Talk:Gotjawal

A fact from Gotjawal appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 7 June 2009 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Gotjawal Forest, a naturally formed forest on Jeju Island in South Korea, consists of a rocky area of aa lava?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2009/June.

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Page is misleading, will rewrite

"Gotjawal" is a generic Jeju language term for dense forest, similar to "the bush" in Australian lingo for "the wild". It's not one specific forest; pretty much every large forest on the island is called a gotjawal. Here's a map of four major gotjawal regions, some of which are subdivided into named gotjawal [1].

To back me up, the kowiki equiv article has this scope (generic term for forests on Jeju), so does the Encyclopedia of Korean Culture, so does the Encyclopedia of Korean Local Culture.

The page should be rescoped to match this. It also has a bunch of grammar issues that have persisted for over 10 years. I'm going to be mostly rewriting this article. 211.43.120.242 (talk) 12:11, 11 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 11 July 2024

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Moved (non-admin closure) MetropolitanIC (💬|📝) 04:30, 18 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Gotjawal Forest → Gotjawal – See above talk post. "Gotjawal Forest" suggests that there's a single forest with this title on the island. This is not true; there are a number of gotjawal forests that each have their own names. I just rewrote the entire article to make clear that this is a generic term encompassing multiple forests, and not a title for a single forest. 211.43.120.242 (talk) 13:32, 11 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support per nom. -- Necrothesp (talk) 12:52, 16 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.