Talk:Lake Tsomgo

A fact from Lake Tsomgo appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 11 July 2015 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Buddhist monks are said to have forecast the future by studying the changing colours of Lake Tsomgo (pictured)?

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Judge importance to be low, confirm stubbiness.--Rayshade (talk) 01:52, 29 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright violation[edit]

Nearly the whole page is a direct copy from Encyclopaedia of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh By Om Gupta, pp. 2492-2493. Original text is here:

Tsongmo Lake (also called Changu Lake or Tsomgo Lake) is a large lake in the East Sikkim district of the Indian state of Sikkim. Etymologically "Tso" means lake and "Mgo" means head, thus literally meaning "source of the lake" in the Bhutia language. The cerulean lake is about forty kilometres away from the capital Gangtok at an altitude of 3,780 m (12,400 feet). It is oval-shaped, with a length of about one kilometre and has an average depth of fifteen metres. The tarn with its refulgent waters is situated on the Gangtok-Nathula route.

Tsongmo lake is declared a sacred lake by the local Buddhist and Hindu population. During the winter months, the lake freezes over. It is fed by the melting snow during the summer months from May to August. Flora around the lake include the rhododendron, the state tree, primulas, iris and poppies. The Brahminy ducks, red panda and migratory birds frequent the lake. Due to the heavy promotion of tourism in the state, many locals have set up shop here offering yak rides, yak cheese, trinkets, and local curios.

Cheers, --Rayshade (talk) 01:52, 29 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Encyclopaedia of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh[edit]

It has been discovered that this book:

Gupta, Om. Encyclopaedia of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Gyan Publishing House, 2006. ISBN 8182053897, 9788182053892.

Contains significant amounts of material plagiarized from Wikipedia articles. (Some other books from the same publisher also have this problem). There is no practical way of determining which material came from Wikipedia, and which came from other sources. Further, widespread plagiarism is an indication of poor scholarship. For those reasons, and according to Wikipedia policy, WP:CIRCULAR, I will deleting all citations to the book. However I will not delete the material that cites it, as there's no indication that the material is inaccurate. For more background, see WP:RSN#Circular references: Gyan Publishing and ISHA Books, or the archive after it goes there. Will Beback talk 22:35, 18 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]