Talk:Kunlun Volcanic Group

Location / Belts
Are you sure that this edit is correct? If it is, the reference needs to be changed. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 19:51, 5 January 2020 (UTC)


 * Their satellite image is showing the correct location (you can compare the outline of the lakes with any mapping service), but the coordinates is wrong. I can try find something with correct coordinate. --Voidvector (talk) 20:08, 5 January 2020 (UTC)


 * After further reading on this topic -- there are two belts for this Volcanic group. Quote this blog in English:
 * The coordinates provided by Smithsonian here are around Quanshuigou (of the less active southern belt). The most recent active volcano is at Ashikule. I have yet to find a source that explicitly mention the coordinates, but most of those locations (Ashikule being the 1951 eruption) can be found on maps. I saw some maps that seems to be from academic paper I might see if I can cite that. --Voidvector (talk) 04:41, 6 January 2020 (UTC)
 * There are some coordinates here but they might be unduly specific. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 10:01, 6 January 2020 (UTC)
 * There are some coordinates here but they might be unduly specific. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 10:01, 6 January 2020 (UTC)

Linking Subgroups

 * Regarding this edit, it does not seem intuitive for me that the name of a volcanic field should link to the name of a town, especially as the town looks like it's a fair bit away from the field. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 09:42, 8 January 2020 (UTC)

I was uncertain when I first made the edit. Having looked up the actual paper and the geographic location of the subgroups, I am going say, out of the 9 locations, it is fine for 7 of them. The reasons are as follows:
 * Most of the locations are middle of nowhere -- highway rest stops, uninhabited places with barely any traffic
 * All the volcanic subgroups are geographically confined without 30km radius
 * Unlike strata, these volcanic subgroup can easily be described in text in the article in question
 * Allow visitors of those places/readers of those articles to learn about volcanoes
 * if a geologists drives to the locality ("town"), they would be within 20km of the actual volcanic subgroup

Here's a run down of those geographic locations: --Voidvector (talk) 14:04, 8 January 2020 (UTC)
 * To me this sounds like original research, which we don't allow, unless the towns are exactly coincident with the volcanoes. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 15:21, 8 January 2020 (UTC)


 * It is OR because it is a talk page comment responding to your concern. The citation can be obtained from the map in the paper.
 * Also there is no rule requiring "towns are exactly coincident with the volcanoes" to be mentioned or link, because that would require the town to be inside the volcano. --Voidvector (talk) 16:11, 8 January 2020 (UTC)