[OSM-talk] Persian/Arabian Gulf Tagging

[John Whelan]

Personally I would concur.  The Persian Gulf has been known by this name 
for many years by non-locals and since they use the map we probably 
should consider them.

John

Mostafa Ahangarha wrote on 12/7/2021 6:33 PM:
> 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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