Talk:Balochistan

History section

The history section here should be put into the Balochistan (Pakistan) article because it is only speaking about that area. (preceding unsigned comment by Binsaleemz --Hottentot

Spelling

Why must Wikipedia force a nationalist-inspired oddball spelling down our throats every single time? It hurts your credibility. It's Baluchistan. The only context in which the average person might have heard of the place is in "beast of Baluchistan", spelled thus. Are you going to try to make the genus "balochitherium"? You are annoying the hell out of I daresay a lot of us with this nonsense. Ask me why I bother, and I'll say I don't know.

Another rubbish article in Wikipedia.

Just a general read of the article revels the sources for many of the utterances as Web Pages that are written by hacks without any sources of themselves. May as well call the whole Article a flight of fancy written by some young ideologue. 2001:8003:70F5:2400:959E:9700:E2AB:8D86 (talk) 08:43, 26 August 2024 (UTC)

Contradictory Etymology

The first, and only, two sentences of the first paragraph under the Etymology heading directly contradict each other. The first states the name of the country, given as Balochistan as well as other forms, derives from the name of the Baloch people. The second maintains exactly the opposite: " . . . it is likely that the Baloch were known by some other name in their place of origin and that they acquired the name "Baloch" only after arriving in Balochistan sometime in the 10th century." Did someone throw this thing together by cutting and pasting from disparate sources, without even reading what he, she, or they was, or were, pasting. Smanion (talk) 20:44, 13 October 2024 (UTC)