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Great Britain and the Iraqi oil industry


I've listed this article for peer review because I want to know if it is comprehensive enough in its scope or if it leaves serious researchers and students wanting more. Are there further topics, or issues that should be addressed?

Thanks, D.Thompson (talk) 06:27, 15 May 2018 (UTC)

Comments from Dialectric

''Note: This article appears to have been edited as part of a class assignment for Lund University. (See https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Lund_University,_Centre_for_Middle_Eastern_Studies/Political_Economy_and_Development_in_the_Middle_East_(03-2018)/ )''

I am not an expert in this area, but have done some reading on the global history of the Petroleum industry.

1. We have the closely related articles Petroleum industry in Iraq and Iraq–United Kingdom relations. Is there a clear reason this article exists as distinct from these others? The content from this article could potentially be merged into those two. The Great_Britain_and_the_Iraqi_oil_industry section in particular appears to overlap with Petroleum industry in Iraq.

2. On the early 1900s, the history section is a bit thin. This article mentions in passing the British Mandate of Mesopotamia and states that “Britain controlled the oil-rich territory”, but does not mention the 1920 Iraqi Revolt against the British occupation of Iraq, the distinction between the proposed British Mandate of Mesopotamia, and the real-world implementation of Mandatory Iraq, or the related Anglo-Iraqi Treaty of 1922.

3. On the mid 1900s, the article has almost no detail. Did anything relevant happen between 1931 and 1976 apart from the founding of OPEC?

4. The “Iraq Inquiry” section consists mostly of a bulleted list. Per MOS:LISTBASICS, unnecessary lists should be converted into encyclopedic prose.Dialectric (talk) 17:18, 22 August 2018 (UTC)