Wikipedia talk:Notice board for Pakistan-related topics/Archive 2

message: Please leave your comments about the quality of Allama Mashriqi at its talk page. Szhaider 06:47, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Allama Mashriqi 

message: Normally, DYK isn't really an achievement which projects show off, as most DYKs remain B-Class or Start-class and some contain very few references. DYK is just an occurence where a decent sized article is written within 5 days of creation.  — Nobleeagle  [TALK] [C] 00:34, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It's a very narrow view on WP:DYK. They are also chosen on contents. The purpose for putting them on project page is to create awareness and encourage participation. Otherwise many FA's also end up into B-class--IslesCapeTalk 14:29, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  DYKs 

message: The article Sport in Pakistan is in need of major help! I've been watching it for a while and it is a frequently vandalized article. I just thought I'd post here to bring it to your attention. Thanks - Ozzykhan 19:32, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Like I said on it's talk page, this article needs some major attention. Zaindy87 11:33, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Sport in Pakistan]] 

message: The article is currently on VfD. Could someone take a look here? TIA Pavel Vozenilek 11:38, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Jamia Binoria]] 

message: Is there any project page for Pakistan military articles. I have also created some articles related Pakistan Military —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Sulaimandaud (talk • contribs) 04:42, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: None to my knowledge. But there are people editing such articles. You can take the initiative to bring them all together. Also for project banner, you can find info at Template:WP Pakistan on adding relevent variables for each article etc.--IslesCapeTalk 19:24, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pakistan Military 

message: Since the Durand Line deals with the demarcating line and international border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, I suggest this topic be also added to WikiProject Pakistan as well. 
Some of the latter paragraphs I have seen tend to show more of the Afghanistan viewpoint without sufficient backing whatsoever and revisiting the 1893 agreement, as well as the greyish stature and history of the Khanate of Kalat, which some people put it as something which guaranteed Balochistan independence and making it something separate and special from the Indian Independance Act of 1947 is something a bit too difficult to believe given the status of Jammu & Kashmir and Hyderabad Deccan that were even more prominent princely states and yet they had to choose or were forcibly made to choose which country to join. It doesnt add up seeing the Khanate of Kalat being anything different as NO princely state was allowed independance - as far as I know - so essentially the Khan of Kalat had to choose and he went against the act and hence gave Pakistan legitimate claim of taking action, similar to what India did in Jammu & Kashmir, Junagadh, Hyderabad Deccan and many many other princely states. Why all the finger pointing on Pakistan then ?
I suggest more research in these matters as both issues arent completely black & white, rather with heavy shades of grey prevalant. Peace to all Suprah™ 13:13, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Durand Line and related issues 

message: Hey check out this article National Engineering and Scientific Commission. This article has been changed and see what's in it.§Sulaimandaud 14:47, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Have reverted the vandalism. You can also revert any attempt of vandalism by undoing the edit.--IslesCapeTalk 14:19, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  National Engineering and Scientific Commission 

message: 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? 18:10, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Bilateral relations discussion

message: this article was tagged for proposed deletion as original research. The information seems pretty basic (number of schools, literacy rate etc.) but it is unsourced.  And notable, so I hope someone can work on it and save it.  Scarykitty 07:15, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Education in District Dir Lower]]

message: Please see WP:GA and have a look at the existing artciles before adding any title to the list, as GA is a peer-review process. --IslesCapeTalk 19:02, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Good Articles 

message: There's been copyright problems with this article before; most recently, unreferenced accusations have been added. While I will continue to watch the article, some general additions to its content might also greatly help it. Maybe one of you feels he could add a bit!? Thanks, Ibn Battuta 23:41, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Junaid Jamshed]] 

message: 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 03:56, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  South Asian countries as a [[Wikipedia:Featured topic]] 

message: Hello! I have expanded the article Field hockey at the 1948 Summer Olympics. Is it possible, that Abdul Qayyum Khan played in this tournament for Pakistan? I have found a player with exact the same name. Thanks in advance. Doma-w 23:32, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Abdul Qayyum Khan

message: The article Altaf Hussain gets hit almost daily with POV edits like this one.  Some edits look like they have some good information, but nonetheless look quite POVish and I'm reluctant to simply revert.  I think the article would greatly benefit from someone a little more familiar with this subject than me, so I'd appreciate it if others would want to watch over it.  Thanks! -SpuriousQ (talk) 12:48, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requesting help on [[Altaf Hussain]] 

message: Hello from WP:TENNIS!  I've found two articles on the same Pakistani tennis player Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi and Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi.  I'd like to merge the two, but I don't know which is the correct capitalization, and a google search was inconclusive.  Thanks for your input. Spyder_Monkey (Talk) 21:09, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: "Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi" seems more common usage in the media.--IslesCapeTalk 00:08, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you, IslesCape! --Spyder_Monkey (Talk) 03:46, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name question 

message: This article needs you attention. Can anyone take a look and advise, or better still, lend a hand? Aditya Kabir 15:37, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Please, please, please... The beginning of civil aviation section draws from the history of Orient Airways and PIA. I am sure that there are people here who can shed some light on the subject. Thank you. Aditya Kabir 16:07, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[History of aviation in Bangladesh]] 

message: I need some help in filling out the infobox for the Khanewal article. Here is what I have done so far. If you want fill it in then copy and paste into the article, but after removing the one that is there at present.--HumphryTheFunLovingFellowIsHereTodayRightNow 10:17, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I have removed Infobox as it was causing distraction. Also the one in article seems a bit improved.--IslesCapeTalk 14:10, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Khanewal]]

message: Tourism in Pakistan It could be put together like the Tourism in Sydney Article.
Article has been added to template and template has been added to article--HumphryTheFunLovingFellowIsHereTodayRightNow 11:38, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Here is one with lots of potential

message: As part of the Notability wikiproject, I am trying to sort out whether Khalid Irfan is notable enough to have its own article. I would appreciate an expert opinion. If you can spare some time, please add your comments to the article's talk page. Thanks!  --B. Wolterding 13:41, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Khalid Irfan

message: The article on Ejaz Haider has been nominated for speedy deletion on the grounds that there is no assertion of notability.  Anybody have any opinions on whether this article should be kept or not?
--Richard 07:23, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Ejaz Haider]] 

message: I think it's high time we had an article dedicated to the expat Pakistani population, which not only is huge in number, but have been quite sucessful and a driving force in the economic revival of Pakistan. It's long overdue! We currently have seperate topics on Pakistani Americans & Pakistani Canadians as well as British Pakistanis, but we have no one true article to sum it all up. Anyone interested?
--bk2006 20:19, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Pakistani Diaspora 

message: We should avoid listing a host of articles. Especially if an article was recognised before tagging the project, there is no reason for adding it onto the page.--IslesCapeTalk 10:16, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recognized contents 

message: As part of the Notability wikiproject, I am trying to sort out whether Qamar uz Zaman Khan is notable enough for an own article. I would appreciate an expert opinion. For details, see the article's talk page. If you can spare some time, please add your comments there. Thanks! --B. Wolterding 18:35, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Expert review: Qamar uz Zaman Khan 

message: FYI:
New for August: independence for India and Pakistan
http://www.oup.com/oxforddnb/info/freeodnb/magazine/
: Andy Mabbett | Talk to Andy Mabbett 09:57, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Free ODNB access 

message: Hi there.  As part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Red Link Recovery I came across the article about Junejo and the broken link was about Jam.  I normally don't simply add a missing parenthesis without at least checking if there's a more appropriate link.  In researching this, I found Jam (tribe) which from the context could have been what should be linked to.  It then occurred to me that if those two articles are essentially about the same topic that they probably should be merged.  However, I don't have enough knowledge to make that determination, and as both articles are about Pakistan, I figured I should bring it to the attention of this project. — Timotab Timothy (not Tim dagnabbit!) 08:24, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Jam (tribe)]] and [[Junejo]] 

message: There is an article titled Jhudo which is apparently about a place in Pakistan, but the article needs some significant improvement. If anyone is interested, I would encourage them to take a look. --Metropolitan90 06:37, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Jhudo]] 

message: I have added template  to the page to flag it for reviewing as per criteria stated under WP:NPOV. Anyone interested in the discussion may respond to it on the article's Talk Page.   UzEE  (Talk • Contribs) 00:08, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Bahria University]] 

message: Hi.  I happend on Harnai in my travels, and it looks like it could use some attention, and I know nothing of Pakistani politics, so I'll leave it to the experts.  Have a good day. - CosmicPenguin (Talk) 06:14, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Harnai]] 

message: Kindly note that a Pakistan company, the Cresent Group is being reviewed for deletion. The article is in great need of independent references that would establish the company's notability under the guidelines WP:CORP. You can add content to the article or add your suggestions to the debate. --Gavin Collins 13:18, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Articles for deletion/Crescent Group 

message: Indo-Greek Kingdom 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  (bananabucket) 08:55, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Indo-Greek Kingdom 

message: A new user, , has created two articles, Muzaffar Warsi‎ and Syed Anwaar Gilani‎. It is possible that the user is Syed Anwaar Gilani‎ himself. This might create certain issues per WP:AUTO and WP:COI. I would like to ask the users of this Notice board, who know a lot more about Pakistan than me, to assess and improve the articles and, if possible and necessary, to guide the new user. AecisBrievenbus 11:38, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Muzaffar Warsi‎ and Syed Anwaar Gilani‎ 

message: Some folks might know about WikiPakistan, a Wikia devoted to Pakistan. I have created pages there on the current situation.
http://pakistan.wikia.com/wiki/Emergency_2007
We now have an organized page devoted to Detainees (alphabetically, by location, and just raw updates), Events, and new pages related to personal testimonies (whose index needs to be a separate page now, I guess).
There's much to do if anyone can contribute.
--iFaqeer 10:47, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: WikiPakistan Project on the Emergency

message: :Category:Pakistan articles about unknown subject of Pakistan has been nominated for deletion: see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2007 November 19#Category:Pakistan_articles_about_unknown_subject_of_Pakistan. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 17:19, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Category:Pakistan articles about unknown subject of Pakistan 

message: I've put the  Pakistan wiki-project template on the talk page of Cinema of Pakistan.So make
your cinema department from red to blue.Encourage the project contributors to provide citation
for this article.It will obviously help the project..--Mike robert (talk) 16:40, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Cinema of Pakistan]]

message: Kalmati is in serious need of help. It's almost unreadable in it's current state. I was just visiting to disambiguate and don't know much about the subject. I list it here because the article says that Kalmati is a Baloch tribe which is part of this project, although the Kalmati page is not, yet. --Steven J. Anderson (talk) 06:34, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kalmati 

message: Yes all three exist, carrying different project-banners for WikiProject Ethnic groups, WikiProject Cold War, WikiProject Pakistan and WikiProject Bangladesh. I have proposed a merger of all three, but what would the title be? As soon we can decide on the title, I can volunteer to do the merging. I am posting to all of the WikiProjects for a solution, but it would be better to have a centralized discussion. Aditya(talk • contribs) 13:19, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Stranded Pakistanis]], [[Biharis]] or [[Bihari Muslims]]? 

message: I would like a stub template for Pakistan history so that I can add it to articles that already exist or those which are written in the future.
Rzafar (talk) 20:53, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Just made one, . Of course there are more here. --IslesCapeTalk 17:51, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thanks Rzafar (talk) 16:17, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: History Stub

message: Greetings. A new project, Wikipedia:WikiProject Uttar Pradesh has been created. If you are interested in contributing, please add you name to the list located here. With regards, AnupamTalk 08:52, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedia:WikiProject Uttar Pradesh 

message: I will allow use of information and images from UPK to help enrich the Pakistani article pages with information and media.  We have lots of images of some of the most isolated and little known about regions of the country.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.90.160.7 (talk) 04:01, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: As you never used a user name, I would hardly associate your comments with reality. Arun Reginald (talk · contribs) 19:03, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: UrbanPK.com

message: The article hare coursing includes the following at hare coursing#In other countries:
Can anyone in this wikiproject find any sources describing the existence, notability or debate on hare coursing in Pakistan? Thank you.MikeHobday (talk) 11:57, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Done - SMS  Talk 20:00, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Request for assistance: hare coursing

message: A blog apparently has surfaced and appears to have valid criticism on how the university is being run. i think it should be reviewed for addition under the section "Institute of Business Administration, Karachi" either as an external link or under a new heading "Criticism"
Critics,IBA 202.125.129.139 (talk) 12:22, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Negative. Blogs are not a respectable source of information.  UzEE  05:26, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with UzEE as this blog it seems is written by a student and projects views that are biased. Some blogs however can be trusted and may be used as references. For instance, take into account All Things Pakistan or Taza Kino where reliable journalism is the key to their success. Arun Reginald (talk · contribs) 22:50, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Criticism on the Institute of Business Administration 

message: Any sources or information on this would be appreciated. See creation and evolution in public education#Pakistan. Richard001 (talk) 08:30, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Evolution in the education system of Pakistan

message: Several times, the word civilization has been misspelled as civilisation in the article. I'd appreciate it if it would be fixed. Thanks. Wikkidog (talk) 06:46, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: This is the correct spelling as per the Wikipedia manual of style. See British spelling.Ragib (talk) 06:55, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  This makes me wonder, should we be using the British spelling or the American spelling. If you ask me I would go for the British spelling as that's what is being taught at schools in Pakistan. I remember we were always told to spell colour and not color. Arun Reginald (talk · contribs) 18:51, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, per MoS, we are supposed to use the spelling overwhelmingly used in the region or topic/media. So, articles related to South Asia are written using Brittish spelling. --Ragib (talk) 22:23, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request for Correcting Spelling 

message: 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) 05:05, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: By the time I read this, the article had already stepped onto as a Featured Article. Great going there. Any other article that you think relates to Pakistan and is worth working on to get the status of a featured article, please let us know. Thanks.Arun Reginald (talk · contribs) 14:35, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Sassanid Empire]] 

message: The article recently (re)earned WP:GA and has now been put as Featured Article Candidate at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Akhtar Hameed Khan for opinions and comments. Supporting and Objecting procedures are mentioned here --IslesCapeTalk 19:41, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Congratulation on the FA. Great work! Awesome. Arun Reginald (talk · contribs) 09:56, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

text: Congrats!! --Ragib (talk) 22:23, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Akhtar Hameed Khan]] on [[WP:FAC]]