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Genocide of Azerbaijani people in Iran

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Claim of Genocide with no RS. I myself couldn't find any reliable content supporting the claim in English. Rafy talk 15:47, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

Delete: According to WP:Partisanship , "Partisanship is the tendency of supporters of political parties to subscribe to or at least support their party's views and policies in contrast to those of other parties. Extreme partisanship is sometimes referred to as partisan warfare (see Political party)". I think that article is an exact example of Partisanship , contrasting with WP:NPOV.Besides that , the page seems to be a test page :A page created to test editing or other Misplaced Pages functions. Having no reference and no other standards of Misplaced Pages ... --Alborz Fallah (talk) 16:16, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Iran-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 20:07, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

Note: This debate has been included in the list of History-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 20:08, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ethnic groups-related deletion discussions. LadyofShalott 22:59, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

• Delete - unconfirmable sources that, judging by URLs, don't appear to be WP:RS. Smells of WP:POV and WP:RIGHTGREATWRONGS. - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 00:48, 10 October 2011 (UTC)

Speedy Delete Genocide is a serious accusation that requires independent scholarly verification. Misplaced Pages's policy is "“Exceptional claims require exceptional sources” ". The user who has created this page, appears to be on disruptive ultra-nationalist Pan-Turkist editor, trying to blame the victims of the well-known well-documented Assyrian Genocide and Armenian Genocide by Turkey, for a fictitious genocide against "Turks" , which reinforce the idea that this page is nothing but nationalist WP:Soapboxing that should be speedy deleted, and the user in question should be blocked from further disrupting Misplaced Pages with his hate filled nationalist agenda targeting other ethnic groups in such a manner. Kurdo777 (talk) 00:49, 10 October 2011 (UTC)

Note to closing admin:I am not a Pan-Turkist or ultra nationalist as Kurdo777 wants to intend.Likely Kurdo777 is an ultra nationalist (a Pan Kurdist, Pan Iranist , Pan Farsist or ...) and by accusation like this wants to eclipse his distorted and subversive activities in favor of Kurds and against Azerbaijani people.He cannot tolerate even a flag of Azerbaijani people of Iran Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Flag of South Azerbaijan.However, many minorities and even states and provinces in Europe and U.S have their own flag.They confuse here with a totalitarian state, and with different false scandals and accusations want to impose their ideas to others.I do not have any problem with Armenians or Assyrians.I only write part of bloody history of Azerbaijani people of Iran.This article is not related to Assyrians and Armenians problems with Turkey. I condole with all nations which were exposed to genocide.Orartu (talk) 06:17, 10 October 2011 (UTC)

• Delete. Genocide ?!!! It's a pure POV, plus there aren't any reliable sources for it. In fact 11:28, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
• Comment:Jalal Al-e-Ahmad a Persian writer in his book "In the Service and Betrayal of Intellectuals" about cultural genocide of Azerbaijani people in Iran has written:"Tehran government, if not politically and economically - but certainly in terms of culture, considers Azerbaijan as its colony and the first abuse of this cultural colonialism is killing Azerbaijani language and culture".Jalal Al-e-Ahmad's quotation is neutral, and reliable about this issue.Because he is a famous Persian writer not Azerbaijani--Orartu (talk) 14:45, 10 October 2011 (UTC)

• You are not using the above source properly at all. There is a big difference between Killing people and Killing the language or culture. I strongly believe that there is no such thing as Genocide, and this article should be deleted. In fact 09:12, 11 October 2011 (UTC)

Plus he is not quoting the book correctly, nor is Jalal Al-Ahmad a scholar. I do not think he knows the definition of Genocide. There is an article Iranian Azerbaijanis which he can mention the Pahlavid era based on WP:RS Western sources. Else the current list of weblogs, psuedo-scholarly writings and non-English publications (many from websites) are not WP:RS. --Khodabandeh14 (talk) 13:06, 11 October 2011 (UTC)

• Comment:Most of the sources are books which printed in Iran.--Orartu (talk) 17:56, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
• Speedy delete. Pure partisanship and POV pushing. No reliable source has ever made such claim about Iranian Azerbaijan.--Aliwiki (talk) 12:10, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
• Rename. Since some of the material may be useful, I suggest renaming the article to Rights of Azerbaijanis in Iran and improving it. Atabəy (talk) 16:25, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
• Rename The nominator actually suggested to rename this article himself , I second that. Neftchi (talk) 16:49, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
• Note - page has been renamed Anti-Azerbaijani agitations in Iran (with an intermediate version at Anti-Azerbaijani agitation in Iran). LadyofShalott 17:46, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
• Comment This article is a fork as we have already Anti-Turkism, Iranian Azeris, Ethnic minorities in Iran, and host of such articles. Some of the authors are random people (some even Azeri like Javad Shaykh ol Eslami who is from Zanjan and is not Persian) who have expressed variety of opinions. If there is any real sources in this article, they should be merged to here: (ethnic status in Iran), with a portion for the Pahlavi era. Sure that article needs a cleanup, but at least the sources are verifiable and in English. The current article is simply original research copied from several blogs/papers. It needs some serious non-regional (people not from the region) sources who are WP:RS (not those quoting poorpirar or claiming Sumerian are Turks,,.. but Western authors. For example Tadsuez Swietchowski is much more neutral.. these can be put in Iranian Azeris). WIkipedia only uses reliable authors (Professors and works that are well cited by other academicians). The current article is cut & paste OR. --Khodabandeh14 (talk) 18:00, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
  • CommentMost of sources are Persian books which written by Persians.Bring reliable source for your claim about eyhnicity of Javad Shaykh ol Eslami, but he is surely a Pan Iranist or Pan Farsist.If wikipedia only uses reliable authors (Professors and works that are well cited by other academicians), then all the non sense and false claims of Ahmad Kasravi and other Pan-Iranists about Azerbaijani people must be omitted.Because writers such as Kasravi, Javad Mashkur and ... were not professors nor scholars.Pan-Iranist and Pan-Farsist people want to exterminate Azerbaijani identity, language and culture snd they also deny the Azerbaijani identity of this nation, all the users who want deletion of this article are ultra-nationalist, they are not neutral about Azerbaijan and Azerbaijani people of Iran --Orartu (talk) 18:24, 11 October 2011 (UTC)--Orartu (talk) 18:24, 11 October 2011 (UTC)

Javad Shaykh Ol Eslami is random author from Zanjan (and an Azeri) . We do not quote random authors just for the sake of it. And you cannot label him pan something if there is no reliable source. It is like quoting random blogs. If you want to create an article on Javad Shaykh Eslami (if he is notable enough), then you may attribute a quote to him. As per Kasravi, he is also an Azeri. So is Mahmud Afshar Yazdi who is two generations Azeri. But wikipedia hardly uses Kasravi, Afshar.etc. Kasravi though is deemed reliable by Richard Frye, Minorsky and others. He has been quoted by them. But Kasravi is not mentioned a single time in "Azerbaijani people" unlike what you claim. Prof. Mashkur is a full Professor of Tehran university (not a random lecturer), but he is not used at all in English wikipedia. Also your translations of quotes could be unreliable as well as you are quoting websites, and do not have the original scanned books. The convention in Misplaced Pages English is to use scholarly Western sources and not intrepretation of quotes from regional authors. So the article is a major violation of WP:OR and WP:synthesis. Also please mind WP:SOAPBOX. --Khodabandeh14 (talk) 18:37, 11 October 2011 (UTC)

• • Comment Misplaced Pages articles like is not reliable, there is not neutral source in it.Show reliable source for P.H degree of Javad Mashkur too.Is he a full professor of Pan-Iranist field?Bring western and neutral sources about ethnicity of Afshar Yazdi too--Orartu (talk) 18:43, 11 October 2011 (UTC)

'Comment Your not making sense. The article is in Persian about Javad Shaykh Eslami. But he is not a notable scholar in my opinion . I just wanted to point out that he is Zanjani (you can search for it yourself). Also again watch WP:SOAPBOX. But Javad Mashkur is not quoted in English Misplaced Pages. If you have a problem with him in Persian wikipedia, go bring it up there. As per Dr. Afshar Yazdi..it is in one of his own biographies. But do you have any source about his ethnicity? Besides he is another random auuthor and you cannot state random opinion of authors as a Misplaced Pages article. --Khodabandeh14 (talk) 18:53, 11 October 2011 (UTC)

• • • Comment They were Pan Iranists.They were against Azerbaijani people of Iran.Their writings are not neutralbecause they are ultra-nationalist, then they are not important for me to bother myself about them. --Orartu (talk) 18:59, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
      • • Comment what occurs in other wikipedias is not a concern here. What matters is western scholarly sources describing what you have mentioned. Furthermore, there is a section about this in Iranian Azeris. Then there is a section in Anti-Turkism. Misplaced Pages cannot continously fork articles. Choose a single article among these please. --Khodabandeh14 (talk) 19:03, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
          • CommentThis article is not related to Anti-Turkism, it is completely related to the sufferings of suppressed and disadvantaged Azerbaijani people of Iran.This issue is so extensive and painful that it needs an independent article.--Orartu (talk) 19:10, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
            • • Comment Please bring Western scholarly sources on the issue. The current article as it stands is original research. Much better studies have been done by the likes of say Tadsuez Swietchowski. In order to have a balanced article, you can definitely include reliable items in the Iranian-Azeris article. But the current state of the article is simply WP:OR, as none of the sources talk about disadvantaged and suppressed. What a few authors (like the azeri author Shaykh ol Eslami) writes cannot be considered "disadvantage". Also loaded terms like "ultranatiolist" and "pan-Iranist" need secondary Western sources or else it is not reliable. Thanks. --Khodabandeh14 (talk) 19:15, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
            • Comment' As per "Genocide" I searched in google books and no such reliable items were found. However, the Mongol massacare of Persia (majority of whose troops were Turks) is considered a genocide in some books. But most Iranians are not fond of inciting ethnic hatred. This is done by lobbyist in Misplaced Pages and it brings out no benefit. I guess some people are intent on starting ethnic civil wars in the region for geopolitical benefits. Are they sure that its smoke will not reach their eyes? --Khodabandeh14 (talk) 19:17, 11 October 2011 (UTC)

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