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Semi-protected edit request on 9 August 2021

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This area is not Azad Kashmir. This is POK (Pakistan occupied Kashmir). 2402:8100:3974:86D8:0:0:0:1 (talk) 12:19, 9 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the {{edit semi-protected}} template. See above answers, this is the consensus title. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 12:26, 9 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 15 August 2021

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someone has changed the map used in this page from to this, which violets Wikipedia POV. so i request you to make it correct 180.188.250.46 (talk) 06:55, 15 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the {{edit semi-protected}} template. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 11:29, 15 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@ScottishFinnishRadish i think you haven;t read my request correctly, please read it again, i am saying that, a consensus was made already on Kashmir issue, that every article related to Kashmir (disambiguation) will have this map

but someone, changed this map without discussion on talk, so please revert that editFollowbrocode (talk) 11:43, 15 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for spotting this, Followbrocode. The map was changed three days ago [1], and the edit somehow didn't get noticed. I've reverted that now. – Uanfala (talk) 12:03, 15 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

that was my duty, welcomeFollowbrocode (talk) 12:19, 15 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 7 September 2021

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Since this is a controversial region, where Pakistan and India both claim their stake and recognize it with different names, it is not justified to give title which is associated only with one country i.e. Pakistan. It gives impression that Wikipedia is biased on this. Thus it is more appropriate to give an elaborated combined title "Azad Kashmir Or Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK)" which is better representation of the political status and understanding of two big countries. Nuc.nav (talk) 10:30, 7 September 2021 (UTC) ^[1][reply]

Would you also consider renaming – for the exact same reasons – Jammu and Kashmir to Jammu and Kashmir Or Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK)? – Uanfala (talk) 10:54, 7 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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@Uanfala, there is consensus regarding india-pakistan related topics see here, in past there were many cases of disruptive editing in india-pakistan related topics, so there is a mutual consensus that no one can do any kind of edit which doesn't strictly apply to wikipedia policies, so this map which is a part of a disputed territory of Kashmir, there is a consensus that only full maps with dotted boundary showing regions administered by both countried should only be used, see Jammu and Kashmir (union territory), this article is about the indian-administrated territory, there is not even a single map which doesn't show the rest of the territory with dotted line. so this map is a clear violation of Wikipedia:Neutral point of view policy and should not be used. Uttarpradeshi (talk) 17:15, 11 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The map is clearly labelled as "Districts of Azad Kashmir", which it depicts correctly. I don't see a problem with it.

Showing full maps of the disputed Kashmir is a policy made for the infobox images. You are getting confused. -- Kautilya3 (talk) 19:59, 11 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Kautilya3, so are you saying that we can use similar kind of map Jammu and Kashmir (union territory) here also, which shows districts of jammu kashmir UT?? Uttarpradeshi (talk) 06:31, 12 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

^ https://www.mapsofindia.com/my-india/imo/map-of-indian-state-of-jammu-and-kashmir-august-5-2019

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