Talk:Olive
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Was *anything* in this entry written after 1920, other than my one sentence about the Athenian pottery industry? Vicki Rosenzweig
- looks to me like an (uncited) EB 1911 text. It could use a little, er, pruning as well...-- Viajero 10:51 8 Jul 2003 (UTC)
Should be broken into sections. Kent Wang 23:29, 5 Feb 2004 (UTC)
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Disambig?
I want to add another page to the listing of alternatives at the top, Olive, a dance music band from the 1990's. Three would be a bit much, so presumably a disambig page is called for. Where should it be placed? Move this one, or just link to it at the top?
This could use some things on olives in modernday cuisine as well. --Kasperl 17:34, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Long life
Considering that olives are famous by their longevity, maybe you could add something about the oldest olive in the world. It's about 2500 years old, it's near city of Bar, Serbia and Montenegro (there is a picture). The second oldest olive in the world is on a Christ's grave in Israel. Milant 23:21, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Urgh!
What an appalling piece! This must win a prize for 'most inappropriate and wantonly verbose' prose on Wikipedia...
At what remote period of human progress the wild olive passed under the care of the husbandman and became the fruitful garden olive it is impossible to conjecture.
Terrible English.
- That's 1911 for 'ya.--Joel 23:36, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- I tried a re-write on the enjoyably archaic "History of the Olive" section but it is entirely speculative and already covered by the preceeding paras (e.g. geographical origins already indentified in the first para). So I expanded the intial section slightly and removed the "remote period of human progress.." etc. Presuably since 1911 somone has answered a lot of the speculation about origins of olives and history of cultivation. Still needs something about C20 production. frankh 22:59, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
NPOV dispute
I'm confused. Given that the article is outdated and terribly written, I can't see from the discussion above that there's a POV dispute; doesn't it just need a copyedit? Djnjwd 21:54, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)