Talk:Iraq War

link to "Iraqi Civil War (2014–present)" v. "Iraqi Civil War (2014–2017)"

24.47.158.59 changed a link to Iraqi Civil War (2014–present) to make it refer to Iraqi Civil War (2014–2017). The latter is currently a redirect to the former.

The lede for that article ends, "On 9 December 2017, prime minister Haider al-Abadi announced victory over ISIL, though others warned that they expected ISIL to fight on by other means." I sincerely hope that this war has ended. However, I do not believe we yet have enough evidence to be confident that this war is over -- or will end before December 31, 2017. I'm reminded with great sadness of George W. Bush's Mission Accomplished speech, over 14 years ago. Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief. DavidMCEddy (talk) 03:55, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

US v. U.S.

@Michipedian: Thanks for replacing "U.S." with "US". Might you have the time to change all the other occurrences of "U.S." to "US" in this article?

"Wikipedia:Manual of Style#US and U.S." says, "use US by default when abbreviating, but retain U.S. in American or Canadian English articles in which it is already established, unless there is a good reason to change it. ... use US in an article with other country abbreviations, and especially avoid constructions like the U.S. and the UK." This "Iraq War" article includes "UK", so this Wikipedia:Manual of Style recommends we change them all. DavidMCEddy (talk) 12:04, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

Yes, I will in the near future! Michipedian (talk) 15:30, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

I have attempted to change "U.S." to "US" in this article, but my edits are oftentimes undone, although it is consistent with the Wikipedia manual and there is no consensus of usage in this article whatsoever. We may need to revisit this issue. Jmake2016 (talk) 07:47, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

War Result in Infobox

According to many other articles on Wikipedia, this war is listed as a victory for the US and Coalition forces. Should this result be included in the infobox of this article? Although the withdrawal of US forces in 2011 eventually led to the rise of ISIS, the coalition left behind a free and stable Iraq that was in control of its own territory and had free elections. Pair that with the decrease in insurgent violence and the toppling of Hussein's regime, and I believe it's hard not to say that this was a US-Coalition victory. Jmake2016 (talk) 07:50, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

See this long discussion about the subject in 2014. Also, a search for sources on the who won also disagrees. Lucasjohansson (talk) 20:02, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 6 April 2018

Please change "July 2004" to "June 2004" where it says "Bremer served until the CPA's dissolution in July 2004." Hudsonc601 (talk) 16:32, 6 April 2018 (UTC) Hudsonc601 (talk) 16:32, 6 April 2018 (UTC)

 Done Gulumeemee (talk) 06:15, 8 April 2018 (UTC)

"PEJAK"

The article refers twice in succession to a party it calls "Party for a Free Life in Kurdistan", abbreviated to "PEJAK". But the link goes to an article called "Kurdistan Free Life Party", abbreviated to "PJAK" without an "E" - this also makes sense, as the Kurdish-language name of the party is given as "Partiya Jiyana Azad a Kurdistanê" (so there's no word in the name beginning with "E"). I'd change this myself, but since the spelling with an "E" appears twice I suppose the writer may have had a reason to use it. So I've simply mentioned it here.213.127.210.95 (talk) 13:13, 23 June 2018 (UTC)