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Request for Peer Review

Hi there. Since you're on the Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Afghanistan, I thought I should let you know, that've requested a peer review for the article on Zohra Daoud here. I'll appreciate your feedback, thanks.Zainub 13:37, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Pictures

Hey. The pictures are really nice. Maybe you should add two pictures to the article, one of the smiling girl and one of the old man reading. Those two are really beautiful!

BTW: you should talk to User:Rarelibra about the colors of the ethno-linguistic maps. He is the one who is creating them.

Have a nice day.

Tājik 14:06, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Regarding Farsiwan: Encyclopaedia Iranica is an authoritative scholarly source. I think that the quote should stay, because it was more weight than other sources. Tājik 20:57, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Tajik article

I already commented that the statement regarding the origin of "Tajik', which was removed, was a purely speculative point of view which does not belong in an encyclopedia article. No source was given on the dubious statement either... 71.133.19.185 19:45, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Cinema

Hi there!

Would you please add some information about Pashto cinema of 2000s to Cinema of Afghanistan? Any notable film or director? or some info on Pashto film industry in today's Afghanistan? I tried to find some pashto films but those were made by western directors. It is very kind of you if you could help me with that. Thanks in advance. Sangak 21:35, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. Take care. Sangak 15:37, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Latif Pedram

Done. Khoikhoi 05:28, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

Tajiks on wikicommons

Hi,

Why did you delete the link? Ofcource it's better to have more images in that category, but it can not be a reason to delete the link. Jahangard 01:51, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

About your map on the "languages of Afghanistan"

which you have used as the source, shows a Baloch majority in Nimruz Province, but you have colored it as a Pashtun region. Please correct it. Jahangard 02:03, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Can you please colour the areas where pashtunes are the most inhabitens as yellow?? 90% of them speak persian or maybe mixing both colour?? This would be more serious. Thanks

Pashtuns

Hello. Why is the family picture misleading? I've seen MANY Pashtuns (both Afghans and those from Peshawar) who look just like that family right down to their clothing. Tajiks for example shows a range of physical types so why not for the Pashtuns as well who are basically the same as Tajiks? Tombseye 02:37, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Pashtunes are not the same like Tajiks. First Tajik is a synonym for persians outside of iran. so persians in turkey are tajiks, too. Many pashtune tribes have turkish origine and live mostly in Afghanistan. In origine, culture and language they are 100% not the same. Jajri are decends of jajrits or jajrats, mangals are decends of another mongol tribe, sadozeis are descends of the tribe of jingis khan´s wife who had the same name, the karo as well etc. the eftalits and ghilzeis have as well turkish origine at least khilijas are pure turks.

Pashtunes just took the cloth culture and language of persians (tajiks). they have nothing in common.

Hello

Ummeed laram che kha ba ai? Will you please visit Swati article for any suggestion and correction regarding grammer aswell. Dera Manana and Take care. Haider 10:53, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Pashtun786

I'll keep an eye on him. Khoikhoi 04:10, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

I've blocked Rizza18 for vandalism, as for the others, I think you should try going to WP:RFCU. List them here (read the instructions in the box), along with some of NisarKand's IP addresses (). Note that they all start with "202.134.132". The code letter fo the checkuser case will be "F". Khoikhoi 07:20, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

comments

Salam. Can you have a look at User:Tajik's Talk Page? He has been blocked for a month and accused for not having constructive contribution in wikipedia which seems completely irrational. You may have your comments there.

Plus, I reverted your addition of map. I presented the points in the talk page. I hope you will not mind for reverting it without letting you know first. Ariana310 10:30, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Map

Please note that aims.org.af does not give the figures for all districts of a province. In some provinces, it has given the figures of only few districts. Please correct Ghazni province (for Tajiks), Ghor (for Aimaks/Hazaras), Takhar (for Tajiks) and Logar (for Pashtuns). Ariana310 10:58, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

I commented again about Wardak and Ghor provinces in the discussion. I was wondering if you noticed it.Ariana310 06:10, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Well, according to that map, Wardak is lied under the Persian language. However, Wardak has about 80% Pashtun population, and Persian is not so much used there. Just take a look at the AIMS reports. Among the southern Pashtun provinces, it is only Nengarhar who has the highest number of Tajiks. Especially in Jalalabad, Dari/Farsi is widely used. Even in governmental departments, most of the official papers are written in Dari. The only reason is that Jalalabad always remained under Kabul's influences. And the city of Jalalabad itself was built of Jalaluddin Akbar, the grandson of Babur. And in that map, Jalalabad is highlighted for Persian as well.

The map is based on 1985 statistics. It also highlights Paktia for Persian. While today, Persian is almost dead in that province because of the rigorous politics of Afghan government. There were many Tajik tribes in Paktiya who used to speak Dari. But since there was no Persian school in that province, they were obliged to quit Dari. Now all those tribes speak Pashto.

So at the moment, Wardak, Paktya and Logar are completely under Pashtu influence, and Persian is no more the dominant language. Remember you have highlighted the provinces for the major language. And today, Pashtu is the major language in those 3 provinces, despite the fact that there is a little bit presence of Persian.Ariana310 07:17, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Plus, I do not also agree with that map because of the Takhar province. It is highlighted for Uzbeki language. Although the proportion of Uzbek people might be higher than that of Tajik people, but Persian is the dominant language.Ariana310 07:24, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Okay, thanks for you too. For your hardworking. Don't forget about the Ghor province, as I gave you the sources in the Talk page for Aimaks.Ariana310 07:26, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Yes, in that map, they have put Aimaqs with Tajiks. As you wish then. Some sources add Aimaqs with Tajiks, while others with Hazaras, for the fact that they resemble to both Tajiks and Hazaras. But I think it would be better, to show Aimaqs independently. To neither put it under Tajiks and nor under Hazaras, but to show itself.Ariana310 18:16, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

in Gardez adn some other cities of Paktya Tajiks speak still Parsi, not Pashto. just in farah some pashtunized tajiks speak pashto. the main language is still parsi in paktya and jallabad. all magazines, all tv-channels etc are in parsi

Ps:DARI IS THE WRITTEN FOM OF PARSI SO YOU DO NOT SPEAK DARI

Why Pedram?

Greetings! Why is Pedram on the Tajiks home page when he received only 1.4% of the total vote during Afghanistan's presidential elections? Furthermore, most people from the region have heardly heard of Latif Pedram. Moreover, this person, if assuming it is true, is a known atheist; hardly representative of the devout Sunni Muslim Tajiks. Perhaps adding Rabbani or Masood would be understable since they are far more commonly known. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Scythian1 (talk • contribs) 00:47, 2 April 2007 (UTC).

pEDRAM IS NOT AN ATHEIST. HE SAID HE IS NOT A MUSLIM LIKE TALIBANS (DEOBANDIS/SALAFIS)

what?

can you explain this to me? (you crossed my comments, I hope you will undue it quickly)--Pejman47 19:27, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Re:Afghan Politicians

Hi. Well, I think "Afghan Politicians" is better. Here, the word "Afghan" is not an ethnic name, but a Nationality. In all over the world, the nationals of Afghanistan are known as "Afghan". For changing a category, you have to create another category with that new name. And then you have to go in each article and change the category name in the articles. That takes a very long time! But I suggest to leave it for instance.Ariana310 07:59, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

al-Khwarizmi

Do not make such claims without providing reliable sources to back your statements up. There are already three highly reliable sources which state him to be Persian. —Ruud 09:44, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Unacceptable. His ethnicity is disputed too much not to have this backed by several reliable sources. If this issue was really that important, the current sources have mentioned him as a Tajik, not as a Persian. —Ruud 09:55, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

P.S. I'm also warning you not to violate WP:3RR. —Ruud 09:55, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

I understand the issue, however you fail to understand WP:V. If the sources call all call him Persian, so should the Misplaced Pages article. —Ruud 10:03, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Being Tajik is not exactly equivalent to being Persian and therefore requires a reliable source to be provided (the source you have is not.) Note that I'm personally not disputing whether or not he was Tajik (although User:Ali doostzadeh does) but merely enforcing Misplaced Pages's policy of reporting on what reliable sources have published and not on the truth. —Ruud 10:27, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

P.S. Could you please use the preview feature when posting to my talk page in the future. Receiving several notices for a single message is quite annoying. —Ruud 10:27, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Wikipeda can never be a reliable source for itself. Note that I have done a good bit of research on al-Khwarizmi (as in making several trips to libraries and reading up on a lot of scholarly sources.) You will not find any source calling him Tajik. And if historians of mathematics do not wish to explicitly label him as such, neither should the article on Misplaced Pages. —Ruud 10:43, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Admins do not have any special role in making editorial decisions, but you are of course free to chekc with them. Note that I have already reported you for violating 3RR (WP:AN/3RR), so you might wish to self-revert to avoid being blocked. —Ruud 10:56, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, but I don't understand why you can't revert your last edit? —Ruud 11:11, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

No, I see:

(cur) (last)  09:51, 6 April 2007 Beh-nam (Talk | contribs | block) m (rv, please see your talk page) 
(cur) (last)  09:42, 6 April 2007 Ruud Koot (Talk | contribs | block) m (Reverted edits by Beh-nam (talk) to last version by Ali doostzadeh)
(cur) (last)  04:22, 6 April 2007 Beh-nam (Talk | contribs | block) m
(cur) (last)  02:56, 6 April 2007 Beh-nam (Talk | contribs | block) (rv, i couldn't write my entire explanation, not enough space, here's the rest, today Persian-speakers and/or ethnic Persians in Uzbekistan are also referred to as Tajik, and i meant around that time)
(cur) (last)  02:50, 6 April 2007 Ali doostzadeh (Talk | contribs | block) (not really.. the term tajik gained prominence later on.)
(cur) (last)  01:40, 6 April 2007 Beh-nam (Talk | contribs | block) (User:Ruud Koot, see the article on Persians and Tajiks, and here's the explanation again: ethnic Persians and/or Persian speakersliving in Khwarizm were commonly referred to as "Tajik" during that tim)

—Ruud 11:18, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

I'm blocking you for 24 hours. You made three reverts before even attempting to open a discussion (04:48, 01:40, 04:22), then a fourth revert just outside the 24-hours range (09:51). Furthermore, this was a renewal of the exact same revert war you had already engaged in back in December, so you must have known your edits wouldn't meet with consensus. I waited to give you time to revert yourself as Ruud suggested, and I can frankly not see what difficulties you have with the situation as you now claim. First you said you didn't revert since opening the discussion , but that's plainly false (both of you began the discussion simultaneously at 09:44 and you reverted once more at 09:51 ); then you claimed Ruud already reverted your latest edit (), which is also false, and I also can't see how a lag in database updating you have led you to this misapprehension. Fut.Perf. ☼ 11:35, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

The first one, at 4:48 you have listed was NOT an RV. I wasn't telling Ruud that I did not make 3 reverts, I was telling him that I did not break 3RR. I did not break 3RR, count the number of reverts. There is only three. Please count them here . Also I explained each one of my RV's in detail, just see the history page. When that did not work I then started a discussion with Ruud. Here . And the reason I did not RV it is because the times are showing wrong like I explained to Ruud, if we wait a little it will be updated and back to Ruud's version so it is pointless for me to have reverted it. Regardless I did not break the 3RR rule, so please lift the block. Thanks. --Behnam 11:44, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

The tag for unblock is not showing my reason, so here it is:I did not break the 3RR rule. I made 3 RVs, not a 4th. User talk:Future Perfect at Sunrise listed these 4: 04:48, 01:40, 04:22, 09:51. But the one at 4:48 was NOT a RV. So I did not break the 3RR rule and I should not have been blocked.

Your first edit yesterday was a revert to an earlier version from December (), which you had been edit-warring about back then in the exact same fashion (). Therefore it counts. As for your reasons for not reverting yourself, I'm still puzzled. If you think there was another revert by Ruud and it's not showing up for you in the history, then how do you know he made it? He didn't, in fact. Fut.Perf. ☼ 12:05, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Yes I did make that edit on December 8, but how does that count into the past 24 hours? That is too long ago to count. No where in the rules for 3RR does it mention anything longer than 24 hours, nevermind 6 months ago. I knew Ruud made that revert because I have this article on my watchlist and saw his revert there, he's reason was "see re. You can even ask him. Also the reason I did not was because I thought it might have violated 3RR. And there is infact a glitch today, I've noticed it other articles too. -- Behnam 12:15, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

I have no idea what it was that you thought you saw about an edit of Ruud's, but as of this moment, and using server-cach purge and all, there's no further edit on that page after yours and no edit by Ruud with a summary of "see re" anywhere in sight.

As for why the old version "counts", it obviously doesn't count as one of the reverts within the 24 hours, but it counts as determining that the first of those was a revert. Fut.Perf. ☼ 12:25, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Well unless I am imaging things, there was a final revert by Ruud. Regardless, with all due respect, why didn't you wait until I had finished asking Ruud about his final RV? If he told me no he did not make a final one, I would have then made the RV myself. Also, I don't think its fair that I'm expected to remember an edit from 6 months ago. So I don't think that the first one was a revert. 6 months is too long. And also the version of that article is different from the one I changed it to. Just do compare. -- Behnam 12:40, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

I asked Ruud this "Can you please confirm that you only count 3 on the history page in the past 24 hours by me? Thanks." And right after that I was banned. Why wasn't I allowed to recieve Ruud's response first that he considered my edit from 6 months ago an revert? Then I would have RVed it myself. --Behnam 13:59, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

And here is the one from 6 months ago compared to the first edit from today. So it is not an RV because it is not reverting to the same version since the article has changed drastically. So I did not break the 3RR rule and should not have been banned. --Behnam 14:09, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Beh-nam (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

I did not break 3RR, I only made 3RVs, but the Admins that blocked me consider it 4RVs because they are counting one from 6 months ago

Decline reason:

Regardless of any technicalities, you were edit warring, which is unacceptable. Given your previous blocks, you've yet to learn your lesson. I endorse this block. — John Reaves (talk) 04:35, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

If you want to make any further unblock requests, please read the guide to appealing blocks first, then use the {{unblock}} template again. If you make too many unconvincing or disruptive unblock requests, you may be prevented from editing this page until your block has expired. Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.

Ok, though 1 of my previous blocks was also unjustified. I was reverting FAKE citations. I think that should taken out of my block log. Can that be done? --Behnam 06:46, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Re:

Hmmmmm ... I do not know. What do you think? Tājik 19:29, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

picture

The new picture does not give the complete license either. I gives only for Ibn Sina and Ahmad Shah Massoud. You can add these license/source informations in the first picture which contained Biruni. Nonetheless, you have tagged it with Fair Use, and I do not think it would be a license violation.Ariana310 09:04, 8 April 2007 (UTC) Because creating another section for Tajik persoanlities, would have much problem. We can only put the personalities since 18th century, because before that it is impossible to distinguish a Persian and a Tajik personality.Ariana310 09:04, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

The picture is not important, the personality is important ! Nonetheless, Biruni's picture was quite well. If it was Black & White, there's no problem. Even though, the new picture of Ismail Samani in a coloured picture does not correspond exactly as his real appearance. The painter/author drew the picture based on his own preferences and some informations that he had read in some books.Ariana310 09:49, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Re: T.B.

Okay, I will contribute in that article. There is one big mistake in it: the "Setami Milli" notion. In fact, the political party which he was leading was "SAZA" (saazman-e enqelabi-e zahmat-kashaan-e afghanistan). In fact, NO political party under the name of "Setami Milli" existed or NO political party under this name was registered. As a matter of fact, this name was attributed by the Khalq Democratic Party to him and especially by Hafizullah Amin. Here's a very good article by Dastageer Panjshiri HERE. I will correct this.Ariana310 10:20, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Re:

I have most of these articles on my watch list (next to countless others, such as Qizilbash or al-Farabi, articles that are always under POV attack). But right now, I am not allowed to do any reverts. You have to take care of that ... Sorry ... Tājik 02:03, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Requests for checkuser/Case/NisarKand

I've fixed it; apparently {{Newcheckusercase}} was deleted, you can ask Thatcher131 why if you want. Anyways please fill-in the rest: Misplaced Pages:Requests for checkuser/Case/NisarKand. Once, you've done that, add {{Misplaced Pages:Requests for checkuser/Case/NisarKand}} to the top of Misplaced Pages:Requests for checkuser/Pending. Thanks, Khoikhoi 05:19, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Persien: bis zum Einbruch des Islam

Could you give me the quote from Persien: bis zum Einbruch des Islam where Frye claims Khwarizmi is Tajik? (I can read German, so you don't have to translate.) I can look it up in the university library tomorrow, but this make thing easier. —Ruud 09:27, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

As I said before this is insufficient: if no source bothers to call him a Tajik explicitly, so shouldn't the Misplaced Pages article. Please see WP:SYNTH as well. —Ruud 09:37, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Historians of mathematics usually aren't that obsessed with the ethnicity of the people they study as some Wikipedians seem to be (probably because the mathematics they developed is much more interesting), so I'll doubt you'll have any success, but good luck anyway. —Ruud 09:51, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

I searched JSTOR (which indexes a significant portion of the journals on the history of mathematics and science) for khwarizmi and tajik, which turned up nothing. Note that I'm so insistent on providing an explicit statement, because it as easy to make the inference that Khwarizmi came from Central Asia and therefore was Tajik as it is to say that he lived under the Arab caliphate and therefore was an Arab (similar constructions have been made to claim he was Turkish) which led to a great deal of unproductive edit warring in the past. —Ruud 10:17, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Khwarezmians were persianied iranians of north Iran (turkestan and uzbekistan). later most of them became turks by language and culture. Those who could flee they moved to south. Al-Biruni was oneof them. The khwarezmians spoke a north dialect of classical persian (Dari).--Tajik-Professor

Check User

For your check user case, could you please not move or copy the case from delisted to oustanding? It is very confusing for the clerks, as well. Also, you put the clerk case in the wrong spot. Thanks. Real96 03:09, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

It's all sorted out now. --Michael Billington (talk) 03:30, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Ethnic maps

Salam. Today when I checked the Afghanistan article, your two ethno-linguistic maps were deleted. Check THIS last version just before my edits. I uploaded this] new ethnic map, which has a free license in public domain, and seems very accurate. However, after adding the image, I checked the Demographics of Afghanistan article. And there, your both maps were in display while they were shown as deleted in Afghanistan's article. I hided the image box of the linguistic map in Afghanistan's article. So I just let you know to check it and try to fix it if you can. However, about the ethnic map, I still suggest to keep this new ethnic map because it is more accurate.Ariana310 15:12, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Hi

Can you add some sources here, I am sure there are many sources to support those statements, but I am not too familiar with Tajiks' situation in Uzbekistan. --Mardavich 05:54, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Qizilbash

Hi Beh-nam. Sorry for the late reply, but I am not at home right now, and I do not have instant access to the internet except for a few short minutes. I just saw your this edit in the Qizilbash article, and wanted to tell you that it is wrong. The Qizilbash were not "Shia tribes", they were a coaltion of many different extremist, anti-Ottoman, and un-orthodox Shia sects. Some of them were more conservative, but the large majority was extremly un-orthodox, even going as far as calling Shah Ismail "son of God". Descendants of the early Qizilbash live in modern Turkey (forming some 20% of the population), are known as Alevits, and are not regarded Muslims by mainstream Islamic schools (both Shia and Sunni). Like the Qizilbash, they drink alcohol, do not accept the Sharia, do not preform the Shahada, and do not consider the Quran to be the "eternal word of God". The reason why Iran is orthodox Ithna Ashari today is due to the removal of Qizilbash chiefs by Shah Abbas and the import of orthodox Arab Shia ulema from Iraq. Modern Iranian Shiism is totally different from the ghulat Shiism of the Qizilbash or modern Alevites. So I suggest you revert your latest edit. Take care. Tājik 08:00, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

The qizilbash in turkey have turkish origine (turkmen) and belong mostly to the bekhtashi group of the sufi party. they are either kurds nor persians. They were first shia but became later alevits. They are accepted in east turkey but not in the rest of the islamic world like we do not accepting wahabism, salfai and the afghan deobandism (wahabism totaly mixed with tribalic culture of Pakhtunwali hindko pashtunes)

Your removal of the LoC reference

This is what the US Library of Congress Country Study on Afghanistan says about Qizilbash:

The Qizilbash of Mediterranean sub-stock speak Dari, are Imami Shi'a, and scattered throughout Afghanistan, primarily in urban centers. There are perhaps 50,000 Qizilbash living in Afghanistan although it is difficult to say for some claim to be Sunni Tajik since Shia Islam permits the practice of taqiya or dissimulation to avoid religious discrimination. The Qizilbash form one of the more literate groups in Afghanistan; they hold important administrative and professional positions.

The Qizilbash are traditionally considered to be the descendants of Persian Shia mercenaries and administrators left behind by the Safavid Emperor Nadir Shah Afshar (1736-47) to govern the Afghan provinces. Under Ahmad Shah Durrani, who served in Nadir Shah's bodyguard, and his successors, the Qizilbash acquired power and influence at court out of proportion to their numbers. This created resentment among the dominant Pushtun which hardened over the years, especially after the Qizilbash openly allied themselves with the British during the First Anglo-Afghan War (1838-1842). Amir Abdur Rahman accused the Qizilbash of being partisan to the enemy during his campaigns against the Shi'a Hazara in 1891-1893, declared them enemies of the state, confiscated their property and persecuted them.

This is not really true. The Qizilbash were founded in khorassan (modern afghanistan9 200 years before Hottaki founded his empire in kandahar: Shah Abbas and Tashmasp were from Herat. THE first qizilbash just were turks and not persians. later the qizilbash became recrutes by persians.

Please don't remove the reference, and you can check the above link with the direct link at the official LoC website. Atashparast 22:44, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

According to the LoC, they are an ethnic group: The Qizilbash form one of the more literate groups in Afghanistan; they hold important administrative and professional positions. If they were not an ethnic group, they would be listed under Tajiks, rather than on their own. Atashparast 22:50, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

By the way, the Qizilbash article doesn't provide any sources for Qizilbash descendants being considered as Tajiks today. Atashparast 22:51, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

But the article does not provide any sources for the idea that Qizilbash are today Tajiks, Persians, or Kurdish. The LoC article identifies them as a "group" and does not connect them with other groups. It only says: There are perhaps 50,000 Qizilbash living in Afghanistan although it is difficult to say for some claim to be Sunni Tajik since Shia Islam permits the practice of taqiya or dissimulation to avoid religious discrimination. So, apparently not all Qizilbash claim to be Tajik. The article makes it clear they are considered a distinct group. Atashparast 22:58, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

See this link from the US military which also identifies Qizilbash as an ethnic group: , and also this one from an academic source: . Atashparast 23:00, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

Well, my suggestion would be to clarify the issue in the article, or to create a separate article since the primary one is rather long, and eventually add sources from Iranica or other resources. Because honestly, the current Qizilbash article makes it seem like they are a group from the past, rather than a group also existing in the present. The introduction of the article should reflect that they are an active group in Afghanistan. Do you know what I mean? Atashparast 23:08, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

Afghanistan article

Hi, Can you please watch regularly the Afghanistan article? However, I will ask for semi-protection once again. Plus, have a look at this. The info is redundant (already mentioned in other paragraphs), incorrect (for example he changed Kabulistan to Peshawar-Valley and Kohistan, and lots of other points), written in an inappropriate position (breaking the reference with the sentence that User:Tajik had written), and what he has written is not exactly the same in Baburnama. I cannot revert it, since I had already reverted it twice and I may commit the 3RR.Ariana310 15:27, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Can´t you add thepic for me?

Dorud Be-Nam Jan,

shoma metaanen bar man map e samania ra upload konen va publish? man namidaanem dar in zafa e wikip. because i am mostl just active in german, spanish and russian site of wikip.

by the way the information in afghanistan article about Afghanistan and Pashtunes is copied 1:1 from baburnama. babur just claimed that Kuchis of the turkish Khilijas (today ghilzais) were inhabitent of souhtern of the kingdom of kabul. While the khilijas moved to east under the earlier ghorids as slaves and became foughht by persian karts of bamyan, herat, and kabul.

plz keep this information alive.

sepas va bedrud

Pashtun people

yo man whats your problem with putting "pastuns were mostly pagans", u got any proof or source to this? stop removing my sourses of which i put on the page. calling a race of people as pagans without proofs is asking for trouble and is discrimination and inslut.-Mizorr 05:22, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

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plz check

Can you look in Pakistan's article? They are adding Ghazvanid, Ghorid, Mughul and Durrani dynasties as Pakistani dynasty for the "formation" and "creation" of Pakistan. There's a dispute in its discussion. Thanx. -Ariana310 18:55, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Template:History of Afghanistan

Hi Behnam,

...Can you please help me out with the History of Afghanistan template (below)? I want to make some improvements to it, but I do not know how to edit a template...

Sure, I'll try to help; anything I have to hand is mostly bits of HTML and CSS I've picked up over the past couple of years, followed by some head-scratching and experimentation. What do you have in mind– for instance, is there another template somewhere you'd like to emulate...?  Yours, David Kernow (talk) 14:10, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

Re:Tajik

Yeah, I had seen it before. Actually, User:Tajik himself does not want to defend himself by going for mediation; unless I would certainly give my opinions. As a matter of fact, I had already told one of the Administrators just before his getting blocked that User:Tajik is not User:Tajik-Professor. But if User:Tajik goes for any arbitration, I will certainly give my view. -Ariana310 21:00, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

Well, here is Tajik. The so-called admins ask me to accept an arbitration, but - at the same time - the block me indef. because they do not want me to take part in anything. This is an old story, and certain people - including certain admins - just needed an excuse to get be blocked. It's not really about using sockpuppets or whatever. It's about my messages, the sources I use, etc. Well, I think we all have to accept some kind of dictatorship in Misplaced Pages, and if an admin wants you blocked, he'll find an excuse for it. It is totally rediculous to claim that I am Tajik-professor - they just claim that CheckUser proved this. But the refuse to do another check, and to let some other, independent admins check my IP. As I have already explained: it's not about arbitration and "Wiki rules" ... it's about some silly boys playing dictatorship. They just do not like what I write, and they do not like the sources I put in. They are not interested in the 3 featured articles I helped to write, they do not care about the countless smaller articles in Misplaced Pages I used to have on my watch-list. They do not care about the many vandals I was fighting ... all of this is not the point. Certain people just wanted me out - and acted in favour of a strong Turkish-nationalist lobby in Misplaced Pages (check the article Safavids, the one-sided agreement between Turkish nationalists and User:Ali doostzadeh which they call "consensus", the the systematic revert of all thge sources and information I put in, etc etc etc). Ali is still continuing reverting my changes to a version he calls "consensus", which is neither a "consus" nor the version he calls "consensus". 84.58.150.143 02:18, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

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re:tajik

Thatcher131 wrote on tajik's talk page that he'll be conditionally unblocked if he agrees to work on the arbitration case, so he has to show intent to move forward (and whether his name is cleared isn't something I can control). - Penwhale | 04:00, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

what is up?

I would like you to address these comments] I left. Geo Swan 01:02, 31 May 2007 (UTC)