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Category:Highlands

The cat is defined as a cat for "elevated plateaus" and it has two subcats such as Category:Highlands in Japan and Category:Highland of Iceland. Interestingly there are several "highland" subcats in the Iceland chapter. Therefore why is it called "Highland of Iceland" and not "Highlands in ..." as in the cat of Japan? OTOH, the highest peak of Mount Fujiyama, Japan's highest point, is 3776 m above sea level. Therefore there are -or should be- many "plateaus" that deserve the English translation "highlands" than in the cases of Japan and Iceland. (Certainly we have many pictures of those others also.) We should review this categorization (Plateaus-Highlands) and also the singular/plural, "in-of" things. Cordially. E4024 (talk) 07:25, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

• I noticed these details just after moving Category:Batabat yaylası -although very probably wrongly- to Category:Batabat Valley. Maybe within this discussion we can also find a better name for that cat. (BTW I added a cat to Category:Ayder. Ayder is probably the most beautiful "yayla" in Turkey.) --E4024 (talk) 07:38, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

 Comment "Highlands" is a proper noun in English, identifying the Scottish Highlands. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary definition of "Highlands" is "the chiefly mountainous northern part of Scotland north of a line connecting the Firth of Clyde and the Firth of Tay".[1]

According to Wikipedia's article Scottish Highlands: "The Highlands ... "are a historic region of Scotland." For anyone using a Bing map for location, "Highlands" is given as a location in Scotland. e.g. for File:Bone Caves - panoramio.jpg with the given location of

Camera location	58° 06′ 32.34″ N, 4° 56′ 21.88″ W	View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap

the Bing location is United Kingdom - Scotland - Highlands. Same for File:Big Top - panoramio.jpg and all others in the category we are discussing currently.

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary definition of plateau is very different from highlands.[2]

1. a usually extensive land area having a relatively level surface raised sharply above adjacent land on at least one side :tableland
2. a region of little or no change in a graphic representation; a relatively stable level, period, or condition
3. a level of attainment or achievement e.g. the 500-point plateau

Kalbbes (talk) 19:08, 22 October 2017 (UTC)

Stale discussion. @E4024 and Kalbbes: I guess we have two options:

1. reserving to the geographical concept (= en:highland and en:Category:Highlands)
2. transforming into the disambiguation page (= en:highlands)

--Estopedist1 (talk) 09:13, 28 November 2021 (UTC)

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No consensus on what to do with the category, default to keep as it is. However, after looking into the Wikipedia category and because of the fact that highlands are landforms, I'm renaming "highlands in" to "highlands of". --Sbb1413 (he) (talk • contribs) 17:44, 21 June 2024 (UTC)