Talk:Paddy field

message: It was proposed that the article concentrates too much on these two areas. I think there is merit in the suggestion that the current examples of Korea and Japan could have their own articles. Yet the article is not particularly large and unwieldy -- the usual reason for establishing related articles. I can do general technical issues as well as Japan and Korea, but I have to defer to fellow editors for other examples of paddy fields. Nevertheless, it would great to expand the article to make it more inclusive of other parts of the world that using the same farming techniques. Any thoughts? Mumun 無文 00:58, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Have placed notes on talk pages of some country and region wikiprojects. I requested that the article be expanded in the interest of getting a wider overview of paddy fields.Mumun 無文 15:06, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Very useful. Would be good to seek out some material on paddy fields as ecosystems, also on the practice of rice cultivation. There could be links to different kinds of rice growing. Are rice fields in Italy and Spain considered to be paddy fields? Itsmejudith 19:35, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  korea and japan 

message: There was a sentence in the text claiming that paddy-field agriculture dates back to 10,000 BC. This is not, in fact, the case. The sentence had a source from the Vietnamese government. However, one has to question this assertion as per WP:SOURCE as there are no archaeologists who claim to have found any evidence that such activities took place anywhere on the planet at 10,000 BC. I removed this claim. Mumun 無文 18:53, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I put it in because I found it in the source but on reflection you did quite right to remove it because such an extraordinary claim would have to be much better sourced than that. Thanks. Itsmejudith 19:56, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: No worries, Itsmejudith. It is good to see the article expanded ^^. I have some papers by Professors Glover and Highham, as well as a couple by Prof. Gary Crawford. I'll look through these to see what they say about the paddy fields in Vietnam. I have no doubt, however, that human-rice relationships and cultivation in general is indeed ancient in Vietnam. I'm sure we can expand Vietnam and give it its due. In the meantime, hopefully some fellow editor beats us to it!! Cheers, Mumun 無文 20:11, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  10,000 BC 

message: while there is, indeed a lot more to be done regarding rice paddies in specific culture, I think the main body of the article could use some work as well. I'm a bit confused by it.  For example, are rice paddies a specific type of technology or methodology for planting rice? If so, are there others?  How are they different from rice paddy technology? There's so much to say about rice paddies per se that I think the emphasis on cultural aspects is rather unwarranted. In my honest opinion.  Also, the shift from discussing rice paddies per se and then discussing cultural variants of rice paddy technology... seem rather abrupt. I would love to hear others' comments. Alternativity 13:27, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree that more general details on technology and methodology should be offered so that some of these questions can be cleared up. Mumun 無文 19:08, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Main body of article 

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Hi. I'm a bit busy at the moment but this just showed up in Philippine papers - output from the International Rice Research Institute, apparently.  (hehe. not even enough time to finish reading.)  I'll get to work on this next week if nobody else does, but others may want to work on it right away. I thnk most of the statements here are universal, so they should go in the main body of the article rather than under Philippines. Alternativity 10:24, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Additional Source 

message: This article has lots of local histories but its lacks a description of what rice paddys are, why there are terraces in the pictures and how rice is grown in this method.  For instance, the cycle may be: planting, flooding, draining and then havesting, though I don't know. 
This article needs to explain more about how rice paddys are used and why the pictures look the way they do.
Isaac (talk) 04:41, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  More information on definition + methods please 

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message: The Japan section gives a lot of emphasis on the suffix -ta and its appearance in Japanese names. It gives the impression that ta is the common Japanese word for rice paddy, although suiden is more generally used.
At any rate, this is probably too much linguistic information for those who may be looking for something else.
Kortoso (talk) 16:28, 28 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Japan and ta 

message: The second paragraph of the lead section includes the following sentence:
"Paddy fields are a major source of atmospheric methane and have been estimated to contribute in the range of 50 to 100 million tonnes of the gas per annum while yielding an estimated #### tonnes of agricultural products per annum."
I don't think it is useful to have a bunch of hash symbols in the article. Is there anyway that we can find out how many tonnes of agricultural products are created per year? Failing that, can the sentence be chopped in half, to remove the reference to the products being created. Big Mac (talk) 11:20, 8 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  #### tonnes of agricultural products per annum 

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