Template:Did you know nominations/Coffee production in Guam
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The result was: rejected by Yoninah (talk) 23:48, 4 July 2015 (UTC)
Withdrawn by nominator
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Coffee production in Guam edit
- ... that coffee grew around houses in Guam in the early 20th century?
Created by Rosiestep (talk) and Nvvchar (talk). Nominated by Rosiestep (talk) at 02:52, 11 June 2015 (UTC).
QPQ okay, hook is cited (although not terribly interesting), nominated within 7 days of creation. Length is around 2,100 characters, but the majority of this article is composed of close paraphrasing or exact copy-paste of admittedly public domain material, which is not an issue of plagiarism but is excluded from DYK length count (DYK 2b: However, because the emphasis at DYK is on new and original content, text copied verbatim from public domain sources, or which closely paraphrases such sources, is excluded both from the 1,500 minimum character count for new articles... ). Compare for example source:
- Coffee receives little care. It will grow in various situations and in almost any soil, and yields abundant harvests. Often most of the houses of a village, as at Sinajana, are seen surrounded by coffee bushes, and the fresh seeds sprout spontaneously beneath the parent plant or if thrown upon the surface of the soil in a shady place. There are no large plantations in the island, each family planting enough only for its own consumption. The berries are gathered, pulped, and hulled by hand.
- to WIki:
- Cox (1917) noted that coffee received little care in Guam, and grew in various situations and in almost any soil. Most of the houses of a village were surrounded by coffee bushes, and the fresh seeds sprouted spontaneously beneath the parent plant or if thrown upon soil in a shady place. There were no large plantations on the island, each family planting enough only for its own consumption. The berries were gathered, pulped, and hulled by hand.
- Similarly, the odd tilde in "like a tapering rolling~pin of stone" suggests a straight exact copy-paste from the Google Books OCR scan. Since the text is public domain, and clearly denoted as such, there is no plagiarism to worry about, but I think there should be more substantial "new" content or rewrite before DYK. Rules aside, it would be nice to cite sources more recent than 1917, otherwise we might as well direct readers to the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica on Wikisource. Surely there has been something noteworthy to say about coffee production in the last 100 years? --Animalparty-- (talk) 04:28, 19 June 2015 (UTC)
