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DON'T REMOVE THE PICTURES OF FLAGS FROM SIKHISM BY COUNTRY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!—Jeev —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.2.192.220 (talk) 15:59, 28 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No WP:MOSFLAG. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 17:33, 28 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

DONT DELETE ........... THE LINK TO EACH COUNTRY HAVING A LINK TO SIKHISM IN THAT RESPECTIVE COUNTRY. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.122.33.149 (talk) 02:11, 20 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Okay None of it is; it's just been formatted. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 03:20, 20 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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um, estimate?

As far as I can tell, the overall number given is simply a sum of all the values given. Can we get a source which directly states how many Sikhs there are worldwide? Mangoe (talk) 18:39, 6 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Numbers in Tables Not Credible

The numbers in the tables by country are in the billions! How can this be? Whoever posted them should fix them.

Better Population Map

I came here looking for a population map, but the one shown on the page isn't very good. There are more than 21 million Sikhs in India, but the scale only says "500,000" or more, but India is also the only country that is in that category. It is quite misleading, and I had to go to the table to figure out the real distribution. What's the point of the picture if you have to go to the table anyways! I will think about working on a map. Julianjirwin (talk) 03:41, 22 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned references in Sikhism by country

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Sikhism by country's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "auto4":

From List of religious populations: "National Profiles". www.thearda.com. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
From Afghanistan: "Afghanistan – The Rough Guide to World Music". Songlines.
From Bangladesh: SenGupta, Amitabh (2012). Scroll Paintings of Bengal: Art in the Village. AuthorHouse UK. p. 14. ISBN 978-1-4678-9663-4.
From South America: "USGS Silver Production Statistics" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 15 May 2021. Retrieved 27 June 2021.
From Portugal: L. Reynolds, Robert (11 July 1957). "Reconsideration of the History of the Suevi". Revue belge de Philologie et d'Histoire. 35 (1): 19–47. doi:10.3406/rbph.1957.2022 – via www.persee.fr.

Reference named "auto5":

From South America: "RENEWABLE CAPACITY STATISTICS 2021" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 24 August 2021. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
From Islam by country: "Region: Asia-Pacific". 27 January 2011.
From List of religious populations: "National Profiles". www.thearda.com. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
From Philippines: Llobet, Ruth de (June 23, 2015). "The Philippines. A mountain of difference: The Lumad in early colonial Mindanao By Oona Paredes Ithaca: Southeast Asia Program Publications, Cornell University, 2013. Pp. 195. Maps, Appendices, Notes, Bibliography, Index". Journal of Southeast Asian Studies. 46 (2): 332–334. doi:10.1017/S0022463415000211 – via Cambridge University Press.
From Bangladesh: "Arabs, The – Banglapedia". en.banglapedia.org.
From Portugal: Quiroga, Jorge López (January 2017). "IN TEMPORE SUEBORUM. The time of the Suevi in Gallaecia (411-585 AD). Exhibition Catalogue (English)". Jorge LÓPEZ QUIROGA-Artemio M. MARTÍNEZ TEJERA (Coord.): IN TEMPORE SUEBORUM. The Time of the Sueves in Gallaecia (411-585 AD). The First Medieval Kingdom of the West, Ourense. – via www.academia.edu.
From Afghanistan: "Unravelling the Afghan art of carpet weaving". www.aljazeera.com.
From Andhra Pradesh: "Nandi Natakotsavam Awards". India Scanner. 8 October 2010. Archived from the original on 17 March 2012. Retrieved 13 October 2012.

Reference named "auto7":

From Islam by country: Pechilis, Karen; Raj, Selva J. (1 January 2013). South Asian Religions: Tradition and Today. Routledge. ISBN 9780415448512.
From South America: "USGS Molybdenum Production Statistics" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 June 2021. Retrieved 27 June 2021.
From Afghanistan: Fisher, W. B. (2002). "Afghanistan: Physical and Social Geography". The Far East and Australasia 2003. Psychology Press. pp. 59–60. ISBN 9781857431339.
From List of religious populations: https://www.outlookindia.com/website/story/kuwait-to-seek-closure-of-illegal-sikh-temple/212050

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 04:46, 4 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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"Fifth-largest religion"?

The first paragraph links to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_religious_groups, which does not seem to agree with the claim that Sikhism is the world's fifth-largest religion. Shinto, Taoism, and Voodoo all have more adherents: are we employing a definition of 'religion' that excludes those movements? 46.244.5.203 (talk) 11:44, 19 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It's the fifth largest "organized" religion, not the fifth largest religion overall. MaplesyrupSushi (talk) 00:16, 20 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]