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Does cheddar have a PDO or not?

The introduction says that cheddar does not have a PDO, but later in the article I read that it does. As far as I know, the former is correct... --Allan Lewis (talk) 12:05, 26 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

According to the British Cheese Board "West Country Farmhouse Cheddar" does have DPO. http://www.britishcheese.com/cheddar - but not the word "Cheddar" itself.--62.249.233.80 (talk) 15:35, 23 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Metric System

Please try to put units in metric first, with imperial in brackets. Only use US custom units first when they are an integral part of that subject, e.g. American Football. Most international readers have no idea what a short ton is, even those from the UK. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.142.68.62 (talk) 09:38, 23 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Capital Cheddar?

My case corrections were reverted here by Bob Re-born without explanation. I was trying to make the generic uses of cheddar more consistently lower case, and the proper names more consistently upper case. What's the problem? Dicklyon (talk) 08:38, 5 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with your edits which make a lot of sense. When we refer to West country Farmhouse Cheddar we are talking about the specific PDO product and it should be uppercase. Generic references to a cheddar typew cheese should be lower case. I reverted Bob Re-born's change. Dabbler (talk) 11:51, 5 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Copyvio/close paraphrasing in Record Cheddars section

I've just added some references to the Record Cheddars section as citation needed tags had been added which made it show up in the Cleanup listing for Wikiproject Somerset. I noticed that several were either copyvios or very close paraphrasing of the sources - could someone reword them?— Rod ^talk 22:00, 15 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Yes they were basically cut and paste, I have made an attempt at rewriting the entries. Please review and improve. Dabbler (talk) 01:06, 16 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]