Talk:Swat District

message: The Swat Valley article doesn't exist and redirects to this page. Waqas.usman 00:41, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've just noticed that Swat  District is a redirect. I think most of this article should move to Swat District to put it in line with the other districts articles. There is an article on the Swat River which might be a good place for the Swat Valley to redirect to. Green Giant 00:45, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

text: It may be pronounced Sawat but it is spelt Swat, see it listed on the official government website here, so it should remain as it is. For example Rhode Island is pronounced "Road Iland", and Worcester is pronounced Wooster - but this doesn't mean we should change the spelling in the articles. Pahari Sahib 06:11, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: How about renaming it to [[Swat Valley]]?

message: Buddhist section of the article needs citations. It is currently unverified.--Jhelyam (talk) 00:25, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alert 

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message: removed this from text "" blue-blooded Yousafzai's"  seems distinctly non-neutral, asserting they are somehow royal/noble?78.86.25.78 (talk) 09:33, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  blue blooded?

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Intothefire (talk) 07:48, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Anonymous ip removes Quote marks

message: Revision as of , 14 July 2009 Paknur Category:Pre-Islamic heritage of Pakistan
Intothefire (talk) 07:54, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Unexplained removal of category by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Paknur blocked user Paknur]

message: Both Sambalpur and the Swat valley have been named as the historical origin of King Indrabhuti of Uddiyana. 
This article does not mention that there is any divergence of opinion regarding this.  
In this particular aspect,  without further evidence, the historic location of Uddiyana and it's famous king must not be couched as fact.  (20040302 (talk) 08:44, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sambalpur vs. Swat Valley (Vajrayana Buddhism) 

message: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/10/pakistan-taliban-swat-valley
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8043185.stm
http://www.undispatch.com/pakistans-swat-valley-offensive-one-year-later-video
Get real people: this article is a tourist pamphlet designed by the Pakistani government. No mention of the takeover by the Taliban and the subsequent bloody offensive in 2009? No mention of the refugees, the ubiquity of weapons or the the stoning to death of women for adultery?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Prunesqualer (talk • contribs) 09:17, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Militancy 

message: *Support for consistency as mentioned above. YBG (talk) 04:48, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Survey

message: I've started a discussion at Talk:Swat River#Swat Valley redirect about making the redirect "Swat Valley" point here (Swat District) instead of there (Swat River). Please add your thoughts in that section on the other talk page. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 22:24, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sway Valley redirect 

message: User:‎31.221.17.194 placed a Template:POV tag on this article accompanied by the following text:
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I have moved the text here to avoid cluttering the article, and because the use of this tag requires a discussion on the talk page. Dendrite1 (talk) 10:59, 18 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neutrality dispute 

message: Languages of Khyber Pukhtunkhwa (Pakistan Census 1998) http://www.pbs.gov.pk/sites/default/files/other/yearbook2011/Population/16-20.pdf
Map being used in various articles pertaining to languages of Khyber Pukhtunkhwa is incorrect and biased. It is showing tank as Seraiki speaking which is incorrect as majority of people in Tank speak Pashto. It is showing Karak as Hindko speaking while we know that almost 99% of the population of Karak is Pashto speaking Khattak. It is showing battagram as hindko speaking while we all know that most of the people in Battagram speak Pashto. Similarly, it is showing Shangla as hindko speaking, which is incorrect as most of the people their also speak Pashto. Finally, it is showing Toorghar district as Hindko speaking while we know most of the people their also speak Pashto. I think all this show biasness or incompetence on the part of the person who included that Map. Furthermore, it should also be noted that the map fails to show that most of the people on western side of Mansehra and Haripur speak Pashto, while most on western side of D.I.Khan also speak Pashto. I feel that the Map has grossly exaggerated the number of speakers of other languages.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tigerkhan007 (talk • contribs) 17:18, 7 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Languages of Khyber-Puhktunkhwa (Map) 

message: The paragraph covering the Taban destruction in the Swat Valley made reference to a location called Mangalore. The place nearest to Swat with that name is Mangalore, India, a seaport some 3326 km distant by road (though there is a spot just west of the Indian Border Post, Barki Road, Khalra, Punjab 143305, India, where there are very cross people waiting to shoot at anyone driving in either direction just there. There wouldn't be a spot with that name in Pakistan, as Mangalore (officially Mangaluru) is a Hindi name referring to the Hindu deity Mangaladevi, the presiding deity of the Mangaladevi temple. Obviously, not a word one would expect to see in Pakistan. I removed "Mangalore," but didn't put in a substitute; its absence doesn't significantly change the meaning of the sentence.
Interestingly, the same error appears in various Wikipedia pages, as well as on several other websites. Always sporting nearly identical wording, errors, and lack of supporting detail. Now, there is a city about 110 km south of the head of Swat Valley called Mingora. It is the largest commercial city in the Swat District, and a major tourist destination for people not coming from a hostile nation.
My theory is that at some point somebody wrote an article somewhere with "Mangalore" instead of "Mingora" (perhaps an auto-correct contribution). I suspect the origin to be a Wikipedia article; the writing style and persistent errors are unlikely to be penned by a professional. After that, the paragraph was copied and pasted, essentially verbatim, over and over, eventually making its way into a "legitimate" news source, which other Wikipedia contributors used as an authoritative source.
One little error, and then a copy-and-paste contagion?
/Bruce/ [aka Slasher] (talk) 19:46, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mangalore – A viral error? 

message: There are too many villages in swat but some of them like kuzabandai,charbagh,kabal,kanju and khwazakhela are discussable Shah Inamullah (talk) 22:41, 14 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Famous villages 

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