User talk:SdHb

A barnstar for you!

	The Half Barnstar
	For your collaboration at Talk:Ethnic groups in Afghanistan#Vandalism with Badakhshan ziba, after everything started off on the wrong foot. Thanks for working together. asilvering (talk) 17:26, 31 August 2025 (UTC)

		The Half Barnstar
		For the tremendous effort improving the article by adding content giving context to the real-world dispute over the article's topic. Xan747 (talk) 18:57, 1 September 2025 (UTC)

Do not revert

this edit as it could be construed as edit-warring.

@Asilvering: would you like to handle this or shall I, and if the latter, where? Xan747 (talk) 22:47, 3 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello @Xan747 that‘s fine. Thank you for handling this. SdHb (talk) 00:33, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

I should have made clear for others' benefit that you are not the editor out of line here. This is an unfortunate development. Xan747 (talk) 01:06, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

Continuing the discussion from User_talk:Asilvering#Another_big_revert_in_Ethnic_groups_in_Afghanistan, I propose that I post the following message on the other editors talk page:

Due to this edit, which restores your preferred content to the article against the consensus of myself and SdHb, we have agreed to give you 48 hours to self-revert your changes back to our consensus version. If we do not hear back from you within that amount of time, or you decline to revert your changes, we have decided that we will open a case at WP:ANEW against you for edit-warring. Thank you.

If you have other suggestions or changes, please let me know. Xan747 (talk) 17:28, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

That sounds perfect, thank you very much! SdHb (talk) 21:51, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

done. Xan747 (talk) 22:13, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

Thank you, I hope we get a reasonable response. See you until then! SdHb (talk) 00:37, 6 September 2025 (UTC)

The good news is that if we do go to WP:ANEW, I'm already making plenty of friends. This place can be so frustrating sometimes. Xan747 (talk) 01:27, 6 September 2025 (UTC)

Sorry again to you both for not being on top of things - though it seems that this hasn't gone anywhere in the past few days, which is a relief. If they don't respond before your 48-hour ultimatum expires, please let me know instead of heading to the noticeboard - I'm hoping we can get through this without blocks, so I'll revert it myself and jump in editorially to try to sort this out bit by bit. -- asilvering (talk) 22:40, 6 September 2025 (UTC)

Hey that would be perfect, thank you! Yes, the past couple of days, not much happened. The other user hasn‘t responded yet and the 48 hours are over soon. SdHb (talk) 22:50, 6 September 2025 (UTC)

Sounds good to me as well. Xan747 (talk) 23:31, 6 September 2025 (UTC)

Notice of Dispute resolution noticeboard discussion

This message is being sent to let you know of a discussion at the Wikipedia:Dispute resolution noticeboard regarding a content dispute discussion you may have participated in. Content disputes can hold up article development and make editing difficult. You are not required to participate, but you are both invited and encouraged to help this dispute come to a resolution. The thread is "Ethnic groups in Afghanistan".

Please join us to help form a consensus. Thank you!

-- Xan747 (talk) 20:03, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

You should really refrain from any sort of criticism of the other editor as you did here. You might consider striking it. -- Xan747 (talk) 15:29, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

Division of effort on statistics

To avoid duplication of effort on this damn table, I propose you manage the entire list of sources and copy the relevant text into the references template as you've been doing. Once we've settled on a final format, I can make a script which will make it easy to add/change/delete the actual cells of data without having to manually enter them. (I'll keep the actual data in a machine-readable file that is simpler to edit, and my script will generate the wikicode.) Sound like a deal? Do you have other ideas? Xan747 (talk) 19:40, 19 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello @Xan747 I would be glad to assist you. Please forgive me for being slightly confused on what we are talking about now. Are we talking about the statistics table that we are creating for the live version? If yes, were should I maintain the reference templates? In my draft version or in the sources overview here? (And while we are talking about it: can you archive this table here so nobody gets confused with the one on the discussion of table talk page?) And to make the data machine-readable: do I have to take into account how I write down the data in the references? SdHb (talk) 21:46, 19 September 2025 (UTC)

Where to maintain a central list of the reference templates--for the stats only--is a good question. I think as a section of Talk:Ethnic groups in Afghanistan/Discussion of Table is better that at DRN, since the DRN discussion will eventually be archived and break links to it. I would just copy over the list you already have at DRN and we'll go from there. This might be a good opportunity to adopt standard naming for the sources, eg CIA-2005 or DW-1968, etc.

I'm talking about all the stats in all the candidate sources. We already have them, may as well extract them. Then if they get approved, we can simply zip them into the live version of the table. If that's too much work for you, that's fine. I'll do them all myself, but I was hoping in the long run it would save everyone time to do all this work up front once.

IDK if we should archive that old discussion quite yet. I'll look at it in a minute. Xan747 (talk) 21:58, 19 September 2025 (UTC)

And to be clear, you don't need to put extracted data into a table. Just in the citation template. I'll transcribe them into my database. Xan747 (talk) 21:59, 19 September 2025 (UTC)

Ok is it the sources table at DRN you want to archive? This one:Wikipedia:Dispute_resolution_noticeboard#Fifth_statement_by_editors_(Afghan_groups)? We should leave that one there as part of the permanent record. I hatted it, along with a bunch of other stuff surrounding it, at the suggestion of asilvering. I'll ask Robert if I can move it elsewhere on the page to make it easier to get at. I'll still want it hatted out of courtesy to everyone else using that page, but if it were at the top of the discussion, it would be easier for us to find. Xan747 (talk) 22:23, 19 September 2025 (UTC)

I posed the question to Robert at DRN Xan747 (talk) 22:43, 19 September 2025 (UTC)

Hi @Xan747, is this what you mean?

Ethnic categories in Afghanistan

Ethnic category	Pashtun	Tajik/ Farsiwan	Hazara	Uzbek	Other ethnic categories
					Turkmen	Baloch	Nuristani	Aimaq	Others

????–???? estimates (xyz regime)
1978 Orywal	46–49%	26–28%	7–9%	7–8%	1–3%	1%	1%	5%

But with all round about 70 sources (the ones we used in our 3 draft versions included)? If yes, I can extract all relevant data from the sources and place them in a table (we can move this table into the DRN section). SdHb (talk) 14:20, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

References

Hi @SdHb. On review, I think there's nothing for you to do at the moment. I will just extract the statistics myself from our list and use them locally for my own needs. Thanks for being willing to help. Xan747 (talk) 17:50, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

Hi @Xan747, alright, just let me know as soon as you need my help on something, I‘d be glad to help. Are you working on your own draft page in the meanwhile? SdHb (talk) 17:55, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

@SdHb Yes, I updated my table last night and posted a notification to the talk page with a rather verbose discussion of why I made the design choices I did. If you would like me to always ping you on talk pages (or at least for important things like that) I will be happy to do so. I really don't want to ping asilvering all the time, which is why I didn't ping anyone when I made that comment. If that makes any sense. (I must admit to being somewhat fatigued by the topic at the moment, but will get through it.) Xan747 (talk) 18:00, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

I totally feel you, the dispute is going on for way too long, and I‘m sorry that you have to go through all of this, I feel exhausted too. But I think by working together we will get through much faster. So yes, please ping me whereever and whenever you make a big change and need an opinion. Just know that I really appreciate your work. SdHb (talk) 18:05, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

And I yours. Xan747 (talk) 18:09, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

Tearing my hair out a bit right now, and that is all I should say. Xan747 (talk) 22:09, 21 September 2025 (UTC)

I feel you. At least we can agree on many points regarding the table layout. SdHb (talk) 22:31, 21 September 2025 (UTC)

Hi @Xan747 I hope you're doing well. I've noticed that you became less active in our case. I hope you still have the nerve to pull through all of it. SdHb (talk) 08:52, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

I'm not going anywhere, it just feels like there isn't much for me to add at the moment that I've not already said. Xan747 (talk) 15:26, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

@Xan747 I've suggested some next steps here. Would you agree with that? If yes, I would create those new sections. SdHb (talk) 16:31, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

Answered yes with the condition that we first get approval from the DRN moderator. Xan747 (talk) 16:47, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

Just so you know

I did this, so no reason to bring up in article talk in case you were tempted. Xan747 (talk) 22:45, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

We may be nearing the point that we've beaten the issue of monarchy-era statistics to death. If he's not going to yield on it, he's never going to. Also, thanks for bottom-posting without indents, it really helps me follow the discussion at least. Reminder if you don't know, when making comments directly like that, you need to sign your posts with four tildes at the end of your response like this ~~~~. You didn't do that on your last one, so I signed it for you. Xan747 (talk) 23:47, 10 October 2025 (UTC)

@Xan747 It‘s getting increasingly frustrating and annoying by the minute. If a user is notoriously defiant to all compromise, how long can that be tolerated before being found WP:DISRUPTIVE? Also yes, I forgot to do that, happens pretty fast when using the edit section. :-) SdHb (talk) 00:30, 11 October 2025 (UTC)

I don't know that it constitutes disruptive at this point, better to just call it a deadlock. If he doesn't budge in his next response, I will propose we table it for now, and finalize the table layout for the sources we all agree on, and put that into the article before revisiting disputed sources. Xan747 (talk) 00:40, 11 October 2025 (UTC)

@Xan747 Sounds reasonable. When we've finally finished the article one day, we 1. might as well nominate the agreed upon version for the Excellent articles ourselves, and 2. raise a glass to celebrate that all this cr–p is finally over XD. SdHb (talk) 09:10, 13 October 2025 (UTC)

All the work you've done on this article certainly warrants at least good article status. Xan747 (talk) 16:31, 13 October 2025 (UTC)

@SdHb sir/madam now, I have not edited any disputed area of the article or lead section. I have only edited one minor subsection of a minority group with sources. My edit was not part of any dispute. If correction I made in a minor subsection of minority group have any problem you can explain the reason. If you still think, I've done anything wrong plz explain me on talk page pointing my user name. Email Khan hazzarvi (talk) 00:00, 5 November 2025 (UTC)

Hello @Email Khan hazzarvi, the entire article is currently being revised, as the discussion concerns not just the table of ethnic statistics but the whole text. You can see my draft text here. When it comes to the Gujjar, you need to consider that the length of each section of each ethnic category is generally proportional to its size in the population. Major ethnic categories receive around 300–400 words, minor categories about 200–300 words, and other, very small categories get around 100–200 words. Since the Gujjar are such a small group, a longer section like you added isn't justified. Keeping the text concise helps maintaining a consistent style across the article, which is important for meeting WP:GOODARTICLE standards which is a long-term goal for the article. Following WP:MOS, content should be clear, concise, and balanced to ensure smooth readability, which is why very small groups are best represented with shorter sections. If you like to add more information, you can edit the redirection articles I've added: Gujars, Gurjar clans, and List of Gurjars. That way, your information finds its way into Wikipedia without having too much WP:UNDUE weight in the "Ethnic groups of Afghanistan" article. Thank you for your understanding. SdHb (talk) 13:10, 5 November 2025 (UTC)

@SdHb

ٱلسَّلَامُ عَلَيْكُمْ sir/madam I was not aware about your draft I've added content under only 185 words, as you said minority groups text can be added under 100-200 words limit. Also external article links like Gurjar, Muslim Gujjars & List of Gurjars are fine but not Gurjar clans because this a redirect to Gurjar page. You can check text I've added in your draft without changing any other content their and text is under 185 words limit you can confirm it using (https://wordcounter.net/). Email Khan hazzarvi (talk) 01:27, 6 November 2025 (UTC)

As there is no separate article exit, as Gujars of afghanistan & other tribe-related pages are locked but as you said, under the 100-200 word limit, we can add content for minor minority groups that have 1.5-2 million population. I'd also like to request you that when you complete your draft, before adding to main the article, please assign all ethnic groups sections according to their population-wise estimates like 30 million, 20-15... 1.5 million to the last with 10-5 thousand people. In all sections population should be population wise. Like in minor category there tribes names must be according to their numbers from 5 million, 3, 2, and then 1.5 million to last 10-5 thousand people. Email Khan hazzarvi (talk) 01:41, 6 November 2025 (UTC)

@SdHb@Xan747@Badakhshan ziba Kindly also add on lead that the constitution of Afghanistan recognized 14 ethnic groups, and such ethnic group names need to be mentioned on lead whenever you guys finalized your draft. Because the 2004 Constitution of Afghanistan was significant in giving an overview of some main ethnic groups of Afghanistan and their recognition by the Afghan government. Sources were added in this revision with 14 ethnic group names that, 2004 Afghan constitution recognized. Email Khan hazzarvi (talk) 01:53, 6 November 2025 (UTC)

@SdHb Like here User:SdHb/Ethnic groups in Afghanistan (working)#Other ethnic categories per population estimates Qizilbash tribe should be in last because they have population of 30,000, while, Pashayi, Kygyz have population near to 1 million but for Gujar estimates are 1.5 million, so names need be re-aranged according to tribes/ ethnic group's population. Email Khan hazzarvi (talk) 02:22, 6 November 2025 (UTC)

وَعَلَيْكُم ٱلسَّلَامُ @Email Khan hazzarvi, thank you very much for your efforts to improve the article. It's clear that you've put thought into keeping the section concise and supported by sources. However, there are a few important points I want to clarify. Regarding the Gujjar population, no reliable source (per WP:RS) supports figures as high as 1.5–2 million. The question of which sources are considered reliable is still discussed, but for now you can see here which sources have been agreed upon so far. The highest figure among them comes from the Asia Foundation, which lists the Gujjars at less than 0.5% of the total population. That would be under 200,000 individuals as of 2021. Since available reliable demographic and academic estimates are much lower than the sources you refer to, it can safely be considered WP:FRINGE, and giving them the same space as agreed upon reliable sources would create undue weight (WP:UNDUE). To keep the article balanced and consistent, the idea is that smaller groups should therefore have shorter, summary-style sections. As for the ordering of ethnic categories, the plan is to follow approximate population size while also maintaining readability and logical flow (WP:MOS). Because different sources provide different numbers, it isn't always possible to rank them strictly by population. Regarding your point about the 2004 Constitution of Afghanistan, it's important to note that this constitution is de facto no longer in effect after the fall of Kabul in 2021. While it may still be mentioned in a historical context, it should not be presented as the current legal basis for ethnic recognition. The article must reflect this change in a neutral and up-to-date manner. And lastly, if you'd like to include more detailed information about the Gujjars, you are very welcome to create a separate article, for example Afghan Gujars or Gujars in Afghanistan. That way, you can expand on their history and culture with appropriate sources, while the main "Ethnic groups in Afghanistan" article remains concise and balanced. I hope this explanation helped you understand the reasoning behind the current structure and sourcing approach. Thank you again for your cooperation and constructive work on the article. SdHb (talk) 12:00, 6 November 2025 (UTC)