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Article contradicts its self
in the 3rd paragraph of the article introduction it says 'medium-grain rice is stickier, and is used for sweet dishes, and in Italy for risotto; and sticky short-grain rice is used in Japanese sushi as it keeps its shape when cooked.'
It says that risotto is medium grain, and sushi is short grain.
Under Food > Eating it says 'Short-grain rices include Italian Arborio rice for risotto. Medium-grain rices include Japanese sushi rice, which is slightly sticky.'
Hi, @
Chiswick Chap, I did go through the body of the article before I started making cuts to the lede.
“Domesticated”
It is absolutely redundant to mention that the grain three billion people eat is the domesticated variety. Because obviously something that widespread would become domesticated. Not to say that talking about rice’s domestication is redudant. Just that the lede is not the place for superfluous details like that the most widely consumed crops is in fact domesticated.
No, it's absolutely necessary to mention, right up front, that this is a major domesticated grain. Since Wikipedia articles are required to stand alone, it is right that a cereal article states in terms that the plant has been domesticated: readers must not be expected to navigate to another article (which isn't even named in your version!) in order to discover key facts. People eat a variety of wild and semi-wild cereals, and the first farmers ate only undomesticated crops for some thousands of years before the plants could be said to have been domesticated, so it's very far from redundant. And by the way, please sign your posts.
Chiswick Chap (
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08:52, 2 June 2024 (UTC)reply
Second sentence
In a similar vein, I don’t agree with you reverting back
The seed of the grass species Oryza sativa (Asian rice)—or, much less commonly, O. glaberrima (African rice)—it was domesticated in
China some 13,500 to 8,200 years ago; African rice was domesticated in Africa about 3,000 years ago
the “it” is talking about Asian rice since I put the part about African rice in its own subclause. I don’t think anyone would mix those two up from how I phrased it.
People who have English as a second or third language can readily be confused by unclear wording, and even native speakers can stumble over poorly-written sentences. Our goal is to be as clear as possible, not to try to get away with as much as possible.
Chiswick Chap (
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08:52, 2 June 2024 (UTC)reply
“the staple food”
I took an issue with “the staple food”, because using the definite article gives the impression that people who eat rice only eat rice as their staple. It’s might be a personal thing, but I felt saying “a staple food” seemed clearer—since people eating rice, also probably eat a lot of other staples in their diets? Also has the benefit of, “Rice is a cereal and staple food…..”, sounding a lot sharper by virtue of being terser.
Terseness is not the goal; clarity is. You are totally allowed to have your own way of writing, but Wikipedia articles need to be written for a wide audience. The definite article is required in British English (and in Commonwealth English), so it's mandatory in this article.
Chiswick Chap (
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08:52, 2 June 2024 (UTC)reply
Any reason on why you're keeping it vague by just saying it was "domesticated in China", without saying who did the domestication?
Neolithic China isn't the same thing as modern China. The fact that rice centers in the Neolithic are associated with these cultures are not in question.
OBSIDIAN†SOUL16:49, 19 June 2024 (UTC)reply
Um, we do not want to say that rice was domesticated in the Yangtze basin twice, which the article now does after your edits. You have been reverted by two other editors, which might take a bit of explaining. Further, since there is a "main" article which covers this section, we don't need to "keep a dog and bark ourselves" - that's the job of the other article. It'd be much appreciated if you could edit down the material you have copied-and-pasted (without attribution) to say the minimum of essential points just once. Many thanks.
Chiswick Chap (
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16:55, 19 June 2024 (UTC)reply
I've merged it with the first sentence. I do not see the repetition with specifically identifying which Neolithic cultures did the domestication and where in the Yangtze. That's pretty important information. Just saying "domesticated in the Yangtze in China" does not give any detail at all, and misleadingly makes it seem like rice was a Sino-Tibetan domesticate. Isn't that the reason why you reverted my categorization earlier?
Thanks for the explanation, which would have come much better before you started reverting everyone and we could have reached a sensible consensus. Certainly the section needs to be brief: the longer, the worse is the maxim when there is a lengthy subsidiary article.
Chiswick Chap (
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17:11, 19 June 2024 (UTC)reply