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Culture of Asia

Culture of Asia has been requested to be renamed, see talk:Culture of Asia -- 65.92.180.137 (talk) 05:23, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

Казакская АССР and Киргизская АССР

Are these two entities (Kazak Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic and Kirghiz Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic) actually the same entity that has just change its name or in 1925 Kirghiz ASSR stop to exist and in its place came new entity with name Kazak ASSR? Do we maybe have symbols of these entities? Which entity preceded Kirghiz ASSR, I put Russian ASSR but Kirghiz ASSR actually all that time was part of Russian ASSR. Please just warn me on my talk page to if anyone knows the answer. All the best.--MirkoS18 (talk) 12:49, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

Even if you look at what has preceded to Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic and Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic you will see that they link in on these two pages, but than it looks for reader like me who don't have enough knowledge like there was 5 years of vacuum in Kirghiz case.--MirkoS18 (talk) 12:50, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

Sassanid Empire name

There is a move discussion on the Sassanid Empire talk page. Any interested editors are invited to comment and/or vote. --Constantine ✍ 08:28, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

{{Countries and territories of Central Asia}}

Template:Countries and territories of Central Asia (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 05:20, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

{{Countries bordering the Caspian Sea}}

Template:Countries bordering the Caspian Sea (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 10:50, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

{{Countries bordering the Black Sea}}

Template:Countries bordering the Black Sea (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 10:50, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

{{Turkic Council}}

Template:Turkic Council (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 01:42, 31 August 2013 (UTC)

Sources about Uighurs in Xinjiang and China

• Palmer, James. "The Uighurs, China's Embattled Muslim Minority, Are Still Seeking an Identity." The Atlantic. September 27, 2013.
• Wang, Wenwen. "Han in Xinjiang victims of favorable minority policies" (Editorial) (.is/qfKyd Archive). Global Times. March 18, 2012.
• Tursun, Turgunjun. "Whining from majority about affirmative action misplaced." (.is/8EY93 Archive) Global Times. March 18, 2012. -- Response to Wang Wenwen's article
• Kao, Ernest. "World's most expensive baklava: US$25,000 cake goes viral on Chinese social media." South China Morning Post. Wednesday 5 December, 2012.
  • Links to: http://www.weibo.com/1699432410/z8lT7yldy

Hopefully you will find these of use. WhisperToMe (talk) 07:39, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

Popular pages tool update

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Where is Khorasan, Iran?

Where is Khorasan, Iran? This line in the lede and here refers to a disambiguation page. Can we fix this?--DThomsen8 (talk) 17:57, 11 March 2014 (UTC)

User:Ymblanter fixed this on April 10 2014. --DThomsen8 (talk) 00:53, 24 April 2014 (UTC)

Migration to Xinjiang

Should the article Migration to Xinjiang have a Central Asia template? --DThomsen8 (talk) 00:50, 24 April 2014 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride 2014

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Leaflet for Wikiproject Central Asia at Wikimania 2014

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Provinces/Regions of Kazakhstan requested move

I'd love to have some input from editors familiar with the topic at Talk:Provinces of Kazakhstan#Requested move. Cheers, Jenks24 (talk) 14:04, 1 July 2014 (UTC)

Uyghur people

This is a message I have also posted in WikiProject China. Currently I'm having in a problem with someone on Uyghur people who seems to be impervious to reason on his edits in the Education section. If anyone is interested in offering an opinion by contributing in the talk page, or can help with the editing, please do. I'm rapidly losing interest in editing a page when he keeps reverting back to a badly written and sourced section, and with content irrelevant to the section, especially after I have spent a long time trying to find sources for the edits. Hzh (talk) 17:49, 3 July 2014 (UTC)

Just to add a note that the user is Dolatjan. If there are people who are interested in help to keep an eye on the page it would be greatly appreciated, because I would be occupied elsewhere. Hzh (talk) 14:28, 8 July 2014 (UTC)

User:Talessman's maps

User:Talessman uploaded many self-made maps but all maps giving wrong information about Central Asian history. He uploaded 2 series about Asian history:"File:Asia ....jpg" and "File:East-Hem ....jpg". What series the best? "File:Asia" or "File:East-Hem"? What do you think about it? His uploads: User:Talessman/Maps Gecary (talk) 03:27, 25 October 2014 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal

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One of your project's articles has been featured

Hello, Please note that History of Mongolia, which is within this project's scope, has been selected as one of Today's articles for improvement. The article was scheduled to appear on Wikipedia's Community portal in the "Today's articles for improvement" section for one week, beginning today. Everyone is encouraged to collaborate to improve the article. Thanks, and happy editing! Delivered by Theo's Little Bot at 01:00, 12 January 2015 (UTC) on behalf of the TAFI team

WikiProject X is live!

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Harej (talk) 16:56, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2015 March 21#Category:War in Afghanistan (2001–14)

You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2015 March 21#Category:War in Afghanistan (2001–14). Thanks. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 05:30, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

Hephthalite Empire listed at Requested moves

A requested move discussion has been initiated for Hephthalite Empire to be moved to Hephthalites. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 22:32, 28 May 2015 (UTC)

Pamiri people listed at Requested moves

A requested move discussion has been initiated for Pamiri people to be moved to Pamiris. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 22:48, 28 May 2015 (UTC)

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Peer review on Wusun

I've initiated a peer review of the article on the Central Asian Wusun people. Suggestions on how the article can be improved would be appriciated. Krakkos (talk) 21:08, 3 June 2015 (UTC)

Comments requested

Hi there, comments requested at an RfC at Talk:Balochistan, Pakistan and Talk:Balochistan. The issue is this: An IP editor believes there should be some coverage of alleged human rights violations in the region, but other editors are pushing back, arguing that we have an article on Human rights violations in Balochistan that is linked from these articles. The debate seems to be about whether the general articles should have some summary content about the human rights issues, and how much of that content should be presented. Some voices are trying to minimize the inclusion of these issues in these articles and I'm starting to notice SPAs and flare-up IPs. Thanks. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 02:25, 23 June 2015 (UTC)

Is лв really the symbol for the Kyrgyzstan som and the Kazakhstan tenge?

In List of circulating currencies, the symbol for both the Kyrgyzstan som (Cyrillic: сом) and the Kazakhstan tenge (теңге) is given as лв, the same as the symbol for the Bulgarian lev), which seems highly unlikely. Please see the Talk page there for details, and please discuss it there. Thank you. --Thnidu (talk) 03:54, 19 September 2015 (UTC)

"Caravan"

The usage and primary topic of Caravan is under discussion, see talk:travel trailer -- 70.51.44.60 (talk) 05:24, 5 November 2015 (UTC)

Can anyone save Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nurungul Tohti?

By finding non-English sources that would help her pass WP:BIO? --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 03:45, 22 November 2015 (UTC)

Greater Khorasan

An anonymous IP editor changed information in the article entitled "Greater Khorasan". Can someone please check for accuracy. Here is the diff [1]. Thanks in advance. Steve Quinn (talk) 06:35, 4 July 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Asia/The 10,000 Challenge

Everyone is invited to the WikiProject Asia/The 10,000 Challenge. The editathon aims to create or improve 10,000 articles related to Asia. Pratyush (talk) 17:57, 13 October 2016 (UTC)

Invitation to Women in Red's special November activities

November 2016
	Announcing two exiting online editathons Women in Food and Drink and Women Writers as well as our strong support for articles on women in connection with Wikipedia Asian Month Faciliated by Women in Red

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2016 Community Wishlist Survey Proposal to Revive Popular Pages

Greetings WikiProject Central Asia/Archive 6 Members!

This is a one-time-only message to inform you about a technical proposal to revive your Popular Pages list in the 2016 Community Wishlist Survey that I think you may be interested in reviewing and perhaps even voting for:

• Fix and improve Mr.Z-bot's popular pages report

If the above proposal gets in the Top 10 based on the votes, there is a high likelihood of this bot being restored so your project will again see monthly updates of popular pages.

Further, there are over 260 proposals in all to review and vote for, across many aspects of wikis.

Thank you for your consideration. Please note that voting for proposals continues through December 12, 2016.

Best regards, Stevietheman — Delivered: 17:56, 7 December 2016 (UTC)

Upcoming "420 collaboration"

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Popular pages report

We – Community Tech – are happy to announce that the Popular pages bot is back up-and-running (after a one year hiatus)! You're receiving this message because your WikiProject or task force is signed up to receive the popular pages report. Every month, Community Tech bot will post at Wikipedia:WikiProject Central Asia/Archive 6/Popular pages with a list of the most-viewed pages over the previous month that are within the scope of WikiProject Central Asia.

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We're grateful to Mr.Z-man for his original Mr.Z-bot, and we wish his bot a happy robot retirement. Just as before, we hope the popular pages reports will aid you in understanding the reach of WikiProject Central Asia, and what articles may be deserving of more attention. If you have any questions or concerns please contact us at m:User talk:Community Tech bot.

Warm regards, the Community Tech Team 17:16, 17 May 2017 (UTC)

Disambiguation links on pages tagged by this wikiproject

Wikipedia has many thousands of wikilinks which point to disambiguation pages. It would be useful to readers if these links directed them to the specific pages of interest, rather than making them search through a list. Members of WikiProject Disambiguation have been working on this and the total number is now below 20,000 for the first time. Some of these links require specialist knowledge of the topics concerned and therefore it would be great if you could help in your area of expertise.

A list of the relevant links on pages which fall within the remit of this wikiproject can be found at http://69.142.160.183/~dispenser/cgi-bin/topic_points.py?banner=WikiProject_Central_Asia

Please take a few minutes to help make these more useful to our readers.— Rod ^talk 14:03, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject

The reason I am contacting you is because there are one or more portals that fall under this subject, and the Portals WikiProject is currently undertaking a major drive to automate portals that may affect them.

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At present, we are gearing up for a maintenance pass of portals in which the introduction section will be upgraded to no longer need a subpage. In place of static copied and pasted excerpts will be self-updating excerpts displayed through selective transclusion, using the template {{Transclude lead excerpt}}.

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Draft:Kazakh 1-st Civil War

This draft is liable to be deleted for lack of editing activity. Should it be moved to mainspace? Anyone want to help improve it? Calliopejen1 (talk) 03:34, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

Featured quality source review RFC

Editors in this WikiProject may be interested in the featured quality source review RFC that has been ongoing. It would change the featured article candidate process (FAC) so that source reviews would need to occur prior to any other reviews for FAC. Your comments are appreciated. --IznoRepeat (talk) 21:47, 11 November 2018 (UTC)

Merge Proposal needs input

Need additional insight and comments to the ongoing debate re: merging North Caucasian Huns into Huns. Proposer's rationale: North Caucasian Huns is a stub and only has one source I'd really consider reliable. I propose merging it to Huns. The vast majority of scholars believe that the North Caucasian Huns were descended from or closely related to Attila's Huns, including Denis Sinor, Peter Golden, Otto Maenchen-Helfen, and Jin Hyun Kim. There's no real reason to give them their own article. Additionally, the article currently falsely gives the impression that the North Caucasian Huns are the "Khunni" mentioned in Ptolemy. Proposer: Ermenrich (talk) 15:41, 26 November 2018 (UTC) >>>The Discussion is Here<<<

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Nomination of Portal:Khyber Pakhtunkhwa for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether Portal:Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The page will be discussed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Khyber Pakhtunkhwa until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the page during the discussion, including to improve the page to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the deletion notice from the top of the page. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 00:47, 9 May 2019 (UTC)

Nomination of Portal:Balochistan, Pakistan for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether Portal:Balochistan, Pakistan is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The page will be discussed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Balochistan, Pakistan until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the page during the discussion, including to improve the page to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the deletion notice from the top of the page. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 06:44, 14 May 2019 (UTC)

Nomination of Portal:Kyrgyzstan for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether Portal:Kyrgyzstan is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The page will be discussed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Kyrgyzstan (2nd nomination) until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the page during the discussion, including to improve the page to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the deletion notice from the top of the page. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 02:17, 21 August 2019 (UTC)

Discussion of interest at Reliable Sources Noticeboard

The following discussion is of interest to members at Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard#Using of primary genetics sources at Uyghur (and many other Eurasian pages).--Ermenrich (talk) 18:00, 15 September 2019 (UTC)

Request for information on WP1.0 web tool

Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.

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Kazakhstan-Russia

Hi! Can someone closer to the subject confirm or undo the addition of this edit & this. In recent years, some Russians in northern of Kazakhstan and some Russian officials have called for the annexation of northern regions of Kazakhstan to Russia. Most of the inhabitants of this regions are Russians. --Pelmeen10 (talk) 17:04, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

Aydogdy Kurbanov

Hello! Now, we have an article on Aydogdy Kurbanov, and it is within the scope of this Wikiproject. Kindly assess the article on the project's quality and importance scale. Suggestions for improvements would be highly appreciated. Looking forward to see you guyz on the article's talk page )) Thanks, Мастер Шторм (talk) 22:35, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

Displaying Russian names as footnotes in former Soviet Union locations?

Please see Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Soviet_Union#Display_Russian_names_in_footnotes_of_locations_in_the_former_Soviet_Union? for a discussion on whether the Russian names should be put in footnotes in articles about former Soviet Union locations (which existed at the time of the Soviet Union) WhisperToMe (talk) 08:31, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

Requesting expansion and update edit support

Hi,

Season's greetings

I am looking for proactive expansion and update support/input help the following (So far neglected but important topic) articles, if possible. Even if you feel your focus area bit different still contribution of few line may help bring in some different perspective and also help Wikipedia goal of neutrality. If you can't spare time but if you know any good references you can note those on talk pages.

• Islamic advice literature

This has been posted to this forum since, one of article review suggested to have more diverse editor participation to have more inclusive, neutral and balanced worldview

I hope and request some editors from this forum too proactively and constructively participate in updating and expanding of article Islamic advice literature

Thanks, warm regards and greetings

Bookku (talk) 07:57, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Aurat (word)

The terms "Aurat", "Arvad", "Avret", and "Awrath" may refer to: Women of Asian religious or cultural descent and identity.

Self nomination for AFD since article copy pasted to Draft:Aurat for incubation because IMHO current article title Aurat (word) is misleading and confusing leading to western systemic bias and stifling the article growth. Please find Detail reason at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Aurat (word)

I invite project members to review current and potential sourcing and weigh in on the AfD discussion. Thanks! Bookku (talk) 03:28, 10 June 2020 (UTC)

Talk:Xinjiang re-education camps#Requested move 17 January 2021

There is an ongoing discussion above about chaning the name of the article about "Re-education camps" in Xinjiang to another name such as "Internment Camp" or "Concentratin Camp". You are welcome to participate.  // Timothy :: t | c | a   07:59, 21 January 2021 (UTC)

RfC on the Uyghur people

There is an RfC about the genetic origin of the Uyghurs, Talk:Uyghurs#RfC on the genetic history of the Uyghur people, comments are welcome. Hzh (talk) 12:15, 23 February 2021 (UTC)

RfC on the first sentence at Uyghur genocide

There is an RfC at Talk:Uyghur genocide#RfC on the first sentence of the lead that is relevant to this WikiProject. Your participation is welcome! — MarkH₂₁^talk 23:33, 30 April 2021 (UTC)

New Page Patrol

New Page Patrol needs experienced volunteers

• New Page Patrol is currently struggling to keep up with the influx of new articles, including Central Asia related articles. We could use a few extra hands on deck if you think you can help.
• Reviewing/patrolling a page doesn't take much time but it requires a good understanding of Wikipedia policies and guidelines; Wikipedia needs experienced users to perform this task and there are precious few with the appropriate skills. Even a couple reviews a day can make a huge difference.
• If you would like to join the project and help out, please see the granting conditions and review our instructions page. You can apply for the user-right HERE. --John B123 (talk) 12:18, 23 May 2021 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Nur-Sultan#Requested move 9 October 2021

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Nur-Sultan#Requested move 9 October 2021 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. VR _talk 14:04, 14 October 2021 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Nur-Sultan#Requested move 9 October 2021

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Nur-Sultan#Requested move 9 October 2021 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Vpab15 (talk) 20:28, 21 October 2021 (UTC)

Use of Flag in Infobox (Afghanistan)

As the use of flags in the infobox seems to be causing some disagreement on this talk page I think it would be useful to reach a consensus specifically on this issue.

Option A Continue using the flag of the Taliban

Option B Return to the tricolour of the deposed republic

Option C Use both

Option D Use neither

Note: This discussion has been going on for a while but now seems to be roughly half and half split between those supporting option A and those suggesting another option so additional comments would be helpful.

--Llewee (talk) 16:14, 2 November 2021 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:Oriental studies § Proposed merge of Asian studies with Oriental studies

 You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Oriental studies § Proposed merge of Asian studies with Oriental studies. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 18:12, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

Merge Requests

  You are invited to join the discussion about whether individual rulers of Turk Shahis and Nezak Huns deserve individual pages. Relevant links are:

• Discussion on Ghar Ilchi
• Discussion on Bo Fuzhun
• Discussion on Tegin Shah
• Discussion on Barha Tegin

Thanks, TrangaBellam (talk) 07:15, 14 January 2022 (UTC)

A relevant meta-discussion is in progress at this thread. TrangaBellam (talk) 07:15, 14 January 2022 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Erkeshtam#Requested move 16 March 2022

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Erkeshtam#Requested move 16 March 2022 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. 🐶 EpicPupper ^{(he/him | talk)} 23:59, 23 March 2022 (UTC)

User script to detect unreliable sources

Main page: User:Headbomb/unreliable

I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like

• John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14. (John Smith "[https://www.deprecated.com/article Article of things]" ''Deprecated.com''. Accessed 2020-02-14.)

and turns it into something like

• John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.

It will work on a variety of links, including those from {{cite web}}, {{cite journal}} and {{doi}}.

The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.

Do note that this is not a script to be mindlessly used, and several caveats apply. Details and instructions are available at User:Headbomb/unreliable. Questions, comments and requests can be made at User talk:Headbomb/unreliable.

- Headbomb {t · c · p · b}

This is a one time notice and can't be unsubscribed from. Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:01, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

Merger proposal of interest

It has been proposed to merge the article Eskam's daughter to Eskam. Please discuss here.--Ermenrich (talk) 19:55, 16 December 2022 (UTC)

Assistance required to end deadlock in merger proposal discussion

I've been editing the articles relating to the Scythians over the course of several months, and since most editors tend to favour splitting pages after they reach a certain size, I split two further pages, Iškuza and Scythia, covering the phases of Scythian history respectively in West Asia and in Europe, out of the main page covering the Scythians.

However, trying to split it has resulted into three articles, with both Iškuza and Scythia requiring large amounts of material regarding the role of the prior and subsequent histories of the Scythians in the creation and destruction of those states copied from each other and from the Scythians page to exist since they are both about immediately preceding/succeeding states created by the same continuous population group. And because Iškuza and Scythia both cover immediately preceding/succeeding but also partially overlapping parts of the history of the Scythians, multiple sections and sub-sections of each page covering the culture, population, external relations, etc of these states also had to be copied from the Scythians page (e.g. the "Background" sub-section and "Society" section in Scythia, and the "Origins," "Impact," and "Legacy" sections of Iškuza). Moreover, the Scythia page as it exists now also functions as a WP:Semi-duplicate, given that most of the information relating to this polity also is also the same basic information that is required on the Scythians page.

Given this resulting situation, I have started a merger proposal to resolve this issue, per WP:MERGEREASON: Overlap, Context, not because I support a merger for the sake of merging itself, which I do not favour, but because Iškuza and Scythia require too much context and the information on these pages is too intertwined with each other.

The problem is that, despite months having passed, the discussion for the merger proposal is still at a deadlock, with three users opposed to the merger, and three users (including myself) in favour of it. In this difficult situation, I have been advised to bring this issue to the various WikiProjects which are relevant to Scythians as a way to possibly resolve the deadlock, and all good faith assistance to reach a consensus would be much welcome. Antiquistik (talk) 18:11, 12 February 2023 (UTC)

Draft:1987 Wrestling World Cup

The Wrestling World Cup was held in Mongolia for the first time.

Hello. I have added new references to independent sources. These sources disclose information "Draft:1987 Wrestling World Cup", in-depth (not just passing mentions about the subject), These sources is reliable, secondary, independent of the subject. Also see the new notes "Draft talk:1987 Wrestling World Cup". I hope for a positive decision on the project Tschin As (talk) 07:38, 15 April 2023 (UTC)

Women in Green's 5th Edit-a-thon

Hello WikiProject Central Asia:

WikiProject Women in Green is holding a month-long Good Article Edit-a-thon event in October 2023!

Running from October 1 to 31, 2023, WikiProject Women in Green (WiG) is hosting a Good Article (GA) edit-a-thon event with the theme Around the World in 31 Days! All experience levels welcome. Never worked on a GA project before? We'll teach you how to get started. Or maybe you're an old hand at GAs – we'd love to have you involved! Participants are invited to work on nominating and/or reviewing GA submissions related to women and women's works (e.g., books, films) during the event period. We hope to collectively cover article subjects from at least 31 countries (or broader international articles) by month's end. GA resources and one-on-one support will be provided by experienced GA editors, and participants will have the opportunity to earn a special WiG barnstar for their efforts.

We hope to see you there!

Grnrchst (talk) 14:10, 21 September 2023 (UTC)