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Various problems with the current version

In its current version, the article has several issues:

Location: "lying approximately 300 kilometer north-west of Lhasa in central Tibet"

Maybe this sentence is confusing with the Tanggula mountains located about 400km N of Lhasa.

The western part of Nyenchen Tanglha (the part near Namtso) is only about 100km NW of Lhasa, while the largest part of Nyenchen Tanglha is actually located to the E-NE of Lhasa. As the range is in total about 750km long, the reference to 300km from Lhasa is a bit incongruous. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pseudois (talk • contribs) 16:53, 12 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Title

The title has been moved from "Nyenchen Tanglha" to "Nyainqêntanglha". While "Nyainqêntanglha" is the official spelling in China, this spelling especially using the "^" on the "e", is rarely used in English publications outside China. Books and article in print media dealing in depth with the Nyenchen Tanglha range most frequently use the spelling "Nyenchen Tanglha" (more rarely "Nyenchen Thangla" or Nyenchen Tangla" with our without spacing between the two words).

The Alpine Journal is using the spelling "Nyenchen Tanglha", as well as most authors writing in this journal (see here and here. Other authoritative Tibet authors (not mountaineering related) such as Victor Chan and Gyurme Dorje do also use the spelling "Nyenchen Tanglha".

In agreement with Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(Tibetan)#General_guideline (Use the conventional spelling most familiar to English-language readers), I propose to move back the title to the most familiar spelling for English language readers.

"The mountain range has more than thirty peaks over 6,000 metres high"

This unreferenced claim of 30 peaks above 6,000m does not mention what is the criteria for "mountain" (e.g. a prominence cut-off), but it also contradicts the estimation of over 240 6000ers given by the Tamotsu Nakamura (see German WP article for the reference to Nakamura's book)

Water divide

Nyenchen Tanglha mountains does not only separate the Yarlung Tsangpo watershed from the "endorheic basins of north-eastern Tibet" as currently mentioned. The statement is correct for the north-western Tibet, while in the north-east the Nyenchen Tanglha range marks the water devided between Yarlung Tsangpo and Nak Chu (Salween) watershed.

Emphasise on Namtso

There is currently a lot of info on Namtso, which is only partly relevant to the article. Some is even wrong (e.g. "highest saline lake in the world". All this information should be removed.

I'll try to be bold and make some necessary edits.--Pseudois (talk) 16:43, 12 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Edits made, references still to be added. --Pseudois (talk) 19:08, 12 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Wylie

Either this Wylie translit is wrong or the one at Tanggula Mountains is. If you're conversant in Tibetan and can check and correct whichever one is wrong, kindly do. — $Llywelyn II$ 10:38, 15 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]