Talk:List of cities in Afghanistan

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• List of cities in Afghanistan - someone put a cleanup template on this, but it doesn't seem to have been reported here. I did some, but it needs alphabetising, dab'ing... how can a country of 16 million have so many "cities"? Grutness|^hello? 09:50, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • I agree - looks like someone has taken an atlas of the country and copied every settlement on the list!!! I have Googled and used two or three of the appropriate sites; plus I also used my own encyclopaedia (1966 version but what the heck!) and come up with some dozen names of cities (altho some of them are arguably so - I suppose local information might upgrade some towns.
  • I see that some on the huge list are already cross-referenced, so I will check back on those. The first two are no-nos however: Ahmadabad is in India, and Balkh is called a "small town" in its article!
    • I have reached the letter K and am going to give up!! This was a quite ridiculous exercise, must have taken hours to produce, and it is obviously a gazatteer of Afghanistan. What is more, once produced there was no attempt to do the exercise I have been doing, so many of the cross refs have nothing whatsoever to do with Afghanistan. Dalak is a Danish word; Divali is a well-known festival; Garmin is a US group of companies; Husayn is another spelling of Hussain; Jura are French mountains - and as for Islam ... words fail.
    • I don't want to scrap it, after all that work, but it really isn't a Wikipedia article, is it?Peter Shearan 16:28, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Then I suggest that the whole lot is scrapped and the considered list substituted Peter Shearan 11:26, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)
    • I may have broken all the rules, but have reduced the sheer volume of this article somewhat. I took out the first list -"the top ten" cities, which I found from a Googled website were out-of- date anyway - and produced a new article with a slightly altered title List: Cities in Afghanistan where there are now 32 large "places". Some of those on the original list are drastically changed - one is 11X as big! I have then re-titled the original article Places in Afghanistan and simply announced it as a gazetteer. I still think it is out of place here, but would appreciate another POV on that Peter Shearan 15:15, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)
      • I picked up on this... it looks consistent now. --Joy [shallot] 15:17, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)

• • • • List of cities in Afghanistan I've started VFD because of the articles sheer volume. Please take another look at it and vote if you were involved in the page. --Banana04131 01:07, 21 August 2005 (UTC)