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Construction of Trails
The amount of labor employed to install all of the stone trails is incredible, certainly along the lines of building the great pyramids in Egypt. Information regarding this amazing feat of human engineering and labor should be included in this article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.108.124.140 (talk) 07:35, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

Naming
This title is a misnomer. Shan means mountain so Mount Huangshan means Mount Mount Huang. This should be either changed to Mount Huang or Huangshan. Mandel 14:07, Mar 2, 2005 (UTC)
 * I think you have a good point here and I have moved the article to "Huang shan (Mountain range)" to distinguish it from "Huang shan (city)", which is already on the Huangshan disambiguation page. rm 19:30, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I think thats true. I was going to say that Shan means mountains, so it should just be called HuangShang, or something like that. -Freddy Tsao
 * Huangshan is the mountain, Huangshan Shi or Huangshan City is a recent creation that was named after the mountain. So I would suggest titling them as such and putting a link at the top of the respective pages for anyone that stumbles onto the wrong one. Mutt (talk) 05:59, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

More Naming Questions
In the other articles about Chinese mountains, like Mount Tai, Mount Hua, Mount Heng, Mount Song, Mount Putuo, etc., the name "Shan" is always treated as "Mount". For that reason, I propose that the article name be change to "Mount Huang" (with all the proper redirects for "Yellow Mountain", "Mount Yellow", and "Huangshan"). What do y'all think?LedRush (talk) 14:30, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
 * I agree (belatedly) with this move; "Mount Huang" sounds awkward to me since I learned it first as Huangshan, but it is the most consistent naming scheme for Wikipedia, and it's better for most readers (i.e. non-Chinese-speakers). &mdash;Politizer( talk • contribs ) 15:59, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Based on what I heard, I disagree. I asked about Huangshan from a native hotel clerk in Huangshan city (Tunxi), and he assured me that Chinese people don't think "Yellow Mountain" when they see "Huangshan", they just see it as a single word name. Also UNESCO and others seem to use "Mount Huangshan". I wouldn't use "Mount Huang" unless someone native would support that, as using different (and based on above, wrong) name is confusing, especially for non-Chinese-speakers who can't translate shan into mountain. Jesh (talk) 20:54, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

Pictures
UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUWJHJJJJ. Xz 09:51, 19 February 2007 (UTC)


 * I agree. Why are there so many fake CGI images in this article?  Has it become some kind of "cool" competition to put as many fake computer graphics in here as possible just because the mountain has been linked to a major CGI film? Thrapper (talk) 00:09, 16 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Um, all the pictures in this article were added more than a year before Avatar came out, so I don't think there's any connection. If you want to leave a constructive comment, perhaps you could point out which images in the article you feel are "fake". r ʨ anaɢ talk/contribs 00:15, 16 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Really? Is it just me?  Hmm, well ok then maybe I'll have to retract "fake CGI" and replace with "overly photoshopped to look more like CGI".  Or do I just need my eyes tested?  One example is HuangShan.JPG, subtitled "Mount Huang with trees and clouds".  Apparently this was added in November 2009 (not so long ago), and included in this article, Avatar (2009 film), as well as the German versions of both those articles, Catalan, French, Italian, and maybe others.  To me it looks like a screengrab, although maybe it's just been modified to look like a screengrab.  And the fact that it's linked to so many Avatar articles is odd.
 * Then there's the first picture on this page, Huangshan_pic_4.jpg, apparently added on 24 January 2010 (also not so long ago), which also looks odd to me, which is what triggered my comment. I didn't look at the dates of the other pictures.  To me they just don't look real, I'm surprised other people haven't mentioned it already. Thrapper (talk) 00:12, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
 * The second picture is overly contrast-y, but other than that I don't see a problem; the first one you mentioned doesn't look unreal at all to me, have you been to Huangshan? Both of the pictures have camera metadata and are very high resolution, so they are not screengrabs. Most of the rest of the pictures in the article were added by me in late 2008, or were already there before I started editing. r ʨ anaɢ talk/contribs 00:39, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Hmmm, in that case I'll have to back-pedal... Of course the inclusion of camera metadata means nothing, that can be added to any computer-generated image too. And computer-generated imagery can also have very high resolution too, so that doesn't prove anything either.  But no, I have never been to this part of the world.  If you have, and you're happy with these recent images (and the fact that they've been added to so many of the Avatar pages) then I guess I _do_ need to get my eyes tested :/ Thrapper (talk) 13:44, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Maybe you do need to get your eyes tested >.> as you keep saying that every time Rjanag brings up facts that disagree with your assumptions. Just because a picture looks fake to you does not mean it is or looks fake to the rest of us. I have been to Huangshan. The pictures actually don't do the place justice as it looks much better and a lot more awe-inspiring in real life. Just because the pictures are too beautiful in someone's eyes does not mean that place does not exist, or the pictures are fake. That is an insult to the photographer, and even more, to the location itself. If person making the assumption has never been to the place in question and seen what it looks like, that just completely nullifies any credibility that person has. Even a five-second research by clicking on the pictures and viewing their source link and you'd see Huangshan_pic_4.jpg was taken and uploaded almost 3 years ago on Flicker. The German photographer who took HuangShan.JPG also has various other photos of Huangshan and other places he's visited on his user page gallery. This is the only photo he uploaded to the Wikipedia entry. You should message him, I'm sure he'll be very thrilled to know that you think his photos are fakes.Obsilord (talk) 02:44, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

Images
The Image gallery in the article is pretty big (granted, I have been adding to it, but it was big even before I came along). Is it possible to create a corresponding gallery of these images at Commons (there is already a linked Commons page, but the images it has are very different) linked from this article, and then not have such a big gallery here? Also, of course, as the article grows, more images can be worked into the main body of the article (I'm about to try squeezine some in right now).

An alternate solution would be to put the image gallery within a template, so that it is still in the article but not so in-your-face. I don't know what the standard is, though, on using in articles. &mdash;Politizer( talk • contribs ) 15:59, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Good source
The latest source I added to the article seems to be very good, and I think we can use it to make some nice expansions to the article. Here is the source:



(The ref is named "UNEP", if you want to cite stuff inline).

It seems much more credible than most of the sources in the article now, and its status as a review of material makes it more desirable and NPOV than primary sources. Of course, we don't want to base the whole article off of one source, but I do think it's ok to lean more heavily on this source than the others, at least until we've found some other comparably good sources. &mdash;Politizer( talk • contribs ) 19:34, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

New section in article
I added a new section on what Huangshan is significant for in terms of what people do with it; I am drawing a blank on what to call it (I know there's a good term, I have just gone braindead right now) so I tentatively called it "Uses." That is a pretty lame section title, so if you think of a better title before I do you are more than welcome to change it (in fact, I urge you to change it!). &mdash;Politizer( talk • contribs ) 20:06, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

Moved to Huangshan Mountains. The article is mostly about the range as made clear in the first sentence. If the main peak should have its own article, then I would suggest Huangshan Mountain as the best choice to avoid a proposal to move the dab page. Clearly from the discussion and inbound links, Huangshan is the preferred to Huang. Vegaswikian (talk) 19:52, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
 * This was moved back after the additional discussion below. So the result became no consensus for a move.  Vegaswikian (talk) 00:47, 4 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Mount Huang → Huangshan
 * Huangshan → Huangshan (disambiguation) — per WP:COMMONNAME. Huangshan is a much more common name for this rather well-known mountain range: google books yields 347 hits for "huangshan" + "yellow mountain", vs. 40 for "mount huang" + "yellow". All the other entries at the current disambiguation page are named after the mountains, so the mountain range should be the primary topic. --Yaan (talk) 19:08, 26 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Gtest:
 * "huangshan" 809000
 * "mt huangshan" 17500
 * "mount huangshan" 12800
 * "huangshan mountain" 18500
 * "huang mountain" 19400
 * "mount huang" 50500
 * "mt huang" 52400
 * "huang shan" 185000
 * "mt huang shan" 82
 * "mount huang shan" 35
 * "huang shan mountain" 88900
 * ofcourse there are other things named "huangshan" ... which is why there is a dab page... 76.66.197.2 (talk) 04:16, 27 November 2009 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.


 * Why was the main article not informed of this beforehand? A discussion with no input, held at a dab page that no one was watching, does not seem like proper procedure to me.
 * The current title does not make sense with COMMONNAME. In English, I have never heard anyone call this place "Huangshan Mountains". "Mount Huang" and the misnomer "Mount Huangshan" are far more common. It doesn't matter if it's technically a mountain range; what matters is the common name. Please undo the move and allow a real discussion to take place. r ʨ anaɢ talk/contribs 00:01, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Also, as a side note, when you moved th is page and performed the history merge you failed to move the subpages, causing the GA1 link above to become broken. r ʨ anaɢ talk/contribs 00:02, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
 * The dicussion was on the talk page for Mount Huang which was the article proposed for a move. So, I don't understand what part of this discussion was not on the main page.  The dab page had a pointer to the discussion.  If the issue is dropping the 's' at the end, I'll make that change if you want. Vegaswikian (talk) 00:11, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Hm, I suppose you're right; your edit summary had given me the impression the discussion was held at the dab page or RM rather than here, but now that I look at the history it seems like it was added here on Nov 27 (which was Thanksgiving holiday in the US, so I must have just not noticed it).
 * In any case, I don't agree with your choice to move it to "Huangshan Mountains". Nowhere in the discussion did anyone suggest that title, and it has one of the fewest ghits of any of the alternatives. Just Huangshan (and moving the dab page) would have been much better. r ʨ anaɢ talk/contribs 00:19, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
 * So would Huangshan Mountain be better? Vegaswikian (talk) 00:26, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
 * No, Huangshan Mountain is even less common than the name that was being used originally. The whole move was unnecessary anyway. It should be either "Mount Huang" or just "Huangshan". ("Mount Huangshan" is also used relatively frequently, but is grating to anyone who speaks Chinese.) See below. r ʨ anaɢ talk/contribs 00:27, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
 * (ec) Also, I'm not sure the move is necessary at all, as Yaan's proposal is based on misleading statistics. He points out that "Huangshan" has 347 gbooks hits, vs. 40 for "Mount Huang"...but he added extra things to the search. If you search for just Mount Huang, without extra terms, you get about the same number of hits as Huangshan (of what I checked, all but one were about the same topic). So the names are fairly evenly distributed. r ʨ anaɢ talk/contribs 00:26, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
 * OK, I'll move it back since it appears that there is opposition to the move and close this discussion showing that there was no consensus for a move. If anyone wants to move this, they can open a new discussion. Vegaswikian (talk) 00:42, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your understanding. r ʨ anaɢ</b> talk/contribs 01:31, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

Proper spelling of Huangshan
We need to re-open the discussion about the name of this mountain!

According to the Pinyin spelling rules of the 1950s (under Mao), the Chinese 黄山 should be spelled Huang Shan in Pinyin (two separate capitalized words). In English, this would indeed mean Mount Huang or Yellow Mountain or Huang Mountain. The spelling in two words means that shan has its own meaning and is not part of a proper name. The spelling in one word would mean that it is a proper name.

However, this Pinyin spelling rule has never made its way into international conventions. An overwhelming majority is using Huangshan, spelled in one word, both for the prefectural city and for the mountains. See this google trend for Huangshan and Huang Shan or this one for Huangshan and Mount Huang. This clearly shows that Huangshan is generally accepted as the proper name of the mountain and of the city.

I suggest to follow international habits and use the following names here:


 * Huangshan (disambiguation page)
 * Huangshan (mountain)
 * Huangshan (city)
 * Yellow Mountain (redirect to Huangshan (Mountain))

For reference, some more google popularity Pinyin spelling checks for two character proper names of mountains and rivers:


 * Taishan or Tai Shan
 * Laoshan or Lao Shan
 * Huanghe or Huang He
 * Changjiang or Chang Jiang

You will see that only for Huangshan, there is a clear web vote for spelling in one word. Shenhemu (talk) 07:49, 6 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Personally I prefer "Huangshan" over "Mount Huang", it's just that the article was already called "Mount Huang" when I got here and it didn't seem like a problem so I let it stay. I think as long as we're not using the deplorable "Mount Huangshan" (which really rubs me the wrong way) we should be fine. Both "Mount Huang" and "Huangshan" are pretty common&mdash;common enough that it's hard to make a strong argument for either one using the google test alone.
 * I'm about to turn Yellow Mountain into a dab page; I just noticed that there's a Yellow Mountain in Montana (the article was created recently) and probably others as well. My intuition is that "Yellow Mountain" still refers to Huangshan most often, but I can't verify that, and don't want to get too greedy with redirecting, so I'm fine with dabbing. <b class="IPA">r ʨ anaɢ</b> (talk) 13:07, 6 September 2010 (UTC)


 * I agree that Huangshan is the most commonly used name in English, take a look at most travel books for examples. I also think that the mountain is far more notable than the city and the at Huangshan should be the montain with a dablink to the city's page (AFAIK the city is named after the mountain). What do you guys think? Cheers, — sligocki (talk) 17:30, 6 September 2010 (UTC)


 * UNESCO listed the mountain officially under the name Mount Huangshan in 1990. The official English language media of China use either Mount Huangshan or just Huangshan, recently prefering Huangshan (Example at Xinhua). I totally agree that Mount Huangshan sounds awkward, but the Mount Huang we currently use here is much worse. Once again, I strongly vote for Huangshan! Shenhemu (talk) 18:26, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

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