File talk:Kurdish languages map.svg
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This file is heavier than 4MB, apparently mostly due to the locator world map being the full svg map of the world down to each and every country's border. This isn't very economical. In some cases svg is great, but here the same resolution of information could be conferred in a jpg file at about 5% of the current filesize. In fact, the 800×472 png preview, which has perfectly fine resolution of the features on the map, has 148kB. --Dbachmann (talk) 13:02, 6 December 2014 (UTC)
In terms of content, the map is fine as a rough overview map, and it was never intended as more than that (it originates as a map made to accompany an article about the political situation in Northern Iraq in a 2007 newspaper article). The problem of the "North" vs. "South" division, and the exaggeration of the Gorani areal might be addressed by creating a new "hybrid" map, incorporating the information from File:SOUTHERN KURDISH.JPG into the main map. The information in that map appears plausible, and it is attributed to a decent reference (I. K. Fattah, Les Dialectes kurdes méridionaux, 2000 (2001?), ISBN 978-9042909182) although no page number is given and I did not verify its accuracy. --Dbachmann (talk) 13:10, 6 December 2014 (UTC)
