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Template
Hello Fastrack. I have created a new template which you might be interested in Template:Pakistan topics. -- a.n.o.n.y.m  t 17:10, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

Page Blanking
On 02-Feb, you blanked Government of Punjab. Blanking pages is generally considered a bad idea. I've reverted it to the previous version. If you believe this redirect should be deleted, please follow the redirect portion of the deletion procedures. If you believe different content should go there, please create a stub. Thanks! -- JLaTondre 19:38, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Television stations in Pakistan
There is cat for each channel. There is no need to write them all in main cat. don’t rv again.

Hello. Please remember to always provide an edit summary. Thanks and happy editing. Pepsidrinka 22:38, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Salam
there is an archive link in the featured picture of pakistan portal. i would like you to add the same for the featured artical.thankyou  Wol ver ine talk 21:24, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Salam
Why can it not be the featured artical and picture of the day, and I think that we do not have feature articals related to pakistan only; articals about Islam, Asia, and fields of technology can also featured. And i was thinking about starting a project related to universities in Pakistan.Thankyou  Wol ver ine talk 21:24, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Salam
Ok, you convinced me but I still have problems. I think as the notice board for pakistan related topics is a part of the portal, therefore things you can do should be on the notice board and on the portal it can be replaced by This week in history and I have also noticed on other portals and on the main page that the arihives are on porject pages and not on portals more over they have formulated the pages for the whole year. more over think that the wikiporjects should me moved to the notice board and categories should be removed. A template should be added to the top of the page that links to the notice board.Thankyou  <tt> Wol ver ine talk 21:24, 6 March 2006 (UTC)</tt>

Good work & Featured Article
was salams :)

great work, the portal is taking a good shape now, i really liked the way you have handled the archive thing thumbs up to that. I am bit new to wikipedia authoring. The first FA was about Quaid, next can be on Allama Iqbal, I checked the article and it seems pretty good, you can also check it.

on featured picture i think some image of some landscape ? like jheel saif ul malook ?

--digitalSurgeon 07:54, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

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Notice Board for Pakistan Related Topics
Salam, I have made some changes to the Notice Board for Pakistan Related Topics.I think you should check them, I will be working on the board and I will reconfigure it; If you have any suggesstions them please tell me, and I think I will also be needing your help becuase I am not fimiliar with the wikipedian style of coding for generating tables, imaging and other things.Allah Hafiz <tt> Wol ver ine talk 21:24, 6 March 2006 (UTC)</tt>

Templates Added
Salam, I have added three more templates to the Pakistani Wikipedians and I will add more as soon as possible.Allah Hafiz <tt> Wol ver ine talk 21:24, 6 March 2006 (UTC)</tt>
 * Salam,you have changed the introduction to a template that is a good thing, but you have also added it to Talk:Pakistan and Talk:Historical regions of Pakistan which I think is not good, I will create a similar template for talk pages of Pakistani articals and also for the derivatives of the notice board, the reason being that the template was linking to the notice board while it was on the notice and I have also removed the braketed shortcut because they seemed irrelevent as the link was sitting right next to them,the shortcuts can be added to the page it self.Thankyou <tt> Wol ver ine talk 21:24, 6 March 2006 (UTC)</tt>

Pakistan User page
Why are you reverting this template? If you want to contribute create a new one, and make. This template has three colors, white, yellow which looks like orange, and green, similar to Indian flag. Its good that you are working on Pakistan related sites, but please try to respect other's opinions. --Realitea 02:54, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Hi, one more thing I hope you don't mind. If you are working on pakistan related templates try to avoid gold (yellow, orange) color in lines or backgrounds. Try to preserve the identity of Pakistan, rather than making it similar to India related sites. Thanks, and I hope you consider this. --Realitea 04:14, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks, and I appreciate --Realitea 07:09, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

Portal work
Hi, just wanted to say good job on the Portal - it looks much better now. Green Giant 06:33, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

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Images of Pakistani Airports
Assalam o Alaikum, Thanks for your message, I've been adding more and more images to wiki whenever I can. These days I don't have broadband at my place. I'll upload some of the images from ISB airport right now and will try to do the rest later on. Thanks for pointing me to the Pakistan Wikimedia commons, I'll add the stuff there as well.
 * I've added several images at different articles (Karachi airport, Peshawar airport, Queeta airport etc), and added galleries of Pakistan International Airlines, Karachi and Fokker F27 on wiki Commons. I'm confused about the way categories and sub-categories are defined and the images separate in commons and in "en.wikipedia.org". So far I've added images to these categories:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Karachi http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Pakistan_International_Airlines http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Balochistan

The Pakistan page on commons has these few images: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Pakistan whereas the "Category:Pakistan" page has these images: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Pakistan

And "Category:Pakistan-related images" on en.wikipedia.org has more images: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Pakistan-related_images

(I know it's better to add to commons than just to English pages, but how to organize the images? What standard to follow? Like http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Pakistan vs http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Pakistan)

Image Tagging Image:FSDAirport.jpeg
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Airports in Pakistan
Salam. See Talk:List of airports in Pakistan. Waqas.usman 02:52, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

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About category
Thanks, I know how the categories work, but I wasn't sure how to use the tree, whether the airport photo goes under Cat:Pakistan as well as under Cat:Transport in Pakistan.... it should go under Cat:Transport in Pakistan to keep it uncluttered. The categories have been heavily misused, especially on commons. And about the images you upload, there is a "Fair Use" clause for images like logos, movie posters (for promotion) etc, you could use several images under fair use, especially if they're low-resolution. Read more when you upload. ("Fair use" images are not allowed on commons, however.) Waqas.usman 11:19, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Airblue destinations
We should kee Air Blue destination page as most airline have seperate destinations page. The destinations change frequently and we will not have to change update the main page. Siddiqui 16:59, 27 April 2006 (UTC)


 * I think we should keep the page as Airblue will expand after taking delivery of new planes. It plans to expand to North America, Europe and other destinations.


 * Siddiqui 17:07, 27 April 2006 (UTC)


 * I created that article. You cannot just delete without any discussion. In Wikipedia, usually first you have to put a tag on the article for discussion on delete/rename/redirect of a page. You just cannot delete the page.

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Request
Could you please upload Image:PAK1971.JPG to Wikimedia commons? I'm asking this because in that way, the image can be used in other languages too. I'd like to use it in the Bangla wikipedia. Thanks. --Ragib 04:08, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

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Categories
Please can you stop making unilateral changes to article categorisation. Any categories that you think should be renamed, mergeed or deleted must be first discussed at Categories for deletion before any articles are moved. For example ((category:Hill Stations in Pakistan)) was recently moved to ((Category:Hill stations of Pakistan)) after discussion. I may have to revert other of your changes as I unpick your unhelpful actions. Thanks, Thryduulf 12:25, 5 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Please dont change main articles of Districts of Pakistan. Main article of Districts like, Lahore, Peshawar, Multan etc, deals with district, not with city. --Spasage 11:11, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Dhimmi Article
The article in anti-islam and Muslims. The tone of article reflects hate against Islam. I will really appreciate if you could contribute in that article. Read its talk page after looking at the article. I hope to get some help of yours. Thank you in anticipation. Best regards, --- Faisal 19:09, 9 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Also please spread the word and gather some support for this work. --- Faisal 19:18, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Feature Pictures: Nominate them !!
Hi Waqas,

I see you have alot of images of scenery from Pakistan. I think you should nominate them on the follwing page to see what the response they get;

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Featured_picture_candidates

Once you have nominated it on the above link place it in the Pakistani notice board section too under the table of "Collaboration opportunities"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notice_board_for_Pakistan-related_topics

Good Luck and continue uploading your great pics. Fast track 08 May 2006


 * Thank you for the idea, I have been writing a lot on wikipedia in the recent weeks and my "To do" list is quite long, I wasn't sure how to nominate pics or whether anyone could nominate their own pics as well... thanks for the link.
 * PS: You should create your user page on wikimedia commons as well.


 * Also, thanks for the link about the Pakistan Notice board, I read your message yesterday but didn't have time to dig into it. You're right, we should organize to work more efficiently. Waqas.usman 11:21, 10 May 2006 (UTC)


 * I've nominated an image of mine for Featured pictures, please vote: Waqas.usman 20:26, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Pakistan Tasks
I will check "Pakistan tasks" and  Pakistan tasks.Thanks. Siddiqui 13:02, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Cricket
You may consider joining this project. Thanks --<b style="color:teal;">Gizza</b><sup style="color:teal;">Chat  <b style="color:teal;">&#169;</b> 22:23, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Karachi District Category
Hi Spasage,


 * Just like to know what you mean by your edit "Move this category to Category:Karachi District" on the Category:Karachi category. Do you mean to put all the articles in this Category:Karachi into the Category:Karachi District. Or just place the Category:Karachi in Category:Karachi District. -- User:Fast track 23:42 24 May 206 (UTC)


 * A province is divided into Districts. I previously used only name of district as category to show that this category is for District, and everything which is in this district should be included in this category, like Karachi is city and it is in Karachi District. So the name of Category was Karachi not Karachi District (category was for district not for city). Similar is the case with Lahore, Lahore is name of city and name of district is also Lahore District. It was creating confusion. So I changed all the category names from say Abc to Abc District, to avoid confusion with city name and district name. I did same with Karachi category, from Karachi to Karachi District, so that there should be clear difference between name of city and name of district. This difference may not appear in big cities like Karachi and Lahore, but it is issue in small cities, where there are other important cities in district apart from the main city, on which name of District is based. When I say, move it to Karachi District, I mean that we don’t need category Karachi, instead to make subdivisions clear, move all the articles in Category Karachi to Category Karachi District. We'll delete category Karachi, after shifting is complete. I hope it make thing clear, but if still there is any question, tell me. I have done same with all other districts in Pakistan. You can browse through them to see it(Category:Districts_of_Pakistan). As there are many articles in Karachi and Lahore categories and there are many people contributing in them, I thought it is useful to announce it to everyone that change is being made. --Spasage 07:00, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Punjab (Pakistan)
Salam, Thanks for adding the pic to this article. But this isn't the entrance to the GCU, the pic was taken from the "Oval Ground" which is inside the GCU (when you enter GCU through the main gate, Oval is on your left and the main buildings are on the right side of the "road"). Anyone who's been to GCU would know about it. Please be careful with writing descriptions about things that you don't completely know (Waqas.usman here, in a hurry, not logged in)