Talk:Reza Moridi

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His birthplace[edit]

His birth place nor his origin is mentioned in any one of the sources, neither here in English Wiki or Persian Wiki. If no sources are presented in near future I will have those sentences removed. --74.12.102.194 (talk) 22:49, 24 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Dear 74.12.102.194 (talk), your concerns are valid and duly noted. Modiri’s birth place is correct. However, his ethnicity is what had been misrepresented before the corrections made. Although he was born in Urumiah, Iran but he is an Azerbaijani. I have done some research, and included some of the most credible inline citations as you could find in the biography of the living person, Reza Moridi Liberal MPP, Canadian politician. Starback (talk) 00:09, 14 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Correct translation of the statement by Moridi at Legislative Assembly of Ontario according to the inline video citation of the Ontario Parliament provided is "Long Live Republic of Azerbaijan". 74.198.9.212 (talk) 23:32, 13 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

74.198.9.212 (talk) would you please login when contributing to this article so that we could communicate with you using your talk page. Thanks. Starback (talk) 00:15, 14 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Would you please keep an eye on the biography of Reza Moridi Canadian politician? It seems that the individuals who might not have good faith or/and respect the neutrality of this Wikipedia biography are trying to misrepresent the facts in this biography of living person. Looking at the history of this Wikipedia page one could see that in the past there were biased changes done by some users. In the past users Jonathanwallace (talk) and Collect (talk) spent time cleaned up and editing this this Wikipedia biography, to make certain that the neutrality of Moridi’s biography is preserved. The nationality of Moridi is Canadian and his ethnicity according to the facts, documents and evidences is Azerbaijani. User Marmoulak (talk) have changed the ethnicity of Moridi from Azerbaijani-Canadian to Iranian-Canadian without providing any proper evidences and/or inline citation. The current inline citation and evidences clearly indicate that Moridi’s nationality is Canadian and his ethnicity is Azerbaijani. Starback (talk) 19:58, 3 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please avoid telling lies and falsely accusing other users. I provided an interview by TVO's The Agenda, in which Moridi identifies himself as iranian-Canadian. I've since, also added references to Reza Moridi's official page that identifies Moridi as Iranian-Canadian, as well as references to Toronto Star, Payvand news and other sources. Your removal of reliable sources next time, will be considered vandalism. -- Marmoulak (talk) 05:17, 4 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

User Marmoulak (talk) the only time that your user name was mentioned was in the context of ‘changing the ethnicity of Moridi without providing inline citation or reliable sources’. Now that you have provided many reliable sources and inline citations nobody would change or alter your contributions. The TVO's The Agenda program is a good source as citation. Thank you for sharing it. I agree with you when you stated: “removing reliable sources in Wikipedia is considered as vandalism”. I like to point out that in the new section that you have added, “Nowruz Recognition”, there is an important piece of information added that is fully supported by reliable sources and inline citations. The other editing that I did was “Legislative Assembly of Ontario”, that was mistakenly written “Ontario Legislative Assembly”. Also, one time mentioning the full name and title of the individual as Reza Moridi Liberal MPP Richmond Hill is enough. The common practice is that after one time mentioning the full name and title we just address the individual by his last name as “Moridi”. What makes Wikipedia great is the fact that the biography of living persons, politicians and Wikipedia pages are always being monitored and expanded by various contributors. Hopefully we don’t need to come back to Moridi’s biography and detect that either other contributors’, yours or my contributions are removed or vandalized. One thing as an individual drives me hazy: I wonder that what have made you so upset that you took it personally and used such a phrase as: “please avoid telling lies and falsely accusing other users”? Starback (talk) 01:35, 5 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

User Starback, what makes me upset is your continuing lies and false accusations! You falsely claimed that I had "changed the ethnicity of Moridi from Azerbaijani-Canadian to Iranian-Canadian without providing any proper evidences and/or inline citation." Unfortunately you are continuing to repeat this lie. As is evident by this revision diff, when I changed Reza Moridi's ethnicity the first time I provided a reference to the TVO interview, but you reverted my change and accused me of inserting information "without providing citation." It's unfortunate that you are still insisting on this falsehood. -- Marmoulak (talk) 05:02, 5 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Controversy over cronyism and government grant[edit]

As there seems to be a dispute over "Controversy over cronyism and government grant" section, I open the topic here. If users have recommendations about making the article more neutral please make your suggestion. Maybe add some new sources refuting the current sources. Farmanesh (talk) 00:06, 24 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Weasel words like cronyism have no place on wikipedia. Furthermore, the section added appears to be a POV attempt to depict the subject of the article in an unduly negative light. Especially since the source listed is about an opposition politician making an accusation. Mr. No Funny Nickname (talk) 14:25, 24 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I agree this needs to get a more NPOV tone with additional resources. However, as the current version does have sourced material I do not think you should just go about deleting them without trying to improve the material. As of now what I see is that you are just plainly delete resourced material with a blanket NPOV reasoning. Feel free to add more sourced material to make this NPOV, but don't just delete sourced material without any other attempt to improve the article. I will wait few days so you can have enough time to bring new sourced material, after few days I will bring back the currently sourced material. Farmanesh (talk) 18:32, 24 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

All the current sourced material speaks to is an opposition politician making an accusation. This is a strong enough source to warrant section, especially with the NPOV concerns.Mr. No Funny Nickname (talk) 15:16, 27 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]