Talk:History of Khuzestan province

message: I started rewriting the history section of Khuzestan and soon found that I had more than a section's worth of material. This article still needs pictures, references, and external links. Zora 05:16, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

message: I put it there, to set off the argumentative part. If you think it doesn't work, if a different format would be better, I'm OK with changing it. Zora 04:31, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why the indentation? 

message: I just got my copy of a 1974 U of Chicago dissertation on the history of Khuzestan, which seems to be based in large part on old, unpublished records. It's fascinating and shows up a bunch of stuff I wrote as inaccurate. I'll finish reading the dissertation and then do a major revision. Zora 04:33, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Major revisions due 

message: Rather than speak to me, SC left a message for Zereshk scorning my lack of sources for this article. Well, much of it was based on other Wikipedia articles, and I didn't think it was necessary to cite those. Where I did insert completely new material, I tried to source it (with links). But now I'll have another source -- even if it isn't easily available, as being an unpublished dissertation. Zora 04:35, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources 

message: I had written the article using inaccurate info from a web source. The source conflated the sheikhs of the Bani Ka'b and the sheikhs of Muhammarah. This is WRONG, per an unpublished doctoral dissertation I ordered. I have corrected it. Still need to add the ref for the dissertation. Also found a copy of a Gertrude Bell memorandum on the politics of Khuzestan, need to add that. 
I could probably expand more in some sections, but at least I removed the inaccurate stuff. Zora 10:24, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Correcting info re Bani Ka'b, Muhammarah 

message: Noticed the revert today.  Probably should have been listed as revert in the comments.  Regardless, neither Lar nor Lur points to a valid city or or province or region article.  Do you mean Lorestan? William Allen Simpson 12:32, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Is that how it's spelled in Wikipedia? The sources I have mention the Lur tribe, and the area that they inhabit as Luristan. I think that's more standard. If I've got a Lar anyplace, that's a mistake. Zora 13:41, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Lar is a city in Fars province. "Lur" does not exist as a place name. "Lorestan" or "Lurestan" however seems to match best.  --Zereshk 22:13, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lar/Lur? 

message: OK, we'll handle this in specifics:
*"Muhammarah, a thriving port said to have been founded early in the 18th century"
**Are you saying that this name is inaccurate? Cite sources.
*"The Karun river (then known as the Dujayl)"
**Are you saying that this name is inaccurate? Cite sources.
:--William Allen Simpson 17:46, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Zereshk reverting and delinking 

message: *"Many experts such as Sir Percy Sykes ...."
**Badly written and formatted (a serious error worthy of deletion).
**Inserted book references that are best footnotes.
**Inserted accolades not appropriate to an encyclopedia.
**Contradicts the paragraph in which it is inserted.
**Makes no link between language "Khuzi" and "Elamite", the subject of the section. 
:--William Allen Simpson 17:56, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Zereshk reverting to bad text