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J0urm district?[edit]

Yes, it is zero, not an "o". Look it up in the article. Never heard of this district, have You?

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 13 March 2024 - "low-level" and "guerilla war"[edit]

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Change first sentence from current 'The republican insurgency in Afghanistan is an ongoing armed conflict between' to:

'The republican insurgency in Afghanistan is an ongoing low-level[1] guerilla war[2][3] between'

As per these sources that can be added inline:

VOA and RFERL are calling it a low level conflict.
Reuters reported that commander Massoud himself declared this as a guerilla war.
This being a 'guerilla' conflict has also been reported by Nikkei Asia and TASS. Mobilustener (talk) 22:32, 13 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done Zowayix001 (talk) 04:58, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Amnesty international report of collective punishment[edit]

In 2023, Amnesty International reported on the collective punishment of the civilian population in the Panshir Valley by the Taliban. The NGO documented several cases of extrajudicial mass executions of NRF fighters by the Taliban. In September 2022, the TALiban executed NRF commanders and their sons.

At least three cattle breeders who wanted to drive their cattle into the mountains were tortured and then shot by the Taliban.

https://www.amnesty.de/informieren/aktuell/afghanistan-grausame-angriffe-der-taliban-in-der-provinz-pandschir

--87.150.98.120 (talk) 07:55, 19 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I don't trust User:Noorullah21[edit]

This user is even very open about encouraging people to visit Afghanistan on his user page.Speakfor23 (talk) 12:42, 19 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Citation style for Jamestown Foundation source[edit]

@Applodion: Re this diff: In general, citation style isn't that important, and WP:CITEVAR suggests respecting what's already there. So I'm pretty lenient on this. That said, this case is so cut-and-dried I'm not sure why you reverted; "better as it was" is not a reason. This is a short, 5-paragraph article - much shorter than many other web sources already cited routinely. I'm a big fan of sfn, generally when citing page ranges out of entire books, but there's no point in using it to slice up such a tiny article. If everything in the Wikipedia article is citing pages 1-2 of the Zenn article, which they are currently, then... just have a single cite, like every other cite in the article, and use pages=1-2 in the main citation. SnowFire (talk) 15:41, 29 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

There is no reason to be imprecise if one can avoid it. Zenn's article provides page numbers, making it easier for the reader to see which part is the source for what. It does not matter that it's just a few pages. Applodion (talk) 19:03, 29 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

There absolutely is - consistency and concision and avoiding undue weight on this one random source as worthy of setting aside from the rest. If you go find a physical copy of the NYT paper, I'm sure you could cite different page ranges for https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/25/world/asia/panjshir-valley-ahmad-massoud.html , a much much longer article, too - but there's no need, because we can expect the reader to find the relevant part easily enough, using CTRL-F if necessary. One of the cited page ranges is already to the entire article anyway. There are times when it makes sense to "chop up" a citation because it's a hefty, dense journal article over 15 pages, and which page is important, but to state again: this is 5 short paragraphs. It is wild overkill to have a cite to "just" page 2 of such a short article. SnowFire (talk) 19:17, 29 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]