Editing Talk:Prelude to the 2026 Iran war (section)

== Low Quality/Npov violation ==

"Iran's exiled Crown Prince [[Reza Pahlavi]], who has become a symbolic figure for protesters with many chanting his name, has called for the removal of the Islamic Republic and the establishment of a democratic government through free elections"


This is not supported by the source, it's not-neutral, not objective (there is no evidence to use such definitive and sweeping language), and it's not in a tone befitting Wikipedia. 


"Iran emphasized that progress depended on consultations back in capitals"


'Iran' here is something of state-fetishism and obscures who is actually taking the position. While it is true that the country-name is sometimes used as a stand-in for its government, this is not a suitable time to do this as it is more informative to just say the Iranian government, negotiators, or whomever.


"However, the United Kingdom has reportedly blocked Trump's request to use their air bases, leading to the latter withdrawing his support for the Chagos Islands deal."


Again, should be something like 'British government'.


The article is too US-heavy and under-represents the Iranian perspectives and positions, particularly regarding the actual facts regarding their lack of serious nuclear programme and their willingness to accept very significant concessions.


"Proxies responses and other allied responses"


Bad title, both because "proxies" is a poor term, because it's grammatically incorrect, and because it's incomplete as a section + is effectively redundant in the use of proxies/allies together.


There is absolutely no coverage of the Israeli side or role in escalation.


There could be a section for Iranian opposition, e.g., the Kurdish groups most importantly. You could have the exiled opposition (mainly MeK and Pahlavi 3.0), but I think the internal forces are the most important, especially given that the Kurdish groups have actually taken important actions to consolidate themselves in the build-up to all of this.


And so, yeah, it's just a poor article in its current state.


Some of these I can change quickly, some I can do slowly, some are worth discussing together. I cannot do so at this exact moment, but I will if they're not rectified sooner rather than later.  [[User:LevatorScapulaeSyndrome|LevatorScapulaeSyndrome]] ([[User talk:LevatorScapulaeSyndrome|talk]]) 19:22, 2 March 2026 (UTC)
:I added {{t|AI-generated}} tag. Check out the oldest edits of this page, and [[User talk:Globetrotter30|the user talk page of the creator]], who was warned about LLM usage and was later blocked for sockpuppetry. If you're motivated enough to make this into a good start-level article, I would recommend a soft [[WP:TNT]]: (1) in your private files, make a list of all the significant soruces; (2) rewrite the article from scratch based on those sources, and integrating with existing Wikipedia articles that are related; (3) browse the history to see if some significant material was added without AI slop; (4) replace the entire content here and warn people on the talk page, so that they can recover edits that were done properly and that you missed. [[User:Boud|Boud]] ([[User talk:Boud|talk]]) 20:46, 2 March 2026 (UTC)
::Thanks, glad to see other people are aware of the flaws here.
::I would be very happy to do this, or at least to contribute to it, I just (A) don't know how to save the draft if I take multiple days or whatever and (B) worry that it'd just be reverted by someone (I often see these no-explanation, no-message, rapid reverts), and I don't want to waste tons of my time just for it to be for nothing. I would want some sort of guarantee that people will earnestly work with whatever I created as a (half-) new basis for the article rather than just reverting it or appealing for the article's deletion in whole and making me very very sad.
::As, of course, re-writing it from scratch would be very time-consuming. [[User:LevatorScapulaeSyndrome|LevatorScapulaeSyndrome]] ([[User talk:LevatorScapulaeSyndrome|talk]]) 13:35, 3 March 2026 (UTC)
:::If you want to write a draft, you can do it at [[User:LevatorScapulaeSyndrome/sandbox]] (or any other page under your userpage). I think a rewrite is ultimately going to be necessary. Sometimes it helps to do it gradually instead of just blanking the article and putting a new article in its place. That way other editors can follow along with what you're doing. '''[[User:Thebiguglyalien|<span style="color:#0c4709">Thebiguglyalien</span>]]''' ([[User talk:Thebiguglyalien|<span style="color:#472c09">talk</span>]]) 07:27, 4 March 2026 (UTC)
::::Thank you, I wasn't sure what Sandbox was for as I had someone randomly delete it for some obscure rule violation once when I was trying to figure out how tables worked. I will do that. Doing it section-by-section seems much wiser to allow for better collaboration, and, most importantly to me, to minimise any time wastage. I will begin writing a section, '''but if anyone else wanted to do a bit then I encourage them to reply to me here''' so we can avoid any parallel labour.
::::Thank you for the assistance @[[User:Thebiguglyalien|Thebiguglyalien]]. I will get on this when time allows o7.
::::[[User:LevatorScapulaeSyndrome|LevatorScapulaeSyndrome]] ([[User talk:LevatorScapulaeSyndrome|talk]]) 10:45, 4 March 2026 (UTC)