Talk:Abdul Wali Khan

Abdul Wali Khan was one of the Social sciences and society good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
June 1, 2006	Good article nominee	Listed
July 10, 2006	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
July 15, 2006	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
August 3, 2006	Peer review	Reviewed
August 2, 2007	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
March 12, 2008	Good article reassessment	Delisted
May 20, 2009	Peer review	Reviewed
Current status: Delisted good article

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Wali Khan was a controversial politician, but when making a comment about his supposed traitorous leanings please try and back them by facts..hearsay is NOT fact. It goes without saying that he was disliked by many ..often only because of who his father was..but a fair debate should have references. Zak 13:22, 27 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Article on Wali Khan was a need esp when we are talking about the Pashtuns politics, may be he was controversial in some respect but who is perfect then around the world, he had never accept the premiership from the back doors, nevertheless he had also got many chances, always emphasized on the true democracy. I will recommend it for good article GA, which covers all of his life's major events so comprehensively. Haider 21:33, 18 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

GA

Nice work. I promoted it to GA, it seems like a good article and seems to be qualified for it --K a s h ^{Talk | email} 17:47, 1 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"Wiki Project Afgahnistan"

Why? He was a Pakistani citizen. And unlike his father he was a national figure. He was controversial for being a communist. Not for being an advocat of smaller provinces.

Wali Khan was never a communist. He was first and foremost a Pashtun nationalist. The Punjab-dominated Pakistan used the communist blame against him to gain Western sympathies in order to suppress Pashtun national movement struggling for Pashtun rights.

Naeem

GA delisted

This article has a lot of problems.

POV use of freedom fighter in the lead
An inconsistent style. Many different date formats, variable ways of citing books and presenting book references, lack of isbns in some books, the guy is referred to as "Khan" and "Wali Khan" variably
Dubious use of photographs. Some photos that are clearly not 50+ years old (an old man picture is post 1957) tagged as PD, a FU pic without a rationale
Large parts of the article is unsourced, and some commentary is present.

Blnguyen (vote in the photo straw poll) 08:04, 12 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Requested move 15 April 2022

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The result of the move request was: moved. Unopposed request. Number 5 7 18:58, 25 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Khan Abdul Wali Khan → Abdul Wali Khan – Per WP:CONCISE and WP:COMMONNAME, as the mentioning of "Khan" twice makes it too long. Also, consistent with his father (Khan) Abdul Ghaffar Khan, and his brothers (Khan) Abdul Ghani Khan and (Khan) Abdul Ali Khan. Khestwol (talk) 15:31, 15 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.