User talk:Shervinafshar

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Bach's cross
I asked on the Bach talk page a while ago why it should have been retained. No one answered, so I removed it.

There's no information in the main text or in the caption justifying its inclusion. What does it add to the article? What are its historical roots?

Tony 14:26, 23 June 2006 (UTC)


 * I believe it's mainly an alternative presentation of the BACH motif in four different keys which shows why this is a cruciform. Although I haven't found any source for this, I think the creator of the image wanted to show how this motif can be a cruciform. Icons are usually used in Bach music and this, though without citation, can be an iconic representation. Anyway, I'm doing more research on this. In any case you can change the picture with Image:B-a-c-h.svg which is the same motif but in one single key. --Shervinafshar 15:12, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Farsi References
Shervinafshar,

On the Mahmoud Ahmadinejad page, an editor has added the citecheck tag because the article relies on links in Farsi. There are a total of 15 citations which are written in Farsi which he has added the check tag to. Would you be able to, or do you know someone who could or somewhere to post a request, to check these citations? I would be more than happy to return the favor for any article that you would need a hand with. Thanks! Vir4030 20:22, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Anti-Iranianism
Hi Shervinafshar,

I just wanted to contact you because of your vote to keep with major cleanup at Articles for deletion/Anti-Iranianism. There is a movement on the Talk:Anti-Iranianism to do just that but it is being met by some fierce resistance by the creators of the article. Would you mind taking a look?

Thanks, GabrielF 00:09, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

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Article about بیوانفورماتیک
Shervinafshar, good morning. Could you please have a look at the article about بیوانفورماتیک and see what it is all about? Is this something that should go to the Persian WP or is it not notable? Could you find somebody at the fa: WP who could understand the issue and make a recommendation? See also previous discussion at Pages needing translation into English. Andreas (T) 12:13, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

COIN, OUTING
Hi Shervinafshar your posting at COIN was great, except for the external link, which puts you in ~possible~ violation of OUTING. I have removed it, and asked for Oversight to revdel it. Would you please repost it, without the external link and the argument based on it? Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 21:54, 4 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the message. I considered the possibility of OUTING before doing that post, but since the username is very clearly related to the organization that the subject of the article is heading, then it's even considered promotional username and I don't think those fall under OUTING. -- Shervinafshar (talk) 22:32, 4 April 2015 (UTC)
 * the external link that i thought was potentially troublesome was the one showing they are co-authors. using external evidence to prove a connection here within WP, is iffy.  That is the part i recommend you leave out.  If that means you make two cases, so be it....  It ~might~ be Ok to use it, but especially since at least one of them is very established here, you want to be super super clean and careful.  I think it is a good case btw and hope they are graceful.  the link to Bstone's company is in his article, so no big deal there.  Jytdog (talk) 23:09, 4 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the tips and help. --Shervinafshar (talk) 00:35, 5 April 2015 (UTC)
 * you are welcome. thanks for catching this, and i hope you do re-post. it will be interesting to see how this plays out. Jytdog (talk) 00:41, 5 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Um, Shervinafshar knows Evertype personally, and has also co-authored a paper with him. His grudge against Evertype and myself relates to an argument on the private Unicode Technical Committee mailing list. (BTW I do not own a company, and BabelStone is simply the user name I use across the internet.) BabelStone (talk) 18:43, 5 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Unrelated. "Grudge" or not Wikipedia is not your old boys club so your friends can write articles about you and praise your work. The article created under your name has issues which should be resolved. Also, you committed WP:OUTING. "BableStone" is your domain and brand name and is not acceptable as WP username. --Shervinafshar (talk) 18:53, 5 April 2015 (UTC)
 * hey, folks - it would be great if Shervinafshar would respond over at COIN, and if the two of you kept your dispute out of WP. If you bring it here, you will both probably end up topic banned or interaction-banned, if you cannot restrain yourselves.  Jytdog (talk) 19:15, 5 April 2015 (UTC)
 * I did respond on COIN. And off-wiki disputes, even if existing, are not related to the topic of COIN request.--Shervinafshar (talk) 19:17, 5 April 2015 (UTC)

15924 & Unicode
I'm fine with that. (and really, me writing "Goof Faith edit" was a typo not a bad joke ;-).). The connection Unicode&mdash;ISO 15924 is a tough topic to maintain here at enwiki, especially since following ISO 15924 maintenance (over at say Unicode) costs energy. For me, is illusutration not fact, only the normative plain-text is. Unicode in itself is stable, and that is way I reverted. -DePiep (talk) 20:28, 20 May 2015 (UTC)
 * That makes sense, but "Not in Unicode" statement in the template can be amended with some extra information for clarity (even if it's on projected changes). I'm fine with any wording which distinguishes between (a) a writing system which is not yet in Unicode and there is no concrete addition plans (according to roadmaps) for it so far (such as Book Pahlavi) and (b) those scripts which were proposed, worked on, and are already on the roadmap for addition; e.g. Adlam and Tangut. --Shervinafshar (talk) 20:40, 20 May 2015 (UTC)
 * I've not checked recently, but in 2013–2014 I met great differences between formal ISO_15924 definition file and enwiki Unicode tables, by PVA (i.e. our page was not according to the source!). IIRC, it was sushed by 'trust me, it's OK'. I did not accept that, and it was OK when I left that discussion. In other words: Unicode & ISO_15924 must correspond with their core sources, and we should take care of that. -DePiep (talk) 20:47, 20 May 2015 (UTC)
 * re 20:40, post (PVA= Propery Value Alias, =the Unicode defined & used name for a 15924 script):
 * 1. Adlam is not published by Unicode, so it is not in Unicode (we could mention Adlam in Unicode#Future, and in Adlam article). This is the easiest reply. It's Unicode only.
 * 2. ISO 15924 has announced the addition "Adlm (166) = Adlam has PVA", 2014-11-15. This is informal.
 * 3. ISO 15924 has not published formally the Adlam PVA name.
 * ISO 15924 management is chaotic. Let us not get involved in their problem & quarrel, we at enwiki can not solve that. (For example, they had the wrong normative file on site for over a year). -DePiep (talk) 21:04, 20 May 2015 (UTC)
 * I can add that wiki editor Evertype is involved, with a declared COI. -DePiep (talk) 22:57, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

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