Talk:Kingdom of Iraq

Misleading - see talk on Mandate Mesopotamia
Please see discussion here Talk:British Mandate for Mesopotamia. Oncenawhile (talk) 09:31, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

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The result of the move request was: page moved. I note this reverses a previous move '' 15:32, 13 April 2012‎ Oncenawhile (talk | contribs | block)‎. . (39 bytes) (+39)‎. . (Oncenawhile moved page Kingdom of Iraq to Kingdom of Iraq (1932-58): As per talk at Kingdom of Iraq (Mandate administration))'', but I cannot locate that previous discussion. Andrewa (talk) 01:37, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

Kingdom of Iraq (1932–58) → Kingdom of Iraq –
 * The destination already redirects there and there was only one Kingdom of Iraq. Srnec (talk) 23:47, 9 May 2013 (UTC)
 * See Kingdom of Iraq (Mandate administration) Apteva (talk) 01:45, 10 May 2013 (UTC)
 * I saw. What's your point? There was still only one kingdom of Iraq and that title still redirects to the disambiguated one (against policy). Is it primary usage or not? The page was moved without opening a discussion. Srnec (talk) 02:12, 10 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Comment The Kingdom of Iraq was founded in 1921, so this move would change the scope of the article -- not that there's anything wrong with that. Kauffner (talk) 11:16, 10 May 2013 (UTC)
 * The scope of the article was unilaterally changed when it was unilaterally moved. It makes no sense not to have an article on the kingdom of Iraq, but instead two on two periods of its history. Srnec (talk) 05:04, 11 May 2013 (UTC)


 * Support. Since there has been only one Kingdom of Iraq (there are no other primary usage candidates), and because Kingdom of Iraq is already a redirect to Kingdom of Iraq (1932–58), I think the article it's safe and correct to move this page to Kingdom of Iraq. The alternative option is to create a new parent article Kingdom of Iraq with subpages Kingdom of Iraq (Mandate administration) and Kingdom of Iraq (1932–58). I would support that option as well. Michael! (talk) 18:22, 11 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Cautious support. Assuming the aforementioned split holds and there's no need to disambiguationalize, this has to be deparenthesized. Red Slash 03:00, 12 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Support This is unnecessary disambiguation. I was about to make this move unilaterally after moving Kingdom of Iraq (Mandate administration) to Mandatory Iraq per RM. A hatnote do that page would do no harm, but is probably also unnecessary. --BDD (talk) 18:08, 13 May 2013 (UTC)
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Previous move discussion
The previous move discussion was between me and Greyshark at Talk:Mandatory_Iraq. The above move has created a problem of two overlapping articles without clear scopes. I don't know how to fix this mess now. Oncenawhile (talk) 21:15, 21 May 2013 (UTC)


 * The scopes seem clear to me. They definitely—and appropriate—overlap. The article Mandatory Iraq (1918/21–32) is a sub-article of Kingdom of Iraq (1921–58). I would not strongly object to re-jigging the scope of the former and re-titling it to be more precise. Since there was only ever one Kingdom of Iraq, it is misleading to disambiguate it. What exactly is your beef with the current setup? Both article could use some improvement. Srnec (talk) 22:30, 21 May 2013 (UTC)
 * untrue, this article was about Iraq between 1928-1958. Oncenawhile is correct.Greyshark09 (talk) 14:46, 22 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Hold on hold on, Greyshark i'm not sure you can just undo the move above, which was resulted from the RM above. Just like you didn't inform me of your RM at Kingdom of Iraq (Mandate administration), Srnec didn't inform you of this.
 * Srnec, my beef is mostly that noone thought to involve me in the debate despite the fact that Greyshark and I spent 2 months discussing this exact topic.
 * In terms of what should be here, I would be happy with any of the following:
 * Two main articles: Kingdom of Iraq (British administration) and Kingdom of Iraq (1932–58)
 * One main article: Kingdom of Iraq and one subarticle Kingdom of Iraq (British administration). If we go down this route, we need to actually amend the scopes of these articles so that it fits a proper article-subarticle format.
 * One merged article: Kingdom of Iraq
 * What doesn't work is either (a) anything with the word "mandate" in it (the proposed mandate was never enacted - the British-Iraqi relationship was governed by the Anglo-Iraqi Treaty, so use of the word mandate is incorrect); or (b) having the 1932-58 article as a subarticle of the main "Kingdom of Iraq" article without then fixing the content in both.
 * Oncenawhile (talk) 17:33, 22 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Yeah, i skipped this, anyway i have already been reverted. The change from 1932 to 1921 was however a pure enterprise by Srnec. It is very clear in my mind that there should be two articles: Mandatory Iraq (or Kingdom of Iraq (British administration)) and Kingdom of Iraq (1932–58). If the change to Mandatory Iraq created this mess, i suggest to move it back, and this one of course is ONLY about the independent Kingdom of Iraq (1932-1958).Greyshark09 (talk) 14:35, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure Greyshark will sympathise with me, but it is very clear in my mind that the Kingdom of Iraq article should cover the entire period of the kingdom's existence, from 1921 to 1958. Srnec (talk) 18:07, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
 * I agree with you Srnec. I also have sympathy for Greyshark's view that many readers want to read about Iraq under British control. It's a difficult one because the decade of British control was via treaty with a theoretically sovereign Kingdom. Can we focus the question on this Template:History of Iraq. In the template, do you think there should be just one article for 21-58, or two articles (as currently) for 21-32 and 32-58? Oncenawhile (talk) 23:54, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
 * We should retain an article on Iraq under the British, but mainly as a sub-article of the topic of the kingdom period of Iraqi history. I don't much care for sidebar templates, so I'll refrain from commenting on that. 20:07, 25 May 2013 (UTC)

Following this mismanagement (initiated by my mistake) i propose to revert back Mandatory Iraq article to Kingdom of Iraq (British Administration). Discuss at Talk:Mandatory Iraq.GreyShark (dibra) 18:32, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

Very Inadequate Article
This article, compared with other articles on Wikipedia, is shockingly brief and cursory, as is its adjunct, the British mandate of Iraq. It is not that content is biased or unbalanced, it is just lacking in the detail other histories of the same period receive. Is this all there is to say about decades of fairly recent Iraqi history? It is not as though there is no research available on this subject, although the article does not even have a bibliography, and the references given for the few footnotes do not include any of the significant sources for this period. Unfortunately, I just don't have the time to do anything about this myself, but I am disappointed that the modern history of Iraq has merited so little description. The articles in Arabic, French, and German do not look too impressive either. The Arabic one only is a brief part of the general history of Iraq (!). The French one might be slightly better, but not much. This article certainly exposes a weakness of Wikipedia.LCalpurniusPiso (talk) 23:14, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

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