Talk:Keriya Town

where is the town?
I have not found any town in Keriya County named Keriya. Can anyone provide any information to prove that Keriya Town exist? A full list of the subdivisions of Keriya County can be found at this website, there is no Keriya Town in it. --Neo-Jay (talk) 17:28, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Hi! Thanks for your note. I think the problem you are having is because in the late 19th century the previous Chinese name for Khotan (Pinyin: Hotan) 于窴 (Yutian) began to be applied instead to Keriya. So, the small town of Keriya is now called 于窴 (Yutian). It seems difficult to get much information on the present size and amenities of the town itself although the county is supposed to have a population of some 220,000. I haven't had time to do a thorough search on the internet yet, but there a couple photos taken in the town at the following website: There is also a map showing a fairly large town at: Hope that helps. Cheers, John Hill (talk) 22:54, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your reply. But your sources are about the downtown of Keriya County (于田县). It is not Keriya Town (于田镇). I hope you can understand the difference between the two concepts. I checked the subdivision list of Keriya County. Keriya County has 2 towns and 13 townships. The towns include Mugala Town (木尕拉镇) and Xianbaibazha Town (先拜巴扎镇). There is no Keriya Town at all.--Neo-Jay (talk) 23:32, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
 * OK, I think this Keriya Town is just Mugala Town (木尕拉镇). See this Chinese page about the history of Keriya County. It says that the Uyghur language for Yutian County, Xinjiang is Keriya or Mugala, and the former name of Mugala Town is Keriya. Therefore, I think, Mugala Town can be called as Keriya Town. But it should be noted that the Chinese name of this town is 木尕拉 (Mugala), not 于田 (Yutian). That's why I did not find a town named Keriya (Yutian). --Neo-Jay (talk) 00:27, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Seriously doubting the assumption that Mugala is another name for the capital of Yutian County. Googling for images of Yutian county maps (including those written in Chinese, i.e. search for 于田县 地图), indicate that Mugala is just another town(ship), a bit north from Yutian. The capital seems to be simply called Yutian, without any affix. --HyperGaruda (talk) 13:20, 6 April 2022 (UTC)

Destruction of 13th-century mosque
Did the communist government of the People's Republic of China destroy this town's historic 13th-century mosque in 2018? 173.88.241.33 (talk) 03:34, 19 April 2019 (UTC)
 * It appears so., -- Kautilya3 (talk) 07:21, 19 April 2019 (UTC)

Thank you, it should be properly encyclopedic to add a mention of this to the article's text. 173.88.241.33 (talk) 16:03, 20 April 2019 (UTC)

New article to create
New Wikipedia article to create: Karadong. 173.88.246.138 (talk) 23:43, 14 June 2020 (UTC)

Requested move 5 July 2022

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 

The result of the move request was: no consensus. (closed by non-admin page mover) — Ceso femmuin mbolgaig mbung, mellohi! (投稿) 01:38, 22 July 2022 (UTC)

– I see this page as being the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC for "Keriya". It should be titled as such and the present Keriya page should become Keriya (disambiguation). Kautilya3 (talk) 22:24, 5 July 2022 (UTC) — Relisting. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 17:41, 13 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Keriya Town → Keriya
 * Keriya → Keriya (disambiguation)
 * Added move of associated dab per nom. how is the town primary topic: by long-term significance, page views, or both? May you please kindly show how you determined this? Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 13:40, 7 July 2022 (UTC)


 * The possible targets listed at Keriya (disambiguation) are "Keriya County" and "Keriya River", which would rarely be called simply "Keriya", and an Israeli town called HaKirya, whose page does not even mention "Keriya" as a possible name of the place. There is also a "Keriya Pass", by the way, which would also not be called simply "Keriya".
 * The WP:RS always use "Keriya" (by itself) to mean the town, e.g., "In fact in 1956 when Basil Davidson had inquired he was told that the route from Khotan via Keriya to Tibet was under construction." or "Having dismissed their pony caravan at Polu they descended to Keria, an oasis in the Khotan district, where they made a nine days' halt."
 * I will post a note at Talk:HaKirya about this move discussion. -- Kautilya3 (talk) 14:46, 7 July 2022 (UTC)


 * Aren't counties also commonly referred to by the unqualified name? That's the impression I get from articles like this. The dab entry for the county also received more clicks than that for the town (in January, data from the WP:Clickstream, the numbers are respectively 10 and <10). And isn't "X Town" the standard way to disambiguate in cases like that? (there's some really detailed guidelines available: maybe someone with more patience than me can read them and let us know if that's the case?). – Uanfala (talk) 21:32, 9 July 2022 (UTC)


 * Note: WikiProject China has been notified of this discussion. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 17:42, 13 July 2022 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
 * Oppose, no PRIMARY.--Ortizesp (talk) 22:40, 13 July 2022 (UTC)
 * , can you explain? -- Kautilya3 (talk) 23:33, 13 July 2022 (UTC)