User talk:Irānshahr
Please explain...
...how this is a synthesis. Thanks. --Mttll (talk) 01:44, 15 July 2013 (UTC)
- The study involved less than 0.3% of the population, and Circassians are not evenly distributed around Turkey in a way that would enable such a study to accurately reflect their numbers. Irānshahr (talk) 15:19, 15 July 2013 (UTC)
- So? Do you realize it's based on a field research while other sources which are presently referenced in the article are nothing but guesstimates? --Mttll (talk) 02:38, 18 July 2013 (UTC)
- All other sources put the figure at between 1,500,000 and 3,000,000. Post a link to the study so I can evaluate it. Irānshahr (talk) 03:04, 18 July 2013 (UTC)
- Go to "4. Who are we?" tab, then download "Who Are We? Social Structure Survey" at the bottom. --Mttll (talk) 23:55, 18 July 2013 (UTC)
- So anyone who wants to read the report has to give their name, phone number, place of work, and email address. That is not free and open access. For that and other reasons I oppose the inclusion of this source as a reference, and I note that I am the
secondfourth editor to do so. The balance of sources places the figure in the range mentioned above. Irānshahr (talk) 06:28, 19 July 2013 (UTC)
- So anyone who wants to read the report has to give their name, phone number, place of work, and email address. That is not free and open access. For that and other reasons I oppose the inclusion of this source as a reference, and I note that I am the
- What's next, are you going disqualify dozens of scientific journals from being used as sources in Wikipedia as they don't provide "open" access? Sorry, that doesn't make sense. --Mttll (talk) 05:27, 20 July 2013 (UTC)
- The company behind the "study" was founded and is run by a Turkish Kemalist politician. The numbers it proposes for all non-Turkish ethnic minorities are ludicrously low. The figure in question is an order of magnitude smaller than the bottom end of the range reported by all other agencies. Irānshahr (talk) 12:40, 21 July 2013 (UTC)