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January 19, 2004	Refreshing brilliant prose	Kept
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Major overlaps with 'Main' articles

This article, while quite well-written and in most places well-cited, has two major defects. The 'Origin and history' chapter has 'main' links to History of tea and History of tea in China (not quite sure one can have 2 main links, surely the second one is a subset of the first, too); while the 'Tea culture' chapter has a 'main' link called Tea culture.

In both cases, the correct result per policy is for the chapter to summarize the article at the other end of the 'main' link briefly, in a paragraph or two, citing the major sources of the 'main' article. What is not supposed to happen is for the chapter to extend for hundreds of words (almost 2000 words for the History, over 800 for Tea culture), overlapping widely with the 'main' article.

We should accordingly cut down both sections to comply with policy, allowing the focus of the article to be on Tea itself, with modest main-linked sections on History and Culture. Chiswick Chap (talk) 13:36, 3 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 22 October 2024

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P01 154.159.102.48 (talk) 12:52, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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. Liu1126 (talk) 14:36, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

tea portal?

we have a coffee portal, and there is a lot of history on tea as well, so would a tea portal be possible? 50.45.151.155 (talk) 16:44, 26 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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