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Semi-protected edit request on 21 March 2023

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ItzelFranchesca (talk) 21:17, 21 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus Gossypium in the mallow family Malvaceae. Cotton is the most widespread profitable non-food crop in the world. Approximately half of all textiles are made of cotton.Cotton fibers achieve most of their great length in a mere 30 days. They begin as tiny cells in the fertilized cotton flower. Wild cotton first was domesticated in Asia, Africa and South America as long ago as 6000 years, but only made its way to Europe in the later middle ages.

Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. M.Bitton (talk) 23:03, 21 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

How Cotton is Processed

Cotton is a fiber often used in more than 70% of everyone's clothing. Cotton is produced in either of two processes: the spinning process or the weaving process. The spinning process is how the cotton is made into a type of thread. The weaving process is where the raw cotton is woven into pieces of fabric. The spinning process is a bit more complex as it happens before the cotton can be made into cloth. The first step in the spinning process is mixing and blowing. This is where the fiber is unraveled, compressed, and cleaned by removing any dirt or other substances. The fiber is then pulled and elongated by using a drawing machine to straighten and remove uneven thickness from the fibers. The fiber is then further elongated using a roving machine which then makes the fiber into a form of thread where it is put into a spinning machine to obtain a desired thickness to then be put through the weaving process. Erikamgn1850 (talk) 00:24, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

There is in fact a fine thread of truth here, interwoven with huge huge swathes of undermistanding. - Roxy the dog 21:47, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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The US is no longer the world’s leading exporter of cotton. Change the text to: “The US had long been the world’s leading exporter of cotton, until 2024 when it was surpassed by Brazil.” 191.52.225.5 (talk) 20:58, 5 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. ⸺(Random)staplers 21:03, 5 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed summary for technical prose

I've been using Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental large language model to create summaries for the most popular articles with {{Technical}} templates. This article, Cotton, has such a template in the "Genome" section. Here is the paragraph summary at grade 5 reading level which Gemini 2.5 Pro suggested for that section:

Scientists started working together in 2007 to map out all the instructions, called a genome, that tell a cotton plant how to grow. The cotton we use often has complex instructions made from two older types mixed together. To understand the complex cotton, the scientists first studied simpler, wild cotton plants that only had one type of instruction set. Knowing these simpler instructions helps them figure out the instructions in the more complex cotton used on farms. Companies also helped map one of the simpler instruction sets and shared their findings. By 2014, scientists had successfully mapped the instructions for at least one kind of cotton.

While I have read and may have made some modifications to that summary, I am not going to add it to the section because I want other editors to review, revise if appropriate, and add it instead. This is an experiment with a few dozen articles initially to see how these suggestions are received, and after a week or two, I will decide how to proceed. Thank you for your consideration. Cramulator (talk) 12:36, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Don't do it. It'll only lead to tears and upset. - Roxy the dog 17:15, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikiproject Abortion

Does anybody know why this article is included in Wikiproject Abortion? - Roxy the dog 17:14, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Apparently because it was in Category:Abortifacients at the time the WikiProject was added (see edit summary). The category is gone, but this article still has a sourced claim that cotton root bark was used an an abortifacient. That source doesn't appear to be a reliable source for medical claims about the efficacy of cotton root bark as an abortifacient.

I'm not involved with WikiProject Abortion and don't know if they consider purported abortifacients in scope at all, but I assume they would not consider them to be high importance, so I changed the rating to low after this popped up on my watchlist. Plantdrew (talk) 20:36, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I've been in the textile industry all my working life, and claim some trivial expertise. I've just never heard o this about cotton. Thank you for responding. - Roxy the dog 21:35, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]