14 April 2014 (UTC)
Dear agriculture experts: Here's an old Afc submission seems to be about the same topic as Claviceps purpurea. Should "Ergot of rye" be a redirect to the Claviceps purpurea page, and is there any information from this old draft that should be moved to the main article? — Anne Delong ( talk) 03:26, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
Yes, I would agree with the redirect. Definitely the same thing. There is some material worth possibly moving to the talk page for potential merging, the historical stuff, but none of the scientific material is an improvement. Maybe a little of the "Uses" section, but looking at the claviceps purpurea article, I'd hesitate to add directly, looks like it is trying to be sourced as it goes and I wouldn't want to plop a pile of uncited material there. I'll put the relevant stuff on the article talk page, make a couple plausible redirects and if you want to anything else and then toss the draft, that would be my recommendation. Montanabw (talk) 22:18, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
Dear editors: Here's an old abandoned page that was never submitted at Afc. It's about an agriculturalist. Is this a notable topic, or should it be deleted as a stale draft? — Anne Delong ( talk) 21:24, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
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I have proposed the creation of WikiProject Poultry; if you are interested please see Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Proposals/Poultry_(proposal_2) JTdale Talk 12:04, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
Seems to have become a side debate in a much larger discussion. May be of interest to project members here: Talk:American_Paint_Horse#Requested moves. Montanabw (talk) 02:34, 5 June 2014 (UTC)
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Dear agriculture experts: Is this old AfC submission about a notable agricultural product? Is the topic covered under some other title? Should the page be kept and improved? — Anne Delong ( talk) 15:30, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
Dear agriculture experts: Here's a draft that is under development. Is this a notable topic, and is the article ready to be moved into the main encyclopedia? — Anne Delong ( talk) 13:08, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
Issue at ANI that may be of interest to project members: Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Undiscussed_page_moves_by_SMcCandlish. Montanabw (talk) 18:26, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
There's a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Article titles#Toward a standard for disambiguating titles of articles on domestic animal breeds which may be of interest to this project. Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 12:13, 18 July 2014 (UTC)
Members of this project may wish to comment in the discussion at Talk:Berry#The table from the faostat page. Sminthopsis84 ( talk) 16:49, 1 August 2014 (UTC)
Missouri is considering a constitutional amendment that would guarantee the "right to farm".
There are implications for the environment and the use of genetically modified crops.
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Possibly of interest to project members: Talk:Polled_livestock#Requested_move. Montanabw (talk) 03:59, 21 September 2014 (UTC)
Please comment. Gryllida ( talk) 23:36, 23 September 2014 (UTC)
May someone have a second look on that article? I can't find a single Dataset regarding that breed of swine. There is no mention within the FAO nor the Australian Pig Breeders Association Limited. Apart from, that there is the Lage White, that is the Yorshire.
In my books, the source compares Australian pigs of the breeds Yorkshire/Large White and Duroc with breeds, that are familiar in Viet Nam. It does not mention a breed, called "Australian Yorkshire". -- PigeonIP ( talk) 17:37, 24 September 2014 (UTC)
Project members should be aware of the following requested moves of assorted farm animal breeds to new titles, often with several articles listed on one page. It appears that one editor is making all these requests. I am not certain if there is some overlap here or not, but if there is no overlap, then we are looking at over 60 move requests, which will have a significant impact o the various affected projects. Montanabw (talk) 05:31, 25 September 2014 (UTC)
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Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style#RfC - Animal breeds in lower case Ealdgyth - Talk 21:46, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
I'd be grateful if others would take a look at Arapawa Pig, where an editor seems determined to add unreferenced material that looks to me very much like WP:OR. There's only one source in the article, and it states clearly that it's regarded as a breed, so I'm not clear why anyone would edit the page to say that it isn't one. Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 08:44, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
May someone delete the misleading redirects
or can fill in a request the "right way"? [9] [10]
That may also be requested for the not used
There are many black pied dairy cattle-breeds out there.
I am unsure about
-- PigeonIP ( talk) 13:00, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
I'm looking for a photo of pig milk. Could someone please go into the stye, extract a little, and take a photo of it? From what I hear, you want to do this when she is sleeping. And you want to be ready to run. Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 00:05, 21 October 2014 (UTC)
Dear agricultural experts: Here's a new article that could use some improvement. It was pretty rough, and I've done what I could without knowing anything about the subject. Likely the word "animals" for example, can be replace with a more precise term. — Anne Delong ( talk) 23:20, 6 November 2014 (UTC)
Hi all. I just did some pretty massive edits on the Corporate farming page and wanted to get some opinions on it. I tried to summarize my edits on the talk page (I forgot to do edit summaries). If you do check it out, I preemptively apologize for my mess on the history page. I'm still figuring out the whole editing thing and jumped the gun a few times on the save button...
Thanks! Creigpat ( talk) 21:42, 7 November 2014 (UTC)
Please see Talk:Razorback#Requested move November 2014, which aims to clear up the perpetual Wikipedia confusion between the wild pig or wild boar (article: Wild boar), and feral domesticated pigs (proposed article name Feral pig, presently at Razorback). — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 12:41, 7 November 2014 (UTC)
"and other moves that he forgot to notify ..."– I did not "forget" anything. Please stop ascribing mental states to me about which you cannot know, unless you recently became an omniscient deity when I wasn't looking. Posting RM notices to wikiprojects is not routine at all, and it would be quite disruptive to notify every wikiproject of possible relevance about every single RM discussion that might be in-scope, especially noncontroversial ones. WP:RM exists as a centralized listing of requested moves specifically so that we don't need to do that. I've drawn attention to the Wild pig move because the issues involved are beyond that of a simple rename discussion, but involve continual editorial and reader confusion, redirects to incorrect articles, articles being incorrectly categorized, and other serious matters affecting the handling of feral and wild pig content, an issue of interest to both WP:AGRICULTURE and WP:MAMMALS (also notified). Was there anything else you wanted to doggedly pursue me across Wikipedia and start pointless fights about? It's quite a list today already. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 14:07, 7 November 2014 (UTC)
Hello. Is anyone here interested in helping me create a page about Petit Gulf cotton? I have started a userpage. I think this could easily become a start, but I am not an expert at all. It seems very historically significant. Thank you. Zigzig20s ( talk) 08:54, 8 November 2014 (UTC)
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Hi. I have created a draft infobox for cattle breeds. Any suggestions/improvements?
{{Infobox cattle breed | name = name of cattle breed | image = image.ext | image_size = image size | image_alt = alt text for image; see [[WP:ALT]] | image_caption = caption | status = conservation status (extinct, critical, endangered, etc) | country = country of origin | distribution = distribution | use = e.g., meat or milk | nickname = nickname; use {{Unbulleted list}} if more than one | bull_weight = male weight | cow_weight = female weight | coatcolor = coat color | note = extra notes }}
Thanks!! TheMagikCow ( talk) 12:16, 24 December 2014 (UTC)
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Hello. I just made Mastitis in dairy cattle but I have no idea what I'm doing. Should it be "dairy cows" or "dairy cattle"? Mooooooooo Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 13:16, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
Perhaps if you don't know what to call a cow it may also be true that you aren't qualified to write this entry. I'm just sayin...
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My husband and I have in our basement an International Harvester Freezer. My father brought it from the farm and it ran until about 10 years ago. I know it has to be about 60 yrs old. It's very heavy. I'm wondering do you want an antique. (marge C.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.224.112.77 ( talk) 03:33, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
Is there one? What is the general naming convention for goat articles, if anyone knows, and where is it specified? On List of goat breeds, it appears to be random (some are Xbreed (goat), some are Xbreed, some are Xbreed Goat, etc. I'd like to see them standardized, but it's not high priority, I suppose. To me, Xbreed goat (lower-case g and no parenthesis) makes simple sense as a naming convention, with the other variations redirected to those standard names, but there seemed to be some contrasting thought in the review to try to move Oberhasli (goat) to Oberhasli goat, (one of the page's current redirects). Apparently that was the wrong venue for that proposal anyway, as it was speedily closed as 'wrong forum,' but the responses received there seem to indicate that there is already a naming convention in place for goats. Comments? duff 10:23, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
Is Agriculture an Industry? Often today there are many activities that are described as "industry" that do not conform to my idea of what industry really is. I fear this creates a distortion of understanding, and is often used either to downgrade the importance of an economic activity (such as agriculture), or to suggest a different legitimacy than is really possessed (e.g. the meat industry). I see from various definitions elsewhere [1] [ [2]] that my understanding of "industry" is a narrow one, and the economics context is what is taking over. This makes the word much less useful or even a meaningless addendum (for example, the financial services industry, or the tourism industry, where "sector" would be more appropriate). I think my understanding is best reflected by my (false, but more valid!) memory of the four statues on Holborn Viaduct: Industry; Commerce, Agriculture, and Academia. (In fact [ [3]], the statues represent: Agriculture, Commerce, Science and Fine Art!) Nevertheless, the statues do raise Agriculture to one of four major categories of (Victorian) activity, and so emphasise its importance to our well being, and, indeed, to all our civilisations. If we start thinking of agriculture and agricultural activities as industrial, we are lumping it in with all sorts of more recent activities, and risk bringing industrial mindsets to an activity that seems to me to have fundamental uniquenesses (e.g. living creatures and plants, food, weather and soil dependence) which, if more clearly understood, would likely enhance our lives. So I suggest that WikiProject Agriculture adopts a policy of using the word industry only in its narrow sense (diligence, or manufacture of things) and adopts agriculture as a preferred term. David Hirst 12:17, 8 August 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dynamicpricing ( talk • contribs)
Please see discussion at Talk:Ear tag#Article content and title about merging some of these. Richard New Forest ( talk) 22:29, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
Please see discussion at Talk:Livestock Unit#Rename and merge about merging these very similar articles to Livestock Unit (which is the fullest). We also need a suitable name for the merged article. Richard New Forest ( talk) 22:29, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
Do folks think this article is notable per WP:ORG? It was speedily deleted in July and recreated in August. I'm not sure how notable co-ops are, and I can't find much in the way of independent sources. Perhaps someone associated with this project knows more about this. Otherwise, I can bring it to AfD. Thanks, P. D. Cook Talk to me! 17:26, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
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Could someone here please clean up the content fork Reticulum (anatomy) and Reticulum (stomach)? 69.3.72.249 ( talk) 19:46, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
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Per a topic at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Wine#Grape questions (related to a FAC), I was wondering if anyone knew of a good article that discusses quarantine standards in regards to propagation and distribution restrictions. There is a stub, Plant quarantine, that I just flagged as being part of WP:PLANT, but I was wondering if you guys knew of something better. This is for the Thomcord FAC. – VisionHolder « talk » 22:47, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
I'm working on the goat article, trying to beef it up from an ag perspective. Is there a particular livestock animal article that other ag project editors find well-done, that would be good to use as a framework (subjects included, order of topics, ect)? Kerani ( talk) 19:31, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
As this is a listed task: my proposed solution is to divide the breed lists by utility. (Meat, fiber, work, milk, egg, etc.) And then possibly sub-divisions (nation of origin, other species specific characteristic). While not a perfect solution, I do see that this has been started in several breed lists already. I think this division will emphasize the 'livestock' characteristic of each animal - ie, that these agriculturally important animals were selected for specific use, and not randomly created. Kerani ( talk) 12:49, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
Looks like this is the talk page for Wikipedia Sheet Mulching [ [4]] The article has Advantages and Disadvantages. I found an informative page explaining how sheet mulching or lasagna gardening can cause pollution and a spike in oil use, by not recycling. In certain urban areas.
Read: http://www.mdvaden.com/lasagna_gardening.shtml
The points are all valid. There are a lot of websites, some municipal, affirming that pollution increases and oil use increases if cardboard is not recycled. So the question is what is the best way to list this disadvantage to the Wikipedia article? The expert's page won't work for a reference. But municipal or related Wikipedia pages should be fine. Which paper or cardboard sites do others recommend for a reference? Here is one example, a most-basic page: https://utahrecycles.org/cardboard.php
Just search for cardboard recycling plus the keywords and sulphur dioxide and oil. Those should give search results to choose from. Some pages have longer explanations. It may take several references for this.
The tree expert's page referenced the Wikipedia articles on sulphur dioxide [ [5]] and on paper recycling [ [6]]. So its pretty factual. ThreeWikiteers ( talk) 16:06, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
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Hi everyone! I've been working on American Livestock Breeds Conservancy and have managed to get it up to GA status. I would like to take it to FAC at some point soon, and am trying to gather comments from as many editors as possible beforehand. I'm especially interested in any projects or studies that they've done that I'm missing, but comments on any aspect of the article would be appreciated. Thanks in advance, Dana boomer ( talk) 23:32, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
I have just created {{ Infobox sheep breed}} (based on {{ Infobox chicken breed}}). It probably needs further work - I don't know what breed standards and so on might apply. However, please feel free to make use of it now, as I have done on Dorper (sheep). Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 21:19, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
I have been informed that I should seek permission to add your banner to an article. Should Broadcast seeder be tagged with WP Agriculture? 65.93.15.213 ( talk) 05:30, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
Right now we have a 2 sentence NPOV stub, Great grain robbery, with loads of cites and references. Should we rename to Russian Grain Deal, 1973? Should all the grain deals with Russia be in one article? This article badly needs help from experts. Trilliumz ( talk) 04:26, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
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I would like to notify WikiProject Agriculture that a proposal for a WikiProject Poultry has been made, since many poultry articles are marked as falling under WikiProject Agriculture. If anyone would be interested in this project being created, go to the link given and please add a comment showing your support, or giving any reasons that the project should not be created. Anjwalker ( talk) 03:52, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
I have adopted the Hog Island sheep as part of Wikipedia:WikiProject AP Biology 2011 and have nominated it for peer review. As the article falls within the scope of this WikiProject as well, I think that perhaps someone from this project might be interested in giving it a look over and pointing out any flaws or areas for potential improvement. Thanks in advance— Der Elbenkoenig ( talk) 03:21, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
Please see the talk page for Infobox chickenbreed, to view the proposal that Infobox chicken breed be changed to Infobox poultry breed, allowing for the use of the infobox on domestic turkey and duck pages. Your comments on this proposal would be appreciated. Anjwalker Talk 08:49, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
Please fix it. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ Contribs. 11:04, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
Could we please just rename the portal to "The Agriculture Portal"? AgGuy ( talk) 18:22, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
Hey everyone. Please take a look at User:The ed17/NARA to brainstorm ideas and a structure on how we can help the National Archives ExtravaSCANza. My hope is that the success of this event will ensure that others will be organized in the future, even without Dominic as a Wikipedian-in-Residence, so we all benefit from the high-quality, formerly non-digitized media uploaded to the Commons. Thanks, Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 10:50, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
I have noticed an increasing problem with the List of chicken breeds article, which falls under both Wikiproject Agriculture and Wikiproject Birds; many of the breeds on the list which have red links, have them for a good reason. They don't exist! - I can find no mention of many of the breeds on these breeds anywhere on the net, or in my poultry books and the various poultry standards. I have removed some of the problem fake breeds already, but there appears to be a large amount of them and going through them all is a job that would take more time than I have. It would be helpful if some other people would help me track down this problem and stop this continued spamming of the list. Anjwalker Talk 10:09, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
I've asked here for a change to this infobox, in order to remove the current limitation to poultry breeds recognised by the APA. There appears to be no technical obstacle, so all that's lacking is some sort of editor consensus that such a change is desirable. Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 15:00, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
Does anyone have one of these kicking around the barn? We need a snapshot. Many thanks. Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 06:45, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
I know it's a longshoreman thing, but I just thought it might be a barn thing too. :) Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 06:46, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
Nevermind. Exists as Longshoreman's hook. Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 07:08, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
There was a little sun today. I hope one or more of these may be of use. I don't know what you think, but it seems to me that these and that posted by :bdk: may be sufficiently different in both form and function from the longshoreman's tool to merit their own tiny page?
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I'm currently advocating for a merger between multiple articles that describe cereal growth stage scales, viz. Zadoks scale, Feekes scale, and BBCH-scale (cereals). I would appreciate any suggestions or comments you have to add to the discussion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pusillanimous ( talk • contribs) 21:17, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
Wikipedia:HighBeam describes a limited opportunity for Wikipedia editors to have access to
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I have proposed a new group to work on the broad topic of human-animal interaction. It can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Human-animal interaction. Any input would be more than welcome. John Carter ( talk) 21:29, 24 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi gang, I have noticed that we now have virtually identical navboxes, one for the bottom {{Agriculture footer}} and one down the side {{Agriculture}}. Seems to me we need one or the other, but not both, and once we decide, maybe to merge them via bot or something. Help? Thoughts? Montanabw (talk) 17:03, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi all I want to add a section "women and agriculture in Sub Saharan Africa" to the article 'gender roles in agriculture' and also improve the introduction of the article. Any comments or suggestions are most welcome. Thanks Diksha41 ( talk) 20:54, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
Hello all! I'm interested in editing the "Fair trade" article to include examples of specific commodities like coffee, cocoa, and clothing and textiles. I want to look at the differences in labor practices for these commodities and see how (or whether) fair trade companies actually promote sustainability and fair labor practices. I will also edit the rest of the article to correct for criticisms that the article is not neutral throughout. I will draw sources from journals such as Journal of Business Ethics, Research in Economic Anthropology, Clothing and Textiles Research Journal, and World Development. Any and all suggestions are welcome as I attempt to make the "Fair trade" page more comprehensive. Allisonshields ( talk) 04:32, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
Does anyone else think we need article on Agriculture in Foo, where Foo is regions or states with high importance in agriculture? California is the one I am thinking of mostly, but there are definitely others, that are smaller than the national level. Mercurywoodrose ( talk) 09:15, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi All! I am proposing a change to the Poulty template. Please look at and leave comments on the talk page for {{ Poultry}}.__ DrChrissy ( talk) 17:11, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
This may be relevant to the interests of any and all rice and plant-breeding enthusiasts here.
Much to my surprise, sources for the article Organic food have to satisfy WP:MEDRS. Recently I added a some text, based on a agricultural journal, only to see it removed due to it not being indexed by Medline. The guy doing this operates quite aggressive, so I need more people to check this article, as I think it is not neutral and hijacked. Your input please here: Talk:Organic food#WP:MEDRS The Banner talk 18:54, 24 November 2012 (UTC)
Are there any Development / Policy wonks who would know about the writings of Arthur T. Mosher? I have one source that talks about an influential three volume series that he wrote, but does not name it. And then I have other sources talking about his "influential" "Getting Agriculture Moving:" but that source calls it a small book, which doesnt mesh with the description of 3 volume work. Can anyone shed some light? -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 18:26, 24 November 2012 (UTC)
Hello, I am reaching out here on behalf of the Malaysian Palm Oil Council (MPOC), which I have been helping improve Wikipedia articles on palm oil related topics. I have prepared two revisions to update the Social and environmental impact of palm oil article and am looking for editors to review these changes, which I suggested on the talk page last week. The revisions introduce new information and supporting references, and suggest the replacement of out of date information.
As my requests are on behalf of the MPOC, I will not make the additions myself and hope that someone here will look at them for me.
Although it appears that this talk page is not very active, I am hopeful that a knowledgeable editor might see this request and be interested in taking a look at the full request on the talk page. I'll be checking this page as well as the article talk page for any questions. Thanks in advance. YellowOwl ( talk) 20:58, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
Request for comments at Talk:Organic_milk#RFC The Banner talk 03:41, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
See Talk:North Carolina Commissioner of Agriculture WhisperToMe ( talk) 21:15, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
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I'm a student at NC State and I would like to create a page on the polled dorset breed that was developed here. The dorsets page mentions it, but I think they deserve their own page. Is this something that I could do? Rebaduck ( talk) 01:30, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
file:CFIA-ACIA heraldic emblem.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 65.92.180.137 ( talk) 00:44, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
The usage of Beet is under discussion, see talk:Beet -- 65.92.180.137 ( talk) 05:04, 29 March 2013 (UTC)
Members of WikiProject Agriculture might find this website to be a useful source of information.
— Wavelength ( talk) 23:22, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
Christmas tree cultivation, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for an individual good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article.-- FutureTrillionaire ( talk) 20:17, 16 June 2013 (UTC)
Template:infobox tractor has been rated top-importance for this project, according to its talk page, and it's now nominated at Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion#Template:Infobox_tractor. I didn't see where you were notified, so I'm posting this notice. -PC -XT + 03:31, 30 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I am trying to re-work Requested Articles. It was suggested that I get individual WikiProjects involved with their section, which, in the case here, is here All I am asking you to do is to go through the requested articles here, and see if they are worth an article or not. If they are, please feel free to create them and remove them from the list. If they are not, please just remove them from the list with an appropriate comment.
If you have any questions, please just ask on m talk page. Thanks for your help, Mat ty. 007 07:17, 2 August 2013 (UTC)
Input from this project may be helpful at Wikipedia:Dispute_resolution_noticeboard#Genetically_modified_food_controversies.-- Canoe1967 ( talk) 20:16, 7 August 2013 (UTC)
See Talk:Roundup (herbicide)#RfC: Un-merge from Glyphosate?
Thank you. Binksternet ( talk) 23:13, 20 August 2013 (UTC)
image:Strip till rig.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 ( talk) 04:48, 22 August 2013 (UTC)
Template:Cairns Group member countries ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 ( talk) 02:06, 1 September 2013 (UTC)
Missing topics about Agriculture updated. - Skysmith ( talk) 08:12, 29 August 2013 (UTC)
Since the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy changed its name and website to The Livestock Conservancy, we could use some help updating all the references to the organization's old name and URL. More discussion is here. Thanks! Steven Walling • talk 00:16, 3 September 2013 (UTC)
There is a group of images here on Commons that needs to be classified according to the breeds of the animals. The category's parent, commons:Category:Unidentified breeds may also be an area you guys could help out in! -- TKK! bark with me if you're my dog! 23:30, 14 September 2013 (UTC)
Would anyone be able to help me with a lede for History of sheep? I'm awful at ledes (I mean, look at Bedlington Terrier for an example) and I'm going to attempt one but it probably won't be up to snuff. -- TKK! bark with me if you're my dog! 21:33, 15 September 2013 (UTC)
I hope this is of interest to at least some people here: Wikimedia UK and Jisc are running an editathon at the Royal Veterinary College on November 20th. We will focus on common diseases that vets see in everyday practice, but contributions with any relevance to veterinary science are welcome. This is a free event, and in-person and online participation is encouraged. See the event page for more details. Cheers, MartinPoulter Jisc ( talk) 15:57, 11 September 2013 (UTC)
image:IIA Delegates.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 65.92.181.39 ( talk) 04:17, 25 September 2013 (UTC)
Template:Hortibox ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.112 ( talk) 05:40, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi for anyone interested - there is a proposal for rual community engagement in Australia - see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Rural_Community_Engagement
Although looking at broader acreage agriculture and communities in grain growing areas and the issues that are related it might be of interest. Please check it out satusuro 00:01, 22 October 2013 (UTC)
A single-purpose account called User:Nor-Feed created the page Botanical additives. Although the page cites apparently reliable sources on the effects of various herbs added to animal feed, there are no sources to establish the notability of botanical additives as a class, nor to verify some general (not particularly controversial) claims. Editors from this WikiProject may be able to lend a helping hand. (By the way, Nor-feed is apparently the name of a feed supplier specializing in "natural additives".) Cnilep ( talk) 01:40, 14 December 2013 (UTC)
It's that machine with the giant fluffy car wash rollers and the chickens are the cars. We really need an image of one. Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 23:00, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
I also see it as cropping calendar. It is the table thing that says when a crop is ready for harvest. I can't find anything at Wikipedia.
I'm interested in starting something about this. Maybe not an article about the idea, but more of an almanac-type thing. I'm talking about actual tables.
But, I have a sneaking suspicion that things are different all over the planet. But maybe there's a way to organize it where it would be immediately usable, and further development would make it more precise. I just don't know.
This UN site has one, but it doesn't work for beans. Let me rephrase that: It doesn't work at all.
Please advise. Many thanks, Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 11:16, 3 November 2013 (UTC)
An article on the crop calendar or farmer's calendar seems an excellent idea. I don't know where it would begin, but it would surely include the works on agriculture of Columella, Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus Palladius and Pietro de' Crescenzi, all of which include such calendars. Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 00:23, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
Suggestion: The pages Sheep shearing, Shearer, and Shearing shed have similar content. All could all be incorporated under the main topic of Sheep shearing, with Shearer and Shearing shed redirected to parts of the main article. Thoughts? -- AslanEntropy ( talk) 17:34, 28 December 2013 (UTC)
I have proposed that Meat market be merged to Butcher. Discussion is at Talk:Meat market#Merge discussion. Cnilep ( talk) 08:31, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
Editor Robsinden has been going through a number of breed navboxes such as Template:Horse breeds of France removing redlinks and non-linking text, claiming that his edits are justified by WP:NAVBOX. Most of those navboxes were, I think, created by me. Others including Montanabw, Dana boomer and Steven Walling have at various times contributed to or commented on them. I'd like to know what they and others think of the recent edits.
WP:NAVBOX includes the text "Each link should clearly be identifiable as such to our readers. In general text colors should be consistent with Wikipedia text color defaults, so links should be blue; dead links should be red; and red and blue should not be used for other (non-link) text." (my bolding). Redlinks and non-linking text are clearly contemplated and provided for.
Among the stuff Robsinden has removed from the French horses navbox is the caveat: "These are the horse breeds considered to be wholly or partly of French origin. Many have complex or obscure histories, so inclusion here does not necessarily imply that a breed is predominantly or exclusively French." Given that the origin of animal breeds can be a highly contentious topic, particularly where national boundaries or national identities have changed (as for example in the case of the Lipizzaner), I believe a disclaimer of this sort to be advisable at the very least. What do others think? Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 15:40, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
Oh, where to begin? This appears to apply to multiple navboxes, so let's discuss all here. (Deep breath)... Montanabw (talk) 18:53, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
Rob, it is YOU who do not understand how navboxes work; there is no guideline or policy that says "navboxes should be as small as possible..." and yada, yada. That is your own opinion and your own interpretation of the MOS. You fail to understand words like "GUIDELINE" , "NORMALLY" and you over-interpret Bidirectionality. I urge you to read WP:DONOTDEMOLISH which is applicable here, and also, please stop edit-warring. Montanabw (talk) 19:55, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
Consensus among a limited group of editors, at one place and time, cannot override community consensus on a wider scale. For instance, unless they can convince the broader community that such action is right, participants in a WikiProject cannot decide that some generally accepted policy or guideline does not apply to articles within its scope.Consensus is demonstrated by the guidelines. Why do you think these guidelines do not apply to you? -- Rob Sinden ( talk) 08:53, 14 February 2014 (UTC)
Oh, and, as far as WP:BIDIRECTIONAL goes, JLAN's note that you don't need to link the list if all the articles are also in the navbox is also applicable in the other direction; we don't want over 400 articles in a single navbox when we can simply link to the List of horse breeds. You interpretation becomes a reducto ad absurdum one if you were to take it literally. List articles are not as useful as navboxes for the casual user who wishes to browse breeds, it requires reloading a list page repeatedly, whereas the navbox allows direct browsing from one article to the next.
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As far as NOTRED goes, two statements there directly contradict your interpretation, Rob: 1: "Do not create red links to articles that are not likely to be created" -- here, as both JLAN and myself are explaining, there WILL be articles created and they are being actively created for the French horse breeds even as we argue this issue. 2. Your continued reversion of Template:National members of the International Federation for Equestrian Sports is also wrong, as a clear exception is: "An exception is red links in navboxes where the red-linked articles are part of a series or a whole set" End of story. Montanabw (talk) 20:11, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
Red links generally are not included in [...] navigational boxes, [...] since these navigation aids are intended to help readers find existing articles.These may or may not be part of a "whole set", but as the template is unsourced, and they are not even mentioned on the article, then we don't know. In any case, a "whole set" would be a list of years or similar. But a navbox is not a useful navigation aid if it contains five active links and about fifty redlinks. That template also includes a LOT of unsuitable links which fail WP:BIDIRECTIONAL. Unless the template is present at the destination article, the navbox does not provide a navigational aid. Simply - it doesn't provide you with a way of navigating back to where you are - that is its intended functionality. However, as this template does not fall within the scope of this WikiProject, would suggest that you take that discussion to the correct talk page. -- Rob Sinden ( talk) 08:53, 14 February 2014 (UTC)
There's nothing to discuss here: Rob Sinden is correct, and those who are wrongly using navboxes as data collections (rather than as navigational aids between articles, which is their purpose) are, well, wrong. This demonstrates one of the most commonly-encountered social problems with Wikipedia, which is that people focus on trivia to the exclusion of everything else: insistence on sticking disclaimers everywhere, and pathological inclusion over focus on the important. All of the detail here belongs in actual articles: the box exists solely to help people flick between similar articles quickly, and anything which gets in the way of that (redlinks, disclaimers, footnotes) diminishes its value. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) ( talk) 10:41, 14 February 2014 (UTC)
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Dear agricultural experts: This old Afc submission will soon be deleted as a stale draft. Is this a notable topic, and should the article be kept and improved? — Anne Delong ( talk) 19:43, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
Are you any good with chickens, or do you know anyone into chicken breeds? The Polish chicken is a most weird article. Mostly opinions, I think. Hafspajen ( talk) 22:11, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
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We need some images over there. If you have a camera and a shovel, or one of those new camera-shovels, please help.
Many thanks, Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 17:51, 14 April 2014 (UTC)
Dear agriculture experts: Here's an old Afc submission seems to be about the same topic as Claviceps purpurea. Should "Ergot of rye" be a redirect to the Claviceps purpurea page, and is there any information from this old draft that should be moved to the main article? — Anne Delong ( talk) 03:26, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
Yes, I would agree with the redirect. Definitely the same thing. There is some material worth possibly moving to the talk page for potential merging, the historical stuff, but none of the scientific material is an improvement. Maybe a little of the "Uses" section, but looking at the claviceps purpurea article, I'd hesitate to add directly, looks like it is trying to be sourced as it goes and I wouldn't want to plop a pile of uncited material there. I'll put the relevant stuff on the article talk page, make a couple plausible redirects and if you want to anything else and then toss the draft, that would be my recommendation. Montanabw (talk) 22:18, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
Dear editors: Here's an old abandoned page that was never submitted at Afc. It's about an agriculturalist. Is this a notable topic, or should it be deleted as a stale draft? — Anne Delong ( talk) 21:24, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
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I have proposed the creation of WikiProject Poultry; if you are interested please see Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Proposals/Poultry_(proposal_2) JTdale Talk 12:04, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
Seems to have become a side debate in a much larger discussion. May be of interest to project members here: Talk:American_Paint_Horse#Requested moves. Montanabw (talk) 02:34, 5 June 2014 (UTC)
The WikiProject Report would like to focus on WikiProject Agriculture for a Signpost article. This is an excellent opportunity to draw attention to your efforts and attract new members to the project. Would you be willing to participate in an interview? If so, here are the questions for the interview. Just add your response below each question and feel free to skip any questions that you don't feel comfortable answering. Multiple editors will have an opportunity to respond to the interview questions, so be sure to sign your answers. If you know anyone else who would like to participate in the interview, please share this with them. Thanks, Rcsprinter123 (say) @ 20:08, 25 September 2014 (UTC)
Dear agriculture experts: Is this old AfC submission about a notable agricultural product? Is the topic covered under some other title? Should the page be kept and improved? — Anne Delong ( talk) 15:30, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
Dear agriculture experts: Here's a draft that is under development. Is this a notable topic, and is the article ready to be moved into the main encyclopedia? — Anne Delong ( talk) 13:08, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
Issue at ANI that may be of interest to project members: Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Undiscussed_page_moves_by_SMcCandlish. Montanabw (talk) 18:26, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
There's a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Article titles#Toward a standard for disambiguating titles of articles on domestic animal breeds which may be of interest to this project. Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 12:13, 18 July 2014 (UTC)
Members of this project may wish to comment in the discussion at Talk:Berry#The table from the faostat page. Sminthopsis84 ( talk) 16:49, 1 August 2014 (UTC)
Missouri is considering a constitutional amendment that would guarantee the "right to farm".
There are implications for the environment and the use of genetically modified crops.
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Possibly of interest to project members: Talk:Polled_livestock#Requested_move. Montanabw (talk) 03:59, 21 September 2014 (UTC)
Please comment. Gryllida ( talk) 23:36, 23 September 2014 (UTC)
May someone have a second look on that article? I can't find a single Dataset regarding that breed of swine. There is no mention within the FAO nor the Australian Pig Breeders Association Limited. Apart from, that there is the Lage White, that is the Yorshire.
In my books, the source compares Australian pigs of the breeds Yorkshire/Large White and Duroc with breeds, that are familiar in Viet Nam. It does not mention a breed, called "Australian Yorkshire". -- PigeonIP ( talk) 17:37, 24 September 2014 (UTC)
Project members should be aware of the following requested moves of assorted farm animal breeds to new titles, often with several articles listed on one page. It appears that one editor is making all these requests. I am not certain if there is some overlap here or not, but if there is no overlap, then we are looking at over 60 move requests, which will have a significant impact o the various affected projects. Montanabw (talk) 05:31, 25 September 2014 (UTC)
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Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style#RfC - Animal breeds in lower case Ealdgyth - Talk 21:46, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
I'd be grateful if others would take a look at Arapawa Pig, where an editor seems determined to add unreferenced material that looks to me very much like WP:OR. There's only one source in the article, and it states clearly that it's regarded as a breed, so I'm not clear why anyone would edit the page to say that it isn't one. Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 08:44, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
May someone delete the misleading redirects
or can fill in a request the "right way"? [9] [10]
That may also be requested for the not used
There are many black pied dairy cattle-breeds out there.
I am unsure about
-- PigeonIP ( talk) 13:00, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
I'm looking for a photo of pig milk. Could someone please go into the stye, extract a little, and take a photo of it? From what I hear, you want to do this when she is sleeping. And you want to be ready to run. Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 00:05, 21 October 2014 (UTC)
Dear agricultural experts: Here's a new article that could use some improvement. It was pretty rough, and I've done what I could without knowing anything about the subject. Likely the word "animals" for example, can be replace with a more precise term. — Anne Delong ( talk) 23:20, 6 November 2014 (UTC)
Hi all. I just did some pretty massive edits on the Corporate farming page and wanted to get some opinions on it. I tried to summarize my edits on the talk page (I forgot to do edit summaries). If you do check it out, I preemptively apologize for my mess on the history page. I'm still figuring out the whole editing thing and jumped the gun a few times on the save button...
Thanks! Creigpat ( talk) 21:42, 7 November 2014 (UTC)
Please see Talk:Razorback#Requested move November 2014, which aims to clear up the perpetual Wikipedia confusion between the wild pig or wild boar (article: Wild boar), and feral domesticated pigs (proposed article name Feral pig, presently at Razorback). — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 12:41, 7 November 2014 (UTC)
"and other moves that he forgot to notify ..."– I did not "forget" anything. Please stop ascribing mental states to me about which you cannot know, unless you recently became an omniscient deity when I wasn't looking. Posting RM notices to wikiprojects is not routine at all, and it would be quite disruptive to notify every wikiproject of possible relevance about every single RM discussion that might be in-scope, especially noncontroversial ones. WP:RM exists as a centralized listing of requested moves specifically so that we don't need to do that. I've drawn attention to the Wild pig move because the issues involved are beyond that of a simple rename discussion, but involve continual editorial and reader confusion, redirects to incorrect articles, articles being incorrectly categorized, and other serious matters affecting the handling of feral and wild pig content, an issue of interest to both WP:AGRICULTURE and WP:MAMMALS (also notified). Was there anything else you wanted to doggedly pursue me across Wikipedia and start pointless fights about? It's quite a list today already. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 14:07, 7 November 2014 (UTC)
Hello. Is anyone here interested in helping me create a page about Petit Gulf cotton? I have started a userpage. I think this could easily become a start, but I am not an expert at all. It seems very historically significant. Thank you. Zigzig20s ( talk) 08:54, 8 November 2014 (UTC)
Hi, this is to let you know that we've launched WikiProject Wikidata for research in order to stimulate a closer interaction between Wikidata and research, both on a technical and a community level. As a first activity, we are drafting a research proposal on the matter (cf. blog post). Your thoughts on and contributions to that would be most welcome! Thanks, -- Daniel Mietchen ( talk) 02:16, 9 December 2014 (UTC)
I have nominated Marine shrimp farming for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 19:33, 20 December 2014 (UTC)
Hi. I have created a draft infobox for cattle breeds. Any suggestions/improvements?
{{Infobox cattle breed | name = name of cattle breed | image = image.ext | image_size = image size | image_alt = alt text for image; see [[WP:ALT]] | image_caption = caption | status = conservation status (extinct, critical, endangered, etc) | country = country of origin | distribution = distribution | use = e.g., meat or milk | nickname = nickname; use {{Unbulleted list}} if more than one | bull_weight = male weight | cow_weight = female weight | coatcolor = coat color | note = extra notes }}
Thanks!! TheMagikCow ( talk) 12:16, 24 December 2014 (UTC)
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Harej ( talk) 16:56, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
There is an Rfc on mustang/Mustang capitalization going on at Talk:Mustang#Capitalization_RfC where we would be grateful for input. This project is listed on the article talk page. Thanks. Fyunck(click) ( talk) 11:12, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
{{ Infobox tractor}} has been nominated for deletion since December 29, 2014. Please feel free to comment at the discussion, which may be found here. -- AussieLegend ( ✉) 14:17, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
I have nominated Trade and use of saffron for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 23:20, 19 February 2015 (UTC)