Talk:Cocoa production in São Tomé and Príncipe
![]() | Cocoa production in São Tomé and Príncipe is currently an Agriculture, food and drink good article nominee. Nominated by Yue🌙 at 17:14, 11 September 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: none |
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The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 18:45, 24 July 2024 (UTC)
- ... that São Tomé and Príncipe were known as "the Chocolate Islands" in the early 1900s, when they were the world's top exporters of cocoa (samples pictured)?
- Source: Drew, Keith (6 July 2023). "How the Chocolate Islands are rediscovering their roots". BBC. Retrieved 28 June 2024.
The trees thrived in the rich volcanic soil, and by the early 1900s, São Tomé and Príncipe was the biggest exporter of cacao in the world, earning it the nickname of 'The Chocolate Islands'.
- ALT1: ... that São Tomé and Príncipe was known as "the Chocolate Islands" in the early 1900s, when it was the world's top exporter of cocoa (samples pictured)? Source: Same as above.
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Emmanuella Atora
- Comment: Technically, São Tomé and Príncipe is a singular country (a Portuguese colony at the time mentioned in the hook). The hook should therefore use singular conjugations of verbs, but it sounded too odd upon my initial reading. I thus changed the verbs to their plural conjugations, as if the islands themselves are being described rather than the modern country or the former colony. I have nonetheless included my original wording as ALT1, in case the reviewer or promoter wants to compare the two.
Yue🌙 07:35, 3 July 2024 (UTC).
- Hi Yue, review follows: article created 3 July and exceeds minimum length; I reworded one sentence slightly to move it further from the source, but otherwise I don't think there is an issue with overly close paraphrasing; article is cited inline throughout to what look to be reliable sources for the subject; hook fact is interesting, mentioned in the article and checks out to source cited (BBC); a QPQ has been provided; image is properly licensed and looks fine. I changed from single to double quotation marks in the hooks to match the article and, I think, our MOS. In terms of plurals I think English_plurals#Geographical_plurals_used_as_singular discusses this; either alternative sounds OK to me but British English tends to be a bit more flexible than US English on this (see eg. Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Plurals) - Dumelow (talk) 09:40, 3 July 2024 (UTC)
- @Dumelow: Thank you for taking the time to do this review! On second thought, maybe ALT1 is the better choice because ALT0 implies that there were two exporters instead of one. Yue🌙 02:53, 4 July 2024 (UTC)
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Nominator: Yue (talk · contribs) 17:14, 11 September 2024 (UTC)
Reviewer: Rollinginhisgrave (talk · contribs) 02:37, 12 September 2024 (UTC)
I'll review this article. Rollinginhisgrave (talk) 02:37, 12 September 2024 (UTC)