Talk:Baghdad/Archive 1

message: If anyone can get a latitude and longitude for Baghdad, that'd be nice to know.  Time zone it's in, too.  Other info on Baghdad as it is, this seems to be largely historical stuff so far. -- JohnOwens 22:22 Mar 20, 2003 (UTC)
* Added longitude and latitude. --LeeHunter 14:21, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Latitude/longitude

message: From the article: "Points of interest include the National Museum of Iraq, whose priceless collection of artifacts was looted after the capture of Iraq by US forces."
--> Is this ambiguous? Might someone read "... was looted by US forces"? I mean, they didn't, did they? <KF> 09:27, 26 Jan 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Ambiguous text?

message: The recent events are woefully out of date in the first place, perhaps that whole section should be removed at least for the time being.--Ian 23:43, 15 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Work needed

message: "some believe it is from the Aramaic for "sheep enclosure," while others believe it is from the Persian for "gift of God."" Um, that would be Dr. Mohammed Some, would it? Some is invariably wrong: Chahar Bagh (or Char Bagh) is an Iranian and Mughal term, adopted bu the Mughal emperors for a formal garden laid out in four plots of equal size and divided by axial paths. Wetman 02:40, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't get it. You are arguing that neither of them are correct? Perhaps not, but it seems that they still are real proposed meanings. Everyking 10:23, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: "Baghdad"

message: I have seen this nice image at earthobservatory -- I'd be very nice to accompany the Iraq war section. I can't find license information on the picture though; it says "Image courtesy NASA/GSFC/MITI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team". Since it's not only NASA owning the copyright, we can't be sure the picture is PD. ❝Sverdrup❞ 10:13, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Image

message: The article states: "Baghdad sits on the Tigris River at the point where the Tigris is closest to the Euphrates River, a distance of about 50 kilometres."  Given that the Tigris eventually joins the Euphrates, I don't see how this can be the closest approach of the two.  Would the simple "Baghdad sits on the Tigris River at the point where the Tigris is about 50 kilometres from the Euphrates River" omit anything of importance? JamesMLane 14:42, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Location

message: I've removed the following paragraphs from the History section. It seems to be too much detail for a general article on the city. Perhaps they could go somewhere else. --LeeHunter 01:53, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trimming the History section 

message: I feel that the subject outlining the history of British occupation has been poorly outlined.  The acts of  Sir Arnold Wilson and others during the early 1900 occupation should certainly deserve mention.  Who had the intention of creating a new state within Palestine as the home of the Jewish community in Europe?  I only know fragments of the actual history, but I reiterate the fact that this bit of history certainly deserves expansion.
I didn't write the above. I would add to it there should be mention that more than a third of Baghdad's population in the 1930s was actually Arab Jews who lived integrated with their neighbors and enjoyed some status, such that after independence the Iraqi Finance Minister was even a Jew. Following the creation of the State of Israel, escalating tension led to virtually all them leaving. I realize it is a controversial subject, but a migration of such a sizable chunk of the population can't be ignored. Brassrat 16:55, 12 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  A little history... 

message: Substituted at 08:51, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Assessment comment