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This page is an Archive of the discussions from WikiProject Iraq talk page (Discussion page). (January 2009 - December 2009) - Please Do not edit!

Election pictures

Does anyone here have any pictures of the campaigning that is going on at the moment in Iraq for the Iraqi governorate elections, 2009? I would like to add them to this article. Thanks! AndrewRT(Talk) 22:07, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Coordinators' working group

Hi! I'd like to draw your attention to the new WikiProject coordinators' working group, an effort to bring both official and unofficial WikiProject coordinators together so that the projects can more easily develop consensus and collaborate. This group has been created after discussion regarding possible changes to the A-Class review system, and that may be one of the first things discussed by interested coordinators.

All designated project coordinators are invited to join this working group. If your project hasn't formally designated any editors as coordinators, but you are someone who regularly deals with coordination tasks in the project, please feel free to join as well. — Delievered by §hepBot (Disable) on behalf of the WikiProject coordinators' working group at 05:43, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Turkmeneli

Someone should cover Turkmeneli as a part of WikiProject Iraq. --Bunifa88 (talk) 20:05, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Article alerts

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Aramaic language FAR

I have nominated Aramaic language for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. YellowMonkey (click here to vote for world cycling's #1 model!) 01:24, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject Ottoman Empire

Please give your views at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Ottoman Empire. --Al Ameer son (talk) 04:13, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Proposal for a 200-WikiProject contest

A proposal has been posted for a contest between all 200 country WikiProjects. We're looking for judges, coordinators, ideas, and feedback.

The Transhumanist 00:39, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

GA Sweeps invitation

This message is being sent to WikiProjects with GAs under their scope. Since August 2007, WikiProject Good Articles has been participating in GA sweeps. The process helps to ensure that articles that have passed a nomination before that date meet the GA criteria. After nearly two years, the running total has just passed the 50% mark. In order to expediate the reviewing, several changes have been made to the process. A new worklist has been created, detailing which articles are left to review. Instead of reviewing by topic, editors can consider picking and choosing whichever articles they are interested in.

We are always looking for new members to assist with reviewing the remaining articles, and since this project has GAs under its scope, it would be beneficial if any of its members could review a few articles (perhaps your project's articles). Your project's members are likely to be more knowledgeable about your topic GAs then an outside reviewer. As a result, reviewing your project's articles would improve the quality of the review in ensuring that the article meets your project's concerns on sourcing, content, and guidelines. However, members can also review any other article in the worklist to ensure it meets the GA criteria.

If any members are interested, please visit the GA sweeps page for further details and instructions in initiating a review. If you'd like to join the process, please add your name to the running total page. In addition, for every member that reviews 100 articles from the worklist or has a significant impact on the process, s/he will get an award when they reach that threshold. With ~1,300 articles left to review, we would appreciate any editors that could contribute in helping to uphold the quality of GAs. If you have any questions about the process, reviewing, or need help with a particular article, please contact me or OhanaUnited and we'll be happy to help. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 06:11, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Iraq and weapons of mass destruction GA Sweeps: On Hold

I have reviewed Iraq and weapons of mass destruction for GA Sweeps to determine if it still qualifies as a Good Article. In reviewing the article I have found several issues, which I have detailed here. Since the article falls under the scope of this project, I figured you would be interested in contributing to further improve the article. Please comment there to help the article maintain its GA status. If you have any questions, let me know on my talk page and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 01:31, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

Queen of Iraq

Can anyone tell me about the queens of Iraq in c. 1920-1958? Their names are here in Wikipedia, but they have no articles. Did they play any official role, or did they live in traditional seclusion? They should have articles, so I have place a request for one of them. Perhaps someone with the knowledge of this would like to creat them.--Aciram (talk) 10:28, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

Bashar Abdulah

This article has just been created this evening and is in bad need of an expert eye on this Iraqi writer. It is very hard to read what the creator has wrote as I assume English is probably not their first language and it appears that the creator is the subject of the article, thanks. BigDunc 22:19, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

Al-Mundhir ibn Imru' al-Qays and Lakhmid articles

These articles are unsourced - and a search on Google returned one hit for Al-Mundhir ibn Imru' al-Qays, which was a wiki hit!

Could someone more knowledgeable about the subject find some sources of information? I just looked under the title of the article - if he was known by another name, I wouldn't know it!

I leave it to folks here who have more knowledge of the kings of Lakhmid to find reliable sources of information which can be cited - incidently, the Lakhmid article is also unsourced, so that would benefit from experts who can find sources of information.

Regards, -- PhantomSteve (Contact Me, My Contribs) 09:40, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

Arabic sources

1) Al-Mundhir ibn Imru' al-Qays also spilled Munthir ibn Imru' al-Qays (32,100 Hits)[1]

2) Lakmids are also know by the name Manadhira (also spilled Manathira) because they name their children Mundhir I, Mundhir II... etc. (993 Hits for Lakhmid)[2] and (19,500 Hits for Manadhira) [3]

I hope I was a good help. Mussav (talk) 23:42, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

Rename Southwest Asia to Western Asia

Please share your views here. Izzedine (talk) 14:00, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

Arabic spelling of Nukhayb? Good place to look in general for such spellings?

I just added an infobox for Nukhayb, got the coords so have the nice wiki-standard map, etc. However, does anyone have a good source for getting the proper Arabic alphabet names of Iraqi towns? Or should I just post here, or in some other project, if I need the spellings? MatthewVanitas (talk) 23:56, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

Abd al-Jabbar al-Kubaysi

I was doing a bit of new page patrolling and I came across this article. Whilst the article itself seems to be reasonably accurate and the subject presumably notable, the tone of this article seems to be skewed in favour of the insurgency. In particular, the phrase "senior spokesperson for the Iraqi resistance movement" seems to try to imply that the whole insurgency is one organised anti-imperialist effort (whilst impression I've always had is that there were many different groups with all sorts of agendas, from gaining power and status, to provoking sectarian violence with Iraqis killing Iraqis). The link to a openly one-sided page on a forum doesn't suggest a balanced article either.

I'll leave it up to you to do what you see fit. If you think it's fine as it is, fair enough. If not, change it how you want. Chris Neville-Smith (talk) 09:06, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

Photo request

Would someone mind photographing the Iraqi Airways headquarters at Baghdad International Airport? Thanks WhisperToMe (talk) 04:59, 20 October 2009 (UTC)