Talk:South Waziristan District

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Initial Cleanup[edit]

To Everyone who contributed to this article thus far -- good job! There's a very solid start to a great article here, however it needs proper sourcing/references and some work by editors more familiar with the region than I am. If any of my grammar edits actually changed the meaning of a sentence, please do revert/change the text to suit the proper meaning. It's not my intention to change the meaning, only to make it more readable. I have also added a number of wikilinks to the article to interlink it with relevant terms and concepts; in some rare instances, this meant creating red wikilinks (pages/topics that don't yet exist on Wikipedia, or at least, not on ENglish Wikipedia). If this is undesirable, feel free to revert those as well, although I think the better option -- if the content is notable at all -- would be to build out pages for those (most were small tribes or words from other languages). Anyway, hope this helps someone down the road. - Ageekgal (talk) 12:28, 19 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

POV[edit]

The second paragraph of the section "Races and tribes" states the following:

"The Mahsud tribe is well known for their courage [...]"

That doesn't sound like a neutral point of view. It would be better to say "The Mahsud tribe has a reputation for courage [...]". Maybe it doesn't belong there at all though. WorldAsWill (talk) 05:21, 17 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This could be almost counted as fact for both Wazirs and Mahsuds, I don't think anyone ever disagreed with it, a reference source is Akbar Ahmed (2004), Resistance and Control in Pakistan.

Area[edit]

Is the area listed here correct? The page for North Waziristan has an area listing of just over 4k km2, and this says 12k km2. The page on Waziristan, states 12k km2 total area of the two regions. Does anyone know which is correct? Davo499 (talk) 13:12, 28 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Transliteration[edit]

Can anyone supply a transliteration of the Pashto name? Skinsmoke (talk) 18:27, 5 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Agency in name[edit]

For a unified discussion of the usages of "South Waziristan" vs. "South Waziristan Agency" and "North Waziristan" vs. "North Waziristan Agency" see Talk:North Waziristan#Agency in name. --Bejnar (talk) 02:50, 13 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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New reference could help with 1970s history section[edit]

The following reference could be used to expand the history section for the 1970s and especially the localized rule and resistance of Mullah Noor Muhammad.

Akbar Ahmed (2004), Resistance and control in Pakistan. London: Routledge. 109.149.222.5 (talk) 12:00, 4 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]