Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2019 December 23

= December 23 =

Uyghur speakers- counties in Khotan/Hotan
Hello all- in the last few weeks, I have done some foundational work on the counties in eastern Hotan Prefecture, many of which were nothing but a nearly blank page not long ago. I speak Mandarin Chinese, but I don't know anything about Uyghur language. I would like to find some users who are willing to check my work on the Minfeng County (already partially checked), Yutian County, Xinjiang, Qira County, Lop County, Hotan, and Hotan County (which I am still working on) pages and make upgrades and additions as they see fit. (Also, if you can't speak Uyghur or Mandarin, I would like your help making the pages more readable for English language readers.) These pages are all very interesting from a historical and geographical perspective but they are also somewhat sensitive because I have included some information relevant to the Xinjiang re-education camps and associated issues on the pages. Regardless, I think that we need to make articles about these counties that objectively describe these areas for the English-speaking audience so that articles like this one from the New York Times don't include geographical terminology that is all but totally unknown to Wikipedia and hence the general public of the English-speaking world. Thanks for any help or suggestions. Geographyinitiative (talk) 12:54, 23 December 2019 (UTC)