Talk:Bean
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I have completely rewritten this page and discovered what a mine filed the subject is. In the first place, in the English language we use the word "bean" in a much broader sense than botanically correct and lump together true beans (leguminous plants) with others like coffee bean, cocoa beans etc and in the second place there are so many synonyms for the same thing. Dry beans are known as kidney, pinto, navy, haricot beans just to name a few. Thirdly, the botaniacl classification of leguminous plants has changed a lot and is still changing (Vigna vs Phaseolus for instance).
I have included a link to Pulses (which include basically dried seeds of legiminous crops) but this gives overlap with the content of the chapter beans.
Any suggestions how to solve this problem are welcome. - Edolin
It's been about 18 months since Edolin asked for ideas or editted, but there are others working occasionally on this article.
I'm just someone who wandered in by clicking "Random page", but here's a concrete thought:
- When two areas overlap, think in terms of 3 articles one covers what applies to A but not B; one covers what applies to B but not A; one covers what they have in common.
- The A and B articles don't necessarily have to reference each other, but both should reference the A-and-B article, and be referenced by it.
IMO, this article still needs a lot of reformatting.
Stuff about growing beans with 100-year-old large-scale-production technology has a place, but it is not on this page, tho it should be linked from here.
The detailed taxonomy should likewise be accessible from this page, but it is too extensive to be on the main Bean page & obscures the structure of what may be more widely interesting info.
This page is on my list to poke at eventually if i've got nothing else to edit, but it sure would benefit more from attention from someone like Edolin with gardening, agricultural and/or botany training. --Jerzy 00:56, 2003 Oct 14 (UTC)
I am slowly making this article over. It has a lot of info in it from when it was "Beans and Pulses" I am taking out and referring to pulses (which needs a similar level of work). I am also updating the nomenclature as I go. WormRunner 04:21, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Magical fruit????
I question the paragraph reading
- Beans are often said to be the "magical fruit". Members of certain religious sects include beans as a part of their religious ceremonies. They consider them to have magical aspects unrivaled by any other fruit of its sort.
I think it's a joke.
Beans are never called "fruit" except in the context of the joking rhyme about farting ("Beans, beans, the [musical|magical] fruit/The more you eat, the more you toot/The more you toot the better you feel/So eat your beans at every meal.") [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 14:22, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Sections on Phaseolus, Vigna and Fava bean
It seems that each of these sections is a proper subset of the corresponding article. (Phaseolus, Vigna, Fava bean). They are also not as up-to-date as the articles. Any objections to their removal? Pekinensis 21:24, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- Trim it liberally, but I think you should leave links to the species --nixie 23:01, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)
The section "types of bean" had three different lists, in three different formats. I merged them together, and removed the parts which were subsets of other articles.
