Talk:Speri (region)

Town or a wide region

The location of the region is not clear. In the lede Speri is a wide region. But in the last paragraph it is a town. The discrepancy should be clarified. I'll call the editor. Nedim Ardoğa (talk) 12:23, 10 June 2016 (UTC)

Article title

Under WP:COMMONNAME, I am going to move the article title to "Sper". "Sper" is the most common name for this region found in English-language sources. Google: "Sper" + "Ispir" 24,600 hits; "Speri" + "Ispir" 2700 hits. Google Scholar: "Sper" + "Ispir" 69 hits; "Speri" + "Ispir" 19 hits. Tiptoethrutheminefield (talk) 03:32, 10 February 2017 (UTC)

Kober has, without discussion, without addressing the points raised above, moved the article back to the old title [1] breaking Wikipedia guidelines about prior discussion being required before potentially controversial moves. A potentially controversial move is defined as a move that someone could reasonably disagree with (see WP:RM#CM). Given I detailed my reasons why it should be Sper, I obviously would have a reasonable disagreement with the move back to Speri. Tiptoethrutheminefield (talk) 15:04, 10 February 2017 (UTC)

Banal application of WP:COMMONNAME is not the solution to this problem. The region has both "Armenian" and "Georgian" past. Therefore, choosing a NPOV title here is not that easy (especially given the pervasive romantic nationalism current in Armenia). I see only two options to solve the controversy: either (1) creating separate but complementary entries on the Armenian Sper and Georgian Speri, or (2) move the article to History of Ispir, keeping Sper and Speri as redirects.--Kober^Talk 18:39, 10 February 2017 (UTC)

Your first suggestion is, quite frankly, ludicrous. It is the same region, so your idea that there should two separate articles in order to have one of them titled Speri is a non-starter. The numerically larger use of Sper in sources is undeniable and you cannot dismiss this fact as "banal" or allege controversy or pov issues in order to ignore commonname guidelines. For your second suggestion, to merge, Ispir is not Sper, the former is an article about a town, the latter about an historical region - so merging is problematic. I'm not excluding that as an eventual option, but since the final content of this article is still not certain (there is more content I intend to add) any merge proposal would be premature, I think. Tiptoethrutheminefield (talk) 18:16, 11 February 2017 (UTC)

Before calling others' opinions "ludicrous" I would suggest you getting more intimate knowledge of the region in question. First off, Ispir does not refer only to the town, but also to a district around it. Second, Sper and Speri are not always absolutely coterminous; the same holds true for several of the so-called Armeno-Georgian marchlands. The two entries can cover different periods of the region's history under different dynasties before the Ottoman takeover of that area. When it comes to the "numerically larger use of" the region's name, it is the Greco-Roman/Byzantine Syspiritis (Sispiritis, Syspirites).--Kober^Talk 18:57, 11 February 2017 (UTC)

You are seriously claiming that Sper and Speri are different historical regions deserving of separate articles? Your opinion about Syspiritis being the more common name is entirely wrong. Syspiritis + Ispir gets just 259 hits, Syspiritis + Ispir gets just 10 on Google Scholar. Syspiritis alone gets 31 on Scholar, 969 on Google. This indicates Syspiritis is less common than even Speri. The words "Sper" and "Speri" mean various different things - searching "Sper" + "Ispir" and "Speri" + "Ispir" guarantees that almost all the results will be for the Sper / Speri that is the subject of this article, but the actual number of hits containing an on-topic Sper or Speri will be higher than those numbers. Also, please stop insinuating ignorance on my part. I suspect I know far more about this region than you - I have read about its history, its culture, its architecture, and, unlike you I suspect, I have also traveled extensively there. I also know about Georgia being a country where history currently is deemed to be subservient to national interests and requires rewriting and editing whenever it disagrees with that national interest. Tiptoethrutheminefield (talk) 20:39, 11 February 2017 (UTC)

You don't have to combine Syspiritis + Ispir as keywords. Syspiritis has no other meaning. Your "suspicions" and travel history are absolutely irrelevant here. I'm not inclined to give any response to the rest of your tirade. --Kober^Talk 20:49, 11 February 2017 (UTC)

You are continuing to claim that Sper and Speri are different historical regions deserving of separate articles, and are continuing to claim (regardless of the evidence presented) that Syspiritis is more common than Sper as a name for the subject of this article? There is no point in any further discussion with you if your errors are that large. You do not even appear to know how to properly use Google search results. Or are you are declining to give a response just because the only possible response would be to admit those errors and walk away from them? Tiptoethrutheminefield (talk) 00:21, 12 February 2017 (UTC)

Please don't put words into my mouth and stop ad hominem attacks. I never said that Sper and Speri are different historical regions, but your inability to recognize the dichotomy of the Caucasian historical geography is apparent. Your hysterical approach to the discussion reveals your own inherent bias and inability to engage in any meaningful conversation. --Kober^Talk 05:51, 12 February 2017 (UTC)

Saying "I never said that Sper and Speri are different historical regions" is deliberately vague and unproductive. I want you to be clear about what you DID say, not what you didn't say! You are refusing to be clear, and attack a attempt at making sense of that lack of clarity as putting words into your mouth. So why not just use your mouth to dispel the lack of clarity? Do you agree or disagree that Sper and Speri are alternate names for the same historical region? And if you agree, how does this tie with your earlier claim that there was an "Armenian Sper" and a "Georgian Speri" and your proposed "separate but complementary entries"? suggestion? Tiptoethrutheminefield (talk) 15:45, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

Please keep your intentionally condescending tone to yourself. I will repeat myself. The Armenian Sper and Georgian Speri are the names a region which had fluctuating borders under the Armenian and Georgian rule. Furthermore, the Armenians and Georgians ruled that region in different periods of its history. That's why I suggested having two articles as one of the options to avoid a POV conflict, something you fail to understand. The other option I suggested was to have History of Ispir, with Speri and Sper as redirects, which is also possible as your assumption that Ispir is only the town's name is erroneous. Clear now? --Kober^Talk 16:20, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

Yes, it is clear that your separate articles suggestion hasn't a shred of evidence or precedent to support it, justifying my initial characterization of that suggestion as being "ludicrous". Tiptoethrutheminefield (talk) 15:54, 14 February 2017 (UTC)

The only thing really ludicrous here is your exaggerated sense of self-righteousness. --Kober^Talk 17:35, 14 February 2017 (UTC)

I came across something I wrote elsewhere on Wikipedia last year. It seems relevant here too, so I will reproduce it. Only the section in squared brackets is new. It went: Rapp (in "Recovering the Pre-National Caucasian landscape", p13-15) writes "as a specialist in pre-modern Caucasia .... I have been struck by the persistent telescoping of modern configurations of identity, attitudes, and rivalries back into the remote past, a condition which plaques the historical discipline as a whole" and "The Armenian, Georgian, and Azerbaijani (narrative) varieties are as sophisticated as they are self contained" and "all share an explicit political purpose - they seek to validate and exercise political sovereignty". I suggest it is the desire to maintain that self containment that lies behind [Kober's suggestion to] have two completely separate self-contained articles. Tiptoethrutheminefield (talk) 17:42, 17 February 2017 (UTC)

Information about Hayasa Azzi is not confirmed by the specified sources

The information that Speri was part of Hayasa Azzi is not confirmed by the sources. Moreover, the existence of the name Speri is not confirmed in the period of Hayasa Azzi, this information is simply not written in the sources and is also nonsense in the historical context. 80.77.52.228 (talk) 12:45, 18 December 2022 (UTC)

@KhndzorUtogh This issue has been present since 2022 as written in this section, yet you haven't provided detailed and specified sources, you only restore the version which fits your bias and continue ignoring the issue which is present. None of the mentioned sources name Speri as part of Hayasa-Azzi confederation. Please provide specific sources and make proper references or it will be deleted Lemabeta (talk) 17:00, 14 April 2024 (UTC)

Please provide a proper reference of . Lemabeta (talk) 19:57, 14 April 2024 (UTC)

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