Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Central Asia/Archive 4

Invasion of Tibet (1950–1951) → Chinese Invasion of Tibet
There has been a requested move filed for Invasion of Tibet (1950–1951) → Chinese Invasion of Tibet 76.66.198.171 (talk) 21:33, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Copyright question for potential images
I've been looking at the Digitales Turfan Archiv, and they have some excellent images of old Central Asian manuscripts which I think would be of great value for related articles. At the bottom of that page, they discuss copyright issues (Nutzungsbedingungen und Copyright). Sadly, my German stinks, so I'm not sure if, based on what is written on the site, we can use the images for Wikipedia, or if we need to ask for permission first (since they did take the actual photos). Can someone with a better understanding of German (and image policy) help on this? Otebig (talk) 00:20, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I don't speak any German, but running that page through Google's translator suggests that their copyright policy is (paraphrasing) "for non-commercial use only, with extra rules, regulations, and procedures if you want to do anything with it". In other words, it's not free enough for Wikipedia, unfortunately. -- Hux (talk) 06:45, 12 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Those are faithful reproductions of two dimensional works, on which the copyright has long expired, which means they are in the public domain. Consequently, there is no legal basis for any of the demands that the Academy makes in their term of use. Of course, we should still mention them as the source, just because we're nice people (and because our guidelines require it). --Latebird (talk) 10:50, 12 January 2009 (UTC)


 * "Those are faithful reproductions of two dimensional works, on which the copyright has long expired" - It would help if I actually checked out the images before I gave an opinion, wouldn't it? ;) You're quite right about them being in the public domain so please disregard my earlier post. -- Hux (talk) 07:17, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

Massive Chinese cavalry operations at the Caspian sea in 97 AD?
(cross-posted on China and Iran Wikiprojects)

Hi,

the article on Han Dynasty-era general Ban Chao (and a lot of other articles linking to it) currently states that in 97 A.D., he undertook a massive military expedition with about 70.000 men, and established forts on the Caspian Sea, in Merv and "only a few days" from where is now Baghdad. Problem is that I could find nothing about this in The Cambridge History of China or The Cambridge History of Early Inner Asia. Rene Grousset's The Empire of the Steppes actually does contain some more words on Ban Chao's actions in the relevant time frame, but only in the context of the Tarim Basin. So I wonder how solid the source basis for this claim ("Ban Chao started an expedition with 70.000 men and established forts on the Caspian and in Merv") really is.

Regards, Yaan (talk) 18:34, 12 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Sounds like this stems from one interpretation of some state names in the Hou Han Shu. http://www.chinahistoryforum.com/index.php?showtopic=28146&st=0&p=4956211&#entry4956211 --Stacey Doljack Borsody (talk) 21:37, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Articles Needing Work
Just reminding folks about our stub-class articles that have been rated either top or high importance. If you're looking for something to do, it should be easy to get any (or all) of these up to start-class:


 * Agriculture: Agriculture in Central Asia, Agriculture in Kazakhstan, Agriculture in Kyrgyzstan, Agriculture in Turkmenistan, Agriculture in Tajikistan, Agriculture in Uzbekistan


 * Ethnic Groups: Aimak, Altay people


 * History & Religion: Ablai Khan, Central Asian studies, Christianity in Kazakhstan, Christianity in Uzbekistan, Islam in Central Asia (with so much available material, I'm amazed this is still a stub)


 * Human Rights and Politics: Human rights in Central Asia, Human rights in Tajikistan, Politics of Kazakhstan

Otebig (talk) 02:18, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Music: Music of Central Asia, Music of Kyrgyzstan

Hi, I've added few articles: List of kazakh khans, Tauke khan and Bokei Horde (Interior Horde). I am not quite sure how to add them as articles within this project. Also, I just want to say that here in Kazakhstan there is a lot of material regarding the history. History of Kazakhstan is a mandatory knowledge (as well as kazakh or russian language (for russian speakers)) unit if one wish to apply to any university. It is also thought as a mandatory course in all Universities (in spite of the course subject). The main and basic materials for study today are the school materials (textbooks). History of Kazakhstan is thought from 6th grade of school til 11th. There are seven books for that. Here are 5 of them (in russian):
 * 6 класс-История древнего Казахстана, Т.С.Садыков, А.Т.Толеубаев, Г.Халидуллин, Б.С.Сарсеекеев, Алматы, «Атамура», 2006;
 * 7 класс-История средневекого Казахстана, С.Жолдаспаев, Д.Бабаев, Алматы, «Атамура», 2003;
 * 8 класс-История Казахстана (ХVIII век-1914), Ж.К.Касымбаев, Алматы, «Мектеп», 2004г.;
 * 9 класс-История Казахстана (1914-2004 г.) М.Козыбаев, К.Нурпей, К.Жукешев, Алматы, «Мектеп», 2005г.;

Aizhol (talk) 08:24, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

Districts of Tajikistan
Please visit Districts of Tajikistan to view the new numbered map of districts developed by Ahonc. This map should be a tremendous help to all users trying to navigate the country's 58 districts. Also visit the various district pages, where Ahonc is in the process of inserting district locator maps. Happy editing. --Zlerman (talk) 01:26, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Request for Transliteration of Mongolian Text
I would like an English transliteration for the Confederation of Mongolian Trade Unions (CMTU) article. The Mongolian is: МОНГОЛЫН YЙЛДВЭРЧНИЙ ЭВЛЭЛYYДИЙН ХОЛБОО. I have basic Russian and came up with this: Mongolin Uildvehrchnii Eyvleyluudyin Cholbo. Any Mongolian speakers can help confirm/correct/improve this? Thanks. --Goldsztajn (talk) 05:08, 21 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Apologies, moving question to Mongolia Work Group.--Goldsztajn (talk) 05:15, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

Mongolia during Tang rule
Mongolia during Tang rule has been nominated for deletion at WP:AFD 76.66.193.90 (talk) 05:16, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

Renaming Mongolia during Tang rule
The content of Mongolia during Tang rule has changed somewhat and while it still contains biased information, it seems to have assumed a form that can be improved upon. A first step towards including this article and changing it into a useful article on Central Asian history would be renaming it, eg. Tang dynasty and Central Asia. But maybe some of you could come over to Talk:Mongolia during Tang rule and voice your own opinion! Regards, G Purevdorj (talk) 20:16, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

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Request for assistance
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Azerbaijani banknotes depicting instruments
Is the fact that certain musical instruments are depicted on Azerbaijani banknotes worthy of mention in the corresponding articles ? – Please, provide your imput at:


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 * Talk:Kamancheh.
 * Talk:Tar (lute).

Thank you already. - Regards, Ev (talk) 18:39, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Third opinion
If you are familiar with the history of Central Asia, please share your opinion in Talk:Samanids, about the title of the page, the infobox and the lead. Alefbe (talk) 03:23, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

Xibe script assistance request --- maybe a Mongolian-reader can help?
Can someone create an SVG file of the name of the Qapqal News (čapčal serkin)? Tried typing it out on my computer but it doesn't seem to join properly, all the letters show up in word-initial form: ᠴᠠᠪᠴᠠᠯ ᠰᡝᠷᠺᠢᠨ --- maybe I'm doing something wrong? You can see a picture of the name properly here:. Actually I think if you can typeset Mongolian script, you might be able to help too: the only Xibe-specific letter here is ᡝ (e; it's like an "a" with a dot on the right) in the second word. Thanks, cab (talk) 03:30, 14 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Hi! I think currently only Windows Vista and certain IMEs can really deal with Mongolian script. But I don't have a computer with Vista now, so I can't really help you out.
 * Actually, I think it might be possible to create a template for writing Mongolian by displaying individual characters in a vertical table, i.e. something similar to those templates for railway diagrams, just with Mongolian letters. But it will take some days. And then I don't have an svg image of that Xibe-specific letter yet. Yaan (talk) 09:13, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Actually, I think it might be possible to create a template for writing Mongolian by displaying individual characters in a vertical table, i.e. something similar to those templates for railway diagrams, just with Mongolian letters. But it will take some days. And then I don't have an svg image of that Xibe-specific letter yet. Yaan (talk) 09:13, 14 April 2009 (UTC)


 * No worries, I got MonTeX (a decade-old LaTeX package I'd never even heard of) installed and running this evening ... now I can write a .tex file in Latin alphabet, it makes a PDF with Mongolian script, then I convert it with pdf2svg, and fix it up in Inkscape, all under Linux. A bit round-about but it seems to work okay: File:CabcalSerkin.svg. =) No problems at all with the extra Xibe letters. I'm not ambitious or skilled enough to try making a template for all this, though. cab (talk) 15:25, 14 April 2009 (UTC)


 * I also toyed around with montex once, but I think I was told it looks a bit ugly. Much better than nothing though. :) Yaan (talk) 15:52, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Buddha's Birthday and Vesak
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Farkhor Air Base in Tajikistan
Farkhor Air Base in Tajikistan is presented in the main article as synonymous with Ayni Air Base. To the best of my understanding, the Farkhor Air Base is on the southern border of Tajikistan, "130 km south-east of Dushanbe". The Ayni Air Base is in the suburbs of Dushanbe, just 10 km west or south-west of the capital. If I am right, the two air bases should be disentangled into separate articles. Can anyone help? --Zlerman (talk) 02:06, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

List of requested photographs in Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan geography stubs Wikipedia:WikiProject Central Asia

Template:Lists_of_schools_in_Asia
Hi there everybody, just like to point out that most of the links in Template:Lists_of_schools_in_Asia are red, if we could fix this it would be great. If this is not the right WikiProject to discuss this on please let me know. Cody Cooper  Talk 23:40, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Help with Tugh?
I only had enough info for a stub, but a random Afghan article mentioned a type of banner made from horse/yak tails on a pole, called a tugh. Only found a few mentions on GoogleBooks that at least confirmed such, but not much more info. Any help, any pics? Does an article exist about this under another name? MatthewVanitas (talk) 19:43, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

GA Reassessment of Mongol invasion of Khwarezmia
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Spotlight
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GA reassessment of Persian literature
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Naming dispute on Tajik Persian/Tajik language
Please see Talk:Tajik Persian and comment. There is a slow-motion edit war over the past few days about the proper title for the article --- Tajik Persian or Tajik language. Thanks, cab (talk) 10:38, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

Blanking of Persian Empire page
Talk:Persian Empire. Ottava Rima (talk) 13:28, 22 August 2009 (UTC)

Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi
After an extensive expansion by Joey80, the Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi article has been nominated for a good article review. Before the review process starts, it'd be be great if a few WPCA members would look it over. Otebig (talk) 04:25, 24 September 2009 (UTC)

Please note that there is an editwar occuring at, with content shifting from being a 60k article, a redirect, or a disambiguation page. Previous to the 2 month long edit war, the article was a 60k article. As this article falls in the purview of your wikiproject, I thought I'd let you know.

76.66.197.30 (talk) 00:21, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

Turfan/Turpan
There is a discussion about the title of the page at Talk:Turpan. Alefbe (talk) 04:29, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

Eurasian Land Bridge- New article
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Cyrillic edittools
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Ideas on Murad Beg?
The former Emir of Bokhara, Murad Beg (also at one point governor of Qunduz?) seems quite notable, and is mentioned in several existing articles, but I'm not finding much info about him. It seems there's only one such notable guy, also called Mir Muhammad Murad Beg. I'm going to attempt a stub, but would appreciate any help. MatthewVanitas (talk) 01:59, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

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Unreferenced living people articles bot
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Asian Games by country articles
FYI, several Asiad related articles have been prodded for deletion on March 23, see WP:PRODSUM for that day.

76.66.194.32 (talk) 04:39, 24 March 2010 (UTC)


 * They have all ended up for deletion at AfD, see Articles for deletion/Log/2010 March 25
 * 76.66.194.32 (talk) 04:38, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

Greater pakistan
Greater pakistan has been prodded for deletion.

76.66.192.73 (talk) 07:13, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

Kotak: hoax village with offensive name?
In patrolling tags I came across this article. On the talk page says that the village does not exist and that the name is offensive in Uzbek. Since I don't speak Uzbek, I can't say yes or no to that, but as I explain on the talk page, there does seem to be some reason to believe Thermokarst may be correct. Could someone here who knows what they're talking about check it out? If it is a indisputable hoax, it ought to be tagged with for speedy deletion. — T RANSPORTER M AN  (TALK ) 02:41, 1 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Looks like this one is okay. It's one letter off from the offensive word.  Here's a link to a google map showing it in approximately the same location:  Google map of Kotak.  Also replying on your talk page in case you aren't checking here. Aelfthrytha (talk) 00:52, 29 May 2010 (UTC)

Discussion on the usage of "Turkmen" and "Turkmenistani" on categories and templates
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Qaraei
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Editing dispute at Afghanistan article
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July 2009 Ürümqi riots is at FAC
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A big discussion on the talk:Turkic peoples
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FAR
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Mongol script proposal
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Turpan/Turfan
There is a dispute over the naming of this article, outside input at the talk page would be appreciated. rʨ anaɢ (talk) 18:59, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

Articles for deletion/Salamat Sadykova
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Project proposal
A Parent Asia-wide project has been proposed http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Proposals/ to pick up the parts of asia not covered by any projects and to co-ordinate between projects (SEA, Central and so-on) in relation to scope and boundary issues - any thoughts here about that? SatuSuro 02:34, 28 August 2010 (UTC)

Missing task forces - propose creation (for categorization purposes)
I am often adding assessment templates, and I am surprised that Central Asia seems to be the only region without country task forces. For example, WP:AFRICA has task forces for all African countriues, WP:CARRIBEAN for its region, and so on. Even if the task forces are inactive, this allows implementation of categorization and assessment through assessment templates, such as WikiProject Central Asia. As such, I'd like to strongly recommend that this project creates the missing task forces (and ties them to the assessment scheme). --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 16:34, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
 * One issue: there's several different definitions of "Central Asia" and which countries comprise the region. It isn't a static region with clear boundaries like "Africa".  Second issue: not all the countries are wholly within "Central Asia"; Russia for example, which already has its own Wikiproject (see also related Wikiprojects on WikiProject Central Asia).  These two issues lead to the impracticality of creating inactive country-based task forces of this Wikiproject.  --Stacey Doljack Borsody (talk) 21:25, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
 * I'd like to add that categories are a more useful tool for purposes of categorization. Task forces and Wikiprojects are tools for collaboration of effort.  The creation of inactive task forces sounds like preemptive effort collaboration, which could be useful to those who become interested in the effort in the future, but I have to ask why not just use the parent Wikiproject for such purposes? --Stacey Doljack Borsody (talk) 21:30, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Ideally, we would have active wikiprojects for each country. As things stand, Central Asia countries, roughly defined, are within the Central Asia WikiProject scope. It makes sense to create such task forces, and if a controversy arises about one, it will probably mean there is enough interest to justify a split into a proper wikiproject :) Regarding the use; consider the specific case I am working on: I am adding assessing "Economy of..." pages. Sure, I can just add the Central Asia project tag; but it would be more useful to be able to add a country subproject, too; particularly because the importance may vary (economy of a given country is usually only of a mid-importance for the region, but of top for the country in question). --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 23:23, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
 * The national subprojects basically exist. The question you're asking is more about the project banner having syntax to provide separate assessments for them. John Carter (talk) 23:40, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Well, in that case could the project banner be upgraded to that syntax? I'd do it myself, if I knew how to. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 16:01, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
 * That would be up to the other members. I could do it if there were consensus. I might also point out that I am making a real effort, even if it is regularly interrupted by other matters, to try to create lists of the various journals and other English language periodicals which regularly deal with given topics, be they countries, disciplines, or whatever. But, like I said, this gets interrupted frequently. I also intend, where possible, to create separate bibliography articles for these topics. When they are created (hopefully before I die of old age and innumerable distractions) I would think that they would be serve as a good basis to help activate some of the topics. And also, yes, I do think that, if properly done, indicating which articles are the most important to the individual countries or regions (including material regarding their prehistory under other names) would probably help see those more central articles get developed faster. That is harder to do with only the regional importance ratings. John Carter (talk) 14:51, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
 * I didn't realize earlier that the other WikiProjects are considered sub-projects of this one. I see what you mean regarding assessment and how useful it would be to have the ability to work off the Central Asian template.  Looking closer, the sub-projects do not have their own template and instead use the Central Asian template.  It looks like John Carter added the Kazakhstan sub-project to the template a year ago (someone had asked why it doesn't work on the Kazakhstan project talk page).  None of the other sub-projects have it.  At this point I see two options.  1) Add the rest of the sub-projects to the Central Asian template or 2) create new templates for the sub-projects (and then can the Central Asian template read the assessment information for the sub-projects from them?).  I'm not sure which is better.  I think option 2 might be more elegant due to simplicity.  Let's get some more input from members here and members of the sub-projects. --Stacey Doljack Borsody (talk) 18:16, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
 * I take that back; the Kyrgyzstan sub-project has its own template. There may be others.  Kazakhstan did not have its own template.  WikiProject_Kyrgyzstan --Stacey Doljack Borsody (talk) 18:19, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

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Bayanzürkh
Hello, my friends: A group of us are working on clearing the backlog at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Articles_lacking_sources_from_October_2006. The article in the above header has been without sources for the past four years and might be removed if none are added. I wonder if you can help find one or two good references. Sincerely, and all the best to you, GeorgeLouis (talk) 19:56, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Mongolia Premier League


The article Mongolia Premier League has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * A few mentions online support the existence of the league, no published (gBooks) WP:RS references, the majority of the content can not be validated. Only the minor mention web links in the other language articles. Fails WP:N and WP:V

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Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Jeepday (talk) 23:12, 30 December 2010 (UTC)