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A fact from Unusually shaped fruits and vegetables appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 8 June 2007. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that giant vegetables are entered in competitions around the world, with seeds being traded over the Internet?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2007/June.

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On 13 May 2022, it was proposed that this article be moved to Unusually shaped fruit or vegetable. The result of the discussion was moved to Unusually shaped fruits and vegetables.

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URL and Title Page

The URL is leading to a page titled 'Unusually shaped vegetables' but the URL is 'Square Watermelons'... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.227.1.192 (talk) 13:01, 13 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

That just means you arrived via a WP:Redirect. We have many redirects for pages, to cover alternate spellings, or merged content, or other reasons. :) –Quiddity (talk) 19:19, 13 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Causes

The Causes section is illustrated with “naturally entwined carrots”, but the text doesn't even try to explain how they could get so entwined in a natural way. Since there is no source for any natural cause, I will remove that adverb. Since it's particularly unhelpful to illustrate the section about causes with an example for which the cause is unknown, but since it's a nice picture anyway, I will also move the picture to the gallery.

The same section also contains the nonsequitur “because the melons must be picked before they’re ripe they are inedible”. Can we delete that? ◄ Sebastian 06:56, 3 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 13 May 2022

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved to Unusually shaped fruits and vegetables. (closed by non-admin page mover) Vpab15 (talk) 18:51, 21 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Unusually shaped vegetable → Unusually shaped fruit or vegetable – This article covers both fruit and vegetables. QueenofBithynia (talk) 14:54, 13 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Support, aligns the title to the content, and no reason to keep it to just vegetables.--Cerebral726 (talk) 18:59, 13 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Updating to support plural, per the discussion below. Also, it seems common to have a plural title in similar articles, like Unusual types of gramophone records and Unusual eBay listings--Cerebral726 (talk) 12:31, 17 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Support adding fruit, though "or" seems wrong. "Unusually shaped fruits and vegetables" seems more natural. ╠╣uw [talk] 20:32, 13 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I was torn between 'or' or 'and' for the nom, so I'd support this wording. —QueenofBithynia (talk) 13:52, 14 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Move to unusually shaped fruits and vegetables. Showiecz (talk) 03:18, 17 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.