Talk:Northern Iraq

Accuracy issues

There were so many poorly-cited claims in the first few paragraphs of this article that I seriously considered sending it to draftspace or nominating it for deletion, as it's not even clear whether there is any sort of RS consensus as to which regions comprise northern Iraq. However, as it does appear to have usage in academic literature, the topic does appear to be notable, so removing it from mainspace entirely would only further delay improvements. _signed, Rosguill ^talk 19:33, 21 November 2021 (UTC)

Remaining outstanding issues include due-weight concerns as to which religious and ethnic groups bear mention, and regarding the verifiability of sources: there is an over-reliance on primary sources, and sources used side-by-side in the article that appear to directly contradict each other without any attempts to acknowledge this discrepancy in the article's text. _signed, Rosguill ^talk 00:06, 23 November 2021 (UTC)

I got rid of all the poorly cited claims I seen Wikiraqi (talk) 03:15, 23 November 2021 (UTC)

In the Kirkuk Governorate section, we currently uncritically cite the 1997 census. However, the next paragraph is cited to an infographic, which in addition to a significant amount of demographic information and analysis calls the 1997 census "fictitious figures...coerced under the "Ethnic Correction Policy"[1]. That is a serious discrepancy. The actual text of the book containing the census figures [2] also casts some skepticism on the 1997 numbers, if not in quite so dramatic terms. I am concerned that other parts of this article, as well as the other similar articles you've written about regions of Iraq, suffer from similar issues of insufficient care around source quality._signed, Rosguill ^talk 04:33, 23 November 2021 (UTC)