Talk:Cereal

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Cereal article.
This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject.

Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic.
New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Learn to edit; get help.

Article policies

Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Archives: 1

Cereal has been listed as one of the Agriculture, food and drink good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
Review: February 15, 2024. (Reviewed version).

Agriculture High‑importance

	Agriculture portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Agriculture, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of agriculture on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.AgricultureWikipedia:WikiProject AgricultureTemplate:WikiProject AgricultureAgriculture
High	This article has been rated as High-importance on the project's importance scale.

Plants High‑importance

	Plants portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Plants, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of plants and botany on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.PlantsWikipedia:WikiProject PlantsTemplate:WikiProject Plantsplant
High	This article has been rated as High-importance on the project's importance scale.

Food and drink: Breakfast Top‑importance

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Food and drink, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of food and drink related articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Food and drinkWikipedia:WikiProject Food and drinkTemplate:WikiProject Food and drinkFood and drink

Top

This article has been rated as Top-importance on the project's importance scale.

Related taskforces:
/
	This article is within the scope of the Breakfast task force, a project which is currently considered to be inactive.

Food and Drink task list:

To edit this page, select here

Here are some tasks you can do for WikiProject Food and drink:

Help bring these Top Importance articles currently B Status or below up to GA status: Agaricus bisporus (i.e. mushroom), Beef, Bread, Curry, Drink, Food, Ham and eggs, Soy sauce, Sushi, Yogurt
Bring these Top Importance articles currently at GA status up to FA status: Beer, French cuisine, Sugar
Bring these High Importance articles currently at GA status up to FA status: Apple, Burger King, Fish
Participate in project-related deletion discussions.
Delete unrelated trivia sections found in articles. Please review WP:Trivia and WP:Handling trivia to learn how to do this.
Add the {{WikiProject Food and drink}} project banner to food and drink related articles and content to help bring them to the attention of members. For a complete list of banners for WikiProject Food and drink and its child projects, select here.
Provide photographs and images for Category:Wikipedia requested images of food
Consider joining this project's Assessment task force. List any project ideas in this section

Note: These lists are transcluded from the project's tasks pages.

P.v.s

Prepare an album containing five cereals crops five legumes crops five forage crops with there botanical names attached to each in the album 41.217.19.117 (talk) 22:08, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Off-topic for this article, which is cereals only. Chiswick Chap (talk) 05:37, 10 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Merge Grain

The only difference that I can see between Grain and Cereal is that the former includes pseudocereals, legumes and oil seeds, and Heegoop alleges on the talk page that this violates our original research policy. Lophotrochozoa (talk) 22:36, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose - although there is significant overlap between the two, much of this has arisen through the use of excerpts from Cereal being used in Grain. I believe that there is merit in establishing a clear consensus of where primary information should lie. With such agreement it whould be possible to establish clear blue water between the two. Cereals are clearly cultivated grass species, whereas Grains can be found across a wide range of plant families. I see no benefit in a merge and many incocistences and confusion arising from a merge. Velella ^{Velella Talk} 23:25, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose - this is a non-starter. The most cursory glance at Grain will show that it (correctly) covers many non-cereal crops. The merger would make no sense, and indeed do serious damage. - Chiswick Chap (talk)

So you disagree with User:Heegoop's argument that it is original research to define Grain that way? Lophotrochozoa (talk) 00:04, 22 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

No idea why user H should have thought that, but if so it was nonsense. The term is certainly used that way. Try a Google search for "lentil grain", for instance. Chiswick Chap (talk) 00:09, 22 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose There's not much that cereal and grain have in common so to merge them doesn't make much sense. Rager7 (talk) 05:53, 9 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]