Talk:Mountain

Picture selection

Non-global picture statistics.

• Asia – 2 (13%)
• Africa – 1 (7%)
• North America – 5 (33%)
• South America – 1 (7%)
• Europe – 5 (33%)

Alps – 4 (27%)

• Europe + English language countries – 10 (67%)

Total 15

Certainly Europe, the Alps and North America are over-represented. Lappspira (talk) 09:50, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

-2 United States, -2 Europe, +Africa, +Mexico (note: part of North America), +Armenia. +Papua New Guinea —hike395 (talk) 14:53, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

Mount Ararat is in Turkey. On the picture it's said to be in Armenia. May someone correct this. It could be said Turkey,Armenian Highlands Mount Ararat. Akyasu (talk) 15:09, 10 June 2018 (UTC)

I added the info. If you check out the article on the mountain itself you will see that it's a political issue. PopSci (talk) 12:50, 28 October 2021 (UTC)

Changing variety of English?

Nyttend changed the spelling of "kilometer" and "center" to "kilometre" and "centre". To me, this seems to be changing the national variety of English in the article. According to MOS:RETAIN, we shouldn't change a stable choice of spelling, absent a compelling reason. "Kilometer" has been in this article since 2013, while "center" has been present since 2006. The subject of the article is worldwide, and so does not compel a particular variety of English. . I reverted Nyttend's edit. Am I missing something? —hike395 (talk) 19:05, 16 December 2018 (UTC)

(1) Spelling is only a part of it. We must maintain a particular variety of English, which as I said already, means that we have to give priority to feet and miles or priority to metres and kilometres. No country gives priority to meters and kilometers. (2) Where's the stable variety of English that you're talking about? Please glance at the last version before mine and run a search for metre and a search for meter: no variety of English has been established in this article. Nyttend (talk) 22:33, 16 December 2018 (UTC)

@Nyttend: I think you and I are interpreting the MOS differently. The way I read it is: first you determine which units are primary by WP:UNIT. Then, you determine how to spell those units according to MOS:UNITNAMES and MOS:ENGVAR (which is called out in MOS:UNITNAMES). There's nothing in WP:UNIT that tells us that the choice of unit should depend on the choice of English variant. So I think it's possible for an article to have metric units first, which are spelled in an American way (if American is selected by the rules in MOS:ENGVAR).

Now, you make a good point that, prior to your edit, there was no clear choice of English variant in this article, so cleaning it up would be good. MOS:RETAIN says to "use the variety found in the first post-stub revision that introduced an identifiable variety.".

Using WikiBlame, I found the following:

• "center" was first used here, October 7, 2006 (10,611 bytes)
• "centre" was first used here, August 28, 2003 (3,412 bytes)
• "meter" was first used here, January 15, 2007 (11,246 bytes)
• "metre" was first used here, July 17, 2005 (6,725 bytes)

ORES says that the article version that first used "centre" is rated start class. It looks like the August 28, 2003 version was written by Montrealais from Canada, therefore it looks like we'll use Canadian spelling (including centre, metre, kilometre). I'll mark the page with a template that places a hidden category.

Is this acceptable to you, Nyttend? —hike395 (talk) 02:19, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

That's workable. Nyttend (talk) 03:21, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

Sacred mountains

Have assembled some info on the role of mountains in the religious and philosophical arena, there having been a dearth of such info in this article previously. Religious aspects have been a key part of the human experience of mountains for millennia and more could be written on the topic though perhaps most is best reserved for the linked main article. Similarly a section in this article on mountains in literature and the arts, with relevant links would enhance it too. thanks Geopersona (talk) 08:57, 4 January 2020 (UTC)

"Geographic accident" listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Geographic accident. Please participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. Steel1943 (talk) 21:30, 24 January 2020 (UTC)

"Dağ" listed at Redirects for discussion

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Semi-protected edit request on 9 March 2020

mountains are made to make you struggle to go up. they are way too hard to walk up and trust me dont do it :) 49.199.138.193 (talk) 10:11, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

 Not done: not a request to edit anything on this article. feminist (talk) 12:34, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

Intro needs tweaking

This line appears currently: Mountains erode slowly through the action of rivers, weather conditions, and glaciers. i) It might be observed that along with certain coastlines, generally speaking mountains are amongst those landforms which erode most quickly - it is of course all a matter of perspective. ii) I'm not happy with weather conditions here - firstly 'weather conditions' are not the same as weathering which is where the text is linked to (though there is of course a link to be made) Might we be better to say something along the lines of: Mountains are amongst those landforms which erode most rapidly, through the action of rivers and glaciers, typically assisted by intense weathering and by mass movement. Would also want to insert 'mass movement' into the erosion section. I'm sure other editors can suggest an improvement on this. thanks Geopersona (talk) 06:33, 2 January 2021 (UTC)

I've added this article to my list of articles to touch up. Based on number of visits, it ended up right at the top. So I'll probably get to this sooner rather than later. --Kent G. Budge (talk) 17:22, 2 January 2021 (UTC)

Looks like a sensible change to me. HiLo48 (talk) 22:24, 2 January 2021 (UTC)

I've changed "weather conditions" to just "weathering", and brought the definition more in line with a reliable geologic dictionary: peaked, exposed bedrock, and minimum elevation of 300 meters or 1000 feet. Oddly, my textbooks on sedimentology say nothing about mountains showing intense weathering, though this was certainly my impression; in face, one reliable source states that steep slopes actually weather more slowly than moderate slopes. But "weathering" is not identical to "erosion" and I will dig into the sources to get this part right. I agree that we can't talk about mountain erosion and not talk about mass wasting and I'll work on that some more as well. --Kent G. Budge (talk) 18:36, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

UK definition of mountain

The article cited as the "authority" for UK now considering a mountain as 2,000 feet is hardly authoritative! In the comments on the cited article, someone mentions the Countryside and Rights of Way ("CROW") Act; this doesn't define a mountain in general way - it does define that for the purpose of deciding public access, the term

"“mountain” includes, subject to the following definition, any land situated more than 600 metres above sea level;

“mountain, moor, heath or down” does not include land which appears to the appropriate countryside body to consist of improved or semi-improved grassland;

As yet, I don't think any land owner has challenged the fact that all grassland in UK has been improved over the past several millenia. But that aside, a direct citation of CROW would be better - but not (in my opinion) authoritative. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.235.156.39 (talk) 17:15, 19 May 2022 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 7 June 2022

Third paragraph's from the top, fourth line its written '. Because' which is wrong so please edit it Nightfall5141 (talk) 13:54, 7 June 2022 (UTC)

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 13:59, 7 June 2022 (UTC)

Travel and tourism

explain the history of mountain  ? 2400:1A00:B1E0:19AC:7494:4AA7:E755:FF43 (talk) 12:40, 15 March 2023 (UTC)

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