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Image in infobox

Which one of the images are suitable for infobox @Local Mandaean @SonOfBabylon1 @Abo Yemen

Green Zone, Haydar-Khana Mosque, Qushla, Iraq Museum, Al-Sarafiya Bridge, Zuqaq al-Sarai and Al-Zawraa Park
Option 1

Option 2
Green Zone, Qushla, Al-Kadhimiya Mosque, Baghdad Tourist Island, Tigris, Al-Zawraa Park, Thousand and One Nights Park,

Option 3
Green Zone, Al-Rasheed Street, Abdul Karim Qasim Museum, Tourist Island, Tigris, Liberation Square and Al-Sarafiya Bridge

Option 4
Green Zone, Shaheed Monument, Iraq Museum, al-Zawraa Park, Qushla and Baghdad Medical City, Al-Kadhimiya Mosque and Khan Murjan

Kharbaan Ghaltaan (talk) 12:45, 5 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Kharbaan Ghaltaan can you add captions to the suggested photos so that we know which of those places are more notable and deserve to be in the infobox 𐩣𐩫𐩧𐩨 Abo Yemen (𓃵) 13:29, 5 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

added Kharbaan Ghaltaan (talk) 14:28, 5 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Local Mandaean @SonOfBabylon1 @Abo Yemen Now the captions are added Kharbaan Ghaltaan (talk) 17:30, 5 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'd chose option 1,option 4 or keep the existing pictures. I think we need to decide if we want or need to do a change first, before altering the status quo. Option 1 has the advantage of some interesting pictures which seem to be characteristic of the city. Option 4 shows a selection of all ages of buildings-medieval and early and later twentieth century.. Actually a good combination would be to place the picture of the bridge into option 4 taking out perhaps the picture of the park or the one next to it. Spinney Hill (talk) 15:50, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with you. We should also make a list of the places we want to appear on the infobox first then choose the good looking pics 𐩣𐩫𐩧𐩨 Abo Yemen (𓃵) 16:59, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The existing pictures are not that good. Because their height is not suitable. Plus with caption on each each image, it doesn't look good either. All those existing pictures are lead image of those respective articles. This is shows that Iraq-related topics have limited images. But thats not true. There are multiple. But there title is in Arabic. So its not easily to find them while typing in English Kharbaan Ghaltaan (talk) 07:39, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

one more option