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[edit] Article

Hello, I wrote a short article in Azerbaijani regarding Wikipedia - http://code.az/article/wikipedia . Maybe someone will find it useful. --Rustam 19:55, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

We will have to translate it first, but it looks usefull. Thanks you for sharing it with us. Baku87 18:03, 9 April 2006 (UTC)Baku87

[edit] Spelling... May want to make sure there's agreement

Hello, I've noticed the growth of Azeri-related articles on Wikipedia (great), and I've also noticed a problem common when you take names out of one alphabet and covert them into another... The name I've noticed this with is "Yusuf ibn Kuseyir" or "Yusif ibn Kuseyir" depending on what article it is. There's not article on this individual (or the associated tomb) yet, so right now it's a little spotty on which is "correct" (obviously, there will be a number of redirects of alternative spellings no matter what you ultimately decide). Just thought I'd mention it as something to keep in mind with this and other projects. I had the same problem cleaning up an article on a Turkish article on Perili Kosk/Perili Kösk/Perili Köşk (all considered different). I speak none of these languages so it makes it complicated for those of us who want to beef up the articles through research. Happy editing! Bobak 16:33, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

It is a problem, since we use Latin spelling that is varied whether Azeri Turkish or Persian or Arabic user have write an article...

Yes that is correct, Azeri Latin is a new language, we have officialy been using it since 2001 (or something like that). So it really depends what kinda person is writing the article. Baku87 18:12, 9 April 2006 (UTC)Baku87

[edit] Images

Guys I have added myself in

I am working on the articles on Shirvanshahs history and Azeri khanates of 18 century....have a lot of images, but not scanned... will be nice if you can let me know of all historical images associated with 1) famous people of Azerbaijan 2) famous building of Azerbaijan. Anyone is willing to compile a list so we can tap into the images? Abdulnr 15:28, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

Welcome to the Azeri WikiProject! A article about the Azeri Khanates would be very usefull and interesting, good to see you took the job. Im going to add this notice to the board with you assigned to the task. Unfortunally I dont have much knowledge on famous Azeris and famous Azeri buildings. One of the other members will hva eto make a list of it. But perhaps you can just scan and upload historical images of Azerbaijan. We might will be able to sort them out from there. Baku87 18:10, 9 April 2006 (UTC)Baku87

I don't think i have much time uploading images and the like this week. We all should do Wikicommons Abdulnr 08:57, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Check Wikicommons for images, related to Azerbaijan. Some images of Icheri Sheher and Palace of Shirvanshahs are available here [1]. I recommend everybody to setup an account in Commons and upload there all new images, so that they could be used in Wikipedia in other languages without the need to reupload them. Grandmaster 04:35, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Azeri Template

I just finished adding the templates to the discussion page in all the azerbaijan stubs, see below for the link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Azerbaijan_stubs

Im not going to add them in the geography articles. Baku87 18:23, 9 April 2006 (UTC)Baku87

Ok added them in both stubs today Baku87 21:24, 14 April 2006 (UTC)Baku87


[edit] Bahtiyar Vahapzade

Coolitos just created the article about Bahtiyar Vahapzade today. Can somebody please add the required tags for it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahtiyar_Vahapzade Baku87 21:30, 14 April 2006 (UTC)Baku87

Tagged/Stubbed. I'm doing some minor wikifying right at the moment. Also, remember you only need to write [[page name]] in those double brackets to actually make a direct link like Bahtiyar Vahapzade (I've canceled the link in the first example, otherwise it would automatically link to some "page name" article title if such an article exists. Bobak 22:56, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Photos coming from http://www.euro-caspian.com/permission.htm

Great idea, but you still need to tag the images along with the proper wiki-citation to go along with any external link to the above URL. I suggest using the following combination of tags on all pictures you upload in this way:

{{Fair use in|NAME OF ARTICLE(S) HERE}}
{{Withpermission}}

Happy editting! -- Bobak 22:55, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] One more lesson on image tags

If you ever upload something you've taken, you still need to add a licensing tag (in addition to anything else). If you want people to have to cite you as the source if they use the photo off of Wikipedia, I suggest the Creative Commons 2.5 license, which can be added by putting this tag on the photos you upload: {{cc-by-sa-2.5}} (If you want to see an example, I've personally used it on all my Wikipedia photos). In addition, the full list of image tags is here: Wikipedia:Image copyright tag. -- Bobak 18:11, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Bobak I tried what you said, but there are still things I dont understand there, can you please check out this picture and tell me if the license is ok? [2] Baku87 13:34, 12 May 2006 (UTC)Baku87
Hi Baku87, yeah, that looks totally fine --especially since anyone who would have questions can just click on the links you've supplied and see that the copyright holder agrees. I doubt any problems will show up with that tag/comment combination. --Bobak 14:49, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New Category: Universities in Azerbaijan

I'm fascinated by higher education, and I noticed there aren't any articles on universities in Azerbaijan, so I've created the new subcategory Category:Universities and colleges in Azerbaijan and placed a few new stubs. As you may know, to add a category, all you need to do is past a link like [[Category:Universities and colleges in Azerbaijan]] at the bottom of the article and it's automatically alphabetized on the corresponding category page for you. I guess this means I'm joining this WikiProject...(for the record, I'm Persian) -- Bobak 01:09, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

I've taken an intial stab at the above category this evening (I'm particularly happy with the sources I found for Khazar University). Next time I come online, I will tackle Azerbaijan State Oil Academy and Western University. -- Bobak 02:36, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
Great. I’ll try to contribute to the best of my knowledge. Grandmaster 05:21, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

I started the above two, now I want to move onto Azerbaijan Technical University, unfortunately there seems to be a problem with the Azerbaijan Technical University's website, which is currenly stated as "Notice: This domain name expired on 03/12/06 and is pending renewal or deletion" [3]. Did someone forget to pay the internet bill or is it even there anymore? Thankfully I can work from the Google cache file. I just hope I won't have to add an edit to the effect that "the school closed in 2006". Can anyone confirm its still there without the website? -- Bobak 20:25, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Sorry to bring this up again, but I'm having the same problem with Nakhchivan State University's website. I've still created a stub, but it's hard to gauge if its still there. -- Bobak 21:29, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
They are both there, they just don’t pay enough attention to maintaining their website. By the way, you did a great job by creating articles about Azerbaijani universities, thanks a lot. Grandmaster 17:52, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
Looks like only one important university is missing, the Azerbaijan State University of Arts. Academy of Fine Arts is a new university, which was created on the basis of the corresponding faculty of the University of Arts. Grandmaster 18:08, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] University info II

I've gone in and added infoboxes to the largest articles (BSU, ASOA, Western, Khazar, ADU), but I've also noticed the following issues that I was hoping someone could help with (the first few are easy translation issues):

  • I would like the Azeri translation of Azerbaijan University of Languages, particularly because the school's logo is "ADU" which begs the question regarding the Azeri translation. Ironically, the Language University's website does not have it's Azeri spelling. If you find it, please add it after the name in the main article body (you can use the new template that was added) as well as add it to the infobox unter "native name"
  • I have the same translation request for Azerbaijan Technical University, however their website has gone completely bonkers.
  • Baku State University didn't put the number of students it has on its website, Azerbaijan State Oil Academy didn't put the number of students or faculty... if anyone can find out that would be appreciated.
  • as you'll notice in the edit mode, the infoboxes have lots of empty spaces that can be filled as people get information.

Any help is appreciated. -- Bobak 19:34, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Azerbaijan University of Languages translates as Azərbaycan Dillər Universiteti, and Azerbaijan Technical University translates as Azərbaycan Texniki Universiteti. I will add the names to the respective articles. The complete list of Azerbaijani educational institutions can be found here: [4] It’s indeed ironic that the University of languages doesn’t have their name included in their native language. Grandmaster 11:21, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

An anon user added the new, working AzTU website address (www.aztu.az, no longer .org), and I was able to add the infobox. Alas the school doesn't appear to have a seal or even a logo so its infobox is a little "naked" --but its a marked improvement. The funniest part about the new website is a poll they include on the first page asking about the new website: the final choice is "The main thing, that it exists". Too funny :-) --Bobak 17:34, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

The result of the poll was funny indeed. :) But the website looks OK. And I’m surprised that they don’t have a logo. Grandmaster 04:40, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
I know someone who's family taught there --apparently they never did. I guess engineers are too busy to waste time with pretty drawing (kidding). Maybe we should make one for them. I also think they should name their sports teams the Aztecs (like San Diego State University). --Bobak 15:27, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
Indeed, excellent idea for a sport team name. :) Someone needs to bring that to their attention. Btw, both my parents graduated from this university. I don’t think they don’t have a logo, but I have no idea why it’s not on their website. Probably they forgot to update it since Soviet times and still have communist stars on it. Grandmaster 18:06, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
Awesome. Then maybe your parents will dig this:
Image:Aztechs06.jpg
--Bobak 18:36, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
That’s cool! :) I like it. I hope the university will take notice of your idea. Grandmaster 19:22, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Iravan Khanate

Very little information can be found on the history of Iravan khanate its rulers and policies between 1747 and 1828. Have only scattered figures on population of Iravan. Armenians do not include it in the History of Armenia for obvious reasons. Very controversial but important topic. Anyone willing to help? Abdulnr 15:07, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

I’ll see what I can do. Grandmaster 17:53, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

We need to create some sort of a old map with Azerbaijani Khanates from that time, I think that would be a good project, alot of work and very diffucult but would be ideal. Karabakh 09:03, 28 April 2006 (UTC)Karabakh


[edit] Politics of Azerbaijan

I added the current politicians of Azerbaijan to the Politics of Azerbaijan article, but I cant get the layout right, if you look at the edit page you will see the planned structure, I would appriciate any help on this. The pages are:

Baku87 20:03, 26 April 2006 (UTC)Baku87

[edit] New map suggestion

The current map used for Azerbaijan is 1 But the CIA has published a new map of Azerbaijan 2 perhaps we can replace the old with the new? Baku87 20:28, 26 April 2006 (UTC)Baku87

Yes I agree with you Baku87, that old map shows Nagorno-Karabakh region, most people dont know what that is or means, so its confussing people. The second map from the cia is much easier to understand and it also has the name Karabakh in the whole Karabakh region in it. Karabakh 09:01, 28 April 2006 (UTC)Karabakh

Ah, it's great you both agree on this map, but do you actually believe your own words? Do you think that "most people" who are interested in Azerbaijan don't know what Karabakh is? Do you really believe that seeing a region outlined on a map will "confuse" people? A map is all about showing the borders of regions! Frankly, I would say that many people who look at an Azerbaijan map will *specifically* be interested to know what Karabakhs borders are. Maybe I'm being paranoid, but it looks to me like you're trying to erase the region. More importantly, you are I'm sure against the secession of Karabakh from Azerbaijan - but do you actually think that by renaming their cities, erasing their borders, blocking Armenians of any citizenship from visiting Azerbaijan, etc, etc, etc, you will really ever convince the Armenians of Karabakh that they can return to Azeri rule (even with autonomy) and trust you to not have their rights completely trampled? It seems to me you are so absolutely focused on some web/virtual/PR "victory", that like your government, you have lost sight of what should be your actual goal... to convince the Armenians that they WANT to and CAN stay in Azerbaijan. Otherwise you're just convincing us that you don't want a single Armenian to remain there - or indeed perhaps anywhere. Why am I bothering to write this? I suppose on the off-chance that you'll see things from a slightly different point of view, that you'll stop approaching everything as a battle, and hopefully even see that I am saying these things in the hope that we can better see eye-to-eye - both on wikipedia, and in the world... --RaffiKojian 04:54, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New member

hey I hope you all dont mind but I added myself in the project, I have been using wikimedia for some time now but I recently became a member. I am Azerbaijani, born in Ganca and I life in Netherlands today. I am active and I love my country and everything about it. I hope you guys can allow me to join, we can become great friends and cooperate with each other, thanks all! Karabakh 08:40, 28 April 2006 (UTC)Karabakh

Sure you can join, welcome to the Azeri WikiProject, if you have question or what so ever please ask them, we are here to help each other. Nice to have to on this project Karabakh. Baku87 16:07, 28 April 2006 (UTC)Baku87
Hi and welcome aboard. Grandmaster 20:34, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Question on the Abşeron Peninsula/rayon

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I asked this on the discussion page of the Abşeron rayon, but I might as well write it here since this is the home of the Azerbaijan experts: Should articles on the peninsula and the rayon be separated?This article spends its time talking about the history and origin of the peninsula, but the map shows that the rayon barely touches the geographic feature due to the size of the Baku and Sumgait territories.

I have made the image to the right highlighting of just the peninsula. I was about to create its own article, but then I realized there would be nothing left in this article if I did. Any suggestions? -- Bobak 17:17, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

I actually think the peninsula deserves it’s own article, because indeed rayon does not cover its whole territory. Grandmaster 19:04, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

you can do one - Absheron (rayon) and Absheron Peninsula - separate articles abdulnr

[edit] Language Template

Just noticed that you seem to lack so I made it for you. The the code is:

({{lang-az|Azerbaijani text}})

And it looks like (Azerbaijani: Azerbaijani text) istead of writing the long:

([[Azerbaijani language|Azerbaijani]]: Azerbaijani text)

Hope it helps. --Kuban Cossack 18:26, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! I know I will be using that in the future. -- Bobak 18:30, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
Thanks a lot Kuban Cossack. It is very useful indeed. Grandmaster 18:55, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Veli Kasumov

Hi there, I've started an article about Veli Kasumov. Maybe you'll be intrested in expanding it. Conscious 12:08, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. I hope we have sport enthusiasts in our project and they will expand it. Grandmaster 05:33, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
Well I am a huge fan of Neftchi, been to more then 20 of their games and I dont even life in Azerbaijan, so I'll take proudly take on the Neftchi article! By the way dont you guys notice that Neftchi is playing so damn good lately? I mean since 2005 Neftchi has been like a unstoppable rocket, if we keep this up then Im sure we can play in the world cup in 2010. They kinda play like Brazilians in the center, quick passes, thats so awesome man. I have been supporting Neftchi more then 10 years now and I can tell you they have never played this good before. Baku87 23:42, 5 May 2006 (UTC)Baku87

[edit] Nationalists

Armenian nationalists are spreading propaganda on their articles [5] please all keep an eye on their articles.

Please keep eye on Robert Kocharian article, it was full of Armenian POV, I changed some parts but I am sure it will soon be rewritten--Hattusili 06:26, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Point of quick clarification

If I've created new articles with this Wikiproject, should I list them in the same noticeboard used by Baku87 and Brandmeister? -- Bobak 17:14, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Yes, please. Also if you become aware of any new Azerbaijan related article, please also list it there. Grandmaster 17:42, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
Oh boy, then I have a backlist to add, I will get right on it :-) -- Bobak 17:48, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
OK, I think it is important to make each other aware of our work. Grandmaster 17:54, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
It makes sense, I had been wondering how people would know what articles they could then add to. --Bobak 17:56, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
Yep, I thought the same when created this section. Grandmaster 18:05, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
We also need to create a section to list the articles that have any featured status (i.e. Israfil Mamedov), and also a section for the articles which are extremely well written and are appreciated by our community (i.e. Fuzûlî). Grandmaster 18:46, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
This noticeboard is a excellent idea, but if we keep on adding then in no time this project will be overloaded, so Im guessing its only temporarily. Thats why I think we should make some sort of a stub for all Azeri related articles, so we can always track back the articles? Its kinda annoying because some Azeri related articles dont have any stubs and those are hard to find, what do you guys think about my suggestion for a new stub? Baku87 13:20, 8 May 2006 (UTC)Baku87

baku87 does have a point we need some sort of a stub for all azerbaijani related articles and besides we need a new stub for education in azerbaijan articles which are mostly made by bobak. - Karabakh

[edit] New pictures

I’ve uploaded a number of new photographs at commons here: [6] Feel free to include them into the articles. Grandmaster 07:14, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

how wonderfull thank you so much. - Karabakh

Thanks. Grandmaster 09:20, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
Grandmaster what do you think of the idea to create 'Picture of The Week' in this project? We have a large space available at the top of the page and we need to fill that up with something like 'Picture of The Week'.
Also another idea is to create 'Member of The Month' and to award a medal to that person if achieved, I personal would like to see something like this, I think it will motivate us even further. The judging will depend on the (amount) work done and other factors. What do you think of these ideas? Baku87 15:49, 13 May 2006 (UTC)Baku87
Sorry, just noticed this post. I think it’s a good idea to place a new picture on the project page every week. As for medal, you can give it out yourself, but it dos not have to be on a weekly or monthly basis, just when you feel that someone deserved it, you can award him a barnstar. Grandmaster 13:08, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Iğdır-Kars Azeri Turkish community

If you think it will be of interest, I can sketch out an article on the Azerbaijani Turkish Community in Turkey (I am not quite sure how it could be titled best). There are Turks of Azerbaijani origin all over Turkey (my doctor in İzmir:), but in Iğdır and Kars they form a community. Many villages are known to be Azeri villages and so on. Therefore the article could be centered on those people with additional info on Azeris living elsewhere. Just an idea. :) --Cretanforever 11:15, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

Sounds good to me. But I also have no idea how to call it. Grandmaster 11:20, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

Perhaps we should create that as a headline in the Azeri Diaspora article, which is needed to be created yet? Baku87 15:41, 13 May 2006 (UTC)Baku87

It's also a good idea. Grandmaster 19:40, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Newest project member

Hello - since this project is open, and I contribute to a lot of Azerbaijan related articles, I decided to join. My primary interest, as most of you know is those things which relate to Armenians. I want to add more information on whatever presence and history Armenians have had in Azerbaijan, which I hope all of you can find interesting as well, and enriching to the articles. If you look at the pages of the Armenia Guidebook I co-authored, you will see a great deal of information on the history and presence of Azerbaijanis across Armenia - from village to village. Some of it would be useful as a source for articles on this site. I hope you can see I am not afraid of the truth on either side, that my Karabakh War Timeline includes Khojali and that I just want to make sure history and the truth is fairly told and presented. I really hope article development here becomes more of a collaboration than a battle, and wish there were more third party quality materials/references, but anyway, just trying to do my part. --RaffiKojian 04:15, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

I think it would be more interesting for you to join the armenian wikipedia project, like you said your interest are with armenia not azerbaijan. im not urging you to not join this project but i dont think you have the same interests as the other members. You can find the armenian project here. -Karabakh
Welcome to the Azeri Wikiproject. Indeed, this project is open for all users who want to make a positive contribution to the articles about Azerbaijan, and we have people of different ethnicities here, such as Azeri (both republic of Azerbaijan and Iranian Azerbaijan), Persian, Turkish and Russian. I think many members of Wikiproject Armenia are de-facto members of our Wikiproject, same as many members of this project are de-facto members of Wikiproject Armenia, because all the articles about Azerbaijan-Armenia relations and the history of the region are results of the joint efforts of the members of these two Wikiprojects. If you feel the need to formally sign up to our Wikiproject, there’s no problem. I hope your participation will help to improve the quality of the articles about our region. To tell you the truth, I did not feel so far that there was any desire by certain people in Wikiproject Armenia to acknowledge the role of the Azeri people in the history of Armenia, but I hope soon that will change too. Regards, Grandmaster 10:15, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
Thanks Grandmaster. I think if you check the pages I mentioned on my personal site for the info on Azeris, you might be surprised. I also agree that we are de-facto members of each others teams for certain articles - like it or not! :-) --RaffiKojian 12:50, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Welcome to the Azeri WikiProject RaffiKojian, I hope with your joining we can cooperate in achieving many goals including a better understanding of both our cultures. And like Grandmaster said this is project is open for everyone, so once again welcome, good to have you. Baku87 18:21, 15 May 2006 (UTC)Baku87

Thanks - I do think that many of us are working towards doing a better job of putting good, verifiable, neutral materials online already. Hopefully this will accelerate. --RaffiKojian 03:01, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
welcome to the wikiproject azeri, just one question do you have knowledge on azerbaijani sectors like sports or music, because we need some people to work on sport secor to, if you can this would be great. Karabakh 10:10, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
Thanks. Sorry, but sports and music are not great interests of mine... --RaffiKojian 13:18, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Absolute Proof that the claims from the Republic Of Azarbaijan's Revisionists are FALSE

Azaris are culturally, ethnically and historically Iranian; that said here is acadmeic fact.... Here are more sources that prove a lot of what you are saying is misinformation. [7] .....with all this criteria many of the Azari articles will have to refurbished. 72.57.230.179

ZOMG! Because you cited one article you must be right! How did I not see this before? Seriously though, dude --settle down. Switch to decaf, anything but don't assume that everyone on this WikiProject is party to whatever this is regarding and maybe channel your issues into more productive ways? [PS: Spelling the name right helps! This isn't organized around the Persian side of the border. -- Bobak 15:15, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
Would anyone mind if I remove all this and just keep the link to the website where he took it from? It would help us save some space. Plus you can read it on every Azerbaijan-related talk page anyway. I don’t really want this to continue here. Grandmaster 19:39, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
Probably a good idea if it's been summarized elsewhere. This guy is just spamming things with his own opinion beyond what's normally considered reasonable. A link to whatever cite he feels like sharing will save space, sometimes you have to help the inconsiderate. -- Bobak 20:07, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
Done. I suggest anyone wishing to join this discussion to go to Azerbaijani people talk page, which I think is a more appropriate place for it. Grandmaster 20:15, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
Grandmaster stop deleting talk page material that states the facts. I am spelling it right, it is Azarbaijan like we "Azaris" say it. LOL, Persian side of the border. Is that your way of changing the subject. This has nothing to do with Persians. It has to do with Azaris and how a small but vocal minority of idiots (not mentioning names) is spreading misinformation and propganda. 72.57.230.179
Please user 72.57.230.179 calm down, your previous message which was a article form a site was far to large to be put into a talk page, I agree with Grandmaster on only posting the link. I understand you want to unite Azerbaijan with Iran and you are entitled to this but its your opinion and you cant force us into this as most of Azeris enjoy their independence. Also the correct name is Azeri is announced with a combination of e+a, if you announce it like Azari then your announcing it wrong, in Azeri latin we have the letter ə from this problem, which is a combination of a+e, so only in Azeri latin its written correctly, I think the best options is to write with e, because then less confusion will occur. Another thing is please stop adding your own userbox about uniting Azerbaijan and Iran, as almost nobody in the wikiproject supports it, and its not even a userbox yet. You added your name into the participation list and I hope you will indeed participate in Azeri related articles, if you need a article to start off with please see this list. Other then that welcome to the wikiproject we hope you can contribute along with us in Azeri related articles. Baku87 07:34, 19 May 2006 (UTC)Baku87
WHat do you mean 'most of us prounce it with e+a,' actually most Azaris are in Iran and we prounce it with a. So do not say that. I find your statemnt ironic, becuase you can not force your minority views on the majority. I am not forcing my opinion on anyone that is why you have the choice of selecting the user box if you want. It can still be offered. My view is a popular view too. Who is almost noone there are only 6 of us. Even one out of six is a good number. You can not force your views on others.Remember you editors from the Reoublic who think you are Turkic are the minority and have no right to talk for the majoirty who do bllieve and now that they are ethnic Iranians. 72.57.230.179
In order to answer the question you asked on my talk page, User:72..., the issue you appear to be involved with appears to be one of variant spelling only. Generally, on non-US/UK topics it is considered best to leave the spelling as the first revision stated, to avoid problems such as these. I think it's best to leave these spellings as they are for now, unless other issues crop up in the meantime. Bobo. 17:25, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
For example the word cat, you write it with A but you announce with E, the same is with the letter Ə, only this is a combination of A+E and in order to prevent confussion we use the letter E in latin. Anyways stop with the vandalism and stop with the userbox problem, it is unrelated to this wikiproject and will make no contribution. If you continue on with the vandalism then I will be forced to create a userbox in the opposite direction of yours, the union of North and South Azerbaijan. Im also getting the impression that you are not serieus about this wikiproject and that you only want to push your own aganda to the front. If you are only here to cause problems then I suggest you look somewere else. Im quite sure there is a Iranian wikiprojecy aswell, perhaps they share the same views as yours. Im the meantime I am asking you to stop vandalising this wikiproject and start contributing, see this list for were you can start. Baku87 18:01, 19 May 2006 (UTC)Baku87

[edit] Terms of participation

Recent actions of the new anonymous member of our wikiproject made me think about the terms of participation in our wikiproject. We made it open to everybody, hoping that people would join only with serious intentions, but unfortunately, assuming good faith does not always work here, so I suggest from now on accept new members to our wikiproject by voting. What do you think? Grandmaster 19:58, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

I don't think that's allowed. A wikiproject isn't allowed to have a closed membership. If one member is misbehaving then that person will be treated as an individual and not a representative of the project (unless his activities are widely condoned). --Tony Sidaway 20:16, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
Since member: 72.57.230.179 has joined this WikiProject he has been misbehaving, vandalising and causing trouble in this project and by this we are getting the impression that he does not want to contribute on Azeri related articles but just to push his aganda to the table. I tried to help him getting started by he ignored me. I think he should no longer be a participant of this wikiproject, is it possible to remove him from the participants list?Baku87 20:47, 19 May 2006 (UTC)Baku87
You are probably right, Tony, and we always wanted to have a collaborative spirit here. We have people of various ethnicities here, and nobody was causing any trouble so far, people worked together to make good articles, but this new person has not made any positive input and has been trying to disrupt our work and divide people. We just don’t what the actions of that person to be associated with our project. What in your opinion is the best way to deal with this situation? Grandmaster 21:03, 19 May 2006 (UTC)


This is about freedom of speech. You can not decide on who join or not because if you do that then what is to stop you from letting others with opposing views join. I am here to make sure that the Azari articles excel and are factual and I continue to struggle to do so. User Baku, you leave messages unsigned, user:Grandmaster you use pages to verify things that re not even mentioned on the page like the one for Music of Azerbaijan. I am allowed to place that user box there and editors can pick is they want to use it. There are other user boxes that are only used by one person. I do not seem to recall in consensus in making them. You are being hypocrites because you created one of the user boxes calling for a ‘Liberated Azarbaijan’ which I see not one of you has removed to strengthen your arguments. You are nurturing a culture of bias and misinformation. 72.57.230.179

I do sympathize. If this person's activities are bringing Wikipedia, of which this WikiProject is a small but important part, into disrepute, then if he doesn't stop administrator sanctions may be applied. It could be that he's quite new and just needs to be enlightened as to the way in which Wikipedia works (I don't know it that's true, just mentioning it in case it hasn't been tried yet). In any case we definitely don't have to just sit around while an editor drags things down. Whether he lists his name as a member here isn't, at the end of the day, that important, especially if he is prevented from messing things up. --Tony Sidaway 04:08, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

OK, thanks for your advice Tony. Grandmaster 05:40, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
This is about freedom of speech. You can not decide on who join or not because if you do that then what is to stop you from letting others with opposing views join. I am here to make sure that the Azari articles excel and are factual and I continue to struggle to do so. User Baku, you leave messages unsigned, user:Grandmaster you use pages to verify things that re not even mentioned on the page like the one for Music of Azerbaijan. I am allowed to place that user box there and editors can pick is they want to use it. There are other user boxes that are only used by one person. I do not seem to recall in consensus in making them. You are being hypocrites because you created one of the user boxes calling for a ‘Liberated Azarbaijan’ which I see not one of you has removed to strengthen your arguments. You are nurturing a culture of bias and misinformation.72.57.230.179
First off, no one ever objected to placement of Liberated Azerbaijan userbox on this page. It was made as a response to userbox User supports independence of Nagorno-Karabakh and was a reference to the occupied territories of Azerbaijan republic. Both of those userboxes are now deleted by the admins. I personally never supported political userboxes and never placed them on my user page. As for your userbox, you never tried to discuss it with us and you can’t have it here unless we have a consensus that it should be placed on the project page. Grandmaster 05:05, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
Freedom of speech applies to governments like the federal US government. Welcome to a private, collaborative website that does not follow those rules or ever have to. Learn the law, I did, that's why I'm a lawyer. Seriously dude, settle down. --Bobak 23:44, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
I am settle and when you make statments like settle down that implies you know how I am behaving which I find very odd becuase we are all editing over the internet. I am fine and behaving and if you really want to see who is misbehaving look here [[8]] 72.57.230.179
I don’t think you have much room to criticize conduct of other users. Anyone can check your block log [9] and see that you’ve been blocked for trolling before. I sincerely hope you are not going to continue such disruptive behavior here. Grandmaster 06:56, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
Just to let anyone know that 72.57.230.179 has been blocked once again for 1 week for trolling. Grandmaster 06:27, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Glaring omission in the history section of Baku

I know this is an area that any of you native Azeris could write in your sleep: the oil boom years around the turn of the 19th/20th century. So much interesting stuff that I wish I knew well enough to add. So many interesting names like Alfred Nobel as well as all the massive construction and development that gave Baku it's European character of today. Take a stab! --Bobak 23:45, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

I agree. We have actually covered some of it in the articles about Haji Zeynalabdin Taghiyev, Musa Nagiyev and Murtuza Mukhtarov, but we may need a general article called something like First oil boom in Baku. Grandmaster 07:35, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
I think this is a pretty good idea, we should also add the article of Alfred Nobel about the fact that he got all his wealth from Baku oil industry. Baku87 14:29, 22 May 2006 (UTC)Baku87
That’s not accurate, he made his money mostly on dynamite, but his brothers made their wealth here, in Baku. Ludvig Nobel was the one who ran the Nobel's company in Baku. Alfred had his share of interest in Baku oil too, and according to the article about Ludvig 12% of the money Alfred left for the Nobel Prizes came from his shares in Nobel's Baku oil business. Grandmaster 19:03, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
I guess I got the wrong Nobel brother, thanks man. Baku87 15:03, 23 May 2006 (UTC)Baku87

[edit] Republic Day

i wish everyone the best republic day! today its been 15 years since we have achieved independence and established our country. we have achieved some pretty hard goals such as the religieus tolerance which is praised by the western world, we have created a reliable economy and good relations with the world and europe. azerbaijan can be a model of tolerance in the islamic world and thats something to be proud on. so congratulations on republic day and i wish you all the best of luck! Karabakh 08:14, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. All the best to you too. Grandmaster 11:41, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
Im wishing you guys the best Republic Day ever! Maybe its not the right time to say this but I would also like to note that we should not forget about our South Azeri brothers who are demonstrating in Iran against the discrimination! My mind is really with them at the moment, so many have died already. Baku87 23:39, 29 May 2006 (UTC)Baku87

[edit] Thank you

Grandmaster, thanks a lot for your congratulation with the Georgia portal. I’d be really happy to cooperate with Azeri friends to better contribute to the Caucasus-related articles. Cheers, --Kober 04:21, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Considering

I really don't know anything about Azerbaijan, but I recently started listening to Aziza Mustafa Zadeh and working on articles related to her... I'd like to help with the project, but my focus would probably be on her. Would that be alright? Ric 04:26, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Of course, welcome aboard. Just put your name in the list. Btw, you did a great job on Mustafazade articles. Grandmaster 05:17, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
Alright, I got articles on the rest of Aziza's album started yesterday... I'll fill in any extra information I can if I can find it. (Hah, I feel so helpful.) Ric 11:00, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
If I can find any additional info, I’ll share it. There are some good external links in the article about Aziza, they might be helpful. Grandmaster 12:20, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
My internet was retarded yesterday, so I couldn't get anywhere to even look for other information I missed. Seems to be in order today, though, thankfully. Ric 12:21, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
Welcome back. This seem to be a good article, good quotes from great musicians about her father too: AllAboutJazz.com: Aziza Mustafa Zadeh: Body and Soul and Mugam! Grandmaster 12:33, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Maps

I'm the chap who made all of the maps on the Subdivisions of Azerbaijan (one example: Image:Azerbaijan-Kalbajar.png). I have a few questions:

  1. Do y'all have any comments about them?
  2. Is my map in Azeri: Image:Azerbaijan districts azeri.png - correct?
  3. I notice none of my maps are in use on the Azeri wikipedia; do you think they would be more likely to do so if I made versions of my maps without Nagorno-Karabakh indicated?

I'd ask 2 and 3 on the Azeri wikipedia but they don't seem to have an English embassy, so I ask y'all here. Hope to hear back. :)

I have tried to speak up in defense of your much more useful maps, but without luck. They are replacing your maps with their POV maps which leave out completely the defacto existence of this region which declared itself seperate from Azerbaijan in what is argueably a legal manner, and have never allowed a discussion or a vote which would certainly turn out against their favor. Feel free to go back and replace the less useful maps with your own, since most users (including Azeris) I am quite certain would prefer to know where the new administrative borders overlap with the old, when it comes to Karabakh. --RaffiKojian 04:01, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
I occasionally look at the articles on az:, but I've never seen ANY maps there, let alone mine. Maybe I'll add my maps to all the articles on az:, then if they get removed, that will motivate me to make a version sans-NK. --Golbez 05:58, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi Golbez. Your maps are great, except for the one with Karabakh subdivisions at NK page. I told you from the beginning that it’s gonna cause a controversy. I have no idea why folks at Azeri wikipedia are not using, I don’t contribute to Azeri version due to time constraints. But I can ask them. Grandmaster 04:50, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
Controversy is fun. :) And yes, asking would be nice. As I said, they have no English embassy, so I have no way of being sure I'm communicating. --Golbez 05:58, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Before I go through the trouble of creating 71 maps without Nagorno-Karabakh, can someone confirm that this would be of use to the Azeri wikipedia? --Golbez 23:19, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Fuzûlî

To anyone interested in or knowledgable on the subject, I've tagged the "Works" section in the Fuzûlî article with an original research dispute tag. Though (or perhaps because) I wrote the section myself, I've realized that it needs references and support for its claims; without them, it's definitely original research.

If anyone is willing to flesh out (or rewrite) the section, using references and the like, so as to make it not original research, it would be greatly appreciated (and in the long run, probably beneficial to this project as well). Cheers. —Saposcat 09:57, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

OK, I'll check the sources to see if something can be used as a reference. Grandmaster 10:05, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Yanar Dag and Yanardagh

We have two articles about the same subject, Yanar Dag written by Bobak and Yanardagh written by Megaforcemedia. I proposed to merge these two into one. Grandmaster 20:28, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Both articles are good but they are required to merge in order to be compleet. For now I merged them, I think its good, but Im a bit doubtfull about the title. Can you search by google which name is more populair Yanar Dag of Yanardagh (either way we should make redirects). Baku87 00:25, 17 June 2006 (UTC)Baku87

[edit] Urgent Article Request

I noticed that there is no article about the Azeri Dance, I tried to create one but Im not sure how to make a dance article and I have to idea how to describe the dance myself. Can anyone help me out here? Im really have no idea how to start the fast style dance see here Baku87 01:26, 17 June 2006 (UTC)Baku87

How does the flag look like? Do you have a picture? 85.146.213.29 13:54, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Project Logo

I think we should change the project logo, this wikiproject is not only focused on North Azerbaijan but the logo does show this. Im going to work on a new logo Baku87 15:37, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

What do you guys think of the new one? I used the Azeri primaire colours and the eternal flame. Also why isnt the March 31 Azerbaijani flag added to wikimedia? Im talking about the black strip black, thats official to. Baku87 20:37, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
Good job; that is the spirit. This project must represent the Iranian and Republic elements of Azaris. 69.196.164.190
Logo has been edited to evade future copyright conflicts with wikipedia. Baku87 17:09, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] E-mail

I would like to discuss details of Azerbaijan geography with various people here, as I want to encourage tourism to the country, but I don't know how to contact anybody directly. Is there a method of emailing others here, or can you instead email me at megaforce@gmail.com ? Thanks.--Megaforcemedia 23:29, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Azeri Mausoleum

Mausoleum in Mahmedbeyli Village
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Mausoleum in Mahmedbeyli Village

I just uploaded and added this picture to the Zangilan article. I only know the village name from a Russian transliteration, and am not 100% sure it's in Zangilan (rather than Jebrayil), so someone might want to look into this. --RaffiKojian 07:29, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Congratulations on the Azeri people article

Seeing that as an FA put a smile on my face, and especially my Azeri g/f. All the best. --Bobak 00:31, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Yup, congrats on whoever worked on it - excellent article. The genetic info - though nothing I didn't suspect, was very interesting to see with citations and all... --RaffiKojian 02:49, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
Thanks, most of the credit goes to Tombseye, who did an outstanding work on reconciliating of all the conflicting views. But members of our wikiproject also made a great contribution to that article. Grandmaster 04:50, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
How thoughtfull of you Bobak and indeed like Grandmaster sais most of the credit goes to our dear friend Tombseye, thumbs up :) Baku87 16:55, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Azeri Hacker

Hello Wikiproject Azeripedians, I would like to ask you, as people I have worked with and who know I am a reasonable person, working to iron out issues between Armenians and Azeris in a friendly and cooperative way, to email a guy who has hacked cilicia.com and armeniapedia.org - which represent years of my life in work. Please, tell him to stop what he is doing. I have already contacted my hosting company, so I suspect much of the damage will be fixed, but I don't know how much or when... it has already cost me too much time and lost sleep. Imagine Armeniapedia even had the Khajalu massacre on it for Gods sake. I'm quite certain it is this guy below, so again, please email him, call him, let him know that his activities are not cool... I would so sincerely appreciate it.... --RaffiKojian 03:15, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Job seeker - murad mamedov

City        Baku
Address  S.Rahimov 195/15
Phones   50 343 51 96
E-mail   murad.mammedov@tkaz.net (murad_m@hotmail.com)
Education        Education period: 07.1988 - 06.1993
Institution: State Oil Academy
Degree: Master
Major: Project/Construction Mechanical Engineer

[edit] Something Peculiar

There is something very peculiar that needs immediate attention. Going through some articles, I notice that people who were born in the region known today as the R. of Azerbaijan, along with historical events, and generally geographically, the name Azerbaijan/Azerbaijani is mentioned. That is incorrect. The R. of Azerbaijan did not exist until 1918. We need to fix this false information, as it is highly misleading.
This is like saying Heraclius was Turkish, or Ramses the Great was Arab, or the Native Americans were Americans (as in USA).Khosrow II 00:33, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Azerbaijan has had several different names in history, such as: Athropathne, Arran, Guberia Provencis, Azerbaijan SSR, Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, and more. To keep things simple and less confusing we must refer them as 1 thus Azeris or Azerbaijanis. What you rather need to fix is division of ethnic groups in Iran. Everyone in Iran is Iranian but you can devide that in ethnic groups as: Azeris, Persian, Kurds, Baloch, Arabs and others. List of Iranian is like Great Briton and thus should look like it. Look at these two article below and you will understand what I mean.

Also there are more Azeris in Iran then Armenians and yet there no subheadline as the Armenians do have in List of Iranian (refering to Famous Armenians of Iran and no Famous Azeris of Iran). Please see that this major problem get fixed Baku87 17:08, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

No, Iranian Azerbaijan has been called Atropatane, Azerpadegan, and currently Azerbaijan. The R. of "Azerbaijan" has either been called Albania, Armenia, Georgia, or Arran. The R. of "Azerbaijan" was given its name by pan Turkists who wanted to steal northern Iran. Rasulzadeh, the person who helped found the R. of "Azerbaijan", later wrote, in his exile, that he had made a mistake and that they should have called the nation Albania. He also said that he would do everything in his power to stop discontent amongst Iranians over the name. Also, recent unclassified Soviet documents show how the Soviets kept the name Azerbaijan after the conquered the republic so that they could create a communist state in northern Iran. The documents reveal how Soviet officials told the leaders of Azerbaijan SSR to create movements within northern Iran, to rewrite history, and to spread propaganda. But I guess this is the stuff they dont tell you about in the R. of "Azerbaijan". Also, did you know that the leaders of Iranian Azerbaijan changed the name to Azadistan for awhile protesting the fact that pan Turks had changed the name of Arran to Azerbaijan in 1918? The R. of "Azerbaijan" and Iranian Azerbaijan are two completely different things and territories.
Also, please give me the link to the famous Armenians page and I will make sure that that is also fixed, however, that isnt the same as the situation here. Armenians in Iran and Armenia are the same people while Azerbaijani's in the republic and Iranian Azerbaijani's, the real Azerbaijani's, are not the same people. Genetics has proven it.Khosrow II 17:20, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
You are really underestimating Azerbaijan my dear friend, this is a fact everywere in Azerbaijan, the fact that Soviets kept the name Azerbaijan because they tried to conquer Iranian Azerbaijan was also the start of the cold war. And yes I did learn this at school. Anyways I didn't ask for your explanation, your just one of the avarage Iranians who is afraid that the Azerbaijani people will unite. But dont worry I support worldwide territorial integrity, but I also support human rights. But lets cut to the deal, [here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Iranians#Famous_Armenians_of_Iran] is the famous Armenians list (no list of Azeri, thats the problem). Also List of Iranians needs to look like List of British people. Baku87 19:28, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
So your saying that if we move all the famous Iranians of Azari descent to the Famous Iranians page you will be happy with it? That sounds like a good compromise. That way, the list of Famous Azerbaijani's can only be about the republic.Khosrow II 19:32, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
No I didn't say that at all, look again at the List of British people. I am saying make a main list for List of Iranians in which there are sublinks to List of Persians, List of Azerbaijanis, List of Kurdish people, etc. Thats how its been dealt with in the List of British people. Also you might also wanna change this article titel aswell: List of famous Persian women to List of famous Iranian women, not all female in that list are Persians but they are Iranians. Baku87 22:27, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
That makes no sense, because it would be the same as it is now. Also, the difference between the UK and Iran is that the UK is basically made up of 3 different nations (couontries).Khosrow II 22:29, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
It wouldnt be the same as it is now, instead you will give the minorities of Iran such as Azeris, Kurds, Arabs and Balach their own sublinks next to the Persian one. This way people would understand the concept of Iranian and Persian much easier. The difference between Iranian and Persian is even confusing for some members of wikipedia. The UK excists out of 4 nations, Iran has about 4 major minorities aswell. If you still dont understand then I suggest we test it out in List of Iranians, I'll edit it just like the UK version. Baku87 18:47, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
You do realize that that would seperate Azeri's from the R. of "Azerbaijan" and the real Azeri's from Iran right?Khosrow II 20:17, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Logo

Somehow I feel the logo used in the userboxes and the project notices should be changed, the main reason being that it's too similar to Wikimedia's logo and therefore can't be released into the public domain. Compare what happened to the Counter Vandalism Unit's logo some time ago. Peter O. (Talk) 21:55, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

It's far too similiar: at small sizes, the two are almost indistinguishable, and it definitely gives the impression that this is an official Wikimedia project. --Carnildo 01:56, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for letting me know guys, I edited the logo into something else. What do you think? Baku87 16:52, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
It looks better. But unfortunately on the image page it reads "Please ask for permission before using this logo," which, copyright-wise, seems to be incompatible with wikipedia's guidelines. Peter O. (Talk) 12:33, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
I changed the logo describtion to: Editing this logo for other purposes is not allowed. but Peter could you perhaps select the correct copyright to match this describtion as I am inexperienced in that. Baku87 18:08, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Project directory

Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 15:08, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pushing Naftalan, Azerbaijan for a DYK

I just did a massive expansion of this one-sentence sub-stub. There's no need for voting or anything like that, but I would like anyone familiar with the subject to also take a stab at adding even more --my knowledge comes strictly from the three sources I have cited to death at the bottom of the article. I think it's long enough, but just in case. --Bobak 22:58, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

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