Talk:Rwenzori Mountains

message: The Ruwenzori Range is not volcanic, so I am removing both "Volcanoes of ..." categories.  They had been incorrectly added to the article way back in September 2004.  --Seattle Skier (talk) 23:50, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ruwenzori Range is not volcanic

message: If the name is no longer written "Ruwenzori", why is "Rwenzori" redirecting to this article instead of the other way around? Alan 20:24, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article Name 

message: Dendrosenecio johnstonii s.s. is a Mount Kilimanjaro endemic; perhaps Dendrosenecio johnstonii s.l. is present, but you can't list both that, and those of its segregates actually present on the mountain. Lavateraguy (talk) 10:48, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dendrosenecios 

message: I've moved this from the article. (If you want to edit the article, fine, but to comment on it or discuss changes you'd like to see, you need to be on THIS page.)
* The Atlas Mountains in Morocco have also got Snow hence it is wrong to say that only the klimanjaro, Mt. Kenya and Mt. Ruwenzori which have got snow. (from 79.208.92.19)
Can anyone help or comment please? Thanks DisillusionedBitterAndKnackered (talk) 07:24, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I was gonna comment on that as well.  I guess technically the High Atlas are not permanently snowcapped as they can dry out during summer, but snow is still possible.... and I was under the impression that Mt. Kenya, e.g. was also not always snowcapped either.  I think it would be safest to say "sub-saharan africa" instead of "africa".Aapold (talk) 19:56, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I have changed it to "...in Equatorial Africa." The Moroccan High Atlas even have ski resorts, like Oukaïmeden and Mischliffen. So do mountain areas in South Africa and Lesotho. Snow is also possible in the Tell Atlas and Aurès mountains of Algeria. None of them has a permanent snow cap, but as Aapold pointed out, neither does Mount Kenya. --UrsoBR (talk) 02:09, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Snow 

message: Coverage of animal life is ludicrously inadequate. A single line after the unnecessarily elaborate description of flora? Primates, eh? Such as the Mountain Gorilla, for example? Chimps, too perhaps? Threats to wildlife, by which I mean carnivores, ungulates and other mammals, as well as birds reptiles, amphibians, and invertebrates? Must be something moving around out there besides elephants and "primates.". Know you love your vegetables, but this is ridiculous.68.178.50.46 (talk) 18:06, 27 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where's the Fauna? 

message: Substituted at 05:07, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comment

message: I notice there is still no citation to support the changed spelling from Ruwenzori to Rwenzori. One contributor has referred to the Ugandan Rwenzori national park, but as far as I can seem that is the only support offered. I would point out that in the Democratic Republic of Congo, they retain the Ruwenzori spelling, e.g. the Ruwenzori (commune). If this spelling change were universally accepted, some citation evidence would be appreciated. As it is, it appears to be Uganda-centric. Ptilinopus (talk) 11:43, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: This Google ngram suggests that "Ruwenzori" remains by far the most common spelling in English, by about a 3:1 ratio, and the only spelling found in publications before 1970.  The fact that there's been relatively little change since then suggests that which spelling you use depends on which side of the border you're on.  Since English speakers are far more likely to encounter the historic spelling, I suggest moving the article back to that, and explaining, as neutrally as possible in the lead, that in Ugandan orthography, the spelling is "Rwenzori".  The name isn't different; the pronunciation probably is just about the same.  So this isn't a matter of right or wrong, just the more common and historic spelling in English-language sources.  P Aculeius (talk) 03:58, 20 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spelling and citations 

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 
The result of the move request was: no consensus.  ErikHaugen (talk | contribs) 16:45, 24 July 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Rwenzori Mountains →  – per WP:COMMONNAME; see above discussion.  —  AjaxSmack  02:32, 2 July 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Simple Google searches aren't that useful, since they contain Wikipedia mirrors and sponsored content.  This Google Books ngram is more helpful, and shows that the two forms are about even in very recent publications—but Rwenzori doesn't appear in significant numbers until the late 1960's, and as recently as twenty years ago was only half as abundant in published English sources.  The vast majority of usage historically has been Ruwenzori—and even today that makes up about half of the references.  Rwenjura, mentioned in the lead of this article as a third form, wasn't found at all, and probably needs to be cited to a reliable source, footnoted, or removed.  P Aculeius (talk) 20:25, 2 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 2 July 2022 

message: I am not knowlegeable about geology but wondered about the type of uplift which created these mountains. Following links to non-orogenic led me to the term 'epeirogenic'. Was it epeirogenic uplift which created them? If so, would it be useful, in explaining what caused the uplift, to include the term 'epeirogenic', with a link to that page? Those not familiar with it could then follow directly to the page for that term. (which explains its distinction from 'orogenic'. (Is all uplift then, almost by definition, either epeirogenic or orogenic? But that is perhaps another question entirely.)
My proposal would be to amend the sentence "The mountains formed about three million years ago in the late Pliocene epoch and are the result of an uplifted block of crystalline rocks including gneiss, amphibolite, granite and quartzite."  to instead say " .... and are the result of a block of crystalline rocks uplifted orogenically, and include gneiss, amphibolite, granite and quartzite." (if it is indeed correct to say that.) Buyani Nyoni (talk) 10:23, 12 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Uplift