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Your submission at Articles for creation ↗: Our Locomotive (song) ↗ (June 4)


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AfC ↗ notification: Draft:Our Locomotive (song) ↗ has a new comment


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I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Our Locomotive (song) ↗. Thanks! <span style="color:#1C7E85"><b>Rusalkii</b></span> (talk) 23:22, 23 July 2025 (UTC) </div>

Your submission at Articles for creation ↗: Our Locomotive (song) ↗ (August 8)


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{{divbox|gray|3=This draft's references do not show that the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article ↗. In summary, the draft needs multiple published sources that are: <br />
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{{divbox|blue|3=</br></br>I think you have an uphill battle on notability with this one. I don't feel notability is met per WP:NSONG ↗. Perhaps another reviewer will disagree, but there are two reviewers (myself and RangerRus) have opined that this is not notable. If a third reviewer opines the same, I would say that a reasonable consensus had been reached.</br></br>'''''Regardless''''' of the notability, you don't have enough reliable sources ↗. Marxists.org is an archival site, but the specific page you linked is just a self-published page.</br></br>NLR is likely not a reliable source, though it's borderline. [a-pesni.org] is not a reliable source. The other sources are questionable/borderline.</br></br>I would strongly recommend taking this content and creating a section on Komsomol ↗ (or another appropriate page).</br></br>}} Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit ''after they have been resolved''.
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October 2025



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Regarding my edit



Anti-Islam sentiment in Iran has been a significant driving factors in the protests since 2023, and several polls exist showing Iranians having negative attitudes towards Islam. Firekong1 (talk) 21:41, 6 January 2026 (UTC)

:To add context, I am Iranian and am familiar with the evolving politics, religious demographics, and sentiments of Iranians and the diaspora. Firekong1 (talk) 21:46, 6 January 2026 (UTC)
::Ok I only saw the Islamophobia link added to the goals section. Anti-Islam sentiment is for sure a driving factor for these protests ConflictFan (talk) 21:47, 6 January 2026 (UTC)
:::May I add it back? There is a genuine historical element to justify the addition of this page. Firekong1 (talk) 22:02, 6 January 2026 (UTC)
::::I already did — thank you for pointing this all out ConflictFan (talk) 22:05, 6 January 2026 (UTC)
:::::You’re welcome, and thank you for adding it back. Firekong1 (talk) 22:22, 6 January 2026 (UTC)
::::::I do believe Islamophobia exists in Iran, but it has yet to become a widespread phenomenon. Firekong1 (talk) 01:58, 7 January 2026 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:Our Locomotive (song) ↗


25px|alt=Information icon ↗ Hello, ConflictFan. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Our Locomotive (song) ↗, a page you created, has not been edited in at least five months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted ↗, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it ↗ again&#32;or request ↗ that it be moved to your userspace.

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 01:09, 8 January 2026 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Our Locomotive (song) ↗


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Hello, ConflictFan. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation ↗ submission or draft ↗ page you started, "Our Locomotive ↗".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material, the draft has been deleted. When you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion ↗. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. <!-- Template:Db-draft-deleted --><!-- Template:Db-csd-deleted-custom --> <span style="font-family:Papyrus; color:#800080;">'''''L'''''iz</span> <sup style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #006400;">'''''Read!''''' ↗ '''''Talk!'''''</sup> 00:55, 8 February 2026 (UTC)

February 2026



25px|alt=icon ↗ Please stop your disruptive editing ↗.
If you continue to disrupt Wikipedia, as you did at :Ali Khamenei ↗, you may be blocked from editing ↗. ''Stop edit warring to include these sources. ALL of them cite Israel's government. Wait until independent or Iranian sources confirm his death.''<!-- Template:uw-disruptive3 --> <span style="background:linear-gradient(to right,#FF0A0A,#FF840A);display:inline-flex">&nbsp;&nbsp;<span style="color:#FFFFFF">'''Jalapeño'''&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span> <small>''(u t g)''</small> 20:08, 28 February 2026 (UTC)

:@Jalapeño thanks for reaching out. I think the best approach would be an explanatory footnote that explains the ongoing uncertainty and links to sources within it. I will ready it on the talk page. Best regards, ConflictFan (talk) 20:12, 28 February 2026 (UTC)
::This is unnecessary, as an encyclopedia we wait for reliable sources to arrive before making claims, see WP:BREAKING ↗ '''<span style="color:#4a5d23;">Sahi</span><span style="color:#fcd116;">b</span>-<span style="color:#4a5d23;">''e''</span>-<span style="color:#fcd116;">Q</span><span style="color:#4a5d23;">iran</span>''', EasternShah 20:20, 28 February 2026 (UTC)
:::Understood -- I have tried to make it clear that what current sources we have covering his death are unreliable. ConflictFan (talk) 20:21, 28 February 2026 (UTC)

February 2026



25px|alt=Information icon ↗ Welcome to Wikipedia. Editors are expected to treat each other with respect and civility. On this encyclopedia project, editors assume good faith ↗ while interacting with other editors, which you did not appear to do at :Talk:Ali Khamenei ↗. Here is Wikipedia's welcome page ↗, and it is hoped that you will assume the good faith of other editors and continue to help us improve Wikipedia! Thank you very much!<!-- Template:uw-agf1 --> AusLondonder (talk) 22:08, 28 February 2026 (UTC)

:@AusLondonder Thanks for reaching out. Can you point me out in the talk page where I was acting without respect and civility? Hoping to avoid doing so in the future if this is the case. Best regards, ConflictFan (talk) 22:22, 28 February 2026 (UTC)
::"Is this enough or do you also need the Taliban and Putin to confirm this? ↗" AusLondonder (talk) 22:26, 28 February 2026 (UTC)
:::Ok I see — don't think I was being uncivil but I was admittedly a bit provocative there. Will adjust my tone to avoid this. Thanks, ConflictFan (talk) 22:29, 28 February 2026 (UTC)

2026 Israeli–United States strikes on Iran


Hello, Conflict. The English variety tag in this article ''originally'' specified Oxford spelling, and then somebody saw fit to change it. Please don't change it again. I don't think it's allowed, anyway. Kelisi (talk) 22:40, 28 February 2026 (UTC)

:@Kelisi 👍Ok I am just aligning it to what the 2025–2026 Iranian protests ↗ page uses. Best regards, ConflictFan (talk) 23:02, 28 February 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for your contributions



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Requesting an edit through you as a proxy



On the Iran War Page, Hezbollah and PMF aren't listed as Non-State Actors and yet their commanders aren't listed in the Commanders and Leaders section of the two sides. For consistency, they should be. &#126;2026-15360-58 ↗ (talk) 00:46, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

:Thanks for reaching out. I have made an edit to the infobox putting them under the category of "Non-state actors". I haven't listed any of their commanders though because I don't know enough about them ConflictFan (talk) 01:09, 11 March 2026 (UTC)
::Thank you for making the edit. The intention wasn't adding the commanders anyway, it was just communicating the discrepancy. Since the commanders of non-state actors are not listed anyway, the whole point was kind of to like move them away from that category and make that distinction clear. &#126;2026-15355-54 ↗ (talk) 02:20, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

March 2026



25px|alt=Information icon ↗ Hello, I'm Zackmann08. Thank you for your recent contributions&nbsp;to :Template:Country data Iranian diaspora ↗. When you were adding content to the page, you added duplicate arguments ↗ to a template which can cause issues with how the template is rendered. In the future, please use the preview ↗ button before you save your edit; this helps you find these errors as they will display in yellow at the top of the page. Thanks.<!---Template:Uw-dupargs---> '''<span style="color:#00d5ff">Zack</span><span style="color:#007F94">mann</span>''' (<sup>Talk to me ↗</sup>/<sub><span style="color:orange">What I been doing</span> ↗</sub>) 13:35, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

:are you planning to fix these errors? '''<span style="color:#00d5ff">Zack</span><span style="color:#007F94">mann</span>''' (<sup>Talk to me ↗</sup>/<sub><span style="color:orange">What I been doing</span> ↗</sub>) 15:35, 21 March 2026 (UTC)
::Do you mean the 'plain-tricolour' and 'plain-tricolor' args? I don't see anything yellow warning me on my end ConflictFan (talk) 15:39, 21 March 2026 (UTC)
:::Nevermind I see what you meant -- I saw your edit ConflictFan (talk) 15:40, 21 March 2026 (UTC)

@ConflictFan I've noticed that you had added "(Islamic Republic)" alongside Iran in some articles of Iranian festivals ↗. In the discussion at Talk:2026 Iran war ↗, many users opposed such arrangement for the state name. This not only applies for 2026 Iran war ↗, but all articles related to Iran. Before making such move, make sure discussing on the topic. Ahammed Saad (talk) 13:17, 20 March 2026 (UTC)

:👍 ConflictFan (talk) 15:37, 21 March 2026 (UTC)

Can I ask you to create new Chinese flags?



150px ↗ 150px ↗ 150px ↗

Similar to the images you’ve used on the Template:Conservatism in Iran ↗ and Template:Liberalism in Iran ↗ in Iran pages, I’d like to try using something similar on the Template:Conservatism in China ↗ and Template:Liberalism in China ↗ pages. Would you be able to create some suitable flag images for me? The images I’d like to request are as follows:

In addition, once you’ve completed the three tasks mentioned above, I have another request I’d like to make:
ProgramT (talk) 07:41, 26 March 2026 (UTC)

:Thanks for reaching out, what colour of blue do you want me to use? The one used in most of the WikiFlag icons (the shade Germany uses) or the one used in the PRC crossed flags or ROC crossed flags? The naval jack one is clear 👍 ConflictFan (talk) 07:46, 26 March 2026 (UTC)
::For the blue color in 'Template:Conservatism in China (Image on the right side)', please use the same color as this one: 60px ↗. Thank you so much for your help! ProgramT (talk) 07:50, 26 March 2026 (UTC)
:::@ProgramT here you go:
:::* 40px ↗ :File:Republic of China Conservatism Flags Symbol.svg ↗
:::* 40px ↗ :File:People's Republic of China Liberalism Flags Symbol.svg ↗
:::* 40px ↗ :File:Republic of China Liberalism Flags Symbol.svg ↗
:::* 40px ↗ :File:Republic of China–Naval Jack Crossed Flags.svg ↗
:::ConflictFan (talk) 08:14, 26 March 2026 (UTC)
::::Thank you so much!! 👍👍👍👍 ProgramT (talk) 08:51, 26 March 2026 (UTC)

3RR



WP:3RR ↗ on Iran Prosperity Project ↗. Boud (talk) 20:47, 27 March 2026 (UTC)

:Thank you, best to keep it to the talk page 👍 ConflictFan (talk) 20:56, 27 March 2026 (UTC)

Do not cite your own website



This edit ↗ is based on original research ↗. You are not a subject matter expert and your website is a self-published source ↗. See also the conflict of interest guideline section on citing yourself ↗. As you have been made aware ↗, post-1978 Iranian politics is a contentious topic ↗ and you are expected to adhere to all relevant policies and guidelines, particularly those related to reliable sourcing. voorts (talk/contributions ↗) 00:49, 18 April 2026 (UTC)
:I also just read your webpage. It contains claims such as: "[The flag's] display on the influential encyclopaedia [i.e., Wikipedia] helped spread it to all corners of the internet and later onto physical flags, with the design continuing to gain traction over the following years."{{cn}} There are 8 citations: five are to Commons ↗, one is to the Niavaran Cultural Historic Complex website, one is to Lion and Sun flag ↗, and the final is to a post you made on Reddit.{{pb}}You should familiarize yourself with WP:RS ↗, WP:OR ↗, WP:NPOV ↗, WP:COI ↗, and other relevant guideliens. I am informally warning you under the contentious topics ↗ procedure to comply with all sourcing guidelines. voorts (talk/contributions ↗) 01:01, 18 April 2026 (UTC)
::@Voorts thanks for reaching out. As discussed in an earlier discussion ↗, I will wait for independent outlets to start citing IFP before doing any more with it on Wikipedia.
::The article you read covers the Wikipedia designs, so the only primary sources about its origins are on Wikimedia Commons. There is no alternative, because if there were secondary sources explicitly covering this subjects in depth, I would have needed to make this website at all. I cite myself in that article because I made the latest change; if anyone else had done the same and made a Reddit post about their work, that's what I would have cited because that would have been the only documented thing about it. I also don't give a citation supporting the fact that the design is used everywhere because it's so visually evident by looking at all the protest pictures out there, but also I can't cite them because a few images don't say much, but the thousand that will, I cannot fit. Maybe an Efn would do better there; I am always open to suggestions.
::One thing about my country is that we've been under occupation for the past 47 years, and one of the regime's main goals is cultural erasure, so no one in Iran has been able to make any efforts towards documenting these things. What we are left with are primary sources that we have to infer from, like old pictures and modern primary sources, without any in-depth secondary sources at all. The goal of this site (which is still WIP; I have yet to cover anything prior to 2012) is just to give Iranians 'something' to base future research on. My realm of expertise is on the contemporary use of the Iranian flag and its designs' emergence on Wikimedia; I was not alive for 1979 so I am working with what I have. When we are back in Iran, we will be able to freely devote more attention and research to this subject, but until then, this is the state of affairs we will have to fight against. ConflictFan (talk) 09:51, 18 April 2026 (UTC)
:::* {{tq|The article you read covers the Wikipedia designs, so the only primary sources about its origins are on Wikimedia Commons.}} We don't write articles about things/events on Wikipedia based entirely on Commons/Wikipedia as primary sources. See WP:CIRCULAR ↗
:::* {{tq|I cite myself in that article because I made the latest change; if anyone else had done the same and made a Reddit post about their work, that's what I would have cited because that would have been the only documented thing about it. I also don't give a citation supporting the fact that the design is used everywhere because it's so visually evident by looking at all the protest pictures out there, but also I can't cite them because a few images don't say much, but the thousand that will, I cannot fit. Maybe an Efn would do better there; I am always open to suggestions.}} You should <em>never</em> be citing reddit or your own website. See my previous comments.
:::* Your last paragraph is nonsense. Iran has a robust education system, the events of the past 47 years have been written about by historians and experts from within and without Iran, and you yourself cited at least some secondary sources in the article about the flags.
:::As I stated before, you must comply with our sourcing guidelines, particularly in a contentious topic area. voorts (talk/contributions ↗) 15:53, 18 April 2026 (UTC)
::::My friend, thank you for devoting your time to this matter. I have already stated and agreed to not cite IFP on Wikipedia until there is proof that independent secondary sources start relying on it.
::::When I said "I cite myself in that article because..." I was referring to IFP, not Wikipedia — I apologise for the confusion.
::::When it comes to lack of secondary sources, I am talking about the designs themselves and their respective history, not just the Lion and Sun flag in general. If you look at pictures of our flag, you see that the style varies wildly between variants; that is something that is seldom discussed by secondary sources, and it is therefore the main priority for IFP to cover.
::::In Iran you get shot for even waving the flag, so those in the country have bigger priorities than flag historiography. The planned transitional government has the flag written in its constitution, so that is why it is important to document these things. Right now I will continue to work on IFP to ensure it is a better source for the future, but until then it won't be used on Wikipedia. ConflictFan (talk) 16:13, 18 April 2026 (UTC)


Iranian Monarchism flags



I came up with a very good flags image to use for Template:Monarchism in Iran ↗! It's a similar variation to the Hong Kong Localism Flags Symbol ↗ or Taiwan Independence Flags Symbol ↗: Lion and Sun flag ↗ on the left, and '''torn''' Islamic Republic flag ↗ on the right. What do you think of my proposal? Thanks. ProgramT (talk) 10:24, 8 May 2026 (UTC)

:Apologies for the late response. I don't think such an image would serve the Monarchism in Iran template as much as the current Lion and Sun emblem with the crown. ConflictFan (talk) 09:44, 18 May 2026 (UTC)

Can I ask you to create political Israeli flags?



Currently, Template:Conservatism in Israel ↗, Template:Liberalism in Israel ↗, and Template:Socialism in Israel ↗ does not have a dedicated flag symbol, so why don't you create this? ProgramT (talk) 07:00, 2 July 2026 (UTC)