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Parthia was a History good article nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There are suggestions below for improving the article. Once these are addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake. Reviewed version: January 17, 2008

Contents 1 Failed "good article" nomination 2 Parthian Pride 3 gathering footnotes 4 creating a template 5 Parthia or Parthian Empire

[edit] Failed "good article" nomination

Upon its review on January 17, 2008, this good article nomination was quick-failed because it:

contains cleanup banners including, but not limited to, {{cleanup}}, {{wikify}}, {{NPOV}}, {{unreferenced}}, etc, or large numbers of {{fact}}, {{clarifyme}}, {{huh}}, or similar tags

thus making it ineligible for good article consideration.

This article did not receive a thorough review, and may not meet other parts of the good article criteria. The tag has been there since August 2007 and is very much warranted, as many of the sections lack citations or footnotes. I suggest ensuring that all facts and sections are properly referenced and cited before renomination. I encourage you to remedy this problem (and any others) and resubmit it for consideration. If you feel that this review is in error, feel free to take it to have it reassessed. Thank you for your work so far. Cheers, CP 22:11, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Parthian Pride

For something that has shaped Iran more so than the Greek conquest by Alexander and the Macedonians, it seems that there is a lack of interest in creating a better page about Ashkanian history, the same ones that kicked and freed Iran from the Hellenistic world.

--ParthianPrince (talk) 21:57, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

I totally agree we need more contributors to describe this Iranian dynasty.. Although try to stay calm in Wikipedia while making good edits :) --alidoostzadeh (talk) 00:58, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

Salam, my apologies if my statements above seemed to be rather emotional, Ive always had a connection with this particular dynasty more so than the others. A pleasure meeting you by the way, would it be all right to quote books in wikipedia, though Ive started to realize that most citations are from websites. --ParthianPrince (talk) 10:20, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

just edited the article for wrong spellings, will recheck it tomorrow for grammatical and syntax mistakes--ParthianPrince (talk) 10:35, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

My first mission here in wikipedia is to make this article fulfill its fullest potential. I do hope people can aid me in this. Ive recently place the translation of middle persian beside the introduction. corrected some of the other wrong spellings and mistakes in syntax. --ParthianPrince (talk) 20:39, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] gathering footnotes

hopefully I can add them in a few weeks, been a bit busy at work. --ParthianPrince (talk) 20:33, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

added a few footnotes and changed the text, I am trying my best to make this article the best it can be. --ParthianPrince (talk) 06:46, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] creating a template

may be someone can help me in this manner, I would love to create the same template as the sassanid template but if someone can create it for the Parthia article, that would be much appreciated. --ParthianPrince (talk) 22:12, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

been a bit busy, Ill update the article soon. --ParthianPrince (talk) 17:30, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Parthia or Parthian Empire

I just added this note to Parthian Empire, and am leaving it here as well. I have added a "see also: Pathian Empire" to the Parthia page. Whilst doing so, I noticed that Parthian Empire has been moved nine times since January to Parthia. The Parthia article does have a robust section on the Parthian Empire, but is also more expansive than an article specifically focused on the empire. I think a few editors more knowledgeable than I on the subject could be of great assistance in turning the Parthia article into a shorter article on Parthia as far as culture and homeland are concerned, while turning this article into something focused (as the title suggests) entirely on the Parthian Empire alone. At this point, I see no reason why the two article cannot both exist. I intend to do some cleanup here and there, but this is slightly outside my range, so all help is appreciated. Hiberniantears (talk) 13:08, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

I agree completely. The Empire content should be moved to the Empire page, and this page should focus on the region and people that pre- and post-date the empire. I don't think that more knowledge is needed however. It is a simple split and move of content. That said, this page has very little content about Parthia itself, and focuses almost entirely on the empire. -Gomm 06:13, 7 May 2008 (UTC)