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Map inset is incorrect

The map used in the sidebar has a strange inset. The world map has a rectangle that covers an area from Egypt to India. But the larger map is only a fraction of this. Not accurate or helpful. I realize it's difficult for a country this small. 2401:7000:DB0D:3900:58C:C232:8442:549F (talk) 03:08, 23 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Missing text?

This paragraph under Post-Arab Spring years seems to have had text cut from it, between the words "committee to" and the word "paying". As is, it doesn't make much sense: "On 9 April 2020, Bahrain launched a committee to paying private-sector employees for a three-month period in order to ease the financial pain caused by the COVID-19 pandemic."

What to do? Will-o-the-west (talk) 20:48, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It was added all in one go by an IP here, so probably just a grammar issue trying to say that the government supported private-sector employment. CMD (talk) 01:42, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Military - "Small but professional and well-0rganised"

Could someone more experienced in editing than me explain if this is a good choice of words? It seems overly subjective to me. I would assume a military is professional unless there is evidence to the contrary. Robhold2000 (talk) 06:42, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

North Americans? And the whole continental grouping

Thats not really an Ethnicity is it? I get the whole continental thing but its kinda weird. Continents are a really bad grouping of ethnicities anyways. Asians could be chinese or indian, completely unrelated, as could Africa be north african arabs or sub saharans. This metric is inefficient in providing info, and kinda useless DirkjanenBert (talk) 15:12, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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+The [[:File:Map of Bahrain.svg|map used in the sidebar]] has a strange inset. The world map has a rectangle that covers an area from Egypt to India. But the larger map is only a fraction of this. Not accurate or helpful. I realize it's difficult for a country this small. [[Special:Contributions/2401:7000:DB0D:3900:58C:C232:8442:549F|2401:7000:DB0D:3900:58C:C232:8442:549F]] ([[User talk:2401:7000:DB0D:3900:58C:C232:8442:549F|talk]]) 03:08, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
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+What to do? [[User:Will-o-the-west|Will-o-the-west]] ([[User talk:Will-o-the-west|talk]]) 20:48, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
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+:It was added all in one go by an IP [https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Bahrain&diff=prev&oldid=1152600428 here], so probably just a grammar issue trying to say that the government supported private-sector employment. [[User:Chipmunkdavis|CMD]] ([[User talk:Chipmunkdavis|talk]]) 01:42, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
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+== Military - "Small but professional and well-0rganised" ==
-== Biased? ==
-Hi, I just wanted to point out that when I read the 'human rights' portion of the page, the second half of the penultimate paragraph and the last paragraph seemed very biased. I took the liberty of removing the last paragraph but please insert it back if I am wrong, as this was just a hunch.
+Could someone more experienced in editing than me explain if this is a good choice of words? It seems overly subjective to me. I would assume a military is professional unless there is evidence to the contrary. [[User:Robhold2000|Robhold2000]] ([[User talk:Robhold2000|talk]]) 06:42, 2 September 2024 (UTC)
-Thank you -[[User:MrHistorianDude]] 16:50, 22 October 2018 (UTC)
+== North Americans? And the whole continental grouping ==
-== Arabic IPA and Sound Clip don't match. ==
+Thats not really an Ethnicity is it? I get the whole continental thing but its kinda weird. Continents are a really bad grouping of ethnicities anyways. Asians could be chinese or indian, completely unrelated, as could Africa be north african arabs or sub saharans. This metric is inefficient in providing info, and kinda useless [[User:DirkjanenBert|DirkjanenBert]] ([[User talk:DirkjanenBert|talk]]) 15:12, 20 October 2024 (UTC)
-    I heard [ˈæɫː baħˈɾeɪn] in the Arabic pronounciation sound clip, whereas the article uses the IPA [aɫ baħrajn]. I know some of the differences are unimportant, but I'm suprised that the IPA uses [a] instead of [e].
-    I have a hypothesis for why this is: Arabic only has three phonemic vowels /a/, /i/, and /u/. The Wikipedia page on Bahraini Arabic states that "Final Standard Arabic -ah becomes -eh in some positions." This leads me (not being an Arabic speaker at all) to wonder if the written IPA is for standard Arabic, while the speaker in the sound clip is Bahraini. If the sound clip is actually the most common Bahraini pronounciation, than perhaps the IPA should be changed. (I don't really know the policy for written Arabic IPA in articles like this.)
-::The article uses standard arabic pronunciation, while the sound clip is of the Bahraini accent. During formal articles and writing, standard arabic is used and not informal Bahraini writing. There is no problem. [[User:Burglar99|Burglar99]] ([[User talk:Burglar99|talk]])  <!--Template:Undated--><small class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|undated]] comment added 06:37, 23 January 2022 (UTC)</small> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
-== Media ==
-I added more information to the Media subheading in order to include a more holistic view of the types of media present in the country including newspapers, television, and radio.
-[[User:Shahnawaz01|Shahnawaz01]] ([[User talk:Shahnawaz01|talk]]) 20:42, 2 November 2020 (UTC)
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-{{ping|NCCGOV}} you added [[Worldometer]] - [https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Bahrain&type=revision&diff=1004150506&oldid=1003952863&diffmode=source diff]. I reverted and explained why, but you did the same thing again (which is basically revert of my revert) - [https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Bahrain&type=revision&diff=1004160101&oldid=1004155455&diffmode=source diff]. Explain your actions and self-revert per [[WP:BRD]], please. [[WP:RSP]] says, that Worldometer is a [[WP:SPS|self-published source]] and editors have questioned its accuracy and methodology, which means we are not using it - [[WP:GUNREL]].--[[User:RenatUK|Renat]] ([[User talk:RenatUK|talk]]) 19:44, 1 February 2021 (UTC)