Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Agriculture

No Domestication of (plant) articles?

I was contemplating starting an article on the domestication of squash, so I searched "Domestication of" to see if there were any plant articles I could use as reference, and I couldn't find any - the best I got was some redirects to sections of articles on major crops. Does this imply that 'Domestication of (common crop)' articles generally do fail Wikipedia:Notability? Would I be better off expanding on the domestication of squash in the Cucurbita article? AspiringGnome (talk) 05:23, 15 January 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for asking. Cucurbita already has a detailed and quite long enough section with a dozen sources, so the topic of its domestication is notable. I suggest you start Domestication of squash using that cited text, and add new sources in the subsidiary article. You can then add a 'main' link back at Cucurbita. Chiswick Chap (talk) 05:38, 15 January 2026 (UTC)

Thanks! This came up while trying to fix Domesticated plants of Mesoamerica#Staple Crops by doing as you suggested in the squash section. I probably should have been less specific - I can see three justifiable options for expanding on this type of content:

1. In the species articles, under History sections. This would limit how much I can include, because of WP:DUEWEIGHT
2. In separate articles. This might run into WP:N problems. (If this is how I should proceed, I'd also need some technical help on how to move the content the correct way with just copying and pasting)
3. In the Domesticated plants of Mesoamerica article. This might get long, but would probably be more notable as a whole.

I'm not really sure which of these options would be appropriate, and I appreciate any more experienced input. AspiringGnome (talk) 06:07, 15 January 2026 (UTC)

As I already said, the domestication of squash easily clears WP:N as it is discussed by a dozen sources at least, and I suspect that is just scratching the surface. Therefore we can certainly have a standalone article, which I see you have not yet created. You can freely copy-and-paste the existing section to get started: just put "Start by splitting from Cucurbita, see there for attribution" as your first edit comment, or put a similar note on the talk page. I hope it goes without saying that this would make no sense unless you swiftly go on to extend the new article with additional content, or you'll find it at AfD being deleted or redirected back where it came from. If the original coverage had been too much for Cucurbita, then one would quickly cut down the section there, but since that is not at all the case, I trust you won't do that.

As I also said, the Cucurbita article definitely has a long-enough coverage of the subtopic, or, to stress it repeatedly in best belt-and-braces style, it would be grossly WP:UNDUE to overburden a Featured Article with a WP:COATRACK in one section: please don't go there, it would be WP:DISRUPTIVE.

Domesticated plants of Mesoamerica is a list of 26 plants or plant groups; the total readable prose size was 1200 words before your recent intervention, 1500 words after it. That does not sound catastrophic; but most of the length is made up of Maize, Capsicum, Squash, and Vanilla, while the rest (such as Tomato, Potato) have uncited single-line entries, so balance is already an issue there. The whole article is very poorly WP:Cited, so if you have a mind, finding sources to Verify the claims made there would be a useful piece of work, and you might like to extend the barely-documented plants listed at the same time.

In sum, I'd say that a stand-alone article would be best, if you are in the mood to develop the history of plant domestication, while developing the list would be a worthy job too. Chiswick Chap (talk) 09:11, 15 January 2026 (UTC)

Will do! Thanks for the guidance, and sorry for the excessive links AspiringGnome (talk) 19:27, 15 January 2026 (UTC)

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