Wikipedia:WikiProject Central Asia

Welcome to WikiProject Central Asia. This project aims to expand, cleanup and wikify, better organize, and neutralize the point of view on articles related to Central Asia, a vast landlocked region of Asia with both a rich culture and history. For centuries Central Asia has been home to various classifications of Turkic and Iranian peoples as well as Mongols and Tibetans. Small but significant minorities such as Russians and Han Chinese also live in the region. Islam is the predominant religion (mostly of the Sunni sect), followed by Tibetan Buddhism. There are also small pockets of Christians, Bukharan Jews, and Hindus as well. The usual definition of the region encompasses Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. Afghanistan is also sometimes included. In even rarer cases and up to date only by the UNESCO per certain climatological reasons, western Pakistan (North West Frontier Province and Balochistan), Xinjiang, Mongolia, Tibet, Central Asian portions of Russia, and Khorasan, Iran are added too. It is hoped that topics regarding these areas will be enhanced through this project as well as the knowledge of fellow Wikipedians and outside readers. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page.

Related WikiProjects

• WikiProject Afghanistan
• WikiProject China
• WikiProject Iran
• WikiProject Kazakhstan
• WikiProject Kyrgyzstan
• WikiProject Mongols
• WikiProject Pakistan
• WikiProject Russia
• WikiProject Soviet Union
• WikiProject Tajikistan
• WikiProject Tibet
• WikiProject Turkmenistan
• WikiProject Uzbekistan

Goals

1. To create a body of articles that accurately depicts the history and cultures of Central Asia and Central Asian peoples.
2. To standardize articles on Central Asia and Central Asian subjects with similar layouts and formatting.
3. To standardize the use of local-language terms, names, and translations into English across the series.

Things to watch

• Recent edits to articles with Wikipedia status – check for quality editing that may change rating, help stop vandalism and preserve neutral point-of-view
• Recent edits to articles within the project scope – check for quality editing that may change rating, help stop vandalism and preserve neutral point-of-view
• Articles up for deletion to see whether these articles can be improved, saved or should be deleted
• New articles to tag any that fall within the project scope with {{WikiProject Central Asia }}
• FAC, FAR and FARC to make sure Featured Articles stay featured

Open tasks

• Vote if Afghani should be included as demonym or not in the info-box on the Afghanistan article (please vote here).
• Place the {{WikiProject Central Asia }} on the talk pages of all articles that fall within the scope of this project,
• Add the articles, by category, to the Wikipedia:WikiProject Central Asia/Main Articles list,
• Monitor the recent changes for improvements which might raise the assessment level, damages to the articles, and vandalism,
• Update and hierarchize the categories in Categories page,
• Maintain and update the Tasks page,
• Clear the evaluation and assessment backlog of articles who have been tagged with the project banner.

• Templates and stubs:

For a list of stubs and infobox templates that can be used for this project, please see Templates.

Assessment

• 4.2% List-Class
• 55.9% Stub-Class
• 28.9% Start-Class
• 7.8% C-Class
• 2.5% B-Class
• 0.4% GA-Class
• 0% A-Class
• 0.1% FA-Class
• 0.1% remaining

The assessment department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia articles related to Central Asia. While much of the work is done in conjunction with the WP:1.0 program, the article ratings are also used within the project itself to aid in recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.

• Project Barnstar:

Articles for deletion

• 23 Feb 2025 – Sunday Airlines (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Aviationwikiflight (t · c); see discussion (2 participants; relisted)

Proposed deletions

• 27 Feb 2025 – KazMSA (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by LibStar (t · c) was deleted
• 27 Feb 2025 – Kazakhstan National Respiratory Society (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by LibStar (t · c) and endorsed by Bearian (t · c) on 28 Feb 2025 was deleted
• 23 Feb 2025 – West Siberian conflict (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Dushnilkin (t · c) was deleted

Categories for discussion

• 08 Mar 2025 – Category:1368 disestablishments in the Mongol Empire (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Aidan721 (t · c); see discussion
• 06 Mar 2025 – Category:Uzbekistani male actors by populated place (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Aidan721 (t · c); see discussion
• 02 Mar 2025 – Category:Commercial buildings in Uzbekistan (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion
• 01 Mar 2025 – Category:Uzbekistani actresses by populated place (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Aidan721 (t · c); see discussion
• 26 Feb 2025 – Category:Historical events in Uzbekistan (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Aidan721 (t · c); see discussion
• 26 Feb 2025 – Category:Historical events in Kazakhstan (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Aidan721 (t · c); see discussion

Redirects for discussion

• 03 Mar 2025 – Cyrillization of Persian (talk · edit · hist) →Tajik alphabet was RfDed by Janhrach (t · c); see discussion

Featured list candidates

• 18 Jan 2025 – List of World Heritage Sites in Mongolia (talk · edit · hist) was FL nominated by Tone (t · c); see discussion

Good article nominees

• 23 Feb 2025 – Siege of Ak-Mechet (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by CitrusHemlock (t · c); start discussion
• 16 Jan 2025 – Siege of Khujand (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by CitrusHemlock (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be merged

• 18 Dec 2024 – Aktas oil field (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Petrom by Czarking0 (t · c); see discussion
• 02 Oct 2024 – Outline of Kazakh military history (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to List of wars involving Kazakhstan by Nederlandse Leeuw (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be split

• 13 Jan 2025 – Prime Minister of Kazakhstan (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Tony Polari (t · c); see discussion
• 08 Nov 2024 – Scythian languages (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Kepler-1229b (t · c); see discussion
• 19 May 2022 – Spetsnaz (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Mzajac (t · c); see discussion
• 10 Apr 2022 – History of the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Knowledgekid87 (t · c); see discussion

Articles for creation

• 05 Mar 2025 – Draft:Yessenov University (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Aidayu (t · c)
• 22 Feb 2025 – Draft:Garabogazköl Bridge (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by 185.68.209.16 (t · c)
• 21 Feb 2025 – Draft:Andrey Viktorovich Burmistrov (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Olga Pachulia (t · c)
• 19 Feb 2025 – Draft:Jusan Bank (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Victoriaafonina (t · c)
• 12 Feb 2025 – Draft:Bekzat Almakhan (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Murat Karibay (t · c)
• 08 Feb 2025 – Draft:Manshuud Emegeev (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by JoeBlogsDord (t · c)
• 03 Dec 2024 – Draft:Tashkent International Film Festival (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Safitis (t · c) was accepted to Tashkent International Film Festival (talk · edit · hist) by Owais Khursheed (t · c) on 03 Mar 2025

Articles that need...

• attention (5)
• expert attention (0)
• infoboxes‎ (29)