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Population?

The article twice states that Fuzuli is a "ghost town", but at the same time claims that it has a population of 26,765. What is the source for this (I see it is in the Armenian language article, but also unsourced)?YantarCoast (talk) 17:57, 4 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It used to have that much population, but it was ruined after the population was expelled by Armenian forces. Now it is a ghost town. But now the population can return, so the figures may soon change. Grandmaster 00:00, 19 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I've modified the infobox to say - "Currently uninhabited, Pre-conflict population was 17,090" Cordyceps-Zombie (talk) 22:05, 24 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Varanda

Why should the name given by Artsakh authorities not be in the infobox? Why confine it to the history section? How does this assist searches? Laurel Lodged (talk) 12:52, 23 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Because it is a name given during Armenian occupation. Not a traditional name. Armenians also called this area Fuzuli. Beshogur (talk) 13:00, 23 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Lots of names of towns given "during Armenian occupation" feature in their infoboxes. Why should this town be any different? Laurel Lodged (talk) 13:03, 23 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah no, we do not call Jabrayil "Jrakan" on English wiki. Beshogur (talk) 13:19, 23 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Armenians call the area Fizuli, if you want to be precise. Kevo327 (talk) 13:04, 23 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Well it's a variant, not a big issue. Fuzuli didn't have any relevant Armenian minority either, even Russians were more there, but that's not the issue here. Beshogur (talk) 13:19, 23 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

"Fizuli" is the Russian transliteration and is also common in Azeri. The transliteration has since been corrected to Fuzuli and they're both the same thing. — CuriousGolden (T·C) 13:50, 23 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

This exact issue has been discussed in other talk pages already, stop bringing it up every time in different articles. Lead and infobox are for names that are alternate WP:COMMONNAME for the actual name and Varanda is in no way a common name for the city. Armenians were not majority in the city before its occupation, it was outside Nagorno-Karabakh and it wasn't settled by Armenians during its occupation which makes the Armenian name in lead/infobox completely irrelevant and useless. — CuriousGolden (T·C) 13:45, 23 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Just because you insist on getting your way in "discussions", does not mean that we have arrived at a consensus. Stop with the "move along there folks, nothing to see here" treatment. Remind us on the supposed consensus please. Laurel Lodged (talk) 13:55, 23 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

WP:STICK. This issue has already been raised and dropped in the talk page of Zəngilan. By your logic, we're supposed to add all historic names of all cities into infoboxes. Provide a proper argument about why you think it should be in the infobox, rather than using "assisting searchers" as an argument. Searchers can already find the article when searching "Varanda" as the article already has the name. — CuriousGolden (T·C) 13:59, 23 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

You call that talk page a consensus, let alone an imprimator do exclude Armenian names? It is no such thing. Take the following statement from that thread as an example: "As I stated in the above thread, I would have no problem with the addition of Azeri names of Armenian towns that had large Azeri communities before the NK war, similarly, Wikipedia features the Armenian names of towns and villages in Turkey that had Armenian communities before the Armenian Genocide". That does not support your position. Laurel Lodged (talk) 15:14, 23 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

When none of the opposing editors reply to the latest point made by the editor, it means they can't. As you said, the articles about the Turkish cities had native Armenian communities. Fuzuli did not. — CuriousGolden (T·C) 15:23, 23 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Laurel Lodged:, Fuzuli is not a traditional Armenian settlement compared to Van, Bitlis, etc. Most cities in Karabakh region can be considered fairly new, doesn't even have history of 200 years. Beshogur (talk) 15:52, 23 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Post-occupation names have no historical value to them. No Armenian presence in the city before the occupation. --► Sincerely: Sola Virum 21:38, 23 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

They have value. @Solavirum:, @Beshogur:, @CuriousGolden:, @Kevo327: See Wiki policies, especially the Wikipedia guidelines that recommend per MOS:LEADALT that "...Significant alternative names for the topic should be mentioned in the article, usually in the first sentence or paragraph. These may include alternative spellings, longer or shorter forms, historical names, and significant names in other languages. Per WP:OTHERNAMES/WP:NCPLACE that "The lead: The title can be followed in the first line by a list of alternative names in parentheses, 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." Laurel Lodged (talk) 13:45, 29 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

As you quote, "significant alternative names". Could you provide any significant WP:RS source using Varanda as an alternate name for Fuzuli? — CuriousGolden (T·C) 13:51, 29 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

For instance, look at Nicosia and other Cypriot cities. Despite being Turkish an official language in Cyprus, we use here the commonnames. Beshogur (talk) 14:20, 29 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

suggestion: my suggestion is as following for this article and other articles where the same issues appear:

1) including the Names given by the Artsakh Republic during de facto control in the history section while clearly stating that they weren't the original names; "the town was renamed to/named [Armenian name] during control/occupation etc."

2) If we reach consensus, we can mention the Armenian name in the lead; "named [Armenian name] during Armenian control.

I think this is a more balanced way to include this information - Kevo327 (talk) 14:55, 29 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I agree with #1. No proper argument has been made for #2 yet, so I don't think it's appropriate in lead. We usually don't include Armenian names in lead/infobox of areas in the Armenian-occupied territories surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh as most of them are new made-up names that are almost never used by foreign media and sometimes not even by local media (I've barely ever seen Armenians themselves using Varanda to refer to Fuzuli, but that doesn't matter). — CuriousGolden (T·C) 15:20, 29 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

How about we just adhere to the policy instead of inventing new rules? If anybody wants to suggest new rules at MOS:LEADALT, be my guest. By the way, @CuriousGolden:, the threshold for "significant" is defined as 10%. This is more than exceeded for Varanda (89%). As you would expect, it dominates in the USA over the Romance variant of Fusili. See the Google Trends comparison of the two search terms here. Laurel Lodged (talk) 17:05, 29 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Laurel Lodged: we aren't investing new policies (they're called policies, not rules), we are trying to reach a consensus that doesn't go against any policies. Kevo327 (talk) 18:07, 29 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Laurel Lodged:, you must be joking right. Those search has nothing to do with Fuzuli. Seems like a Portuguese, or a Spanish word. What are you trying to prove? Beshogur (talk) 17:13, 29 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

You're right, Fuzili is very close to the pasta fusilli and Varanda is very close to the word veranda. What about the great Shusha / Shushi debate? The numbers there show that Shushi has an 83% dominance. See here. Laurel Lodged (talk) 17:33, 29 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Laurel Lodged:, don't try to manipulate people. It is clearly visible when you put the right word, you get more results. "Varanda" seems a word used in Spanish, considering US has many Spanish speakers. Your text doesn't prove something. Beshogur (talk) 17:54, 29 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Manipulate? Moi? In any case your result above proves that Shushi, at 50%, exceeds the 10% threshold. Thanks for that. Laurel Lodged (talk) 18:02, 29 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

had a good laugh, although I'm interested about why Shusha is being searched in Tanzani and the fusili brand of pasta, but we should continue the discussion. Kevo327 (talk)

@Kevo327: I can't laugh. What's funny? And I Can't decide if Laurel Lodged is trolling or not? What has "Japanese food" to do with this discussion? And for threshold thing, of course it is about the recent war that these results had been inflated. Try something else. I never hear western scholars using "Shushi" "Varanda" in their books. Beshogur ([[User talk:|talk]]) 18:09, 29 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Beshogur: he is most definitely trolling by demonstrating he can invent new rules (you should have a laugh too, it's funny), while completely ignoring that we can reach a consensus by Wikipedia policy and end this endless discussion. Kevo327 (talk)

Laurel Lodged's edits are extremely WP:DISRUPTIVE. I knew this before, but this discussion proves it even further. — CuriousGolden (T·C) 19:54, 29 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Sushi / Shushi - Japanese food? Geddit? Oi vey! The joke is lost when you have to explain it. This discussion proves a long held theory of mine that there is an inverse relationship between zealotry and humour; the more zealous the editor, the less likely it is that he will have a sense of humour. Personally, I have never had a problem with having serious discussions while injecting a little levity; not every editor can cope with that. To get back to the points in hand: (1) It's very easy to reach the 10% threshold so it's likely that most articles should include the romanised version of the Armenian name in the lead; (2) How about we just adhere to the policy instead of inventing new rules? Laurel Lodged (talk) 20:08, 29 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Nice picture

An editor doesn't like this nice picture

of a ruined church in Varanda. He says it's not in the city. Which is a laugh because there's nothing in the city. It's a ghost town. So why exclude this nice pic? At 7km from what used to be the centre of the former city, it's the nearest reference point. Laurel Lodged (talk) 13:08, 23 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

If you go to image's commons file, you'll find a source for the image. In the source, the coordinates are given to where this church is. It's here: 39° 39° 36' 21.55" N 47° 5' 28.01" E . It's not in the city of Fuzuli and in fact, it's inside the borders of the former Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast. You can see it clearly here: https://www.bing.com/maps?osid=566c9eb9-98f7-4131-9b49-4c80d9f31844&cp=39.606508~47.087316&lvl=16&v=2&sV=2&form=S00027 — CuriousGolden (T·C) 13:49, 23 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It's 7km away. Name another population centre that would be a better indicator of its general location? Be reasonable please. Laurel Lodged (talk) 15:16, 23 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

What? The village is literally not even in the same district as the city. These arguments are getting really ridiculous. — CuriousGolden (T·C) 15:21, 23 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

If the google borders are correct it's slightly (20 meters) inside the district. The picture can be placed to Fuzuli district, but has no place here imo. Edit: double checked with openstreetmaps, it's on a mountain called "Mingələn Dağı" in AZ. Beshogur (talk) 16:29, 23 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I had put a wrong link by accident, fixed it now. The bing map shows district borders and its quite clear that it is inside the Khojavend District/Hadrut Province and not in Fuzuli. — CuriousGolden (T·C) 16:41, 23 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Varanda

Beshogur, Varanda is the name of a medieval Armenian principality in Fuzuli. The least we could do is Elaborate on its significance instead of saying that is it a name of occupation. thanks 217.149.166.11 (talk) 09:19, 21 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]