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Welsh onion is grown for leaves too. What about leeks? are they in the same family? -- Oct 2002, Tarquin
It should be noted that the content introduced in this edit is from Andham2000's website and thus should not be removed as a copyright violation. -SCEhardt 00:23, 20 October 2005 (UTC)Reply
In the section History and Folklore in the first part it is said that Marco Polo brought chives from China to Europe. But later it is said that Romans (who lived some 1000 years before Marco Polo) believed that chives had this and that medical usage. So the content is self inconsistant.--Philopp 12:41, 9 January 2006 (UTC)Reply
There was a paragraph about Japanese and Chinese cuisine in the article before i rewrote it, I couldn't find any references for that claim, all I found related to Chinese chives, which is a completely different species.
Not sure on this, but shouldn't the first line refer to onions as a genus rather than family? (Allium) 67.170.108.226 (talk) 07:16, 25 November 2007 (UTC)Reply
First the article says the name is always plural because they always grow in clumps, not singly. Later it says that a species was found in Maine that grows singly, not in clumps.Tom NM (talk) 18:14, 15 June 2008 (UTC)Reply
This sentence seems dubious: 『The leaves are hollow and tubular, up to 50 cm long, and 2–3 mm in diameter, with a soft texture, although, prior to the emergence of a flower from a leaf, they may appear stiffer than usual.』
Surely flowers grow on stems, not leaves? Also, the flower stems are and remain stiff even after the head has gone to seed. Or is the meaning intended to be that the leaves around the flower stiffen for a while before the flower emerges? That would be hard to define; the flowers are quite dense within the clump. Madgenberyl (talk) 17:52, 24 November 2011 (UTC)Reply
The result of the move request was: not moved. Favonian (talk) 16:15, 8 June 2012 (UTC)Reply
Chives → Chive – Move to singular name per WP:SINGULAR. 86.21.250.191 (talk) 00:04, 1 June 2012 (UTC)Reply
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. Since polling is not a substitute for discussion, please explain your reasons, taking into account Wikipedia's policy on article titles.I would suggest adding a video of cleaning chives in preparation for cooking.
I'm involved with the Global Lives Project, a non-profit organization working to create an open video library of human experiences around the world. GLP has video footage of two men in China cleaning bunches of chives to prepare them for the kitchen. Here is the detailed footage, which can be edited down to 3-5 minutes. -FefeGong (talk) 20:54, 8 June 2012 (UTC)Reply
Do we really need the American English template? I've read through the article and it seems to be completely free of Americanisms and other regional English signifiers. This is unusual and a Good Thing in Wikipedia articles, of course. --Ef80 (talk) 16:35, 2 April 2014 (UTC)Reply
I find it strange that people are warned not to eat rhubarb leaves which are stated as having 0.5% oxalic acid and yet chives are listed as having 1.6% oxalic acid on the oxalic acid page. Why do we eat chives then? is the warning on the rhubarb page necessary? 198.103.184.76 (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 18:30, 9 June 2014 (UTC)Reply
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IP user User: 2a02:2121:344:fe67:6137:67f1:b5d8:c548 reverted my change to the lede, aimed at getting some grammatical sense into referring to a plant that has only a plural noun. He cited [1], which indeed asserts that 'chives' is a plural-only noun. (Note that oxforddictionaries.com is entirely unrelated to The Oxford English Dictionary, and is just trading on that name)
Amusingly they then give two examples; the second is 'chive and garlic dressing'. If we're being pedantic, shouldn't that be 'chives and garlic dressing'?
At any rate, I accept the revert. I've tried to make sense of the plural/singular problem with a new edit. MrDemeanour (talk) 18:06, 13 August 2018 (UTC)Reply
"Allium schoenoprasum subsp. latiorifolium (Pau) Rivas Mart., Fern.Gonz.& Sánchez Mata" and『Allium schoenoprasum subsp. gredense (Rivas Goday) Rivas Mart., Fern. Gonz. & Sánchez Mata』are listed as subspecies, cited to theplantlist.org.
Minor nit: The site theplantlist.org is currently showing a banner stating that citations should now be to worldofflowersonline.org. Both sites show rather skimpy information. The "About link doesn't work, so I'm unable to determine how these sites are funded; I expect by stuffing breeder's (subscriber's?) names into the listing titles.
Major nit: I have no idea what the meaning of "Pau" and "Rivas Goday" are; and I have even less understanding why the names of three people are appended to the name of the subspecies. I can't understand either plantlist.org or wortldofflowersonline.org; their listings are rather opaque - I'd go so far as to suggest they are primary sources.
As far as I'm aware, the subspecies should be called simply Allium schoenoprasum subsp. latiorifolium, and Allium schoenoprasum subsp. gredense. I don't believe it's customary to list the names of a series of breeders (or whatever those people are) as part of a subspecies name.
The article says the species has two known subspecies; the citation suggests that there are many more.
The claims look to me like spamming.
The change introducing thrse bizarre "subspecies names" seems to have arrived around November 2017; my bisect-fu hasn't been up to identifying the specific revision.
I propose to remove the lengthy list of trailing names, and change the citation link to point to worldofflowersonline, to the page for the relevant subspecies.
I've tried to find a better source to cite, but I've failed so far.
MrDemeanour (talk) 11:06, 11 July 2021 (UTC)Reply