Talk:Abdul Elah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud

Name pronounce
actual name has to be Abdul elah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud.--George the writer (talk) 03:27, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

Requested move 15 January 2021

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 

The result of the move request was: There is consensus not to move. No such user (talk) 12:28, 28 January 2021 (UTC)

– For consistency reached with the consensus at Talk:Nayef bin Abdulaziz as listed here 73.110.217.186 (talk) 01:03, 15 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Abdul Elah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud → Abdul Elah bin Abdulaziz
 * Abdul Majeed bin Abdulaziz Al Saud → Abdul Majeed bin Abdulaziz
 * Abdul Muhsin bin Abdulaziz Al Saud → Abdul Muhsin bin Abdulaziz
 * Ahmed bin Abdulaziz Al Saud → Ahmed bin Abdulaziz
 * Badr bin Abdulaziz Al Saud → Badr bin Abdulaziz
 * Bandar bin Abdulaziz Al Saud → Bandar bin Abdulaziz
 * Hamoud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud → Hamoud bin Abdulaziz
 * Hathloul bin Abdulaziz Al Saud → Hathloul bin Abdulaziz


 * Support Titles should be concise and there needs to be consistency between similar articles like those in question. Векочел (talk) 04:44, 15 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Strong oppose, All these articles were reverted in June 2020 by the editor who supports the move now without initiating a discussion. Unlike Western royals these people are known with their family names. This issue cannot be discussed just here without informing related editors who created or significantly contributed to the articles.

Another point is that the said consensus was established by just two authors one of whom just uses IP. So in order to start a discussion like that you should use a clear identity. Here again there are the same two editors, just their roles are different. In the first move request the initiator is now supporter and the current initiator was the supporter of the first move request. Maybe they are the same editor. Who knows? --Egeymi (talk) 15:49, 16 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Oppose based on this claim of conciseness or consistency. If you want this to be moved them make a problem claim, don't try to make it consistent with something with be problematic. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 17:30, 16 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Strong Oppose simply things you didn't know about or you do not have interest with. Or difiniltly you don't have any idea about history of Arabian peninsula!. Suadi royals name in wikipedia are well known, and those pages of Saudi royals written with supported sources and citations. Many Of them are with high post ministers and ambassadors. This discussion is a waste of time. User:Georgethewriter)

Note: The main practice for Prince Mohammed bin Salman in recent articles seems to be to refer to him without "Al Saud" although this is by no means uniform. A quick google search shows this. And so on Векочел (talk) 19:23, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Washington Post "WHEN Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman loosed his thugs..."
 * Bloomberg "Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had presided..."
 * CNN "The Trump administration is considering granting Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman legal immunity"
 * New York Times "The Trump administration is considering a request to grant Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia"

Results for Mohammed bin Nayef, the former crown prince of KSA show the following It is notable that results for the two princes don't use the surname, while those for King Salman tend to refer to him as "Al Saud". The Wikipedia article on bin Salman does not use the surname, nor do any of the articles on the Saudi kings.In my opinion, this should be standardized. Looking at articles on other Middle Eastern rulers we have Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum for the Emir of Dubai and Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa for the King of Bahrain, but Abdullah II of Jordan and Haitham bin Tariq, Sultan of Oman. Векочел (talk) 19:53, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Atlantic Council "King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, who holds ultimate authority in the Kingdom and can demote the Crown Prince at any time, as he did to his predecessor Mohamed bin Nayef."
 * Business Insider "Over the years his father, King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, gave MBS more responsibility, and in June 2017, eventually agreed to cast then-Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef aside"


 * There are many other publications using their family name. But the point here is that Wikipedia covers encyclopedic information which certainly include one's family name. Not only Saudi royals but also others in the Gulf are all mentioned with their family names due to the fact they have very distinct way of naming procedure such as the use of bin or bint. If you look at their own web pages, twitter pages or Instagram pages you may see that they themselves always use the family name, Al Saud, since there are many people with names, for instance, Abdullah bin Faisal or Mohammed bin Abdullah, etc.

Until you and your IP supporter begin to deal with these articles there was a consensus about the article titles among the editors who create or contribute to these articles. You and your supporter do not attempt to expand these articles, but focus on moving them in accordance with your views or just on reverting details or changing categories or using capitals against WP rules. --Egeymi (talk) 20:04, 16 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Mohammed bin Salman's original title included Al Saud, but it was moved. It was created by me five or six years ago. Egeymi (talk) 20:07, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
 * The examples given above are all rulers. Saudi kings also have been named distinctively. And noone suggests here to change the title of articles on Saudi Kings. In addition, the naming of the Crown Prince cannot be given as a standard for the titles of the articles about other royals.Egeymi (talk) 20:21, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
 * You have a point, . This makes we wonder whether the article name of Mohammed bin Salman should be changed to Al Saud to match the other Saudi crown princes. We have a standard for names of Western monarchs so perhaps there should be one for the names of Middle Eastern monarchs. But this is a discussion to be had elsewhere. Векочел (talk) 21:37, 16 January 2021 (UTC)

Oppose per Egeymi's comments above Векочел (talk) 22:08, 16 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Comment I am in no way affiliated with the other editor. I simply commented on the previous move and, after seeing that the other pages were moved, thought that if those pages were moved, other such pages should be treated the same.73.110.217.186 (talk) 03:43, 17 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Comment: Should the other moved pages be discussed here?73.110.217.186 (talk) 15:33, 17 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Could you please mention which pages? Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 17:13, 17 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Nayef bin Abdulaziz, Luluwah bint Abdulaziz, Haya bint Abdulaziz, Talal bin Abdulaziz, Sultan bin Abdulaziz, and Sultana bint Abdulaziz.73.110.217.186 (talk) 19:23, 17 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Oppose (prelim): Without/before digging too deep into the page histories to see what was done recently, it seems to me that the Al Saud surname is a necessary part of the name, if not for consistency with the rest of the world‡, but also for disambiguation, since I'm sure there are many Abdullah bin Faisal in the Arab world (even within Al Saud if you don't give the whole lineage; and without, e.g., Al Qasimi), many of whom are probably notable. ‡ There seems to be a reasonable exception for the monarchs, in keeping with the rest of the world's monarchs, e.g., Saud of Saudi Arabia, Faisal I of Iraq, Muhammad of Ghor, etc.. (As someone who had done work on this subject in the past, I was (reasonably) pinged. I'm sorry I can't give a more well-studied answer at this time.) —[ Alan M 1  (talk) ]— 00:19, 18 January 2021 (UTC) edited —[  Alan M 1  (talk) ]— 00:23, 18 January 2021 (UTC)


 * The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Please verify status
According to: https://www.spa.gov.sa/w1846739 he had already passed away on January 29th 2023. English:

@ Bdschi (talk) 20:33, 1 April 2024 (UTC)


 * The news is not about the person, but about Prince Abdul Elah bin Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, son of King Saud. --Egeymi (talk) 20:43, 1 April 2024 (UTC)