Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Campaign on granting Nizami the status of the national poet of Azerbaijan
into Nizami Ganjavi. As a standalone article it's a  because the rationale for Nizami being an ethnically Persian poet is based almost exclusively on the language he wrote in. The ethnicity of his parents remains largely unclear. This is similar to the case of Nicolaus Copernicus, who is sometimes presented as German. It is not a consensus in scholar sources that Nizami was an ethnically Persian poet, as the article tries to imply - there are several contradictory sources: http://books.google.pl/books?id=h4N_dneMybQC&pg=PA41&dq=nizami+ganjavi+azerbaijani&hl=en&sa=X&ei=pBXPULitDcbChAeKwYC4Aw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=nizami%20ganjavi%20azerbaijani&f=false, http://books.google.pl/books?id=FqFMmVbfRfEC&pg=PA204&dq=nizami+ganjavi+azerbaijani&hl=en&sa=X&ei=pBXPULitDcbChAeKwYC4Aw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=nizami%20ganjavi%20azerbaijani&f=false, http://books.google.pl/books?id=pCiNqFj3MQsC&pg=PA68&dq=nizami+ganjavi+azerbaijani&hl=en&sa=X&ei=pBXPULitDcbChAeKwYC4Aw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=nizami%20ganjavi%20azerbaijani&f=false to mention some. Wikipedia should present such issues according to  weight, without being carried away by criticism-induced euphoria
— User:Brandmeister, 13:10, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
Stance: merge
Cited policy: WP:POVFORK||WP:DUE (Wikipedia:Content forking)