Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Azerbaijan/Archive 4

Coordinators' working group
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Azeri Genocide
I created an article namely Azeri Genocide.However I dont have enough information, any help appreciated.Abbatai (talk) 19:52, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Have a look at Your first article. Cheers, brandспойт 10:40, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

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Portal:Azeri football
Hello, I created Portal:Azeri football regarding Wikipedia but I need help with the materials. Would anybody help me? --Alakbaroff 18:57, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

WP:NOT#PLOT
Apologies for the notice, but this is being posted to every WikiProject to avoid accusations of systemic bias. Hiding T 13:53, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Proposal for a 200-WikiProject contest
A proposal has been posted for a contest between all 200 country WikiProjects. We're looking for judges, coordinators, ideas, and feedback.

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GA Sweeps invitation
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Hello
Hi dear Wikipedians, I have a great interests in the Caucasus and Azerbaijan in particular therefore I have joined this WikiProject in hope to contribute to the related articles. RetlawSnellac (talk) 12:03, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Welcome onboard. Let me know if you have any questions. Grand  master  12:23, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Rename Southwest Asia to Western Asia
Please share your views here. Izzedine (talk) 14:00, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

Recent flagging by Lida Vorig
There is user named User:Lida Vorig, marks all Azerbaijani articles for no reason. Seems to be, that she is tool of armenian propaganda. Where I can complain?--NovaSkola (talk) 22:31, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

She is 100% armenian, you can see for yourself http://www.pracuj24www.info/kraj-hy-show-%D5%8D%D5%BA%D5%A1%D5%BD%D5%A1%D6%80%D5%AF%D5%B8%D5%B2:%D5%8F%D5%A5%D5%B2%D5%A5%D5%AF%D5%A1%D5%B4%D5%A1%D5%BF%D5%B5%D5%A1%D5%B6
 * she make lot of rasist rpelies

Rate Garry Kasparov
Can someone from this project rate Talk:Garry_Kasparov. I'm guess it's B Class, but for importance I have little idea. SunCreator (talk) 13:27, 10 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Done. Grand  master  05:27, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

Help request
I just responded to a helpme from a new user; they seem to be having language problems, and I think that they are from Azerbaijan.

If someone who can speak the language could say hello to them, I think that might help.

They are

Thanks,  Chzz  ►  09:11, 17 October 2009 (UTC)

Cyrillic edittools
Hello everyone. I am currently updating some of the functions in the edit window here in Wikipedia. Below the edit window we have a list of Cyrillic characters, so it should be easier to insert them in articles. That list is currently not complete, so I would need some help from some editors than can read and write Cyrillic. See MediaWiki talk:Edittools.

Oh, and please don't start a discussion about the edittools here on this page, instead come to that page.

--David Göthberg (talk) 00:55, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

WP 1.0 bot announcement
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Cenubi Azerbaycan
Güney azerbaycan için yardım istiyorum. Southern Azerbaijan .Maverick16 (talk) 18:28, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

Pageview stats
After a recent request, I added WikiProject Azerbaijan to the list of projects to compile monthly pageview stats for. The data is the same used by http://stats.grok.se/en/ but the program is different, and includes the aggregate views from all redirects to each page. The stats are at WikiProject Azerbaijan/Popular pages.

The page will be updated monthly with new data. The edits aren't marked as bot edits, so they will show up in watchlists. You can view more results, request a new project be added to the list, or request a configuration change for this project using the toolserver tool. If you have any comments or suggestions, please let me know. Thanks! Mr.Z-man 01:03, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

Elchin Khalilov
This article has not yet received a rating on the project's quality scale.

This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

I want to change this indicators. How can I Do this??? Please help! Elm478 (talk) 11:02, 27 July 2010 (UTC)

Template:TCSC
There is a discussion regarding Template:TCSC (ref link for population data) at Templates_for_discussion/Log/2010_July_30. Station1 (talk) 04:33, 7 August 2010 (UTC)

Neft-Chala versus Neftçala
Does anyone know if there is a difference between Neft-Chala and Neftçala? Wknight94 talk 15:13, 14 August 2010 (UTC)

Relevant periodicals
I am starting to make a list of periodicals relevant to this project at WikiProject Azerbaijan/Periodicals. It will probably take a while to finish, but I would appreciate someone adding it to the main project page at some point. John Carter (talk) 00:20, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

Culture of Nagorno-Karabakh
Hello. The article Culture of Nagorno-Karabakh is very poor and is written from the Armenian POV. Nothing is written about Azeri and muslim culture. I think we must improve the article. --Quantum666 (talk) 07:25, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

Azerbaijan articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
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We would like to ask you to review the Azerbaijan articles and revisionIDs we have chosen. Selected articles are marked with a diamond symbol (♦) to the right of each article, and this symbol links to the selected version of each article. If you believe we have included or excluded articles inappropriately, please contact us at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8 with the details. You may wish to look at your WikiProject's articles with cleanup tags and try to improve any that need work; if you do, please give us the new revisionID at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8. We would like to complete this consultation period by midnight UTC on Monday, October 11th.

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WikiProject cleanup listing
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Category discussion
More input would be appreciated here. Beyond My Ken (talk) 16:17, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

Guys, English
This (Administrative divisions of Azerbaijan) looks lovely. This (Neftchala Rayon), eh, not so much. I appreciate that that's the local orthography and I do appreciate your work expanding info about the region. On the other hand, remember that this is the English wikipedia—specifically, that we should be using WP:ENGLISH WP:COMMONNAMEs and avoiding WP:LOCALCONSENSUS. The common English name of Khazar/Xazar is not Xəzər; Arabkardashbeyli isn't generally known as Ərəbqardaşbəyli. The main articles like Neftchala do it right – English title and namespace, Azerbaijani immediately after in the lede – but remember to keep it up for the smaller places as well. — LlywelynII  07:15, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

Ismail I
When you have time, could you see Talk:Ismail I ? Thank you. Takabeg (talk) 10:54, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

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please why the peole of southern Azerbaijan are not mentioned?? this part got occupied by iran in last century and persians are trying to assimilate 25000000 Azeri, Afshar and other Turkic people in iran, you should at least mention our people.

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has any one tried to explain the relation between Azeri and Khazar turks? i have heard that the name AZERBAIJAN is the Arabizied version of the original name "HAZAR BAYLIGI" which means the vicinity of Khazar government nad lordship.

Azerbaijani people
nominated Azerbaijani people for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. DrKiernan (talk) 17:10, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

WikiWomen's History Month
Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:Azerbaijan will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in within Azerbaijan society. We've created an event page on English Wikipedia (please translate!) and I hope you'll find the inspiration to participate. These events can take place off wiki, like edit-a-thons, or on wiki, such as themes and translations. Please visit the page here: WikiWomen's History Month. Thanks for your consideration and I look forward to seeing events take place! SarahStierch (talk) 19:10, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Zagatala State Reserve not to be confused with Zakatala State Reserve?
Dear friends, me thinks they are the same. They should be merged. Best regards, --Trinitrix (talk) 11:20, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

Category:Imperial Russian people by occupation
There is currently an attempt to merge Category:Imperial Russian people by occupation to Category:Russian people by occupation. Since what is today Azerbaijan was under the control of the Russian Empire for nearly a century, this has the potential to effect many articles related to what is today Azerbaijan.John Pack Lambert (talk) 00:22, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

Dead-link template
Template:AJmuni, transcluded in more than 1400 articles, is a dead link. I thought WikiProject Azerbaijan ought to know. הסרפד (Hasirpad) [formerly Ratz...bo] 01:00, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

Feedback request: VisualEditor special character inserter
The developers are working towards offering mw:VisualEditor to all users at about 50 Wikipedias that have complex language requirements, such as Azerbaijani. Many editors at these Wikipedias depend on being able to insert special characters to be able to write articles.

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Popular pages tool update
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Wiki Loves Pride 2014
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Names
Hello. Per WP:SERBIANNAMES etc. is there a MOS guideline where WP:AZERBAIJANINAMES should direct to? In ictu oculi (talk) 09:45, 27 June 2014 (UTC)

Ermanikand
There is a merge discussion at Talk:Ermanikand. DrKiernan (talk) 16:30, 16 July 2014 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal
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WikiProject X is live!


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Iran crisis of 1946 listed at Requested moves
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Okip  01:31, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

Non-translated alt-text on az wikipedia
I didn't know where else to mention this. On the Wikipedia for the Azerbaijani language under the "Alətlər sandığı" menu there's an item called "Bu məqaləyə istinad et". The alt-text for this is in English/not Azeri (it says "Information on how to cite this page"). It looks to be a translation oversight. As I do not speak Azeri at all, I was hoping somebody who can would mention this on that Wikipedia's Village Pump to get it fixed. Thanks. Jason Quinn (talk) 19:25, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

Question about Agdam
Template talk:Agdam Rayon Takabeg (talk) 12:58, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

prisoners of conscience and Eurovision
I notice that Azerbaijan's political prisoners are getting some media attention ahead of Eurovision. Would anyone be interested in helping me start/expand some of these articles? A partial list can be found at prisoner of conscience. Khazar2 (talk) 05:50, 26 May 2012 (UTC)

Azeri vs. Azerbaijani
Help an outsider out—what's the difference? I might guess that Azeri refers to the ethnic group and Azerbaijani to the country, but then there's Azerbaijani people. Azerbaijani seems more common, but I'm really not sure. --BDD (talk) 04:26, 10 June 2012 (UTC)

Rumi from a neutral point of view

 * Hello, I have a recommendation about the article Rumi.
 * Please read all the information, I wrote on Talk, and tell whether you agree or disagree.
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Rumi#Let.27s_Remove_POV_with_a_Neutral_Point_of_View
 * You know the ethnicity of Rumi is unknown and debated. I hope you contribute to this matter. Alternatively, from a neutral point of view, I recommend to change the (POV) sentence to a (NPOV) sentence:
 * "a 13th-century Persian Muslim poet, jurist, theologian, and Sufi mystic."
 * to "a 13th-century Muslim poet, jurist, theologian, and Sufi mystic of Persian literature. 81.213.117.125 (talk) 21:41, 8 August 2012 (UTC)

Kurban Said
Please provide an assessment on the Kurban Said article. There's a near edit-war and I'd like to get a third party's input. Chris Troutman ( talk ) 22:37, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

Languages in censuses and Race and ethnicity in censuses
Pleas add information about this country to this articles.--Kaiyr (talk) 09:30, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

Expert attention
This is a notice about Category:Azerbaijan articles needing expert attention, which might be of interest to your WikiProject. It will take a while before the category is populated. Iceblock (talk) 16:37, 12 October 2014 (UTC)

New user giving "English names" to Azerbaijan articles
A new user Special:Log/Xoncha is giving English names to WP Azerbaijan articles such as Şərq Qapısı. I've asked him/her to restore using the technical revert template. In ictu oculi (talk) 14:45, 16 November 2014 (UTC)

Translation help
Sorry if I am posting this at the wrong place. Anyway, there is an English language article Free Fall (2013 film) which has a FA version at the Azeri Wiki - Sərbəst eniş (film, 2013). I have no knowledge of the Azerbaijani language and thus struggling to translate the article. Would anyone from this project be able to help translate and turn an average article into a featured one? Thank you in advance.  Wes Mouse &#124; T@lk 15:27, 3 December 2014 (UTC)

Red links on God Nisanov's page
Hello. I have added the WP Azerbaijan tag to God Nisarov's talkpage, as he was born and educated there. If any of you are able to create articles about some of the red links (including universities, which might be departments within specific universities at List of universities in Baku; but also the International Fund for Cooperation and Partnership of the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea and the Baku International Humanitarian Forum, deleted in 2012 for some reason), or find more references to in-line them and expand the page, that would be great. Perhaps some of you speak/read Azerbaijani, in which case you may be able to find out more. Forbes suggests he is a Russian citizen, however. He seems like a great philanthropist.Zigzig20s (talk) 13:24, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

BBC story on a satirical magazine
Hi! I found a BBC article on a satirical magazine. It may be of interest: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-31640643 - http://www.webcitation.org/6WjL78zRq WhisperToMe (talk) 14:48, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

Papakha
Dear AzWikipedia users, I keep having problem with that article as the User:HyruDagon keeps editing and deleting any mention of Azerbaijan from the article, i have already raised this issue with Arbcom but have no idea what they are even supposed to do except leave a same message on my talk page. Experienced users please advice Agulani (talk) 07:12, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

Aliagha Vahid
Hello, an editor has altered the name throughout the above article changing the 'V' for a 'W' claiming that this is correct in English. Also changed the commons cat. to Wahid (which then links to a non existent page). Perhaps somebody from this project could state whether this is correct or not and edit accordingly. Thanks. Eagleash (talk) 12:19, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

New Task Force on Women in Azerbaijan
Hi all

I am coordinating a group of editors, through edit-a-thon projects, to build out pages on Women in Azerbaijan - issues affecting women, but mainly building out profiles on historically significant Azerbaijani women and journals like Sharg Qadini. I have a group interested in getting involved.

Is anyone able to give me advice on how to set up a sub-task force? It makes sense to include that here rather than create a whole new WikiProject.

Cox sagol.

(Cofpomegranates (talk) 11:16, 16 April 2016 (UTC))

Translation request (Azerbaijani language)
Hello board, please help translate the following from English into Azerbaijani:


 * Please do not contribute text in Azerbaijani to English Wikipedia. Your contributions are more than welcome at the Azerbaijani Wikipedia.

It will be used to create a template at Template:Notenglish.– Gilliam (talk) 06:40, 15 March 2015 (UTC)


 * I came here to ask the same thing. I just had need of contrib-az1. See contrib-tr1 or contrib-ru1 for an example of what's needed. Thanks, for (talk)  12:31, 14 June 2016 (UTC)


 * I've created contrib-az1 using Google Translate. Please improve it if you can. -- (formerly for ) - Cabayi (talk) 13:05, 4 October 2016 (UTC)
 * ping, Cabayi (talk) 13:07, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

2016 Community Wishlist Survey Proposal to Revive Popular Pages
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Popular pages report
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Transliteration
Are there any conventions for transliteration from Azerbaijani to English?

It should be mostly straightforward and the same as in the Azerbaijani Latin, except Ə, which is too far from the western Latin alphabet. But Ç, Ğ, İ, ı, Ö, Ş, and Ü are used in Turkish and can be used in Azerbaijani, too.

Ə can be either Ä or maybe E or A, although I'm not sure which one to choose. There were fierce discussions about this at Talk:Ilham Aliyev/Archive 1, and while there is an essential consensus about this particular name (Aliyev, rather than Äliyev or Əliyev), I couldn't find a general rule that would apply to all Azerbaijani names, neither for Ə, nor for the other letters. In particular, Ğ is very inconsistent now: The English Wikipedia has Qarğalıq, Nakhchivan, Agsu District, and Agstafa District, and they all should be spelled with ğ: Qarğalıq, Ağsu, Ağstafa.

I'd suggest Ä for Ə because it's consistent, and allowing exceptions for names that already have a common English spelling, which is already the English Wikipedia practice for all names. I'd also suggest retaining C, because that's the usual practice for Turkish, even though it may be unintuitive.

Any thoughts? --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 08:44, 13 October 2016 (UTC)


 * Some books indeed use original spelling of Azerbaijani names, see (totally conserved),  (partially conserved: Ə, Ç, Ş are replaced by Ä, Ch, Sh). But Azerbaijani authorities tend to use Azerbaijani-to-English orthographic transcription, see a biometric passport and a (the official?) Baku Metro map. That is: C becomes J, Q becomes G, X becomes Kh, Ə becomes A, Ç becomes Ch, Ğ becomes Gh, İ and ı become I, Ö becomes O, Ş becomes Sh, and Ü becomes U. Burzuchius (talk) 17:52, 14 September 2017 (UTC)

WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Azerbaijan
Hi I don't know if anybody here has the ability to convert Cyrillic into English but I would be grateful if somebody could help translate names here.♦ Dr. Blofeld  11:35, 30 September 2017 (UTC)

Pages To Watch
Your article on Mubariz Ibrahimov is being vandalized quite often. I have cleaned it up a bit but it will need attention. --Syong Lee (talk) 22:00, 11 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Sock. Quinton Feldberg (talk) 22:48, 11 October 2017 (UTC)
 * This is one of the vandals. He removed a bunch of sourced content without providing any reason at all.--Syong Lee (talk) 01:36, 12 October 2017 (UTC)
 * WP:BANREVERT. That's a reason! Quinton Feldberg (talk) 02:11, 12 October 2017 (UTC)
 * I see. But that is not Carte blanche to push disruptive reverts.--Syong Lee (talk) 02:16, 12 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes it is! "Anyone is free to revert any edits made in violation of a ban, without giving any further reason and without regard to the three-revert rule." Quinton Feldberg (talk) 02:27, 12 October 2017 (UTC)
 * You reverted edits made by someone who was not violating a ban however.--Syong Lee (talk) 02:29, 12 October 2017 (UTC)
 * They were also not reliably sourced. Quinton Feldberg (talk) 02:40, 12 October 2017 (UTC)
 * If you disagree with any content/sources, that's ok but that doesn't make it ok to remove a whole bunch of content because you disagree with a small part of it.--Syong Lee (talk) 02:44, 12 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Quinton Feldberg (talk) 03:11, 12 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Is that another accusation like the calling my removal of your vandalism edit warring?
 * Perhaps I should just delete this entire conversation. Quinton Feldberg (talk) 03:21, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

Draft:Amin Abbasov
Could someone assist the creator in finding reliable sources? I feel the subject is notable, but this is not my language. -- Dlohcierekim (talk) 14:45, 29 November 2017 (UTC)

Disambiguation links on pages tagged by this wikiproject
Wikipedia has many thousands of wikilinks which point to disambiguation pages. It would be useful to readers if these links directed them to the specific pages of interest, rather than making them search through a list. Members of WikiProject Disambiguation have been working on this and the total number is now below 20,000 for the first time. Some of these links require specialist knowledge of the topics concerned and therefore it would be great if you could help in your area of expertise.

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Focus on Azerbaijan at Women in Red
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Wiki4MediaFreedom
Hi. If you have time, please take a look on meta at this page m:Wiki4MediaFreedom contest. It's an event organized by Rossella Vignola (OBC), there is a list of articles to improve also on English wikipedia.--Alexmar983 (talk) 20:33, 26 May 2018 (UTC)

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RfC on election/referendum naming format
An RfC on moving the year from the end to the start of article titles (e.g. South African general election, 2019 to 2019 South African general election) has been reopened for further comment, including on whether a bot could be used move the articles if it closed in favour of the change: Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (government and legislation). Cheers, Number   5  7  15:34, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

Nar page rename
Dears,

Kindly ask you to help us with renaming "Nar mobile" page to "Nar" --John Snow from winterfell (talk) 06:21, 18 March 2019 (UTC)

MfD nomination of Portal:Azerbaijan
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Request for information on WP1.0 web tool
Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.

We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma (talk) 04:24, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

Azerbaijani speaker needed
Hi, Template:COVID-19_pandemic_data/Azerbaijan_medical_cases_chart is in a bit of a mess at the moment, IP editors have added a growth percentage but not numbers of deaths or cases. There are links to the sources, but they are in Azerbaijani. Please could someone from here adopt and maintain this template.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  11:05, 22 May 2020 (UTC)

Displaying Russian names as footnotes in former Soviet Union locations?
Please see Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Soviet_Union for a discussion on whether the Russian names should be put in footnotes in articles about former Soviet Union locations (which existed at the time of the Soviet Union) WhisperToMe (talk) 08:30, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Aurat (word)
The terms "Aurat", "Arvad", "Avret", and "Awrath" may refer to: Women of Asian religious or cultural descent and identity.

Self nomination for AFD since article copy pasted to Draft:Aurat for incubation because IMHO current article title Aurat (word) is misleading and confusing leading to western systemic bias and stifling the article growth. Please find Detail reason at Articles for deletion/Aurat (word)

I invite project members to review current and potential sourcing and weigh in on the AfD discussion. Thanks! Bookku (talk) 03:25, 10 June 2020 (UTC)

Women in Red Asian women contest
From 1 October to 31 December, Women in Red is running a virtual contest on Asian women. In November, this will coincide with Wikipedia Asian Month. We look forward to strong participation from all those interested in improving coverage of women from Azerbaijan.--Ipigott (talk) 19:18, 21 September 2020 (UTC)

Azokh Cave

 * Hello, I take part in Russian Wikipedia, but new in this Project. I have question reg Azokh Cave. In Russian Wikipedia this cave is noted as Azykh, but now there is discussion of Azokh village. The same situation in Eng.Wikipedia. I opened discussion on the site, but not sure if I can edit it.Although I have sources and can argue my position, preferable is discuss. because I'm going to chanhe the title of this article.--Aydin mirza (talk) 23:24, 24 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi, can you provide sources that show it as Azykh cave? I think the guys on Azokh Cave talk page changed it because of scientific papers using "Azokh" instead of "Azykh". — CuriousGolden (talk·contrib)  06:20, 25 October 2020 (UTC)
 * yes, it is the books of Mamadali Huseynov. the excavations were done in the cave by archeoplogist M.Huseynov in 1960 and called Azykh. Here is the official document but in Russian "AZERBAIJAN SSR

ADMINISTRATIVE TERRITORIAL DIVISION" edited in 1979 where you can find the name of yhe village near The cave. (file:///D:/My%20Files/Downloads/kitab20100722012906265%20(1).pdf) And I have another question. I will provide you with a.m. sources. But I'd like to know, what does the Author of the current article Azokh Cave provide the project to let issue this article? Please, see the source that is you can find in the current article - "Azykh Cave". Archived from the original on 2017-12-23. Retrieved 2017-12-26. And how the article is called Azokh, if the source in the same article note AzykhAydin mirza (talk) 13:26, 26 October 2020 (UTC)?
 * I read the discussion in Azokh Cave talk page and it seems like Azokh cave was chosen because most scientific studies refer to the cave as Azokh, rather than Azykh. You have one Azeri source, which I think isn't enough to change it. I think it's fine to keep it as Azokh. — CuriousGolden (talk·contrib)  15:06, 26 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Could you, please, read once more the Article and see the sources? there are 2 sources with different name only. and what does "the most scientific studies says that the cave is Azokh" mean? We discuss about the Name of Cave only, not about archeology. Discovery was done in 1960 and all soviet documents show the name of Cave Azykh, not only one source. The another source with Azokh name is new edited. And the is no difference for all these new specialists if the cave is Azokh or Azykh. The name is was fixed from the discovery time since 1960 as Azykh cave and Azykh Man or Azykhantrop was named by the cave sure. these arguments are not enough? As I know Wikipedia is Encyclopedy is not research center, but only facts. Please, cooperate me in this subject, because it's unlogical situation.The man is Azykhontrop, but Cave is Azokh. there is source of the discovery period with the name of cave Azykh, but now more important is new archeological studies that doesn't refer to this subject. I apply to you because the people read it and couldn't understand. Additional to this russian version is also Azykh Cave. Aydin mirza (talk) 16:11, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

First women MPs in Azerbaijan
Hello. I'm compiling a list of the first women MPs in each country, but have been unable to find the answer for Azerbaijan. I'm guessing they would have been early member(s) of the Supreme Soviet of Azerbaijan SSR, the Congress of Soviets or the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. If anyone can point me to a definitive source, it would be much appreciated. Cheers, Number   5  7  17:57, 16 November 2020 (UTC)

Talk:Moushkapat
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Kommersant has an RFC
Kommersant has an RFC for possible consensus. A discussion is taking place. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. — Mikehawk10 (talk) 06:31, 6 March 2021 (UTC)

Mass-deletion/cleanup discussion
Several thousand articles exist for purported places in Azerbaijan that were mass-created in a problematic way from GEOnet. We have had similar problems with Iran articles (see earlier on the same noticeboard) and California articles (see Reliability of GNIS data and WikiProject California/GNIS cleanup task force) and have quite a number of areas not even tackled yet (e.g. "Corner" articles in the U.S. state of Virginia that were probably once the sites of marker trees for land surveys, that Wikipedia is declaring to be human communities). A discussion of which articles we do not trust to be fundamentally accurate in the context that they give to readers/editors, and whether and what to mass-delete, is on-going on the Administrators' main noticeboard. Uncle G (talk) 02:15, 11 April 2021 (UTC)

Our discussion has extended to ways to filter out the good articles, and any articles that are simply duplicates because places have been renamed; is and on-going on the Administrators' main noticeboard. It has also extended to Armenia. We are also, please note, on the cusp of mass-deleting a couple of hundred articles from the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh/Republic of Artsakh area that were mass-created with a notice that they could not be found otherwise than from the source GEOnet database. If you have any concerns, now is the time to speak up. Uncle G (talk) 06:14, 22 April 2021 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:July 2020 Azerbaijani protests
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:July 2020 Azerbaijani protests that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. ASUKITE 00:42, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Irène Mélikoff
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Irène Mélikoff that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. — Shibboleth ink  (♔ ♕) 04:26, 29 August 2021 (UTC)

5 pogroms in Maştağa?
As already asked in Talk:Maştağa a couple of days ago:

From the Maştağa:
 * "The presence of 5 mosques, 7 baths and 5 pogroms in one neighborhood was an exception in Absheron."

Is there a meaning for "pogroms" which I'm not aware of (other than "massacre", I mean)?! Otherwise, this sentence sounds strange. --Tkarcher (talk) 18:45, 20 October 2021 (UTC)


 * It should be ovdan (water well). I checked the Azerbaijani Wikipedia, it is ovdan there. I fixed it, thanks for letting know about that. Grand  master  20:29, 20 October 2021 (UTC)

Rename articles about uezds for consistency
I’m proposing renaming every article in the form of, for example, Akhtyrka Uyezd → Akhtyrka Uezd, to match the spelling of the renamed main article Uezd. Please discuss at talk:Uezd. —Michael Z. 22:16, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

Village stubs
A large number of Azerbaijani village stubs were created this year, for example Yanşaqbinə, Qılınclı, Lachin, Qarazeynallı, Qasımbinəsi and Qaraşlar. Unfortunately most of them look like they've been abandoned or destroyed presumably during Armenian occupation. Since we've had issues with single-source stubs in the past, I wanted to get some input on whether these would meet the WP:GEOLAND notability guideline which requires either legal recognition or significant coverage to meet GNG. Pinging who created these and may have some insight. –dlthewave ☎ 22:10, 14 December 2021 (UTC)


 * dlthewave, the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Azerbaijan released video coverages in 2020-2021 from most of these villages after their liberation. In addition, they are all legally recognized settlements by the government which are reflected in the official administrative division directory prepared in 2019 and published in 2020. It is also indicated that the directory is agreed with the Parliament of the Republic of Azerbaijan.KHE&#39;O (talk) 17:20, 23 December 2021 (UTC)

Please help me
Greetings,

Hi, I am User:Bookku, my expectations to get expanded Black sea related articles failed miserably. I am expecting and requesting at least some help in expanding the article Draft:List of erstwhile slave trading townships with regions surrounding Black sea and Ottoman time slave trading townships. In next steps I wish to have a proper map showing erstwhile slave trading townships across.

Thanks and warm regards

&#32;Bookku, &#39;Encyclopedias &#61; expanding information &#38; knowledge&#39; (talk) 10:15, 29 January 2022 (UTC)

News.milli.az reliable?
Hello all! While working on Deli Mike, I found this piece by news.milli.az while doing a search for more sources. I was wondering if this website is considered a reliable outlet for this kind of stuff and how they are reliable, as from experience on the Turkish Wikipedia I know that they do engage in some BLP PR activities. Thanks in advance! ~Styyx Talk? ^-^ 13:07, 23 February 2022 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:The History of the Country of Albania
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:The History of the Country of Albania that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. 🐶 EpicPupper (he/him &#124; talk) 15:33, 18 March 2022 (UTC)

== Requested merge at Talk:Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2022 March 6#Iranian Azerbaijanis by occupation ==

There is a requested merge discussion at Talk:Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2022 March 6#Iranian Azerbaijanis by occupation that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. --Abrvagl (talk) 20:02, 25 March 2022 (UTC)

User script to detect unreliable sources
I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like and turns it into something like
 * John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.
 * John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.

It will work on a variety of links, including those from cite web, cite journal and doi.

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Talk:Anti-Armenian sentiment in Azerbaijan has an RFC
Talk:Anti-Armenian sentiment in Azerbaijan has an RFC for possible consensus. A discussion is taking place. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. Vladimir.copic (talk) 04:02, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

FAR notice - First Nagorno-Karabakh War
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RfC Notification
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Requested move at Talk:Death and state funeral of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Death and state funeral of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. UtherSRG (talk) 10:50, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

That probably was cryptic... why do we care about that? This RM involves about 50 state funeral articles, including at least one that is related to this WP. - UtherSRG (talk) 12:10, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

RfC on the translations in the lead of formerly occupied territories
Should the villages and towns formerly in the Armenian-occupied territories surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh (that were returned to Azerbaijani control in 2020) have an Armenian translation in the lead? — Golden  call me maybe? 13:17, 2 September 2022 (UTC)
 * 1) Option 1. No, the translation should instead be provided in the History section.
 * 2) Option 2. Yes, the translation should be in lead.

Survey (translation)
Option 1. Prior to the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, 0.4% of the population of the Armenian-occupied districts surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh were Armenians, whereas Azerbaijanis made up 98% of the population. In the Armenian occupation of the districts, throughout 1994-2020 small numbers of Armenians from abroad were settled in formerly Azerbaijani settlements. To name an example, during the occupation about 500 Armenians were settled in the city Zangilan (previously had an exclusively Azerbaijani population of 7,200). Despite the Armenian settlers only replacing 7% of the pre-war population of Zangilan, the lead of the city's article contains an Armenian translation. With examples such as these, it's evident that Armenian translations in the formerly occupied settlements' articles are given UNDUE weight and should instead remain in the history section rather than the lead. — Golden  call me maybe? 13:18, 2 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Something noteworthy is that, after extensive discussion between the two sides, the community in the Russian Wikipedia (which likely has the largest Armenian-Azerbaijani Wikipedia community outside of their own respective Wikis) came to a consensus about how the leads of these settlement articles should be displayed over a year ago. This example can be used to help establish a consensus on the English Wikipedia as well. (Use Google Translate if you don't understand Russian; Note: NP stands for "populated locality") —  Golden  call me maybe? 08:52, 13 September 2022 (UTC)

'''Option 1. No, the translation should instead be provided in the History section.''' We should stick to WP:COMMONNAME here, most of the Armenian names don't come up on the sources that much, they represent like 10% of the WP:RS.--Nicat49 (talk) 13:16, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

'''Option 2. The translation should be in the lead.''' Considering this region is the historical homeland of Armenia(ns) and that Armenians have had a population presence in this region for thousands of years, maintaining the translations in the lead does not appear to violate UNDUE. Archives908 (talk) 20:26, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

Comment Applying a sweeping vague “consensus” to a broad area that includes a diversity of settlements, each with their own histories and unique circumstances, serves injustice to the purpose of Wikipedia. There are settlements in this area where there would be WP:UNDUE weight given to an Armenian name, and there are settlements where an Armenian name in the lede is absolutely appropriate. For example, the village of Zar (Tsar) was a major and historically important Armenian settlement since at least the 11th century, and because of this the Armenian name of Tsar is much more prevalent in historical sources than the recent Azerbaijani name of Zar, which itself comes from the Armenian name. In addition, the Armenian name of Tsar was used for the past 30 years, as the village was under de-facto Armenian administration and had an exclusively Armenian population. Also using the 1979 census to describe the original population demographics of the region is dishonest, that was after a decades long effort by the Azerbaijani SSR to inflate the Azerbaijani population and deflate the Armenian population of the region, for example settlements like Jabrayil had an Armenian plurality in 1897 and Minkend had an Armenian majority for a significant amount of its modern history. And a majority of the historical settlements in the region had Armenian majorities for centuries before they were depopulated in the 18th century. Places like Husulu and Mirik were important centers of the Armenian Melikdom of Kashatagh and the historical name of Husulu, Kashataghk, is where the name of the entire area comes from as it was the capital of the principality, their Armenian names have centuries of mention in historical sources. As you can see, each settlement has unique circumstances and it is not beneficial to lump them all together under one consensus, this issue should be discussed in each individual talk page of the articles, but if we must, Option 2, the settlements that have Armenian names in the lede, were administered by de-facto ethnic Armenian administration for the past 30 years and had significant Armenian populations that used that name for 3 decades up until recently. Reliable sources from that period almost always use both names, with the Armenian name in parentheses next to the Azerbaijani name. For example, Zangilan (Kovsakan) had an exclusively Armenian population of 500 before the 2020 war, and Kalbajar (Karvachar) had an exclusively Armenian population of 600 before the 2020 war, Karvachar is also a historical name that has been used to describe the original Armenian settlement for centuries before and recorded in reliable sources. Most of the 1979 population of these region were emigrants from different parts of Azerbaijan anyway, so I don’t see why people who have been living here for the past years as citizens of the towns shouldn’t count. The only purpose this RFC would serve is the avoidance of proper discussion on a case by case basis, which is absolutely needed in such a controversial area, that is under arbitration.

Also, per Naming conventions (geographic names), “Relevant foreign language names (one used by at least 10% of sources in the English language or that is used by a group of people which used to inhabit this geographical place) are permitted.” All of the settlements that have Armenian alternative names had exclusively Armenian populations for the last 30 years, as well as, historical Armenian populations. MOS:LEADALT makes it clear that historical names can be used as an alternative name in the lead, which most of these names are.  Tagawor  Shah  (talk) 22:03, 22 September 2022 (UTC)

'''Option 1. No, the translation should instead be provided in the History/Etymology section.''' According to WP:OTHERNAMES and MOS:LEADALT, once "Names" or "Etymology" paragraphs are introduced, the alternative English or foreign names should not be relocated back to the first sentence. An exemption, retaining a local official name differing from a generally recognized English name in the lead, is not applicable in this case. Armenian names for the regions surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh are not used locally nor officially. For the last 100-200 years, the Armenian population in these locations was less than 1%. Following the occupation of the territories by Armenian forces, the Azerbaijani population was expelled, and the majority of villages/cities were left unpopulated, with a small number of Armenians settling in some of them and leaving when Azerbaijan reclaimed those territories.

The argument that the names should be kept in the lead because the region was populated by Armenians many decades ago does not make any sense. Using the same rationale, we may add Azerbaijani names to lead of the majority of places in Armenia, because Azerbaijanis were recently deported and most of the names were altered by the Armenian government. Futhermore, this comment by Golden shows that these names are less than 10% of the sources, which add to the arguments as to why these names shouldn't be in lead. A b r v a g l (PingMe) 17:20, 22 September 2022 (UTC)

Desctiption (translation)

 * In several instances of your comment, I believe you mistook the seven formerly occupied surrounding districts (the subject of discussion here) for the parts of the former NKAO—to be clear the latter is not being discussed. If however you were not mistaken, could you please provide a source which supports the assertion that the Azerbaijan SSR (AzSSR) attempted to "inflate the Azerbaijani population" in the areas surrounding the NKAO (these areas have been predominantly Azerbaijani or Kurdish for centuries prior to the establishment of the AzSSR). A source for the claim: "the majority of the population of these region were emigrants" in 1979 is also needed. Since you have brought up the 1897 census as a basis for deciding whether a translation in the lead is necessary, would you be opposed to applying the same logic for Vedi (Azeri-majority until mid-20th century) or any of the multitude of formerly Azeri settlements in modern Armenia?


 * Having a historical significance to another nation doesn't warrant their translation in the lead. Zar, for instance, does indeed have historical Armenian significance, and the History section can and does effectively display this. However, the village has been inhabited by Azerbaijanis for at least the past two centuries as indicated by Russian Empire and Soviet censuses. Similarly to this case, Wikipedia does not list the Greek translation for the city of Istanbul in the lead, despite the fact that it has a significant Greek historical presence but has been primarily populated by Turks for several centuries now. Villages with Armenian majorities or significant minorities in the previous century (that is, before the First Nagorno-Karabakh war) can certainly receive an exception, but going back several centuries to justify such a change is not only unfair, but also inconsistent. — Golden  call me maybe? 08:35, 13 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi, I only mentioned settlements outside of the former NKAO, so I don’t see how i’ve confused that with the 7 formerly occupied regions? As for the source, i’d be happy to provide it, this source here describes this process of reducing the Armenian population by each settlement and the emigration of Azerbaijanis to the region and this source speaks generally of the Heydar Aliyev policies to increase the Azerbaijani population of Karabakh, which Ilham Aliyev confirms here applied to Karabakh in general . These are just the sources I gathered right now on a limited time frame, but please let me know if you’d desire further detail, there were Armenian villages in that area that were depopulated before the 1960s during the Azerbaijani SSR which you can observe in the first source; not saying there wasn’t an Azerbaijani/Kurdish majority from before then, but there definitely was a way more significant Armenian population in that region before 1979, that’s all i’m getting at. Vedi and any settlement in Armenia or Turkey is not comparable, those settlements were not administered under Azerbaijani or Greek names for the past 30 years, Constantinople is purely a historical name, not even Greeks used it in modern times that’s why, Tsar is a name that is both historical and has been used in modern times by the village’s inhabitants, same with Karvachar or Kovsakan, they are significant in sources that speak about both historical and modern times, because these names were the de-facto names for these settlements from 1991-2020. It is not comparable, and I stand by in my original comment that all of this should be discussed individually, each settlement is different, some were ghost towns like Agdam and never had a significant Armenian population and some like Lachin (Berdzor) have had a significant Armenian populations for the majority of its existence and had Armenians living in it as recently as this year. This needs discussion on a specific settlement by settlement basis, especially in an area so controversial and diverse in its history.  Tagawor  Shah  (talk) 09:53, 13 September 2022 (UTC)
 * With due respect, Karapetyan is not objective. He is a researcher based in Yerevan whose work has never been published by a reputable publisher. Your sources all refer to Nagorno-Karabakh (Aliyev's use of "Karabakh" also refers to Nagorno-Karabakh in this instance, which is clear from the context). I'd still like to see a more thorough source that supports your claim that there were any laws or initiatives made with the express purpose of altering the demographics of any area outside the NKAO (not a general "Karabakh", but with names of districts). The fact that the number of Armenians decreased does not necessarily imply that there was a deliberate effort to do so.
 * What do names and population have to do with control? There are more than a hundred settlements in Armenia where Azerbaijanis predominated until their expulsion in 1987–1989. The word "Tsar" is a historical designation. For at least the last two centuries, the name of the village has been "Zar" in official records. The mere fact that settlers were moved there and the village's historic name was resurrected by an unrecognised government does not imply that it has since become "modern" again.
 * Moreover, neither Kovsakan nor Karvachar are "significant in sources". In fact, Kovsakan accounts for only ~2% of all sources discussing the city (Kovsakan: 1,650, Zangilan: 69,400), while Karvachar accounts for ~5% (Karvachar: 18,700, Kalbajar: 361,000), both of which fall below the 10% threshold WP:NCGN requires.
 * There are more than 500 settlements in the region formerly under the control of the Republic of Artsakh. The contentious environment of this topic area and all of its discussions makes it practically impossible to have a discussion on each individual one, and even if we could, it would take months of palaver to change even the smallest detail. Most of these cases would be resolved with a general agreement in this area, however, any particular cases that differ significantly from the others could be examined and discussed separately (such as settlements which had significant Armenian populations in modernity, not including those settled-and-departed within the last 30 years). — Golden  call me maybe? 11:33, 13 September 2022 (UTC)
 * The thing is the majority of settlements in the formerly occupied district already don’t use the Armenian name in the lead, the only ones that do are those that have had either a significant Armenian presence historically and/or were Armenian settlements with an exclusively Armenian population for the past 30 years. It’s really only a few settlements that include the Armenian name in the lead, not even Jabrayil which actually did have a significant Armenian population in early modern times has the Armenian translation in the lead. It’s really only a matter of a few villages in the Lachin and Kalbajar districts, Kalbajar and Zangilan as far as i’m aware. I don’t see why they can’t be discussed in their individual talk pages, as this region has a had a very diverse and tumultuous history so each settlements outcome will be different. I also don’t agree that the historical names were “resurrected,” in some cases like Kovsakan, that is correct since Kovsakan was just the county it was located in within historical Armenia. But places like Tsar and Karvachar, have always been called by their historical names by Armenians. These names were used by virtually all the people living in these villages for the past 30 years. As for Armenia, far as I understand, you did embark on a project to add Azerbaijani names to formerly Azerbaijani villages in Armenia. Karapetyan is a reliable source that has been published by reliable academic publications in his home country, I don’t see why the Armenian national academy of sciences wouldn’t be reliable. All in all, we really are only dealing with a handful of diverse villages that each have their own considerations in place, the vast majority of the settlements already don’t have the Armenian name in the lead, that’s why this should be reserved for the individual talk pages.  Tagawor  Shah  (talk) 12:53, 13 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi, I believe you may have confused some wikipedia guidelines. MOS:LEADALT states that if there are 3 or more alternative names then they should be moved to the etymology section to avoid clutter, however, most of the settlements discussed just have the Armenian and Azerbaijani names, and a lot don’t have proper etymology sections, like Zangilan doesn’t even mention its present-day Armenian or Azerbaijani name in the section, since there’s nothing significant to be mentioned about them with the sources present so they would be left in the lead. This is the case for a lot of settlements in the region which is why we can’t make sweeping decisions like this for such a diverse region. In addition, Naming conventions (geographic names) states that “Relevant foreign language names (one used by at least 10% of sources in the English language or that is used by a group of people which used to inhabit this geographical place) are permitted.” Which all of the settlements that have Armenian names in the leads had Armenian populations both exclusively in the last 30 years and historically. Settlements left to ghost towns do not have the Armenian name in the lead. And most of the Armenian names are historical, which is permitted to be in the lead as an alt name by MOS:LEADALT. Cheers.  Tagawor  Shah  (talk) 22:16, 22 September 2022 (UTC)

Massacres of Azerbaijanis in Armenia (1917–1921)

 * The article Massacres of Azerbaijanis in Armenia (1917–1921) survived an AFD in which there was an inappropriate title change. There are a multitude of issues, that would normally preclude an advancement to B-class, but the title thus timeline is very questionable among other issues. For these reason I am going to reassess the article to C-class. If anyone has interest I have listed some concerns on the talk page. -- Otr500 (talk) 12:06, 4 January 2023 (UTC)

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Economic Region rename
Hi folks - There's a stub category "" (a parent category, so no stub template applies) which appears to refer to a region that has been reorganized since 2021. I believe that it should be re-named to, as that is the current name of the reorganized region. (See Ganja-Dashkasan Economic Region for confirmation.) As your knowledge of Azerbaijan is undoubtedly more comprehensive than mine, I thought I'd leave it to you/your project to propose the change rather than do it myself. Cheers, Her Pegship (?) 18:44, 17 February 2023 (UTC)

AfC Review Help
Can I get an opinion on Draft:Lady Slim? References are non-English so I am unsure of the reliability of the sourcing or what they actually say. Looking for an opinion on notability. CNMall41 (talk) 01:53, 23 February 2023 (UTC)


 * I once tried to write an article about Lady Slim, but for me Wikipedia turned out to be quite complicated to write an article here.in English it is difficult to find sources for this artist. because he is better known in the territory of the former Soviet Union. But he really is the first and only drag queen in Azerbaijan, which makes him probably unique. There are enough videos about him on YouTube, but not in English. This video from the official YouTube channel of the Open Society Foundations has English subtitles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5b_SJNqFHCs&t=46s Comment on the video by the Azerbaijani photographer Mirnaib Khasanov in Russian but subtitles in English because the video belongs to the Soros Foundation. Mirze1992 (talk) 12:15, 24 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Hello . there are no sources about Lady Slim in English. I can’t help you with this if the auto-translation of pages does not suit you. original pages about Lady Slim in Azerbaijani, Russian, Moldovan, Ukrainian, French. with great respect to all contributors to Wikipedia.Futurolog21 (talk) 05:39, 25 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Yes of course you can be sure that Lady Slim is the first and only drag queen in Azerbaijan,which makes her(him) unique.Efendicleo (talk) 05:49, 8 April 2023 (UTC)

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South Azerbaijani Dictionary
Hello,

does anyone know a good English- South Azerbaijani Dictionary? Satellitis (talk) 20:40, 1 April 2023 (UTC)


 * Hello, i know. If you still need help with this, i can help.Efendicleo (talk) 05:52, 8 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Yes, that would be very nice. Satellitis (talk) 09:35, 16 April 2023 (UTC)
 * @Efendicleo Satellitis (talk) 09:35, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

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