Talk:Malana

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Can someone explain to me why 900 Google hits for a village with these characteristics is on the low side? Half the village stubs for rural Wiltshire that I spend the occasional hour or so expanding are for villages with considerably fewer hits, and also less notability. I submit that a village on a major trekking route, with a valley named after it, and with its own language and thus a subject of scholarly work published in English and available at, for example, amazon, is notable. Removing prod.Hornplease 04:41, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

66.192.63.5 17:42, 17 July 2006 (UTC) This article needs to be rewritten from a neutral point of view. In it's current form, it sounds like a sales ad.

I actually trekked up to Malana last year (July 2006). The town is almost exactly as the article described in terms of language, traditional customs, "fines", the damn project, Nepalis, etc.. The children there are fair skinned with reddish streaked hair (which could be the result of malnutrition, but I didn't speak the language, so I'm not sure). And, I don't think it's a sales ad to call the peaks there "majestic." That valley has some of the best trekking because of its natural beauty. Would you also argue that a description of the "beautiful Macchu Picchu" is also editorial & requires rewriting?

I would also like to add that there is no valley named after Malana. It is the Kullu-Manali valley, named after Manali, an entirely different place. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Barathvk (talk • contribs) 21:01, 27 September 2007 (UTC)