Talk:War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
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Addition of commander to infobox
editJosephguy15, with this edit ] you readded Mohammed Atef, even though your earlier edit was reverted with the edit summary: Per MOS:INFOBOXPURPOSE - not supported by body of article
. The infobox is to summarise key facts from the article. He is not mentioned in the body of the article. There is nothing in the article to evidence that he is a key or significant commander that should be reported in the infobox. Cinderella157 (talk) 03:48, 25 February 2026 (UTC)
Name
editIs there any name we could come up with other than using the years as a disambiguator? My first thought was United States war in Afghanistan or similar, but while the US led it, there was heavy multinational involvement. We could also move War in Afghanistan to a dab and make this the primary. Wikinav shows this war running away with it, but still less than 50%. Just an informal discussion, feel free to tell me to pound sand. ← Metallurgist (talk) 07:56, 7 March 2026 (UTC)
Categorisation
editIn recent days, Place Clichy has added this article to 42 additional categories, almost all bilateral relations such as Category:Afghanistan–Montenegro relations. I think this is extraordinary over-categorisation for a single article. This article must now be in about 100 categories. I believe these bilateral relations categories should be removed. They're not defining, they duplicate the "Wars involving" categories (eg Category:Wars involving Montenegro) and they're contributing to massive over-categorisation of this article. AusLondonder (talk) 11:51, 9 March 2026 (UTC)
- There were just a lot of countries that took part in this war. The fact that Montenegro sent soldiers to invade and occupy Afghanistan deserves recognition as part of Category:Afghanistan–Montenegro relations, unless you think that such bilateral relations categories should not exist at all. War is definitely a topic of bilateral relations if there has ever been one.
- About the number of categories in the article, 2 things:
- For countries whose involvement in this war is the topic of other dedicated content, e.g. Australia in the War in Afghanistan or Category:War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) by country, I believe that this content belongs in bilateral categories instead of the general article. In this edit I took care not to include such bilateral relations to the general article about the war, but only those for countries for which there is no other dedicated content.
- There are other categories currently in this article which make me wonder: Category:Presidency of George W. Bush, Category:Presidency of Barack Obama, Category:First presidency of Donald Trump, Category:Presidency of Joe Biden, Category:Al-Qaeda, Category:Haqqani network, Category:Taliban. Should these be removed?
- Also, per WP:EPONCAT and WP:SUBCAT it may not be useful to have the 40+ War involving... categories in the article as they are also present at parent eponymous Category:War in Afghanistan (2001–2021). I would say that for these belligerents the bilateral relationship is defining for only the main article about the war and not the other contents of the category, but the War... categories concern all contents of the category. Place Clichy (talk) 12:25, 9 March 2026 (UTC)
- Taking a look at other articles about multi-country wars, such as Iraq war, World War II Vietnam War none of these have been added to dozens and dozens of bilateral relations categories. The involvement of Montenegro is already appropriately categorised under Category:Wars involving Montenegro. Clearly a category about one of the belligerents in the war, the Taliban is a lot more appropriate than Category:Afghanistan–Iceland relations. I believe you are misapplying bilateral relations categories here and in other contexts such as football despite recent CFD discussions. AusLondonder (talk) 12:44, 9 March 2026 (UTC)
- I still (as I did last August) oppose placing that entire large eponymous category into Category:Wars involving Finland, because almost all of the 2,562 articles in that category and its subcats have nothing to do with Finland or Finland's involvement in the war. Only 51 of those articles even mention Finland, and probably only a small portion of those 51 do so in any meaningful way. WP:EPONYMOUS:
The article New York City is in Category:Populated places established in 1624, but this category is not necessarily relevant to all the contents of Category:New York City, so it should not be used on the eponymous category.
I think that example would work quite well in this situation if the article and the categories were changed like this:The article War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) is in Category:Wars involving Finland, but this category is not necessarily relevant to all the contents of Category:War in Afghanistan (2001–2021), so it should not be used on the eponymous category.
~2026-15316-08 (talk) 16:24, 12 March 2026 (UTC)
Infobox Australian flag
editWhy is the Australian Flag in the infobox compressed? I don't know how to fix it. It doesn't appear like that on its template page. Hiyouboots (talk) 10:35, 6 May 2026 (UTC)
- I've purged the cache for the page and it looks OK for me now. Cavrdg (talk) 11:12, 6 May 2026 (UTC)