Talk:Atlantic Giant

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Contents 1 Awful sentence 2 3 Merge with pumpkin? 4 Unit coversion 5 record weight 6 Confusing 7 External links 7.1 Grower clubs and organizations 7.2 Worldwide 7.2.1 Western U.S. 7.2.2 Midwestern U.S. 7.2.3 Southern U.S. 7.2.4 Eastern U.S. 7.2.5 Outside the U.S. 7.3 Message forums mailing lists, and blogs 7.4 Family trees, pumpkin data, and other seed info 7.5 Other links

[edit] Awful sentence

"Because of the uncanny genetics of the material, there has been an aggressive and unimpeded increase in fruit weight per generation, and the stability of optimized genomic loci entails the minimal effort that is required to grow a large fruit using the variety; this nature has assured, time and time over, a result of elite fruit size by the mere effort of imbibing the seed and presenting it a modest location for growth."

Could someone decipher and re-express this? 68.107.83.19 (talk) 16:49, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

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What you don't like my Random Capitization? :)

Nice work Organizing the Organization Links...

[edit] Merge with pumpkin?

I do not think that this topic should be merged with pumpkin because the Atlantic Giant is a distinctly different variety than any normal pumpkin out there. The Atlantic Giant pumpkin deserves its own article because of its uniqueness and the heavy competition involved with growing these massive pumpkins.

[edit] Unit coversion

I put the metric equivalent for the largest pumpkin. Strange that this was overlooked by the original author – truly a pumpkin for Halloween :D

[edit] record weight

The world record weight for an A.G. pumpkin was incorect. The current world record is 1689 pounds.Juliancolton 14:08, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Confusing

In spite of my {{confusing}} being reverted, this article is, well, confusing. There is very little discussion of the squash itself, but a massive and confusing text on the name and legality of it (!?), as well as an explanation of how their growers psychologically relate to it (?!?!), and a massive load of questionable external links. 68.39.174.238 (talk) 01:44, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

I only reverted the tag because I was unsure of exactly what you were deleting/changing. And now that you mentioned it, yes, I agree that the external links section is a rat's nest.--Mr Fink (talk) 02:24, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] External links

I'm planning to trim the External links section down to a small number, under ten. There are too many - the Manual of Style suggests 10% of all text as a maximum for links. Under Wikipedia policy, large collections of external links are not allowed. Forums should not normally be listed.

Here is the full External links list before cutting.

Beechhouse (talk) 07:50, 10 April 2008 (UTC)