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Talk:Junichiro Koizumi

"Early life" concern
It says under "early life" that Koizumi's father and grandfather were both gay.

One can only assume that this is vandalism... if anyone knows what it's actually supposed to say, please edit.

Thanks. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.252.101.231 (talk • contribs).

And beside his tattoo, is there any other evidence that his grandfather was "YAKUZA"? I am going to de-capitalize this at any rate. Kortoso (talk) 21:30, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

Let's get this article to FA status
What needs to be done to get this article to FA status? I think it's fairly close. ··· 日本穣 ? · Talk to Nihonjoe 05:01, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Although this wikipedia page states that he did not appoint a successor, a BBC news page states that "Mr Abe was appointed by his immediate predecessor, Junichiro Koizumi" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6990519.stm —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.44.210.235 (talk) 05:58, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 04:20, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

regarding picture
The olive baboon.jpg is the most ACCURATE depiction of koizumi. This is wikipedia, an online encyclopedia. All the facts contained within this article must be ACCURATE.

so do not revert the picture. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.215.168.209 (talk) 04:25, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Article title
This article should be at Jun'ichirō Koizumi, which is the correct romanization for the subject's name. The majority of articles about Japanese people (politicians and otherwise) use macrons and whatnot when needed; there's no reason for this one to be an exception. -Amake (talk) 13:29, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

popular culture referance
Here is a link to an anime that features Junichiro Koizumi as a character. In it he "negotiates" with what seems to be N. Korea. Other PMs of Japan are characters as well. http://www.zomganime.com/reform-without-wasted-draws-the-legend-of-koizumi-1/ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.118.35.121 (talk) 07:01, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

External links modified
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 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/20130606014104/http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20060617a7.html to http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20060617a7.html
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/20100602175340/http://news.yahoo.com/photo/070815/ids_photos_wl/r1219897673.jpg to http://news.yahoo.com/photo/070815/ids_photos_wl/r1219897673.jpg
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/20131203025619/http://archives.cnn.com/2001/BUSINESS/asia/06/11/japan.popularity/index.html to http://archives.cnn.com/2001/BUSINESS/asia/06/11/japan.popularity/index.html
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/20130527193035/http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Entertainment/20050329/gere_koizumi_050329/ to http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Entertainment/20050329/gere_koizumi_050329/

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Macron but no apostrophe?
What sources spell his given name with the macron but not the apostrophe? What a bizarre mix of spelling standards. Curly Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 07:39, 14 June 2016 (UTC)

Requested move 25 October 2016

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: Moved to Junichiro Koizumi – Clear consensus against the proposed transliteration + overwhelming dominance of spelling "o" without macron "ō" in English sources for this particular name. The WP:USEENGLISH guideline also supports the alternate move. Potential consequences on other Japanese language titles, as feared by the OP, should be debated on each relevant page; there is no domino effect. Nobody suggests to rename "Ōyamatsumi" to "Oyamatsumi", but nobody suggests to rename "Tokyo" to “Tōkyō“ either. — JFG talk 16:03, 19 November 2016 (UTC)

Junichirō Koizumi → Jun'ichirō Koizumi – Per MOS:JAPAN romanization – Curly "the jerk" Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 13:13, 25 October 2016 (UTC)
 * This is a contested technical request (permalink). — Andy W. ( talk ) 17:42, 25 October 2016 (UTC)

 * originally from WP:RMT: Oppose High profile as a former Prime Minister and isn't the current title the version of his name normally used in English? Timrollpickering (talk) 17:02, 25 October 2016 (UTC)
 * No, I know of no sources that use the macron but not the apostrophe. That would be really, really weird. Curly "the jerk" Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 21:51, 25 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Support—I know of no rationale to have the macron but not the apostrophe—the article requires either full diacritics or (in exceptional cases) none. The macron in the title of this article has never been contested, thus there is assumed to be consensus for the diacritics, as is the overwhelming case with Japanese politicians (Shinzō Abe, Tarō Asō, Renhō, and this article).  Having the macron but no apostrophe would be an exceptional case indeed.  I know of no precedent. Curly "the jerk" Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 21:31, 25 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Support as essential for reading. In ictu oculi (talk) 07:54, 26 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Oppose addition of an apostrophe and I also oppose the macron. All English-language reporting that I have seen both inside of and outside of Japan writes his name as "Junichiro".
 * Asahi Shimbun
 * The Japan Times
 * Jiji Press (Admittedly not a great example)
 * The Economist
 * The Guardian
 * And if that is not enough, how about:
 * Encyclopædia Britannica
 * Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs
 * his official profile from when he was Prime Minister
 * It would be great if non-Japanese speakers could learn how to pronounce Japanese names properly. I am not convinced that unfamiliar symbols appearing in the middle of a very familiar name will help with that task. (On a similar note, it would be great if Japanese people could learn how to pronounce my name properly, but I know it will never happen. Some things we just need to learn to live with.) AtHomeIn神戸 (talk) 00:43, 27 October 2016 (UTC)
 * "I also oppose the macron"—that would require a separate move discussion, as the macronned version is already established. Will you demand Shinzō Abe, Tarō Asō, Renhō, etc, etc, etc, all be moved as well?  This is not a rhetorical question.
 * The consensus for the macron is well established, but having the macron but not the apostrophe is unprecedented. The MoS gives little regard to the styling in newspaper sources, which tend to be "minimalist", not only dropping diacritics, but also not bothering to italicize titles.  Wikipedia follows more closely the norms of the book industry.  In books and academic papers, it's common to use full diacritics:, etc, etc, etc. Curly "the jerk" Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 01:08, 27 October 2016 (UTC)
 * The short answer to your question is yes. You have to consider the reader of the article. Which are they going to be more familiar with, the spelling used by their daily newspaper or a book? You are also discounting the fact it is the spelling used by the Japanese government and I presume Koizumi himself. AtHomeIn神戸 (talk) 01:16, 27 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Then you're in the wrong forum—you want Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style to vent about article titles with diacritics. This is an article where the diacritic version is already established, and the move is to bring it in line with MOS:JAPAN conventions, which it currently violates by including one mark and not the other. Curly "the jerk" Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 07:31, 27 October 2016 (UTC)
 * MOS:JAPAN you say? Would that be the page with the section titled determining common usage, which says in part "...scholarly reliable sources ... and mainstream media ... reliable sources are equally acceptable, and neither should be considered more valid than the other."? At the risk of repeating myself, "Junichiro" is certainly the common usage in everyday media that the majority of readers will be familiar with. AtHomeIn神戸 (talk) 08:07, 27 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Are you paying attention to the conversation? The diacriticked version of the article title is already established.  If you want to remove them, you'll have to start a new move request.  As long as we have them, we have to use the MOS:JAPAN-specified style.
 * (The "Milestones" page of that same official page you link to doesn't use diacritics of any kind, even for the romanizations in the "Publications" section. Thus, the lack of diacritics must be presumed to result from technical limitations, an in-house government style, or sheer laziness, and personal preference on the part of Koizumi cannot be presumed.)
 * (And as has already been demonstrated, journals and books already commonly use the diacriticked version, so WP:COMMONNAME doesn't apply—this ain't Yoko Ono. When there's mixed usage, MOS standards take precedence.  There are plenty of other romanizations in use as well, such as "Junichiroh" and "Junichirou".  Romanization in RSes is far too mixed for WP:COMMONNAME to override MOS:JAPAN—COMMONNAME apllies only situations like Yoko Ono's where use of the one non-standard spelling is simply overwhelming.) Curly "the jerk" Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 08:54, 27 October 2016 (UTC)

 * Oppose per Athomeinkobe.Deb (talk) 11:54, 27 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Oppose, also in agreement with Athomeinkobe about the macron. "Junichiro Koizumi" is also widely used in printed matter.    However I agree that it should fully match one of the styles and should therefore be changed from the current form to either having full diacritics or none.  Mineffle (talk) 02:33, 28 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Mineffle: your rationale doesn't seem to actually "oppose" the move ...? Regardless, a title is not eligible for WP:COMMONNAME simply by being "in common use"—in this case both macronned and non-macronned versions are in common use, thus the default is to follow MOS:JAPAN conventions. Curly "the jerk" Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 03:28, 28 October 2016 (UTC)
 * My apologies. To be clear, I oppose this move, but would support a move to "Junichiro Koizumi." (However, I agree that "Jun'ichirō Koizumi" is an improvement on the current page name.) MOS:JAPAN states that the form personally or professionally used by the person, if available in the English/Latin alphabet (this can include the spelling appearing on their official website) or the form publicly used on behalf of the person in the English-speaking world should be used before the diatricked version. I think that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cabinet websites posted by Athomeinkobe above should be enough to fulfill these criteria, supporting the spelling Junichiro Koizumi. Mineffle (talk) 04:02, 28 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Mineffle—as I pointed out above, the govenrment websites use no diacritics of any kind anywhere, and therefore cannot be taken as a preference of the individuals. Relying on these pages would mean banning diacritics from all Japan pages, including place names and historical figures.  That would require an overahaul of MOS:JAPAN, which cannot be decided on this talk page. Curly "the jerk" Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 05:14, 28 October 2016 (UTC)

 * Comment. I support "Jun'ichirō Koizumi" over the current "Junichirō Koizumi" as it is a better romanisation, but I support "Junichiro Koizumi" over both, as that seems to be overwhelmingly the form used in English-language sources. Some great sources have been given above, and to those I would like to add that a Google Books search for "Junichiro Koizumi" gets 8840 hits, whereas a search for "Jun'ichirō Koizumi" gets only 281. I sympathise with the desire to keep the titles of politician biographies consistent, but as it is written, MOS:JAPAN puts common usage above consistency. — Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 05:59, 28 October 2016 (UTC)
 * I get 374 hits for "Jun'ichirō Koizumi" and a further 466 for "Koizumi Jun'ichirō". The diacriticked versions are also very common in journals—"Junichiro Koizumi" is hardly "overwhelming", and not the COMMONNAME as WP:COMMONNAME defines it.  Using such a rationale for Koizumi's article will logically result in a ban on macrons in article titles, as newssources avoid them.  That woulld be hugely disruptive—how many thousands (?) of articles will have to be moved?  Places, people, titles, ideas, culture (all the way down to Genkō yōshi, which gets 4,940 hits without the macrons) ... to what benefit?  Anyone who does a search for "Koizumi Junichiro" (which gets 20,000 Google hits) will already arrive at the correct article through redirects.
 * This is all pointlessly disruptive with no benefit to readers or editors. Curly "the jerk" Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 09:27, 28 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep in mind that the proposal to rely on pop sources for the formatting contradicts WP:JATITLE, which explicates spelling should follow that used "in academic journals and texts". Curly "the jerk" Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 09:45, 28 October 2016 (UTC)
 * If you are going to quote WP:JATITLE, then I think you should quote it in full. Follow the usage of academic texts or a widely used reference such as a published encyclopedia in matters of spelling, macron usage, and name order. That is just an introductory line to the section on "Personal names", which continues with the subsection modern names. It provides five criteria of decreasing importance, with "Use the form found in an encyclopedia entry from a generally accepted English encyclopedia" as option #2. The published encyclopedia Britannica has no macrons. They list Jun'ichirō as an alternative, which means the editors have considered it but do not prefer it. Your suggestion of defaulting to macrons is actually the fifth and final option of modern names, when no other options are applicable. AtHomeIn神戸 (talk) 00:51, 31 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Britannica is extremely random in its use of macrons—it prefers macrons for Hideki Tōjō, for example, which Wikipedia doesn't use. Regardless, the macronned form is the default use, to be used except when superseded by an official alternative, etc.  As there is no established spelling of Koizumi's given name, and usage is extremely mixed, it defaults to the default.  Otherwise, you're proposing an extreme disruption of potentially thousands of WP:JAPAN articles.  Please tell us what your plans are for those thousands of articles, AtHomeIn神戸. Curly "the jerk" Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 06:58, 31 October 2016 (UTC)
 * What you call "random", I would call Britannica's editors being careful in what they recoginse as the most appropriate form to use in each case, rather than trying to apply one rule to thousands of articles. Remember, we are discussing one article here, not thousands. If the default was some sort of golden rule then why even start this discussion? In the case of this article, which is the sole topic of this thread, the weight of usage clearly lies in the non-macron form. That has been made clear by myself and others above.
 * For the sake of completeness, let's look at the full list of criteria in modern names:
 * Use the form personally or professionally used by the person, if available I cannot find any social media profile except for a Twitter account which says J. Koizumi. It has a link to the Japanese version of the Kantei website but not the English one, meaning he must endorse the Kantei's writing to a certain extent (but I would not rely upon that).
 * Use the form found in an encyclopedia entry from a generally accepted English encyclopedia As mentioned above, Britannica favours no macrons.
 * Use the form publicly used on behalf of the person in the English-speaking world That would cover the Kantei and MoFA examples provided above, both of which favour no macrons.
 * Use the form publicly used on behalf of the person in any other popular Latin-alphabet-using language I haven't looked for any sources that fit this category. If Koizumi doesn't have an English bio on Twitter, I doubt he has a German one.
 * If none of the above is available, use the macronned form. Because #2 and #3 are both available, defaulting to macrons is not required.
 * It is clear in this case, from both the policy described in WP:JATITLE and common usage that the non-macron form of Junichiro is appropriate in this case. Throwing up distractions like genkō yōshi (which is a type of paper, not a person) or the prospect of affecting "thousands of articles" is just that, a distraction. AtHomeIn神戸 (talk) 07:26, 31 October 2016 (UTC)
 * "I would call Britannica's editors being careful in what they recoginse as the most appropriate form to use in each case"—sounds to me like more "assumptions" of yours, along the line with the bogus assumption that the J-gov page somehow could be "assumed" to represent Koizumi's preferences. I notice you haven't retracted (or even acknowledged) that.  The fact is Wikipedia does not use the forms Britannica does, and deciding now to do so will result in a large number of pointless page moves.
 * "we are discussing one article here, not thousand"—no, we are talking about you insisting that the form used in newspapers etc is the form we must use on Wikipedia, which would result in thousands of article moves. Address this, and stop dodging. Curly "the jerk" Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 23:44, 31 October 2016 (UTC)
 * We also need to note your bias against diacritics in general and your tendency to leave them out of articles you create: Kosuke Kato, Toru Takahashi (baseball), Kenichi Marumo, Ryuya Matsumoto, Yuko Sato, Akio Sato (politician, born 1927). Trying to create some sort of precedent with Koizumi?  No, removing the diacritics from Koizumi will obviously have wide ramifications, and will require a larger RfC—it cannot be decided on this talk page.  Stop trying to downplay this. Curly "the jerk" Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 23:56, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

 * Move to Junichiro Koizumi per and others above. The diacritics don't help with pronunciation, and they are very often not found in English language sources, hence we should omit them.  — Amakuru (talk) 13:41, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Again, a rationale that would lead to the barring of diacritics from titles, which cannot be decided on this talk page. "... don't help with pronunciation" is just bizarre—what are they, random decoration? Curly "the jerk" Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 21:20, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Well sort of. Given that Japanese doesn't actually use the Latin alphabet at all, these are not diacritics in the native sense. They are part of a particular system used to help English speakers who are familiar with them to do the exact pronunciation of the word. In this case, however, that's irrelevant, as this is a well known figure with a well known English name, which almost universally omits any such diacritics. — Amakuru (talk) 22:56, 2 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Amakuru: "Almost universally" has already been shown to be false. If you mean in newspapers, then you really are proposing removing diacritics in general, as newspapers tend to omit diacritics from French and German names as well, as well as many other kinds of formatting.  Wikipedia does not follow newspaper formatting conventions.  As I've said numerous times now: this cannot be decided on this page. Curly "the jerk" Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 23:03, 2 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Yes, so I see. You have repeated that over and over, but nobody else agrees with you. We are discussing this one article, about a former PM of Japan, a well known figure akin to a Novak Djokovic. It does not impinge upon WP:JATITLE in particular, given that Britannica also uses that form (as mentioned above), and given also that WP:COMMONNAME, (established Wikipedia policy), is also met only by the diacritic-less form. If you want to take the result of this one RM and infer that some change in JATITLE is required, then you go on ahead and propose that change. But I don't believe that's necessary, and it does not affect the fact that this article needs moving to the diacritic-less form. — Amakuru (talk) 23:24, 2 November 2016 (UTC)
 * "nobody else agrees with you"—if nobody else agreed with me that the world wasn't flat, it wouldn't get any flatter (see WP:CONSENSUS, which explicitly rejects hand-counting). The fact remains that usage is mixed (thus failing WP:COMMONNAME), and that the primary argument put forth is that newspapers don't use diacritics (case in point—will you argue the cédille be dropped from François Hollande?).  This is an argument Wikipedia rejects—the consequence otherwise will be barring diacritics and other marks from Wikipedia titles, which cannot be decided here. Curly "the jerk" Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 00:05, 3 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Oppose; Move to Junichiro Koizumi. According to this Google Ngram, the common rendering is without diacriticals. This makes sense since they are not useful to me or, I expect, most people. I'm glad to lose the macron -- that "o" at the end of his name can't be anything other than long, otherwise the spelling would be different -- but the apostrophe, what is that supposed to mean? Do I make a little stutter-pause there or what? Stuff that 1) goes against common usage and 2) adds nothing but confusion for most readers, we don't need. Herostratus (talk) 01:22, 3 November 2016 (UTC)
 * (a) yet another rationale that would ban diacritics and other marks entirely, which cannot be decided on this page.
 * (b) Google NGRAM does not recognize diacritics—the first hint should have been when you noticed NGRAM returns zero hits for "Jun'ichirō" (even without the "Koizumi"), when we know we can get an awful lot of GBooks hits for "Jun'ichirō Koizumi" OR "Koizumi Jun'ichirō" -"Junichiro". NGRAM results cannot be accepted for determining diacritic use.
 * (c) "that "o" at the end of his name can't be anything other than long"—you'll have to explain this, Herostratus. It most certainly does not have to be long, and vowel length is quite important in Japanese.  We have, for example, the Mori clan and the Mōri clan, Oguchi and Ōguchi.  This is not trivial. Curly "the jerk" Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 05:57, 3 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Yes, sure. For any English word ending in "-chiro", the last syllable will be pronunced "roh" (or "roe" if you prefer) -- the long "o" sound. That is a rule of English orthography (there may be exceptions for some particular words but that's the normal rule. It it were to be pronounced differently, it would be spelt "-chirah" or "-chiroo" or whatever. Thus if I come across even a made-up word-- "brebo" say -- I know it should end in "boh" (the "bre" is a thornier matter, as is the "chi" in Junichiro). Herostratus (talk) 18:36, 5 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Foreign words are not automatically assumed to be pronounced according to the rules of English orthography. How do you pronounce karate or kamikaze, after all?  Or je ne sais quoi?  If you don't know how to pronounce it, you can (a) ignore it, or (b) find out.  This is the Internet Age, after all. Curly "the jerk" Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 21:19, 5 November 2016 (UTC)

 * Oppose; Move to Junichiro Koizumi instead. Yes, perhaps we should be less inclined to include diacritics in article titles. This might even be a good test case of that. A title is chosen to best help the (English) reader identify the article they want. Diacritics may sometimes help in that, but in this case they clearly do not. Details of pronunciation generally belong in the article lede, not in the title. Andrewa (talk) 10:17, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

 * Comment Google Book search results are as follows per WP:COMMOMNAME.
 * "Junichiro Koizumi" -"Junichirō Koizumi" -"Jun'ichirō Koizumi" -"Jun'ichiro Koizumi" 9,970
 * "Junichirō Koizumi" -"Junichiro Koizumi" -"Jun'ichirō Koizumi" -"Jun'ichiro Koizumi" 162
 * "Jun'ichirō Koizumi" -"Junichiro Koizumi" -"Junichirō Koizumi" -"Jun'ichiro Koizumi" 110
 * "Jun'ichiro Koizumi" -"Junichiro Koizumi" -"Junichirō Koizumi" -"Jun'ichirō Koizumi" 252
 * ―― Phoenix7777 (talk) 10:32, 3 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Phoenix7777—your links are broken—they point to Google, not GBooks. Curly "the jerk" Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 10:37, 3 November 2016 (UTC)
 * I don't think so. They are Google book results. Please try again.―― Phoenix7777 (talk) 10:46, 3 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Phoenix7777: click the links. Curly "the jerk" Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 11:14, 3 November 2016 (UTC)
 * They all lead to Google books when I follow them (although I did get one strange result but now can't reproduce it), and my results are even more favourable to Junichiro Koizumi than those quoted above. Clear your cache and try again. If that doesn't work, try rebooting both your computer and any local modem and/or router you have (at once I suggest, trying to save time will just waste it more likely). Andrewa (talk) 11:20, 3 November 2016 (UTC)
 * All I'm getting is Google. Oh, well. Curly "the jerk" Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 12:32, 3 November 2016 (UTC)
 * You may have some weird glitch with your Google profile, if you're logged on to Google, or some weird Google cookie if not. Probably a bug as I can't imagine why they'd do it deliberately. You could try clearing cookies and/or logging off from Google, but Google tends to be pretty possessive of its users (try DuckDuckGo if that bothers you, but Wikipedia tends to stick with Google as, ironically, DDG gives extra weight to Wikipedia pages, which is the last thing we want for measuring usage). So I can't guarantee any way of cutting the knot. So next best thing, follow the link then click on the "books" link, which is probably on a line near the top that reads something like "All Images News Videos Books More Search Tools" (again you're at the mercy of cookies and profiles) and should have had "Books" highlighted but I guess you're getting "All". The "Books" link should take you to the page the rest of us get... You've probably done that already, does it work? Do you get similar results for Books (which was the real question all along)? Andrewa (talk) 19:43, 3 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Well, the other funny thing is it's cutting out the -"unwanted text" parts. The GBooks link I made above works properly. Curly "the jerk" Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 21:27, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

 * Comment. I think claiming that the "move to Junichiro" argument is based largely on the spelling in newspaper/pop sources is an oversimplification--as covered above, the non-diacritic version is more prevalent in encyclopedias, on the Japanese government websites, in | United Nations publications, and in the majority of academic texts, not solely "pop" sources. Although CurlyTurkey has previously stated 500 sources to be "quite a lot", the diacriticked version represents such a small fraction of published academic works (from the above figures it would be about 7% at the most generous) that I'm struggling to see how WP:Common Name doesn't apply. Obviously English-language sources will tend toward non-diacritic spelling due to convenience, so we should perhaps give more weight to diacritics when they do appear, but in this case none of the sources directly linked to Koizumi use the diacritic spelling either.
 * (Note: Possibly an odd source, but the | Elvis compilation CD released by Koizumi also uses the non-diacritic spelling, which could add more weight to personal/professional use of "Junichiro".) Mineffle (talk) 03:15, 4 November 2016 (UTC)
 * The pop sources argument has been given considerable weight in the discussion, and several editors here have called for the removal of diacritics in general based on such arguments. We can't pretend the diacriticked version is in the least bit rare or unusual, nor can we pretend the arguments are limited to this article. Curly "the jerk" Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 03:24, 4 November 2016 (UTC)

 * Support Junichiro Koizumi. As demonstrated above, the subject is most commonly known in English sources without the diacritics.--Cúchullain t/ c 18:02, 7 November 2016 (UTC)

Arbitrary break
Just running the numbers to this point, so far I get: (The one debatable vote is User:Deb who just said "Oppose per Athomeinkobe"; since Athomeinkobe supports a move to Junichiro Koizumi, I assume Deb probably does also.)
 * Move to Jun'ichirō Koizumi: 2
 * Move to Junichiro Koizumi: 7
 * Keep as is (Junichirō Koizumi): 2
 * I oppose a move to Jun'ichirō Koizumi, which is what I thought was being debated. Maybe I got lost somewhere along the way. Deb (talk) 18:39, 9 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Yes, correct, alright, I will change to you just "keep as is"; it's just that you were "per Athomeinkobe" and Athomeinkobe is of the mind "Not only don't move it to Jun'ichirō Koizumi, but actually move it Junichiro Koizumi without even the macron". Herostratus (talk) 20:13, 9 November 2016 (UTC)

Strength of argument is debatable I guess. But just going by the numbers the result looks pretty clear to me, unless there are more votes. Herostratus (talk) 15:35, 9 November 2016 (UTC) CN¥
 * Note to closer: please keep in mind the effect this move will have on articles throughout WP:JAPAN, including rather specialist ones such as Emperor Kōrei (40 with, 129 without) and Ōyamatsumi (65 with, 211 without). Curly "the jerk" Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 03:27, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

 * "should be debated on each relevant page"—what an enormous, soul-draining waste of time that would be. Thanks for the mess.  See you all at Shinzō Abe? Curly "the jerk" Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 21:09, 19 November 2016 (UTC)

 * Comment If I had been allowed participate in the discussion in 2016, I would have definitely supported the move as proposed. 7-4 might be a "clear consensus" based simply on the headcount, but 7-5 is not, and interpreting the divide between those who support-the-use-of-the-macron-but-not-the-apostrophe and those who support-the-use-of-both-the-macron-and-the-apostrophe as meaning that the tiny majority who support-removing-both-the-macron-and-the-apostrophe represent a popular compromise position is bizarre. The claim the closer made that "there is no domino effect" is also clearly wrong. Hijiri 88 ( 聖やや ) 09:25, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

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almost all Japanese politicians (kono taro, sato eisaku, aso taro, and we changed abe shinzo's) use the macron (ō.) to be consistent, we should move the article over the redirect. (also i am aware of the above discussion, but that was discussed more than 5 years ago.) CringeButSerious (talk) 03:32, 4 December 2021 (UTC)

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Robert E. Lee (playwright)

Robert Edwin Lee (October 15, 1918 – July 8, 1994) was an American playwright and lyricist. In the early years of World War II, Lee partnered with Jerome Lawrence to create Armed Forces Radio while serving together in the U.S. Army. Lawrence and Lee became the most prolific writing partnership in radio, with such long-running series as Favorite Story among others.

Life and career
Lee was born in Elyria, Ohio, the son of Elvira (née Taft), a teacher, and C. Melvin Lee, an engineer. He attended Ohio Wesleyan University.

Lawrence and Lee turned to the live theatre in 1955 with Inherit the Wind, which remains among the most-produced plays in the American theatre. They are also well known for the plays Auntie Mame and First Monday in October. In 1965, Lawrence and Lee founded the American Playwrights' Theatre, a plan to bypass the commerciality of the Broadway stage, which foreshadowed the professional regional theatre movement. Their wildly successful play, The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, was produced through the American Playwrights Theatre, and premiered at Lawrence's alma mater, Ohio State University, which also commissioned their play on the life and times of James Thurber, Jabberwock (1972).

In all, they collaborated on 39 works, and, with James Hilton, a 1956 musical adaptation of Hilton's novel Lost Horizon, entitled Shangri-La. They also adapted Auntie Mame into the hit musical Mame with composer Jerry Herman, which won a Tony Award for its star, Angela Lansbury. Less successful was the Lawrence and Lee collaboration with Herman, also starring Lansbury, Dear World, a musical adaptation of Jean Giraudoux's The Madwoman of Chaillot.

Several of Lawrence and Lee's plays draw on events from United States history to speak to contemporary issues. Inherit the Wind (1955) addressed intellectual freedom and McCarthyism by speaking of a fictionalized Scopes Monkey Trial. The Gang's All Here (1959) examined government corruption in the 1920s. The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail (1970) was a Vietnam-era exploration of Thoreau's resistance to an earlier war.

The Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute, a theater research facility and archive was dedicated in Lawrence and Lee's honor at the Ohio State University in 1986.

Personal life
Lee was married to actress Janet Waldo (the voice of many well-known cartoon characters, including Judy Jetson) from 1948 until his death in 1994. Together they had two children, Jonathan Barlow Lee, the production manager for Center Theatre Group's Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, and Lucy Lee, who teaches Clinical Management Communication at the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, in Los Angeles.

Death
Lee died from cancer on July 8, 1994, in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 75. He is buried in Forest Lawn – Hollywood Hills Cemetery.

Works (partial)

 * Look, Ma, I'm Dancin'! – 1948 (book of musical)
 * Inherit the Wind – 1955 (play)
 * Shangri-La – 1956 (book & lyrics of musical)
 * Auntie Mame – 1956 (play)
 * The Gang's All Here – 1959 (play)
 * Only in America – 1959 – (play)
 * A Call on Kuprin – 1961 – (play)
 * Diamond Orchid – 1965 – (play)
 * Mame – 1966 – (book of musical based on his play Auntie Mame)
 * Dear World – 1969 (book of musical)
 * The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail – 1970 (play)
 * The Incomparable Max – 1971 (play)
 * Jabberwock – 1972 (play)
 * Blackbeard The Pirate- 1974 (book)
 * First Monday in October – 1978 – (play)

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Why was this page created, even as a redirect? His name was Robert Edward Lee, not Robert Edwin Lee. Why would anyone look for this page? RickK 04:13, 11 Nov 2003 (UTC)
 * That would be the general, no? --Tothebarricades 01:51, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

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The Iron Sheik

Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri (, romanized: Hossein Xosrô 'Ali Vaziri; March 15, 1942 – June 7, 2023), better known by his ring name the Iron Sheik, was an Iranian professional wrestler, amateur wrestler, and actor. He was the first, and so far only, Iranian champion in WWE history, having won the WWF World Heavyweight Championship in 1983.

This villainous character peaked during the 1980s WWF wrestling boom and his rivalry with Hulk Hogan turned Hogan into one of the greatest television heroes of the decade. He later formed a tag team with Nikolai Volkoff, which won the WWF Tag Team Championship at the inaugural WrestleMania event. In 2005, he was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame.

A heel throughout the 1980s, Sheik later gained popularity on Kidd Chris, The Howard Stern Show, Opie and Anthony, and the Internet due to his shoot interviews, vulgar language, and apparent intense dislike for some of his fellow professional wrestlers, particularly Hogan and Brian Blair; however, the true nature of his relationship with Hogan has been a subject of debate.

Early life and amateur wrestling
Vaziri was born in 1942, in Damghan, Imperial State of Iran, and grew up in a working-class family which had little money and no running water. Although his passport read March 15, he celebrated his birthday on September 9 due to his family alternating between the Gregorian calendar and the Solar Hijri calendar. In his youth, he idolized Iranian Olympic champion wrestler Gholamreza Takhti, and he subsequently made a name for himself as an amateur wrestler. He also worked as a bodyguard for Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and his family for several years.

Vaziri competed for a spot on Iran's Greco-Roman wrestling team for the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. After Takhti was mysteriously found dead in 1968, Vaziri began fearing for his safety and decided to emigrate to the United States to advance his career. In 1971, he was the AAU Greco-Roman wrestling champion at 180.5 lbs. He later became assistant coach to the USA team for the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich.

Early career (1972–1979)
In 1972, Vaziri was invited to become a professional wrestler by promoter Verne Gagne. Vaziri trained in the same class as Ric Flair at Gagne's wrestling camp under trainer Billy Robinson and then wrestled for Gagne's American Wrestling Association (AWA). He also worked as a trainer, teaching Ricky Steamboat, Greg Gagne and Jim Brunzell. Vaziri first wrestled as a face in preliminary matches before a promoter suggested that he adopt a heel gimmick similar to that of the notorious Sheik.

Vaziri obliged and adopted what came to be his signature look: He shaved his head bald, grew a traditional "buffo" style mustache and added wrestling boots with the toe curled up — a nod to his ethnic background, which, according to Vaziri, was an idea from Jimmy Snuka. He also introduced the Persian clubs, a sport in his native Iran, and challenged wrestlers to do as many swings as he. His Iranian gimmick received attention due to the events of the Iranian Revolution. Taking the name The Great Hossein Arab, he won his first title, the Canadian Tag Team Championship, with a partner the Texas Outlaw. He wrestled in Japan against the likes of Steve Day and Antonio Inoki in 1978.

World Wrestling Federation (1979–1980)
In 1979, he caught the eye of the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) where he made his debut in 1979 and won the first-ever Battle Royal in Madison Square Garden, New York City. This earned him a title shot at then-champion Bob Backlund, who pinned him later that night in a 30-minute battle. He later feuded with Chief Jay Strongbow and Bruno Sammartino before leaving in 1980.

Jim Crockett Promotions (1980–1981)
In April 1980, Vaziri began wrestling for the Charlotte, North Carolina-based Jim Crockett Promotions. He wrestled a handful of matches as "Hussein Arab" before settling on "The Iron Sheik". His villainous persona played upon topical events such as the Iran hostage crisis. He quickly began feuding with Jim Brunzell over the NWA Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight Championship, defeating him for the championship in May 1980. He successfully defended the championship in bouts with opponents including Brunzell, Sweet Ebony Diamond, and Johnny Weaver before losing to Ricky Steamboat in a falls count anywhere match in November 1980. In February 1981, Vaziri began feuding with Blackjack Mulligan. The two men faced one another in a series of bouts including cage matches and Texas street fights lasting until May 1981. In July 1981, Vaziri unsuccessfully challenged Dusty Rhodes for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship. Vaziri left Jim Crockett Promotions in August 1981.

Mid-South Wrestling (1981–1982)
In September 1981, Vaziri joined the Louisiana-based Mid-South Wrestling promotion. He left the promotion in January 1982, making brief returns in October 1982.

Championship Wrestling from Florida (1982)
In January 1982, Vaziri joined Championship Wrestling from Florida. He left the promotion at the end of February 1982.

Georgia Championship Wrestling (1982–1983)
In July 1982, Vaziri returned to Georgia Championship Wrestling for the first time since 1974. In May 1983, he won a tournament for the vacant NWA National Television Championship. His reign lasted until July 1983, when he lost to Ronnie Garvin. Vaziri left the promotion the following month.

WWF World Heavyweight Champion (1983–1984)
The Iron Sheik returned to the WWF in 1983 and challenged Bob Backlund for WWF World Heavyweight Championship again. Backlund accepted, and on the December 24 episode of All- American Wrestling, also accepted Sheik's weekly Persian club challenge. He was successful in his third attempt to swing the clubs, and the Sheik immediately attacked him from behind, injuring his neck in a work. In the December 26 title bout at Madison Square Garden, Backlund attempted to roll Sheik into a bridge pin, but this aggravated his work-weakened neck. Sheik capitalized by applying his Camel Clutch chin lock finisher. Backlund didn't submit, but his concerned manager Arnold Skaaland threw in the towel and forfeited the championship in a work in order to transition to Hulk Hogan without Hogan having to face a babyface champion.

The Iron Sheik rematched Backlund indecisively at house shows and primarily defended the title against Chief Jay Strongbow, as well as Pat Patterson and Salvatore Bellomo. On national TV, he defeated only jobbers, but wrestled Tito Santana on a live PRISM broadcast from The Spectrum in Philadelphia on January 21, 1984. This match was later included in WWE's Legends of Wrestling 3 compilation.

Two days later, at Madison Square Garden, The Iron Sheik was scheduled to rematch Backlund, who was replaced by Hulk Hogan. Five minutes in, Sheik had Hogan locked in the Camel Clutch. Hogan powered to his feet with Sheik still on his back, rammed him backward into the turnbuckles, and hit his Atomic Legdrop for the pin and the championship. According to The Iron Sheik, Gagne had offered him $100,000 to break Hogan's leg during the match and return to the AWA with the WWF title, though Gagne's son Greg Gagne has disputed this claim.

He then bitterly feuded with Sgt. Slaughter, winning a few matches by disqualification, but losing the rest by pinfall or submission, including a "Boot Camp Rules" match.

Teaming with Nikolai Volkoff (1985–1987)
As a tag team partner with Nikolai Volkoff, and under the management of "Classy" Freddie Blassie, Iron Sheik won the WWF (World) Tag Team Championship from The U.S. Express (Barry Windham and Mike Rotundo) at the first WrestleMania at Madison Square Garden when he knocked out Windham from behind with Blassie's cane. Part of the pair's regular entrance consisted of waving the flags of Iran and the Soviet Union, then demanding that the crowd be quiet and "show respect" while Volkoff sang a throaty version of the Soviet national anthem, a demand that usually only attracted boos from the usually pro-American crowds.

Sheik then usually grabbed the mic and said, "Iran number 1, Russia number 1, USA (and Canada) (followed by a simulated spitting act)." It was all designed (very successfully) to get major heat from the crowd. He also got heat in his interviews with "Mean Gene" by concluding with the demand "Hey cameraman, zoom it," as he flexed his muscles. During his stint in the WWF, he appeared in the music video for Cyndi Lauper's "Goonies 'R' Good Enough" as a part of the Rock 'n' Wrestling Connection. The Iron Sheik character was also seen regularly on the CBS animated series Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling, where he was voiced by American actor Aron Kincaid.

During 1986, Fred Blassie was beginning to wind down his career and as part of the angle, eventually sold his wrestlers contracts to new WWF manager Slick before retiring. This included the Sheik and Nikolai Volkoff who would now be managed by the "Doctor of Style". The Sheik was a participant in the 20-man invitational Battle royal in the Chicago portion of WrestleMania 2 which saw 14 WWF superstars in the ring with 6 National Football League (NFL) players. The Sheik was the 13th participant eliminated, at 5:22 by Bruno Sammartino.

Arrest and departure (1987)
In May 1987, "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan (an on-screen rival) and Vaziri were pulled over by New Jersey State Police on their way to a WWF event, suspecting Duggan of DUI. After a search of the vehicle and the persons, police discovered that Duggan was under the influence of marijuana while the Sheik was high on cocaine. Small amounts of cocaine were also found in the vehicle. Duggan received a conditional release while the Sheik was placed on probation for a year. The mini-scandal that erupted after two in-ring enemies were found drinking and doing drugs together led to the end of the angle, the Sheik's release, and Duggan's temporary departure from the WWF. At the time, the Sheik and Volkoff were embroiled in a feud with the patriotic Duggan. Before the Sheik's release from the company, he and Volkoff had defeated The Killer Bees ("Jumping" Jim Brunzell and B. Brian Blair) by disqualification at WrestleMania III in front of 93,173 at the Pontiac Silverdome when Duggan had hit the Sheik from behind with his 2x4 piece of wood while he had Brunzell in the Camel Clutch. After Sheik's arrest, he worked in house shows against Jim Duggan until leaving the WWF in October 1987.

Second return (1988)
On February 18, 1988, The Iron Sheik returned to the WWF and defeated S. D. Jones on a house show at the Meadowlands Arena in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Sheik continued to wrestle on house shows in February and March, beating Lanny Poffo and Ken Patera, and losing to Bam Bam Bigelow. He would not appear on television until July 18, when he defeated Scott Casey in a match that aired on Prime Time Wrestling.

Sheik continued to wrestle that summer, facing Casey in rematches as well as Richard Charland and The Red Rooster in house shows in the States and Canada. During his matches, comments were regularly made about the Iron Sheik's weight gain and diminished mobility. Iron Sheik had also cut promos to challenge then-World Champion "Macho Man" Randy Savage, but nothing came of it. Ultimately the return was short-lived. He left again in July of that year.

WCCW, AWA, and WWC (1987–1989)
In 1987, The Iron Sheik competed in Dallas' World Class Championship Wrestling (WCCW), where he feuded with Matt Borne over the WCWA Texas Heavyweight Championship. He stayed with that organization for only a few months, followed by brief stints with the AWA, where he attacked Sgt. Slaughter during a match, and Puerto Rico's World Wrestling Council (WWC). In addition to reigniting his feud with Slaughter and teaming with Colonel DeBeers, his main opponent during this time period was Tony Atlas, with whom he feuded in both WCCW and WWC.

NWA World Championship Wrestling (1989–1991)
On February 25, 1989, the Iron Sheik made a surprise appearance at a World Championship Wrestling (WCW) TV taping in Atlanta, Georgia and immediately challenged Ricky Steamboat. On April 11, he challenged Sting at a television taping to a Persian clubs swinging competition. On the April 29 episode, the competition ensued which Sting admitted that Sheik had won, leading to a match between the two at Music City Showdown. On May 7 the two faced off, and Sheik was defeated by TV Champion Sting. In August 1989, he would form a brief alliance with Ron Simmons, appearing in his corner during a match with Jon Brewer. He would appear later that month in the corner of Simmons & The Cuban Assassin in a victory over Tommy Rich and Eddie Gilbert. On August 26, Simmons and Sheik were guests of Paul E. Dangerously's "Danger Zone", where he admitted that he was now training Simmons and was looking for a tag-team partner for him. The angle was eventually dropped and Simmons went on to team with Butch Reed as Doom, while Sheik finished his initial WCW tenure in house show matches against Norman in January 1990.

The Iron Sheik would return after a seven-month absence following Ole Anderson's elevation to head booker. A lapse in issuing a contract notice allowed Sheik's one-year deal to accidentally roll over and continue to work with the company. On July 7 at Great American Bash 1990 he faced Mike Rotunda in a losing effort in his first match back. He wrestled Brian Pillman, Tom Zenk, Terry Taylor, Brad Armstrong, and Big Van Vader on the house show circuit through the fall and winter of 1990. His final match was against the Junkyard Dog on January 26, 1991, in Columbia, South Carolina, after which he left the company.

Third return to the WWF (1991–1992)
He returned to the WWF again on March 11, 1991, making his re-debut on Wrestling Challenge as Colonel Mustafa, and was aligned with former enemy Sgt. Slaughter. Along with Iraqi General Adnan, Slaughter and Mustafa were portrayed as Iraqi sympathizers during the Gulf War and feuded with Hulk Hogan and The Ultimate Warrior. Following Slaughter's face turn after SummerSlam 1991, Mustafa remained aligned with Adnan. He dropped to a lower mid-card position, primarily losing matches against faces such as Slaughter, Tito Santana, British Bulldog, Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat, "Texas Tornado" Kerry von Erich, "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan, and Tatanka. Mustafa would challenge for the WWF World Championship during the star-studded 1992 Royal Rumble match. Shortly thereafter, Adnan left the WWF and Mustafa would be without a manager for his final four months with the company, His final match was at a Superstars taping on May 19, 1992, where he defeated Reno Riggins, after which he left the promotion again.

Sporadic appearances in the WWF/E (1996–2023)
In late 1996, the Sheik teamed with his old nemesis Bob Backlund to manage WWF wrestler The Sultan, who had a Middle Eastern gimmick. He would manage Sultan until December 1997. He also for a time during the summer of 1997 co-managed Tiger Ali Singh (with Ali's father, Tiger Jeet Singh). By year's end he had failed another drug test (he has referred to this as a "medicine test" in various interviews) and was released.

On April 1, 2001, at WrestleMania X-Seven, The Iron Sheik won the Gimmick Battle Royal, a match between other popular or outlandish wrestlers from the 1980s and 1990s. Rather than being booed for winning, the villainous Sheik (who had gained something of a cult following among wrestling fans) was cheered as a fan favorite. He eliminated Hillbilly Jim to win the Battle Royal and was immediately attacked by former rival/partner Sgt. Slaughter who put him in his Cobra clutch.

In 2005, before WrestleMania 21 in Los Angeles, The Iron Sheik was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame by his long-time rival and former partner, Sgt. Slaughter. On the June 11, 2007, episode of Raw, he, along with Jimmy Snuka, appeared in a taped segment showing their appreciation of WWE owner Vince McMahon. On the June 18 episode of Raw, he approached McMahon's executive assistant Jonathan Coachman about having his own interview show on Raw. Coach replied saying, "I like the idea and I will really take some time to consider it."

Sheik's last match was on April 24, 2010, teaming with Jay Lethal defeating Dylan Kage with Paul Bearer in a handicap match for Millennium Wrestling Federation in Melrose, Massachusetts. It was a No Disqualification/Countout Match ending when Sheik made Kage submit to the camel clutch on the floor.

Film career
The Iron Sheik made his film debut in The Tale of the 3 Mohammads in 2005. He then appeared alongside Daniel Baldwin and Corey Feldman in Operation Belvis Bash in 2011. Sheik also made an appearance on the Canadian show Kenny vs. Spenny on the "Who is a better pro wrestler?" episode where he attempted to sodomize a naked Spenny with a beer bottle. He also appeared in Maz Jobrani's 2009 stand-up comedy special Brown & Friendly. The Sheik made an appearance as himself in Robot Chicken, as well as The Eric André Show on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim. In 2014, The Iron Sheik acted in a documentary about his life titled "The Sheik."

Personal life
Vaziri was a Shia Muslim and a former soldier in the Imperial Iranian Army. He married American Caryl Peterson on March 21, 1976; the best man at the wedding was "Mean" Gene Okerlund (whom the Sheik often referred to as "Gene Mean" in his broken English). His eldest daughter Marissa Jeanne Vaziri was murdered by her boyfriend Charles Warren Reynolds after an altercation in May 2003 at the age of 26. Reynolds was taken into custody and later convicted of the crime. Reynolds himself died in prison on May 31, 2016. Vaziri had two other daughters as well as five grandchildren.

Despite promising to repair his family, Vaziri was unable to successfully quit drugs following Marissa's death. Vaziri was reported to have been extremely angered after his daughter's death to the point where he considered retaliation against her killer. In 2005, the family believed Vaziri was a danger to himself and others and forced him to enter rehabilitation; an employee allegedly snuck in cocaine for him. In 2007, Peterson walked out on Vaziri after several failed attempts to make him quit drugs. She returned two years later on the condition that Vaziri sever ties with a friend who helped him acquire them. In 2013, Vaziri said he had been off cocaine for four years.

In August 2013, Iron Sheik's managers Page and Jian Magen crowdsourced $40,441 to write, direct and produce a documentary, Iranian Legend: The Iron Sheik Story Originally, the documentary was scheduled for a 2008 release under the title Iron Sheik: From A to Z. Sheik's documentary was released in 2014 under the title The Sheik. On November 6, Vaziri challenged the then-Mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford, to an arm wrestling match at his office.

Starting in the late 2000s, Vaziri became known for his Twitter account, which features violent, profanity-ridden Tweets denouncing various pop culture events. He did not write the Tweets himself; his managers, Jian and Page Magen, handled the account.

Death
Vaziri died at home in Fayetteville, Georgia, on June 7, 2023. His cause of death was cardiac arrest with congestive heart failure and hypertension as contributing factors.

Greco-Roman wrestling

 * Amateur Athletic Union
 * 1971 Greco-Roman National Championships - 1st place, 180.5 lbs

Professional wrestling

 * All-California Championship Wrestling
 * ACCW Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
 * Century Wrestling Alliance
 * CWA Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
 * George Tragos/Lou Thesz Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame
 * Class of 2016
 * Georgia Championship Wrestling
 * NWA National Television Championship (1 time)
 * International Association of Wrestling
 * IAW Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
 * IAW Tag Team Championship (3 times) – with Brian Costello
 *  International Wrestling Association
 * IWA Intercontinental Championship (1 time)
 * International Wrestling Association
 * IWA United States Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
 * Maple Leaf Wrestling
 * NWA Canadian Heavyweight Championship (Toronto version) (2 times)
 * Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling
 * NWA Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
 * NWA All-Star Wrestling
 * NWA Canadian Tag Team Championship (Vancouver version) (1 time) – with The Texas Outlaw
 * NWA Canadian Tag Team Championship Tournament (1978) - with The Texas Outlaw
 * National Wrestling Alliance
 * NWA Hall of Fame (Class of 2008)
 * NWA New Zealand
 * NWA New Zealand British Commonwealth Championship (1 time)
 * NWA 2000
 * NWA 2000 American Heritage Championship (1 time)
 * Pacific Northwest Wrestling
 * NWA Pacific Northwest Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Bull Ramos
 * Pro Wrestling Illustrated
 * PWI ranked him No. 134 of the 500 best singles wrestlers of the "PWI Years" in 2003
 * PWI ranked him No. 96 of the 100 best tag teams of the "PWI Years" with the Nikolai Volkoff in 2003
 * World Wrestling Federation/World Wrestling Entertainment
 * WWF World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
 * WWF Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Nikolai Volkoff
 * WWE Hall of Fame (Class of 2005)
 * Wrestling Observer Newsletter
 * Most Underrated Wrestler (1980)

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