Talk:Mountain

Numerical accuracy

Where does the figure 8,849.868 m come from? It seems wildly/misleadingly over-precise.80.229.172.13 (talk) 12:56, 16 September 2014 (UTC)

It comes from a precise conversion from 29035 feet to metres - I've rounded it to the nearest metre. Mikenorton (talk) 15:01, 16 September 2014 (UTC)

Mt. Everest is 8848m above sea level see the Mt Everest page RickyM12 (talk) 08:48, 7 September 2017 (UTC)

Type of Mountain

Please consider adding Residual Mountain as a Type of Mountain. These are mountains that form when the outlying soft rock becomes eroded. Monarock or Inselberg may not be apropriate as Inselbergs tend to be small in size( i think)--Shadychiri (talk) 18:27, 7 November 2016 (UTC)

@Shadychiri: Do you have a reliable source that we could cite for that information? — Gorthian (talk) 21:02, 7 November 2016 (UTC)

I have began actively looking for materials that could support my view. I also feel that the use of the Term Erosion, may not be appropriate. Shadychiri (talk) 21:06, 7 November 2016 (UTC)

Error in Mount Scott reference

Mount Scott is actually 2464 feet, 751m. Not 251m. This conflicts with the point trying to be made because at 2464 it would meet the criteria for mountain by the definition they reference. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.61.28.2 (talk) 22:49, 18 June 2017 (UTC)

Climate section edits and suggested corrections

1) Climate on mountains become colder at high elevations... → Climate in mountains becomes colder at high elevations...

2) This is known as an adiabatic process, which has a characteristic pressure-temperature curve. As the pressure gets lower, the temperature decreases. → This is known as an adiabatic process, which has a characteristic pressure-temperature dependence: as the pressure gets lower, the temperature decreases.

Thank you!

 - Alex

Semi-protected edit request on 21 November 2017

Please edit the following: 1) Climate section: Change "Climate on mountains become colder at high elevations..." to "Climate in the mountains becomes colder at high elevations..."

2) Climate section: "This is known as an adiabatic process, which has a characteristic pressure-temperature curve" to "This is known as an adiabatic process, which has a characteristic pressure-temperature dependence"

Thank you! Oleksandr almaty (talk) 04:58, 21 November 2017 (UTC)

Done DRAGON BOOSTER ★ 05:46, 21 November 2017 (UTC)

Picture selection

Non-global picture statistics.

• Asia – 2 (13%)
• Africa – 1 (7%)
• North America – 5 (33%)
• South America – 1 (7%)
• Europe – 5 (33%)

Alps – 4 (27%)

• Europe + English language countries – 10 (67%)

Total 15

Certainly Europe, the Alps and North America are over-represented. Lappspira (talk) 09:50, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

-2 United States, -2 Europe, +Africa, +Mexico (note: part of North America), +Armenia. +Papua New Guinea —hike395 (talk) 14:53, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

Mount Ararat is in Turkey. On the picture it's said to be in Armenia. May someone correct this. It could be said Turkey,Armenian Highlands Mount Ararat. Akyasu (talk) 15:09, 10 June 2018 (UTC)

Changing variety of English?

Nyttend changed the spelling of "kilometer" and "center" to "kilometre" and "centre". To me, this seems to be changing the national variety of English in the article. According to MOS:RETAIN, we shouldn't change a stable choice of spelling, absent a compelling reason. "Kilometer" has been in this article since 2013, while "center" has been present since 2006. The subject of the article is worldwide, and so does not compel a particular variety of English. . I reverted Nyttend's edit. Am I missing something? —hike395 (talk) 19:05, 16 December 2018 (UTC)

(1) Spelling is only a part of it. We must maintain a particular variety of English, which as I said already, means that we have to give priority to feet and miles or priority to metres and kilometres. No country gives priority to meters and kilometers. (2) Where's the stable variety of English that you're talking about? Please glance at the last version before mine and run a search for metre and a search for meter: no variety of English has been established in this article. Nyttend (talk) 22:33, 16 December 2018 (UTC)

@Nyttend: I think you and I are interpreting the MOS differently. The way I read it is: first you determine which units are primary by WP:UNIT. Then, you determine how to spell those units according to MOS:UNITNAMES and MOS:ENGVAR (which is called out in MOS:UNITNAMES). There's nothing in WP:UNIT that tells us that the choice of unit should depend on the choice of English variant. So I think it's possible for an article to have metric units first, which are spelled in an American way (if American is selected by the rules in MOS:ENGVAR).

Now, you make a good point that, prior to your edit, there was no clear choice of English variant in this article, so cleaning it up would be good. MOS:RETAIN says to "use the variety found in the first post-stub revision that introduced an identifiable variety.".

Using WikiBlame, I found the following:

• "center" was first used here, October 7, 2006 (10,611 bytes)
• "centre" was first used here, August 28, 2003 (3,412 bytes)
• "meter" was first used here, January 15, 2007 (11,246 bytes)
• "metre" was first used here, July 17, 2005 (6,725 bytes)

ORES says that the article version that first used "centre" is rated start class. It looks like the August 28, 2003 version was written by Montrealais from Canada, therefore it looks like we'll use Canadian spelling (including centre, metre, kilometre). I'll mark the page with a template that places a hidden category.

Is this acceptable to you, Nyttend? —hike395 (talk) 02:19, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

That's workable. Nyttend (talk) 03:21, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

Mountains are cool — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.249.55.162 (talk) 17:18, 2 December 2019 (UTC)

Mountains are not hills. They have a peek while hills have tops — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.249.55.162 (talk) 17:21, 2 December 2019 (UTC)

Sacred mountains

Have assembled some info on the role of mountains in the religious and philosophical arena, there having been a dearth of such info in this article previously. Religious aspects have been a key part of the human experience of mountains for millennia and more could be written on the topic though perhaps most is best reserved for the linked main article. Similarly a section in this article on mountains in literature and the arts, with relevant links would enhance it too. thanks Geopersona (talk) 08:57, 4 January 2020 (UTC)

"Geographic accident" listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Geographic accident. Please participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. Steel1943 (talk) 21:30, 24 January 2020 (UTC)

"Dağ" listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Dağ. Please participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. Steel1943 (talk) 21:31, 24 January 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 9 March 2020

mountains are made to make you struggle to go up. they are way too hard to walk up and trust me dont do it :) 49.199.138.193 (talk) 10:11, 9 March 2020 (UTC)