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Date	Process	Result
June 29, 2012	Peer review	Reviewed
October 6, 2012	Good article nominee	Listed
January 20, 2021	Good article reassessment	Delisted

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Arabic IPA and Sound Clip don't match.

   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. Burglar99 (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 06:37, 23 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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. Shahnawaz01 (talk) 20:42, 2 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

GA Reassessment

This discussion is transcluded from Talk:Bahrain/GA2. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the reassessment.

I am bringing this article to GAR, due to a number of concerns regarding the WP:Good article criteria. There are quite a few short and scattered paragraphs throughout the article, and some very short sections, including one completely empty section (1b). There have been a number of longstanding tags appended to some sources in this article, including some citation needing tags, as well as some areas that are currently unsourced without a tag (2c). The article has 75kB of prose, well above what guidelines suggest (3b). This may not be a comprehensive list, being issues that stood out from an immediate look, and so other issues may also need to be addressed if this article is to remain at GA. CMD (talk) 13:15, 20 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately, closing this as a delist, with no work taking place on it. CMD (talk) 13:50, 5 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Worldometer(s)

@NCCGOV: you added Worldometer - diff. I reverted and explained why, but you did the same thing again (which is basically revert of my revert) - diff. Explain your actions and self-revert per WP:BRD, please. WP:RSP says, that Worldometer is a self-published source and editors have questioned its accuracy and methodology, which means we are not using it - WP:GUNREL.--Renat (talk) 19:44, 1 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request

Please add {{pp-semi|small=yes}} at the top of the page. TheGreatAustralian (talk) 01:01, 6 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Visualization

The Religion in Bahrain pie chart label says 69.7% are Muslim, but the pie chart itself looks more like 50%. Any idea why? The Futurist Corporation (talk) 12:53, 22 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

It's rendering a horizontal and vertical line which shouldn't be there, but the green is still clearly covering nearly three-quarters of the pie. CMD (talk) 13:32, 22 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]