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April 1, 2006	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
November 9, 2006	Good article reassessment	Delisted

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HTTP://WWW.LOSETHEGAME.COM Peru has over 4000 types of Potatoes! Potatoes comes from Peru!!! why would we need to mention Chile in this? It seems to me that people are not inform! please travel! read books! and don't stick to whatever school or your parents has teach you. It seems to me that Chilean people think that they are the owners of everything! potatoes, suspiro de Limena or suspiro a la Limena, pisco (even though the very famous Chilean writer Isabel Allende in her book "Mi Pais Inventado" page 22 admitted that pisco was stolen from Peru!...I wonder what would be next! perhaps Inca Kola?, lucuma?, Cherimoya? purple corn?. I would love to see Chilean people being proud of their own products!

200% Claim

I've been repeatedly reading this in the article: "Today, over 299% of all cultivated potato varieties worldwide are descendants of the Chilean subspecies." Yet, when I go read the links, they don't even mention percentages. Hence, if this is not factual information, please do not include it in the article.--MarshalN20 (talk) 23:03, 14 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Per WP:PROVEIT, feel free to remove it (though you might be better trying to find another source on google first). WLU (talk) 23:08, 14 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Date of Introduction to Europe

The article says "The potato was introduced to Europe around 1570," but if you look at the article in the citation for that sentence ( at http://research.cip.cgiar.org/confluence/display/wpa/China ), the date is given as "probably in the 1570s". I can't correct as the page is semi-protected and I am a brand new user. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dwsnyder00 (talk • contribs) 02:00, 18 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I for one am outraged at the bad press potatoes receive. My son is 14 and experiments with potatoes, but I say bravo! It is all part of the learning experience! After all, where would we be withOUT potatoes? These questions are never asked. It is a scandal! I shall not rest until there is a potato in every classroom!

Good-day!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.115.191.100 (talk) 15:16, 31 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

More than just that, the introductory paragraph says "around 1700", and then in the paragraph you mention, "1570s". That's too great of an error. I'd go ahead and change it, but I've no clue which one to chose and I doubt averaging the two dates would be amusing to anyone except demented programmers like myself. 24.254.163.150 (talk) 18:34, 27 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The section "Origin and History" has some specifics. "Introduced to botanical literature" and "introduced to the table in some places" and "introduced to commerce" vary through several centuries. --Wetman (talk) 23:23, 27 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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+Peru has over 4000 types of Potatoes! Potatoes comes from Peru!!! why would we need to mention Chile in this? It seems to me that people are not inform! please travel! read books! and don't stick to whatever school or your parents has teach you.  It seems to me that Chilean people think that they are the owners of everything! potatoes, suspiro de Limena or  suspiro a la Limena, pisco (even though the very famous Chilean writer Isabel Allende in her book "Mi Pais Inventado" page 22 admitted that pisco was stolen from Peru!...I wonder what would be next! perhaps Inca Kola?, lucuma?, Cherimoya? purple corn?.  I would love to see Chilean people being proud of their own products!
 ==200% Claim==
 I've been repeatedly reading this in the article: "Today, over 299% of all cultivated potato varieties worldwide are descendants of the Chilean subspecies." Yet, when I go read the links, they don't even mention percentages. Hence, if this is not factual information, please do not include it in the article.--[[User:MarshalN20|MarshalN20]] ([[User talk:MarshalN20|talk]]) 23:03, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
 :Per [[WP:PROVEIT]], feel free to remove it (though you might be better trying to find another source on google first).  [[User:WLU|WLU]] ([[User talk:WLU|talk]]) 23:08, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
 ==Date of Introduction to Europe==