Talk:The True History of Chocolate

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The result was: promoted by HurricaneZeta (talk) 02:11, 25 November 2025 (UTC)

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• ... that Michael D. Coe completed The True History of Chocolate to fulfil a promise he had made to his dying wife?

• Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/michael-coe-influential-archaeologist-and-maya-scholar-dies-at-90/2019/09/30/e5d458b0-e2c3-11e9-a331-2df12d56a80b_story.html

"After Sophie was diagnosed with cancer in March 1994 (she died two months later), Dr. Coe promised to complete what became “The True History of Chocolate,”"

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Crash Bandicoot: On the Run!

Created by Rollinginhisgrave (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 5 past nominations.

Rollinginhisgrave (talk | edits) 00:57, 16 November 2025 (UTC).

• I will review this nomination shortly. Yue🌙 02:36, 16 November 2025 (UTC)

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Spot-checked citations 1 to 5. No verification issues or obvious discrepancies arose. Yue🌙 03:40, 16 November 2025 (UTC)

Thanks Yue for the very prompt review and copyedits. Always grateful. Rollinginhisgrave (talk | edits) 03:45, 16 November 2025 (UTC)

@Rollinginhisgrave: Of course! Yue🌙 03:52, 16 November 2025 (UTC)

'Evidence challenging the theories of the book'

'A decade after its release, evidence began to emerge challenging some of the Coes' theories.'

If you have such a sentence in the lede, it should correspond to at least several sentences, ideally a paragraph, in the article body detailing what specific evidence has challenged which specific theories. Instead, the article body contains essentially this same sentence and nothing else: 'Around this time, research began to emerge challenging some of the theories put forward in The True History of Chocolate'. This is inadequate. If it's important enough to mention in the lede, it must be important enough to elaborate on in the article body. ~2025-37429-06 (talk) 02:40, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

I think it's fine, going in such detail (Olmec origin superseded, etymology proposals overturned etc) would require synthesis. The purpose of the lead is to put the subject in context, and this puts it in the context of the literature well. Rollinginhisgrave (talk | edits) 02:47, 1 December 2025 (UTC)