Talk:Colossal statue of Shapur I

This article needs a rewrite; it's style in unencyclopaedic and well.. just odd. Reminds me of a tour guide who's describing the monument as if the reader is standing directly before it. Sentences are simplistic, occasionally pedantic, tenses are in the present, and I hate to say it... but it sounds almost juvenile.

Maybe you're right what you say, you loud-mouth, but you know, just the sissies have no guts to validate their faulty assumptions by a signature --Wiki-in-basel (talk) 13:08, 3 May 2012 (UTC)

The reigning years of Shapur I are (AD 240-272). Please don`t change it. --Wiki-in-basel (talk) 10:23, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

Translated?

Is this article translated from Persian? If so, it should have the translated tag at the top. If not, than this article is so far below the standards of Wikipedia it should sooner be nominated for deletion than trying to fix it. "About 1400 years ago" is not acceptable for dating, I'm not sure about the official rules of Wikipedia however specific years or estimations are always used in well-established articles. The biggest problem this article has however is the astonishing lack of sources. It's very clear that the entire article has been written by one user with a lot of personal opinion, which is not how this website works. Going to give benefit of the doubt here and assume it's just a translation thing though. —bernoullis principle Bernoullis principle (talk) 14:44, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

Moved from wrong (redirect) page. Johnbod (talk) 16:15, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

It seems to have been mostly written by a German-speaker - see the history, and the original sources. But many others, including me, have touched it up. Do you really think we are likely to have anything like a precise date for when part of a statue in a rather remote cave collapsed "About 1400 years ago"? It needs more inline refs certainly, but several academic sources (in German) are given. Johnbod (talk) 16:18, 31 March 2024 (UTC)