Talk:Nathu La

message: What is the altitude of the pass? This article says (without source) 4310 meters, while :de:Nathu La and :zh:乃堆拉山口 both say 4545 meters. Is there really >100 meters uncertainty about the altitude? --Jmk (talk) 09:42, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Altitude, conflicting data 

message: They really should have named it after wool (Harris 2013, page 92). Or something else. Since the old silk route... so many new types of material are used for clothes, I don't think youngsters today would even know what silk is, let alone value it. With the kind of publicity the opening of the pass got in 2006, it was the perfect time to introduce something new. Then again, cliches work. When I first heard Nathu La was connected to the silk route, I was like oh, I know this (ever so wrong, I new the term as a cliche, as a slogan, but not what is actually was). There is hardly any (no) indication of silk on this route. Wool has come up in Chapman (1940), Shakya (2012) in which it is written how wool was bought up by the Chinese at really good rates from the Tibetans around 1950 and then shipped to China via Calcutta..... Just think about, Nathu La connected Tibet, Lhasa, Sikkim, Kalimpong, Darjeeling, Calcutta to China via sea! Ask a newbie to explain this and it will be a puzzle. DTM (talk) 14:15, 28 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Wool Route

message: The bracketed content in the intro is too large.
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DTM (talk) 03:19, 25 October 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: . Removed the indic script and migrated Zhongwen to infobox. -- Kautilya3 (talk) 09:42, 25 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bracketed content in the intro 

message: Copyvios/ close paraphrasing in the article taken from this reference:
Example 1:
*Article text: Nathu La has moderately shallow, excessively drained, coarse, and loamy soil on a steep slope (30–50%) with gravelly loamy surface, moderate erosion, and moderate stoniness.
*Reference text: Nathula has moderately shallow, somewhat excessively drained, coarse-loamy soils on steep slope (30-50%) with gravelly loamy surface; moderate erosion and moderate stoniness
Example 2:
*Article text: The region has a four-month growing season during which grasses, sedges, and medicinal herbs grow abundantly and support a host of insects, wild and domestic herbivores, larks, and finches. The nearby Kyongnosla Alpine Sanctuary has rare, endangered ground orchida and rhododendrons interspersed among tall junipers and silver firs. There are no permanent human settlements in the region, though it has a large number of defence personnel who man the borders on both sides. A small number of nomadic Tibetan graziers or Dokpas herd yak, sheep and pashmina-type goats in the region.
*Reference text:The region has a short four-month growing season during which grasses, sedges and medicinal herbs grow abundantly supporting a host of insect fauna as well as the wild and domestic herbivores, larks and finches. There are no permanent settlements. Human population consists of a small number of nomadic Tibetan graziers or ‘Dokpas’ (who herd yak, sheep and pasmina-type goats) and large number of...
DTM (talk) 12:59, 25 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyvios/ close paraphrasing 

message: This content was not referenced or inadequately referenced, shifting some here which sounds important:
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DTM (talk) 10:43, 27 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  References needed 

message: Have any Chinese authors written on Nathu La? Any books which contain even a worthy mention of the pass?
TrangaBellam, you had written above "Contemporary Qing chronicles provide interesting commentary on Nathu La". Are these by Chinese authors? DTM (talk) 14:58, 29 October 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I will add a line or two. TrangaBellam (talk) 12:59, 3 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chinese authors 

message: This is an amazing, unique and creative paper (relevant to Nathu La). They even made their wedding rings in the shape and profile of the India-China border!!
DTM (talk) 02:48, 3 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  An amazing, unique and creative paper