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Hey guys, I've done a major overhaul on Afghan Wireless in the past year. Would somebody re-assess the article and give me some feedback on it? I'd love to expand it further but I think I need someone with specialist knowledge to point me towards some sources. Thanks! A Train talk 00:13, 19 October 2017 (UTC)
Wikipedia has many thousands of wikilinks which point to disambiguation pages. It would be useful to readers if these links directed them to the specific pages of interest, rather than making them search through a list. Members of WikiProject Disambiguation have been working on this and the total number is now below 20,000 for the first time. Some of these links require specialist knowledge of the topics concerned and therefore it would be great if you could help in your area of expertise.
A list of the relevant links on pages which fall within the remit of this wikiproject can be found at http://69.142.160.183/~dispenser/cgi-bin/topic_points.py?banner=WikiProject_Afghanistan
Please take a few minutes to help make these more useful to our readers.— Rod talk 12:54, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
Could a Pashto speaker please visit Red Group and provide the Pashto spelling for the Sara Kheta unit of the Taliban? Thanks! MatthewVanitas ( talk) 20:51, 3 February 2018 (UTC)
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I don't have the subject matter expertise to review Draft:Sanctions against Afghanistan. Could somebody take a look at it and leave comments? -- RoySmith (talk) 00:57, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
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Could someone please cast an eye over Saandi (Baloch tribe)? The article has been called "Sadozai" for years, but last year the text was rewritten to say "Saandi" and the page itself was renamed a few weeks ago. At Wikidata, the English label was recently changed from "Sadozai" to "Sadduzai". I'm not familiar with the subject matter and there are no references for me to follow up. Can we reach a consensus about the correct name? Are these all valid aliases? Are there any references available? Thanks, Bovlb ( talk) 23:52, 14 July 2018 (UTC)
I would need help at the newly created Karim Asir. Bus stop ( talk) 21:27, 13 September 2018 (UTC)
An RfC on moving the year from the end to the start of article titles (e.g. South African general election, 2019 to 2019 South African general election) has been reopened for further comment, including on whether a bot could be used move the articles if it closed in favour of the change: Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (government and legislation)#Proposed change to election/referendum naming format. Cheers, Number 5 7 15:32, 20 October 2018 (UTC)
I just found this book chapter, "Firuzkuh: Summer Capital of the Ghurids" has sensational detail about the city. The wiki page is here and could use expansion, especially on such an interesting topic. I plan to go through it and add a bunch of material over the next week, but if anyone else wants to help, here's the link and here's the citation.
Thomas, David. "Firuzkuh: The Summer Capital of the Ghurids". In Bennison, Amira K.; Gascoigne, Alison L. (eds.).
Cities in the pre-modern Islamic world : the urban impact of religion, state and society (1st ed ed.). Milton Park, Abingdon, UK. pp. 115–144.
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Let me know if you know of any other sources as well! Ganesha811 ( talk) 15:03, 16 May 2019 (UTC)
Greetings, On the Assessment page, I added a section for "Popular pages", a bot-generated list of pageviews, useful for focused cleanup of frequently viewed articles. Regards, JoeHebda ( talk) 19:23, 15 August 2019 (UTC)
Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.
We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma ( talk) 04:23, 27 October 2019 (UTC)
Hi there, I wanted to find if it is good to change the current infobox in the Islamic State of Afghanistan to the one below.
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The article Abdul W. Haqiqi has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
Does not meet WP:GNG. I could only find trivial mentions saying he is an author and economist. Additionally, fails WP:AUTHOR parts 1,2,3,4. His contributions are not significant enough. Please leave a note on the article talk page if you disagree, and explain why. Note: the article was created by a WP:SPA
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Greetings - For WP Afghanistan, I added progression, pie chart, rainbow & wikilinks "Quality operations" and "Popular pages". JoeNMLC ( talk) 12:48, 16 July 2020 (UTC)
The page for the President is getting a lot of vandalism. I started a discussion on the talk page, but I need an administrator to add extended confirmed protection. Irtapil ( talk) 09:57, 18 July 2020 (UTC)
There is currently a talk/discussion going on with an Indian user who wants to add Afghanistan to the article of the Indian subcontinent, some of you might be interested in participating and contributing in the talk. /info/en/?search=Talk:Indian_subcontinent#Afghanistan -- Xerxes931 ( talk) 15:30, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion about the meaning of the term Hindu Kush going on, despite all the major modern and historic sources, as well as a basic Persian dictionary stating the term to mean "Hindu-Slayer", a few offended people and others not knowing much about the topic want to remove the name from the lead. Would love to hear you guys opinion about this by leaving a message on the talk page there too! /info/en/?search=Talk:Hindu_Kush#Comments_by_other_editors -- Xerxes931 ( talk) 15:29, 27 August 2020 (UTC)
Danre98 @ Danre98: This might be interesting for you as well -- Xerxes931 ( talk) 15:29, 27 August 2020 (UTC)
When should we move members from the active to semi-active section on the members list? I was thinking 1 year (as that is when you get desysoped for inactivity).-- Danre98( talk^ contribs) 05:40, 30 July 2020 (UTC)
Clarification: removed after 1 year with no edits. -- Danre98( talk^ contribs) 19:33, 25 August 2020 (UTC)
I'm implementing this as it seems uncontroversial, and nobody opposed. -- Danre98( talk^ contribs) 01:31, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
Recently I've created an guideline on Afghan districts and a new article feed. Both would benefit from others helping out, but the feed especially could use work.
I propose adding five new tabs to the template Wikipedia:WikiProject Afghanistan/Template:afghan-start and removing three tabs:
Thoughts? -- Danre98( talk^ contribs) 02:07, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
@ Xerxes931:@ Akmal94:@ Cerebellum: Could you all please take a look? You three were the people listed under "active members" and had made ~10 edits in the past month. Pinging as (1) nobody responds to anything here and (2) this is the sort of thing I need to make sure I'm not screwing up before I do it. -- Danre98( talk^ contribs) 20:04, 4 September 2020 (UTC)
I've created a sandbox for the template showing what I'm thinking at WP:WikiProject Afghanistan/Template:afghan-start/sandbox.-- Danre98( talk^ contribs) 20:07, 4 September 2020 (UTC)
From 1 October to 31 December, Women in Red is running a virtual contest on Asian women. In November, this will coincide with Wikipedia Asian Month. We look forward to strong participation from all those interested in improving coverage of Afghan women.-- Ipigott ( talk) 19:17, 21 September 2020 (UTC)
A complex RfC is going on. Uninvolved editors needed at the discussion. Aditya( talk • contribs) 06:41, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
I need someone to pronounce اوږد in the Wardak dialect [with foucs on ʝ] so I can upload it to the dialects page. Also from the Wardak dialect pronouncing any words with ږ ښ. If you speak any other dialect upload any words with ښ ږ څ ځ ژ. If you upload the file on Wikimedia Commons and post it to my talk page specifying - I will add it to the dialects page. Its to raise awareness on Pashto dialects
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There is a discussion on the talk page about a disputed sentence. Is it possible for members of this project to make a comment there? Aditya( ✉ • ⚒) 03:04, 5 December 2020 (UTC)
Hello! A recent CfD decided to merge Category:Former Countries of Afghanistan to Category:Former countries in Central Asia and Category:History of Afghanistan. That means replacing the old category with one of these or possibly something else. Mergers like these are best carried out by someone familiar with the subject matter so it would be great if someone here could help out. When you're done you can either ping me or nominate the category for deletion with {{ db-xfd|votepage=Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2021_February_15#Category:Former_Countries_of_Afghanistan}}. Thanks! -- Trialpears ( talk) 13:57, 19 March 2021 (UTC)
Layla Alizada 24,141 804 Stub-- Coin945 ( talk) 16:15, 29 May 2021 (UTC)
An RFC has been opened on the subject of whether or not a live military situation map of the war in Afghanistan that is partly sourced to the Taliban should be included on EN Wiki. The RFC can be seen here. FOARP ( talk) 09:09, 4 July 2021 (UTC)
This user [1] is adding the Nastaliq writing style, which is not the common script in Afghanistan, nor does it meet the standards of Persian script on WP, on every single Afghanistan-related article. I tried reverting a few but they are way too much to do it all by myself, if anyone can help out and restore all the articles I would really appreciate it -- Xerxes1985 ( talk) 18:55, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
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Xerxes1985: Hello. I'm sorry, I do not have time to give you a detailed write up on the history of the use of Nastaliq script in Afghanistan. It's very common on book covers and the introduction section of books written in Farsi and Pashto. As you can see, I am only including the Nastaliq script in the introductions and infoboxes (kind of like the "book cover" of the page, if you will). Can you read Farsi and/or Pashto? Do you read books in those languages? As an example, take a look at some of the books on Ahmad Shah Durrani. Note that the books below are written in both Farsi/Dari and Pashto. Pay special attention to the picture of the book covers on each one, it will give you a better understanding and increase you in knowledge.
It is a beautiful and calligraphic script that we will be taking advantage of using on pages regarding Afghans and Afghan history.
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Xerxes1985: Thank you for changing your tone in this latest message, I appreciate that. I understand what you are saying. I agree, the bulk of every book written in Dari and Pashto is written in the standard Perso-Arabic script (with Pashto having additional few letters on top of it). I think the calligraphic script does make sense here though, as the lead section and the infobox are basically like the cover/intro of a book. One of my goals is to make all of the pages about Afghans/Afghanistan have more of a formal lead section and infobox, with the inclusion of Dari and Pashto language spelling for every entry, and the use of the Nastaliq script. I know this is Wikipedia English, but in my opinion using the calligraphic scripts it adds a hint of authenticity to these pages about Afghans/Afghanistan and differentiates them from pages about the Arab world, Indian subcontinent, etc. I don't think using the calligraphic script takes away from the quality, authenticity, or integrity of the page at all. Can we agree to just leave it on?
Also, may I ask why you keep replacing Dari with Persian? It is the standard name of the language (or dialect of Persian if you want) as defined by the state. For the sake of accuracy and sticking to the standards, we should be using Dari/ Pashto for all articles about Afghans/Afghanistan. If the use of a regional language applies, we should use the regional language as well. For example, Nimruz. It's the only province in Afghanistan where the Baloch ethnic group are the dominant ethnic group. In this case it makes sense to use Dari/Pashto as well as Balochi as follows:
Pashto/ Dari: نيمروز; Balochi: نِمروز
In the case that the Dari spelling is different than the Pashto spelling, it makes sense to seperate them like in the example of Kunduz:
What do you think?
P.S I don't plan on going to all Iranian/Persian related articles and doing this. Just Afghanistan.
Sorry, I am unable to respond promptly as I am on vacation. I would suggest trying to go through dispute resolution (like going to the dispute resolution noticeboard). I don't think there's much to be gained by continuing to talk here. Danre98 (alt) ( talk) 14:09, 5 July 2021 (UTC)
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Danre98: Thank you for requesting dispute resolution at the dispute resolution noticeboard on our behalf. And thanks for adding my signature back on the noticeboard as I did in fact remove that in error.
@ MrAgentSochi: Thank you for taking the time and volunteering in order to help settle this dispute. I have never been involved in one of these before, so I am not sure how to proceed. However, I will say that I am not optimistic on reaching a resolution with Xerxes1985. As you have seen for yourself and noted on the dispute resolution noticeboard, Xerxes1985 has been aggressive and rude right from the get go. Xerxes1985 has threatened to report and ban me multiple times, for no reason whatsoever, throughout the course of this "discussion" on the talk page. Up until now, nothing has changed. Go and look at the last edit Xerxes1985 made on the noticeboard. Xerxes1985 added their own comments on a section clearly titled Summary of dispute by WikiEditUsername7. This is supposed to be a section for me and by me, where I can add my comments. When I removed Xerxes1985's comments and kindly asked Xerxes1985 to keep their comments on their own section aptly titled Summary of dispute by Xerxes1985, Xerxes1985 instantly reverted the edit and proceeded with the business as usual behavior of threatening me and my rights on WP again (see below)!
So please forgive me for my lack of optimism, but so far nothing has changed. Anyways, I have already proposed a more than fair solution to this problem. In the lead section, we can use the default when using Pashto/Dari native language spelling. In the infobox, we can use Nastaliq when using Pashto/Dari native language spelling. What are your thoughts on this MrAgentSochi? For example, in the lead section of the page on Kabul we would use کابل and in the infobox we would use کابل. While it makes more sense to use Nastaliq in both areas, I have proposed this for the sake of reaching consensus. Xerxes1985 has proposed nothing and has not budged at all from their position. WikiEditUsername7 ( talk) 22:32, 18 July 2021 (UTC)
Hello everyone!
The new projections for 2021-2022 have been published by the NSIA. You can find the full report below:
Let's get to work on updating the national and provincial numbers in regards to population. I've already started and completed this for Kunduz Province and Kabul Province. Would be great if I could get some help with the rest of the provinces/districts! If you make any edit, please put a check mark (✓) next to the province you updated so we can easily keep track of what still needs to be updated. WikiEditUsername7 ( talk) 21:27, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
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Hello, I have noticed that User:TompaDompa has redirected numerous terrorist attack articles this month, August 2021, including attacks that have occurred in Afghanistan. Many of the attacks killed dozens of people or more. If these attacks occurred in Western countries, they certainly would have independent articles. Redirecting the articles furthers a bias towards the West which is rampant on Wikipedia. Thriley ( talk) 18:58, 12 August 2021 (UTC)
secondary sources other than news media, such as scholarly journals or the work of recognized experts(to borrow a phrasing from a completely unrelated portion of WP:BLP), but the articles are of course usually written/updated when no such sources yet exist (and sometimes, those types of sources never materialize at all). I think we would be better off if we applied WP:NEWSEVENT much more strictly than we do at present, especially as it pertains to WP:DEPTH and WP:DURATION of coverage. TompaDompa ( talk) 23:10, 12 August 2021 (UTC)
I tried to keep Template:Diplomatic missions of Afghanistan and Template:Diplomatic missions in Afghanistan up to date. If people would find it useful for other language Wikipedias, here is a SPARKL query of all Diplomatic missions inside Afghanistan and all Afghani diplomatic missions in other states. I don't know what to say, but am sorry this is all happening now and my heart is with everyone in Afghanistan right now. ~ Shushugah (he/him • talk) 22:38, 15 August 2021 (UTC)
One year ago, I proposed that members should be moved to the less active section after one year of no edits (see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Afghanistan/Archive 3#Member inactivity). Now, I propose that members get moved to the former section instead of the less active section of the members list (I also would continue to notify editors that I have moved them, for an example see this edit). The less active section would continue to be used by editors that wish to be a part of this WikiProject but not as an active member. I thought I would post here and see if anyone had any thoughts as this would affect several (inactive) editors and their talk pages. I will leave this here for at least 7 days before doing anything. Danre98( talk^ contribs) 17:30, 4 August 2021 (UTC)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Samangan#Requested move 9 August 2021 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. ASUKITE 00:09, 18 August 2021 (UTC)
This Twitter thread has a load of redlinked English-language scholars on Afghanistan: Khadija Abbasi, Jawan Shir Rasikh, Shahram Khosravi, Anila Daulatzai, Paniz Musawi Natanzi, James Caron, Saadia Toor, Julie Billaud, Ayesha Khan, Timothy Nunan, Sab Gul Khattak, Martin Sökefeld, Zuzanna Olszewska, Nichola Khan, Elaheh Rostami-Povey, Francesca Fuoli, Aziz Hakimi / Aziz A. Hakimi, Kaweh Kerami, Wazhmah Osman, Ceri Oeppen, Zarena Aslami, Ahmad Qais Munhazim, Shahzad Bashir (historian), Nivi Manchanda, Emran Feroz, Faiz Ahmed, Benjamin Hopkins / Benjamin D. Hopkins, Niamatullah Ibrahimi, Fatima Mojaddedi, Elisabeth Leake, Abubakar Siddique, Nushin Arbabzadah, Nassim Majidi, Thomas Ruttig, Jelena Bjelica, Munazza Ebtikar, Lida Amiri, Marya Hannun, Marjan Wardaki, Hakeem Naim, Sana Haroon, Ali A. Olomi. Dsp13 ( talk) 10:15, 18 August 2021 (UTC)
What Arabic scripts should be permitted in Afghanistan-related articles for the native forms of proper names? Robert McClenon ( talk) 00:47, 31 July 2021 (UTC)
Enter 1 or 2 with a brief statement in the Survey. Do not reply to the statements by other editors. The Threaded Discussion section is the place for back-and-forth discussion. Robert McClenon ( talk) 00:47, 31 July 2021 (UTC)
One might say that MOS:FONTFAMILY precludes [Nastaliq's] use, however I disagree. The stated reasons is that it interferes with Wikipedia's flexibility and it's impossible to forsee what fonts are installed. I'm not sure how using Nastaliq in a limited way would interfere with Wikipedia's flexibility and if the user does not have Nastaliq installed Naskh is shown instead- so not being able to predict whether the user has a Nastaliq font installed is not an issue. This is also different than using a different English font in Wikipedia articles- there is a history and a meaning behind different scripts. Urdu on Pakistan articles uses Nastaliq and part of the why behind it is that almost everything in Urdu is written in Nastaliq. My understanding (which could very well be wrong) is that in Dari (Afghan Persian) Nastaliq is used in some circumstances, like for poetry. Unfortunately I was unable to find a reliable source on how it is used in Afghanistan. Because it is used in some circumstances, I think it shouldn't be disallowed.However, I had no idea about the process of proposing something and how consensus here will not be binding. Perhaps the best way to move forward is to write a regional WP:MOS page, have an RfC there and advertise it on the main MOS talk page as this is a style issue, however I don't know if a minor issue on Nastaliq vs Naskh is worth having an MOS page over (adding to WP:MOSCREEP). That way we wouldn't be imposing a local consensus here on the community. I think the result of this should only be incorporated into a WikiProject Advice page. Danre98( talk^ contribs) 22:48, 3 August 2021 (UTC)
Note: Links to previous discussions: Talk page above, Dispute resolution noticeboard. Danre98( talk^ contribs) 16:21, 2 August 2021 (UTC)
@ HistoryofIran:, @ Visioncurve: Pinging users who may have an opinion on this, there is a lot of overlap between Iran/Afghanistan history so this effects them as well. -- Cerebellum ( talk) 10:36, 5 August 2021 (UTC)
An editor has requested for Radio Kabul to be moved to Radio Afghanistan. Since you had some involvement with Radio Kabul, you might want to participate in the move discussion (if you have not already done so). Havelock Jones ( talk) 21:12, 24 September 2021 (UTC)
I don't particularly want to get into the debate of which flag should be used for sports teams/sporting events taking place currently, but there is absolutely no justification for using the Talibani flag for events such as the 1960 football Asian Cup qualification or the 2015 cricket World Cup. The Taliban flag was not used in these situations and the Taliban did not even exist during the former. Angele201002 ( talk) 20:48, 7 October 2021 (UTC)
{{flagicon|Afghanistan|2013}}
, you'll get the old flag:
. An effort to replace all preexisting usages of the Afghanistan flag with the 2013 version would be a good idea. —
Danre98(
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contribs) 21:11, 7 October 2021 (UTC)An editor has requested for Maulwai Shar Ahmad Emar to be moved to Sher Ahmad Ammar. Since you had some involvement with Maulwai Shar Ahmad Emar, you might want to participate in the move discussion (if you have not already done so). Havelock Jones ( talk) 10:09, 12 October 2021 (UTC)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Maulwai Shar Ahmad Emar#Requested move 26 September 2021 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. VR talk 12:33, 28 October 2021 (UTC)
Hi everyone,
I'm a podcast producer for a company in the UK and we're making a documentary series about Wikipedia. We've got an episode about how Wikipedia holds up as a breaking news source (whether it wants to be or not!) and how Wikipedians go about covering big events. I'd love to speak to someone who's been active on articles to do with what's going on in Afghanistan at the moment, whether you're in Afghanistan or surrounding countries, or further afield. I'd ask for a short research chat with the potential to do a recorded interview about how it all works. Please let me know if you'd be interested or if anyone you know would be a good fit. Thanks! Wearecrowd ( talk) 13:47, 15 September 2021 (UTC)
As the use of flags in the infobox seems to be causing some disagreement on this talk page I think it would be useful to reach a consensus specifically on this issue.
Option A Continue using the flag of the Taliban
Option B Return to the tricolour of the deposed republic
Option C Use both
Option D Use neither
Note: This discussion has been going on for a while but now seems to be roughly half and half split between those supporting option A and those suggesting another option so additional comments would be helpful.
-- Llewee ( talk) 16:07, 2 November 2021 (UTC)
I have nominated Siege of Malakand for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Bumbubookworm ( talk) 06:20, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
The BBC's 100 women of 2021 published on 7 December gives special focus to Afghanistan.-- Ipigott ( talk) 07:11, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
The article Afghan cuisine is in need for significant improvements in content and format. Please help improve this article if you can to get it up to higher quality standards. -- WR 20:05, 26 December 2021 (UTC)
This requested article has been submitted in draft to AfC, but the sources aren't enough. Is there anyone who can search in Afghani? The dish seems to also be popular in Israel, if anyone can search in Hebrew. valereee ( talk) 11:57, 9 January 2022 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion about whether individual rulers of Turk Shahis and Nezak Huns deserve individual pages. Relevant links are:
Thanks, TrangaBellam ( talk) 07:19, 14 January 2022 (UTC)
An editor has requested for Republic of Afghanistan to be moved to Republic of Afghanistan (1973–1978). Since you had some involvement with Republic of Afghanistan, you might want to participate in the move discussion (if you have not already done so). — Fourthords | =Λ= | 14:00, 2 February 2022 (UTC)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (1996–2001)#Requested move 22 February 2022 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Megan B.... It’s all coming to me till the end of time 19:42, 1 March 2022 (UTC)
I posted this at Portal talk:Afghanistan and talk:Afghanistan and got the advice to post here with a crossref from Wikipedia:NPOVN.
Images that illustrate topics about Afghanistan, particularly geographical locations, have a disproportionate share of images that depict the military. It's mostly the US military, but it's really a problem even when it's any military presence.
Any image of any place in Afghanistan that isn't simply a military base or installation should not have a military presence by default. It's simply not a neutral depiction of the country. Yes, it's been ravaged by war and conflcit for 40 years, but that's not a valid reason to make soldiers a default presence in something like half the picture here on Wikipedia. Including images of Afghan villages as a backdrop to military personnel is no more valid than depicting US cities as with police in the foreground of half the images.
Please help fix this by switching out images of the military, regardles of nationality, with more neutral photos.
Peter Isotalo 13:46, 5 February 2022 (UTC)
Is there anyone who can romanize Pashto and Dari according to Wikipedia:Romanization? The titles at Leader of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan need it. Thanks. ― Tartan357 Talk 08:59, 2 April 2022 (UTC)
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Hey guys, I've done a major overhaul on Afghan Wireless in the past year. Would somebody re-assess the article and give me some feedback on it? I'd love to expand it further but I think I need someone with specialist knowledge to point me towards some sources. Thanks! A Train talk 00:13, 19 October 2017 (UTC)
Wikipedia has many thousands of wikilinks which point to disambiguation pages. It would be useful to readers if these links directed them to the specific pages of interest, rather than making them search through a list. Members of WikiProject Disambiguation have been working on this and the total number is now below 20,000 for the first time. Some of these links require specialist knowledge of the topics concerned and therefore it would be great if you could help in your area of expertise.
A list of the relevant links on pages which fall within the remit of this wikiproject can be found at http://69.142.160.183/~dispenser/cgi-bin/topic_points.py?banner=WikiProject_Afghanistan
Please take a few minutes to help make these more useful to our readers.— Rod talk 12:54, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
Could a Pashto speaker please visit Red Group and provide the Pashto spelling for the Sara Kheta unit of the Taliban? Thanks! MatthewVanitas ( talk) 20:51, 3 February 2018 (UTC)
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I don't have the subject matter expertise to review Draft:Sanctions against Afghanistan. Could somebody take a look at it and leave comments? -- RoySmith (talk) 00:57, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
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Could someone please cast an eye over Saandi (Baloch tribe)? The article has been called "Sadozai" for years, but last year the text was rewritten to say "Saandi" and the page itself was renamed a few weeks ago. At Wikidata, the English label was recently changed from "Sadozai" to "Sadduzai". I'm not familiar with the subject matter and there are no references for me to follow up. Can we reach a consensus about the correct name? Are these all valid aliases? Are there any references available? Thanks, Bovlb ( talk) 23:52, 14 July 2018 (UTC)
I would need help at the newly created Karim Asir. Bus stop ( talk) 21:27, 13 September 2018 (UTC)
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I just found this book chapter, "Firuzkuh: Summer Capital of the Ghurids" has sensational detail about the city. The wiki page is here and could use expansion, especially on such an interesting topic. I plan to go through it and add a bunch of material over the next week, but if anyone else wants to help, here's the link and here's the citation.
Thomas, David. "Firuzkuh: The Summer Capital of the Ghurids". In Bennison, Amira K.; Gascoigne, Alison L. (eds.).
Cities in the pre-modern Islamic world : the urban impact of religion, state and society (1st ed ed.). Milton Park, Abingdon, UK. pp. 115–144.
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Let me know if you know of any other sources as well! Ganesha811 ( talk) 15:03, 16 May 2019 (UTC)
Greetings, On the Assessment page, I added a section for "Popular pages", a bot-generated list of pageviews, useful for focused cleanup of frequently viewed articles. Regards, JoeHebda ( talk) 19:23, 15 August 2019 (UTC)
Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.
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Hi there, I wanted to find if it is good to change the current infobox in the Islamic State of Afghanistan to the one below.
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The article Abdul W. Haqiqi has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
Does not meet WP:GNG. I could only find trivial mentions saying he is an author and economist. Additionally, fails WP:AUTHOR parts 1,2,3,4. His contributions are not significant enough. Please leave a note on the article talk page if you disagree, and explain why. Note: the article was created by a WP:SPA
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Greetings - For WP Afghanistan, I added progression, pie chart, rainbow & wikilinks "Quality operations" and "Popular pages". JoeNMLC ( talk) 12:48, 16 July 2020 (UTC)
The page for the President is getting a lot of vandalism. I started a discussion on the talk page, but I need an administrator to add extended confirmed protection. Irtapil ( talk) 09:57, 18 July 2020 (UTC)
There is currently a talk/discussion going on with an Indian user who wants to add Afghanistan to the article of the Indian subcontinent, some of you might be interested in participating and contributing in the talk. /info/en/?search=Talk:Indian_subcontinent#Afghanistan -- Xerxes931 ( talk) 15:30, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion about the meaning of the term Hindu Kush going on, despite all the major modern and historic sources, as well as a basic Persian dictionary stating the term to mean "Hindu-Slayer", a few offended people and others not knowing much about the topic want to remove the name from the lead. Would love to hear you guys opinion about this by leaving a message on the talk page there too! /info/en/?search=Talk:Hindu_Kush#Comments_by_other_editors -- Xerxes931 ( talk) 15:29, 27 August 2020 (UTC)
Danre98 @ Danre98: This might be interesting for you as well -- Xerxes931 ( talk) 15:29, 27 August 2020 (UTC)
When should we move members from the active to semi-active section on the members list? I was thinking 1 year (as that is when you get desysoped for inactivity).-- Danre98( talk^ contribs) 05:40, 30 July 2020 (UTC)
Clarification: removed after 1 year with no edits. -- Danre98( talk^ contribs) 19:33, 25 August 2020 (UTC)
I'm implementing this as it seems uncontroversial, and nobody opposed. -- Danre98( talk^ contribs) 01:31, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
Recently I've created an guideline on Afghan districts and a new article feed. Both would benefit from others helping out, but the feed especially could use work.
I propose adding five new tabs to the template Wikipedia:WikiProject Afghanistan/Template:afghan-start and removing three tabs:
Thoughts? -- Danre98( talk^ contribs) 02:07, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
@ Xerxes931:@ Akmal94:@ Cerebellum: Could you all please take a look? You three were the people listed under "active members" and had made ~10 edits in the past month. Pinging as (1) nobody responds to anything here and (2) this is the sort of thing I need to make sure I'm not screwing up before I do it. -- Danre98( talk^ contribs) 20:04, 4 September 2020 (UTC)
I've created a sandbox for the template showing what I'm thinking at WP:WikiProject Afghanistan/Template:afghan-start/sandbox.-- Danre98( talk^ contribs) 20:07, 4 September 2020 (UTC)
From 1 October to 31 December, Women in Red is running a virtual contest on Asian women. In November, this will coincide with Wikipedia Asian Month. We look forward to strong participation from all those interested in improving coverage of Afghan women.-- Ipigott ( talk) 19:17, 21 September 2020 (UTC)
A complex RfC is going on. Uninvolved editors needed at the discussion. Aditya( talk • contribs) 06:41, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
I need someone to pronounce اوږد in the Wardak dialect [with foucs on ʝ] so I can upload it to the dialects page. Also from the Wardak dialect pronouncing any words with ږ ښ. If you speak any other dialect upload any words with ښ ږ څ ځ ژ. If you upload the file on Wikimedia Commons and post it to my talk page specifying - I will add it to the dialects page. Its to raise awareness on Pashto dialects
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There is a discussion on the talk page about a disputed sentence. Is it possible for members of this project to make a comment there? Aditya( ✉ • ⚒) 03:04, 5 December 2020 (UTC)
Hello! A recent CfD decided to merge Category:Former Countries of Afghanistan to Category:Former countries in Central Asia and Category:History of Afghanistan. That means replacing the old category with one of these or possibly something else. Mergers like these are best carried out by someone familiar with the subject matter so it would be great if someone here could help out. When you're done you can either ping me or nominate the category for deletion with {{ db-xfd|votepage=Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2021_February_15#Category:Former_Countries_of_Afghanistan}}. Thanks! -- Trialpears ( talk) 13:57, 19 March 2021 (UTC)
Layla Alizada 24,141 804 Stub-- Coin945 ( talk) 16:15, 29 May 2021 (UTC)
An RFC has been opened on the subject of whether or not a live military situation map of the war in Afghanistan that is partly sourced to the Taliban should be included on EN Wiki. The RFC can be seen here. FOARP ( talk) 09:09, 4 July 2021 (UTC)
This user [1] is adding the Nastaliq writing style, which is not the common script in Afghanistan, nor does it meet the standards of Persian script on WP, on every single Afghanistan-related article. I tried reverting a few but they are way too much to do it all by myself, if anyone can help out and restore all the articles I would really appreciate it -- Xerxes1985 ( talk) 18:55, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
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Xerxes1985: Hello. I'm sorry, I do not have time to give you a detailed write up on the history of the use of Nastaliq script in Afghanistan. It's very common on book covers and the introduction section of books written in Farsi and Pashto. As you can see, I am only including the Nastaliq script in the introductions and infoboxes (kind of like the "book cover" of the page, if you will). Can you read Farsi and/or Pashto? Do you read books in those languages? As an example, take a look at some of the books on Ahmad Shah Durrani. Note that the books below are written in both Farsi/Dari and Pashto. Pay special attention to the picture of the book covers on each one, it will give you a better understanding and increase you in knowledge.
It is a beautiful and calligraphic script that we will be taking advantage of using on pages regarding Afghans and Afghan history.
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Xerxes1985: Thank you for changing your tone in this latest message, I appreciate that. I understand what you are saying. I agree, the bulk of every book written in Dari and Pashto is written in the standard Perso-Arabic script (with Pashto having additional few letters on top of it). I think the calligraphic script does make sense here though, as the lead section and the infobox are basically like the cover/intro of a book. One of my goals is to make all of the pages about Afghans/Afghanistan have more of a formal lead section and infobox, with the inclusion of Dari and Pashto language spelling for every entry, and the use of the Nastaliq script. I know this is Wikipedia English, but in my opinion using the calligraphic scripts it adds a hint of authenticity to these pages about Afghans/Afghanistan and differentiates them from pages about the Arab world, Indian subcontinent, etc. I don't think using the calligraphic script takes away from the quality, authenticity, or integrity of the page at all. Can we agree to just leave it on?
Also, may I ask why you keep replacing Dari with Persian? It is the standard name of the language (or dialect of Persian if you want) as defined by the state. For the sake of accuracy and sticking to the standards, we should be using Dari/ Pashto for all articles about Afghans/Afghanistan. If the use of a regional language applies, we should use the regional language as well. For example, Nimruz. It's the only province in Afghanistan where the Baloch ethnic group are the dominant ethnic group. In this case it makes sense to use Dari/Pashto as well as Balochi as follows:
Pashto/ Dari: نيمروز; Balochi: نِمروز
In the case that the Dari spelling is different than the Pashto spelling, it makes sense to seperate them like in the example of Kunduz:
What do you think?
P.S I don't plan on going to all Iranian/Persian related articles and doing this. Just Afghanistan.
Sorry, I am unable to respond promptly as I am on vacation. I would suggest trying to go through dispute resolution (like going to the dispute resolution noticeboard). I don't think there's much to be gained by continuing to talk here. Danre98 (alt) ( talk) 14:09, 5 July 2021 (UTC)
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Danre98: Thank you for requesting dispute resolution at the dispute resolution noticeboard on our behalf. And thanks for adding my signature back on the noticeboard as I did in fact remove that in error.
@ MrAgentSochi: Thank you for taking the time and volunteering in order to help settle this dispute. I have never been involved in one of these before, so I am not sure how to proceed. However, I will say that I am not optimistic on reaching a resolution with Xerxes1985. As you have seen for yourself and noted on the dispute resolution noticeboard, Xerxes1985 has been aggressive and rude right from the get go. Xerxes1985 has threatened to report and ban me multiple times, for no reason whatsoever, throughout the course of this "discussion" on the talk page. Up until now, nothing has changed. Go and look at the last edit Xerxes1985 made on the noticeboard. Xerxes1985 added their own comments on a section clearly titled Summary of dispute by WikiEditUsername7. This is supposed to be a section for me and by me, where I can add my comments. When I removed Xerxes1985's comments and kindly asked Xerxes1985 to keep their comments on their own section aptly titled Summary of dispute by Xerxes1985, Xerxes1985 instantly reverted the edit and proceeded with the business as usual behavior of threatening me and my rights on WP again (see below)!
So please forgive me for my lack of optimism, but so far nothing has changed. Anyways, I have already proposed a more than fair solution to this problem. In the lead section, we can use the default when using Pashto/Dari native language spelling. In the infobox, we can use Nastaliq when using Pashto/Dari native language spelling. What are your thoughts on this MrAgentSochi? For example, in the lead section of the page on Kabul we would use کابل and in the infobox we would use کابل. While it makes more sense to use Nastaliq in both areas, I have proposed this for the sake of reaching consensus. Xerxes1985 has proposed nothing and has not budged at all from their position. WikiEditUsername7 ( talk) 22:32, 18 July 2021 (UTC)
Hello everyone!
The new projections for 2021-2022 have been published by the NSIA. You can find the full report below:
Let's get to work on updating the national and provincial numbers in regards to population. I've already started and completed this for Kunduz Province and Kabul Province. Would be great if I could get some help with the rest of the provinces/districts! If you make any edit, please put a check mark (✓) next to the province you updated so we can easily keep track of what still needs to be updated. WikiEditUsername7 ( talk) 21:27, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
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Hello, I have noticed that User:TompaDompa has redirected numerous terrorist attack articles this month, August 2021, including attacks that have occurred in Afghanistan. Many of the attacks killed dozens of people or more. If these attacks occurred in Western countries, they certainly would have independent articles. Redirecting the articles furthers a bias towards the West which is rampant on Wikipedia. Thriley ( talk) 18:58, 12 August 2021 (UTC)
secondary sources other than news media, such as scholarly journals or the work of recognized experts(to borrow a phrasing from a completely unrelated portion of WP:BLP), but the articles are of course usually written/updated when no such sources yet exist (and sometimes, those types of sources never materialize at all). I think we would be better off if we applied WP:NEWSEVENT much more strictly than we do at present, especially as it pertains to WP:DEPTH and WP:DURATION of coverage. TompaDompa ( talk) 23:10, 12 August 2021 (UTC)
I tried to keep Template:Diplomatic missions of Afghanistan and Template:Diplomatic missions in Afghanistan up to date. If people would find it useful for other language Wikipedias, here is a SPARKL query of all Diplomatic missions inside Afghanistan and all Afghani diplomatic missions in other states. I don't know what to say, but am sorry this is all happening now and my heart is with everyone in Afghanistan right now. ~ Shushugah (he/him • talk) 22:38, 15 August 2021 (UTC)
One year ago, I proposed that members should be moved to the less active section after one year of no edits (see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Afghanistan/Archive 3#Member inactivity). Now, I propose that members get moved to the former section instead of the less active section of the members list (I also would continue to notify editors that I have moved them, for an example see this edit). The less active section would continue to be used by editors that wish to be a part of this WikiProject but not as an active member. I thought I would post here and see if anyone had any thoughts as this would affect several (inactive) editors and their talk pages. I will leave this here for at least 7 days before doing anything. Danre98( talk^ contribs) 17:30, 4 August 2021 (UTC)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Samangan#Requested move 9 August 2021 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. ASUKITE 00:09, 18 August 2021 (UTC)
This Twitter thread has a load of redlinked English-language scholars on Afghanistan: Khadija Abbasi, Jawan Shir Rasikh, Shahram Khosravi, Anila Daulatzai, Paniz Musawi Natanzi, James Caron, Saadia Toor, Julie Billaud, Ayesha Khan, Timothy Nunan, Sab Gul Khattak, Martin Sökefeld, Zuzanna Olszewska, Nichola Khan, Elaheh Rostami-Povey, Francesca Fuoli, Aziz Hakimi / Aziz A. Hakimi, Kaweh Kerami, Wazhmah Osman, Ceri Oeppen, Zarena Aslami, Ahmad Qais Munhazim, Shahzad Bashir (historian), Nivi Manchanda, Emran Feroz, Faiz Ahmed, Benjamin Hopkins / Benjamin D. Hopkins, Niamatullah Ibrahimi, Fatima Mojaddedi, Elisabeth Leake, Abubakar Siddique, Nushin Arbabzadah, Nassim Majidi, Thomas Ruttig, Jelena Bjelica, Munazza Ebtikar, Lida Amiri, Marya Hannun, Marjan Wardaki, Hakeem Naim, Sana Haroon, Ali A. Olomi. Dsp13 ( talk) 10:15, 18 August 2021 (UTC)
What Arabic scripts should be permitted in Afghanistan-related articles for the native forms of proper names? Robert McClenon ( talk) 00:47, 31 July 2021 (UTC)
Enter 1 or 2 with a brief statement in the Survey. Do not reply to the statements by other editors. The Threaded Discussion section is the place for back-and-forth discussion. Robert McClenon ( talk) 00:47, 31 July 2021 (UTC)
One might say that MOS:FONTFAMILY precludes [Nastaliq's] use, however I disagree. The stated reasons is that it interferes with Wikipedia's flexibility and it's impossible to forsee what fonts are installed. I'm not sure how using Nastaliq in a limited way would interfere with Wikipedia's flexibility and if the user does not have Nastaliq installed Naskh is shown instead- so not being able to predict whether the user has a Nastaliq font installed is not an issue. This is also different than using a different English font in Wikipedia articles- there is a history and a meaning behind different scripts. Urdu on Pakistan articles uses Nastaliq and part of the why behind it is that almost everything in Urdu is written in Nastaliq. My understanding (which could very well be wrong) is that in Dari (Afghan Persian) Nastaliq is used in some circumstances, like for poetry. Unfortunately I was unable to find a reliable source on how it is used in Afghanistan. Because it is used in some circumstances, I think it shouldn't be disallowed.However, I had no idea about the process of proposing something and how consensus here will not be binding. Perhaps the best way to move forward is to write a regional WP:MOS page, have an RfC there and advertise it on the main MOS talk page as this is a style issue, however I don't know if a minor issue on Nastaliq vs Naskh is worth having an MOS page over (adding to WP:MOSCREEP). That way we wouldn't be imposing a local consensus here on the community. I think the result of this should only be incorporated into a WikiProject Advice page. Danre98( talk^ contribs) 22:48, 3 August 2021 (UTC)
Note: Links to previous discussions: Talk page above, Dispute resolution noticeboard. Danre98( talk^ contribs) 16:21, 2 August 2021 (UTC)
@ HistoryofIran:, @ Visioncurve: Pinging users who may have an opinion on this, there is a lot of overlap between Iran/Afghanistan history so this effects them as well. -- Cerebellum ( talk) 10:36, 5 August 2021 (UTC)
An editor has requested for Radio Kabul to be moved to Radio Afghanistan. Since you had some involvement with Radio Kabul, you might want to participate in the move discussion (if you have not already done so). Havelock Jones ( talk) 21:12, 24 September 2021 (UTC)
I don't particularly want to get into the debate of which flag should be used for sports teams/sporting events taking place currently, but there is absolutely no justification for using the Talibani flag for events such as the 1960 football Asian Cup qualification or the 2015 cricket World Cup. The Taliban flag was not used in these situations and the Taliban did not even exist during the former. Angele201002 ( talk) 20:48, 7 October 2021 (UTC)
{{flagicon|Afghanistan|2013}}
, you'll get the old flag:
. An effort to replace all preexisting usages of the Afghanistan flag with the 2013 version would be a good idea. —
Danre98(
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contribs) 21:11, 7 October 2021 (UTC)An editor has requested for Maulwai Shar Ahmad Emar to be moved to Sher Ahmad Ammar. Since you had some involvement with Maulwai Shar Ahmad Emar, you might want to participate in the move discussion (if you have not already done so). Havelock Jones ( talk) 10:09, 12 October 2021 (UTC)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Maulwai Shar Ahmad Emar#Requested move 26 September 2021 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. VR talk 12:33, 28 October 2021 (UTC)
Hi everyone,
I'm a podcast producer for a company in the UK and we're making a documentary series about Wikipedia. We've got an episode about how Wikipedia holds up as a breaking news source (whether it wants to be or not!) and how Wikipedians go about covering big events. I'd love to speak to someone who's been active on articles to do with what's going on in Afghanistan at the moment, whether you're in Afghanistan or surrounding countries, or further afield. I'd ask for a short research chat with the potential to do a recorded interview about how it all works. Please let me know if you'd be interested or if anyone you know would be a good fit. Thanks! Wearecrowd ( talk) 13:47, 15 September 2021 (UTC)
As the use of flags in the infobox seems to be causing some disagreement on this talk page I think it would be useful to reach a consensus specifically on this issue.
Option A Continue using the flag of the Taliban
Option B Return to the tricolour of the deposed republic
Option C Use both
Option D Use neither
Note: This discussion has been going on for a while but now seems to be roughly half and half split between those supporting option A and those suggesting another option so additional comments would be helpful.
-- Llewee ( talk) 16:07, 2 November 2021 (UTC)
I have nominated Siege of Malakand for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Bumbubookworm ( talk) 06:20, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
The BBC's 100 women of 2021 published on 7 December gives special focus to Afghanistan.-- Ipigott ( talk) 07:11, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
The article Afghan cuisine is in need for significant improvements in content and format. Please help improve this article if you can to get it up to higher quality standards. -- WR 20:05, 26 December 2021 (UTC)
This requested article has been submitted in draft to AfC, but the sources aren't enough. Is there anyone who can search in Afghani? The dish seems to also be popular in Israel, if anyone can search in Hebrew. valereee ( talk) 11:57, 9 January 2022 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion about whether individual rulers of Turk Shahis and Nezak Huns deserve individual pages. Relevant links are:
Thanks, TrangaBellam ( talk) 07:19, 14 January 2022 (UTC)
An editor has requested for Republic of Afghanistan to be moved to Republic of Afghanistan (1973–1978). Since you had some involvement with Republic of Afghanistan, you might want to participate in the move discussion (if you have not already done so). — Fourthords | =Λ= | 14:00, 2 February 2022 (UTC)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (1996–2001)#Requested move 22 February 2022 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Megan B.... It’s all coming to me till the end of time 19:42, 1 March 2022 (UTC)
I posted this at Portal talk:Afghanistan and talk:Afghanistan and got the advice to post here with a crossref from Wikipedia:NPOVN.
Images that illustrate topics about Afghanistan, particularly geographical locations, have a disproportionate share of images that depict the military. It's mostly the US military, but it's really a problem even when it's any military presence.
Any image of any place in Afghanistan that isn't simply a military base or installation should not have a military presence by default. It's simply not a neutral depiction of the country. Yes, it's been ravaged by war and conflcit for 40 years, but that's not a valid reason to make soldiers a default presence in something like half the picture here on Wikipedia. Including images of Afghan villages as a backdrop to military personnel is no more valid than depicting US cities as with police in the foreground of half the images.
Please help fix this by switching out images of the military, regardles of nationality, with more neutral photos.
Peter Isotalo 13:46, 5 February 2022 (UTC)
Is there anyone who can romanize Pashto and Dari according to Wikipedia:Romanization? The titles at Leader of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan need it. Thanks. ― Tartan357 Talk 08:59, 2 April 2022 (UTC)