Talk:Dukha

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I found this after reading a New York Times article, but this seems slightly biased. Any experts out there? 68.48.166.146 11:30, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Incidentically, my gf has spoken with some neighbours of the family mentioned, and they (the neighbours) complained all the time that the reindeers belong to Tsagaannuur and not to Khövsgöl nuur, that this family makes too much money, that they are uncooperative etc etc. We also had had some milk tea with that Tsaatan family (w/o pay). I'm not an expert on the matter, but I know that envy is a prominent part of Mongolian culture, so I wouldn't take every single complaint too seriously. Another question is whether neighbourhood quarrels on the western shore of Lake Khövsgöl deserve to be mentioned in an encyclopedic article at all.Yaan 13:26, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Pretty much all of this article is highly opinionated Original Research and must be removed. As far as I can tell, only the first two paragraphs with the basic facts have any chance of getting confirmed by reliable sources.

This article should be about an ethnic group, and not about the personal quabbles of a few individuals. --Latebird 18:36, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Most likely it was copied from some website. --Stacey Doljack Borsody 18:53, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

If so, then it wasn't a literal copy (nothing found ing Google) or the original isn't online anymore. In either case, this is not the type of information typically found on what WP considers a reliable source. Thinking about it, yaan is correct: "some neighbour said" type stories don't belong in an enyclopedia. I'm going to remove that stuff. --Latebird 19:32, 30 March 2007 (UTC)