Talk:Bahrain

Source on flooding Bahrain with Arab immigrants?

I'm skeptical about citing Piruz Mojtahedzadeh as a source for the claim that the Bahraini shaikhs had flooded the country they ruled with Arab immigrants from abroad. "Mojtahedzadeh heads the Urosevic research body in London and is a university lecturer in Tehran who usually spells out Iranian "national-interest" positions." http://www.rferl.org/content/article/1347597.html

Edit request on 2 November 2012

Formerly an emirate, Bahrain was declared a kingdom in 2002.

Should read:

Formerly a State, Bahrain was declared a kingdom in 2002

Bahrain was never an Emirate according to the Bahrain National Museum Archives. 46.184.254.131 (talk) 08:59, 2 November 2012 (UTC)

It's fixed now, thanks. Mohamed CJ (talk) 10:31, 2 November 2012 (UTC)

Copyright and summary?

Recent edits to the page (notably but not limited to here) seem to be directly copied from the BBC's own article on Bahrain's history (See here). Since BBC News' articles are copyrighted, directly copying from the article is a copyright violation. The edits should either be paraphrased or removed. Also, the history section of the article is too long and no citations have been cited for multiple sentences (Examples: "As part of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Peninsula Shield Force, Bahrain participated in the coalition "Operation Desert Storm" against Iraq, in January-February 1991. In October 1991 Bahrain signed a defence cooperation agreement with the United States, providing the USA with larger port facilities and an agreement to undertake joint military exercises." and "In December 1998 Bahrain provided military facilities for "Operation Desert Fox", the US and UK bombing campaign against Iraq."). References should be provided or else unreferenced sentences would be removed. Bear in mind, the history section is meant to show a brief, understandable and to-the-point description of the country's history. A summary is needed towards the later part of the history section (perhaps importing the text to History of Bahrain?). --Droodkin (talk) 11:54, 17 December 2012 (UTC)

Seeing as there is no apparent opposition to remove/modify the edits, I'll be doing it. If anyone opposes, raise concerns here. --Droodkin (talk) 12:16, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

Edit request on 10 January 2013

The LAT/LONG for this page is incorrect. You have placed it right in the middle of Iran. Thank you. 109.63.62.218 (talk) 00:52, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

 Not done: due to lower comment --Jnorton7558 (talk) 03:49, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

Edit request on 10 January 2013

CORRECTION: Regarding LAT/LONG the error appears while viewing from Facebook so not sure if this is a Facebook screw-up. 109.63.62.218 (talk) 00:57, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

 Not done: due to comment and confirmation that is correct --Jnorton7558 (talk) 03:49, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

British or American English

Both are used in the article, we should stick to one. So which one should we go by? My personal preference is to go by American. Mohamed CJ (talk) 19:45, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

I'm one for British English. Everyone knows American English is a slang ;) --Droodkin (talk) 12:49, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

Which is why we should use American :P. I looked into WP:ENGVAR, and since Bahrain has no strong national ties to either, we should use the first that was used in the non-stub version. However, when I looked that up (here) it still had both used (e.g. modernization and organisation). To not waste time, let's just use the British. Mohamed CJ (talk) 14:05, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

I note that this talkpage has had a Use British English template since March 2011. Loose national ties, perhaps. CMD (talk) 01:38, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

I see. It was not enforced strictly though; the word "salinization" was there since 2006. Mohamed CJ (talk) 07:00, 30 January 2013 (UTC)