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Yangtze drainage map

River course shown upriver from Wuhan is a total fantasy. Yangtze River does not flow north to join Han River and continue East to Wuhan. Han And Yangtze rivers join in Wuhan. 2-300 miles of true Yangtze course upriver from Wuhan are not indicated. Unfortunately many sites have adopted and use this incorrect map and credit Wikipedia for it. 66.91.196.246 (talk) 08:33, 24 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Certainly the map is seriously flawed and urgently needs to be amended or deleted.

The "Map of the Yangtze River drainage basin", which is the second map (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Yangtze_River_drainage_basin_map.svg) in the article contains at least one HUGE error. The Han river, which in truth is the biggest tributary of the Yangtze river and joins the Yangtze at Wuhan, is shown wrongly joining the Yangtze at another place over a hundred kilometers to the west.

The article on the Han river, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_River_(Hubei_and_Shaanxi), has a map that shows this correctly, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hanshuirivermap.png and the article about Wuhan, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuhan, says, "Wuhan lies in the eastern Jianghan Plain, at the confluence of the Yangtze river and its largest tributary, the Han River, and is known as "Nine Provinces' Thoroughfare" (九省通衢)." and "The "Golden Waterway" of the Yangtze River and the Han River traverse the urban area and divide Wuhan into the three districts of Wuchang, Hankou, and Hanyang."

By the way, it seems that the "han" in "Wuhan" comes from the "Han" river via "Hankou" city. Polar Apposite (talk) 05:20, 22 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I have a partially completed map I could get around to finishing and uploading. Shannon [ Talk ] 16:20, 22 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

a stupid question

I wondered if in

"Ianſu" and "Ianſuchian."

the initial letter was a lowercase l or an uppercase I. My eyes are poor and I was long unable to realize that the fourth letter is not an f, so my attempts to check using a search for Ianf and lanf with ^F failed. Finally I edited the text and extracted the above words. It is possible to check that this f-like letter is really different from f? Well, a good-eyed reader realizes soon that Il is upper-i/lower-l, but ... it is possible to signal to a software-manager that many readers have poot eyes? Thanks for the consideration of these problems. 151.29.133.9 (talk) 23:54, 30 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Inclusion of "Changjiang" as an English name

This seems plausible to me, new Standard Chinese renditions for extant vocabulary continue to enter English from time to time, but according to Ngrams the difference is roughly a whole order of magnitude, and I wonder how many false positives the latter has. At any rate, as you can see from my extra look, "Yangzi" is actually considerably more popular in English, maybe we should swap Changjiang out for it in the lead sentence. Remsense诉 23:33, 5 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. That's the way the opening sentence was until recently – I've put it back. However, I'm not sure that "Yangzi" is common enough to put there. Also, does anyone say /ˈjɑːŋtsi/? It's only partway to approximating the Chinese pronunciation of a name that isn't used in Chinese. Kanguole 08:35, 6 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It does seem like if people do say it, it's people fully born and inoculated post–ISO 7098:1982, which is fun. Remsense诉 09:49, 6 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]