Talk:2,500-year celebration of the Persian Empire

A fact from 2,500-year celebration of the Persian Empire appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 29 October 2006. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Tent City of Persepolis of the 2,500 year celebration of Iran's monarchy was inspired by the 1520 Field of the Cloth of Gold meeting between Francis I of France and Henry VIII of England?

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Persian (Farsi) title?

good start so far, maybe someone with a command of Farsi can add what the event was called by native speakers. --Bobak 17:05, 28 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

just feel i should say (while not trying to be as up-myself as this probably sounds) Iran officially prefers 'Persian' to 'Farsi' - just a little friendly fyi Danlibbo 10:05, 30 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

POV edit

The edit shown here is hardly NPOV - you have a day to argue your case (especially considering you labelled it as removing POV) --Danlibbo 11:01, 21 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

In the absence of a resonse to the request by Danlibbo I removed POV of recent edit [1] to restore neutrality. Ekem 13:29, 23 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

cheers --Danlibbo 07:57, 24 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Unwarrented reference removal

I restored the following reference http://www.angelfire.com/empire/imperialiran/persepolis1.html that had been removed under the argument of WP:EL using AWB. Actually removal of references can be viewed as a from of censorship. A judgment is made that a certain ref is not desirable, and this is, of course, nothing but a method to undermine the article. Obviously some references are "better" than others. Why can not the reader decide if the reference is acceptable? If somebody does not like the ref they can replace it with a better one. Ekem 23:09, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Date of the celebrations.

I worked in Iran for a year during which the celebrations were held.

If I remember correctly the Shah had delayed the celebrations by 11 years (I don't know how he arrived accurately at that figure) because he thought on the actual date his country wasn't fit to host such an important event.

I remember the English speaking newspaper carrying an advertisement for one of the American airlines, something to the effect that "the world's oldest airline congratulates the world's oldest monarchy".

But the Shah wasn't a descendant of monarchy. His grandfather (I believe), a soldier, came to power in a military coup.

Syncopator 23:59, 2 April 2007 (UTC) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Syncopator (talk • contribs) 23:55, 2 April 2007 (UTC).[reply]

"But the Shah wasn't a descendant of monarchy. His grandfather (I believe), a soldier, came to power in a military coup". What an argument! Every Iranian dynasty began with a coup, such as the Parthians, the Sasanids, the Safavids, the Afsharid dynasty and even the Gajari dynasty. The Pahlavi dynasty was no execption. Coups and replacing of dynasties have always been part of the history of the Iranian monarchy.

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what does shahyad have anything to do with this?

Incorrect guest list

A line in the guest list wrongly reads: "King Fredrik IX and Queen Ingrid of Sweden". Fredrik IX was the danish king and his wife Ingrid was a swedish princess, the line sounds more as if they were the swedish king and queen, but they were from Denmark. I will correct this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.88.200.107 (talk) 15:10, 7 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The German chancelor Willi Brandt did not attend the celebrations. The president of the Bundestag Kai-Uwe von Hassel took part. --Wvk (talk) 06:30, 14 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The Cyrus cylinder at the party

The article implies that the Cyrus cylinder is always in Iran. It should be clarified that it was lent by the British Museum, where it has been since 1879: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1880-0617-1941

https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/454034/Cyrus-Cylinder-the-story-of-2-600-year-old-icon-of-freedom Dori1951 (talk) 18:04, 3 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

myspace

as interesting as it may seem, the last part about myspace pages seems pretty irrelevent and not up to the standards of Wikipedia, especially the last piece about Farah not declining to get one. 69.235.17.26 (talk) 07:02, 12 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Dead link

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--JeffGBot (talk) 04:41, 10 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Photos

No Photos?! BigSteve (talk) 17:46, 25 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]