Talk:Sayghan District

Merger from Shahidan
How about merging the district information from Shahidan here, and making the Shahidan article about the town, or maybe just a redirect. Or am I incorrect in equating the two names? If so, is Shahidan just the designation of a particular valley? --Bejnar (talk) 22:59, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

You are incorrect in equating the two names. There are many Shahidans in Afghanistan, the nearest probably being a few km SE of Sayghan District. That said, if Sayghan has really been made a new district, why has AIMS not updated their maps? 130.11.35.11 (talk) 15:42, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

No profile
The "district profile" link goes to just a bunch of ads for other sites. Someone the Person (talk) 01:28, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

There is still no profile at the listed external link http://www.bamyan.info/files/saighan-district-profile.asp. Does someone have another URL? --Bejnar (talk) 22:59, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

I replaced the old location with the Sayghan District profile at Afghanistan Information Management Services (AIMS). None of the Bamyan official website  content pages were preserved at the Internet Archive. --Bejnar (talk) 04:50, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

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Saraik?
Just for the record, there do appear to be sources which give "Saraik" or "Sarayek" as alternative names for Sayghan (, which is probably scraped from the Geonames server, or ). I wish we had something more reliable though. – Uanfala (talk) 19:36, 9 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi . I have added some of the alternative names and spellings per sources I could find, which are thin on the ground - but one is sourced from US Intelligence, and Mindat.org is supposed to be a reliable source of information on locations of minerals, so added that too. Laterthanyouthink (talk) 10:30, 5 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Aren't mindat.org and geoview.info both taking that specific content from the Geonames database? It's often an alright source, but it's far from being error-free. – Uanfala (talk) 10:42, 5 February 2023 (UTC)
 * I can't say for certain, but Mindat does say that it vets its editors and only uses experts, and then there is that US Intelligence source... I thought it seemed better to have something rather than no mention at all. But feel free to revert, or perhaps add a footnote about paucity of reliable sources? Do we have any Afghani experts who may be able to opine? Laterthanyouthink (talk) 11:08, 5 February 2023 (UTC)
 * I think the mention is fine to remain there: I may not sure about the reliability of the sources, but I don't have any specific reasons to doubt them in this particular case either. – Uanfala (talk) 18:01, 5 February 2023 (UTC)