Talk:Bedoon

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Merger

How about merging all three artciles: Bidun, Bedoun and Bidoon of Kuwait? Bidun is not well provided with inline citations, but seems to have the broadest reach, although it may be a little POV in places, e.g, Before 1990, the majority of bidun were Bedouin settlers from the northern Arabian Peninsula. and the 1920 date was not for registration, but was for "living there since" in the 1960 to 1965 (?) registration period. The Bidoon of Kuwait makes that same factual error, but does contain a number of useful external links. --Bejnar (talk) 22:22, 3 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Also we should merge in History of the bidoon in Kuwait. --Bejnar (talk) 22:28, 3 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I note that MatthewVanitas merged the three articles together on 11 March 2011. However, the 1920 registration error mentioned above has been perpetuated. The language needs cleaning up. --Bejnar (talk) 22:01, 10 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Requires Rewriting for Balance

Much of the language in this article is pejorative in tone, insinuating that the Bidoun/Biduns/bedoun (sic) are a 'problem'. There is also too much conjectural language for this to be considered a serious article.