Talk:Yanar Dagh

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Did you know... that Yanar Dag (pictured) is a natural fire that burns "eternally" on a hillside on the Absheron Peninsula in Azerbaijan?

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Smell of gas?

Natural gas is odorless. The familiar smell comes from mercaptans that are added during processing so that it can be detected. It's unlikely that this is the case at Yanar Dag. Can someone confirm what, if any, smell is present? Worldwalker (talk) 16:53, 30 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Zoroastrians

Just felt so responsible to mention that Zoroastrians are not Fire Worshippers, they worship the GOD in the presence of fire flames, that's all, it doesnt make us fire worshippers at all. thank you

Change to "Start"

I changed this to a "start" level article, as it contains more information than found in a stub. --Friejose (talk) 23:11, 18 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Translation

I am not an Azeri or Turk, but I have some knowledge of the language. Yanar is a present participle of to burn (based off the Aorist tense "genish zaman"). I would think it translates as "Burning Mountain". Does anyone agree?

Additionally, While in a google search I see plenty of "Fire Mountain" you can also find "Burning Mountain", "Flaming Mountain", "Firing Mountain" and "Blazing Mountain". The point is that all other English translations are in gerundial form. I suggest writing "Translates as Burning Mountain" called "Fire Mountain" in English.

Ygraber (talk) 14:52, 17 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ancient?

Mark Elliott in his authoritative guide on Azerbaijan claims that the hillside was ignited accidentally in 1958. That would make it a recent phenomenon, not "ancient". Just as an additional point, these methane pockets do ultimately run out. Nearby Ateshgah has its gas pumped in. Thoughts? Ygraber (talk) 14:57, 17 August 2008 (UTC) I agree. This text is incorrect in a number of areas. Yanar Dag is not a Mud Volcano, but a natural seep through porous formations. — Preceding unsigned comment added by BakuMatt (talk • contribs) 11:19, 30 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Need to remove the Mud Volcano references

Yanar Dag is not a mud volcano, hence all the mud volcano references and related text are geologically incorrect. Yanar Dag, unlike Gobustan, is a natural seep through porous layers unrelated to mud volcanism.

What evidence does Salamurai need to stop reversing the removal of the incorrect Mud Volcana references ?

metrics and miles

Why are we still using old imperial system and not only metric? As far I know it is used only by Burma and another state. Time to move wiki to 21 century. 50.9.97.53 (talk) 17:35, 28 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

As primitive and stone-aged you feel (and arguably may be) the system is, it is still used every day by over 300 million English speaking people in the "another state". --RacerX¹¹ Talk to me^{Stalk me} 21:26, 28 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Not every citizen is using Internet or wiki. But, more importantly, keep in mind, that wikipedia should be written from worldwide view. Time to move from stone age. No reason to appease Burma Etc. 50.9.97.53 (talk) 05:18, 31 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Little statistic: 245,203,319 users of Internet (not all use Wiki) vs 2,405,518,376 (World total, also not everyone is using Wiki as well) that will give us approximatelly 9.8 % in stone age, using archaic measurements. Is it really needles to keep WHOLE Wikipedia full of archaic measurements for cca 10% of estimated users?

50.9.97.53 (talk) 05:39, 31 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry. I have deleted my recent posts. I was tired and silly when I wrote. This is not the proper forum to discuss this issue. RacerX¹¹ Talk to me^{Stalk me} 11:04, 31 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I understand.let's take it where it belongs. and that would be? 50.9.97.53 (talk) 02:31, 1 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers would be a place to start. That's the talk page for the style guidelines WP:UNITS and MOS:CONVERSIONS, among other things. If there is a better place to discuss, they might tell you there, but in the archives it looks like similar topics have been raised there in the past. --RacerX¹¹ Talk to me^{Stalk me} 03:11, 1 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you kindly! 50.9.97.53 (talk) 21:10, 3 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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