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Number of districts[edit]

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The number of districts in iraq is 18. The city of Halabja is not declared as a district by the iraqi government. Thank you 37.236.252.84 (talk) 16:24, 14 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. M.Bitton (talk) 19:21, 14 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Editing disputes[edit]

For a while, this article has been a subject of long-term editing disputes and vandalism, mainly by people that adhere nationalistic views, I would like to see present these disputes and see them get resolved with proper citations.

The 1st dispute is the inclusion of Kurdish native name in the infobox, it should definitely be included since Kurdish is one of the two official languages of Iraq (the other being Arabic), and is used in many in many official documents and departments across Iraq. It is visible on the cover page of passport, ID Cards, Driving licenses, and many other documents. The Kurdish native name is also used on the official website of Iraq presidency, and the official constitution on the Council of Representatives of Iraq website lists the official name in Kurdish too. Some editors have removed this part from infobox due to lack of citations, yet most other nations like Sudan, Germany, and Cuba lack citations for official name in the infobox.

The 2nd dispute is regarding the number of number of governorates in the first paragraph of the article, this dispute is centered around the recognition of Halabja Governorate, I have covered this issue in Talk:Governorates_of_Iraq#Regarding_Halabja_Governorate with many sources, and the best way to handle this is either to mention that Iraq "consists of 18 governorates", or "consists of 19 governorates, 1 of which is partially recognized". I would like to see sources that disprove my point.

The 3rd dispute is about Iraq being an Arab country, it is no doubt that Arabs form the absolute majority of Iraq's population, but to call the entirety of Iraq an Arab country is absolutely misleading since other minorities have noticeable presence too, and one of the goals that US set for 2003 invasion of Iraq was to get rid of Pan-Arabist Ba'athist elements, and the new constitution in 2005 regards Iraq mentions that "The Republic of Iraq is a single federal, independent and fully sovereign state in which the system of government is republican, representative, parliamentary, and democratic, and this Constitution is a guarantor of the unity of Iraq.", and "Islam is the official religion of the State and is a foundation source of legislation". The editor that supports this claim used the list of League of Arab States as a reference,⁽¹⁾ but the same list also includes Somalia and Comoros, which only have Arab minorities and can in no way be regarded as Arab nations. The other sources appear to be cherrypicked just to support this claim,⁽²⁾⁽³⁾ and are in no way official or related to Government of Iraq.

The 4th dispute is about accurate demographics of Iraq, a certain editor pushes the percentage from 80% Arabs + 15% Kurds + 5% Other minorities (incl. Turkmen) = (100%) to 80% Arabs + 15 % Kurds + 9-13% Turkmen + 5% Other minorities = (109%/113%). The source of the first claim is official estimate in 1987 by Iraqi government, and is listed in The World Factbook by FBI.⁽⁴⁾ According to the same site: "no more recent reliable numbers are available". The other source relies on Minority Rights Group International, which appears to be a small organization with no resources to get an accurate estimation of Iraqi demographics, the same source mentions that "Due to the lack of a reliable census, all population figures are approximate".⁽⁵⁾

I consider this to be the preferred version of this article that doesn't conflict with any of the claims I presented, and I would like to see the editors involved in recent edits make objection to my claims in this talk page, or show support if desired. If this escalates I will open a request for comment, and request the article protection status to be increased to extended confirmed, which I myself do not have. Lolekek (talk) 18:08, 18 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Federal Parliamentary Republic[edit]

I cannot confidently say which placement is ideal, nor do I intend to make any change by myself, but I wish to address that it seems a bit redundant to state twice in the opening of the article that Iraq is a federal parliamentary republic. Ferocious Flying Ferrets 14:47, 29 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 4 April 2024[edit]

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The word "reserves" is currently misspelled as "resrves" in the last paragraph of the introductory section. I believe that sentence is also missing a "the" to change "Iraq has third largest oil resrves in the world after Venezuela and Saudi Arabia." to "Iraq has the third largest oil reserves in the world after Venezuela and Saudi Arabia." SankaMII (talk) 21:46, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Iraq has third largest oil resrves in the world after Venezuela and Saudi Arabia.

Done Largoplazo (talk) 22:19, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Article size[edit]

Is it time to condense the article? Per Xtools it's over 14,000 words; when I pasted the text contents into Word, it reported over 15,000. WP:Article size suggests that past 9,000 words condensation is worth considering, and that past 15,000 it probably ought to be done. My own rule of thumb is that it's time to chop an article down when the browser freezes on me repeatedly when I try to edit it on my laptop (Chrome on Windows 10) and I have to switch to source editing. That just happened to me here. Largoplazo (talk) 18:32, 7 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]