Talk:Gorno-Badakhshan

message: The article was originally called "Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province". On January 9, 2008 User:Anoshirawan moved "Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province" (Russian name) to "Kohistan-Badakhshan Autonomous Province" (Persian name -- misspelled!) without any explanation or justification on the relevant talk page. I propose moving this page back to its original name "Gorno-Badakhsan Autonomous Province", because this is definitely the accepted name in English: see, e.g., numerous references in  Encyclopedia Britannica, Student's Britannica, Encarta, or Merriam-Webster dictionary (additional references can be provided on request). Note that the Encarta reference comes up in response to Google search for "Kohistan-Badakhshan", but then the link actually leads to a page entitled "Gorno-Badakhshan". Also note that many of the sister versions of Wikipedia use the variant "Gorno", and only en:Wikipedia uses "Kohistan". 
I would also like to stress that the sentence "During the Soviet period the GBAP was known as the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast (Горно-Бадахшанская автономная область) or GBAO" that has been edited into the main page "Kohistan-Badakhshan Autonomous Republic" is inaccurate. This province is known in Tajikistan as "Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast (GBAO)" to this very day. See the official statistical yearbooks: "Tadzhikistan: 15 let gosudarstvennoi nezavisimosti" (Dushanbe, 2006) and "Sel'skoe khozyaistvo Respubliki Tadzhikistan" (Dushanbe, 2007), both published in bilingual editions. --Zlerman (talk) 05:20, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: *Thanks. Replaced with an explicit Britannica link and added link to Student's Britannica and Merriam-Webster.--Zlerman (talk) 01:54, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Requested move

message: What is the table currently in the "Districts and geography" section meant to show? 213.246.88.102 (talk) 07:38, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Table 

message: Hallo,
What is the source for the flag presented here? I couldn't find such a flag elsewhere. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 07:08, 17 July 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: It was added by a user whose only contributions were to add the flag here, to upload the flag on Commons, and to make less than a dozen edits in the Russian Wikipedia. If you have done research and could not find the flag, it is best to remove it here and nominate for deletion on Commons.--Ymblanter (talk) 07:32, 17 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Flag source 

message: Now a new COA is being added here, and it's not correct either. I am removing it from all languages. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 08:36, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: The new green flag and COA

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message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 
The result of the move request was: moved. Per WP:COMMONNAME & WP:CONCISE (closed by non-admin page mover) —CX Zoom[he/him] (let's talk • {C•X}) 11:26, 6 October 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region →  – Per WP:COMMONNAME, as "Gorno-Badakhshan" is the common name in English, derived from Russian. "Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region" is not the official name of the region in English, and so English media variously use the suffixes "Autonomous Region", "Autonomous Province", "Autonomous Oblast", "Region" or just Gorno-Badakhshan. The sources provided in an earlier move discussion in 2008 are either dead or now use the names "Gorno-Badakhshan" or "Gorno-Badakhshan autonomous region". "Autonomous region" is in lowercase because it is a reference to the type of subnational division Gorno-Badakhshan is, and not a part of the region's name (officially, or commonly in English). Yue🌙 05:25, 21 September 2022 (UTC)

text: Another option is to use the official English translation of the region's name provided by the Government of Tajikistan, "Badakhshan Mountainous Autonomous Region". However, it is worth noting that, despite being official for around 15 years, this name has not seen much use in English language scholarly sources or media. Yue🌙 05:28, 21 September 2022 (UTC)

text: Note: WikiProject Tajikistan has been notified of this discussion. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 05:53, 28 September 2022 (UTC)

text: Comment I support moving the title to "Badakhshan Mountainous Autonomous Region". 2001:8003:9007:8201:472:4992:F1C:C5BD (talk) 04:55, 30 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 21 September 2022 

message: Dear all,
I plan on extending the existing articles in two ways:
# Expanding the history section, especially around the pre-imperial time, the time of the Soviet Union (very important, because the Pamir was perceived as frontier region => much material and ideological investment) and the Civil war (right now the sources are too limited and the existing description is confusing)
# Adding a new section on the contemporary conflict in Gorno Badakhshan - the article right now tends to represent only a government perspective, whereas the UN and several human rights actors have highlighted the massive repressions in the last years. I think this is important to cover. (There are also academic sources on it)
If you have any comments on this please let me know so I can incorporate your feedback right away:) CatsWithSocks (talk) 09:42, 25 April 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for your help. Yue🌙 22:25, 25 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Extension of the existing article