Wikipedia talk:Iranian Wikipedians' notice board/Archive 3

message: Friends, 
The current republic of Azerbaijan has some serious identity problems and sometimes they claim to be Oghuz Turks, other times Caucasian Albanians, and other times Medes.  A good example is this article
Of course Iranian Azarbaijanis know their Iranian roots, but the people of that republic do not and have been effected heavily by negative pan-turkist propaganda.  Keep an eye on the article because Nizami did not have anything to do with Turkish culture.  
--Ali doostzadeh 23:07, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Keep an eye on the Nizami article

message: Friends
thanks for your help.  Keep an eye on the issue.  In point 4 of my latest response I have shown why Nizami's other half was not Turkic.  I think the issue is settled.  --Ali doostzadeh 21:36, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nizami 

message: Dear Friends,
Thanks for the help.  The article is currently locked and I hope no one agrees to unlocking it until the truth is apparent.  And the truth is that Nezami Ganjavi's mother was Kurdish (hence Iranian) and his father although in my opinion is 100% Iranian, it can not be proven, so for the sake of neutrality we will leave that aside.  Also he is a Persian poet because he wrote in Persian and contributed to the literature and culture.  Also three of his stories are based on Shahnameh and I have made much comment on the talk page about his Iranian background.  --Ali doostzadeh 23:08, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Compromises were made and everyone is happy.  I put that Nizami's heritage belongs to Azerbaijan, Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan.  This way all users were happy and now I can concentrate on other subjects.  --Ali doostzadeh 05:41, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Thanks for the help 

message: Everyone hates this man but Wikipedia is supposed to be about neutrality not character assassination and propaganda. The way it stands now, the article on Ahmadinejad is nothing but propaganda and opinion, such as the category "Anti-Semitic people". Almost every article on Wikipedia about a Muslim politician suffers from these problems. SirDiplomat 19:55, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Mahmoud Ahmadinejad]]

message: I've added the sections "Pashtuns" and "Anti-Persianism in Central-Asia" to the article. Because of lack of time, I won't be able to continuue the writing in the next 3 weeks. Please feel free to add infos to the text. 
Here are some useful links:
* Taliban and "Yakaolang Massacre" in 2001: Human Rights Watch
* Opression and forced Turkification of Persian-speakers in Uzbekistan: D. Carlson,  Harvard University
* Iraj Bashiri's researches: 
* Persian cities/places that have been given Pashto/Pashtun names: Balkh --> Wazirabad (to honor the Pashtun national hero Wazir Akbar Khan); Sabzavar in Herat ---> Shindand; replacement of the Persian word "danishgah" (university) with the Pashto word "pohantoon"; replacement of Persian military titles with Pashto words; replacement of Persian political terms with Pashto words ("Woluse Jirga", "Loya Jirga", etc); use of Pashto forced by constitution; according to Afghanistan's constitution, Pashto is the first national-language (although spoken by a 30% minority; see CIA factbook) and the national anthem has to be in Pashto.
Good luck!
Tājik 00:52, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Anti-Persianism]] 

message: this user: 68.44.193.160 , has been vandalising articles about iran and armenia. for example, he has been putting "he was turkish" in random places in the avicenna article, and has been putting anti armenian propaganda in random articles related to armenia. watch out for him.Iranian Patriot 03:03, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Watch out for this user 

message: Iran's contribution to western society has not been acknowledged in the west.  ITs always greece and rome that are talked about. the fact is that Iranian civilisation has impacted western civilisation in may ways, including through religion, military, culture, etc...
the goal of this project is to gather information on the aspects of western civilisation that have been impacted on by iranian civilisation.
once the information is gather, they will be put in article format, and published on various sites, including wikipedia.  WE NEED EVERYONES HELP ON THIS PROJECT! any information you have should be sent to: ProjectIranianHistory@yahoo.com 
any help is welcomed, please help and participate, this is very important and is a very large project. our history needs to be acknowleged by the west, not neglected.
read this article for more information: http://www.iranian.com/Diaspora/2006/June/Iranian/index.html
To my knowledge, there has never been anything specifically on this topic, and we need to change that! We can do this and we should do this!
Iranian Patriot 22:21, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Project Iranian History  

message: Can anyone please direct me to where I can find the numerical codes for Persian, on Wikipedia?
I'm trying to write a couple words out for a new article I'm writing but I can't seem to find a guide.
Here is an example of what I'm talking about:

Thanks. --QajarCoffee 17:28, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Persian code on Wikipedia 

message: Of all the listed universities in Iran, not even 1/4 of them have Wikipedia articles.
I think that is quite lacking.
Ive been trying to make an article for each university. But the sheer number of Iranian universities limits my efforts. It takes me 20-30 minutes to make a brief article with template and proper category such as this article.
Help is direly needed in this department. Thanx.--Zereshk 04:26, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: To do

message: I am involved in the Kurdish people article and if anyone else likes to get involved, feel free to join in.  Some users want to claim that Kurds are not Iranic, but that is clearly wrong.  --Ali doostzadeh 22:19, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kurdish people 

message: A certain user TimBits is trying to put a lot of misinformation in the article.
--Ali doostzadeh 12:22, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Nope, your explanation and various different criterions are not in line with standard Encyclopedic and Academic work.  Your explanations are pro pan-Turkist.  --Ali doostzadeh 22:00, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Good, the label is ready. And is it you who approve the standards? --TimBits  02:17, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Nope it is standard academic sources like Encyclopedia Iranica and Encyclopedia Islam.  Prophet Muhammad (PBUH&HP), Qur'an and Hafiz have had more influence on Azerbaijani literature than any other figure, but they do not became part of Azerbaijani literature.  Had Nizami written even one line of Turkish, he could be counted as part of Azerbaijani literature.   --Ali doostzadeh 04:00, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Azerbaijani Literature