Talk:Bahrain

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Article milestones Date Process Result June 29, 2012 Peer review Reviewed October 6, 2012 Good article nominee Listed January 20, 2021 Good article reassessment Delisted Facts from this article were featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on December 16, 2004, December 16, 2005, December 16, 2006, December 16, 2007, December 16, 2008, December 16, 2009, December 16, 2010, December 16, 2012, December 16, 2013, December 16, 2014, December 16, 2015, December 16, 2016, December 16, 2017, December 16, 2018, and December 16, 2019. Current status: Delisted good article

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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

In my opinion, this article must be named Kingdom of Bahrain -- analog to the Kingdom of the Netherlands -- notwithstanding the fact that just calling the kingdom 'Bahrain' is indeed a fully accepted colloquialism. The argument and reason for it, is explicitly stated in the opening sentence of the lede: the country is officially named "Kingdom of Bahrain". And Bahrain should redirect to the Kingdom of Bahrain -- Not the other way around ! -- GeeTeeBee (talk) 22:07, 22 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

See WP:COMMONNAME, which is the usual rule of thumb. CMD (talk) 00:01, 23 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

Many sources say Bahrain is authotarian, and even Qatar has the tag! Why not Bahrain? Datawikiperson (talk) 07:22, 24 September 2025 (UTC)Reply

I concur insofar it's RS used and properly formatted to WP:Guidelines Ip says: Work Better yes. (talk) 23:20, 24 September 2025 (UTC)Reply

The redirect Bahrain's has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 September 27 § Bahrain's until a consensus is reached. ArthananWarcraft (talk) 09:00, 27 September 2025 (UTC)Reply

The article features a map of the country. However, this map is outdated due to the creation of new artificial islands. I suggest a more recent map such as: "Bahrain biggests cities map-en.svg" on wikimedia commons. Fisssion (talk) 04:22, 16 March 2026 (UTC)Reply