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Lead rewritten
[edit]I rewrote the lead to remove the POV and OR present in it.
- "Demchok was a historical village". There is no source that says such a thing. Demchok still exists. And it is still as divided as it was.
- It wasn't mentioned in the 1684 treaty. We have no idea whether "Demchok" mentioned there was a village, whether it was divided or undivided. Rather it was the Lhari stream which was of importance in the treaty.
- Nor did anybody say that it was the first time it was mentioned.
-- Kautilya3 (talk) 23:31, 23 July 2020 (UTC)
- Okay with the first and last point, which were just to make it clear what the scope of the article is and what the first known mention is (as a summary of the contents of the article rather than a directly cited assertion). On the second point, Demchok was certainly mentioned in the Ladakh Chronicles on the Treaty of Tingmosgang; for instance, Lamb wrote
— MarkH21talk 04:59, 24 July 2020 (UTC)In its surviving form there seems to be a reference to a boundary point at "the Lhari stream at Demchok", a stream which would appear to flow into the Indus at Demchok and divide that village into two halves.
— Alastair Lamb, Treaties, Maps, and the Western Sector of the Sino-Indian Boundary Dispute, page 38.
- Okay with the first and last point, which were just to make it clear what the scope of the article is and what the first known mention is (as a summary of the contents of the article rather than a directly cited assertion). On the second point, Demchok was certainly mentioned in the Ladakh Chronicles on the Treaty of Tingmosgang; for instance, Lamb wrote
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