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Short description: Most grown crop in Africa, staple, tuber
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It is of sufficient length, with 4,210 words of readable prose.
Noted.
The lead is reasonable given the length of the article at 276 words.
Noted.
It is currently assessed as a B class article.
Noted.
Earwig gives a 84.9% chance of copyright violation, which means it is very likely. The highest hit is with an article on the website cargohandbook.com[[1]]. Entire sentences match, such as "Cassava is a major staple food in the developing world, providing a basic diet for over half a billion people. It is one of the most drought-tolerant crops, capable of growing on marginal soils. Nigeria is the world's largest producer of cassava" and "cassava is one of the most drought-tolerant crops, can be successfully grown on marginal soils, and gives reasonable yields where many other crops do not grow well." It is unclear which article came first but I suggest the precautionary principle would promote rephrasing. The website also has an article on cassava[[2]] that may also be worth looking at to see if there are copy violations.
Reworded. Earwig gives no match to their Cassava article.
There is also 45.4% similarity with a page on a website called Stuart's Brazil[[3]], which was written in 2009. Some of the phrases are used by both of these and the article, such as "Nigeria is the world's largest producer of cassava".
Reworded.
The article quotes CIPD: "Chronic, low-level cyanide exposure is associated with the development of goiter and with tropical ataxic neuropathy, a nerve-damaging disorder that renders a person unsteady and uncoordinated. Severe cyanide poisoning, particularly during famines, is associated with outbreaks of a debilitating, irreversible paralytic disorder called konzo and, in some cases, death. The incidence of konzo and tropical ataxic neuropathy can be as high as three percent in some areas". Suggest rephrasing this to avoid the risk of it being a superfluous MOS:BLOCKQUOTE.
Done.
Authorship is diverse, with 382 authors listed as contributing. The highest percentage contributions are from UpdateNerd and Chiswick Chap, each with 8.6%.
Noted.
The article is well sourced, but more sources from the countries where it is grown and eaten, particularly sub-Saharan Africa, would help fight Systemic Bias.
Noted.
The first sentence needs work, particularly the clause "commonly called cassava (/kəˈsɑːvə/), manioc, yuca (among numerous regional names)". Is there a reason that only cassava has IPA pronunciation? Why is manioc the only name with a footnote? Suggest removing it as per WP:CITELEAD, "Because the lead usually repeats information that is in the body, editors should balance the desire to avoid redundant citations in the lead with the desire to aid readers in locating sources for challengeable material." Should there be an "or" at the end of the list? Should there be a comma after the bracket to signal the end of the clause?
Done, and yes.
Suggest including a section on the various names early in the article. For example, it would be of value to know what they are, where they are found, how they differ (for example, how cassava and tapioca differ in usage), and their etymologies. Cellabos & de la Cruz, 2012[[4]] may be a useful source. Suggest this could be a chance to include names from outside the English-speaking world. For example, Guira et al, 2017[[5]] list a number of names from Burkina Faso.
Not convinced we should go so far into multilingual dictionary territory; after all, we're not a dictionary.
Consider adding a clarification to "Spanish traders, planted" such as "Spanish traders, some of whom planted" (if this is correct).
Tweaked.
Can you explain "With its high food potential, it had become a staple food of the native populations of northern South America".
Edited.
Is the "the" superfluous in "the Hi-C"?
British English habit. Feel free to remove it if you prefer.
There seems to be 100% overlap between Taxonomy and History. Suggest one title.
Fixed.
"Maize and cassava are now important staple foods" ff seems to be more about the current situation rather than history. Suggest moving to the relevant section.
Removed.
The section on Pests reads as a series of unconnected paragraphs. Suggest it be reframed, with an initial overview of the topic (various threats, viral, bacterial, nematodes etc) then each covered in a separate paragraph with context.
The section on biofuel relies on old sources. Is there any more current information?
The paragraphs on Guyana and cassareep are disjointed and lack narrative. Suggest rewriting as one paragraph.
Done.
The section titled Economic importance seems disproportionally short. Suggest merging with Production, especially as the See also leads to a page on production..
Done.
Suggest moving the toxicity section after Uses to improve flow.
Two points here: firstly, toxicity is part of the nature of cassava, and we describe the material, its cultivation and so on first, then how it can be used afterwards; secondlyl, the 'Uses' section mentions toxicity repeatedly, so it makes sense to have had the matter explained first.
There are a number of one sentence paragraphs, such as "This crop suffers from a rust, rust of cassava, caused by Uromyces manihotis". Suggest merging some of them with longer paragraphs (and perhaps splitting some of the longer ones) to ease reading. Please expand others, such as that under Laundry starch, which lacks figures or context.
Done a bit; added a context link for the laundry starch. In the absence of a picture which is definitely of cassava starch, not sure there's much to add, and nor is there anything really to merge the subsection into.
There seems undue weight to some projects and technologies. Such as BioCassava Plus. The mentions read more like a news article, e.g. "In November 2008, China-based Hainan Yedao Group invested US$51.5 million in a new biofuel facility that is expected to produce 120 million litres (33 million US gallons) a year of bioethanol from cassava plants." This sounds to me like a press release statement. Do we have any context for these? Are they particular well represented in impartial media?
Biocassava Plus: removed that mention. Hainan: trimmed.
In general, the images have appropriate CC or PD tags. File:Manihot esculenta - Köhler–s Medizinal-Pflanzen-090.jpg, and File:Albert Eckhout - Mandioca.jpg lack US PD tags.
Added.
Although not a GA criterion, suggest adding alt text to the images for accessibility.
Noted.
Again, not a GA criterion but the list of WikiProjects seems rather small given the reach of the crop. Suggest that this is expanded, at least with the addition of WP:AFRICA and the countries mentioned in the text.
Good point, added.
@Chiswick Chap: This is quite a different nomination to many I have seen as the number of authors makes the text a challenge. The copy violation is also a concern. Please take a look at these and my other comments above and ping me when you would like me to take another look. simongraham (talk) 17:15, 4 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
level-4 vital article is rated B-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
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