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Golan Heights
Hi guys .. I have got this message :

Hello, I don't know who I should speak to about this important matter. The Golan article has been taking over by Israelis and they have removed everything mentioning an occupation and changed it to "disputed" They have also removed the "the neutrality of this article is disputed" that was on top of the article while it is written in a completely pro-Israeli way. Please do something about this! —Preceding unsigned comment added by SwedishArab (talk • contribs)

I think we should give Gol;an article high priority --Chaos (talk) 13:45, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

Milestone Announcements
I thought this WikiProject might be interested. Ping me with any specific queries or leave them on the page linked to above. Thanks! - Jarry1250 (t, c) 22:22, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

Hims collaboration
For those who are unaware, we are currently collaborating to make Hims a Good article. I apologize for not announcing this earlier. We're almost ready to nominate it, but we need to solve a few issues, make a little more expansion in some area, find some sources, etc. See Talk:Hims. Thank you for those who have already participated! Salaamat. --Al Ameer son (talk) 05:22, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Promoted! Do we want to push for FA?  Spencer T♦ Nominate! 23:36, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

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Aramaic language FAR
nominated Aramaic language for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here.  YellowMonkey  ( click here to vote for world cycling's #1 model! ) 01:23, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Pan-Arabism
Hi, any views on what importance rating Pan-Arabism should carry within the project? Myself and Al-Ameer son have suggested mid-importance. Izzedine (talk) 03:23, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject Ottoman Empire
Please give your views at WikiProject Council/Proposals/Ottoman Empire. --Al Ameer son (talk) 04:10, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Proposal for a 200-WikiProject contest
A proposal has been posted for a contest between all 200 country WikiProjects. We're looking for judges, coordinators, ideas, and feedback.

The Transhumanist 00:39, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Golan Heights RfC
An RfC has been requested on the Golan Heights Article. The purpose of the RfC is to discuss the proper terminology for referring to the Golan Heights in its article. The question posed is: Should the Golan Heights be referred to as a "disputed" territory or "illegally occupied" territory?

Due to the controversial nature of this article, and because it is part of both WP Israel and WP Syria, I felt it prudent to place notice of the RfC on the respective WP discussion pages. Editors can join the discussion here. --Nsaum75 (talk) 08:04, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

India - Syria relations
I just created this page. Could someone go over and add/edit content?

Also the Foreign Relations Template has some dead links, which i took the liberty of removing, but the foreign relations CATEGORIES has some such pages. One may want to check and match up the two.

Request for comment


An RFC is open at this article which is marked as within the scope of this Wikiproject but the RFC has so far seem very few responses. It would be very helpful to resolving the matter if any interested editors could stop by and offer any thoughts.

CIreland (talk) 01:59, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

Arbitration/Requests/Case
Hi, This is to let people know that I have made a request for arbitration concerning a terminology dispute that is currently a hot issue at Talk:Golan Heights but which crops up in lots of other places too. I'm still working out who to add as parties, likely candidates are invited to add themselves as parties now and people with views on the appropriateness of Arbcom involvement at this stade are also invited to comment.--Peter cohen (talk) 21:58, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

Rename Syrian occupation of Lebanon to Syrian military presence in Lebanon
Please share your views here. Izzedine  (talk) 12:36, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

Rename Southwest Asia to Western Asia
Please share your views here. Izzedine (talk) 14:00, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

Wasfi al-Atassi
Somebody (not me) has stuck a PROD notice on Wasfi al-Atassi.

I know nothing of Syrian history and do not know Arabic so can't even Google for him. -- Hoary (talk) 23:07, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Wasfi al-Atassi article
The above article (about Wasfi Beik al-Atassi (1888 -1933) (Arabic: وصفي الأتاسي‎) who was a Syrian nationalist, statesman and one of the original writers of the Syrian constitution) has been nominated for deletion by myself.

I could find no non-wiki sources of information online, and no mentions of him in any article apart from the Atassi article, which has one sentence about him, and a sentence in the Hikmat al-Hiraki article.

If anyone here with knowledge of Syrian history has some off-line references which they could add, that would be very useful! The closing date for the PROD is 2009-08-22 21:39>

Thank you --  Phantom Steve  ( Contact Me,  My Contribs ) 15:23, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

Can someone check out potential Arabic-language sources for Wasfi al-Atassi?
A Google web search for وصفي الأتاسي‎ returns 8250 hits. A Google news search returns 3 hits. A Google books search returns 4 hits.

Unfortuantely, I can't read Arabic (although if I get a chance, I will try using Google's translate service to check out the news and book hits) - so if an Arabic-reading editor could look at these, I'm sure that there will be some reliable sources amongest them!

Regards, --  Phantom Steve  ( Contact Me, My Contribs ) 11:26, 23 August 2009 (UTC)

RfC on settlements
This Talk:Modi'in Illit is of relevance ot this project as the principle under dfiscussion would apply to the Golan Heights settlements too. The dispute is whether to include boilerplate text about the legality of settlements in each individual settlement's article.--Peter cohen (talk) 09:52, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

Hello. Please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2009_November_6 on Winerys locate in Golan Height. Thank you Ani medjool (talk) 00:41, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

List of Syrian towns and villages destroyed by Israel
FYI, new article: List of Syrian towns and villages destroyed by Israel -- nsaum75  ¡שיחת! 16:08, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

*FYI, the above msg.-- nsaum75 ¡שיחת! 16:51, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

Syria-Ephramite War
I would simply like to point out an error on the Syria-Ephramite War page. In the second paragraph, it states "(Telling of the same battle, 2 Kings 16:5 mentions no casualties and states that Rezin and Pekah failed to defeat Ahaz.)" 2 Kings 16:5 states, "Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, came up to Jerusalem to make war; and they besieged Ahaz but could not overcome him." In no way does this verse imply that there were no casualties. In the first Syria-Ephramite coalition attack on Judah, they indeed killed many (yes - 120,000 in one day of the battle as 2 Ch 28:6 indicates). However, 2 Kings 16:5 is refering to their assult on JERUSALEM, not Judah as a whole. Although they were able to "defeat" Ahaz (obviously - they killed many, took 200,000 slaves away to Samaria and a great multitude to Damascus), they did not kill him (or as 2Kings 16:5 puts it "overcome him", nor did they wipe out Jerusalem. So to concluded, there are 2 errors in this statement. 1) That 2Kings 16:5 says there were no casulties (it doesn't say that at all!) and 2) That 2Kings16:5 states that Rezin and Pekah failed to defeat Ahaz (it actuallys says "overcome" which is refering to his death). 38.100.176.34 (talk) 02:59, 10 November 2009 (UTC)jacob

380 villages destroyed by Ottoman Syrian Druze?
Does amyone know where I could source and list the names of the 380 Ottoman Syrian Christian villages destroyed by Ottoman Syrian Druze and Muslims during the 1860 Lebanon conflict? Thanks! Chesdovi (talk) 09:47, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

Damascus Page
Hi.. I need help with the Damascus page.. I made major changes but there's still so much to be done. there are so much opinion-based and lots of nonfactual info on there. There's also so much lack of citation. we should try to bring it to good article status.Ahmadac (talk) 11:55, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately, WP Syria is a desert. Almost no one is active here. --Supreme Deliciousness (talk) 10:13, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

Article renaming
There is currently a discussion relating to the renaming of the mountain Givat Orcha located here. -- nsaum75 ¡שיחת! 19:26, 27 November 2009 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:Golan_Heights#RfC:_Mountain_names
You are invited to join the discussion at. nsaum75 ¡שיחת! 20:25, 27 November 2009 (UTC) (Using )