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Benjamin F. Dorfman Article edit
One of the key citations for the claims about Lake Zaysan is an article from a "Benjamin F. Dorfman." The link to the scientific article in question does not present any qualifications or institutional background for this character, and a google search of the name brings up nothing but the article, "Zaysan—the Only Surviving Cretaceous Lake—May be Lost," published in a now defunct journal that seems to have been run out of a Chinese research society that I can't find connected to any real geological and geographic research institutes or universities. What's more, the citation itself, the "paper" is bizarre, truly bizarre. I have worked a lot of with academic research written by someone in a second language, and the paper's problems don't appear to be because of linguistic barriers, rather it seems like the cheap, older English translation software common in China was used to translate a Chinese report into English, making the Benjamin F. Dorfman, San Francisco, citation, rather sketchy. There are a ton of linguistic, semantic, and bizarre formating errors to the article, and I recommend it and all claims based on it, simply be removed from the article, which needs a considerable overhaul from the WikiGeography group. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.84.72.212 (talk) 00:18, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
Lake Jamisch edit
- ... un Lac, appellé Jamisch, ...
is how the lake for the usual residence of Galdan, khung tayiji of the Dzungars, appears in the contemporary account of a Swede kept as a Dzungar slave appended to the 1737 Nouvel Atlas de la Chine. Anyone know the language, the original name in it, and proper contemporary orthography? — LlywelynII 01:14, 25 April 2023 (UTC)