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A fact from Zebra chip appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 10 August 2008, and was viewed approximately 2,126 times (disclaimer) (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the potato disease Zebra chip has cost the Texas economy over US$125 million and threatens similar economic harm across the U.S. and Guatemala?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2008/August.

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Re: Speedy Deletion

The result of this speedy deletion was speedy keep (nominator was a vandal)

Well, I have no idea what's happening with the references; perhaps you inadvertently deleted them when you deleted the first paragraph to add the speedy deletion tag?

This article is not patent nonsense; per my references (see below), this disease has applicability just as much as Citrus vein phloem degeneration does.

A copy of the original references is below:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4629854a3600.html - New Zealand news

http://cnas.tamu.edu/Zebra%20Chip%20Impacts%20Final.pdf - Texas A&M

http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11839238 - The Economist

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/10/071026133716.htm - ScienceDaily

http://www.ars.usda.gov/research/publications/publications.htm?SEQ_NO_115=205258 - The USDA website

One more note - this is not patent nonsense (aka kdllksllksljks) and should never have been given a patent nonsense tag. Patent nonsense is reserved for text that is not English or is otherwise unreadable. CB (ö) 07:00, 3 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The user User:Siwel Ziva was an abuse account, so the delete nomination was vandalism. -- Bovineone (talk) 07:11, 3 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Psyllid yellows or Zebra chip

All the information on tomatoes, capsicum and tamarillo belongs under Psyllid yellows surely - they do not get Zebra chip as they do not form tubers.

This article needs better references than newspaper articles. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Suurstofdief (talk • contribs) 10:52, 7 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Have your reference concerns been addressed now?
Regarding your section move comment, I believe that as Zebra chip is the suspected culprit in the New Zealand disease issue and thus the export and import bans, Zebra chip should be the main home of the information. The bans, according to my research, were due only to an over-reaction to the disease, not a separate outbreak of Psyllid yellows. Until such time as the disease is found or suspected by a new scientific consensus to be a disease other than Zebra chip, all updates might be best suited to be added here.
If you wish to copy the section or relevant portions to the Psyllid yellows section, please explain why it's applicable (i.e. cite a source that the bans are due to a proven or suspected Psyllid yellows problem). To help differentiate that this is not a PROVEN outbreak of Zebra chip, I've removed the term from that section. CB (ö) 08:21, 8 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Dubious

The statement "New Zealand's two largest trading partners are Fiji and French Polynesia" needs qualifying. I suspect that they are the largest trading partner for some fruit and vegetables rather than New Zealand's largest trading partner overall. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 10:32, 27 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You're right. It's probably capsicum trading partners or something, but Dubious is not the best way to put it, rather a clarification would be better 67.79.126.2 (talk) 21:38, 16 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]