Talk:Iranian monarchy/Archive 1

Archive 1

Shahs

If someone ever gets around to making pages for each of the Iranian shah, they should make sure that the page title has a label such as (Safavid) to disambiguate it from more prominent individuals with the same name. I noticed this with the listing of a Safavid king named Husain, which was the same name of the grandson of Muhammad who is a revered figure.

ThaGrind (talk) 21:16, 19 December 2003 (UTC)

Persia

Before 1935, it is an anachronism to speak of an Iranian monarchy, as on this page. Persia is the correct term. Wetman (talk) 21:19, 19 December 2003 (UTC)

Shah of Iran

Since Shah of Iran redirects here that phrase should appear somewhere in the article in bold. It also seems to me that specific mention should be made of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in the same sentence, as when westerners today speak of "the Shah of Iran", 95% of the time they mean him. I'm sure many people use that phrase to look up information about who he is, and find it less than helpful to find a page about the monarchy in general. Anyone have any ideas on the best way to do this without disrupting the current text? -R. fiend 17:14, 30 May 2005 (UTC)

I gave it a shot. If anyone thinks it needs work make changes or discuss it here. -R. fiend 16:43, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

King list

Are you aware that there is already an article called List of kings of Persia, which goes back to the Medes and Elamites. Str1977 15:40, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

Persian vs. Iranian

Could you, if you will, please have a look into the following dispute on the Zoroastrian talk page.

Talk:Zoroastrianism#Persian_vs._Iranian

Thanks in advance. Str1977 10:01, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

Dates

Shouldn't we show the actual dates of rule ? Most of the dates seem to be birth and death but some are dates of ruling. List of kings of Persia overlaps and seems much clearer. -- Beardo 14:56, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Unsourced

There are no sources for this article. For instance, the sentence "The modern Iranian monarchy was established in 1501 after the Safavid dynasty came to power under Shah Ismail I, and ended the so-called "fourth era" of political fragmentation." has no source. This sentence seems to be the basis of this article too. Agha Nader 03:35, 10 April 2007 (UTC)Agha Nader

Confusing

The lead part of this article is confusing. It does not explain the term "Shah", nor does it explain the connections between the various dynasties. --- RockMFR 20:48, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Zands and Mullahs

The Zands never used the title "Shah", and so, since the current Iranian Monarch is the "Supreme Leader" I have added the two up to now Ericl (talk) 14:58, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

silverhorse's inane date changes

When you mention "International date format", what you're talking about is ISO 8601, and you're not using that, nor does Wikipedia. Look at any date article on Wikipedia, you will find them at September 13, not 13 September, grow up and move on. Do something more useful with your life. Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 11:25, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

The International date format or ISO 8601 is used throughout Wikipedia including things on iran. The mm/dd/yyyy format belong on articles about america —Preceding unsigned comment added by silverhorse (talk • contribs)

And you're not using it, you can't even use proper capitalization. (or sign your posts) Rejected. Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 12:03, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

Dude, you really need to read and absorb Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers), where it says

“ In June 2005, the Arbitration Committee stated that when either of two styles is acceptable, it is inappropriate for an editor to change an article from one to the other without substantial reason. For example, with respect to British date formats as opposed to American it would be acceptable to change from American format to British if the article concerned a British subject. Edit warring over optional styles (such as 14 February and February 14) is unacceptable. If an article has been stable in a given style, it should not be converted without a style-independent reason. Where in doubt, defer to the style used by the first major contributor. ”

Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 12:18, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

Template box

Requires fixing - currently a complete syntaxical mess. How is he supposed to be referred to? Where are all the details? -- 李博杰  | —Talk contribs email 01:00, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

Disambiguate incoming links

Iranian monarchy now is the disambiguation page with the most incoming links in need of fixing (ie, editing to link to the correct article). Care to help? See Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links. --Una Smith (talk) 21:11, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

Now 184 incoming links, down from 300... --Una Smith (talk) 19:40, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

All done. --Una Smith (talk) 03:32, 1 November 2009 (UTC)