Talk:Ahmad Shah Massoud

NPOV Violation

There is a biased tone throughout the article. It reads like a propaganda piece about Massoud. Criticism by PDPA and Taliban supporters is conspicuously absent from this article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ummonk (talk • contribs) 22:27, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

A user removed the template. I undid his revision and ask that people please review NPOV. Well-sourced does not imply neutral point of view. Ummonk (talk) 15:10, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

This is not an article for "criticism" by Taliban supporters as you would like it to be. This article portrays the life of Massoud and again everything is well-sourced. The perception whether something is neutral or not is always a matter of opinion, what counts is if there are reliable sources for the text in the article, and there are plenty. If you want to read a commentary about Massoud by Taliban supporters you need to go somewhere else. Your personal wish for a Taliban opinion is not a valid reason to put a template. JCAla (talk) 28 April 2011 (UTC)

Date of birth

Massoud was born on September 2, 1953[1] and died in Khwaja bahauddin disrtict in Takhar provience in Afghanistan.[2]

Fair use image

File:Ahmad Shah Massoud.jpg is now fair use and the lead image. We dont know anything about the photo, it appears to be a 'known' portrait because it was used in the event File:Abdul Rahim Wardak in Kabul April 2010.jpg, if the photo is unknown they will not use it. Thats however all we know. [:File:Ahmad Shah Massoud.jpg]] was an attempt to find a free image, our search for free images often leads to 'bad but free images', under fair use we can have a little more focus on quality in our search for images. If we decide to use a fair use photo we should use the best we can use inside the restrictions of fair use policy. Thats possibly the portraits by Reza Deghati of 1985 or later portraits by him who highly influenced the public image of Massoud in the western hemisphere. All portraits have been published in Massoud, des Russes aux talibans, 20 ans de résistance afghane (the 1985 portrait is the cover image). The 1985 portrait was first published in France and/or National Geographic in the U.S., so it is not free but should be ok under fair use with an appropriate image caption.
Aditionally I removed File:Cmdt massoud ill artlibre jn.png from the article. That scribbling is trash, even no image in the article is better than that. --Martin H. (talk)

KGB

There are rumors about Ahmad Shah Massoud being KGB and staging sham operations with the Russians. I have no opinion on this, but mightn't this be the venue to air out such rumors? Or are they so fringe as not to be worthwhile? Thanks. QLineOrientalist (talk) 15:01, 14 June 2011 (UTC)