Talk:Heydar Aliyev

message: I noticed that this page is repeating a number of details that the Sobaka dossier says were manufactured by Aliyev, and aren't true.
Specifically, the claims that are disputed are:
Birthplace:  Sobaka says he was born in Armenia.
Birth year:  Sobaka says he tried to shave three years off his age.
College education:  Our page says he took a degree in history at Azerbaijan State University in Baku.  The Sobaka dossier notes this claim and says that he was actually attending the Ministry of State Security Academy, and that Putin dug out the truth about this in 2001.
I consider Sobaka fairly reliable, but I can't find anything else on the web to confirm these claims.  Can someone tell me their sources for the original information?  If it was taken from Heydar's old official website, then it would seem that we're just echoing his attempts to rewrite his own past.  Isomorphic 05:27, 7 Mar 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Update: I did find this page, which mentions Aliyev and says he was born in Armenia.  It's on the website of the Institute for War and Peace Reporting. Isomorphic 05:43, 7 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Comment

message: I thought Wikipedia convention was to use the name most commonly seen in English.  Introducing a foreign letter isn't appropriate unless that letter is also used when writing the name in an English-language context. Isomorphic 05:27, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The article title should be written in English, I think, otherwise people who don’t speak Azeri would not know how to spell it correctly. Grandmaster 05:49, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: About this subject, you can read Talk:İlham Əliyev. Švitrigaila 11:40, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Spelling

message: I never knew that, actually.  Then again, the Cleveland Clinic is known for its superior medical services, so why am I not surprised... -- Clevelander 02:08, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Heydər Əliyev died in Cleveland?

message: "Əliyev thus became the first Muslim full member of the Politburo." I really doubt the factual basis for this sentence. As there is also no lack of former high members of the Communist Party who turned out to be devote Orthodox Christians later, the claim to be "first" this or that needs factual evidence about one's beliefs from the time before the fall of USSR to be taken seriously. Then again, everything is possible. Claims that have high propagandistic value are not necessarily untrue, they just need hard evidence before being spread. --Oop 22:58, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, but this awkward sentence has a sense. It means Əliyev was the first member from a "nationality" of traditionnaly Muslim people. And I wonder if it's really the truth. There was Mikhail Frunze from Kyrgystan before him, but Frunze was not a true Kyrgyz, he was of Romanian descent. Can someone find other examples? Švitrigaila 23:20, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  He indeed was the first an only ethnic Muslim to be the member of Politburo. Frunze was not Kyrgyz, and there were no other Muslims in Politburo. Grandmaster 04:30, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Religious views 

message: It is simply propaganda to accuse Əliyev of Mountain-Karabag-war. Especially this chapter must be removed totally:
"He also tried but failed to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh crisis, attempting a military solution in December 1993 that eventually resulted in 16% of Azerbaijani territories under occupation of Armenia and an estimated 30,000 deaths and the displacement of a further 750,000 Azeris. The issue remains unresolved, with Armenian rule continuing in Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan still hosting several hundred thousand refugees."
Although it is true that Azeris tried to counterattack Armenian advances but still blaming Əliyev for whole war and 30 000 deaths is ridiculous. From text you could also think that 30 000 Azeris died because of this attack and 750 000 had to leave their homes. 750 000 is maybe right during the whole war, but 30 000 dead were a result of whole war, not this attack. This 30 000 includes both Armenians and Azeris. 
There should also be a note that he became president mainly because of the unstability caused by losing of war.
Edit:typos
Olli J.
: Agree, the claim is ridiculous. He tried to stop Armenian advances into Azerbaijan's territory, but since the country was in the state of civil war, did not much succeed in that. Only Horadiz was regained. The paragraph above should definately be revised, 30 000 deaths and 750 000 were the result of years of war. Grandmaster 07:26, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Karabag War 

message: I have created a subpage of mine regarding Heydar Aliyev and have added missing brief info about Aliyev's career in the KGB and his ties with the Azeri mafia which I am proposing we add to the article. I also included a section, "Honors", including the numerous awards and decorations Aliyev has won in his life. Here is the link. Any comments? - Fedayee 20:54, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Additional info 

message: There is good basic information here, but detail is lacking, especially his youth and early career.  Also, lack of citations hurts this article.  ludahai 魯大海 14:36, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rating 

message: I added POV and OR tags to section titled KGB and leader of Azerbaijan SSR. Calling someone connected to mafia, just because he was a head of Azerbaijani KGB and Azerbaijan SSR, based on the book by Edmond Azadian, an Armenian author, falls short of any neutrality. The section seems to be only referencing 3 sources repetitively, clearly aimed at character assassination rather than describing the career of the person from a neutral point of view. Other original research sentences, repetitively claim that he was connected to some "mafia". Please, discuss the material in detail, prior to edits in an encyclopedic manner. Thanks. Atabek 11:32, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: And further proof that Edmond Azadian is a POV writer: , who has no knowledge of the issue, claiming "Indeed the occupation of Armenian village of Kerky on the Nakhchivan border introduces a new dimension in the conflict". The village of Karki (Azerbaijan) was actually an Azerbaijani-populated exclave of Nakhchivan, which is currently under control of Armenian forces since 1992. Atabek 14:47, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: What is your problem with the other two sources that you are labelling the section "yellow press"? Are we to assume that if Azadian is removed as a source, you both will be happy with the section and its sources?- Ευπάτωρ Talk!! 21:01, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Azadian source is not referencing anything by itself, it only reinforces what two other source already confirm. I believe there is an arbcom remedy somewhere saying that you can't discriminate against Armenian sources. VartanM 23:28, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: POV and OR

message: This article is very biased. Somebody should clear it up, present references on his so called Mafia relations. Till then it should be tagged as original research.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Torebay (talk • contribs) 21:05, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  The article is a total POV 

message: I just noticed a whole slew of edits from 82.228.122.75 which substantially change the meaning of passages, such as this edit:  "Managed to" and "failed to" are two completely different concepts, and as the edit isn't referenced at all, readers have no way of checking to see which one is correct.ChristopherGregory (talk) 01:23, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Checking on some substantial edits 

message: "According to his hagographical website" shouldn't that be Hagiographical? George Spurlin (talk) 08:29, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  hagographical  

message: There is an almost complete absence here of detail covering the years of his presidency, from 1993-2003. The few sentences that treat that time period have no citations, either. Surely that should be the most salient part of his career. It's sort of like writing a page on Barack Obama, but skipping over the years 2009-2017. Unfortunately, I'm not well informed enough to improve on it. Dgndenver (talk) 05:19, 7 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Almost no detail from years of presidency 

message: "...proved to be the catalyst that ultimately culminated in his becoming the undisputed leader of Azerbaijan. As such he implemented reforms to curb corruption and gained the trust of his citizens. He came to power at a time when Azerbaijan was in the throes of political and economic crises, and he was able to bring about economic development." 
Sorry, but that's not encyclopaedic language - that's the language of political propaganda and should be changed. 178.54.8.64 (talk) 11:24, 29 June 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Good catch. It was added by two Azerbaijan ip WP:SPAs as their sole edits , using unreliable and primary sources. I was considering a complete revert to 31 March 2017, but I don't have time to review all the subsequent edits and all the current sources. --Ronz (talk) 16:38, 14 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Advertising 

message: change ((Azerbaijani)) to ((Azerbaijan))i 98.239.227.65 (talk) 14:35, 8 October 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: = thanks for the suggestion - Arjayay (talk) 15:39, 8 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Azerbaijani 

message: An RS cites a villager as a possibility. Should be reflected with proper attribution. --Armatura (talk) 20:08, 13 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Born in Armenia? 

message: He birth 10 may 1923-12 December 2003 94.20.136.3 (talk) 18:35, 25 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Haydar Alıyev birthday  

message: Here it is Alley of Honor so someone can add the link in the resting place section Darkdeath0123 (talk) 17:23, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alley of honor has a page on Wikipedia