Talk:Carrot/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Chiswick Chap (talk · contribs) 19:40, 7 September 2016 (UTC)

General comments

The article is already of high quality, so comments will be few and minor.

Specific comments

• It would be good to mention the 'myth' in the lead.

• The top view of the inflorescence shows the (typical) dark central floret, which distinguishes the species from close relatives. Why not say this in the caption.

I am not with you here. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 10:46, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

Done it. The 'inflorescence' photo shows a circular patch of tiny flowers called florets. If you look closely, the middle one is very dark red....

• I think that carrot jam deserves more of a mention, and the existing sentence seems to be uncited.

• Their real role in World War Two also needs some mention.

• They may have been used in the Roman Empire; the web is full of dodgy claims about this, however. It might be worth emphasizing the weakness of the evidence, given the apparent certainty of the least scientific of the claims.

• A photo of purple and yellow carrots would be useful.

Lovely photo!

• The growth in production is interesting, though the time-reversed presentation of the data is a bit unusual: a simple graph or table (it's possible to get wikicode to plot a bar chart) would be better.

• The growth in consumption deserves to be explained, if any RS discusses it. (One may guess that something colourful that needs little or no preparation suits the modern world, of course.)

• I'm not convinced that the 'not to be confused with' hatnote has any value - confusion seems quite unlikely, and this isn't a dictionary.

I think that's about it.

Thank you for taking on the review. I have dealt with most of your points but have not created a bar graph, a skill I have not yet attempted. Nor have I added a citation for the carrot jam sentence; I could quote an ancient cookbook or remove it if you wish. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 10:44, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

It's fine for GA now. Chiswick Chap (talk) 15:02, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

Thank you. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 17:04, 8 September 2016 (UTC)