Talk:Abbottabad

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Population of the City and District separately mention on the page

City Table

I added the city table, but am having trouble editing it. Could someone please help me? Thanks a lot. We could incorperate this setup into all of the city pages!

-Bk2006, 11:50, July 18, 2007 (UTC)

City / District Confusion

The article confuses the city with the district, which is a separate article: Abbottabad district. For example, the population of 881,000 in the infobox is for the district, and the 'demographics' section relates to the district! Midnight Madness (talk) 12:58, 10 June 2008 (UTC) Now The population Abbottabad is 5,90,000 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.82.61.43 (talk) 10:54, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

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List of notable people

It should be limited to people who are notable enough to have their own article. The notability guideline is WP:PEOPLE. People who don't appear to be notable will be removed at sight. --Enric Naval (talk) 22:54, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

Bin Laden

Should information be added on Osama Bin Laden's death? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.131.122.31 (talk) 03:41, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

Since this town was keeping him safe for half a decade, yes. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.102.171.147 (talk) 03:43, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

Agree that it should be mentioned here. However it also should be added that it was a joint operation between CIA and ISI, not just American's special forces. Credit should be put where is due. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Edelrc (talk • contribs) 06:27, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

Wow that was quick. Obama still was speaking —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.175.43.164 (talk) 03:45, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

Its absolutely ridiculous that mention of bin laden has been appended to the overview. A current events item doesn't define an entire city with centuries of history! Remove it at once. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.163.203.158 (talk) 12:45, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

only if Dallas talk about being the home of JFK killing —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.151.0.13 (talk) 21:24, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

disambiguation

This needs disambiguation, a hatnote should be added 65.93.12.8 (talk) 04:59, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

 Done Qwyrxian (talk) 06:58, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

Edit request from 99.17.229.253, 2 May 2011

Please correct the distance referenced in the second sentence from "150km" to "50km" (north of Islamabad). I noticed this error by using Google Maps.

99.17.229.253 (talk) 05:16, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

 Already done Qwyrxian (talk) 06:58, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

Picture

Picture Abbottabad View.JPG can be found twice in the article. --Einpaarcent (talk) 10:02, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

Fixed - Pointillist (talk) 10:38, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

Location of Bin Laden's compound?

The transcript says "compound in Abbottabad" but doesn't make it clear whether the city of Abbottabad is intended or somewhere else in Abbottabad District. The Guardian report says Bin Laden's compound was in a nearby town called Kakul. - Pointillist (talk) 10:44, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

In Death of Osama bin Laden it is described as being on the PMA Kakul road, a house five times larger than others in the neighborhood, highest on a hill. Here it is. Erxnmedia (talk) 13:08, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

If the Telegraph's location (here) is accurate, then the compound was in the town of Kakul, not the city of Abbottabad. This BBC map shows the difference. It's a bit like confusing New York City with Poughkeepsie because they are both in the State of New York. - Pointillist (talk) 15:24, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

I'm a bit confused. I have seen those images listed on several news sites, but ABCNews reported that THIS is the place. While it doesn't actually match up with some of the other news services, but matches the description made. --Hourick (talk) 16:40, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

CNN is reporting this is the location on its front page. I wish this gets cleared up quickly. --Hourick (talk) 17:29, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

Confirmed, at the locationthe in article now....See BBC, NY Times maps, images in addition to the CNN one above. Most of the early general public postings of sites on Google Maps were way off.DLinth (talk) 19:35, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

Bin Ladin death in main paragraph

I don't think it would be appropriate to list the death at the beginning of the article, even though I am absolutely ecstatic about the whole thing, but perhaps in a "notable history" section there.

Additionally, I'm going to request a vandalism protection on this page until this dies down a bit. --Hourick (talk) 15:10, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

You are correct: articles are encyclopedic, not outlets for current events. Mention of OBL in the lede should be removed, and reduced in the text to a single line. TechBear | Talk | Contributions 21:04, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

I also agree that it doesn't belong in the lead. I can't think of any other instances where it's mentioned in a city's lead that it's most notable for the death of an individual. It already gets prominent mention in the history section which is enough. OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 21:05, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

What are your thoughts about removing the entire section on OBL? I don't see that as necessary either. TechBear | Talk | Contributions 21:11, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

Ah...I suspect you'd get a lot of pushback on that from the community. It is a significant historic event, so it would seem to make sense to at least mention it and link to the main article about the event from here. It certainly doesn't need a lot of coverage and detail here. OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 21:18, 2 May 2011 (UTC)