Talk:Yak

message: According to my dictionaries, the plural of yak is yaks, with yak as an acceptable alternative. We need to pick a plural for this article. If nobody jumps in with a compelling argument to the contrary, I'm going to make it "yaks." Gary D Robson 16:50, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Since nobody objected, the change has been made. Gary D Robson 22:00, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plural of Yak 

message: Is the domestic yak really only about 1m tall at the shoulders? Apart from the obvious implications for agricultural usefulness, the ones in the photos certainly look much larger. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 85.8.12.78 (talk) 13:29, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Size 

message: These do not appear to meet our external link guidelines. I have moved them here until a consensus shows that editors feel that they do meet guidelines. -- The Red Pen of Doom 21:27, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Valid [[WP:EL|external links]]? 

message: "male yaks stand about 2–2.2 meters tall at the shoulder, the females about one third of that size" - these are quite small females, aren't they? NVO (talk) 14:11, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, the sizes are all over the place.  The "one third" for the wild females is actually weight, not height.  I've corrected this, and given sources. The domestic height given of up to 1.8 m cannot be right.  Such an animal would weigh much more than the reffed 580 kg, so I've removed those figures.  Richard New Forest (talk) 16:15, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Please check the lead: sizes

message: A friend with some Tibetan experience suggested that the correct Wylie transliteration is "g.yag". I found some references for this:
*http://www.library.gov.bt/IT/wylie.html
*http://places.thlib.org/features#3432
*https://collab.itc.virginia.edu/access/wiki/site/c06fa8cf-c49c-4ebc-007f-482de5382105/tibetan%20historical%20dictionary%20editorial%20manual.html  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.231.49.179 (talk) 16:19, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Wylie transliteration

message: Another IP vandalist vandalized the page and deleted it. SHAME!!! Kingsocarso (talk) 04:03, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Yak stays an animal 

message: I think there needs to be two different articles for them. Merging wild and domestic Yak is madness. Just look at how the article starts: "...the Yak is "found" as far north as Mongolia and Russia (which one "is found" - the wild or the domestic)? As I understood, the wild Yak is quiet different in size and behaviour, much like the difference between an aurochs or gaur and a modern domesticated cow. So why the merger? It doesn't make any sense. If I do a search for wild cat I am also not being redirected to domestic cat. 78.94.33.52 (talk) 14:40, 19 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wild Yak vs Domestic Yak 

message: Anything to add about the wool of yak and the clothing made of yak wool or leather? 112.96.97.10 (talk) 06:26, 1 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Yak wool 

message: Yaks are usually referred to as "yaks". The word Yak usually refers to Bos grunniens, but the sentence in the header would be better off rewritten entirely. Which I might do. 172.5.154.148 (talk) 14:00, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  No, yaks are not "usually referred to as Bos grunniens." 

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thread_title:  [[:File:Bos grunniens at Letdar on Annapurna Circuit.jpg]] to appear as POTD 

message: Is yak meat eaten? If so, the the article should have a section on such use. Mjroots (talk) 21:26, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Yak meat

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thread_title:  [[:File:Bos grunniens at Yundrok Yumtso Lake.jpg]] to appear as POTD 

message: A subheading of a picture showing a yak notes that the area is the "Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture."  This is a name of a locality, but one that deliberatly contains political disinformation.
Given Wikipedia's policy of publishing the truth, rather than disseminating poltical lies and propaganda, I object to the subheading. The prefecture is not Tibetan, in that it is not ruled in any way by Tibetans, or even necessarily populated by Tibetans.  Rather, it is ruled by Chinese, who have invaded and occupied Tibet against the manifest will of the indigenous population and then have so swamped the country by Chinese immigration that the Tibetans are now a minority in their own country.
The same argument holds against the "Autonomous" part of the name.  In very few ways are even Han Chinese prefectures in China 'autonomous,' and certainly not those of ethnicities other than the Han and never any other than in China proper.  As are most peoples around the globe, the Chinese are racists, but unlike other peoples, they have the military power to inflict their wishes on their neigbors.
But the location is still in historic Tibet.  Perhaps a different name would be called for.  I suggest "Ganzi Provence of Chinese-Occupied Tibet."
64.134.158.137 (talk) 16:47, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: The name used should match that at the article on the region. That is, at present, Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, so that's the one we should use here. If you want it changed, you'll have to discuss re-naming that page at WP:RQM rather than here. We can always adjust this page after consensus is reached at the primary page, if necessary. Anaxial (talk) 17:04, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture -- neither "autonomous" nor "Tibetan" 

message: Wild yak was created yesterday (by ) as a stub. I'm not sure if the editor intended to further develop that article, but I am quite in agreement with a split of yak into separate articles for the domesticated and the wild variant, since these are currently treated as separate species. This had been proposed earlier (see above) but seems to have gone nowhere. In this case, I have been bold and performed a split according to my best ability. I have done the entire thing in a single movement so that it can easily be undone if desired. 
I have moved all material pertaining only to wild yaks to the new article; added short summaries together with a 'Main article' link for two sections ("Taxonomy" and "Reproduction"); and added a "Conservation" section. There is substantial overlap between the "Physical characteristics" (yak) and "Description" (wild yak), but I think that might be acceptable. I have also changed the redirect domestic yak to point to yak, for the time being (it used to point to the "Domesticated yak" section in that article).
If the split is retained, I would suggest moving yak to Domestic yak, and linking both articles in Yak (disambiguation).
Comments welcome! --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 10:58, 3 December 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: The article has been moved to domestic yak, to which yak now redirects.--Elmidae (talk · contribs) 07:45, 9 December 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: But the Wikidata link still points to Bos mutus, either the whole species in biological taxonomy, or the wild form in yours. --Stupid girl (talk) 16:58, 17 December 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: You wanna fix it? I don't know my way around Wikidata.--Elmidae (talk · contribs) 17:37, 17 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Split material to [[wild yak]] 

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: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) ~ Aseleste (t, e | c, l) 14:52, 1 June 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Domestic yak →  – I think Domestic yak should be moved to Yak because it already redirects here. Christiancardenas732 (talk) 19:41, 24 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 24 May 2021