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On 17 April 2021, it was proposed that this article be moved from Semien Mountains to Simien Mountains. The result of the discussion was moved.

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5000 m2 => should this be 5000 Km2 perhaps? Thio59 (talk) 20:22, 10 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

no it is m2 196.189.241.141 (talk) 17:52, 6 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Article title: proposed move to usual English language name

See Category_talk:Semien_Mountains#Contested deletion. We currently have Semien Mountains categorised in Category:Simien Mountains (a recently created category). If someone wants to propose a move to Simien Mountains, please do so. Otherwise, let's categorise this article and related articles in Category:Semien Mountains and be consistent.--Mhockey (talk) 22:05, 16 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Simien fox or Simien jackal^[1]

in the Simien Mountains of Ethiopia

If you examine most of the citations in this article you will see that most of the English language ones use Simien rather than Semien for these mountains.

Semien really only comes about since it is the more usual transliteration from local languages such as Amharic.

I would have moved the article myself a long time ago but I don't have the necessary privileges. BushelCandle (talk) 01:06, 17 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Conciatore, Jacqueline (18 January 2019). "Saving the critically endangered Ethiopian wolf from extinction". AWF. African Wildlife Foundation. Retrieved 17 April 2021. Among the key species we focus on is one of the world's rarest canids, the Ethiopian wolf. Also known as the Simien fox or Simien jackal, this highland wolf numbers no more than 440, and perhaps as few as 360, making it Africa's most endangered carnivore. Although scientists debate which canids are wolf species versus subspecies, the traditional view is that there are three wolf species in the world — the Ethiopian, red, and grey wolf. The Ethiopian wolf is the only wolf species native to Africa and is found in only seven Ethiopian mountain ranges, with the largest populations in the Bale Mountains and the second largest in the Simien Mountains.

Requested move 17 April 2021

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. (closed by non-admin page mover) ~ Aseleste (t, e | c, l) 15:23, 24 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Semien Mountains → Simien Mountains – Because Simien (spelt with an "i") is the name in English (as opposed to the spelling transliterated from the Amharic script) as in Simien Mountains National Park BushelCandle (talk) 08:27, 17 April 2021 (UTC)[reply

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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.

[1] Conciatore, Jacqueline (18 January 2019). "Saving the critically endangered Ethiopian wolf from extinction". AWF. African Wildlife Foundation. Retrieved 17 April 2021. Among the key species we focus on is one of the world's rarest canids, the Ethiopian wolf. Also known as the Simien fox or Simien jackal, this highland wolf numbers no more than 440, and perhaps as few as 360, making it Africa's most endangered carnivore. Although scientists debate which canids are wolf species versus subspecies, the traditional view is that there are three wolf species in the world — the Ethiopian, red, and grey wolf. The Ethiopian wolf is the only wolf species native to Africa and is found in only seven Ethiopian mountain ranges, with the largest populations in the Bale Mountains and the second largest in the Simien Mountains.

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