Talk:Yaldā Night

Yaldā tree

I spoke with a colleague from Iran and he said Yaldā tree was not a thing. Can anyone confirm this is a widespread enough practice to be included on this page? 62.166.173.17 (talk) 22:39, 5 December 2022 (UTC)

No, Yaldā tree is not common in present day Iran. There's also another mistake in the article. Mithra is not the god of sun in ancient Iranian pre-Zoroastrian religion. It is the god off contract and alliance (based on Iranica encyclopedia). According to some researchers Yalda was the birth of Utu (Shamash) which was the god of sun in ancient Babylonia. For more information you can contact Dr. Khodadad Rezakhani 2.190.176.140 (talk) 17:44, 22 December 2022 (UTC)

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Kurds and Kurdistan is again being subjected to cultural erasure.

Why were Kurds and Kurdistan removed?

https://en.wiki.x.io/w/index.php?title=Yald%C4%81_Night&diff=prev&oldid=1264123950

I'm a Kurd that invited many of my foreign friends over to celebrate with my family this year, and when I went to send them a wiki link to get to know more about our holiday, to my surprise, everything about us Kurds were removed.

Please revert it back. 70.27.25.71 (talk) 19:53, 20 December 2024 (UTC)

Did you read why I removed the content? Semsûrî (talk) 19:54, 20 December 2024 (UTC)

I don't know how to use Wikipedia. Can you tell me why? 70.27.25.71 (talk) 19:57, 20 December 2024 (UTC)

The references were weak and used misleadingly. Semsûrî (talk) 20:10, 20 December 2024 (UTC)

So can you fix it? Like using better references or whatever 185.187.78.36 (talk) 15:31, 22 December 2024 (UTC)

Do not worry hawrrêî mn, I added a source from an official Kurdish government article and I readded the Kurdish translations. Gardûnî (talk) 07:30, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

Afghanistan also subjected to cultural erasure

Hello, someone in the past few days have removed “Afghanistan” from countries that observe chellah/yalda along with incorrectly switching a cited source that states Afghanistan and Iran observe this day to Turkmenistan.

chellah is observed by some in Afghanistan, especially in areas like Herat @This source was removed from “Afghanistan” and placed as reference point incorrectly for “Turkmenistan”, can someone please switch it back to Afghanistan and add back Afghanistan to countries that observe Yalda/Chellah? I appreciate it! 2600:1700:158F:A900:3024:E76B:7CD4:41A2 (talk) 15:46, 21 December 2024 (UTC)