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Streamlining the Pakistan WikiProject Noticeboard
Hi everyone,
I've recently been browsing the noticeboards of other WikiProjects like US, India, Russia, and Bangladesh. They all have clear and well-organized noticeboards that provide valuable information at a glance, including article alerts, to-do lists, and new article announcements (like Wikipedia:Noticeboard for India-related topics). Additionally, they typically have a single, central discussion forum for all project-related discussions.
Our current setup, with a discussion forum and a separate talk page for the non-existent "Notice board for Pakistan-related topics," feels less efficient. To improve this, I propose the following:
- Merge and redirect: We can merge and redirect the existing Wikipedia talk:Notice board for Pakistan-related topics page to our main discussion page, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Pakistan.
- Utilize the new noticeboard: I've created a more comprehensive and user-friendly noticeboard template at Wikipedia:Notice board for Pakistan-related topics. This new page can become our central hub for project announcements, alerts, and to-dos.
By implementing these changes, we can:
- Increase transparency and accessibility: Having all project information in one location makes it easier for everyone to stay informed and participate.
- Streamline communication: A single discussion forum simplifies project discussions and fosters collaboration.
- Align ourselves with best practices: This approach mirrors the successful structure employed by other established WikiProjects.
I'd love to hear your thoughts on this proposal. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.
Thanks, Wikibear47 (talk) 15:01, 16 September 2024 (UTC)
Good article reassessment for Ahmad Hasan Dani
Ahmad Hasan Dani has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 02:58, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
Please Review My Article
Draft:Aziz Ullah Khan Marwat - Wikipedia Saif0386 (talk) 11:55, 21 October 2024 (UTC)
Deletion discussion on page Akali Sahib Singh Kaladhari
The page Akali Sahib Singh Kaladhari is currently the subject of a deletion discussion here. If you can assist in improving the page please do, otherwise it will almost certainly be deleted shortly. Ldm1954 (talk) 15:22, 24 October 2024 (UTC)
Discussion on Maurya Empire
You are welcome to participate in discussion at Talk:Maurya Empire#Rfc on the Map Edasf (talk) 06:15, 15 November 2024 (UTC)
Requested move at Talk:Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq#Requested move 8 November 2024
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq#Requested move 8 November 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. 𝚈𝚘𝚟𝚝 (𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚔𝚟𝚝) 22:07, 19 November 2024 (UTC)
Lakh and crore RFC
There is a RFC discussion on the use of lakh and crore at Wikipedia_talk:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers#RfC Indian numbering conventions. Please make comments there, not here. Thank you. Stepho talk 23:12, 22 November 2024 (UTC)
Criticism of the Pakistan Armed Forces
There is an active proposal to merge Criticism of the Pakistan Armed Forces into The Establishment (Pakistan). Please share your thoughts on this. Thanks. 109.204.231.244 (talk) 11:30, 28 November 2024 (UTC)
The article Mahabatkhel has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
Unreferenced and unimproved for 15 years. No reliable sources online Google news, nor on the page. Run of the mill family. No article in any other language. Not enough information to merge.
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Post-nominal letters in Pakistani military articles
Hi everyone! I hope you are doing well. I would appreciate your input on User:TheBirdsShedTears/WhyNoPostNom. If I've missed anything or if you have improvements to suggest, please feel free to edit this userpage. Thank you! TheBirdsShedTears (talk) 06:42, 30 December 2024 (UTC)
One of your project's articles has been selected for improvement!
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Can somebody please find and add reliable sources to this stub? Bearian (talk) 22:10, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
Here's another village that needs sources. Bearian (talk) 22:16, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
Please help to source this stub. Bearian (talk) 20:03, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
I'm not seeing a lot of potential sources for this unsourced stub. Please fix. Bearian (talk) 02:44, 13 January 2025 (UTC)
The article Hussainabad (Hunza) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
Unverifiable place. Created by Sockpuppet User:Ata Fida Aziz, in 2009, and tagged as unreferenced since shortly thereafter, now 15 years.
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- @Bearian, redirect to Hassanabad, Hunza? From the article, it says "Hussainabad is situated to left side of the (Hunza River) river..." and also talks about a bridge. I think it refers to the same Hassanabad, Hunza. MSLQr (talk) 06:10, 13 January 2025 (UTC)
- Ok, got it. Bearian (talk) 14:02, 13 January 2025 (UTC)
Proposed deletion of Chennai Swabi
This article has been proposed for deletion. I tried to locate it and find sources. Can you please help? Bearian (talk) 04:04, 21 January 2025 (UTC)
Requested move at Talk:Ahmadiyya#Requested move 27 January 2025
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Ahmadiyya#Requested move 27 January 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TiggerJay (talk) 16:35, 4 February 2025 (UTC)
I can't find a reliable sources in English for this stub that has been unsourced for 15 years. In fact, I find a reliable source that India claims this village as theirs. Can you please provide reliable sources? Bearian (talk) 03:10, 5 February 2025 (UTC)
Requested move at Talk:Muhammad Ali (writer)#Requested move 30 January 2025
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Muhammad Ali (writer)#Requested move 30 January 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. ASUKITE 19:12, 26 February 2025 (UTC)
The article Balianwala has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
Not obviously notable after conducting search, no sources.
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Please comment in Talk Urdu: RfC on the collocation "Modern Standard Urdu"
Your comments in the RfC on the collocation "Modern Standard Urdu" on the Talk:Urdu page are most welcome. Fowler&fowler«Talk» 12:10, 29 March 2025 (UTC)
Hello. I have recently expanded the article for Pakistan International Airlines Flight 8303 with the final report. However, I am not a speaker of Pakistani English and rather, I wrote it American English. It would be appreciated if someone could properly update the article with Pakistani English. Thank you. RandomInfinity17 (talk - contributions) 01:02, 5 April 2025 (UTC)
RfC:shehzad ghias shaikh
should a Wikipedia page be created about shehzad ghias shaikh host of the pakistan experience podcast? IMHO he meets notability guidelines. I'm willing to hear other people's opinions. DataCrusade1999 (talk) 16:03, 11 April 2025 (UTC)
- Not much coverage found. Also fails WP:GNG. Oppose creation. Mlkfrz4455 (talk) 18:31, 14 April 2025 (UTC)
Discussion / RFC over at Talk:Jhelum – Should the Punjabi spelling and IPA be included in this article, the native tongue of the city? نعم البدل (talk) 20:09, 29 April 2025 (UTC)
2002 Gujarat riots page move
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:2002 Gujarat riots#Requested move 25 April 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Koshuri (グ) 14:48, 30 April 2025 (UTC)
The article Pakistan–Britain Advisory Council has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
Tagged as Unreferenced and unimproved for over 15 years. No other language has an article from which to translate. Non-notable quasi-governmental advisory committee.
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This article needs some help, if anyone is interested. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 11:01, 24 May 2025 (UTC)
Bholari or Bolhari
Are Bholari and Bolhari same settlements in Jamshoro District of Sindh province? (the latter is the only redlink in List of cities in Pakistan, comes from PBS census file) Other articles using the former spelling intitle include PAF Base Bholari (with sources for Bholari) and Bholari railway station (with empty ref section). Pinged a user, Crosji. Thanks for the time. MŠLQr (talk) 06:42, 13 May 2025 (UTC)
- Thanks for flagging this, @MSLQr. You are absolutely right to raise the distinction. Bholari, located in Jamshoro District, is a known settlement with established infrastructure, including a railway station. In contrast, "Bolhari" appears, at least on Google Maps, to be a location in Badin District, near the border with Gujarat, India. However, I wasn't able to find much credible information about this second location, suggesting it may not be an actual settlement in the conventional sense, but perhaps a geographic label or minor locality. Crosji (talk) 10:18, 13 May 2025 (UTC)
- Crosji, yes on that same day, I did the "Bolhari" search on the Google Maps and it took me near the border. What I noticed is the latter spelling only found in the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics census file (hope you checked it) and it lists it in Kotri Tehsil under the Jamshoro District. If Bholari has well established infrastructure with a railway station, it must have been a part of the population census. This may be a case of alternative spelling and pronunciation. In the meantime, Umartoor, a user who was already contributing to the list, has changed the spelling in List of cities in Pakistan by population from "Bolhari" to "Bholari" and they added the figures in the article, Bholari. MŠLQr (talk) 18:40, 24 May 2025 (UTC)
Can anyone improve the introductory sentences and the table of this list? The list defines the metropolitan area of Pakistan with population 0.5 million or more. However, I think there is no source supporting this in the list. In my view, the 2023 edition of Demographia by Wendell Cox is on urban areas rather than the metropolitan area and it also marks the differences between the both (on pages 3,4,5). Also, there are some issues with reliability of this source noted on WP:RSN archives. See also, a lengthy listing in section at the main article (Metropolitan area#Pakistan) having last city with 0.1 million population. Do we have a source from country's official records or Pakistan Bureau of Statistics which clearly indicates the number of metropolitan areas in the country? I tried to find sources for what the definition/status of a metropolitan area in the country and how many total cities with this status are there, but couldn't find any proper material discussing these in detail. Found this file by The Urban Unit of Punjab, but don't have time to look into it. This file may help. Also, there is a need to update and fix the population figures in the table. Perhaps, some of the figures are from the 2017 census, others from the 2023 census, all under the same column of 2017. For someone who fix this list, also see the Category:Metropolitan areas of Pakistan. Thanks for your time. MŠLQr (talk) 13:47, 30 May 2025 (UTC)
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Deletion of Baqir_Siddiqui article
It seems that the main author of this article has been blocked for using LLMs. Superficially the article seems to be well referenced, but the name written in urdu is incorrect, so I refrained from blocking the deletion as the article is probably of the same quality. It would be better for someone in this project to write a new article (without using LLMs for writing).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baqir_Siddiqui Dualpendel (talk) 17:44, 6 June 2025 (UTC)
Requested move discussion at Talk:Mohammad Rizwan (cricketer) #Requested move 12 June 2025
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Mohammad Rizwan (cricketer) #Requested move 12 June 2025 that might be to the interest of members of this WikiProject. Servite et contribuere (talk) 01:10, 13 June 2025 (UTC)
The DCWC is back!
WikiProject Pakistan, the Developing Countries WikiContest will be returning for a second year, and sign-ups are now open! The contest will run from 1 July to 30 September, and the objective remains the same: improve as many articles relating to developing countries as you can to help fight systemic bias on Wikipedia.
In other news, we have a new face on the coordinator team this year: last year's sixth-place finisher, Arconning (talk · contribs)! The coordinators would like to extend a sincere thanks to Ixtal (talk · contribs), who is leaving the team, without whom the contest would not exist. After feedback from contestants last year, the scoring rules are undergoing some modifications; the new rules and a summary of the changes made will be posted to the contest talk page shortly.
If you have any questions, please leave a message on the contest talk page, use the {{@DCWC coordinators}} template, or contact one of the coordinators: Arconning (talk · contribs), sawyer777 (talk · contribs), or TechnoSquirrel69 (talk · contribs). (To unsubscribe from these updates, remove this talk page from this list.) Sent via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 12:15, 20 June 2025 (UTC)
Requested move at Talk:United Kingdom–European Union relations#Requested move 20 June 2025
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:United Kingdom–European Union relations#Requested move 20 June 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. --MikutoH talk! 21:58, 20 June 2025 (UTC)