Talk:Zoroastrians

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[edit] Proposed Merger

Dear Wikipedia Administrators and visitors; this article should stand-alone and not be incorporated with Zoroastrianism as done in the past. Zoroastrians should be considered as an anthropology discipline, since the subject is about ethnic religious minority, while the article on Zoroastrianism is about philosophy and religion - Surena Talk - 22 June 2006.

[edit] Utter copyvio

Then perhaps you should have actually written an article instead of plagiarizing it with a copy-paste from [http://www.cais-soas.com/CAIS/Religions/iranian/Zarathushtrian/Oric.Basirov/zoroasters_people.htm here] and [http://www.cais-soas.com/CAIS/History/Post-Sasanian/after_fall.htm here].
This is also not the only copyvio that you undertook on that day:
  • Your "addition" to the Zoroastrianism page is from [http://www.cais-soas.com/CAIS/Religions/iranian/Zarathushtrian/Oric.Basirov/zoroaster_time_and_place.htm here].
  • Your "addition" to the Angel article is from [http://www.cais-soas.com/CAIS/Religions/iranian/zarathushtrian/angel.htm here].
Those and other "edits" are also evidence your complete lack of familiarity with Zoroastrianism-related articles on Wikipedia.
  • Your edit of the lede sentence of Zoroastrianism shows you don't know that there is a Mazdaism redirect.
  • Your copy-paste of the CAIS Article on Zoroastrian Angels reveals that you not aware (or chose to ignore) that there are several Wikipedia articles on Angels in Zoroastrianism, which you could have abbreviated for the Angel article without running the risk of a copyvio.
With reference to your "anthropology discipline" argument, the correct approach would have been a copymove of the "Adherents" section from Zoroastrianism, but you either didn't read the section, or you discovered that it wasn't in accord with your POV.
-- Fullstop 14:09, 4 July 2006 (UTC)