Talk:Partition of Iraq

Notability

It's hard to argue that this topic isn't actually notable when I have almost 20 sources about this topic in this article. This is certainly a topic that the media, especially but not only here in the U.S., talked about A LOT over the last couple of decades. Futurist110 (talk) 19:24, 15 April 2021 (UTC)

Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: rejected by MeegsC (talk) 14:57, 3 May 2021 (UTC)

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• ... that the idea of partitioning Iraq has been criticized based on past and often extremely brutal and bloody historical experiences with partitions in Ireland, India, and Palestine? Source: https://theintercept.com/2019/09/06/joe-biden-defends-record-iraq-including-plan-divide-along-sectarian-lines/ "AS BIDEN ACKNOWLEDGED this week, the plan to divide Iraq along ethnic lines he cooked up with Gelb was criticized at the time as more likely to incite than tamp down sectarian violence and ethnic cleansing, as it had early in the war in Bosnia and following the partitioning of Ireland, India, and Palestine in the last century. In each of those prior cases, partition, which looked good on paper and was accepted enthusiastically by extreme nationalist/segregationist leaders in each place, had the same result in practice: It encouraged violent sectarian cleansing and the destruction of the multiethnic societies that had existed in those territories for centuries."

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Jasmin Taylor

Created by Futurist110 (talk). Self-nominated at 20:24, 15 April 2021 (UTC).

• The article had an "essay-like" template on it at the time of nomination, which was later on the day it was created, and the nominator was blocked indefinitely three days later, having not addressed the template. No other editors have shown any interest in working on the article, so given the block and the issue, there is no avenue I see for this nomination to meet the DYK criteria, so I'm marking it for closure. BlueMoonset (talk) 01:30, 2 May 2021 (UTC)