Talk:Ordos City

message: Is it true that Ordos has a high GDP per capita compared to most other PRC cities? (70000+ RMB) Hanjoen55155 (talk) 04:23, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  GDP per capita 

message: First Solar just signed a major agreement with Ordos City to build a huge solar plant there, I think it should be added to the article.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.24.232.238 (talk) 18:59, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Solar Plant 

message: Interesting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h7V3Twb-Qk
*Inserted parts of it into article. Colipon+(Talk) 13:04, 13 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  how many km² has new Ordos ? how many people could live there ? --91.15.236.147 (talk) 20:15, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  the video says > 1 million. ---华钢琴49 (TALK) 04:55, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  The "new" Ordos is empty 

message: Ordos City seems to mean both a town and a region. The same applies to Dongsheng. The use of 'City' to mean region (prefecture-level city) would not be understood by 99% of English-speakers and needs to be clarified for their benefit. Benjamin Trovato (talk) 02:31, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I've gone a crusade to get rid of lousy and pedantic "prefecture-level" descriptions in the lede, and have tried bringing this up with fellow editors here. But if you read that discussion thread you'll see I've run into a lot of hurdles. Colipon+(Talk) 03:15, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Just for another clarification, the approach you took at Hulunbuir looks quite OK to me. At least I cannot really think of a better phrasing. Yaan (talk) 09:05, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clarification needed 

message: Although this is not my area, I am tempted to rename this as Ordos Shi and explain what a shi is. In English 'city' always means a large urban area and never means a region or district. Does someone else have a better idea?Benjamin Trovato (talk) 00:27, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: "Ordos Shi" is not English, but I understand your concern. Perhaps a good middle-ground way of going about this is naming it "Ordos, Inner Mongolia". Colipon+(Talk) 16:46, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: "Ordos, Inner Mongolia" would be somewhat ambigous, see Ordos (disambiguation). Maybe "Ordos (city)" or "Ordos (prefecture-level city)" would be the way to go? Or just "Ordos"? Yaan (talk) 11:23, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  just "Ordos" is okay with me. Describing Ordos as a City where only a few percentage of the land is actually Urban is really misleading.--LLTimes (talk) 18:56, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rename? 

message: There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Lhasa which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you.  —RMCD bot 22:44, 10 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Move discussion in progress

message: Is Kangbashi New Area its own district, or is it simply an urban settlement divided between the two existing administrative districts of Ejin Horo Banner and Dongsheng District?  I've seen it both mentioned as a settlement without a status and thus split between the banner and district, and also as a new administrative district in and of itself. I need this information to clarify it on Kangbashi's article, here. --Criticalthinker (talk) 14:57, 19 May 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: It is merely an "administrative area" that has some powers to regulate projects and real estate development in the area, as mandated by the local government. Economic activities in these areas are usually not under the oversight of the urban districts to which they belong, but (I believe) it answers to the Ordos municipality more generally; however schools and hospitals located in this area may still be administered by the districts. Colipon+(Talk) 19:28, 19 May 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I honestly don't get what you mean.  Is it a district equal to that of say Dongsheng District or not?  The map showing the subdivisions of Ordos City don't show it as a district.  In the hierarchy of Chinese administrative divisions, what level would Kangbashi New Area be, or is it not an administrative division? --Criticalthinker (talk) 13:05, 20 May 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry - perhaps I was not totally clear. It is not a district equal to Dongsheng - it is strictly speaking an executive arm of the Ordos prefecture government whose job is to spur development and oversee economic activities in an area defined by the prefecture government (which usually overlaps with the geographical area of more than one administrative "district"). Administratively, the leaders of such a "New Area" is considered a county-level official (i.e. district-level), but since they are commissioned by the Ordos prefecture government, their powers are defined and limited by the prefecture government (for instance, it likely oversees approval of development projects and real estate zoning, but not schools and hospitals, which is still under the jurisdiction of the respective "districts"). Colipon+(Talk) 14:20, 20 May 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay, so it's not an administrative division, then.  That makes since.  So, Kangbashi New Area is actually just a development split between the county-level administrative divisions of Dongsheng and Ejin Horo. --Criticalthinker (talk) 14:37, 20 May 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Yea, it is somewhat more nuanced - I think comparing Kangbashi to Dongsheng is a bit of an apples-to-oranges comparison. Anyway feel free to just write the article and I will edit it if need be. Colipon+(Talk) 15:21, 20 May 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: To be clear, I was using the two as an example to make sure it was an apples-to-oranges comparison.  My point was to make sure and clear that Kangbashi is not an administrative district like Dongsheng (or any of the banners) is.  My only point is that this needed to be made clear on the pages of both Ordos City and Kangbashi. --Criticalthinker (talk) 15:18, 24 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kangbashi New Area 

message: This article should not be speedy deleted as being recently created, having no relevant page history and duplicating an existing English Wikipedia topic, because... (your reason here) --Ordosnb (talk) 23:09, 9 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contested deletion 

message: :This is not a bad article but has been tagged concerning a lack of unsourced material that has not been addressed. I read the History of Ordos City section and nine subsections that has zero sources. I could not find a source so this next step is an attempt to see if someone with interest has the ability to source this before it gets deleted. Deleting the section may result in possibly interesting material being removed unless someone inappropriately reverts the edit that will be against several policies and guidelines that are considered core content policies.
:Note: The article "citation needed" tag, as well as the section "unsourced" tag (evidence of challenge), both from December 2018, state: Unsourced material may be challenged and removed..
:If this notice does not generate positive results, being sourcing, I may delete this entire section.
*Wikipedia:Verifiability (policy): 
*WP:OR (policy): 
*Five pillars (Wikipedia is written from a neutral point of view): Includes, , and .
:This content was translated from the Chinese Wikipedia (pinged editor) so hopefully there are sources that can be added. Otr500 (talk) 10:47, 27 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article severe issues 

message: I read the Forbes article.  And Wade is quoted to have said, However, in 2017, the ghost city label is getting more than a little difficult to hang on Ordos Kangbashi. ...Of the 40,000 apartments that had been built in the new district since 2004, only 500 are still on the market.. However nowhere in the article does he also say - but it is not known if the apartments have been sold or just withdrawn from the market to bolster sagging prices. I don't know if it's vandalism but I have removed that unsourced false quotation because it's not found anywhere in the Forbes article.49.180.123.43 (talk) 06:08, 26 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay, looking at the history. I can see that the OP edit was originally correct a year ago.  But then an anonymous user had later vandalised and added in a false Quotation.. I have since undone that vandalism today  and hope that others will ensure such vandalism - (adding unsourced false quotation) won't happen again. 49.180.123.43 (talk) 07:01, 26 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wade quote (did not say that) 

message: : Hello, I do not believe you have read the source yourself. You claimed my edits had promoted something and reverted all my edits. I do not understand in what way it can be seen as promotional. Also my edit was undoing vandalism by another. Please explain here on what part of my edit was promotional? I tried to discuss on your talk but then you blanked it before I had a chance to respond. But if you think I added in "number one school", I think you are very mistaken as that's not the rank but merely the literal name of the school as written by Nikkei Asia. I know it's strange but they literally call themselves that and here is their website to prove it.  49.180.123.43 (talk) 07:54, 26 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the clarification. Tetrainn (talk) 09:24, 26 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Revertion