Talk:High Desert (California)

message: Re this portion: << This region is part of the Riverside-San Bernardino Area or also know as Inland Empire in the portions of San Bernardino and Riverside only and in Los Angeles County known as The Greater Los Angeles Area>>
I think it is best to remove this, for several reasons.
First, Inland Empire and GLAA are primarily urban areas outside of where most of the High Desert actually is. The sentence ends up being confusing.
Second, it is written in a somewhat muddled way that makes it hard to understand. "For census purposes, most of this region is ..." might make it better, but I'm not sure that was the intent.
Lastly, it was a little sloppily written. It didn't even include a period. ;)  
Instead I added reference and a link to "Inland Empire" farther down, where it was more natural and appropriate.
—Preceding unsigned comment added by Kushibo (talk • contribs) 18:27, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  reference to Inland Empire and Greater Los Angeles Area 

message: See the ongoing discussion at Talk:High desert
FWIW, I've spent a lot of time in the Mojave, and don't recall ever hearing it referred to as "high desert." Cheers, Pete Tillman (talk) 20:31, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the High desert disambiguation page is not sure whether it is trying to be an article or just a disambiguation page. They are having their own troubles over there trying to figure out if they should be defining "high desert" as a scientific term or as a colloquialism.  As far as I'm concerned, and for the purposes of this article, the term as used in southern California is strictly a colloquialism. I, also, have spent a lot of time in the Mojave Desert, in California, Arizona, and Nevada, and I have only heard people there use the term "high desert" once in a while. On the other hand, in the Los Angeles region, it is commonly used to refer to most places immediately north of the San Gabriel mountains, especially the Antelope Valley and Victor Valley. The term has recently(?) expanded to include other areas like Twentynine Palms and the north half of Joshua Tree. The point is, the term "high desert" exists to differentiate it from the "low desert"  to the southeast of LA. Low desert can mean Palm Springs, Coachella Valley, and other places to the southeast. Without both "high" and "low," neither term would exist, it would just be called "the desert" by southern Californians. I think, for the purposes of Wikipedia, we should treat it as only a colloquialism and define it vaguely as such. Darkest tree (talk) 20:21, 19 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Define "High Desert"

message: I think we should merge it with the San Bernardino Valley or with Inland Empire(CA) Articles. Write what you think here  so we can come to a conclusion. MountCan (talk) 22:48, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge 

message: Much of the High Desert area consists of the area surrounding Hwy 62, much of the area north of this will be erroneously listed as part of this region. Much of the Tehachapi, Victorville, and Lancaster areas (to include Fort Irwin and Edwards AFB) are part of the southern portion of the Mojave, which falls outside of the High Desert. In fact if you talk to people from Tehachapi, they don't consider themselves as part of any desert...(!), they consider themselves as part of the mountains. Although many will cite these areas in the Mojave as part of the High Desert, much is unsubstantiated. Referencing a news article is not a valid reference.  (Ben marko (talk) 16:12, 13 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changed much of existing geo area 

message: The user, whom I believe to be a sock puppet: (Ben marko (talk), first blanked most of the article with his IP address, then he registered as Ben marko, and the article became "The High Desert according to Ben marko". After numerous reverts by him as I was trying to make heads or tails as to what was going on, and after being so foolish as to even to welcome him to Wiki, and create his user page, I discover his trick. It was so nicely done, I am positive he is a rouge or banned editor with a spur up his butt. It took me hours to reconstruct the article "line by Line", with copy and paste, because of all the intermediate edits, which I decided not to revert one by one. I just rewrote the 10,000 characters that were blanked. Please keep an eye out for this Vandal.-Thanks- Pocketthis (talk) 19:51, 13 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Alert to editors and Administrators

message: I am not a sock puppet...and I didn't delete the photo of Landers intentionally. I have reported your destructive edits as vandalism. Please stop.  (Ben marko (talk) 23:58, 13 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Alert to editors and Administrators

message: Would an administrator please correct the introductory paragraph to be objective & not expressing personal opinions?  Though I am autoconfirmed, this article seems to have editing protection beyond that.
My longstanding understanding is that "High Desert" is a common/vernacular name for the unique and large Mojave Desert region scientifically determined and geographically defined by biogeography, climate, and altitude. It is not a local news media & local business names defined place, as it seems some editors may be using. Thank you — Look2See1 t a l k → 23:24, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: One real problem is the word is used for several different reasons, which do not exactly physically overlap.  Anmccaff (talk) 00:51, 16 December 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Don't forget the Low Desert also in the Mojave.  Mlpearc (open channel) 01:00, 16 December 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I was simply referring to the above discussion, if the High Desert was a  it would also be true for the Low Desert and that changes in that regard would also be true for the Low desert. It's pretty obvious that the Low Desert is not the same "location" as the High Desert.  Mlpearc (open channel) 03:21, 16 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Introduction correction please

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thread_title:  Constant image changes 

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message: Right within this article, there is stated that the high desert temps typically are greater than low. (That's an incorrect statement, of course.) Then, on down the article, it is correctly stated that Low Desert has the hotter temps. I would try to make the changes, but given all the arguing that has gone on with this page, I am holding off. Maybe an established editor on the article would be better suited for the task? (Does such an inarguable bit of information need to be LOCKED DOWN???) 2600:1700:BF10:69D0:B518:AB5:C2F5:5F8B (talk) 12:29, 23 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contradictory Temperatures of High vs. Low deserts