Talk:Bethany

Question
Is there a reason why my name has to appear in the edit summaries of you [Tiamut] moving paragraphs around or adding the reflist? Whether its intentional or not, adding references section Tewfik failed to add after moving material here from other article sounds very accusatory.  Tewfik Talk 17:19, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Needs present-day photo of the city
There needs to be a present-day landscape picture of Al-Eizariya that shows what the city looks like today. Right now all the page has is century-old postcards and a shot of the city from 65 years ago; none of these are very helpful for having an idea of what today's Al-Eizariya looks like. KBurchfiel (talk) 18:12, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

What goes where?
There are several articles, with partly overlapping material:
 * Bethany (biblical village)
 * Lazarus of Bethany
 * Tomb of Lazarus (al-Eizariya)
 * Al-Eizariya

We have to decide what goes where. (Also: there seems to be an abundance of dead links here), Cheers, Huldra (talk) 22:04, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

Guerin-quote
Ok, I have added the link to Guerin in the article. The problem is that he (apparently?) discuss the whole history of Bethany etc. We need some French-speakers who can find what he actually found in Al-Eizariya at the time he visited. Cheers, Huldra (talk) 23:32, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

Typos
"The general index to SWP" states that Al-Eizariya is mentioned in SWP III, p. 17 and 28. However, I cannot find anything on p.17 relating to it. Huldra (talk) 22:52, 31 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Probably a typo for 27–28. Zerotalk 23:19, 31 October 2013 (UTC)

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Name
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I propose this page be renamed to "Bethany" instead of Al-Eizariya. One, the vast majority of speakers on this wiki are English, and the name "Bethany" is the English version of this location as opposed to Al-Ezariya. Second, there are more results for "Bethany, (West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Biblical) than inserting Al-Eizariya. If I'm wrong, please let me know, otherwise I plan to make the change soon.

Heyoostorm (talk) 14:48, 11 May 2020 (UTC)


 * Since the move is likely to be disputed, please start a move discussion if you want to move it. Zerotalk 15:23, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
 * It is also my view that this article should be renamed "Bethany" since it is the more common name used in English for this site. Of course, if there is to be a name-change, the Arabic name (transliterated into English) will redirect to this article.Davidbena (talk) 03:23, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

Requested move 29 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: Moved  (t &#183; c)  buidhe  04:52, 5 February 2021 (UTC)

Al-Eizariya → Bethany – Since this is the English Wikipedia, it seems natural that we use here the well-known English name for this village, which is "Bethany" (mentioned in the New Testament), rather than use the lesser known Arabic name transliterated into English, seeing that it is NOT known by most English speakers. The English transliteration of the Arabic name, however, can and will be used as a redirect to the same article. Davidbena (talk) 04:23, 29 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Support the English name is still used today. In ictu oculi (talk) 10:23, 29 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Support, for reasons outlined above.Davidbena (talk) 14:05, 29 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Support for the reasons I mentioned above and as earlier proposer User:Heyoostorm_talk! 18:13, 29 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Support Now that Bethany (biblical village) was merged into this article last year, see Talk:Bethany, this move makes sense. I have not seen figures but I assume, hopefully correctly, that "Bethany" is far more common in English than "Eizariya" or its several variants, even perhaps for the modern town. Wonder what thinks, as he performed the merger of the two articles, and  as she worked on this article significantly in the recent past. --Al Ameer (talk) 20:21, 29 January 2021 (UTC)
 * I am ok with the name change. The English name Bethany is clearly used locally for the purposes of tourism, and frankly it is much better known. Onceinawhile (talk) 23:34, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Support. Most cities on English Wikipedia are known by their English name, not necessarily the language of their inhabitants, eg The Hage, Den Haag.84.13.228.253 (talk) 04:06, 31 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Oppose: I am not very happy with a possible name-change: yes, "Bethany" is much better known, but "Al-Eizariya" is the local name, and the ARIJ name. We have normally followed the ARIJ name; I don't see strong enough reason to change that, in this case, Huldra (talk) 23:45, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Support Even though I don't much like biblical place names and a search in Google for Bethany gives this article with it's current name. Still, if we must.Selfstudier (talk) 15:37, 4 February 2021 (UTC)

Area C and Al Ka’abina
Hi

A few years ago in this edit you wrote that most of the town / 87.3% of the land is in Area C. I would like to make the text clearer around this topic because it is not consistent with the picture shown in this map.

I have two questions to clarify:
 * Presumably when we talk about "most of the town" we are really talking about the historic village land? I believe the urban area itself is mostly Area A and B
 * The underlying source includes "Al Ka’abina" in the statistics, with a total land area of 27,816 dunums. The map on Page 4 of the source explains that this relates to the Tajammu' Bedouin community, and shows a rather odd C-shape for the combined village boundaries, which I can't map easily to the 1940s SoP version.

Any thoughts would be appreciated. Also pinging in case of interest. Onceinawhile (talk) 00:58, 13 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Hmmm, interesting. (<-translated: I have no idea! ). I took the 87.3% from ARIJ, as I am sure you have seen. As for this map; yeah, there is little blue there(=area C); but if you count  Ma'ale Adummim (and Mishor Adummim) (presently red) then that could add up? Btw; that section of the map is probably far too small; As  Mishor Adummim is built on Bethany land, but is not part of the map, Huldra (talk) 21:44, 13 August 2021 (UTC)