Talk:Vaccinium angustifolium

Maine Stuff

Someone's pretty clearly copy and pasted some Maine-specific wild blueberry info here; while some of it may be worthwhile, as it is it looks pretty rough, to say nothing of, er, Maineocentric. 142.167.173.180 (talk) 14:01, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

What's up with the PR material? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.22.236.230 (talk) 15:46, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Agreed. There has to be a tag for this.--Boffob (talk) 17:35, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

After looking things up, I have added the "globalize" and "copypaste" tags on the article, as both are appropriate here.--Boffob (talk) 17:51, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: BIOL 343

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 6 September 2022 and 9 December 2022. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Izzy207 (article contribs).

— Assignment last updated by Infocard (talk) 05:57, 9 December 2022 (UTC)

Recent edits

Hi @Izzy207, as I had mentioned on your talk page, some of the information you've added doesn't follow core wikipedia policies and guidelines. For example, in the source that was cited [1] it says: "It was first grown on a large scale by the Wabanaki native people who burn-pruned and harvested fields of wild blueberry."

• You wrote: Indigenous people, such as the Wabanaki, were the first to grow the Vaccinium angustifolium wild crop in a more domestic manner, and initially developed the burn then harvest cycle.
• Citing the same source you also added: The Union Army also enjoyed them during the American Civil War, thanks to the development of canning techniques attributed to Louis Pasteur.

What's written in the article is "During the Civil War (1861-1865) wild blueberries were sent by sea to the Union Army (Hanes and Waring 2018). In 1886, the berries were first canned and by the 1950s there were 21 canning factories." Both of these are examples of original research because the cited source doesn't include some of the information you've mentioned such as the Wabanaki developing the burn then harvest cycle and canning techniques attributed to Pasteur. Additionally, there's information [2] that's been added that's missing references, such as the entire subsection about Products and having references is important for verifiability. Moreover, the nutritional information is all sourced from the same website and doesn't follow WP:MEDRS guidelines which means that statements such as These antioxidants found in wild blueberries generally decrease the risk of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and decrease the effects of aging, need references from reliable secondary sources. I also noticed that most of the information that was added was about wild blueberries grown in Maine and am wondering if information about wild blueberries grown in Canada should've also been included, since writing about just one aspect places undue weight towards one topic. I hope this helps clarify some of the concerns and I'd be glad to answer any questions. Thanks! Eucalyptusmint (talk) 01:56, 10 December 2022 (UTC)