File talk:China linguistic map.jpg

Not a good map

@Бмхүн, Speravir, Aerbaniya, Roy17, Arabloois, Bidgee, A ba gazc, Danielinblue, and Szqecs: Hello all. Outside of the oases and certain rivers and bases, the Taklamakan Desert is uninhabited. To color it as if it's a Mandarin speaking area is deceptive- it ought to be grey like northern Tibet. If there are no objections, I am forced to conclude that removing this map from Wikipedia mainspace immediately is the only valid option- we just don't have a good version of this map on Wikipedia yet. --Geographyinitiative (talk) 08:18, 26 April 2020 (UTC)

I went ahead and hid this map from the China page on English Wikipedia: [1]. If I'm right and the desert is actually uninhabited, then this map gives a false impression that the geographical regions where there are a majority of Mandarin speakers in Xinjiang are much, much larger in scope than they actually are. --Geographyinitiative (talk) 08:40, 26 April 2020 (UTC)

Reverts

What is the point of reverting it to a horribly blurry and barely legible version from 2011? --Glennznl (talk) 15:57, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

@RZuo: So Aksai Chin being shown as China is more important than people being able to read the map? This map is used on dozens of Wiki's while in it's current state looks like blurry garbage. --Glennznl (talk) 08:59, 4 September 2020 (UTC)

@Geographyinitiative: The map you refered to is even more problematic than this one: Tai and Miao-Yao languages are shown as Sino-Tibetan (a view supported mostly by Chinese scholars), Altaic is completely debunked and seen as pseudo-science nowadays, the Formosan lannguages are labeled as "Indonesian". --Glennznl (talk) 09:32, 26 October 2020 (UTC)