Talk:Basil
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Apostrophes
How odd. Those apostrophes look just like apostrophes to my browser. What did you change? -- Zoe
The character after "Witches" was an invalid character which shows as a square in the font I have set in my browser. In other fonts it looks like a wicket or the upper-right corner of a square or a filled-in rectangle. On Windows these look like apostrophes, quotes, dashes, and a few other things. On Macs, I don't know what they look like, but there's a character that apparently looks like an apostrophe on a Mac and an accented O on Windows and Unix. -phma
Cultivation
Any hope that someone experienced could explain cultivation here? Shawnb 19:55, 18 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Gave it a go just copied and pasted some thing I wrote a while back for my site, tried to make it so it is usufull to every country.andham2000
- Do you think you could possibly rephrase it without using first person ("I bought" etc). It is good information, although not really encyclopedic as it stands. I could give it a go, but at the moment I don't have the time, and I'm also no expert on the subject. / Alarm 06:17, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
- I'm afraid that I edited the new material before I saw this discussion. I removed the first-person material, and tidied the style of the rest. It still needs wikifying, and I'll do that when I get a moment. (The one thing that might be added is that basil can be rather temperamental.) Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 10:00, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
Sorry yes I new to Wikipedia, I will ensure that I don't write in 1st person again. [[user:andham2000[andham2000]]
Poisonous?
Can anyone cite some authority for this assertion that basil is poisonous?
- Hmm. I found this article (http://www.ansci.cornell.edu/plants/medicinal/basil.html#toxicity) but it just says there may be a problem. I can find nothing to justify so strong a statement, so I am removing it until someone comes up with something more definitive. -- WormRunner | Talk 06:05, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
I could not fins anything to say that it was poisonous, I think you are correct to move it.Andham2000 12:03, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
Identification?
The image currently on the page listed as Image:OcimumBasilicum.jpg appears to be Holy Basil (Ocimum sanctum) and not Ocimum basilicum. -- WormRunner | Talk 20:23, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
Picture of dried basil
The picture of the pile of dried basil seems a bit unnessesary as it provides no informative text and dosen't give people a better understanding of what basil is. Dried basil is also not as important as other dried herbs, because of the poor taste. In addition to the fact that the picture serves no purpose, it's also positioned badly and makes the page look messy.
The picture of dried basil adds more to the page then the 2 pictures of flowering basil. Wether or not you think basil tastes good has no relevance to their being a picture of dried basil. In a lot of countries, the dried basil will look a lot more familiar then the flowering basil, or the leavy picture in the taxonomybox. Henna 10:12, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- I must admit that I agree with Peivind here. First, the picture could be just about any dried herb or, indeed, dried other things. Secondly, its current positioning is poor (I'll change that at least, though I don't want to remove it again without consensus). Thirdly, as the two existing pictures are of very different species, I think that they add quite a bit to the article (I'd like to see clearer photos of other species too). Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 08:19, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
