Talk:Ural Mountains

message: The words concluding this article seem suspiscious to me--there really is a section of the Urals called the Crappy urals? Is this a linguistic thing that is really name like that or did somebody just decide to come along and add that inconspicuously as a joke? Can someone verify this?
:Turns out it was a bit of vandalism that managed to slip under the radar. Someone replaced "Subarctic" with "Crappy" on the 20th. I've reverted the change; you can see both edits under this article's page history. To learn how to revert vandalism yourself, see Wikipedia:How to revert a page to an earlier version. Cheers,Hadal 03:05, 29 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Others

message: "the Riphean Mountains in Greco-Roman antiquity" I tried to find this in Spanish... After all, "Riphean" is just a transliteration into the English alphabet of the Greek way to name them and "mountains" a translation... The same shall exist for Spanish... But I found no single answer to this intrigue... Said that, there are few pages in English that second this... Most are wikipedia's mirrors... So... Is there any reliable proof to this?Undead Herle King (talk) 15:13, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: There aint verifiliability

message: Article would benefit from a map. 
-- 189.60.73.240 (talk) 03:29, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Map, please 

message: The pics were taken very far from the Urals, in some cases in Canada, therefore I doubt that it is encyclopedic to keep them in this article without further comments, they don't show us the Urals after all, and may well depict uncharacteristic surrounding vegetation, rocks, soil, or wrong subspecies of the plants and animals. Now, most importantly, Spermophilus citellus, for instance, doesn't occur anywhere near the Urals at all. Spermophilus major does, but even it occurs in the most periperal parts of the range. Please be more careful with such matters. Colchicum (talk) 09:29, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Valid point, which I'll try to fix (we don't have many fauna pictures from that area). There is no Spermophilus major in the article, you probably mean "gopher" and/or "suslik". They are indeed common only to the southern steppes, but the gallery doesn't say "most representative species". Materialscientist (talk) 09:45, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, I mean the picture of the souslik that is used here is that of S. citellus, which is wrong. It should be another souslik. Colchicum (talk) 09:49, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fauna and flora pictures 

message: As has been mentioned above, this needs a map or a proper illustration. The lead image is wholly unsuitable... --78.101.62.79 (talk) 09:19, 28 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image and/or map 

message: (i) Per WP:RETAIN, I believe the article should be kept in US spelling, which was here and kept after a major expansion here. Please discuss this issue before reverting - an argument "this is European topic" is irrelevant - the topic is of global importance. (ii) I believe both ".. mountains are a range" and ".. mountains is a range" are correct. Encyclopedia Britannica uses plural for a similar case - the Altai Mountains. Materialscientist (talk) 01:06, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Semiprotected for 2 weeks - hopefully the anon will discuss. Vsmith (talk) 13:34, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Edit warring on spelling

message: So many other WP articles cite the Ural Mountains as being the Eastern border of Europe but I can't find any history of this point of view, whether it is older (pre-19th century) viewpoint or reflects a recent understanding of the continental boundaries. It would be very useful if some mention was made of the importance of the Ural Mountains in dividing the East from the West, particularly when this opinion arose. Liz Read! Talk! 17:40, 21 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Geographic significance 

message: Substituted at 09:42, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comment

message: The article for ANY article on a mountain range (thousands of miles long) ought to include at least a short list (maybe five) of its highest peaks. One peak is absolutely not enough.47.215.180.7 (talk) 18:12, 23 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of peaks.... 

message: How come there's no information on tourism? Being the only mountain range in an extremely vast area, the Ural Mountains are for sure popular with tourists of all sorts! Someone please add information about major tourism centers and popular activities (hiking? climbing? skiing? river rafting?). Thanks Johnnyjanko (talk) 09:01, 27 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tourism??? 

message: We have a red link Trans-Ural region (Trans-Ural Region). Is it a definable concept? If not, then the redirect should be done or red links to be unlinked Estopedist1 (talk) 08:27, 8 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trans-Ural region? 

message: How on earth is this article missing a general Eurasian map showing where on the planet this is in relation to major land areas?  Even the "Britannica Kids" website gets that right. :-)  2001:5A8:4260:3100:30CA:BBBF:F541:1A76 (talk) 13:18, 12 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  General map needed 

message: Could we please have a section that addresses locals' claims of extreme age of Mount Karandash (aka Pencil Mountain) in the Urals? Some are now claiming 4.2 million years, which would make it the oldest in the world. Greg Lovern (talk) 09:04, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Claims of extreme age for Mount Karandash