Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Afghanistan

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

WikiProject Central Asia Wikipedia:WikiProject Afghanistan is part of WikiProject Central Asia, a project to improve all Central Asia-related articles. This includes but is not limited to Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Xinjiang, Tibet and Central Asian portions of Iran and Russia, region-specific topics, and anything else related to Central Asia. If you would like to help improve this and other Central Asia-related articles, please join the project. All interested editors are welcome.
NA This page does not require a rating on the Project's quality scale.
After rating the article, please provide a short summary on the article's ratings summary page to explain your ratings and/or identify the strengths and weaknesses.

Contents

[edit] Please stop adding articles with a bot

If you can't be bothered to look at the article and decide whether or not it belongs in your project, then it doesn't belong.

The discussion page on the Salwar Kameez article is now littered with national flags from the numerous countries in South and Central Asia where the outfit is worn. Perhaps this suggests that items of clothing can't "belong" to any particular nation.

I wear salwar kameez and I live in Hawai'i. Should I put a Hawai'i sticker on the project? Zora 21:50, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Why do you think that Yazid I has any relevance to Afghanistan? Zora 07:13, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
Why do you think that Battle of Karbala has any relevance to Afghanistan? --Sa.vakilian 10:51, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
This could be related to the above: Why is Sardar Bahadur Khan Women University now part of the project? The university is in Pakistan, not Afghanistan. Is there some kind of relationship to Afghanistan that's simply not discussed in the article, or is this a bot mistake? Beginning 19:11, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
Please look at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)#WikiProject_Scope. This project seems to have five participants and while that page is by no means policy I think you should only manually add the tag when you are working on an Afghanistan related article as part of the project. Once again: my opinion, not policy. gren グレン 02:08, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wildlife of Afghanistan

Kindly contribute to this article when you get time, and request others too.

Thanks

Atulsnischal 13:27, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Useful Sources

I figured it might be a good idea to get together a list of good online sources of information about Afghanistan (since there aren't many to be honest).

  • [1] Is quite useful for the 1992-1996 civil war. There's obviously a lot about human rights violations in there, but if you look around it reveals quite a bit of information about the military situation and participants.

--RaiderAspect 12:30, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] re Battle of Chains article/possible Copyright Violation

I have place a {{Copyvio}} notice on the above article, which has a Afghanistan Project template, as the author comments that he wrote it

"...word for word..."

from a website (see Talk:Battle of Chains). A Project Member may wish to discuss with the Administrator how to stop the article being deleted. I hope someone is able to help. LessHeard vanU 21:59, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bilateral relations discussion

I would like to invite you all to participate in a discussion at this thread regarding bilateral relations between two countries. All articles related to foreign relations between countries are now under the scope of WikiProject Foreign relations, a newly created project. We hope that the discussion will result in a more clean and organized way of explaining such relationships. Thank you. Ed ¿Cómo estás? 18:07, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Malalai Joya

Could someone more knowledgeable than me please take a look at Malalai Joya? There's been a ton of anon edits lately that strike me as potentially libelous or incorrect, but I really know nothing about it. I found the page on Random Article and started cleaning up some grammar and spelling and then found there's been a number of very dramatic POV edits lately. Thanks! - CredoFromStart 20:00, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] South Asian countries as a Wikipedia:Featured topic

The South Asian WikiProjects have been tremendously productive, which I congratulate you for, and I just wanted to let you know that we're very close to meeting the criteria for a Featured topic covering the countries of the region. Please see Wikipedia talk:Featured topics#Great potential for South Asian countries featured topic. Thanks.--Pharos 03:59, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Translation requests Afghan Scout Association

Can someone put this text Image:Afghanistannamestrip.jpg into the organization name on the article Afghan Scout Association? It may be clearer as this Image:Afghan Scout Association.jpg. Thanks, Chris 17:15, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Where do you exactly want to place it? In the opening, between the text? but it would be better to write the Pashto transcript in a simple font. Or would you like to place it in the infobox? -Ariana 18:33, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for your quick response! And I did mean for it to be put in the text as a simple font, just I do not have that font. I would put it in the third sentence, where it reads "Da Afğānistān Zaranduy Tolanah (DAZT)", it should probably read "Da Afğānistān Zaranduy Tolanah (Pashto language:XXXXXX, DAZT)". Thank you again! Chris 18:41, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
Here I inserted it. You might not be able to view the Z and T characters joint with their word because of not having the font, but the transcript is correct. -Ariana 18:49, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
Thank you so much for your help!Chris 22:53, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Can someone please render Tayar Osay (Be Prepared), the Scout Motto, into Pashto script? Thanks! Chris 03:51, 14 August 2007 (UTC)


[edit] To do list for Wikipedia: WikiProject Afghanistan

Can someone please delete the items from this list which are not related to Afghanistan. I find it irritating to discover Hawaiian agricultural policy here and Ougadougou. Such chaos undermines the integrity of Wikipedia. I would delete it myself, but don't know how. --Ceboulon 10:56, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Durrani Castle

I am drawing your attention to the above, as it was created by a user with a history of dubious edits. I have just found his article on the fictional Scottish Lahey Castle, and I have no idea if Durrani Castle actually exists, but its probably worth checking. Thanks, Jonathan Oldenbuck 15:18, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] proper adjective?

Afghan, Afghani, Afghanistani. What are we choosing to use to describe people of Afghan nationality? Kingturtle 00:09, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

The correct term is Afghan. Afghani is the currency. MLA 15:49, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hazarajat

The article with the above title has been nominated in Articles for Deletion; since this project was mentioned on the talk page, I thought it would be worthwhile to bring it to your attention for any contributions you may care to make. I am not taking a position on whether or not the article should be deleted and make no recommendations. Accounting4Taste:talk 01:47, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Input request: Afghan Civil War

Your ideas are welcome at: Talk:Afghan_Civil_War#What_needs_to_be_done.3F. Thanx to you. --victor falk (talk) 18:14, 21 November 2007 (UTC)



I think it is not true that most of the Daikondi residents are Pashtuns. Most of the people who are living in Daikondi are Hazaras. Pashtuns and Hazaras are the same Afghans but it is better not to distort facts. Abdul —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.198.161.242 (talk) 19:00, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Districts of Afghanistan split & templates

Hi all - I'm currently splitting this category by province (separate categories for each province's districts) and making navigational templates for each province's districts. I'm doing this because the category was partially split before, and because it had more than 200 articles. It was hard to find them. I hope they will be more neatly organized. If anyone has comments, suggestions, complaints, or ideas, please direct them to me on my talkpage. Cheers! Aelfthrytha (talk) 22:02, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Dervishes?

I notice that Dervish is considered to be part of this project. It would seem that it would fit less with Afghanistan than Iran (where the term came from) and sufism (where the practice originates from) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Peter Deer (talk • contribs) 11:33, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Abdul Razzaq Hekmati

Abdul Razzaq Hekmati has the dubious distinction of being the first detainee to die of natural causes at Guantánamo.[2] Do we have an article on him already that I can't find? -- Kendrick7talk 21:15, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

I'm really just wondering if he is the same person as Abdullah Hekmat, but I know the similarity could be entirely coincidental -- first name is very common, last name seems at least semi-common. Anybody? -- Kendrick7talk 06:57, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
Yes, I just redirected Abdul Razzaq Hekmati. He was the Guantanamo captive known by the ID 942. Abdullah Hekmat is ID 670, a completely different person.
Cheers! Geo Swan (talk) 23:14, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Bin Laden propaganda poster

The Osama bin Laden article has a photo of a propaganda poster with some writing on it. It would be very helpful if someone could identify the language (Pashto?) and translate it. The image is available at the Commons at Commons:Image:DN-SD-04-12769.jpg. Thanks. Dforest (talk) 06:06, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Jabbar Khel

I just added Jabbar Khel to this project since it appears to be a Pashtun tribe or klan with ties to Kabul. However a lot of sources came back Pakistan and what I know about this region unfortunately fits on the nose of a mosquito so I may have erred. If anyone can help expand that stub, it would be great. I removed a lot of irrelevant content and sources that didn't mention the subject but I'm stuck. TRAVELLINGCARIMy storyTell me yours 04:08, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Sassanid Empire

Sassanid Empire has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here.Blnguyen (vote in the photo straw poll) 05:04, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] "Coalition"

I ran across Coalition casualties in Afghanistan and wonder if there's a definition or article for this coaltion. Is it NATO or some other entity defined only for this conflict? --Tesscass (talk) 00:23, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Draft Guidelines for Lists of companies by country - Feedback Requested

Within WikiProject Companies I am trying to establish guidelines for all Lists of companies by country, the implementation of which would hopefully ensure a minimum quality standard and level of consistency across all of these related but currently disparate articles. The ultimate goal is the improvement of these articles to Featured List status. As a WikiProject that currently has one of these lists within your scope, I would really appreciate your feedback! You can find the draft guidelines here. Thanks for your help as we look to build consensus and improve Wikipedia! - Richc80 (talk) 18:40, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] CFD for provinces of Afghanistan

A discussion has been opened to determine which spelling to use for several provinces of Afghanistan. Please take a minute to share your views. Cgingold (talk) 10:05, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Creation of thousands of new articles about Afghanistan

Hello everyone! Currently a bot is being prepared to go on to create nearly 2 million articles of villages/cities/towns from all around the world. Afghanistan, being the first country on the list is the first to get that honour and after some tweaking it will go right ahead. However there currently is a dicussion going on at [3] and there are many opinions being held by a number of people. As you guys are going to be one of the first affected, it makes sense that anyone who has an oppinion about the creation of these articles to give an oppinion there. There has been 100 articles created as a trial run and if you are interested to look at those they can be found here: Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Places/afghanistan/page1. Further information can be found here: Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Places, User talk:Fritzpoll and of course the village pump link I gave initially. Thanks for your attention. Kind regards!Calaka (talk) 01:45, 3 June 2008 (UTC)