Talk:King Abdullah Economic City

Expanding The article
This article will be expanded as a Saudi Arabian City, in the next 3 hours images will be added, city's sections and major landmarks.

This is a Future city that has not been built yet.

Any comments are welcomed. thanx --Muhaidib 19:52, 27 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Is this eligible to being categorised "Saudi Arabian City"? My issues: a) It doesn't exist at the moment (ie population zero, how can it qualify as a city), b) Isn't it technically part of Rabigh? I think it should be treated as a grand-projet than a city, in the same way as the many industrial/medical/technology cities that have been developed. Just my 2 cents HiJazzey 15:16, 10 April 2006 (UTC)


 * well yeah I guess you have a point, but let's see what others think of it,, I think it won't hurt to keep it in the template because it is an important project, there are less important cities and their still in the list. let's see what others have to say about it -- muhaidib-- (Talk | #info | [[image:Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg|22px]] ) 19:07, 10 April 2006 (UTC)


 * No problem, Muhaidib. That's fine by me. HiJazzey 13:58, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Done
Aricle is finished, you can add to it if you like

whens it supposed to be finished?

To me, this article reads like one of those assignments that you write during school when you get to 'design your own city'. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure the Saudi's are planning a pretty cool city, but this article has far too much hyperbole to be of real use to wikipedia as it is. For starters, a large amount of citations are needed to provide credibility to the assertions made. Secondly, projected estimates should not be asserted as facts ("up to 60,000 professionals are to operate from Financial Island..."). Thirdly, removal of the constant use of superlatives will make the article read less like an advertisement (e.g. "state-of-the-art schools").

I'm not having a go at you - the article is nice-looking and interesting to read so kudos on that; it's just that you are making some pretty bold assertions without true references, and I don't believe wikipedia is the place for it. By all means, prove me wrong and I will not be disappointed because the city is a fascinating concept.--Schrodinger&#39;s Cat 10:42, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

City
When will the city actually be built? --81.132.142.165 18:54, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 18:32, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Any news? Criticism? Depelopment today?
Is this happening or not? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 176.92.229.2 (talk) 04:53, 1 October 2015 (UTC)

Major update planned
By way of disclosure, I am the Director of Communications at King Abdullah Economic City.

This entry on the City is now very of date. The bulk of the article relates to an old master plan of the city so some of the information is now inaccurate and, in some cases, untrue. We propose to make a major update to the page to bring it in line with the current master plan and reflect the actual development of the city to date. We believe that such an update will both accurately reflect the city as it is today and better meet the needs of the people who are using this page as a reference.

We plan to commence the process in about a week from the date of this post. Any changes will be carefully screened to make sure that they meet Wikipedia's standards and criteria and we will make every effort to be open and transparent with the community as we progress. Please let me know if you would like to be involved in the process and feel free to offer feedback. Steveb482 (talk) 12:18, 21 July 2016 (UTC)

LOL I like how this never happened. --158.140.193.10 (talk) 01:35, 28 November 2021 (UTC)

Population
What is the intended population? I doubt very much that the designers describe it as "larger than Washington DC". Only Americans see everything in the world by comparison with the USA.Royalcourtier (talk) 23:32, 30 July 2016 (UTC)

The Washington DC comparison relates to the physical area of the city - 181 km2 compared to 177 km2 for Washington DC. The finished city is master planned for a population of 2 million. Steveb482 (talk) 12:03, 31 July 2016 (UTC)