Talk:Tangerine

message: "It is commonly agreed that Tangerines are not as good as Clementines. They are considered to be flabby, and simply not worth the effort."
Is this meant to be a joke? It seems to be editorialising.
Shouldn't this article be merged with the article for Clementine?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.30.91.246 (talk) 19:04, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Comment

message: Why is there both a mandarin orange article and a tangerine article, when both articles acknowledge that they're talking about C. reticulata? One should be merged. --76.223.219.98 03:35, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I will admit to having no expert knowledge (and little if any knowledge beyond what could be considered common knowledge) on this topic, but I do agree with pechaney on this. I started looking a bit into a few other articles in the area of the mandarin family, and I noticed in multiple cases that I could find a lot of the information for articles such as the tangerine or clementine in a higher level page. Another one that doesn't directly entail this article are the articles Satsuma (fruit) and Mandarin orange. What this set of articles truly needs is an organizational overhaul (and likely the use of several namespaces as well, but that's beside the point). impinball (talk) 18:00, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mandarin oranges 

message: Can someone add the nutritional Composition of tangerines, I am just revising a project and would like to know if there are any maor differences between tangerines and oranges.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.209.147.11 (talk) 00:49, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nutritional Information  

message: I think it would be more appropriate to merge mandarin orange into tangarine, as that is the more common name.  My understanding is that the Clementine is also a variety of tangerine. --Zeamays (talk) 02:13, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Not merge: Users may well seek information on tangerines, or on two of its cultivars specifically: mandarin or clementine. The terms are common enough (& the entities distinct enough) that I think they should remain separate articles & not be merged.  69.140.161.90 (talk) 14:09, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

text: Not merge: It's not wrong to merge clementines into tangerines into mandarin oranges, and maybe even merge them all with satsumas/mikans.  But the fact is, there are four distinct varietals here: mandarin oranges, tangerines, clementines, and satsumas.  Combining them would be like combining all types of Canis lupus familiaris (dogs). AyaK (talk) 21:41, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

text: Not Merge, but reorganize: Perhaps a template of tangerines should be created to list all these varieties.  Merging these two will mean that others need to be merged and it may look messy.  Current format is fine they just need an over-arching listing.  Ssh83 (talk) 19:23, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

text: Yeah, no.... I don't think that tangerines are the same as mandarin oranges, and, if they are, they aren't. Are they? –The Obento Musubi (Contributions) 18:10, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Comment It's just like saying that Okinawa and Japan are the same things. It's also like saying that a square is a rectangle. –The Obento Musubi (Contributions) 19:19, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  What I was trying to say is that if people want to merge mandarins and tangerines, even though the two terms refer to different varieties of the species Citrus reticulata, that they should put in all the information about as many cultivars of the species as possible in the same article. Otherwise, they should leave the articles apart as they are now. Luminece (talk) 22:15, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

text: Are you seriously comparing apples and oranges?  :)  --Fastolfe00 (talk) 00:31, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, because they both are Citrus Reticulata. If not merge, at least change the names so we can tell them apart. Stop comparing it to dogs, they are not only the same family, they are the same species.Xicoav (talk) 23:29, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Merger with Mandarin Orange

message: It says that tangerines are less sour than oranges. That can't be right, because I've had plenty of tangerines and they were all much more tart than an orange. Pittsfordljb (talk) 15:47, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I checked the source cited there, and it seems more like advertising to me anyways. Also, the article uses it as if it were reliable without any uncertainty about it. I would agree with you on that, but there needs to be a reliable source or two to back either one up. Is there a better quality source for the claim in the article or the opposite one stated above? impinball (talk) 18:08, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Maybe the taste is subjective, they seem less sour than an orange to me, but more bitter. Like a mandarin with a touch of grapefruit. Swampy 2001:8003:2147:B200:742C:43E1:23D4:E8AB (talk) 17:04, 30 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Less sour?

message: Are there any references to the 3000 year history of tangerine cultivation in Uganda or Djibouti? To me that claim doesn't make sense.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.149.225.5 (talk) 23:23, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Uganda and Djibouti?

message: The article presently reads "Peak tangerine season is short, lasting from October to April in the Northern Hemisphere." It is absurd to talk about a seven-month-long seasas as "short." I'm taking the liberty of going ahead and changing this by elminating "short," from the sentence.Poihths (talk) 14:54, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Peak season 

message: I don't know about the claim in the intro that tangerines are considered mandarins but the genetics aren't thoroughly studied. The article says the binomial name is citrus tangerina, and the paper on PLOS doesn't mention tangerina, only reticula, which appears in the other two sources used to back that statement up. Some more input is required here I think. I've marked it as dubious for the time being. Thoughts? IvoShandor (talk) 02:48, 18 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  tangerines and mandarin oranges 

message: In the "Origin of the name" section it states: "In Australia the fruit is known as a Mandarin."
I live in Australia and have always know Mandarins & Tangerines as two different fruits, Mandarins being generally smaller, flatter with very loose skin and Tangerines generally being larger, rounder and with looser skin than an orange but not as loose as a mandarin. In supermarkets and fruit shops in Australia Tangerines are also labelled as "Tangerines" not "Mandarins".
If a citation cannot be applied to the sentence "In Australia the fruit is known as a Mandarin." can it be removed? It's certainly not true in my experience.  Swampy 2001:8003:2147:B200:742C:43E1:23D4:E8AB (talk) 16:57, 30 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origin of the name 

message: I'm bored Lala626123 (talk) 05:48, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
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message: It's stupid to merge this article.Catfurball (talk) 19:38, 6 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Response to merge 

message: Portuguese link is missing
https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangerina
Don’t know how to add. Thank you for doing for me 2804:14D:4CA5:8B97:FCD5:2EE:CE15:9F08 (talk) 03:51, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: These links are at Wikidata now. :pt:Tangerina is linked to the same Wikidata item as :en:Mandarin orange, perhaps because the Portuguese article gives "mandarina" as an alternative name for "tangerina". Unfortunately, this is yet another example of the problems caused by Wikidata only allowing 1:1 links. There are three possible Wikidata items: ,  and . If Portuguese does not distinguish between "tangerina" and "mandarina",  (used at present) is probably the best link. But whatever is done, it won't reflect the fact that different language wikipedias have different numbers of articles about these three, and that in reality 1:1 links are just plain wrong. Peter coxhead (talk) 10:59, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Portuguese link is missing 

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