Portal talk:Kurdistan

Portal
Nice job on the portal congratulation's. Lakers 17:19, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks. --Bohater 19:57, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Dispute
I dispute the neutrality of the inclusion of "Kurdistan Uyezd" and "Diyarbakır" as "Kurdistan related". No evidence that the borders of Kurdistan extend all the way to Azerbaijan or to Diyarbakir. -- Cat chi? 11:54, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
 * The capital of Turkish Kurdistan is not part of Kurdistan? Interesting...--Domitius 11:56, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
 * You dispute to much.. But that is not our problem. --Bohater 11:55, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Please don't begin with a large discussion here again..This is a discussion site and a Forum --Bohater 11:58, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
 * There is no "capital of Turkish Kurdistan". Geographic regions cant have capitals. Bohater, I will dispute anything controversially placed into this portal. This is neither a forum nor a discussion site. -- Cat chi? 13:10, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Ok turkEmadd (talk) 04:52, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

A-rated
A class might be too high (it might need some procedure like GA, FA), don't we have something like portal class? denizTC 13:03, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Non-articles do not carry article ratings, but rather Image, Template, Category, List or NA - so it doesn't make sense to "rate" it in the first place. Nevertheless, there is something called "Featured Portal", but that's quite a fringe thing in Wikipedia and until that point might as well rate it NA.. But again, I don't run the project so that's just my outside two-cents :) Baristarim 13:06, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Saladin's ethnicity is still controversial. SO why did you add "Kurdish Kings" link including only Saladin while it is not clear with the consensus of historians. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.229.98.98 (talk) 17:58, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Er, it is actually common consensus among most historians that he was a Kurd. The ones who refute this mainly work along Pan-Arab or Turkish Nationalism. There has been endless discussion over this issue, and they've come to a consensus that he was a Kurd. Take this argument to the Saladin page though, that's where it needs to be.. --MercZ (talk) 19:14, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Portal Issue
I'm not good with wiki coding, but it seems that the icons on the portal are stretching the page towards the bottom (the sister wiki icons).--MercZ (talk) 19:20, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Non-encyclopaedic template
The name Kurdistan has no definition. There exists no political entity with that name. There is a province of Iran called Kordestan Province (not Kurdistan) and except that we have no such thing as "Kurdistan". Some Kurdish nationalist wish such entity to exist and make different definitions for it (like adding Luristan, Zazastan, whole of Western Iran etc. to "it"). Such vague wishful-thinking terms do not deserve to have a portal named after them in a scientific and precise encyclopaedia.--ماني (talk) 17:52, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

this is old, but, Kurdistan does have a definition, there is this website called Google, I suggest you to use it since you are clearly, with all due respect, uneducated on the subject, on Kurdistan and on Kurds. What do they teach you in school?—‎ Lost Whispers talk 15:35, 28 December 2016 (UTC)


 * Kurdistan is a region and Kurdistan regional government is a political entity. And you're a moron.--Monochrome _ Monitor  20:27, 28 December 2016 (UTC)


 * Don't bother yourself with the racists.—‎ Lost Whispers talk 14:40, 30 December 2016 (UTC)

Portal Activity
Because of the lack of people/articles/images for this portal i suggest we make the Selected Article and Selected Picture boxes cycle trough a handful images (Example:Dutch WP. You might see the same article or picture twice but at least it not just blank or red links. ~ Zirguezi  12:53, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
 * I made the Selected Article browse trough a image a months and the Selected Picture browse trough a picture a day. Both a going in a circle so yo will see the same image/article every same day/month ~ Zirguezi  18:23, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Iraqi Kurdistan level of autonomy
A "Request for Comments" has been opened at Iraqi Kurdistan talk page, whether to include Iraqi Kurdistan region as part of the list of political entities in Asia. The question is whether Iraqi Kurdistan is of similar status of autonomy as Hong Kong and Macau, to be included in template:Asia topic. Please discuss at Iraqi Kurdistan talk page.GreyShark (dibra) 14:18, 20 October 2013 (UTC)

RfC on Iraqi Kurdistan's level of autonomy (second RfC)
I would like to invite editors to comment at RfC proposal on Iraqi Kurdistan's level of autonomy, essentially resolving whether Iraqi Kurdistan should or shouldn't be added to the "other Dependent territories" under Asia topic.GreyShark (dibra) 18:10, 1 July 2014 (UTC)

Suggestions for improvement
This portal could do with some improvement: I will attempt this in a week or so unless anyone objects. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:42, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
 * At least in Firefox, the markup for the top box doesn't work. When the browser window is made narrow, the introductory text leaks past the bottom of the top box and the images don't line up.
 * The three-column format assumes a wide screen, and doesn't work at all on the mobile site.
 * The monthly/daily sub-pages could make use of Random portal component so that readers can see new content without having to wait for so long.
 * Done -- John of Reading (talk) 09:42, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

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