Talk:British Iraqis

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[edit] Flags

Propose removing the flags from this article. See detailed rationale at Wikipedia talk:Manual of style (flags)#Flags on articles about immigrant populations and comment there if you disagree. cab (talk) 01:55, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Requested move

The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the proposal was move. JPG-GR (talk) 20:50, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Iraqi BritonsBritish Iraqis — 'British Iraqis' is the commoner term. A Google search (when Wikipedia sites are filtered out) gives 'Iraqi Britons' only 30 hits,[1] whereas "British Iraqis" has 1,000 hits, including many reliable sources such as the BBC [2]Cop 663 (talk) 15:37, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Survey

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[edit] Discussion

Any additional comments:

Wouldn't "British Iraqis" tend to suggest people of British ancestry living in Iraq? (a la "African American") Wilhelm meis (talk) 21:21, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Not if the first sentence read "British Iraqis are people of Iraqi ancestry who were born or were raised in the United Kingdom." The point is to use the term that is commonly used. Cop 663 (talk) 14:14, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.