[OSM-talk] Persian/Arabian Gulf Tagging

[Mostafa Ahangarha]

In general, I am sorry for seeing the way this "conversation" is taking 
forward. Some thing to point out:

- Nobody here represent any community. We are discussing all as individuals.
- There are very good reasons (internationally recognition, historic 
evidence) for using Persian Gulf as name. Persian Gulf is not a name 
made up by Iranian. It is a historic name, recognized internationally 
and used widely. Do not reduce the issue to some thing else.
- Persian Gulf is an international water body. So we cannot expect the 
international community to use the name we like.
- The attitude for blaming Iranian community for action of some random 
people should stop somewhere. As we cannot hold Arabs responsible for 
some stupid action of some random user, you cannot do the same again an 
again and again to Iranian. You cannot take advantage of this to push 
your political agenda. Not a good excuse.
- Since the local name is reflected in name:fa and name:ar, pushing for 
imposition of any other name than Persian Gulf on name tag proves the 
very political agenda. Don't do that.
- Voting in no Telegram/Matrix/Slack/... has any real meaning. Don't 
claim to be representative of OSM community. Simply don't. Neither you 
are representative of Arabs, nor me or Ebrahim Nejati are representative 
of Iranians. Let's not mess up here.
- Don't let bullies to push their opinion. Don't let them to misuse your 
good will.

It is such a ironic situation to see few politically motivated people 
want to make decision for the name of an international water body.

Otherwise for clear reasons, the name of this water body has been and is 
Persian Gulf. Whenever the international community decided to using 
another name, that time we can consider change. Yet I would still 
support removing name tag to reduce sensitivities.

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Regards,
Mostafa Ahangarha