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I would consider extending the range to Afghanistan, Tibet, Ladakh, and Tuva. Chris 21:55, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
I have some reservations on what regions should or should not be included in this project. For example, although Mongolia has strong historical importance to Central Asia, the country itself is definitely not geographically Central Asian. I also don't see why Tibet and Ladakh qualify. On the flipside, if Tuva is to be included (presumably on an ethnic basis) then so should the Altai Republic and perhaps some other regions in the southern Russian Federation.
So in other words, on what basis are we including some regions and excluding others? My feeling is that since there is a consensus on what is "core" CA (i.e. Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan), the Wiki project should expand as appropriate from there, on the basis of the geographic and ethnic qualities of surrounding areas.
Thoughts? -- Hux 18:29, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
How does this look for starters? Template:WikiProject Central Asia -- Chris 04:50, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
Hey all, this isn't exactly related, but there is a poll going down at Talk:Georgia (country), it would be great to have your input. - FrancisTyers · 17:46, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
I know this is the second spam of the day, but at least this one is kind of related :) Could interested parties take a look at Tajik alphabet and give ideas on the talk page, or at the peer review page for how it can be improved? Many thanks - FrancisTyers · 18:39, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
The article on Udmurts says nothing about them living in Central Asia, so it's not clear why Udmurt language is in the list here. Perhaps some information is missing in Udmurts and should be added, or the inclusion of Udmurt language here is an error?-- Imz 18:54, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
I took a risk to structure the project page a bit. Any remarks will be appreciated. RamBow 20:13, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
Hey hey! Excellent program you have going on here. I just thought I'd stop in and recommend you add Lake Balkhash to your project. It is also part of the WP:LAKES, and I would love to see someone with experience in the REGION add some more details. Of particular interest might be the Sino-Russian treaty that directly involves the lake. Anyhoo ... keep up the good work folks! Em3rald 00:56, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
These two articles ( Pakol and Pakul) probably should be merged. I've put a merge suggestion on the pages, but could people weigh in regarding preferred spelling? Aelfthrytha 03:08, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
Regarding, "Making contact with people currently in Central Asian countries to request use of their photographs or to request that they take photographs for us." I'd just like to point out that I live in Bishkek and am open to photo requests. I also have a photo album and would be happy to contribute anything relevant under the GFDL license. :) -- Hux 20:25, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
i would appreciate it if someone created a grammer problems section. that way i could find those articles easily and corret the mistakes in them, so that they look more professional. thanks in advance. Iranian Patriot 16:01, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
After collecting all the stubs related to Central Asia, tagging them {{ CAsia-stub}} and counting up, I've just proposed a boatload of new stubs that will hopefully help to better organize our project here. Here's a link to my proposal so the rest can see and comment: Central Asia Stub Proposal. Aelfthrytha 04:25, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
From today until 5 or 6 August I'll be on vacation, so don't look for me around here! :D Aelfthrytha 16:55, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
When i look at the ist of participants i see that majority are from Iran and have Persian nicknames. Central Asia is populated mostly by Turkic people and irani nationalists have an ideal of making the region a part of greater iran. i think the persian majority of participants will affect the neutrality of the project in a negative way, more Turkic participants are requiered. Irani people are minority in the region but are majority in the project, this is unacceptable for Turkic people. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 85.104.146.79 ( talk • contribs) .
I am a Turkic, but even Bantu has a right to edit this artice. abdulnr 23:43, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
I think we should add Manchuria to this project. Then I'd like to participate, since my scope of interests lies from Mongolia to Manchuria. One supportive fact is that the Central Asiatic Journal covers the region [1]. -- Nanshu 22:39, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
That's an expected reaction. And that's why I referred to the Central Asiatic Journal.
Hmm. I was invited by Aelfthrytha, but looks like I'm not really welcome here. Maybe Manchuria needs its own Wikiproject. -- Nanshu 21:33, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
This is what I work on. If you think I could be useful I'd be happy to help. Sikandarji 16:45, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I've uploaded around three or four dozen pictures from Kabul and Afghanistan. I've got at least 400 more, but I don't really have adequate access to internet because I'm in Afghanistan and because of the speed limits, I can't update or edit them into pages. Can anyone volunteer to at least place the uploaded pictures? Casimiri 12:01, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
I think the picture for the project needs to be changed.
I think it's a bit too small. How about this?: Image:Bibi Khonym Mosque.jpg -- Clevelander 14:09, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
- one more proposal Jsx 10:14, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
A member of the Tajik Wikipedia, tg:User:Ibrahim kindly allowed some of his photos from Aşgabat to be uploaded under the GFDL. See the commons category, here. - FrancisTyers · 15:15, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
I have been working on creating some of the Districts of Afghanistan. There are 398 districts, and only 60ish have articles, so it'll take a while. I'd appreciate any input on naming conventions - see Category talk:Districts of Afghanistan.
There is a huge amount of info available at the Afghanistan Information Management Service. Does this project need a separate page listing sources? -- OpenToppedBus - Talk to the driver 09:06, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
A while ago it was suggested that we coordinate our efforts as a group by taking a poll about which articles or topics to focus attention on. On the main page, there are plenty of options for projects. The suggestion I would make would be to focus on Turkmenistan for a while (month? week? other time period?) because the least information of any of these countries is available on it. Opinions? Aelfthrytha 01:31, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
I've created a category for Central Asian Studies. It's mostly links to articles on scholars in the field. Would people be okay if requested articles for Central Asian Studies were added to the WikiProject Central Asia page? There are a number of notable researchers and authors of important works on Central Asia that have yet to be added to Wikipedia. I'm interested in anyone’s feed back. -- David Straub 02:17, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
Anybody can read tibetan letters? I need some help to identify buddhist rock carvings near Ili river. More pictures of the inscriptions are available. Jsx 10:38, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
I wish to work on and contribute to articles regarding historical tribes, khaganates, and individuals, in the Central Asian area up through the Ming Dynasty China era. I am a relatively inexperienced wikipediast, but a moderately experienced editor (editor for Korea of the Journal of Asian Studies in the late 1960's). I spent three years teaching as a faculty member in the then Department of Uralic and Altaic Studies at Indiana University. While my doctorate is in Korean Studies, I have a good background in Classical Chinese and Japanese as well as Korean and have studied some Khalkha Mongolian (many years ago) and dabbled in the East Turkic of the Orkhon and Yenisei inscriptions. Years ago I developed a special interest in the Uygurs while studying and tracing the lineage of a Uygur family (偰氏)that had been influential in the Yuan Court 元朝 and subsequently in the Goryeo and Choseon Courts 高麗朝 & 朝鮮朝 in Korea. I am semi-retired, still teaching three days a week and have some physical challenges, but wish to participate in this project contributing articles on the Xianbei, Ruan-ruan, Hepthalites, Kokturkut, Uygur, (tribes, khaganates, etc. I read Cyrillic and have some German, Russian, Spanish, Latin, etc., in addition to Korean, Japanese, and Chinese. Doc Rock 19:23, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
Hello,
I just wanted to let you know about various deletion lists maintained by the deletion sorting WikiProject. Not all countries in Central Asia have their own pages, but you might want to keep an eye on Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Afghanistan, Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Tajikistan, and Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Kazakhstan. You can monitor these pages to see if there are any current AfD debates related to those countries. (Afghanistan has been especially active).
The Deletion Sorting WikiProject is currently in a state of flux; if you are interested in making it better, please visit the discussion page. Cheers, -- Visviva 09:32, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
We have Dzungaria and Dzungar people but Zunghar Khanate. It would be nice to reconcile the various spellings into something consistent. Are there any established spelling conventions in Wikipedia that would determine which spelling is preferred? Bertport ( talk) 15:33, 13 January 2011 (UTC)
This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 1 | Archive 2 | Archive 3 | → | Archive 5 |
Central Asia Project‑class | |||||||
|
I would consider extending the range to Afghanistan, Tibet, Ladakh, and Tuva. Chris 21:55, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
I have some reservations on what regions should or should not be included in this project. For example, although Mongolia has strong historical importance to Central Asia, the country itself is definitely not geographically Central Asian. I also don't see why Tibet and Ladakh qualify. On the flipside, if Tuva is to be included (presumably on an ethnic basis) then so should the Altai Republic and perhaps some other regions in the southern Russian Federation.
So in other words, on what basis are we including some regions and excluding others? My feeling is that since there is a consensus on what is "core" CA (i.e. Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan), the Wiki project should expand as appropriate from there, on the basis of the geographic and ethnic qualities of surrounding areas.
Thoughts? -- Hux 18:29, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
How does this look for starters? Template:WikiProject Central Asia -- Chris 04:50, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
Hey all, this isn't exactly related, but there is a poll going down at Talk:Georgia (country), it would be great to have your input. - FrancisTyers · 17:46, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
I know this is the second spam of the day, but at least this one is kind of related :) Could interested parties take a look at Tajik alphabet and give ideas on the talk page, or at the peer review page for how it can be improved? Many thanks - FrancisTyers · 18:39, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
The article on Udmurts says nothing about them living in Central Asia, so it's not clear why Udmurt language is in the list here. Perhaps some information is missing in Udmurts and should be added, or the inclusion of Udmurt language here is an error?-- Imz 18:54, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
I took a risk to structure the project page a bit. Any remarks will be appreciated. RamBow 20:13, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
Hey hey! Excellent program you have going on here. I just thought I'd stop in and recommend you add Lake Balkhash to your project. It is also part of the WP:LAKES, and I would love to see someone with experience in the REGION add some more details. Of particular interest might be the Sino-Russian treaty that directly involves the lake. Anyhoo ... keep up the good work folks! Em3rald 00:56, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
These two articles ( Pakol and Pakul) probably should be merged. I've put a merge suggestion on the pages, but could people weigh in regarding preferred spelling? Aelfthrytha 03:08, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
Regarding, "Making contact with people currently in Central Asian countries to request use of their photographs or to request that they take photographs for us." I'd just like to point out that I live in Bishkek and am open to photo requests. I also have a photo album and would be happy to contribute anything relevant under the GFDL license. :) -- Hux 20:25, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
i would appreciate it if someone created a grammer problems section. that way i could find those articles easily and corret the mistakes in them, so that they look more professional. thanks in advance. Iranian Patriot 16:01, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
After collecting all the stubs related to Central Asia, tagging them {{ CAsia-stub}} and counting up, I've just proposed a boatload of new stubs that will hopefully help to better organize our project here. Here's a link to my proposal so the rest can see and comment: Central Asia Stub Proposal. Aelfthrytha 04:25, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
From today until 5 or 6 August I'll be on vacation, so don't look for me around here! :D Aelfthrytha 16:55, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
When i look at the ist of participants i see that majority are from Iran and have Persian nicknames. Central Asia is populated mostly by Turkic people and irani nationalists have an ideal of making the region a part of greater iran. i think the persian majority of participants will affect the neutrality of the project in a negative way, more Turkic participants are requiered. Irani people are minority in the region but are majority in the project, this is unacceptable for Turkic people. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 85.104.146.79 ( talk • contribs) .
I am a Turkic, but even Bantu has a right to edit this artice. abdulnr 23:43, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
I think we should add Manchuria to this project. Then I'd like to participate, since my scope of interests lies from Mongolia to Manchuria. One supportive fact is that the Central Asiatic Journal covers the region [1]. -- Nanshu 22:39, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
That's an expected reaction. And that's why I referred to the Central Asiatic Journal.
Hmm. I was invited by Aelfthrytha, but looks like I'm not really welcome here. Maybe Manchuria needs its own Wikiproject. -- Nanshu 21:33, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
This is what I work on. If you think I could be useful I'd be happy to help. Sikandarji 16:45, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I've uploaded around three or four dozen pictures from Kabul and Afghanistan. I've got at least 400 more, but I don't really have adequate access to internet because I'm in Afghanistan and because of the speed limits, I can't update or edit them into pages. Can anyone volunteer to at least place the uploaded pictures? Casimiri 12:01, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
I think the picture for the project needs to be changed.
I think it's a bit too small. How about this?: Image:Bibi Khonym Mosque.jpg -- Clevelander 14:09, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
- one more proposal Jsx 10:14, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
A member of the Tajik Wikipedia, tg:User:Ibrahim kindly allowed some of his photos from Aşgabat to be uploaded under the GFDL. See the commons category, here. - FrancisTyers · 15:15, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
I have been working on creating some of the Districts of Afghanistan. There are 398 districts, and only 60ish have articles, so it'll take a while. I'd appreciate any input on naming conventions - see Category talk:Districts of Afghanistan.
There is a huge amount of info available at the Afghanistan Information Management Service. Does this project need a separate page listing sources? -- OpenToppedBus - Talk to the driver 09:06, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
A while ago it was suggested that we coordinate our efforts as a group by taking a poll about which articles or topics to focus attention on. On the main page, there are plenty of options for projects. The suggestion I would make would be to focus on Turkmenistan for a while (month? week? other time period?) because the least information of any of these countries is available on it. Opinions? Aelfthrytha 01:31, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
I've created a category for Central Asian Studies. It's mostly links to articles on scholars in the field. Would people be okay if requested articles for Central Asian Studies were added to the WikiProject Central Asia page? There are a number of notable researchers and authors of important works on Central Asia that have yet to be added to Wikipedia. I'm interested in anyone’s feed back. -- David Straub 02:17, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
Anybody can read tibetan letters? I need some help to identify buddhist rock carvings near Ili river. More pictures of the inscriptions are available. Jsx 10:38, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
I wish to work on and contribute to articles regarding historical tribes, khaganates, and individuals, in the Central Asian area up through the Ming Dynasty China era. I am a relatively inexperienced wikipediast, but a moderately experienced editor (editor for Korea of the Journal of Asian Studies in the late 1960's). I spent three years teaching as a faculty member in the then Department of Uralic and Altaic Studies at Indiana University. While my doctorate is in Korean Studies, I have a good background in Classical Chinese and Japanese as well as Korean and have studied some Khalkha Mongolian (many years ago) and dabbled in the East Turkic of the Orkhon and Yenisei inscriptions. Years ago I developed a special interest in the Uygurs while studying and tracing the lineage of a Uygur family (偰氏)that had been influential in the Yuan Court 元朝 and subsequently in the Goryeo and Choseon Courts 高麗朝 & 朝鮮朝 in Korea. I am semi-retired, still teaching three days a week and have some physical challenges, but wish to participate in this project contributing articles on the Xianbei, Ruan-ruan, Hepthalites, Kokturkut, Uygur, (tribes, khaganates, etc. I read Cyrillic and have some German, Russian, Spanish, Latin, etc., in addition to Korean, Japanese, and Chinese. Doc Rock 19:23, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
Hello,
I just wanted to let you know about various deletion lists maintained by the deletion sorting WikiProject. Not all countries in Central Asia have their own pages, but you might want to keep an eye on Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Afghanistan, Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Tajikistan, and Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Kazakhstan. You can monitor these pages to see if there are any current AfD debates related to those countries. (Afghanistan has been especially active).
The Deletion Sorting WikiProject is currently in a state of flux; if you are interested in making it better, please visit the discussion page. Cheers, -- Visviva 09:32, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
We have Dzungaria and Dzungar people but Zunghar Khanate. It would be nice to reconcile the various spellings into something consistent. Are there any established spelling conventions in Wikipedia that would determine which spelling is preferred? Bertport ( talk) 15:33, 13 January 2011 (UTC)