User talk:Kamayav

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Chocolate
Hello, I am relatively new to Wikipedia as an editor, and so I am happy to receive help on how best to edit. I should say that I am an agricultural scientist and resident in a tropical country with quite a bit of experience with the cultivation, quality production of cocoa, including chocolate making. So, I guess I know what I am talking about. Having said that, I 'd appreciate Eldar giving me his/her reasons why my edit of yesterday was removed. The two issues I raise are important to the sustainability of the chocolate industry (certainly more so than the linguistic subtleties of the article). My first "claim" is not a POV. I provide the pdf source of a scholarly article that reviews much academic literature, concluding that cocoa and coffee production leads to much environmental degradation, particularly the loss of forest cover. Even the chocolate industry is hugely concerned about that (see last COPAL congress). The second claim is about about the threat emanating from he spread of fungal cocoa diseases. This is of huge importance to the chocolate industry. I would agree that I should perhaps add an additional source to back up this claim, but why does Eldar remove my reference to the "guidelines for the safe movement of cacao". Why should the interested reader not be referred to an article describing best practices that are of utmost global importance? It is a publication by a scientific institution internationally known for their research? Kamayav (talk) 19:36, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Kamayav, please contact me with any questions you might have. I would like to help you with this material.  I've created Talk:Chocolate/Temp for you to upload your material and work with it, and I would be happy to help you incorporate this draft into the main article.  The pdf source is a report released by a non-profit organization.  It appears reliable to me, but Eldar has challenged it on the grounds that the organization is a POV source.  I don't agree with him, so perhaps we can revisit this after we upload it to the draft.  I'm going to add your material into the draft article now, and wait for you to make some more changes. Viriditas (talk) 23:35, 21 April 2008 (UTC)