Talk:Ordos Desert

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This article dates back to 1911, and I think some of the geographical names have changed. I tried to find this desert in the Chinese Wikipedia, but there is no article on it. There is an article zh:庫布其沙漠, which describes a desert in the northern Ordos region, and in this article is a red link to zh:鄂爾多斯高原, which would translate to Ordos Plateau. Actually, the German version of this article is at de:Ordos-Plateau (not: Wüste = desert). It could be we have to move this article to Ordos Plateau and create a different article on the desert. But what would the name of the desert be? 庫布其沙漠 = Kubuqi desert? But then, geographical names of the region have a mongolian root, which is transcribed to Chinese, so kubuqi ist wrong.

I am not an expert on Chinese geography so maybe somebody can check this? -- Mkill 23:20, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

According to my copy of Goode's World Atlas, it's labelled as "Ordos Desert" in English. Since this is the English wikipedia, the common name in English is what determines the name of the article, though the difference with other languages is interesting. siafu 04:48, 15 December 2005 (UTC)