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This article is pathetically biased. Can you name me any other article that lists the aircraft used for airstrikes? You list Apaches and F-16s when you could merely have said that Israeli airplanes and helicopters performed air strikes. This is the lefty tactic of making sure everyone knows that they are American weapons. I notice you whining liberals don't throw fits when Russian made AK-47s are used to kill people int erroristic attacks all over the world. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.21.143.33 (talk) 14:27, 19 November 2011 (UTC)Reply
The above discussions ought to be archived. They are well out of date.
The present article is in pretty good shape. Just a few points for your attention:-
This has the makings of an impressive article. Pity you didn't put it to peer review and get some general feedback - this might have been useful. I'm not doing a GA review this time, but I hope my comments help. Brianboulton (talk) 11:35, 21 April 2008 (UTC)Reply
The significance of Khan al-Tujjar also had a great deal to do with its central location, which divided the city in half, not just physically but also psychologically, between “easterners” and “westerners;” labels that are still used today.[18] For example, during the preparations for the Nabi Musa festival, held near Jericho every year for centuries until it was stopped by the British occupation in the late 1930s,[19] young men from the eastern and western parts of Nablus descended on Khan al-Tujjar, each shouting slogans praising their part of the city.[1]
Hi all, this is just a note that I'll be reviewing this article for y'all. Note, that it will take some time because you've got a lone one here :) Also, just curious, what do you think about moving some of the photos and having a link to Commons? Just a thought! Looks good so far. Lazulilasher (talk) 11:49, 30 April 2008 (UTC)Reply
First, sorry for the delay. I've been busy trying to build Louvre and Pied Noir to FA (unashamed advertising for helpers :) ) and I wanted to give this article a good review. So, here I am.
Second, I noticed that the article did not have a map of Nablus' location. So, I edited the template:Infobox Palestinian Authority muni so that it now has parameter's for using a location map. I recommend using template:Location map Israel/Palestinian territories (although the coords are a bit off). You can use this map in the same manner on any page, so hopefully it will help you out a bit.
So, here we are.
I'll start with the boring GA list:
Notes:
Again, fantastic work by all contributors! Lazulilasher (talk) 18:17, 2 May 2008 (UTC)Reply
I must say I don't understand why this article hasn't been promoted to GA by now, and I assume this will happen very soon. I'm looking at it as a likely FA candidate in the not too distant future, and so I'm a bit alarmed by Al Ameer's assumption that the article needs "much more expansion" to qualify for FA. It has nearly 6,000 words of readable text at present - what will "much more" take it to? I would see the step-up from GA to FA as qualitative rather than quantitative, requiring no great expansion of the text. When the time comes, I'd like to help it towards FA if the editors want to take that step. But good luck with GA first. Brianboulton (talk) 22:14, 8 May 2008 (UTC)Reply
Just noticed that this article got GA status. Congrats to all those who worked on it! Reading the article, I have noticed that there is no mention whatsoever of the railway which connected Nablus with Afula and the Hejaz railway. I think it's a pretty big deal, as railways at the time were possibly the most important form of transport, as there were no private cars to speak of. The railway also formed a part of the Turkish war railway in WWI. Can someone please insert this information? Thanks, Ynhockey (Talk) 18:50, 13 May 2008 (UTC)Reply
I think we should add (Hebrew: שכם, Shechem) to the article because of its importance to the Samaritan people that lives primarly in Nablus (maybe it's an important town for non-samaritan jews as well, I don't know that).
There is an article called Shechem that states Shechem is in "Tell Balatah" but Hebrew Wiki as well as all maps of the area as I have seen calls Nablus Shechem.--Fipplet (talk) 19:02, 1 February 2009 (UTC)Reply
Nableezy, if you look at articles of other cities in Israel, or even the country Israel itself, you will see that your guidelines are incorrect. If you have a problem with this and feel that only one name should be big, the "main" language, then go ahead and sort through all these articles to remove the big tags from the Arabic names of every city in Israel. As it stands, every other article I have searched has both the Hebrew and Arabic names big. Until then, I am reverting your edit. Furthermore, you keep leaving a bracket in your edits. Use the preview function before you save so that you don't make mistakes. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.136.92.148 (talk) 22:08, 23 April 2009 (UTC)Reply
Look at the Jerusalem article, not only is the Arabic not big, it is small. Nableezy (talk) 00:10, 24 April 2009 (UTC)Reply
Just a question. In the article it reads "country - Palestine". How can it be if Palestine is a region in the Middle East, not an independent country? Norum (talk) 15:56, 18 July 2009 (UTC)Reply
Well, Palestine is as much "independent" as Kurdistan. Norum (talk) 01:00, 19 July 2009 (UTC)Reply
Kurdistan is an independent region of Iraq. “Palestine” is a self declared and heavily disputed “country” in Israel. Stating that it’s in the “State of Palestine” is misleading and offensive Helpfulguy101 (talk) 15:58, 26 February 2023 (UTC)Reply
AnAbout template has been added to the top of the article. Reason: the Hebrew language lacks a distinction between "Nablus" and "Shechem," and it would be helpful to make the distinction clear at the top of the article. Please comment here if you feel the template should be worded differently or is altogether inappropriate.—Biosketch (talk) 13:28, 10 February 2011 (UTC)Reply
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Nablus is the first jewish city from the time of the bible in the book of Genesis. פארוק (talk) 17:26, 24 April 2012 (UTC)Reply
What are the facts here, this muddy crap is being called history. An encyclopedia containing revisional wishful thinking becomes garbage quickly. Nablus was Egyptian for 4000 years so why ignore the facts, or perhaps it just doesn't fit your agenda.64.180.192.216 (talk) 22:14, 3 April 2021 (UTC)Reply
Like Emperor Hadrian's Roman name Syria-Palestina that replaced Judea, editorial defenders of Wikipedia’s Nablus narrative open their article with this disclaimer; “This article is about the city of Nablus in the northern West Bank, and its predecessor, the Roman city of Flavia Neapolis. For the biblical city of Shechem, at the same location, see Shechem.” From here on the authors deny Shechem a place in their Nablus narrative, suppressing its Biblical and prior archaeological importance, in order to deliver the indoctrination of Roman origin. The Nablus Wikipedia narrative denies the city its Israelite origin and promotes the perpetual suffering their denial imposes. Copytopic1 (talk) 00:31, 30 March 2015 (UTC)Reply
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Boulder and Nablus have begun a sister city project so this should be added. http://www.bouldernablus.com/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Statsteph (talk • contribs) 21:03, 30 March 2017 (UTC)Reply
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The urban population of Nablus should be updated from the current number cited in the article (126,132 in 2007) to 214,903 in 2016. The population of the Nablus municipal area (excluding urban centers attached to the city) was 153,061 in 2016. The source of this updated figure is the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (http://www.pcbs.gov.ps/Portals/_Rainbow/Documents/nabls.htm). 7andala (talk) 19:24, 20 August 2017 (UTC)Reply
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I would add a sentence to the article about the traditional identification with the biblical Sechem and omit the extra reference in the title. The name would be Nablus (Arabic: نابلس Nāblus [næːblʊs], Hebrew: שכם Šəḵem, Greek: Νεάπολις Νeapolis) and something along the line of "Nablus has traditionally been identified as the biblical Sechem in Samaritan and Jewish writing" would be added to Classical antiquity. Speaking of this identification, the article lacks information on the January 1546 earthquake which laid waste to Nablus. The only primary sources are, to my knowledge, two letters in Hebrew. One was found in the Cairo Genizah (accessible in the Friedberg Genizah Project with a transcription by Oxford) while the other was captured by the Inquisition. The former speaks of "over three hundred gentiles" and "three or four Jews" killed in "Sechem;" the latter tells of some 560 Ishmaelite (Muslim) and 3 Jewish residents that were killed in "Sechem" and speculates that many more may lay buried in rubble in surrounding villages. It also tells of lesser damage to other cities, including the collapse of the Dome of the Rock and death of twelve Muslims in Jerusalem, destruction in Hebron, Ramla and Damascus. --ארינמל (talk) 02:16, 3 November 2017 (UTC)Reply
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So far the arguments presented in favour of separating the two topics are utter nonsense. Much better ones could be given, but merging the two would be by far more honest in scholarly terms.
A city is the result of many factors. In the Middle East the main factors are access to a water source, one or more important roads, agriculturally usable lands, and sometimes religious significance and topographical features good for defense. Sichem and Nablus are two phases of the very same city. All relevant factors are the exact same. Much like Jerusalem, Banias, Tiberias, Caesarea Maritima, Sebaste, Capernaum etc., so Sichem/Nablus, too, was reestblished after becoming part of a different state, or being destroyed during war (or by earthquake in some cases), at a just sligtly different location. Continuity for the locals in terms of location (between Mts Ebal and Gerizim), population (here: Samaritans), religious significance (near Mt Gerizim) between AD 70 Sichem and AD 72 Colonia Flavia Neapolis, is undeniable. Aelia Capitolina was also built 60 years after destruction of its predecessor, Jewish Jerusalem (and not just 2 years later, as is the case with Nablus), north of the main area of pre-70 Jerusalem, leaving out the area of the royal palaces of the Hasmoneans and of Herod I, the Temple Mount, the "City of David", most of the Western Hill etc. And still, nobody doubts this city being just a period in the history of Jerusalem.
Relevant question: did the main stakeholders, the Samaritans, stop calling the city "Shechem" after AD 72? N.b.: the Arab Conquest occurred almost 6 centuries later and is not relevant here. Arminden (talk) 19:07, 6 April 2018 (UTC)Reply
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Please copy the Elevation (550m) as stated in the Geography section to the "Elevation" field in the "Infobox" for consistency of style with other Wikipedia articles. MWchat (talk) 11:56, 29 November 2018 (UTC)Reply
As is, Shechem has barely a passing mention in the article and it currently may very well give people the impression that the city was founded in 72 CE with no previous habitation. Jerusalem isn't split into Jerusalem and Iliya (Original Arabic name for Jerusalem, before Al-Quds, a corruption of Aelia Capitolina just like Nablus is of Neapolis), so there is no reason to split this article into Shechem and Nablus. --93.172.106.82 (talk) 21:03, 17 August 2019 (UTC)Reply
Should the infobox not list both Israel and Palestine as the country, due to the disputed status? I.e. how Sevastopol, Cimrea lists both Russia and Ukraine? — Preceding unsigned comment added by IrishLinguist (talk • contribs) 00:00, 14 March 2021 (UTC)Reply
Could someone add Boulder, Colorado, to the list of Nablus' twin cities? [1] NaturalSoundsYEAH! (talk) 10:26, 3 February 2022 (UTC)Reply
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Add Nablus City Web Site as one of Nablus external links https://www.nablus.city Alhanaa2016 (talk) 10:59, 20 February 2023 (UTC)Reply
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Update the population number census 5.43.209.210 (talk) 22:53, 5 October 2023 (UTC)Reply