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I have the impression that many the Lonely Planet Books served as the many (until now maybesingle) sources for this lemma. How reliable can they be? I hold the Lonely Planet Guidebooks in high esteem, but quality differs much with the authors, and we should be aware that guidebooks inform about almost every aspect - and who can know every aspect?
Please be more careful with data. As for instance, in sources I know Chamdo at the beginning of the 20th century was related to as a small garrison town. I doubt it had 12.000 inhabitants and 3000 monks by then.
-- Wickipedinger ( talk) 09:42, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
The result of the proposal was
Qamdo (town) → Chamdo — This article was recently moved from Chamdo to Qamdo (town) with no discussion. The edit summary was "official name", but I am aware of no naming convention requires the article title to be the official name. Note also that "Chamdo" and "Qamdo" are different transcriptions of the same underlying Tibetan name, so the issue here is not even the "official name" but the "official transcription of the official name".— Greg Pandatshang ( talk) 05:39, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
Partly in response to the "requested move" discussion on this page, I put up a new proposal for Tibetan naming conventions. Please see Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Tibetan) and Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (Tibetan)#New naming convention proposal. This could affect the title that is eventually decided for this article. Your comments and feedback are requested.— Nat Krause( Talk!· What have I done?) 23:38, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
While investigating the names of the river confluence in Qamdo for OpenStreetMap I stumbled upon the meaning of Qamdo being "where two rivers converge" - since I don't know chinese I leave this up to someone else to verify... but nonetheless: here seems to be the start of the Lancang River (Mekong). -- katpatuka ( talk) 05:59, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: moved. Jenks24 ( talk) 11:07, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
Qamdo Prefecture →
Chamdo Prefecture – Spelling consistency as per
Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(Tibetan)#Use_consistent_spellings. The case of Chamdo is explicitely mentioned in the naming convention, I think this should be a rather technical and uncontroversial move. The previous move request took place before the existence of the naming convention. The same move request has been made at
Talk:Qamdo Prefecture.
Pseudois (
talk)
22:30, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
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I have the impression that many the Lonely Planet Books served as the many (until now maybesingle) sources for this lemma. How reliable can they be? I hold the Lonely Planet Guidebooks in high esteem, but quality differs much with the authors, and we should be aware that guidebooks inform about almost every aspect - and who can know every aspect?
Please be more careful with data. As for instance, in sources I know Chamdo at the beginning of the 20th century was related to as a small garrison town. I doubt it had 12.000 inhabitants and 3000 monks by then.
-- Wickipedinger ( talk) 09:42, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
The result of the proposal was
Qamdo (town) → Chamdo — This article was recently moved from Chamdo to Qamdo (town) with no discussion. The edit summary was "official name", but I am aware of no naming convention requires the article title to be the official name. Note also that "Chamdo" and "Qamdo" are different transcriptions of the same underlying Tibetan name, so the issue here is not even the "official name" but the "official transcription of the official name".— Greg Pandatshang ( talk) 05:39, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
Partly in response to the "requested move" discussion on this page, I put up a new proposal for Tibetan naming conventions. Please see Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Tibetan) and Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (Tibetan)#New naming convention proposal. This could affect the title that is eventually decided for this article. Your comments and feedback are requested.— Nat Krause( Talk!· What have I done?) 23:38, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
While investigating the names of the river confluence in Qamdo for OpenStreetMap I stumbled upon the meaning of Qamdo being "where two rivers converge" - since I don't know chinese I leave this up to someone else to verify... but nonetheless: here seems to be the start of the Lancang River (Mekong). -- katpatuka ( talk) 05:59, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: moved. Jenks24 ( talk) 11:07, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
Qamdo Prefecture →
Chamdo Prefecture – Spelling consistency as per
Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(Tibetan)#Use_consistent_spellings. The case of Chamdo is explicitely mentioned in the naming convention, I think this should be a rather technical and uncontroversial move. The previous move request took place before the existence of the naming convention. The same move request has been made at
Talk:Qamdo Prefecture.
Pseudois (
talk)
22:30, 14 July 2012 (UTC)