![]() | Oat is currently an Agriculture, food and drink good article nominee. Nominated by Chiswick Chap (talk) at 14:43, 2 May 2024 (UTC) An editor has indicated a willingness to review the article in accordance with the good article criteria. Further reviews are welcome from any editor who has not contributed significantly to this article (or nominated it), and can be added to the review page, but the decision whether or not to list the article as a good article should be left to the first reviewer. Short description: Cool weather staple grain, animal feed |
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I bet the more common nameisoats, not oat. ---- Frans Fowler (talk) 01:22, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Nominator: Chiswick Chap (talk · contribs) 14:43, 2 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Reviewer: Rollinginhisgrave (talk · contribs) 23:01, 19 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Will start this over the next few days. Rollinginhisgrave (talk) 23:01, 19 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I will wait until spotcheck issues are resolved before moving to the next sections of review. Rollinginhisgrave (talk) 04:56, 20 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I have added some points. Some might be beyond the scope of GA, if you flag them as such we can move past them. I'm sorry I still don't have a great grasp of what goes too far with WP:GA? Rollinginhisgrave (talk) 10:21, 20 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Leaving comments as I edit.
far from the Middle Eastless weasely/delete
Oat bread often contains only a small proportion of oats alongside wheat or other cereals.integrate into celiac section.
The straw can be used for making corn dollies.can you gloss?
A 2018 analysis...a lot of redundancy in this paragraph. Don't need author, that there were 25 species analysed. Jargon heavy, gloss on chloroplast, AACCDD.
hexaploid wild oat, one that has its DNA in six sets of chromosomes... diploid oat species (each with two sets of chromosomes)... tetraploid oats (each with four sets of chromosomes)can you think of a way to avoid repeating clause?
Genomic study by Jinsheng Nan and colleagues in 2023more redundancy in describing studies
the hulled oat A. sativa and the naked oat A.Why is this the only time we hear the subject described as "hulled oat"
Genomic study by Jinsheng Nan...paragraph. Significance? Was it thought they were domesticated together? Why is that important?
they can be some 15 to 40 centimetres (5.9 to 15.7 in) in length, and around 5 to 15 millimetres (0.20 to 0.59 in) in width.why are all the measurements preceded with "some" rather than more natural language. Further, is there a reason it is "in length" instead of "long".
Botanically the grain is a caryopsis: The source says "The oat fruit is a caryopsis"; are these saying the same thing?
Oats appear to have been cultivated before they were domesticated: The source says this is the stage in domestication before domestication (1608), therefore all domesticated crops will have been cultivated. Not notable.
Oats are sown in the spring or early summer in colder areas...A lot of this paragraph is unsupported by source.
Random Spot Check:
Oats appear to have been cultivated before they were domesticated. A granary from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic, some 11,400 to 11,200 years ago in the Jordan Valley in the Middle East contained a large number of wild barley and wild oat grains (120,000 seeds of wild oat, A. sterilis). This quantity could not have been collected from the wild, so the find implies intentional cultivation and harvesting of the undomesticated grain, thousands of years before oats were domesticated. Domesticated oat grains first appear in the archaeological record in Europe, far from the Middle East, less than 4,000 years ago.: Source does not support thrust of text, although many key facts are accurately reported. Detailed in content section.
The vigorous growth of oats tends to choke out most weeds. A few tall broadleaf weeds can create a problem, as they complicate harvest and reduce yields. These can be controlled with a modest application of a broadleaf herbicide while the weeds are still small.: Rather than try to piece together which sections of the source are supporting which sentence of the quote, could you please briefly write this out? I am concerned I am missing something.
Oatmeal is chiefly eaten as porridge, but may also be used in a variety of baked goods, such as oatcakes (which may be made with coarse steel-cut oats for a rougher texture), oatmeal cookies and oat bread.
The United States Food and Drug Administration allows companies to make health claims on labels of food products that contain soluble fiber from whole oats, as long as the food provides 0.75 grams of soluble fiber per serving.
Oat straw is prized by cattle and horse producers as bedding, due to its soft, relatively dust-free, and absorbent nature.: Not in citation: soft, relatively dust free, prized by farmers.
My view on the quality of the citations will depend on how the broadleaf is justified. If there are major issues with 3/5 sources checked not justifying text, I would prefer to fail the nom for failing the spot-check. I would like your input before I do.
Other source problems:
Oats are relatively free from diseases and pests.Source doesn't discuss pests
Rollinginhisgrave (talk) 04:56, 20 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]