Talk:Iran-Italy relations

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[edit] Merge

The article feels very non-notable and seems to have little chance to ever grow beyond a stub. Is part of a series of articles about the foreign relations of Iran (and only Iran), all written by the same user User:Zereshk. Since no similar articles for, for example, Ethiopian-Canadian relations or Peruvian-Australian relations, I would like to propose this article be merged into the more general Foreign_relations_of_Iran. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 212.123.24.90 (talk • contribs) . Moved from article by NickelShoe (Talk) 17:00, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Oppose The article should stay. I like many other people here appreciate very much the hard work that Mr. Zereshk puts into these articles. Khorshid 18:31, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Support The amount of hard work that a user contributes to Wikipedia, even if as impressive as Mr. Zereshk's, shouldn't be an argument for discussion about an article. In fact, the mere fact that he is the only user to have contributed to most of the Iran-X articles feels like an argument to merge since nobody else seems to find the topic notable. As to the existence of other similar articles, I looked at a few of the examples given and most of them actually had a lot to say about the relations between their countries... this one doesn't. I feel there has to be some minimum level of notability for a topic in order for an article to exist about it, and I have to agree with NickleShoe that this article doesn't measure up. I can understand the existence of Iran-Iraq relations and Iran-US relations, but if you start adding articles like Iran-Italy relations with this little to say about them, you may as well add Iran-Ghana relations and Iran-Peru relations with a stub saying "these countries come along just find; please expand this article" ;-) .

I'm removing the merge tag. This issue shouldnt even be up for vote: Contrary to what User:NickelShoe says, there are tons of specialized articles on foreign relations between two countries. Samples:

• Anglo-German relations
• Anglo-French relations
• Anglo-American relations
• An entire list of US-*** relations
• Greco-Turkish relations
• Foreign relations between China and Japan
• Philippine-Japanese relations
• Australia-New Zealand relations
• Japanese-Vietnamese relations
• Japanese-Russian relations
• Anglo-Japanese relations
• U.S.-North Korea relations
• Canada-Caribbean relations
• Anglo-Chinese relations
• Indo-Pakistani relations

And surely, "having little chance to ever grow beyond a stub" is pure speculation. Just because the article is currently small doesnt warrant its deletion. After all, the US-Iran relations article started out the same way, as did all other articles.--Zereshk 20:08, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Soraya shah wife.jpg

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BetacommandBot (talk) 07:33, 15 January 2008 (UTC)