Talk:Peanut

GA review

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Nominator: Chiswick Chap (talk · contribs) 19:40, 6 February 2026 (UTC)

Reviewer: Bgsu98 (talk · contribs) 20:35, 6 February 2026 (UTC)

Thanks, that was really quick! It's a surprise when a GAN is taken up instantly rather than languishing in the queue for the usual weeks or months. If you are specially interested in the topic, please recall that it is just a GAN; e.g. it is not required to be comprehensive like an FA (not that comprehensiveness would even be possible on a topic like this). "The main points" is the GAN watchword. Chiswick Chap (talk) 21:45, 6 February 2026 (UTC)

I knew without even clicking on it that it was going to be a Chiswick Chap GA. Your articles are always professional, well-written, properly formatted, and require minimal work to earn the GA star. It's like padding out my resumé. 😉 Bgsu98 (Talk) 00:24, 7 February 2026 (UTC)

I'll agree with you. When I was checking this article, including the Mango, it was terrible until I saw Orange (fruit) and how the article was different, and then I figured out who the user wrote it. ~2026-83794-7 (talk) 05:54, 7 February 2026 (UTC)

Thanks both for the kind words. Chiswick Chap (talk) 05:57, 7 February 2026 (UTC)

Comments (2/6/26)

Lead

• Geocarpy is not a term very few people are going to understand, and "in which plants produce diaspores within the soil" is not going to be any more understandable. Recommend doing something to make it more accessible to the average reader; also, what does it have to do with peanuts? That part seems unclear. I'm guessing those are the seeds that are this rare form of reproduction?
  • Edited.

Botanical description

• See, for example... with "the leaves are nyctinastic; that is, they have "sleep" movements, closing at night." You have a totally inaccessible term like "nyctinastic" and then explain it in plain English right afterward. This is excellent! That's the sort of thing I recommend with the geocarpy above.

History

• De-wikilink South America, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, and Brazil. Ditto all of these other countries: Ecuador, Paraguay, Uruguay per MOS:GEOLINK.
  • Done (nothing to do with GEOLINK, btw), except S. America which is valid as a region.
    • Maybe it's MOS:OVERLINK. It's MOS:SOMETHINGLINK.

Cultivation (photo gallery)

• The second picture: recommend slightly rephrasing the caption as Cultivation at the Directorate of Groundnut Research, Gujarat, India, 2009
  • Done, though with space at a premium in this context I feel quite comfortable with the short form.

• De-wikilink Haiti and Cameroon.
  • Done.

Whole peanuts

• Paragraph two: You start talking about boiled peanuts, and then shift suddenly to "A distinction can be drawn between raw and green peanuts.", which I'm not sure what that has to do with boiled peanuts. If this is indeed meant to be one cohesive paragraph, recommend a slight rewrite to make it flow better or otherwise clarify why the concepts are related.
  • Edited.

Peanut butter

• The very last sentence has what is currently source no. 72 in the middle of the sentence. Citations need to go after punctuation marks or at the end of a sentence. Recommend moving to the end of the sentence.
  • Moved.

@Chiswick Chap: Please let me know when you have had a chance to examine my comments, and I will do the image and source reviews. Bgsu98 (Talk) 00:51, 7 February 2026 (UTC)

@Bgsu98:

Image review (2/6/26)

All images have proper licenses and appropriate captions.

Source review (2/7/26)

This table checks 11 passages from throughout the article (9.6% of 114 total passages). These passages contain 11 inline citations (8.5% of 129 in the article). Generated with the Veracity user script. Bgsu98 (Talk) 10:15, 7 February 2026 (UTC)

Reference #	Letter	Source	Archive	Status	Notes
pindar (US)
3	b	npr.org	web.archive.org
Botanical description
They are borne in axillary clusters on the stems.
8	b	powo.science.kew.org
History
The process of domestication through artificial selection made A. hypogaea dramatically different from its wild relatives. The domesticated plants are bushier, more compact, and have a different pod structure and larger seeds. From this center of origin, cultivation spread and formed secondary and tertiary centers of diversity in Peru, Ecuador, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. Over time, thousands of peanut landraces evolved; these are classified into six botanical varieties and two subspecies (as listed in the peanut scientific classification table). Subspecies A. h. fastigiata types are more upright in their growth habit and have shorter crop cycles. Subspecies A. h. hypogaea types spread more on the ground and have longer crop cycles.
12	d	ibone.unne.edu.ar	web.archive.org		You might choose to indicate what page this information is found on, but this is a GA, not a FA.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture initiated a program to encourage agricultural production and human consumption of peanuts in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
9	f	hort.purdue.edu	web.archive.org
Cultivation
but for best yields need at least 500 mm (20 in).
31		ipm.iastate.edu			Page not found. Recommend adding archive. Verified.
The ant leaves can be affected by a fungus, Alternaria arachidis.
41		speciesfungorum.org
Uses
The oilcake meal residue from oil processing is used as animal feed and soil fertilizer. Groundnut cake is a livestock feed, mostly used by cattle as protein supplements.
64		books.google.com
Edible products
Boiled peanuts are a popular snack in India, China, West Africa, and the southern United States. In the U.S. South, boiled peanuts are often prepared in briny water and sold in streetside stands.
70	a	boiledpeanuts.com	web.archive.org
Cuisine
Common Indonesian peanut-based dishes include gado-gado,
84		thebalidaily.com	web.archive.org
In the Indian subcontinent, peanuts are made into chikki, sweet peanut brittle, by processing with refined sugar and jaggery.
89		timesofindia.indiatimes.com	web.archive.org
In the southern U.S., peanuts are boiled for several hours until soft.
102		nationalpeanutboard.org

@Chiswick Chap: I ran your article through the Archiver and it recovered the one source I couldn't view. Bgsu98 (Talk) 10:50, 7 February 2026 (UTC)

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