Talk:Encyclopædia Iranica

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Actually, none of the articles questioned Iranica's reliability. The articles published from the AFP report were just full of unresearched material, such as Iranian scholars from Iran arent allowed to contribute to it by the Iranian government, and Iranica later released the letter which is posted on this same article exposing the lies.Azerbaijani 12:59, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

I put it there because it was unclear from the article what exactly the letter by Iranica responded to. The response itself seems to be implying that the news item questions Iranica's reliabilty, but I admit my edit was a little rash. I was misled by the title of the news item and was going to rephrase after reading through it. Iblardi 13:07, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Iranica logo2.gif

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