Talk:Iranians

Modern / ancient
A recent (anonymous) edit switched the article to talk about the modern people only, while the previous version talked only about the ancient people. Someone should merge the two, or something. --Shallot 20:01, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Anonymous contribution
An anonymous contributor replaced the article with this, which I reverted. Please consider merging the text, if useful:


 * Iranians are the citizens of the country of Iran, a nation in the Middle-East. An Iranian was called Persian in the English language prior to 1936, but the people of Iran has always used the name Iranian for themselves from the ancient times onward. The name Persian actually points to the province of Persis in southern Iran were the Persian kings originated from.

Roozbeh 20:30, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)


 * The current article opens with "The Iranians means the Aryans." Does it?  If so, this page should redirect to Aryans, but that's clearly not the case.  Instead it goes on to define "Aryan," switching to a completely different definition (the modern one) for the second paragraph and back again for the third.  The fourth paragraph is dubious, as&mdash;if I recall correctly, anyway&mdash;"India" means "Land of the Indus."  What is this article trying to tell me?
 * I think this page should disambiguate to Aryan and Culture of Iran, or some similar arrangement, with the latter, more popular definition coming first. The text as it currently stands is clearly unacceptable.  Austin Hair 20:42, Jul 17, 2004 (UTC)
 * And no mention of the fact that Iranian is more closely linked with the languages of North India than with Europe. Hmmm!  Gerry Lynch 16:16, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)


 * I've tried to revise the article to distinguish the three possible meanings:
 * people associated with the modern country of Iran,
 * Iranian groups of antiquity (e.g. Medians, Persians),
 * the use of the term as a synonym for Aryan.
 * Probably some shades of meaning are missing or can be compressed into these previously-mentioned categories. For now I will leave the { { totallydisputed } } tag. --Saforrest 20:43, Aug 17, 2004 (UTC)

Disambiguation
The term "Iranians" cannot refer to Iranian languages, that's why redirecting it to Iranian is not factually accurate. Okay? AucamanTalk 09:17, 10 March 2006 (UTC)