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This page is a notice board for things particularly relevant to Iran and/or Iranian Wikipedians. This page is meant to inform users who are knowledgeable on the various Iranian subjects to participate in the maintenance of articles related to Iranian culture and languages and improve their encyclopedic quality and reliability.

1 Matters of urgency
2 Articles in constant need of attention
3 To-do lists
4 New Wikipedia articles related to WikiProject Iran
5 Master Index of Iranian related articles
6 See also
7 Stubs for Iran

[edit] Matters of urgency

Zahra Kazemi and WikIran - user constantly removing links and categories and making inappropriate comments. Sharif Linux needs sources to show that it is a government-connected and sponsored company.
Iran on Uncyclopedia.
Mahmud of Ghazni - POV issues; disputes with a user who has two or more sockpuppets.
Persian Gulf' - POV issues.
Herat - POV issues.
Azerbaijan - POV issues, continuous removal of sourced information.
LGBT_rights_in_Iran and Human rights in Islamic Republic of Iran Strong POV, accuracy, and bias
Zurvan (Persian god) I'm just placing a note here. This article was removed several times at Zurvan, so I've started a new article at Zurvan (Persian god). Please make sure it is not deleted or otherwise removed.
Mohammad Khatami and Mohammad Khatami's reforms - Need POV check. Please read the talk subsection on the recent edits for more info.
Arabs of Khuzestan and Khaz'al Khan and Ahvaz - POV issues, other articles related to these need checking as well
Afghanistan - extreme POV issues; accuracy is totally disputed
Dari (Afghanistan) - POV and accuracy issues
Sassanid Empire - Possible POV issues. User says that the section about the origins of heavy cavalry and Iran is POV.
Basra - The history section from 740s to 1660s is missing. Please expand with sourced deatils.
Culture of the Ottoman Empire - POV issues. Dispute over the relevancy of the Ottoman Empire as it pertains to Arabic and Iranian culture.
Battle of Gaugamela - Needs accuracy and neutrality check regarding the ancient Greek historian's analysis of the battle, along with the numbers they give.
Constitution of Islamic Republic of Iran — We need an expert to outline the important points of the relevant chapters and articles. Plus, a new and separate article for the constitution of the Pahlavi dynasty would be nice, too, for comparison.
List of Azerbaijanis - Needs accuracy check.
Hephthalite - See history. User is putting information in that I cannot confirm nor dispute. Someone who knows more about the subject should check this out.
Urmia - Needs neutrality and accuracy check.
Parthia and Arsacid dynasty - Alot to be done, check for "insulting words". The two articles should be merged and the text should be corrected.
Nasreddin: Needs neutrality check.
Ashik - Needs neutrality and accuracy check
Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar: extremely POV. Giving too much weight to the issue for possibly political reasons.
Iranian sex tape scandal: POV tone.

[edit] Articles in constant need of attention

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This section is updated whenever there is any urgent attention needed. Please add your own entries along with a brief formal description on top of the list. Comments and responses should be posted to the talk page.

[edit] General articles

Chicago's Persian heritage crisis
Constitution of Islamic Republic of Iran
Mohammad Khatami and Mohammad Khatami's reforms - Need POV check.

All Persian mythology and Zoroastrianism related articles - Needs attention, POV check, checking for deleted material, adding correct categories.

Amir Taheri needs attention. Please read the section of a fake article that he wrote in National Post.

2006 Iranian sumptuary law controversy needs urgent attention and follow up.

Reza Pahlavi II, needs neutrality and accuracy check

Iran's Premier Football League and Iranian national football team, need a caretaker to update and expand

Portal:Iran, needs a caretaker to update and keep in routine condition.

Persian Jews, neutrality and verifiability issues about the introduction and post-Islamic history sections

Ruhollah Khomeini, neutrality and verifiability issues about his views on sex

Islamic Conquest of Persia articles:
- Jundishapur and Islamic Conquest of Iran

Iran-Iraq war, needs routine check to prevent possible infiltration of POV.

Zoroastrianism- needs attention (See here)

The Great Game - Had a major impact on Iran, however Iran is not even mentioned in the article.

Sari, Iran - Help to improving it. And Edit it, Cleanup, Correct & ...

[edit] Azari related articles

Iranian Turks, Iranian Azerbaijan, Tabriz, Azari, Music of Azerbaijan, Turco-Persian

[edit] The Khuzestani and Arab related articles

Ahvaz, History of Khuzestan, Ethnic politics of Khuzestan, Arabs of Khuzestan, Khuzestan, Anti-Arabism, Anti-Persianism by Arabs, and Khaz'al Khan.

Famous Iranian Arabs: factual accuracy is disputed. Every one who was born in Khuzestan has been considered ethnic arab !

Greater and Lesser Tunbs: Someone keeps replacing the name Persian Gulf with Arabian Gulf.

[edit] The Kurdish related articles

Iranian Kurdistan, Iranian people, Kurds, Genetic origins of the Kurds, have neutrality and verifiability issues.

Piranshahr Needs checking for neutrality and verifiability
Kurdish celebration of Newroz needs POV check about the origins of Norooz.

[edit] The scientist articles

Khwarizmi, Biruni, Geber, Alhazen, Avicenna, Farabi, Abu Nasr Mansur

[edit] The poets

Nizami, routinely under POV debate about his nationality.
Rahman Baba - does not need urgent attention, but deffinitly some improvement
Jami, neutrality and verifiability issues about his work, sexual orientation, and claims of pederasty in Iranian poetry (see also LGBT rights in Iran)

[edit] To-do lists

IMPORTANT: There are a lot of articles that are either poorly interwiki-linked, or not linked at all, the so called orphaned articles. It is imperative that all articles be linked through the "See also" sections to other similar, as well as subset and superset articles. The article itself is of little use if it is not linked and listed properly. Linking is even more important than categorizing. Perhaps even more important than the article itself.

[edit] Iran-related articles

Pop music: sections on Iranian pop need to be added.
Satire: sections on Persian satire.
2nd of Khordad Movement needs to be expanded and edited.
Human rights in Iran - Always a current issue and there's not much info there + its not been linked to anything properly.
Shirokhorshid - I'm about to start this one. Help me with its history, and see how much we can merge from the Flag of Iran page. Ķĩřβȳ ♥Ťįɱé Ø
Contemporary Medicine in Iran
I just added Hich Kas page and thought it might give someone the inspiration to make a Iranian Rap page. -- User: kraf001

There is already a subsection on Iranian Rap on the Iranian_Rock page, so feel free to merge that information. Ķĩřβȳ ♥Ťįɱé Ø

The Hich Kas article appears to be taken from the bio on his website. –jonsafari 22:39, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Removing Arabic naming from Iranian scientists' articles.
Organizing list of Iran-related topics and list of Persia-related topics. See list of Ireland-related topics for an example.
Creating biographical entries for red links in the articles:
1. List of Iranians
2. List of Prime Ministers of Iran (Qajari period)

* Economy of Iran is quite disorganized and needs more info. done!

Scouting in Iran could use some help and Persian text
Need an article for Sayyed Muhammad Taqi Jafari
ditto Persian Tobacco Revolution
Need an article for each and every university listed in List of universities in Iran. Espacially the major (sarasari) ones.
Need Morteza Keyvan
Expand Iran-India relations, Iran-Italy relations, Iran-France relations, and Iran-Denmark relations.
Some cities still dont have articles: Taleqan, Firouzkouh, etc. See List of Iranian cities for red links.
Modern and Contemporary Art in Iran needs expansion.
Governmental Corruption in Iran covers a much discussed topic, and should have some form of article.
Dariush Eghbali needs to be translated and wikified.
Azari-related articles are being monopolized, statements are being made that say Azarbaijan was partioned between Russia and Iran/Persia. A good point to start is the Azari page and Talk:Azari.

[edit] Afghanistan-related articles

Herat, needs improvement
Balkh, needs improvement
Afghan Scout Association could use some help and Persian text
Anti-Persianism in Afghanistan

[edit] Tajikistan-related articles

Ittihodi Scouthoi Tojikiston could use some help and Persian text
Music of Tajikistan

[edit] Persian-/Tajik-related articles

Tajiks, article needs improvement
maybe a "List of famous Tajiks"?!
- Hammasa Kohistani, article could use some more information - if available

I encourage everyone to vote for a picture at Talk:Hammasa_Kohistani. Poll ends on August 1, 2006 --Ķĩřβȳ ♥Ťįɱé Ø 06:21, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Persian culture ist not necessairily the same as Iranian culture - the article leaves out any referrence of Persian culture outside of the modern nation "Iran", while it, at the same time, imposes "Persian culture" on all Non-Persians in Iran. This needs to be corrected!
Persian Mysticism needs expansion. We need to cover persian mystic poetry and music extensively there.
Layeq Shir-Ali needs expansion.
Need Abol Mo'ayyed Balkhi (ابوالموید بلخی), information about writer is available at: fa.

[edit] Articles related to other Iranian peoples

Pashtunistan, article needs to be cleaned up

[edit] New Wikipedia articles related to WikiProject Iran

Please feel free to list your new WikiProject Iran -related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). These articles are deemed complete by their creators and are in need of peer reviews.