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Should this be at Baku or remain here at Baky (not to mention Baki)? Numerous sources seem to use Baku -- Docu

Why is this article called "Baky"? This is simply wrong. There is no such city. The officially and universally-accepted English spelling is "Baku." It is used everywhere, including Azerbaijani official sources. "Baky" is a mere speculation, based on Azeri pronunciation of the city's name. However, it is not correct. The article, therefore, should be titled "Baku." In any event, the correct spelling is used throughout the entire article, except its heading.

Contents 1 Copyright! 2 Maiden's Tower 3 Metro 4 Clickable Jesus 5 Mount of God !!!!!!!! 6 Needs info on Universities 7 History needs expansion 8 Coat of arms 9 Fire temple at Surakhany 10 larger scale map 11 Information Transfer

[edit] Copyright!

The history section is an exact copy of [1] even with same grammatical errors like ...an earthquake destroyed Shemakha and the of the 12th century and the Shirvanshah... Pouya 05:26, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Maiden's Tower

The link to Maiden's Tower is a badly placed one, because the Maiden's tower it links to is the one near Istanbul, not that in Baku. I removed the link (not knowing what better to do) --Jacobolus 09:58, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I've now added a page Maiden Tower (Baku), and added some very minimal information to that page. Someone who knows more should fix it up and add explanation. --Jacobolus 22:34, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Metro

Hello everyone, I want to create a megaportal on the Metro systems of the FSU and some eastern European ones (with potentially expanding to cover other things like railroad city transportt etc), if you are interested in giving a helping hand have look at how we wrote the entries for Moscow, Saint Petersburg and Kiev. If anyone wants to start the Baku section please go ahead.Kuban kazak 23:46, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

Please add [[it:Baku]]

You can also add [[sr:Баку]] --Dungo (talk) 18:26, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Clickable Jesus

Uh, why is Jesus even mentioned? Couldn't we state that this city was established several centuries before common era? and Why is it clickable? That's not very necessary.

[edit] Mount of God !!!!!!!!

I know farsi and I know that Bagh-Kuh doesn't mean "Mount of God". It means "Mountain Garden", Bagh is garden and kuh is mountain. But where is God here?

It is talking about ancient Persian word for god, baga (OP), later bagh. Same thing in Baghdad. The Behnam 04:03, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Needs info on Universities

If I had any idea, I would add info. Bobak 22:46, 14 April 2006 (UTC) Nevermind, worked it through myself. Bobak 23:47, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] History needs expansion

Particularly 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. --Bobak 23:41, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

See Azerbaijani Oil

[edit] Coat of arms

The current coat of arms is apparently obsolete, I'll try to fix it within several days. --Brand спойт 12:59, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Are you sure this is the new coat of arms, I havent seen it before though Baku87 11:45, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Yes, the one on the page now is the current coat of arms. Three flames on the black background was used at the times of tsarist Russia. Three flames and waves on the blue background is the modern CoA. Grandmaster 15:05, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

It's pretty. --Golbez 21:10, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fire temple at Surakhany

I've removed the line (under "Antiquity") that read: "The city was the location of an important fire temple of the Persian religion of Zoroastrianism ..."

If that was a reference to the temple at Surakhany, then its specious with respect to the religion and date ("antiquity"). There is no evidence that the Surakhany complex was ever used by Zoroastrians, and its missing all the hallmarks of a Zoroastrian fire temple (for instance, the central altar at Surakhany is open to all sides). All existing physical evidence (inscriptions et al, see Fire Temple of Baku) clearly indicates that it was a Hindu temple, an opinion that the museum's staff unequivocally express. That the Surakhany site may have once been the location of a Zoroastrian temple is possible, but (AFAIK) unprovable. If it was (in which case some proof would be nice, since it would be the only one of its kind to use naptha), it would have been some form other than the existing one. -- Fullstop 13:00, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] larger scale map

Could a larger scale map be added to show where this place is in the world? At the very least, the caption for the existing map (of Azerbaijan) should be relabeled something like "The Baku Region of Azerbaijan"

[edit] Information Transfer

Guys, I'm working on a project to increase the amount of tourism information on Azerbaijan, and I was wondering if you all could help start transferring some of Baku's information to the wikitravel site-http://wikitravel.org/en/Baku? I want to know how it works collaborating between the two web pages also. Thanks!! Jowa5813 08:24, 15 January 2007 (UTC)