Talk:Tibetan Plateau

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 25 March 2021 and 28 June 2021. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Kersen1528.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 11:21, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

Archeological evidence?

Please remove the 30,000-year sentence in the Human History section. Ask a Tibetan, not those who invaded and continue to occupy the Sovereign Nation of Tibet. The Dalai Lama puts the civilized date to 40,000 years ago. Before that, the nomadic tribes were too sparsely populated to get together in a civilized manner.
The indigenous folks have developed crops that are well-suited to the high elevation. It was the invaders as part of their continued acts of genocide who forced farmers to plant lower-elevation crops that led to tens of thousands of people dying of starvation. It is the Chinese invaders who then falsely concluded that "crops, which are unsuitable", livestock vs farming. Communist party propaganda trolls will surely petition to have this criticism deleted.
Hpfeil (talk) 15:46, 6 August 2019 (UTC)

"as much as 15 °C (27 °F) cooler"?

The article reads:

"and daytime temperatures ranging from around 7 °C (45 °F) in winter to 24 °C (75 °F) in summer – though nights are as much as 15 °C (27 °F) cooler" 

"as much as 15 °C (27 °F) cooler"? Does it mean that usually they are less cool, or even not cooler at all? Does it mean that the lowest night-time temperatures are: 7-15 = -8°C in winter , and 24-15 = 9°C in summer? 85.193.252.19 (talk) 19:40, 21 October 2021 (UTC)

I don't seem to be able find that text in the current version of the article. Mikenorton (talk) 20:44, 21 October 2021 (UTC)

Oops, sorry. It was in Geography of Tibet. 85.193.252.19 (talk) 00:04, 22 October 2021 (UTC)

Good faith edits deleted by Remsense

Ok. 1. "Himalayan Plateau" is a more internationally common alt name as supported by the page's existing sources. I used the more common name to replace "Qinghai-Tibet Plateau" since it is unknown except by Chinese geologists, as the existing source indicates. 2. Another existing source directly references the Tibetan Empire in its relation to the Tibetan Plateau - numerous historical scholars also agree that the name of the plateau is directly related to the fact that Tibet's geographic area throughout its history since c.640 was at minimum defined "generally" by the plateau. Several historical travel logs throughout the centuries also support this statement, as the c.1860 diary of the French catholic priests', Huc and Gabet, further illustrates. It should be noted that from c.640 to c.848, the Tibetan Empire spread far beyond the edges of the plateau, and after the era of fragmentation, Tibet was again constantly identified in reliable sources as being defined generally by the geographic markers of the plateau - the hills, the mountains, the grass plains, the passes, the rivers, and either aligned with the inside or outside face of the Himalayas and surrounding mountains. From c.848 to 1951, numerous treaties also support this statement. 3.Thus, including the historic names of these historic Tibetan regions within the list of new (post-1950) Chinese regions or overlays, for example Qinghai (Amdo), is not confusing. In fact, the newer Chinese names are actually creating confusion in scholarly fields and in historical research since scholarly texts and reliable sources written throughout the centuries and until c.1950 use either the Tibetan place names, or other historic place names for Tibet and for Tibetan regions in different languages - not the modern Chinese place names. These modern names disconnect cultural history and geography from their actual geographic coordinates.

Given these points, it's even clearer that the edits were definitely made in good faith, and that the edits removed the confusion regarding the geographic places and regions of the Tibetan Plateau.

Please, Remsense undo the deleted information. 49.126.179.108 (talk) 05:31, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

A quick check of Google Scholar confirms that "Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau" is a commonly used term, far more common than "Himalayan Plateau". I think, however, that we could remove "Qing-Zang Plateau" as this is even less commonly used than "Himalayan Plateau". Mikenorton (talk) 14:36, 30 April 2024 (UTC)