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Fuzuli (poet)

 * This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page.

The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/November 13, 2023 by Gog the Mild (talk) 17:46, 28 September 2023 (UTC)



Fuzuli (Füzuli) is the pen name of Muhammad bin Suleyman (1483–1556), a 16th-century poet who composed works in his native Azerbaijani, as well as Persian and Arabic. He is regarded as one of the greatest poets of Turkic literature. Widely admired from the 16th to the 19th centuries, his fame extended to Central Asia and India. Born in 1483 in modern Iraq, Fuzuli's homeland changed hands between the Aq Qoyunlu, Safavid, and Ottoman states, and he composed poetry for officials in all three empires. He wrote his first known poem to Alvand Mirza of the Aq Qoyunlu, but most of his poetry was written under Ottoman rule. Fuzuli died from the plague in 1556 and was buried in Karbala. He is best known for his Azerbaijani works, especially his (love poems), and his lyric poem, a Middle Eastern story of tragic love. Fuzuli's writings have been described as distinguished by his "intense expression of feelings", and as elevating Azerbaijani poetry and language to new heights.
 * Most recent similar article(s): don't recall anything similar recently
 * Main editors: Golden
 * Promoted: yesterday
 * Reasons for nomination: we don't know his birthday, but are in the 540th year after it this year - also user's first FA
 * Support as nominator. Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:30, 6 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Support as the main contributor. I should also add that the article is a Level-4 Vital article. —  Golden  talk 13:37, 6 September 2023 (UTC)
 * General Support. A few grammatical edits made: I have slightly increased the word count, so we might need to keep working on this. A thought per MOS:REFERS: should this, like the article, start with something like Compare other articles on people with pseudonyms like George Eliot, Sting (musician) and Hergé: we must have had a pseudonymous TFA before?  UndercoverClassicist T·C 14:15, 6 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you, . I have one comment about your copyedit. You changed "as far as" to "particularly in". I'm concerned that this might imply that the main regions where Fuzuli's work was popular were Central Asia and India, when in fact it was primarily the Middle East. I don't want to change it back to "as far as" either, as I think "widely admired from the 16th to the 19th centuries, as far as Central Asia and India" reads a bit awkward. Perhaps we could say "widely admired from the 16th to the 19th centuries, his fame extended to Central Asia and India" (also, should Central Asia also be linked?). Thoughts? —  Golden  talk 15:15, 6 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Would be happy with that. I knew I was chancing my arm there; the original phrasing wasn't quite grammatical but I couldn't think of a way to keep the same meaning. UndercoverClassicist T·C 15:27, 6 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Support, the lack of a "most recent similar article" is significant here; poets of West Asia are very underrepresented on TFA, and Fuzuli is one of the most notable, masterful and compassionate poets of this tradition. While some adjustments to the prose of the summary text here would probably be nice, even in its current form I see no reason not to support. Uness232 (talk) 14:11, 6 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Support ~ HAL  333  15:19, 19 September 2023 (UTC)