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Was reading through this article and there seems to be a fair bit of promotion on this page. The language choices aren't encyclopdedic, with examples being "Among this rich collection of wildlife are famous species such as the gigantic Rafflesia plants and the orangutan." and "recent botanical survey of the mountain estimated a staggering 5,000 to 6,000 plant species" etc. Although these aren't majorly biased, It does seem to be worth mentioning as the language reminds me of an old TV commercial campaign for visiting Malaysia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by NotASir ( talk • contribs) 11:00, 14 October 2014 (UTC)
Any local legends please? E.g. Dusunic beliefs of the mountain as home of anscestal spirits, and Chinese legends of a dragon at the peak guarding a pearl. Also, true stories of climbers getting lost, etc. Like one that made the newspapers a long time ago: a European girl who got separated from her tour -- there was a huge search-and-rescue -- found dead days (weeks?) later. Please contribute if you have enough knowledge of these. -- Lionelster 04:06, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
- I climbed Kinabalu three weeks ago and heard the following tale about the name of the mountain;
There used to live a powerful dragon up at the top of the hill and he had a massive treasure of jewelry. Many men tried to slay the beast and acquire the treasure but no-one succeeded until a chinese prince came and was victorious. The prince wed a local malay girl living in the outskirts of mountain. After some time of joyful family-life, the prince got a message from china that his father had died and he went on to journey there to claim the throne. He was of course supposed then come back to get his wife to china, but months passed without no note of return. The malay wife started climbing every day to the top of the mountain to see if his prince would be arriving by boat, but alas, he was not returning. One day she took her life in the top of the mountain and thus the mountain became called mount Kinabalu.
I also heard that some rock formations are thought to be tracks of the dragon, but I failed to see them.-- jappjapp75 14:34, 10 December 2005
According to the high school geography textbooks of the Ministry of Education of Malaysia, Mt Kinabalu is 4104 m. User:Randytsx
That figure is outdated. -- Lionelster 03:52, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
"Gunung tertinggi di Asia Tenggara" ("highest mountain in South-East Asia")? My sweet ass it is.
Thank you, wikipedia, for finally pointing this out to me.
161.142.97.109 ( talk) 02:53, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
Is Puncak Jaya located in Southeast Asia or Oceania? At Puncak Jaya, the article claims that Puncak Jaya is the highest in Oceania. In Mount Kinabalu, it states that Kinabalu is the third highest behind Puncak Jaya. So, there seems to be a little confusion here. __earth 17:20, Jun 6, 2005 (UTC)
The attached Palm tree IS NOT a palm tree, it is a fern. sltan
There are over 6000 plant species in California, so it is incorrect to say this region has more species than Europe and North American combined! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 166.134.245.53 ( talk) 13:21, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
the highest peak in south east asia is Hkakabo Razi (5,881 m) in Mynmar... not Gunung Puncak.. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.19.117.154 ( talk) 04:23, 27 December 2009 (UTC)
Replacing Willsmith pitcher_plant with pitcher_plant_mt_kinabalu.jpg
Replacing Willsmith Mount_Kinabalu.jpg with MtKinabalu_view_from_kundasan.jpg sltan
I uploaded these images, [2], [3] and [4], (image references obvious by their filename) - which are high altitude photos of clouds from Mount Kinabalu, and I was wondering if it would be appropriate to insert them in either the Mount Kinabalu Article or the Cloud article, because I know both of them are already image saturated. The thing is that I'm not too sure of all the cloud formation classifications (although it fascinates me) to insert them in specific pages either. -- Natalinasmpf 23:51, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)
"Since there are no roads, the supplies for the Laban Rata hut are carried by porters, mostly old women, who bring up to 30 kilograms of supplies on their backs."
Is this some kind of joke? From my experience, all of the porters are at most middle-aged men. 202.179.105.18 03:34, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
The mountain and its surroundings feature a huge variety of flora, and is one of the world’s most important[citation needed] biological sites.
The citation requested is later in the article where it explains about the biodiversity exceeding that of all Europe. 202.82.171.186 04:01, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
I added this special and rare video feature:* Born To Be Wild: Mt. Kinabalu, 05/15/2008 -- Florentino floro ( talk) 08:59, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
(Transferred from my talk page)
Hi there. I understand that you remove the Mount Kinabalu ranking as to avoid edit war, but I propose to keep it there for clarification. I don't mind putting it as 6 / 7 position as long as it is being clarified to what reason and why. Mount Kinabalu has long been listed as highest in South East Asia in terms of geologist (which boundries is clearly define), however now there are some people advocating political boundries (also clearly define) and accusing those who listed Mount Kinabalu as highest in SEA as cheating. By puting both side / ranking this article hopefully clarified this issues to those who are looking for clear explanation. For those who persist, there is not really much anyone can do for them. Regards Yosri ( talk) 10:54, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
This discussion belongs at Talk:Mount Kinabalu.
I think that's a bit lame excuse, however for valid reference look at Google books as follow:-
You still have not defined the "geologist" borders of South East Asia, and in any case your POV on this matter clashes with the political view, which places Myanmar within South East Asia. Viewfinder ( talk) 21:17, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
It has been discovered that this book:
Contains significant amounts of material plagiarized from Wikipedia articles. (Some other books from the same publisher also have this problem). There is no practical way of determining which material came from Wikipedia, and which came from other sources. Further, widespread plagiarism is an indication of poor scholarship. For those reasons, and according to Wikipedia policy, WP:CIRCULAR, it should not be used as a source. For more background, see WP:RSN#Circular references: Gyan Publishing and ISHA Books, or the archive after it goes there. Will Beback talk 23:37, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
This article devotes an inordinate amount of space to the issue of some hikers who conducted themselves poorly in the lead-up to the recent earthquake. Now, did this small group of Western tourists mishandle the situation? Absolutely. Did this cause the earthquake? No, no it didn't. Nor is it (the tourist incident) likely to be all that important in the broader history of the mountain. Now, my first inclination would be to go through the article's discussion of the nudist incident-- which is written in garbled English-- and clean it up, but I'm inclined to think that a lot of it just doesn't belong in the article. Now, I want to assume good faith, but its presence here gives the impression that someone has an axe to grind against these tourists, rather than wanting to improve the encyclopedia. As I'm reluctant to go in and start excising large swathes of content (especially sourced content), I would like to solicit the opinions of other editors on the subject. Tigercompanion25 ( talk) 17:00, 11 June 2015 (UTC)
72.94.239.243 ( talk) 19:06, 12 June 2015 (UTC)
This is the South Summit, not the Summit Luma73 ( talk) 19:48, 22 January 2017 (UTC)
Actually, the peak is called South Peak. Luma73 ( talk) 09:20, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
The article claims the following: ...and is the highest mountain in the Malay Archipelago... But the Malay Archipelago includes New Guinea which has the following mountains that are taller than Mount Kinabalu (4,095m):
Is there some geological reason behind this claim that Mount Kinabalu is the highest mountain in the Malay Archipelago? -- Pavithran ( talk) 15:35, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
"John Griffiths was the first and only one in his family group to get to the summit and see the sunrise, in 1978." - what is this about? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.121.192.144 ( talk) 20:40, 11 October 2020 (UTC)