Banana is currently an Agriculture, food and drink good article nominee. Nominated by Chiswick Chap (talk) at 20:29, 12 March 2024 (UTC) Anyone who has not contributed significantly to (or nominated) this article may review it according to the good article criteria to decide whether or not to list it as a good article. To start the review process, click start review and save the page. (See here for the good article instructions.) Short description: Tropical/subtropical edible staple, fruit |
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3. Sustainability section, After the harm on aquatic life, is mentioned, it then goes on to include supporting evidence of such harm. Due to me adding how fertilizers can also harm human life I wanted to include supporting evidence for that also. a. Before: “It had been theorized that destruction of 60% of coral reefs along the coasts of Costa Rica is partially from sediments from bananas plantations.”
b. After: “It had been……” These harmful chemicals cause cancer and mutations in humans. Not to mention the workers in these bananas fields that exposure to these chemicals daily.
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India MantasPtr (talk) 22:59, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
Hi Chiswick Chap. Yes, I would like to discuss the inclusion of the section I added that you reverted, as IMO it is pertinent to the article. The physical fruit is used as a symbolic weapon of racial abuse, and the word as a term of abuse (apparently in the US - I had not heard of it before I found that article I linked to, which I expanded earlier). As I was editing on a related topic earlier about a sportsman who had had a banana thrown at him it echoed in my mind that I have often heard or read comments by others asking what it means, and why it's abusive. I think that such people would look at this entry first in Wikipedia to find that out. I feel more strongly about the first use than the second, as it relates to the actual fruit. The second usage is covered on the DAB, but there's no indication anywhere else about the other use of bananas. That was my motivation for adding it, and I would like to hear from other editors to obtain consensus on this one before a reversion. Laterthanyouthink (talk) 10:06, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
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Please make "sunlight" in Banana#Panama disease redirect to https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunlight Hanoi89computerlover (talk) 07:16, 22 June 2024 (UTC)
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glucanase discovered in dental plaque from 12th century BCE philistines <- not right, should be 2nd cen BCE philistines as in source Chadboi41 (talk) 08:40, 24 June 2024 (UTC)