Talk:Sharanish

Assyrian village
I reverted your edit for several reasons. You duplicated two sources already within the article (Sharanish: A Jewel of Our Nation and Zaken 2007). Please take time to learn the referencing system, and it might be wise to practise in your sandbox or in the draft article feature. As well as this, you cluttered the lead paragraph with 5 sources to assert the village is Assyrian. I would agree if a topic is contentious, more sources are required, but considering there's plenty of content to reflect the Assyrian community in this village, it's not necessary in this case. Most importantly, however, you asserted the village is Assyrian. As a rule of thumb I no longer add these descriptions in lead paragraphs of articles as they are a source of infinite contention as Arameans, Syriacs, Chaldeans, and Assyrians will all assert it's their village. Not to mention, not only is the village not controlled by Assyrians, it is not in a political entity named Assyria, and most cases, as in this case, Assyrians don't form the majority of that settlement's inhabitants, despite formerly having done so, as sources suggest Yazidi refugees now outnumber Assyrians in Sharanish.

I am glad to see you're keen to add sourced content to Assyrian articles, but it must be done properly. Mugsalot (talk) 23:51, 23 April 2020 (UTC)


 * It is important to emphasise the identity of a village since it is constantly being deleted by certain Kurdish users. I certainly do not agree with you and it was very unnecessary to delete instead of fixing it while keeping "Assyrian". Ashurpedia (talk) 00:00, 24 April 2020 (UTC)


 * It's evident that content was removed from certain articles because they lacked references, not out of ethnic bias. If you want to accuse anyone of purposefully removing Assyrian content, I suggest you provide evidence to admins, otherwise you'll just get yourself banned. The identity of the village as you refer to it, is mixed, if you would have cared to do your research. There were Jews, there are Assyrians, and there are now Yazidis. A village, particularly in this case, does not belong to any one ethnic group. Mugsalot (talk) 00:30, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

Honestly, I don't agree with you but let's not keep discussing it back and forth. But this version of the page is better so I'm happy with your work. Ashurpedia (talk) 03:37, 24 April 2020 (UTC)