Talk:Wild rice

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wild rice is an important food in our country (unsigned comment by anon 70.107.36.11)

• That's great. I too like wild rice. It's yummy.--Hraefen 22:19, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Gronov?

Shouldn't it be explained what "Gronov." means? Badagnani 03:15, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Well, the explanation is at Author citation (botany) which is linked to from Scientific classification which is linked at the top of that part of the infobox. The author citation page also explains what the "ex" means. As far as I know we're not doing anything different from the normal WP:TOL practice. Kingdon 19:30, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

The scientists are trying to map out the genome of wild rice, this will destroy the ojibwe culture.75.72.97.155 23:40, 31 January 2007 (UTC)Anony

• Ok, why would it destroy Ojibwe culture? Also, can anyone confirm the veracity of the passage regarding "knockers"? It looks suspicious to me.

[edit] "True Rice"

In the article the term "true rice" is used to refer to more widely cultivated varieties of rice. But it doesn't say anything about wild rice somehow not being "true rice". Is wild rice misnamed and not rice at all? If wild rice is in fact a variety of rice I would suggest using another term to distinguish other cultivars other than "true rice", as it is misleading--i.e. it leaves the reader confused about whether or not wild rice is actually rice (like strawberry's aren't actually berries). Unless of course this is a standard term in agriculture and botany and not simply a poor choice of a distinguishing moniker in from an editor (if your the editor, please don't take offense, the article is otherwise well written) then the term should perhaps be used, but explained that it doesn't mean wild rice is not actually rice. (User: Brentt) (talk) 19:05, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

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Is there a way to get rid of that giant blank space on the page? Cadwaladr (talk) 21:48, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Never mind. I figured it out. Cadwaladr (talk) 23:20, 10 June 2008 (UTC)