Talk:Strawberry (disambiguation)

message: I propose that Strawberries should redirect to Strawberry. Right now it goes to an album by a band I've never heard of. Probably almost half of the links refer to the fruit, not the album. The fruit is often referred to in the plural and is vastly more notable than the album.  -Will Beback 09:21, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. -Will Beback 21:24, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Strawberries

message: "the north temperate regions of both hemispheres". Is this a usual way of expressing locality?
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I don't have a problem with it, although you could say "worldwide" or some such thing instead. Elakazal 15:29, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hemispheres 

message: That "nutrition box" is way out of control.  It's much too large for the article.  RickK 04:34, 28 Apr 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: mmmm, Strawberies are yummy. Benjaminstewart05 12:18, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nutrition box 

message: Large cultivated strawberries and small wild ones are different words in Swedish; we see them as two different berries, really. Now what do I do with the interwiki link? It currently goes to :sv:Jordgubbe, I'd like to have one to :sv:Smultron too... is that possible? /Habj 22:23, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Interwiki links 

message: It would be nice if there was something about preserving and using strawberries. How they keep etc.
*There was a Good Eats episode on strawberries that addressed this quite handily - Alton Browne showed how they became mushy when frozen normally (due to ice crystals forming and breaking the cell walls), however they freeze quite well if flash-frozen in dry ice.Scott Ritchie 22:00, 14 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Misc 

message: Can the following featured picture be worked into the article somewhere? It seems silly to not use such a nice pic.  Scott Ritchie 22:00, 14 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Strawberry image 

message: I like the edit that was just done moving gardening info to the Garden Strawberry page.  I think nutrition belongs there, too, since that info was undoubtably derived from garden berries, and not the wild species.  Any opinions?
Dr U 12:11, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Recent Edit

message: The previous image suggested that the Anglo-Saxons grew strawberries on straws. This is wild speculation, unless someone can provide evidence that they even cultivated strawberries.--Wiglaf 11:33, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Etymology is a subject where you find many dubious claims, especially in non-linguistic publications. The straw layer theory is very likely to be folk etymology. Since the name is of A-S origin the straw layer theory could only be realistic if there is any evidence that the A-S grew strawberries on fields, and even if they did it is not certain that the tradition of using straw layers is that old.--Wiglaf 06:51, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Changed image in the etymology section

message: The Armeniapedia link on medicinal uses comes from a book published in Soviet Armenia in Armenian, which I paid to have translated so that the information could be online, for free.  I put it on my wiki about all things Armenian.  I see someone has added that the link to my site is to an "ad supported wiki).  Since when do website get labelled as "ad supported" in links?  It does have google ads, which perhaps recoup about 10% of the out of pocket expenses the site takes in order to generate new content and host the rather large site.  It is a hobby, it is nowhere near supported by anything/anyone but me.  The ads are simple google text ads, and just two per page.  There are no banners, no blinking...  so why the pariah like ad disclaimer?  I won't remove it myself, but hope someone sees that it is just not necessary.  You wouldn't qualify links to the New York Times with "oh, it has aaaads on it", so why not just let a link to a normal site with normal content be?  If it doesn't deserve to be listed, remove it.  If it does and the ads are not an important part of the site, why would they be mentioned??? --RaffiKojian 05:53, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Armeniapedia link 

message: Information on strawberry allergies. --Gbleem 07:23, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Strawberry Allergy 

message: It's actually true, A strawberry is not a berry. Berries are defined by having their fruit on the inside, such fruits as cucumbers, mangos, tomatos, grapes, raspberries, oranges are all berries, and yet the strawberry is not because it contains its seeds on the outside. James Random 11:49, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not a berry 

message: Is it true the strawberry is the only fruit with its seed on the outside? DMTsurel 09:41, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: seeds outside

message: It is pathetic that this article is all about the plant with almost no info about the fruit as a food. I added links to Garden Strawberry. 69.87.201.12 00:48, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Plant vs. Food

message: The article has no direct info about the size and weight ranges of the fruit. 69.87.201.12 00:48, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Size Scale

message: What are optimum conditions for storing ripe fruit so that they last as long as possible -- in the refrigerator? 69.87.201.12 00:48, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Fruit Storage

message: The pathogens section contains only A number of species of Lepidoptera feed on strawberry plants; for details see this list.  I was not aware that insects were pathogens. PrometheusX303 16:11, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pathogens 

message: Isn't there a country where strawberries initialy come from? "THROUGH FIRE, JUSTICE IS SERVED!" 18:11, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  origin? 

message: I removed the following 2 paragraphs from under the "history" heading, as it looks to me like part conjecture and partly just plain false:
:There are two apparently unrelated kinds of "strawberry", fragaria and duchesnea seeming to have evolved convergently. 
:Old-world strawberries, duchesnea, are on record as having been grown for food in Europe since at least the 13th century. These are commonly known as the Indian Strawberry. It was not only eaten as food, but used medicinally, including to help aid digestion.
The first paragraph just seems odd (with the "apparently" and "seeming to have"). The second is just plain false... I'm fairly certain that Fragaria vesca was grown in the old world before the new world introductions, but not Duchesnea (which, speaking from experience, is not worth eating). --SB_Johnny|talk|books 18:33, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Questionable information removed... 

message: This article says the typical modern strawberry comes from Mongolia. I dont know if thats true or not but I havent been able to confirm that information anywhere else including Wikipedias articles Garden Strawberry and Woodland Strawberry. Most articles on the internet describe it as originally widely distributed thoughout the northern hemisphere222.153.163.197 00:23, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: history

message: Is it true that in the USA female Blood gangsters are known as Strawberry Bloods?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 164.92.175.76 (talk) 21:53, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gangs in USA 

message: If the strawberry is originally from the Americas, who can the word originally be of Anglo-Saxon origin? The language had long evolved into English by the time strawberries would have made it to Europe. Think about it. 64.191.211.54 (talk) 20:46, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Word origin nonsense 

message: moved from garden strawberry discussion:
Also, should this page be merged with strawberry? Are there that many cultivars of strawberries? WLU (talk) 21:24, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd suggest moving Strawberry to Fragaria (per Wikipedia:Naming conventions (flora) and because there are a dozen or so species in this genus which aren't generally found in cultivation), and keeping garden strawberry (which could be split further into one article on the botanical descriptions and relationships, and the other on use, history and associations, but I'm trying to avoid making this whole thing too complicated right now).  The concept here is that the Fragaria article should cover the genus as a whole and garden strawberry should cover the cultivated strawberry (analogous to Nicotiana versus Nicotiana tabacum, another genus with both cultivated and wild members). Oh, and then there are the redirects.  That's almost a whole separate discussion, but for example Strawberry could redirect to garden strawberry, and wild strawberry could point to Strawberry (disambiguation). Kingdon (talk) 14:49, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  sounds good for meTruetom (talk) 19:19, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  I and one other user have made the above changes.  Kingdon (talk) 04:27, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

text:  I think Strawberry should redirect to Fragaria. For example, I was interested in knowing about the different types of strawberries and their origins (eg new vs old world), and was confused by being redirected to the garden strawberry page. It was not immediately clear to me from that page that there were other types of strawberries besides the Garden species. By redirecting to Fragaria, someone wanting to know about strawberries in general would get what they wanted, and someone wanting to know about the garden species in particular would quickly understand they should go to the garden strawberry page, as it is noted as the main cultivar in the Fragaria intro. BlankAxolotl (talk) 07:04, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The article should be titled just "Strawberry" regardless though. --88.108.178.52 (talk) 19:19, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not sure what article you are proposing to rename to strawberry.  Also see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Plants/Archive20#Strawberry-.3EFragaria. Kingdon (talk) 17:47, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  merge with garden strawberry 

message: I've heard the term strawberry used on various TV shows (Dexter for example) and in a few articles to mean someone who gets things, almost always drugs, for an exchange of sexual favors. Anyone want to make an article for that and put some good sources? Probably shouldn't be too hard to find. 76.117.235.229 (talk) 00:00, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Sounds like a job for wiktionary, not wikipedia (and I'll leave it to wiktionary policies, which I don't know, to say how slang should be treated as opposed to other kinds of meanings). See Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary. Kingdon (talk) 16:40, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Slang