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21:4921:49, 2 December 2022 diff hist +2,627 User talk:Moretonian →December 2022

02:5302:53, 1 December 2022 diff hist +1,799 Persian campaign (World War I) LouisAragon: "negationist" sources? Miroshnikov's 1964 book cited here consists of lectures he gave at Harvard University in 1962, and is based on Russian archives. The 1920 Iranian government report on military casualties cited and quoted in Majd (2013) is from US State Department archives. These are not "negationist" sources. Besides, the first paragraph did not contain a single sourced citation. The unsourced claim that millions of Iranians died in the Armenian genocide is absurd and false. Tag: Reverted

18:0618:06, 28 November 2022 diff hist +1,604 Persian campaign (World War I) Removed the unsourced, false, and objectionable statement that "over 2 million Persian civilians died in the conflict, mostly due to the Armenian genocide by the Ottoman regime". Added Iranian government's figure on Iranian deaths caused directly by military operations by the invaders. Tag: Reverted

20:4420:44, 22 November 2022 diff hist +185 World War II casualties There was an error in the total number of famine deaths. The actual sum of "Civilian deaths due to war-related famine and disease" given in column 4 is 22,188,000 to 32,650,000. In round numbers, it is 22 to 33 million and not 19 to 28 million given in the article. Similar to many previous conflicts, deaths by famine and disease had exceeded military deaths. It also increases the estimated overall casualty figures.

15:5215:52, 11 November 2022 diff hist +2 m Persian famine of 1917–1919 Edit and correction.

22:4622:46, 31 October 2022 diff hist +3,185 Persian famine of 1917–1919 TheTimesAreAchanging. Back in January 2022, I pointed out in the article's talk page that Abrahamian had made false and defamatory claims against Majd and these are reproduced in the WP article. Received no response or feedback. Given that substance of claim is also repeated in Ayatollah Khamenei's website, matter has to be dealt with and did so in the footnotes. Removed material that could be constructed as OR. And yes, Cronin cites Majd in her famine deliberations.

20:4020:40, 27 October 2022 diff hist +3,777 Persian famine of 1917–1919 Death toll. The 2 million death toll has a very shaky provenance and weak documentary basis. It should stay in the article but lack of acceptable documentation should be clearly stated. In the process, made editorial changes to and expanded the death toll section. Contemporary perceptions. Pointed out that the article contains false and slanderous accusation against one of the authors cited in the article. Tag: Reverted

21:1621:16, 21 October 2022 diff hist +960 World War II casualties In the article cited as a reference to the Iran famine, oddly, the author's name and the journal title were given in Persian despite the fact that they are given in English in the original English publication. An obvious ruse (and possible vandalism) that makes it useless to the English reader and helps conceal article content. Converted back into English, added original article PDF, and included Holocaust Encyclopedia and the original book on the WW2 Iran famine and epidemics.as references.

01:5601:56, 17 October 2022 diff hist +556 Persian famine of 1917–1919 Causes and contributing factors: Stephanie Cronin on the primary importance of British policies.

23:0923:09, 26 September 2022 diff hist +869 Persian famine of 1917–1919 Stephanie Cronin's recent criticism of historians for their neglect of the WWI famine and the "apocalyptic losses."

16:2716:27, 23 September 2022 diff hist +1,444 Persian famine of 1917–1919 Added the two books published in London in the 1920s that are the sources for the 2 and 6 million death toll given in the text.

17:1517:15, 19 September 2022 diff hist +1,650 Persian famine of 1917–1919 The previous "stable" version contains almost nothing on the suffering of the peasantry. The omission is partly rectified by inclusion of a couple of sources, including Willem Floor (2003). A general observation: the WWI famine is an understudied topic. Maintaining a "stable" text is assuredly not the answer.

17:1117:11, 12 July 2022 diff hist +1,356 Mohammad Gholi Majd In the interest of completeness and balance, quoted from Willem Floor's 2005 review of "The Great Famine and Genocide in Persia, 1917-1919".

21:3621:36, 10 July 2022 diff hist +565 Mohammad Gholi Majd Restored the 2013 edition of "The Great Famine & Genocide in Iran: 1917-1919, Second Edition" which had been inexplicably removed from the list of Majd's publications, and included an additional review of the original (2003) edition of the book.

03:4303:43, 5 May 2022 diff hist +87 Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran Corrected cited book's title and added isbn.

15:0315:03, 18 April 2022 diff hist +1 m Persian famine of 1870–1872 Name and title correction Tag: Reverted

03:5003:50, 17 April 2022 diff hist −2 m Persian famine of 1870–1872 Name correction Tag: Reverted
03:3003:30, 17 April 2022 diff hist +129 m Persian famine of 1870–1872 editorial changes Tag: Reverted

18:5318:53, 16 April 2022 diff hist −5 m Persian famine of 1870–1872 Page correction. Tag: Reverted
17:5517:55, 16 April 2022 diff hist +1,786 Persian famine of 1870–1872 Changed the death toll in the info box based on pre and post-famine population figures given by 19th century and contemporary writers. Tag: Reverted

21:2521:25, 19 March 2022 diff hist +1,607 Persian famine of 1917–1919 Some contemporary economists writing in the 1920s had indicated that the 1917-1919 famine toll was about 10 million.

16:4816:48, 5 March 2022 diff hist +969 Iranian famine of 1942–1943 Cited and quoted from the Holocaust Encyclopedia, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, on the impact of World War II on Iran.

16:3916:39, 2 March 2022 diff hist +2,029 Talk:Persian famine of 1917–1919 →Compilation of views on death toll

16:3716:37, 1 March 2022 diff hist +328 User talk:Moretonian Reply to message

17:4117:41, 21 February 2022 diff hist +1,800 Persian famine of 1917–1919 The inclusion of two contemporary sources on the death toll and the clarification provided necessitate an adjustment of the info box to reflect the same.

16:0416:04, 17 February 2022 diff hist −6 m Iranian famine of 1942–1943 Editorial and name correction.

17:3317:33, 15 February 2022 diff hist +1,034 Persian famine of 1870–1872 Included sources on the extent of depopulation in The Great Persian Famine and minor editorial changes. Tag: Reverted

16:3016:30, 2 February 2022 diff hist +15 m Persian famine of 1870–1872 Gender (Shoko Okazaki) and name (Henry Walter Bellew) corrections. Tag: Reverted

20:0420:04, 1 February 2022 diff hist +1,349 Persian famine of 1870–1872 Demographic Developments in Iran, 1800-1873. Tag: Reverted
15:5415:54, 1 February 2022 diff hist +30 m Iranian famine of 1942–1943 Comparison of pre and post famine population figures.

14:3014:30, 30 January 2022 diff hist +3,241 Iranian famine of 1942–1943 Undid revision 1068655534 by TheTimesAreAChanging (talk) Neither WW I famine nor WWII famine is acknowledged in Bharier. O Grada dishonestly uses Bharier's famine denial as the source for his claim that the WWII famine was "probably modest". See talk pages of the two famines. All edits and revisions based on the article's two cited sources, Majd 2016 and 2021, hence no legitimate reason for deleting them. Tag: Undo

01:4501:45, 29 January 2022 diff hist +3,241 Iranian famine of 1942–1943 Severity and Death Toll of World War II Iranian Famine Tag: Reverted

17:2617:26, 24 January 2022 diff hist +363 Persian famine of 1870–1872 The death toll reported in The New York Herald of July 29, 1871, added to the article. Tag: Reverted