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A fact from Yeraz appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 19 December 2006. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Yerazi—an Azeri clan that originated in modern-day Armenia but left before the Nagorno-Karabakh War—have dominated politics in Azerbaijan since Soviet times?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2006/December.

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Untitled

It is better to keep cited extensive version. Of course, the article should be united with the article "Azerbaijanis in Armenia". It is abouth the same

Demand for deletion

The world Yeraz is insulting to azerbaijanis from the territory of former Irevan Khanate modern Armenia. They never name themselves Yeraz and consider this word very disgusting. Therefore, I strongly demand to delete this site. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fmelikov (talk • contribs) 13:06, 5 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Clan

Is this the best word to describe them? I understand that they are "different" from other Azeris but clan suggests some sort of a genetic bond, no? The same applies to Armenians from Baku, they stick together and are "different" from other Armenians because of some cultural differences but they are surely not a clan.--Eupator 23:45, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It surprised me too: The term clan was used by virtually all the sources I found (and I merely searched "Yerazi"). While I first had some pause with the word (especially since the US connotations are weird), I read the Wikipedia article on clan and felt it worked. --Bobak 23:49, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

changed back since Azerbaijanis lived there from before Republic of Armenia was established in 1918. --adil 09:42, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"Yeraz"

I think this article is writtem in unprefessional and immature form which irrelevantly assocciates Western Azerbaijani people who lived in modern-day Armenian Republic. with "clan". Additionally, in my opinion it might well sound offencise to call them "Yerazi" or "Yeraz", this word is used in slang, not to be used in scientific-literary circules.

The word 'yeraz' which became widespreadly used in Azerbaijan after Armenian azerbajanis were forced to flee Armena in 1988, derives from "Yerevan azerbaijanis" which had been living in Armenia shortly before Soviet Union collapsed. Yerevan is the modern-day capital of Armenia and historically was populated with noteciable number of azerbaijanis. Thus Armenian azerbaijanis are thought to be indigenous people of Armenia and were expelled from Armenia and thus became refugees due to political tensions between Armenia and Azerbaiajn. The esatimamted amounts of azerbaijani refuggees driven out of Armenia is reported to be around 300 thousand people or so.

In short, I protest the association of "clan" which sounds quite political with ethimological term-western azerbaijani people. In addition they dont stick together, on the contrary they are very well integrated into Azerbajani society, involved into political, economical and cultural spheres of the country. I would not use "cultural difference", but rather "pseudocultural difference".

Do you have citations? The term "clan" is used in currently cited sources and falls well into the very definition used in Wikipedia's article on the word. Right now your statements come off as strong POV. In fact, I cannot see how things are "unprefessional and immature". --Bobak 18:54, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

213.189.187.251's issues

My concern with your edits is that we already have an article on Azerbaijanis in Armenia, now added to the "see also" section. This article is about the present people today. I think the articles compliment each other. --Bobak (talk) 21:52, 13 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I also welcome comment from the brand new user, Vardenik (who's first edit was on this talk page), as well as the anon 194.78.24.82. Because topics related to Armenia/Azerbaijan/Turkey/Armenian Genocide/Nagorno-Karabakh, etc have all been under massive POV disputes from subjective parties (which have resulted in bans and partial bans of partisan users), sweeping changes require discussion and thorough explanation. It's just how things are done on Wikipedia. --Bobak (talk) 19:56, 14 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ara, Bobak.

Yes, there were Turks (Azerbaijanis) in Armenia untill 1990. Most of them now are now living in Azerbaijan. If someone calls them Yeraz or something else, it is then just a small aspect of the main problem, which is Azeris from Armenia. And there is the mentioned article. we have to concentrate on that article. Soon or later the adminstrator will unite them.

Personally, in your previous I knew many of them. It is bullshit about their difference from rest Azerbaijanis. By the way none of your sources do not support this thesis at all. At least find some. It does not help simply to undo 213.189.187.251.

Better to concentrate on the article Azerbaijanis in Armenia.

Vardenik.

The nice thing about Wikipedia is we have unlimited space. We can write articles to compliment each other, and link them in-text as well as in the "See Also" section. The Azerbaijanis in Armenia is good, and it covers the situation of past and present Azeris in that country. The Yeraz article has been about those who left in the past and what their status has been as a political force in modern Azerbaijan government and society, so in a way they are comparable to our two articles on Volga Germans and the History of Germans in Russia and the Soviet Union (or looking at how Nisei compliments the article on Japanese American). In this case as in those, while there is some overlap we can accommodate both. It can even offer better organization. I think these two articles can distinguish themselves and share prominent links both in-text and in See Also. --Bobak (talk) 23:52, 14 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

SOMEONE SHOULD HAVE EXPLAINED IT

I could agree what Bobak's obvious countryman Vardenik says. We have the Azerbaijanis from Armenian, but there is an article about only Azerbaijanis in (?) Armenia, which sounds exotic. There is no proof on existence of Azerbaijanis in Armenia. Anyway on your approach.

1. On the name of the article

As you and yourselfs state, yeraz is can be construed as a pejorative. Why should we then create an article about a group of people with an insulting name? That contradicts core prinsiples of Wikipedia. Certainly we should not keep silence on that, but is not the identifying factor. Last but not least, these people are surrently increasingly called west azerbaijanis (qərbi-azərbaycanlılar). see

http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/UNTC/UNPAN016499.pdf page 17

and any Azeri newspaper (if you can read). just search "qərbi azərbaycanlılar"

2. On the level of expertise

I am deeply impressed with your stubborn insistance to keep passages on ill statements, which even your source does not support.

PROOFS

1.

You say

"...Because they developed with some different customs and cuisine from Azeris in Azerbaijan, the Yerazi have maintained a cohesive sub-culture within the country. Due to tension and cultural differences between Eastern Azeris and their Western cousins, the term "Yeraz" can be construed as a pejorative".

You refer to http://www.c-r.org/our-work/accord/nagorny-karabakh/political-glossary.php.

But your source says

"Yerazi An informal and for some pejorative term used in Azerbaijan to denote Azerbaijanis of Armenian origin. The term means 'Azeris from Yerevan'. The Yerazi form a cohesive political clan that, together with the Nakhichevani clan, has been a dominant force in internal Azerbaijani politics since Soviet times".

I have not found any hint about your grandious statements on "different customs and cuisine" and "tension and cultural difference".

May be you have personal experience or are one of them. But it does not matter. You have to refer and do it correctly. Otherwise, we will soon witness an ethnogenesis of new nation named "yeraz" created by Bobak.

2.

You say

"The Yeraz have two non-political movements: Ararat (Azeri: Alindja) and the Yerevan Unity (Azeri: Erevan Birliyi)".

You cite http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/UNTC/UNPAN016499.pdf

which says in its page 24

"The Yerazi have two Agridag (the Turkish/Azeri name of Ararat), led unofficially by Ali Insanov, and the Yerevan Birliyi (Yerevan Unity)founded in May 2001 by Ramiz Mehtiev".

Here you have factual mistake with Alindja. As your source states, Alindja belongs to different clan.

213.189.187.251 (talk) 00:40, 15 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The current page and the page about Yerazi people are different !

The wrong redirect done by User:Xinaliq.az , [1] , has ruined the whole information !
If he think the information should be moved , first he would discuss it in the talk page . --Alborz Fallah (talk) 10:48, 25 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

top-posted edit explanation

I have no idea what our Bobak tries to reach by ignoring basic rules of free encyclopedia. Your points are flawed. You misquote. In other words you just lie.

I proved actually in February that your sources do not support your thesis. You kept then several months quite. I had hoped it was merely a technical mistake and you just saw your mistake. But after you simply reversed your version, it became clear that you deliberately mislead the community. Below I draw attention to your fabrications again. Unless you have no proper explanation, I would suggest you take a different user name in future, since the term "Bobak" will sound like "al-Sahaf", the notorious Iraqi information minister.

PROOFS

You say

"...Because they developed with some different customs and cuisine from Azeris in Azerbaijan, the Yerazi have maintained a cohesive sub-culture within the country. Due to tension and cultural differences between Eastern Azeris and their Western cousins, the term "Yeraz" can be construed as a pejorative".

You refer to http://www.c-r.org/our-work/accord/nagorny-karabakh/political-glossary.php.

But your source says

"Yerazi An informal and for some pejorative term used in Azerbaijan to denote Azerbaijanis of Armenian origin. The term means 'Azeris from Yerevan'. The Yerazi form a cohesive political clan that, together with the Nakhichevani clan, has been a dominant force in internal Azerbaijani politics since Soviet times".

I have not found any hint about your grandious statements on "different customs and cuisine" and "tension and cultural difference".

WELL, NOW FLOOR IS YOURS, GENTLEMAN. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 22:38, 1 November 2008 (talk • contribs) 213.189.167.42

All I see are obvious violations of the "no personal insults" rule along with serious grammatical errors. Thanks. --Bobak (talk) 15:27, 3 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This page must be removed, I find this article insulting. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fmelikov (talk • contribs) 17:36, 2 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please familiarize yourself with the policy WP:IDL and WP:POV before placing a deletion notice on an article that is cited to WP:RS. --Bobak (talk) 19:57, 2 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The reason for deletion.

This site is insulting to azerbaijani nation,and was created by armenian wankers.

I strongly demand to delete this webpage.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Fmelikov (talk • contribs

Your nationalist insult to Armenians notwithstanding (which I am choosing to ignore), this article was created with reliable sources (click on these links to learn more) and your arguments shows a clear violation of point of view and is certainly grounded in WP:IDL. Not only that, you seem to be unable to follow the clear instructions of how to file a proper article for deletion (AFD). Most article involving Armenia/Azerbaijan have been flagged over the unacceptable behavior of both sides, and your actions are falling into that category right now. I am taking the time to explain all of this because I want you to participate properly, but if you continue like this I will start to issue warnings and take actions. You can feel free to file a proper AFD, but it will likely be kept for the aforementioned reasons. --Bobak (talk) 19:22, 4 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

NATIONALISTS. DELETE THIS PAGE NOW! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.237.119.110 (talk) 17:59, 24 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Are you crazy? How could you write this article? It is bad word. Delete this page. Don't insult people. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.22.225.15 (talk) 09:17, 12 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Major rewrite

Hi Poster777. You are attempting a major rewrite of this article. The problem is, you are removing large sections of referenced information and you are adding big sections of text which up to now had not included a reference even. I saw on a noticeboard that you do not even want this article to exist, because the term Yeraz is very insulting in Azerbaijan, and is similar to calling someone a nigger. Well this is an encyclopedia, and there is a nigger article because people need to learn about the term and its history. If you want to work on this article constructively, you'll first have to stop deleting large sections of referenced texts, and go about editing in a more constructive way. Wikiboer (talk) 14:38, 31 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Yeraz means Dream in Armenian.

Azarbeijan has nothing to do with the word Yeraz other than it's people trying to ethnically cleanse Armenians from their historic land. Yeraz means Dream and absolutely does not pertain to Azarbeijan. Do not erase Armenian culture, language and heritage in an attempt to victimize yourself, Azarbeijan. Yeraz is an Armenian word meaning Dream. 88.151.155.34 (talk) 12:01, 21 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]