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Herat and Mazar-i-Sharif

Both cities are the third largest according to their articles. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 51.175.27.212 (talk) 17:11, 24 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Afghanistan is mostly a nomadic... society?

At Afghanistan#CultureCulture it states that Afghanistan "is mostly a nomadic... society." That is ridiculous!!! and should be corrected because only about 5% are nomads (Kochi people). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hotchickslovemeuglyoneshateme (talk • contribs) 14:06, 14 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Uzbek

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please change ((Uzbek))s to ((Uzbeks))

Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format. 🔯 Sir Joseph ^🍸(talk) 18:41, 8 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Proper Flag

User Warrior_786 recently replaced the link in the infobox for the flag from Flag of Afghanistan to Flag of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. If you look at the history for the former file you can see that this user engaged in an 'edit war' of sorts trying to change the flag design from the one where the logo is fully contained in the center red stripe to the one where it covers a portion of all three stripes. On the official Ministry of Foreign Affairs website for Afghanistan it is shown with the version covering all three stripes, but the background image of the website (see the top panel) shows it with it fully contained in the red stripe.

I'm posting this in an attempt to get consensus on this issue as I cannot find specific sources citing the change, and other pages on this wiki, notably Flag of Afghanistan show it with the red bar only version. Heighliner10191 (talk) 10:05, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed that edit, and I spent some time poking around, looking for something definitive. I didn't find it. Pages at the web sites for three Afghan embassies—Sweden, UK, and US—show the flag with the logo fully within the center field. Two other pages—for the Afghan embassy in the UAE and the Afghan Chief Executive show the other version. Clearly, both versions of the flag have been in use recently. It's unclear which one, if either, is "official". Rivertorch^FIRE_WATER 15:50, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I would then propose, for consistency with other pages on the Wiki, that we revert the change back to the previous flag as that is the flag used on the majority of pages on this and other Wikimedia projects. In the past there has clearly been a preference for that flag with the revert attempts to change that file directly. I'll do this in about a day unless there are any other objections or someone with more history on this topic would like to do it immediately. Heighliner10191 (talk) 08:45, 9 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

In the absence of a compelling argument to the contrary, I'd support that. Perhaps you'd like to ping the user who made the change? Rivertorch^FIRE_WATER 09:06, 10 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@\\'arrior 786: care to defend your change to the flag design? If you have a reason it would be good to hear. Heighliner10191 (talk) 16:43, 10 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Having given the changing user a full day to reply to his ping I went ahead and made the change back to the old flag Heighliner10191 (talk) 07:07, 12 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Demographu

As of 1 January 2017, the population of Afghanistan was estimated to be 34 043 082 people. Please amend.