Talk:Shiite Crescent

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This map and the whole article looks like Original research. It does not even reflect the fact that Azerbaijan is Shia and Iran is all Shia, not just the part shown here. What "Half Moon"??? ፈቃደ (ውይይት) 14:52, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

When u showed the links, u can see this term is used by a big german encyclopaedia, called Brockhaus. Brockhaus is in the area of the german language the same like Encyclopædia Britannica is in the english language, so it was in the german wiki said, it's no original research, but the term not so much used. I show u the link to the german disucssion. --134.147.73.137 14:44, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

How do I recommend this article for deletion? One person's categorization does not make this knowledge valuable of an encyclopedia. The categorization has not caught on with academia, and if it has, there is no evidence of that in this article.

In Germany it is used also in public media and in academic articles. If you see the literature it's written there in german, as a title for an article which uses in a political science journal. So in german academic area it is really used. --Japan01 02:51, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, it was the original title "Shia halfmoon" literally translated from German that was confusing us, since that term is not used in English... this seems to be resolved now that the page is at the correct English term... ፈቃደ (ውይይት) 03:10, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

I was looking in some papers but i didn't found the term in english journals so I used a 1:1 translation from the german term, hoping anyone will help me with the translation. --Japan01 16:27, 25 November 2006 (UTC)