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China's censorship of Tibet
Hi, I am a college student writing a research paper on China's takeover of Tibet, so I came to Mao's page for some information but I don't see anything about Tibet on his page. Why do you think that no one has written or mentioned anything about Tibet? Would you consider adding something about Tibet on his page? I know that there are people who reject Tibet as its own country but don't you think there should be at least something about Tibet? Thank you for your time.--Madeintibet59 (talk) 04:11, 26 April 2013 (UTC)

Ngari/Shigatse Prefecture border
I made and uploaded a map of modern Tibetain administrative boundries in 2008. Recently I was told that the maps I made had an error relating to the Ngari/Shigatse Prefecture level borders. I fixed it on the maps that highlight the Prefectures in question, but have yet to do the fix on the maps highlighting other Prefectures (making the change much less noticeable, but still visible) Before I put the work into making the change on the other 6 maps, I would like to ask if there is any reason *not* to do it. It seems like I had drawn the map using out of date info, or that it has since become out of date. Please let me know if there are any issues with making the change to the other maps. Thanks! The maps in question:

--Keithonearth (talk) 00:04, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Ngari
 * Shigatse
 * Well, I'm a bit disappointed not to get any feedback, but as best as I can tell the change is the right thing to do, so I've gone ahead and made the change to the files in question:
 * File:Tibet&neighbors Locator map.svg
 * File:Shannan map.svg
 * File:Lhasa map.svg
 * File:Nagqu map.svg
 * File:Nyinchi map.svg
 * File:Qamdo map.svg
 * File:Tibet&neighbors.svg
 * File:Shigatse map.svg
 * File:Ngari map.svg
 * --Keithonearth (talk) 04:00, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

Geography of Tibet categories
Some Geography of Tibet categories are up for discussion, see Categories_for_discussion/Log/2013_June_23 -- 65.94.79.6 (talk) 04:36, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

Narodakini150.jpg
image:Narodakini150.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 04:23, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Buchasergyi Lakang Monastery


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Transcription help needed for Namling County article
Place names in the Namling County article are in a variety of transcriptions. Some could probably be wikilinks if someone knows how to transcribe them. Djembayz (talk) 00:47, 20 October 2013 (UTC)

Disambiguation page in need of attention from subject-matter expert
Lingpa is several different kinds of wrong: not part of this project; categorized as a "surname" though it's more like a title; missing many of the most important related articles. Unfortunately, what is needed to fix it goes beyond my level of expertise, and hopefully this is the right place to seek people more knowledgeable than myself who are also active editors. --KGF0 ( T | C ) 02:12, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

Related RfC
Please feel free to take part in the current RfC at Talk:Dorje Shugden controversy. John Carter (talk) 18:29, 6 June 2014 (UTC)

Merger Proposal: Dorje Shugden controversy → Dorje Shugden
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Name of the 1912-1951 tibetan state
Was there an "official" name of that country, used on governemnt documents?--Antemister (talk) 20:35, 2 October 2014 (UTC)

Chinese propaganda
Are there at least one Chinese in the world who respect other's right? Tibetan sovereignty debate. Talk:Tibet_during_the_Ming_dynasty, List of tributaries of Imperial China Erieadieu (talk) 05:36, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

Help for new contributor
Can anyone offer guidance to a new contributor who seems to be wanting to create articles about a Buddhist sect whose current head is based in Taiwan but is using Tibetan sources? See User_talk:Thubtenrigzin. Thanks. - Sitush (talk) 14:34, 6 November 2014 (UTC)

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Harej (talk) 16:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Category:Lhasa Prefecture
See discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject China.♦ Dr. Blofeld  10:58, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

Removal of alternate names from Battle of Chamdo
A user has removed two sourced, and extremely common, alternate names from the Battle of Chamdo article, and has repeated the removal after my reversion. I don’t really have time to do more than I’ve already done. Would anyone else care to look into this?--Wikimedes (talk) 16:15, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

Lhasa listed at Requested moves
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Draft:Chuckmuck
This draft needs rewrite. --George Ho (talk) 05:53, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

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Tibet flag data
Hello all. If you are interested, there is a proposal at Template talk:Country data China to use the PRC flag for Tibet instead of the current Tibetan flag. This would affect all the flag templates that use the country data, which is all of them, as far as I'm aware. — Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 08:46, 20 September 2015 (UTC)

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Potential article?
I just declined a speedy deletion for the article Anti-Tibetan Sentiment, as it was tagged with no context. There's enough there to where I can tell what it's about, although it needs a lot of expansion. It seems like it could potentially merit an article with a little TLC, but this is out of my typical editing zone and would benefit from someone more familiar with the topic. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  07:53, 21 March 2016 (UTC)

70,000 Character Petition
I've created the page 70,000 Character Petition as a translation from the French article using the Translation tool. There's a lot of post-processing to fix up cruft left over from the tool, but wanted to let you know about the article.

As a side issue, there seems to be a vast number of Tibet related articles on French WP that do not exist here. We might want to enlist FR->EN translators to translate some of them. Alternatively, anyone could rummage around the French portal for ideas on article topics that could be added here. Mathglot (talk) 05:37, 18 April 2016 (UTC)


 * Finished editing the translation and fixing the cruft. Now we need new eyeballs on this, so we can improve the somewhat poor article structure, and flesh out more detail. Mathglot (talk) 05:28, 1 May 2016 (UTC)

eat half, walk double, laugh triple
I'm looking for an attestation and commentary (or debunking) about this phrase which seems to be popping up all over the place on Facebook and other social media (e.g., here) and attributed as "a Tibetan proverb": "'The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure...' &mdash;Tibetan proverb"

Is this really Tibetan in origin? Can someone supply 1) a source, 2) the original in Tibetan, and 3) an accurate translation?

A search on the internet for the phrase turns up many sites which quote it, many of them claiming Chinese origin. Plenty of such so-called "wise quotations" are just made up on the spot by Random Dood who wants to stake out his 15' of fame, and I suspect this is one of those, but I'm really not sure.

Is there a "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" for Tibetan, and is this in it? Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 06:31, 3 May 2016 (UTC)


 * I found a list of Tibetan proverbs that does not claim to be exhaustive, but is very long. And it doesn't have that quote. --nhinchey (talk) 22:54, 6 November 2016 (UTC)

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Template:TBRC-RID
Over on the Wikipedia:Requested_templates page I've made a request for the creation of a template to link to Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center Resource ID numbers which I think would be useful to almost every article covered by this project as well as in citations to Tibetan sources and in various infoboxes. Chris Fynn (talk) 21:41, 17 December 2016 (UTC)