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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.

Orphaned references in Balochistan

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Balochistan's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "s":

  • From Khanate of Kalat: "Brahui". Encyclopedia Irannica.
  • From Insurgency in Balochistan: "Baloch separatists attack traders". BBC News. 27 July 2009.

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. Feel free to remove this comment after fixing the refs. AnomieBOT 10:04, 1 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Sutyarashi: could you please fill in this ref that you tried to add? Also just as a general style note, using a single letter as a ref name isn't great. Something that gave a clue about what the ref is, like an author or website name, would be much better. Thanks! -- Fyrael (talk) 15:21, 11 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@Fyrael thanks for pointing out. I've fixed the reference. Sutyarashi (talk) 15:28, 11 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Wrong in Map

The map is wrong this map just for Balochi language shows Currently Balochistan Include more cities Moshtank (talk) 03:49, 4 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Deor Dear!
Its here a Map of Asia from 1840 with map of Khanate of Kalat labelled as Balochistan
File:Balochistan Map Khanate Age 1840.jpg
Map of Balochistan in 19 Century
If can use this map
Moshtank (talk) 04:25, 4 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

ethnic makeup

https://x.com/ArainGang/status/1806917761689342432