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This article is written in American English, which has its own spelling conventions (color, defense, traveled) and some terms that are used in it may be different or absent from other varieties of English. According to the relevant style guide, this should not be changed without broad consensus.

Synonyms

Can anyone do something about the extremely long list of synonyms so it doesn't appear in the mobile phone version (if such a list is even necessary), causing a massive amount of scrolling? I haven't done enough edits to make changes to semi-protected pages. If the main sections other than the introduction are hidden by default, shouldn't this one be as well, and why isn't there an option to hide/show it?Stravinskian (talk) 02:11, 15 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that the list is a bit excessive, taking up 15 % of the current bytes, particularly if it causes issues on mobile versions (I haven't checked). There is probably enough material to create a separate article on Taxonomy of potato species to explain the history of it, but in the meantime, moving this to a separate List of Solanum tuberosum synonyms would seem most elegant. @Abductive: As the editor who added the list, what do you think? SmartSE (talk) 12:24, 13 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

No, first we should find out why the Collapsible list template doesn't collapse on mobile, and see if it can be fixed Wikipedia-wide. Failing that, it may be best to replace the list with a link—or a footnote to a link—to the source, http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:821337-1#synonyms and remove the list entirely. Another possibility is splitting the article, but not just "List of Solanum tuberosum synonyms". Many plants, for example, Banana, Chili pepper, Cooked rice, have made a split between the culinary and the botanical. Abductive (reasoning) 16:11, 13 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

"Pomme Terre" listed at Redirects for discussion

A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Pomme Terre. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 November 19#Pomme Terre until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. Joseph2302 (talk) 16:06, 19 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Staple crop comparison table

Please see Template_talk:Comparison_of_major_staple_foods#Fresh/dry_comparisons regarding a proposed change to the template transcluded in this article. SmartSE (talk) 12:15, 13 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Creamers / baby / new

I've made some changes to the text about creamer potatoes but I'm not sure that it is correct that creamers and new potatoes are synonymous. This company has a page detailing that their creamer potatoes are not "baby" potatoes by which they mean immature potatoes. As this ref from the UK discusses, there used to be confusion here about what counted as a "new" potato and now this only describes immature ones, which is what the text currently says creamers are. In the UK, we'd call those creamers "baby" potatoes (i.e. just small) or salad potatoes. Can anyone in the US shed any light on the terminology used? Is "creamer" synonymous with "new" in the way it used to be in the UK? i.e. it can apply to any small potato and is "baby" used only to describe immature potatoes? SmartSE (talk) 13:13, 13 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Europe or America

Aren't fried potatoes from belgium, because they are in the American section and if i remember well enough, Belgium is in Europe. Or are we clasifing it by popular culture? A bored editor (talk) 20:31, 13 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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 I've made some changes to the text about creamer potatoes but I'm not sure that it is correct that creamers and new potatoes are synonymous. [https://www.littlepotatoes.com/blog/our-creamer-potatoes-are-not-baby-potatoes/ This company] has a page detailing that their creamer potatoes are '''not''' "baby" potatoes by which they mean immature potatoes. As [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-23667664 this ref] from the UK discusses, there used to be confusion here about what counted as a "new" potato and now this only describes immature ones, which is what the text currently says creamers are. In the UK, we'd call those creamers "baby" potatoes (i.e. just small) or [https://www.lovepotatoes.co.uk/varieties/salad-potatoes/ salad potatoes]. Can anyone in the US shed any light on the terminology used? Is "creamer" synonymous with "new" in the way it used to be in the UK? i.e. it can apply to any small potato and is "baby" used only to describe immature potatoes? [[User:Smartse|SmartSE]] ([[User talk:Smartse|talk]]) 13:13, 13 June 2021 (UTC)
+== Europe or America ==
+Aren't fried potatoes from belgium, because they are in the American section and if i remember well enough, Belgium is in Europe.
+Or are we clasifing it by popular culture? [[User:A bored editor|A bored editor]] ([[User talk:A bored editor|talk]]) 20:31, 13 November 2021 (UTC)