Talk:Mirza Azim Sami

GA review

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Nominator: HistoryofIran (talk · contribs) 19:47, 19 September 2025 (UTC)

Reviewer: ModlordD (talk · contribs) 02:27, 22 April 2026 (UTC)

Hello, I am going to review this article sometime soon. For reference, do you happen to know any other Iranian poets that have a GA article?

Hi ModlordD, thanks for doing this. This is one is a recent WP:GA of an Iranian poet . --HistoryofIran (talk) 13:09, 23 April 2026 (UTC)

REVIEW

Lead No image in the infobox. Before closing this review I'd want to see a genuine effort made. The GA criteria don't require media if illustration is genuinely impossible, but "impossible" needs to be established, not assumed. The lead says nothing about Mo'arefparvari or Sami's intellectual circle. MoS requires the lead to summarize the body, and right now the entire Views section goes unrepresented. One sentence would fix this.

Writings "Besides historical chronicles, Sami composed other works; a compilation of poetry primarily about people and events from his own time, entitled the Mir'at al-khayal; an anthology of what he considered the ten greatest Bukharan poets of his time; and a guide for secretaries, the Risala-yi insha." This could definitely be better written. The Mir'at al-khayal in particular warrants more than a subordinate clause. Compared to the Shifa'i Isfahani article, which for each work describes its literary model, its relationship to the tradition, and what distinguishes it.

The Dakhma-yi Shahan paragraph says Sami added "a segment about the Bukharan Emirate" to Jandari's satirical history. What did that segment contain? What was Sami's angle? A sentence would do it. "When Sadriddin Ayni wrote his own historical chronicle of the Bukharan Emirate, he borrowed from Sami's historical chronicles." What did Ayni borrow?

"The Masjed Soleyman by the contemporary Iranian poet Mohammad-Taqi Bahar served as the model for one of Sami's poems, in which he criticized the courtiers." This is stranded. A reader who doesn't know the Masjed Soleyman gets nothing from this. Either add a brief clause identifying what kind of work it is, or fold the point into a broader sentence about Sami's satirical voice.

Lead No image in the infobox. Before closing this review I'd want to see a genuine effort made. The GA criteria don't require media if illustration is genuinely impossible, but "impossible" needs to be established, not assumed. The lead says nothing about Mo'arefparvari or Sami's intellectual circle. MoS requires the lead to summarize the body, and right now the entire Views section goes unrepresented. One sentence would fix this.

I added a small bit of info about the Mo'arefparvari. The info followed by that is a small summary of the Views section. Unfortunately I couldn't find any image related to Mirza Azim Sami. Not even an image of his writings.

Writings "Besides historical chronicles, Sami composed other works; a compilation of poetry primarily about people and events from his own time, entitled the Mir'at al-khayal; an anthology of what he considered the ten greatest Bukharan poets of his time; and a guide for secretaries, the Risala-yi insha." This could definitely be better written. The Mir'at al-khayal in particular warrants more than a subordinate clause. Compared to the Shifa'i Isfahani article, which for each work describes its literary model, its relationship to the tradition, and what distinguishes it.

Unfortunately the available sources doesn't provide that much info on this. It's not much, but I slightly expanded the Risala-yi insha part.

The Dakhma-yi Shahan paragraph says Sami added "a segment about the Bukharan Emirate" to Jandari's satirical history. What did that segment contain? What was Sami's angle? A sentence would do it. "When Sadriddin Ayni wrote his own historical chronicle of the Bukharan Emirate, he borrowed from Sami's historical chronicles." What did Ayni borrow?

Unfortunately none of the sources go into depth about this.

"The Masjed Soleyman by the contemporary Iranian poet Mohammad-Taqi Bahar served as the model for one of Sami's poems, in which he criticized the courtiers." This is stranded. A reader who doesn't know the Masjed Soleyman gets nothing from this. Either add a brief clause identifying what kind of work it is, or fold the point into a broader sentence about Sami's satirical voice.

You're right, I removed it for now, as I can't find anything else on it. --HistoryofIran (talk) 22:25, 26 April 2026 (UTC)

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