Talk:List of deserts

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Spain[edit]

I though there was a desert in Spain, after all thats where they filmed the spaghetti westerns?

Probably in the Tabernas Desert. emijrp (talk) 20:50, 7 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Medano del Coro Desert Deletion[edit]

I deleted the Medano del Coro Desert form the list of deserts for various reasons. First and foremost is the fact that I could find no suitable links that even mentioned "medano del coro" as a desert. Even a google searcg for the "Medano del Coro" "desert" and the "Medano del Coro Desert" gives no matches at all, even when "de" is substituted for "del." I might have let it stay, but given that EVERY OTHER desert listed has both an article and quite a few official results on Google, I felt I should delete it. The second reason I deleted it was that South America has notoriously odd desert boundaries and info pertaining to where deserts begin and end and whether is a desert at all are almost impossible to come by. If, by all means, you find links or resources to the desert in question and/or another name for it (an official as opposed to a local, less-known name), then come to the discussion page and let us know and you can put the link in again. However, please don't repost the desert without at least addressing my concerns here, or for the quality of the article as a whole, I will be compelled to delete it again. Thanks. The great kawa 21:40, 18 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Insufficient Context Template Removal[edit]

I am removing the Insufficient Context template as I don't see how it is remotely possible to not know what this article contains. It is a list of deserts, what more context is required? A small intro has already been added. The great kawa 03:51, 20 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Links to Redirects[edit]

A lot of the Wikilinks on this page point to redirect pages. I will fix them as time permits. – ukexpat (talk) 15:36, 1 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deserts in the Mediterranean islands[edit]

There are two so-called deserts (one in Corsica and one in Sardinia) that may be added to the list: Agriates Desert and Piscinas Desert. I don't know if they match the criteria for being called real deserts, though.--Carnby (talk) 13:19, 8 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Piscinas is a sandy beach with dunes, with mild temperature (under 20°C and gets 600 mm of rain per year). It's not a desert, climate and geoformation is not compatible with a desert — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.12.210.204 (talk) 17:34, 29 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Antarctica[edit]

Why was Antarctica removed? It's a massive desert. A supporting source: http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/2001-10/1003424658.Es.r.html -- Ryanjcole (talk) 16:02, 16 January 2009 (UTC) true — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.201.194.193 (talk) 19:16, 17 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Removed Shingala Bingala[edit]

I removed this redlink, said to be a desert in SW China, "also a country". No independent existence, per Google. I also removed the "Sham (sic) desert", and did some copyediting and cleanup. Added Arctic Desert, inexplicably omitted. --Pete Tillman (talk) 20:29, 24 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Great Sandy Sea[edit]

This is listed as a "Dried up sea in Brazil and Nigeria." What? Is there a Brazil in Africa or a Nigeria in South America? 70.193.167.124 (talk) 21:21, 4 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Removed it --Pete Tillman (talk) 05:35, 12 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

African desert list?[edit]

I cleaned this up a bit, but noticed the list of deserts here and that in the Desert template (bottom of page) don't match that well. Probably both need attention. --Pete Tillman (talk) 05:34, 12 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Rub' al Khali/Empty Quarter - listed in both Asia and Middle East[edit]

The Empty Quarter, listed in the Middle East, is actually Rub' al Khali, which is listed in Asia. A decision needs to be made what to call it and where to list it. I think it's incorrect to list it twice.--Brambleshire (talk) 15:09, 5 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Bulgaria[edit]

I removed the entry for 'Strandja - Sahara'. In fact Strandja and Sakar are two mountains in south-eastern Bulgaria. And certainly none of them is a desert. Maybe the mistake was made due to the phonetic similarity. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kentorix (talk • contribs) 19:38, 22 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I removed it once again, as obviously someone has restored it (I am not Kentorix). Strandzha and Sakar are two mountains. The referred source is worthless (some comment on picture sharing site...). Please offer some real source before restoring. An trivial link opposing the desert theory is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mountains_in_Bulgaria. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.222.32.131 (talk) 14:37, 13 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Merge into chart[edit]

List of deserts by area and List of deserts could be nicely merged by having a chart with sortable columns for both area and continent. -- Beland (talk) 18:52, 13 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

STRONGLY OPPOSE There is already a serious lack of wiki articles relating desert, I don't want to see any more merges. 120.16.1.204 (talk) 00:44, 1 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

OPPOSE List of deserts by area gives quite concise list of major deserts, while List of deserts aims to be a comprehensive list of all deserts. So it would be unwise to merge them together. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 103.29.220.2 (talk) 10:53, 17 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

SUPPORT as long as there is no loss of info, only additional data on deserts not listed (presently) on the 'by area' list. (It should be noted that the two pages currently contradict one another, with the long list stating that the Arctic is the second-largest desert in the world and the 'by area' list making the same claim for the Sahara.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.132.20.237 (talk) 17:03, 19 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The European "deserts."[edit]

There are maybe 3-5 entries in Europe that belong in the main list. Most of the entries appear to be places that look like deserts due to and accumulations and other landforms, but which are not even semiarid. They should probably be moved to the bottom with the other deserts in name only. 73.6.152.137 (talk) 23:12, 17 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I'm also curious of the sources for the "Other" European "deserts" the Iceland entry reads like it shouldn't be in the list because it's not a desert as states in the text. But I'm pretty sure it's a part of the "Artic Desert". The polish entry just states it is named a desert but nothing about if it actually qualifies? (I'm pretty sure it doesn't.) If we are to list those we have more to add...

Going to reword the Iceland entry and delete the Polish one. 94.234.108.108 (talk) 17:32, 1 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]