Talk:Geography of Ethiopia
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[edit] Content from 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
Quite a bit of this information really is out-of-date. Some of the geographical references now pertain to Eritrea. At least one of the terms used is now derogatory. I don't imagine anyone could address all of it in one sitting, but I'll work on it a little bit, for now. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 18:43, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- There's quite alot sitting on the plate with this article, Gyrofrog. My intent with my series of edits was to get the material here in some kind of shape before splitting it off into the relevant articles. Hopefully, with your background you can help guide the rest of us from the worst kinds of mistakes. -- llywrch 22:13, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)
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- Oh, I agree, better to have the information here now where people can find it. I wouldn't want anyone to come along and think that someone was still using some of those terms, though hopefully it's clear enough from the "1911" tag. You mention "my background" and make me sound so scholarly! ;-) I wish... Just someone interested enough to contribute some editing. When I finished the lakes anr rivers (for which I hope "Hydrology" was a good label) I then realized that the rest of the article was still 1911-ish. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 23:48, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Atbarah & Tekezé Rivers
See Talk:Tekezé River regarding Atabarah, Tekezé, and Setit. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 20:10, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Climate
I noticed this sentence in the "Climate" section:
- In the more southern districts of Gojam and Wallega heavy rains continue till the middle of September, and occasionally October is a wet month.
Present-day Gojjam and Welega are really more western or central, not southern. Looking at this 1990 map, Gojjam and Welega referred to much bigger areas than they do today. (I'm not sure how the political boundaries on this map would compare to the ones available to the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica editors.) I wonder if this might be more properly reworded as "In Benishangul-Gumaz and western Oromia . . ." -- Gyrofrog (talk) 15:05, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Sobat River
The Britannica source mentions that the Sobat River is in the south. Thus far I've been unable to find the Sobat on a map. Perhaps it is known by some other name nowadays. Anyone have more info? -- Gyrofrog (talk) 03:18, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)
