Talk:Abdullah Mehsud

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It seems he is from Pakistan. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/taliban/militants/mehsud.html

Contents 1 Reports of his death 2 Stub classification 3 rm dead and redundant links -- see talk 4 not sufficiently documented 5 Abdullah Mehsud is Pakistani not Afghanistani

[edit] Reports of his death

I removed a passage that criticized the wikipedia for reporting Abdullah Mehsud's death. There have been reports of his deatch.

Mark Twain responded to reports of his' death by saying: "Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.."

Rather than a meta comment on the wikipedia's accuracy what we need is are references to authoritative, verifiable sources.

Cheers! Geo Swan 17:44, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Stub classification

This article has been classified as a stub due to its level of detail and organisation. Capitalistroadster 18:35, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] rm dead and redundant links -- see talk

Links to yahoo news express very quickly. When the link doesn't have the date, title, author it is impossible to track down.

I didn't know this for my first three years on the wikipedia. Removing references that linked to articles that go offline is counter to policy, provided the reference still give enough info to reach the paper copy.

Cheers! Geo Swan 14:17, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] not sufficiently documented

Some sources assert Abdullah Mehsud and Baitullah Mehsud are brothers. Most sources merely describe them as colleagues, or clansmen. This was already addressed in the section: I specifically added a section to the article that referenced both sides of this claim. We don't need to have the claim repeated elsewhere in the article -- as if it were an established fact.

So I excised a recent edit that makes this assertion.

Cheers! Geo Swan (talk) 02:35, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Abdullah Mehsud is Pakistani not Afghanistani

He was born in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan, not in Afghanistan. The categories should be fixed accordingly.