Talk:Mahsud

Citations needed

This page is a mess. It is poorly written and has no references to support many dubious claims. Please re-write this using a standard style manual and at least one established source. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.160.241.39 (talk) 16:10, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

I stumbled over the Shirani article after successive clicks on 'random article', worked on that the other day and then decided to look at articles on tribes that were linked from there. Mehsud is one of these...and there are many.

I have done some work on the intro and History sections. The Recent History section, though...see below. Boscaswell (talk) 13:04, 1 June 2011 (UTC)

Possible copyvio

My computer mouse is out of order for the moment, so I simply post this here for further examination: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Kursheed+Anwar+Commander+of+the+Muslim+League+National+Guards+was+made+in-charge%22&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:nn-NO:official&hs=4sN&filter=0 __meco (talk) 13:59, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Bloomin' 'eck! Which is the original?

if this is a copy and paste job, then....? It came in on 18th May 2010 and then came in again, after deletion for copyvio, on 26 September.

What to do? There are parts of a link at the end of the 4th para. Later on there is a 3 paragraph extract from an interview, I believe, with no proper link. And I imagine that the text could be improved, tho I have to say that it reads pretty well. But I'm not going to bother if it's going to get deleted.Boscaswell (talk) 13:07, 1 June 2011 (UTC)

Spelling

It's a little tiring reading "Mahsud (Mahsood)" for every instance of the name. A common transliteration should be decided on Lxx (talk) 18:32, 22 October 2009 (UTC)

The universally accepted spelling for 150 years was Mahsud, as in Evelyn Howell's "Mizh: A Monograph on Government's Relations with the Mahsud Tribe," Simla, Government of India Press, 1930. Then the Americans came along, and some sharp-thinking Guantanamo guard decided to make it "Mehsud." And everybody started spelling it Mehsud.

They themselves pronounce it "Mahsìt." The first-syllable vowel is not written in the version of the Arabic script used for Pashto. You have to supply it based on context, and, in this case, that means the actual pronounciation of the name. Thanks. cristcaster@gmail.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.7.42.79 (talk) 01:26, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

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