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An anonymous user made a series of edits which appear to be POV to me. If nothing else, please cite your sources. -- Cyde Weys talk contribs 11:25, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
i am removing a palestinian POV here, "Some would say that the city is named after Ariel Sharon who was, at the time, a great proponent of Israeli settlements", that information has no validation and it is wrong. In Ariel's homepage it clearly says it was named because it's another name for Jerusalem. Whoever wrote it might be over the name of Ariel Sharon is not fermilier with Israel, the name giving proccess and did not find that information anywhere accept in his or her own mind, which is not what Wikipedia is about.
"Smaria" is not the internationally recognized name for the area. Only pro-Israeli people call it that. The UN resolutions(as well as Geneva Convention law) clearly state that it is illegally-occupied land, and that it is illegal to transfer your civillian population to such land. The sources are the Resolutions themselevs plus checking under the various Geneva codes. If anything YOU need to cite your sources to justify that Ariel is legal, and also that the term "Samaria" is used by more than just Jewish people to refer to present-day areas.
This is the claim that someone is making. If referring to the Palestinians as the indigenous people of Palestine is "receurring vandalism" then surely this entire site is seriously flawed? I suppose it comes down to who is running the site what is fact and what is POV. I wonder what John Seigenthaler would say?............John Miller
OR: "Current enrollment is 8,500 students, consisting of both Israeli and Palestinian students of all religions." -- Shuki 22:27, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
Since this is a controversial article (I've already been accused of POV here...), I will just say here that the article should probably be moved to Ariel (city), without capital C. This is according to Wikipedia naming conventions. On a side note, why is Ariel (City) NPOV and Ariel, Israel POV if it is Israel who gave Ariel the status of a city, even though generally towns with such a small population are not given such a status? -- Y Ynhockey ( Talk) Y 19:43, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
Support move to (city). According to city, there really is no standard size. At the end of 2005, Ariel had 17 800 residents, certainly not a metropolis, but not a rural hamlet either. 'Ariel, Israel' is a fact since it is Israeli, BUT the legitimacy of the city is disputed by opponents of any Jewish residency in the West Bank, so they'd probably prefer 'Ariel, illegal settlement'.-- Shuki 21:04, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
"Ariel, Israel" is not allowed because it suggests that the land Ariel sits on is part of Israel and such political comment is not allowed in titles. A name matching Wikipedia naming conventions is "Ariel (city)". Using a capital C looks odd. I'd actually prefer "Ariel (West Bank)" but I'm unwilling to devote time fighting for it. -- Zero 23:43, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
The move has been made, since no objections were raised. On the other hand, I don't support Ariel (West Bank), because most of the world knows West Bank to be a Palestinian territory, which means it could be assumed that Ariel is a Palestinian city. -- Y Ynhockey ( Talk) Y 07:19, 10 March 2006 (UTC
On a historical note it would be interesting to know who owned the land ariel is build on and what happened to them what ever the right or wrongs of the situation. -- 83.141.98.68 23:29, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
Page upgrade I've added here the city table with some statistics & a pic. I hope it is not POV. Shmuliko 10:21, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
Robin Hood 1212 20:34, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
Ariel can't be considered a "city" for one reason: According to the international community, the West Bank is not Israeli. So it's a simple logic. If it's a city, then you can't write "Israeli" because Israeli cities are supposed to be within the borders of Israel. So, it's a settlement. A settlement can be of a foreign origin on a land that doesn't belong to the settlers. Therefore, I remove city. If you feel otherwise, please come here and discuss don't just revert Northern ( talk) 09:41, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
You're missing the point. For something to be Israeli, you need for it to be within the territory of Israel while settlement is the one exception, since foreign governments often send "settlers" to settle on foreign land. Any Israeli CITY must be built within a territory that is Israel
Northern (
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11:08, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
So it's either a Palestinian city built by Israel or an Israeli settlement in Palestine
Northern (
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11:09, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
You're actually right about Palestine since it's not yet a country but Ariel is not located within Israel. It is located within the West Bank which is not recognized as Israeli territory by the international community. And that was my point all along.
Don't you agree that for a city to belong to a certain country, it must be located within it? So it's not really about borders of 67 or 49. It's about whether Ariel is located with in Israel. According to the international community, it is not.
To prove my point, go read about the
West Bank. West Bank is NOT Israel no matter how much Israel yells it is. I'm sorry, but the opinion of the international community matters more.
-- Northern (
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22:36, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
Ok, then what DOES matter when deciding what belongs to a country and what not if not international community? The opinion of the country being discussed? -- Northern ( talk) 22:59, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
No, in the real life this isn't the way it's done. A theft of land does not give legal rights over what was stolen. But this isn't about politics, this is about wikipedia so tell me, please sources by WHOM? You keep asking me for sources but sources by whom? Who do you want me to refer you to? The UN? Israeli Government? Whose sources would you consider reliable? Here on Wikipedia it is clearly stated that the West Bank, a part of which Ariel happens to be is not an Israeli territory. Seriously, go read about the West Bank and see for yourself -- Northern ( talk) 23:07, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
Just so I get it right, you want me to find you a source that says exactly "Ariel is not an Israeli city"? -- Northern ( talk) 23:20, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
I think you got me wrong here. I never said Ariel wasn't a city. It is a city no matter how you look at it. Is it an ISRAELI city? What makes a city Israeli or not is another story. So, I suppose we had a little misunderstanding. -- Northern ( talk) 23:35, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
I would like to remove the npov warning. Can I have all major points that are perceived to be pov in the article? Bullet form would be great! gidonb 20:51, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
No rationale was provided. I am removing the warning. gidonb 15:53, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
Please do not remove the 'city' part from the lead. The municipal status of Ariel is city. This is not disputed and has never been, since the local council was named a city in 1998. City and West Bank settlement are not mutually exclusive, and two other settlements (or three?) are also cities. -- Ynhockey ( Talk) 12:43, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
A few issues; the reference I removed did not provide sources for it's claims of massive settlement expansion in Judea and Samaria, the information seems to be old, another claim of a new tender issued in Ariel when in fact those projects were already under contruction a year earlier, and not even a mention that under the Olmert government there is a total freeze and no new projects have been approved. The cherry on the cake is this: "'Ariel' was established in 1978 on lands originally confiscated from the villages of -------." - as if some teenager hadn't finished is homework. If an article is going to be used as a source, then it should be serious, and if not, this reflects on the 'Institute' that issued it. -- Shuki 13:47, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
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BetacommandBot ( talk) 06:19, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
I heard on my radio during the summer a claim by a person who had at some point visited the west bank and then outside Ariel met a person who grew citrus fruits in the near vicinity that was devastated that there might be an expansion of Ariel and that he then might loose his property. Shortly after the visit, his fears came true as bulldozers destroyed his property. This is my memory of what I heard. If the facts is correct, then Ariel must have been expanded with the seizure of private property. I therefore wonders what is true. If seizure of private property have occured, then I think it ought to be in the article. KMA "HF" N ( talk) 09:10, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
Ariel is an Israeli city. Israel built it, 18 000 Israelis sleep in it nightly, almost 5000 units pay property tax to a city hall that is acting under the jurisdiction of the Israeli Ministry of Interior. How could it not be an Israeli city? Adding a comment to change syntax makes it seem that Ariel is a settlement and Ariel is also a city - two separate entities. -- Shuki ( talk) 11:35, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
Usage of the terms "Judea" and "Samaria" in article space appears to contravene 3 key Wikipedia policies: Naming Conventions, Undue weight and Neutral Point of View. [1] [2] A large body of evidence [3] [4] has been collected during extensive discussions (see list below) that unequivocally shows that these terms, alone and in combination, are almost entirely peculiar to Israel. As of today, no sources, reliable or otherwise, have been put forward that contradict this finding.
Discussion links (most closed, included for reference only):
MeteorMaker ( talk) 16:59, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
I'd like to take issue with the revert to my addition of the words " disputed territory" to describe the West Bank in the lead of this story. According to the article in its current state, there's no indication that Israeli settlements in the West Bank such as Ariel are a controversial issue. Such an omission undermines the perceived neutrality of the article. -- Shunpiker ( talk) 04:05, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
Samaria is known quite internationally by Jews and Christians from the Bible. Please follow the link, it's not a term generated in the past fifty years.
As for UN resolutions, there is a link for that too, specifically this one: UN Security Council Resolution 242. Ariel is not an "illegal Israeli" settlement since the Israeli government views it as a legitimate residential area under Israeli law as are most other Israeli settlements in the 'disputed territories', but you can argue that most see it as an "illegal" settlement under the Fourth Geneva Convention, though that is controverisal as well. Please see International and legal background under Israeli settlement. If it is worded properly and concisely, I'm sure that it can be agreed to by all, or maybe the link to Israeli settlement is enough. --Shuki
Do modern-day people refer to northern Iraq as "Assyria"? Does anybody in present-day Lebanon call that country "Phoenicia" ? Does anybody in France refer to their country as "Gaul"? Do Palestinians refer to the northern West Bank as "Samaria" or the southern West Bank as "Judaea"? And at the end of the day whether you accept it or not the UN and every nation on Earth including Israel regards the West Bank as being a Palestinian territory under Israeli control, and not part of Isarel proper. Therefore archaic non-Palestinian terms should not be used. -- 155.232.250.51
So you are saying that whatever American Indians call their land, it is irrelevant?
'At the end of the day', NPOV means that we try to bring as much information to the article as possible, not write, or rather leave out, history the way one side sees it. I don't ask you to believe the bible, but you should accept that it was around long before 'Palestine'. Again, if you can provide a Palestinian or Arabic term for the 'West Bank', than it would be legitimate as well. Until now, no one has added it to the article. Shuki 20:13, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
The West Bank has really only existed as an entity since 1948. Prior to that the West Bank was part of Palestine. I sincerely doubt that your "Judaea and Samaria" correspond exactly to what is now the West Bank. Also the name "Palestine" and its earlier terms such as "Filistin" can be traced abck to at least 5 thousand years ago. The Bible dates from less than 3 thousand years ago. Even then the land is called "the land of Canaan" . Earlier it says that "Abraham lived in the land of the Philistines". Regardless of this the name "Samaria" is in modern-times used by the occupiers of occupied land, while the Palestinian people refer to the corresponding area as "the northern West Bank". When Hitler invaded Poland and changed everything to German names under the occupation, most countries, as well as the League of Nations, still used the sovereign Polish names, rather than the Nazi-approved names. Similarly while Israel may control the West Bank, even the Knesset does not regard the West Bank as part of Israel proper and thus the Palestinian terms should be used, and these do not to the best of my knowledge include "Judaea" and "Samaria" .
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thats bulshit. If you are going to try and find reasons to attack everything that seem to be israeli, atleast make it reasonable and true.
1 - There is no place in the "torah", or the book of "genesis" in it, that says "Abraham lived in the land of the Philistines". the Philistines were an ancient greek nation that came from the sea and conquered the southern coast of israel around the same time the israelites started to conquer jodea and samaria. The term "Philistine" didn't exist in the time abraham lived and not even in the time the "torah" was written.
2 - Philistine, the land of the ancient greek nation the Philistines, did not include jodea or samaria. Philistine was along the southern coast, between the cities Ashdod and Gaza, modern south-central Israel and the Gaza strip. By the way, thats where i live :)
3 - Palastine isn't used for 5,000 years to describe israel(the philistines which gave their lands that name only came to israel around 3,000 years ago), Palastine is used for less than 2,000 years. Palastine is the english pronunciation philistine(or "paleshet" in its original form), and it was set as a diffrent word from philistine after 1948 to differentiate the palestinians from the anceint greek nation the philistines(or "plishtim" in its original form). Prior to 1948, there was no such thing as a palestinian nation, they took the name from the british mandate's name. The name of israel in the beginning was "land of cna'an", since the nations that lived in israel were the cna'anians. After the israelites conquered cna'an, the name of the land was known as Israel. Near Israel, on the southern coast, there was the land of palastine(or philistine today). The philistines were Israel's arch enemies throughout ancient israel's history. The babylon empire conquered Israel and Philistine and the Philsitine nation was destroyed. After that the Greek empire conquered israel, and they named the land "Jodea". After them came the Romans, they also called the land "Jodea". After the jewish revolt against the romans failed around 70AD, Jodea was destroyed and canceled. Instead, the Romans gave the land a new name, Philistine, over the name of the Philistines. That was done in order to humiliate the jews, by giving their land the name of their arch-enemies. Ever since, Philstine or Palastine is the name that is used to describe this land. It has no connection to the modern palestinians. And it does not rull out regions' names such as jodea and samaria.
4 - Jodea and Samaria are 2 terms that were used worldwide even before the roman empire. The Jodean mountains, the Joidan desert and the Samarian mountains are called like this by the entire world. That includes the palestinians. The "west bank" doesn't conflict with the terms Jodea or samaria, they are natural regions inside the west bank. The fact that the names for those areas are driven from hebrew doesn't make it pro-israeli. Like it or not, the israelites are the original owners of those lands, and most places in the west bank, including mountains, regions and cities, are hebrew names.
5 - I assume u haven't spent a day in your life there, and therefore, you are under the impression that all palestinians are filled with blind hatred like yourself, and thats too bad, because you make them look bad. The palestinians do refer to those areas as samaria and jodea, and they don't try to hide that information or say it was names given by israel. Those names were used throughout history by the Israelites, the Babylon empire, the Greeks, the Roman empire, the Arabian empire, the Ottoman empire and the british mandate. Its written in maps everywhere. Therefore, saying that because those areas belong to the palestines since 1993 the names are incurrect, is stupid(to remind you, before the oslo agreements in 1993, that area belonged to Israel only. The west bank was conquered by Jordon in 1948 and was conquered from Jordon by Israel in 1967 in the six days war). Those names were there long before the palestinians and they are used by the palestinians and the rest of the world, including the UN, which shows "Jodea" and "Samaria" in the west bank maps. Like you said, we should write what the world calls it, and not what a minority calls it. Even if the palestinians were to call it diffrently, it should still not be accepable because that term was there before them and is still used and known worldwide. Saying the words "Jodea" and "Samaria" are pro-israeli is like saying the words "Jordon" or "Jerusalem" are pro-israeli since they are hebrew names.
6 - There is no other "Palestinian term" for the jodean mountains and the samarian mountains, only the arabic pronunciation of it. In daily talk palestinians and israelis usually don't say region's names. The region's names are ancient names for those areas, and in daily talk we usually use modern terms . both palestinians and israelis will say "northen west bank". inside israel too, i won't say "upper galilee" i would say "northen israel", i won't say "tsin desert" i would say "southern israel", i won't say "cna'an mountain" i would say "city of tsfat" i won't say "dan" i would say "central israel" and so on and so on. but don't confuse daily talk with official information. using modern areas' names doesn't cancel out any of the real names such as galilee, samaria, jodea,tsin, pa'aran and so on, and it is used often in the news, papers, speeches and maps.
i hope now you relize how senseless your arguments were.
please read about the ancient greek nation the philstines, so you will understand there is no connection between them and the palestinians, there is no historical connection between the modern palestinians and the land of israel or philstine, and that philistine was a coastal land and was not consisted of the jodean and samarian mountains that are the modern west bank.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philistines
How nice, using terms like "bullshit" to make your point. Before making offensive comments like that, as well as your racist revisionism claims, I suggest you read the wikipedia policy and terms pages. You claim that there is no connection between the Palestinains and Philistines, and in a way you're right..the Palestinians are a "mongrel" race, a mixture of Israelite, Canaanite, Philistine, Persian, Arabic etc. However what is certain is that there is no connection between the Israelites and modern "Israelis" who are a European, gentile race.
Furthermore, the name "Filistin" was used by Egyptians, Persians etc long before any of the above-mentioned people appeared. Also, during the Exodus, it mentions the Israelites taking the long way around out of the Sinai Peninsula to avoid making contact with the Philistines. It is also a fact that certain cities, eg Gaza. were founded thousands of years before any "Israelite" appeared. While this does not necessarily mean that it was then a Philistine city, it does prove that the land had like-minded people (ie not Zionist elitists) who already ahd established terms and names for places and regions that has nothing to do with your false claims. The names "Judaea" and "Samaria" are also pointless and rather sad today, because the actual Judaeans and Samarians have long since vanished from the land of Canaan/Israel/Palestine/whatever and thus the name should be named after or by its current inhabitants(ie the Palestinians). - 155.232.250.35 --
Why do you hide behind anonymity? The entire Samaria/West Bank discussion is irrelevant to wikipedia since wikipedia is NPOV meaning that all points of view are supposedly allowed in an article. Plesae go to
NPOV. If you have a problem with the term Samaria, please go to
Samaria and comment there.
-- Shuki 17:43, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
I am not hiding behind anything. Just because I haven't got a wikipedia account doesn't make me any better or worse than someone called "Shuki". And at least I don't swear at other posters and make racist statments. If wikipedia is NPOV then why do you insist on using names that only Jewish colonisers use? Surely that is POV? And if you want to add stuff onto my post again that I didn't type. go ahead, I've lost interest in your zionist supremacist rubbish anyway.
Removing previous comments is a serious vandalism!
- 155.232.250.35 --
- 155.232.250.19 -- from @afrinic.net.
-- Shuki 13:06, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
2nd warning 155.232.250.35, removing previous comments is a serious vandalism!
Registering for a username means responsibility. Not registering means that you can hide behind the anonymous Witwatersrand servers and not be directly penalized. -- Shuki 14:30, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
Who is hiding? And surely calling Palestinians "Arabs" is POV? After all Arabia is to the south of Palestine. Just because somebody speaks Arabic, it doesn't make them an Arab. In much the same way as if someone speaks English it doesn't make them a descendant of the medieval Anglo-Saxons. And "Arab" isn't a religion. If by your ignorance, you mean "Muslim", then you should know that there are many non-Muslim Arabs, and in fact the largest Muslim community in the world is in Indonesia, not the Middle East. The generic "Arab" term to try and sustain the myth that all Middle Eastern people is homogenous, and thus the Palestinians are no different to Syrians, Egyptians, Lebanese, Arabians, Tunisians etc was created by western propagandists to try and convince people that since the Palestinians have no culture of their own, they thus shouldn't be entitled to their own state. Furthermore, it is a fact that I'm sure you would agree with, that prior to the creation Of Israel in 1948, the vast majority of the people living in the state weare Palestinians. While you may not accept that they (or rather their ancestors) have been there since prehistory, you must admit that they had at least for sevral centuries been the vast majority people in the land. Likewise the vast majority of Jewish people who ebcame the "Iraelis" arrived in Israel/Palestine only after the second World War. From this perspective the Palestinians are the indigenous people. Likewise many Sephardic, Fallajah people do not like being referred to as "Jews" since the term "Jew" is widely used and understood to refer exclusively to the white Ashkenazi people who are the post-1945 arrivals, while the darker skinned "Jews" who have lived in the state for at least several centuries mostly spoke Arabic and identified themselves not with the Ashkenazi, but with the Palestinians(Muslim, Christian, and otherwise) before the creation of the state of Israel.......John Miller
I have yet to meet a 'Sephardic' Jew that resists this title. While there is evidence of an Arab majority, even in 1922, there is no evidence that seventy years earlier, this was true. And Arab is the widely used term since many Arabs (not all, and I don't say 'most' either since there is no proof) living in Israel/West Bank are immigrants/descendants of Syrian, Egyptian, and other surrounding areas who flocked to the area when the Jews started arriving in the 19th century. Again, this is not the proper forum for this argument. -- Shuki 22:36, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
It's really quite simple. West Bank is a political term for the area conquered by Israel from Jordan in 1967, while Samaria is a geographic area which name happens to be of Hebrew origin. Do you also object to the terms Jordan or Lebanon, both of Hebrew origin? Not everything has to be related to politics. TFighterPilot ( talk) 14:53, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
i LIVE IN A VILLAGE NEXT TO THE SETTLEMENT OF ARIEL, AND KNOW THAT IT BUILT ON STOLEN LANDS OF PRIVATE PALESTINIAN FARMERS. ARIEL IS ILLEGAL SETTLEMENT CONSTRUCTED ON THE PALESTINIAN OCCUPIED TERRITORIES ON 1967. THE SETTLERS OF ARIEL ATTACKED PALESTINIAN NEARBY VILLAGES IN ORDER TO INFORCE PEOPLE TO LEAVE THE AREA. THEY ARE NOT WELCOMED AND WE ARE KEEN TO SEE THE DAY WHEN THIS SETLLEMENT TO BE DISMANTLE AND RESTORE OUR LANDS AND FARMS. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.106.75.245 ( talk) 08:05, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
As with another place, I have done a Google looking for the first reference in a newspaper to Ariel in a newspaper/journal that is not alligned with Israel/Palestine/the Jewish world/the Arab worlds or leftist groups. The first article was in the New York Times [11]. Just as with my searches for another settlement in the German, French and UK Googles, the first description found was "settlement". WP:DUE makes it clear that we should prioritise the terminology favoured in the majority sources.-- Peter cohen ( talk) 00:01, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
It's time to reach a new consensus on the usage of Israeli settlement.The term has taken negative connotations and its current usage conflicts Wikipedia's Neutral Point of View WP:NPOV. The article uses the term before anything else, this creates the impression and incurs the negative connotations of the term before the facts. This creates undue weight WP:DUE. People might believe the term is justified by its common use, but in this case a common term conflicts with a neutral point of view WP:NPOV. The Israeli government refers to them as 'Israeli cities/towns/villages within Judea/Samaria'. I'm proposing the use of all of them in a more neutral wording. We need to maintain and state the facts. Ariel is a city, it is Israeli, it is within the region of Samaria, located in the West Bank, and is commonly refered to as an Israeli settlement. So, I'm asking what it wrong with
Ariel ( Hebrew: אֲרִיאֵל; Arabic: اريئيل) is an Israeli city, located in the Biblical region of Samaria in the West Bank near the ancient village of Timnat Serah. Established in 1978, its population at the end of 2007 was 16,600, including 7,000 immigrants, who came to Israel after 1990. It is the fifth largest Israeli community in the territories that Israel captured from Jordan of as a result of the Six-Day War in 1967. The Israeli Ministry of the Interior gave the municipality of Ariel the status of a city council in 1998, due to the ongoing debate on the city's legal right to exist , it is commonly referred to by the international community as an Irsaeli settlements.
This use is a lot more neutral WP:NPOV, doesn't create any undue weight WP:DUE and it still makes use of the common term. I know that the arguement can be made that that Israeli settlement is a more specific term, but its still a negative term, a lot of people may cite the media for its use, but since when is the media ever neutral? I'm hoping we can reach a consensus here that will apply to the use of the term throughout wikipedia. AnOicheGhealai ( talk) 06:11, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
I agree with AOG. its also quite sad that we have to argue with an editor who claims that if we don't use the word "settlement" we shouldn't use the word "concentration camp".-- brew crewer (yada, yada) 14:59, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
WP:NPOV also states that we have to "Assert facts, including facts about opinions—but do not assert the opinions themselves." Israeli settlement is a term used to assert an opinion. Which is why "many reporter" use it, they are pushing an opinion, the media is never neutral, they have an agenda. As editors we are to assertain the absolute facts from any source, removing the opinions. AnOicheGhealai ( talk) 12:00, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
(outdent) What term is used first is determined simply by examining what is the term most often used by reliable sources. This is a question of fact, not opinion. So far no evidence has been presented it would be anything except "Israeli settlement". Indeed, I suspect everyone knows this is the term most commonly used so this discussion is in fact (assuming I'm right) unnecessary. Arguing that is "negative" or biased is not only irrelevant but also incorrect as the rightist Israeli PM uses the term. Cheers, -- Dailycare ( talk) 13:24, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
The lead paragraph currently reads:
Several problems here:
It appears that Ariel is within the borders of Salfit Governorate, but this is not mentioned in the article. I don't know how local government works in the West Bank, but I'd guess that at least the Palestinian Authority regards Ariel as within Salfit Governorate, so WP:NPOV would require that we mention that. -- macrakis ( talk) 00:58, 16 January 2010 (UTC)
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An anonymous user made a series of edits which appear to be POV to me. If nothing else, please cite your sources. -- Cyde Weys talk contribs 11:25, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
i am removing a palestinian POV here, "Some would say that the city is named after Ariel Sharon who was, at the time, a great proponent of Israeli settlements", that information has no validation and it is wrong. In Ariel's homepage it clearly says it was named because it's another name for Jerusalem. Whoever wrote it might be over the name of Ariel Sharon is not fermilier with Israel, the name giving proccess and did not find that information anywhere accept in his or her own mind, which is not what Wikipedia is about.
"Smaria" is not the internationally recognized name for the area. Only pro-Israeli people call it that. The UN resolutions(as well as Geneva Convention law) clearly state that it is illegally-occupied land, and that it is illegal to transfer your civillian population to such land. The sources are the Resolutions themselevs plus checking under the various Geneva codes. If anything YOU need to cite your sources to justify that Ariel is legal, and also that the term "Samaria" is used by more than just Jewish people to refer to present-day areas.
This is the claim that someone is making. If referring to the Palestinians as the indigenous people of Palestine is "receurring vandalism" then surely this entire site is seriously flawed? I suppose it comes down to who is running the site what is fact and what is POV. I wonder what John Seigenthaler would say?............John Miller
OR: "Current enrollment is 8,500 students, consisting of both Israeli and Palestinian students of all religions." -- Shuki 22:27, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
Since this is a controversial article (I've already been accused of POV here...), I will just say here that the article should probably be moved to Ariel (city), without capital C. This is according to Wikipedia naming conventions. On a side note, why is Ariel (City) NPOV and Ariel, Israel POV if it is Israel who gave Ariel the status of a city, even though generally towns with such a small population are not given such a status? -- Y Ynhockey ( Talk) Y 19:43, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
Support move to (city). According to city, there really is no standard size. At the end of 2005, Ariel had 17 800 residents, certainly not a metropolis, but not a rural hamlet either. 'Ariel, Israel' is a fact since it is Israeli, BUT the legitimacy of the city is disputed by opponents of any Jewish residency in the West Bank, so they'd probably prefer 'Ariel, illegal settlement'.-- Shuki 21:04, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
"Ariel, Israel" is not allowed because it suggests that the land Ariel sits on is part of Israel and such political comment is not allowed in titles. A name matching Wikipedia naming conventions is "Ariel (city)". Using a capital C looks odd. I'd actually prefer "Ariel (West Bank)" but I'm unwilling to devote time fighting for it. -- Zero 23:43, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
The move has been made, since no objections were raised. On the other hand, I don't support Ariel (West Bank), because most of the world knows West Bank to be a Palestinian territory, which means it could be assumed that Ariel is a Palestinian city. -- Y Ynhockey ( Talk) Y 07:19, 10 March 2006 (UTC
On a historical note it would be interesting to know who owned the land ariel is build on and what happened to them what ever the right or wrongs of the situation. -- 83.141.98.68 23:29, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
Page upgrade I've added here the city table with some statistics & a pic. I hope it is not POV. Shmuliko 10:21, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
Robin Hood 1212 20:34, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
Ariel can't be considered a "city" for one reason: According to the international community, the West Bank is not Israeli. So it's a simple logic. If it's a city, then you can't write "Israeli" because Israeli cities are supposed to be within the borders of Israel. So, it's a settlement. A settlement can be of a foreign origin on a land that doesn't belong to the settlers. Therefore, I remove city. If you feel otherwise, please come here and discuss don't just revert Northern ( talk) 09:41, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
You're missing the point. For something to be Israeli, you need for it to be within the territory of Israel while settlement is the one exception, since foreign governments often send "settlers" to settle on foreign land. Any Israeli CITY must be built within a territory that is Israel
Northern (
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11:08, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
So it's either a Palestinian city built by Israel or an Israeli settlement in Palestine
Northern (
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11:09, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
You're actually right about Palestine since it's not yet a country but Ariel is not located within Israel. It is located within the West Bank which is not recognized as Israeli territory by the international community. And that was my point all along.
Don't you agree that for a city to belong to a certain country, it must be located within it? So it's not really about borders of 67 or 49. It's about whether Ariel is located with in Israel. According to the international community, it is not.
To prove my point, go read about the
West Bank. West Bank is NOT Israel no matter how much Israel yells it is. I'm sorry, but the opinion of the international community matters more.
-- Northern (
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22:36, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
Ok, then what DOES matter when deciding what belongs to a country and what not if not international community? The opinion of the country being discussed? -- Northern ( talk) 22:59, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
No, in the real life this isn't the way it's done. A theft of land does not give legal rights over what was stolen. But this isn't about politics, this is about wikipedia so tell me, please sources by WHOM? You keep asking me for sources but sources by whom? Who do you want me to refer you to? The UN? Israeli Government? Whose sources would you consider reliable? Here on Wikipedia it is clearly stated that the West Bank, a part of which Ariel happens to be is not an Israeli territory. Seriously, go read about the West Bank and see for yourself -- Northern ( talk) 23:07, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
Just so I get it right, you want me to find you a source that says exactly "Ariel is not an Israeli city"? -- Northern ( talk) 23:20, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
I think you got me wrong here. I never said Ariel wasn't a city. It is a city no matter how you look at it. Is it an ISRAELI city? What makes a city Israeli or not is another story. So, I suppose we had a little misunderstanding. -- Northern ( talk) 23:35, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
I would like to remove the npov warning. Can I have all major points that are perceived to be pov in the article? Bullet form would be great! gidonb 20:51, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
No rationale was provided. I am removing the warning. gidonb 15:53, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
Please do not remove the 'city' part from the lead. The municipal status of Ariel is city. This is not disputed and has never been, since the local council was named a city in 1998. City and West Bank settlement are not mutually exclusive, and two other settlements (or three?) are also cities. -- Ynhockey ( Talk) 12:43, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
A few issues; the reference I removed did not provide sources for it's claims of massive settlement expansion in Judea and Samaria, the information seems to be old, another claim of a new tender issued in Ariel when in fact those projects were already under contruction a year earlier, and not even a mention that under the Olmert government there is a total freeze and no new projects have been approved. The cherry on the cake is this: "'Ariel' was established in 1978 on lands originally confiscated from the villages of -------." - as if some teenager hadn't finished is homework. If an article is going to be used as a source, then it should be serious, and if not, this reflects on the 'Institute' that issued it. -- Shuki 13:47, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
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I heard on my radio during the summer a claim by a person who had at some point visited the west bank and then outside Ariel met a person who grew citrus fruits in the near vicinity that was devastated that there might be an expansion of Ariel and that he then might loose his property. Shortly after the visit, his fears came true as bulldozers destroyed his property. This is my memory of what I heard. If the facts is correct, then Ariel must have been expanded with the seizure of private property. I therefore wonders what is true. If seizure of private property have occured, then I think it ought to be in the article. KMA "HF" N ( talk) 09:10, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
Ariel is an Israeli city. Israel built it, 18 000 Israelis sleep in it nightly, almost 5000 units pay property tax to a city hall that is acting under the jurisdiction of the Israeli Ministry of Interior. How could it not be an Israeli city? Adding a comment to change syntax makes it seem that Ariel is a settlement and Ariel is also a city - two separate entities. -- Shuki ( talk) 11:35, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
Usage of the terms "Judea" and "Samaria" in article space appears to contravene 3 key Wikipedia policies: Naming Conventions, Undue weight and Neutral Point of View. [1] [2] A large body of evidence [3] [4] has been collected during extensive discussions (see list below) that unequivocally shows that these terms, alone and in combination, are almost entirely peculiar to Israel. As of today, no sources, reliable or otherwise, have been put forward that contradict this finding.
Discussion links (most closed, included for reference only):
MeteorMaker ( talk) 16:59, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
I'd like to take issue with the revert to my addition of the words " disputed territory" to describe the West Bank in the lead of this story. According to the article in its current state, there's no indication that Israeli settlements in the West Bank such as Ariel are a controversial issue. Such an omission undermines the perceived neutrality of the article. -- Shunpiker ( talk) 04:05, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
Samaria is known quite internationally by Jews and Christians from the Bible. Please follow the link, it's not a term generated in the past fifty years.
As for UN resolutions, there is a link for that too, specifically this one: UN Security Council Resolution 242. Ariel is not an "illegal Israeli" settlement since the Israeli government views it as a legitimate residential area under Israeli law as are most other Israeli settlements in the 'disputed territories', but you can argue that most see it as an "illegal" settlement under the Fourth Geneva Convention, though that is controverisal as well. Please see International and legal background under Israeli settlement. If it is worded properly and concisely, I'm sure that it can be agreed to by all, or maybe the link to Israeli settlement is enough. --Shuki
Do modern-day people refer to northern Iraq as "Assyria"? Does anybody in present-day Lebanon call that country "Phoenicia" ? Does anybody in France refer to their country as "Gaul"? Do Palestinians refer to the northern West Bank as "Samaria" or the southern West Bank as "Judaea"? And at the end of the day whether you accept it or not the UN and every nation on Earth including Israel regards the West Bank as being a Palestinian territory under Israeli control, and not part of Isarel proper. Therefore archaic non-Palestinian terms should not be used. -- 155.232.250.51
So you are saying that whatever American Indians call their land, it is irrelevant?
'At the end of the day', NPOV means that we try to bring as much information to the article as possible, not write, or rather leave out, history the way one side sees it. I don't ask you to believe the bible, but you should accept that it was around long before 'Palestine'. Again, if you can provide a Palestinian or Arabic term for the 'West Bank', than it would be legitimate as well. Until now, no one has added it to the article. Shuki 20:13, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
The West Bank has really only existed as an entity since 1948. Prior to that the West Bank was part of Palestine. I sincerely doubt that your "Judaea and Samaria" correspond exactly to what is now the West Bank. Also the name "Palestine" and its earlier terms such as "Filistin" can be traced abck to at least 5 thousand years ago. The Bible dates from less than 3 thousand years ago. Even then the land is called "the land of Canaan" . Earlier it says that "Abraham lived in the land of the Philistines". Regardless of this the name "Samaria" is in modern-times used by the occupiers of occupied land, while the Palestinian people refer to the corresponding area as "the northern West Bank". When Hitler invaded Poland and changed everything to German names under the occupation, most countries, as well as the League of Nations, still used the sovereign Polish names, rather than the Nazi-approved names. Similarly while Israel may control the West Bank, even the Knesset does not regard the West Bank as part of Israel proper and thus the Palestinian terms should be used, and these do not to the best of my knowledge include "Judaea" and "Samaria" .
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thats bulshit. If you are going to try and find reasons to attack everything that seem to be israeli, atleast make it reasonable and true.
1 - There is no place in the "torah", or the book of "genesis" in it, that says "Abraham lived in the land of the Philistines". the Philistines were an ancient greek nation that came from the sea and conquered the southern coast of israel around the same time the israelites started to conquer jodea and samaria. The term "Philistine" didn't exist in the time abraham lived and not even in the time the "torah" was written.
2 - Philistine, the land of the ancient greek nation the Philistines, did not include jodea or samaria. Philistine was along the southern coast, between the cities Ashdod and Gaza, modern south-central Israel and the Gaza strip. By the way, thats where i live :)
3 - Palastine isn't used for 5,000 years to describe israel(the philistines which gave their lands that name only came to israel around 3,000 years ago), Palastine is used for less than 2,000 years. Palastine is the english pronunciation philistine(or "paleshet" in its original form), and it was set as a diffrent word from philistine after 1948 to differentiate the palestinians from the anceint greek nation the philistines(or "plishtim" in its original form). Prior to 1948, there was no such thing as a palestinian nation, they took the name from the british mandate's name. The name of israel in the beginning was "land of cna'an", since the nations that lived in israel were the cna'anians. After the israelites conquered cna'an, the name of the land was known as Israel. Near Israel, on the southern coast, there was the land of palastine(or philistine today). The philistines were Israel's arch enemies throughout ancient israel's history. The babylon empire conquered Israel and Philistine and the Philsitine nation was destroyed. After that the Greek empire conquered israel, and they named the land "Jodea". After them came the Romans, they also called the land "Jodea". After the jewish revolt against the romans failed around 70AD, Jodea was destroyed and canceled. Instead, the Romans gave the land a new name, Philistine, over the name of the Philistines. That was done in order to humiliate the jews, by giving their land the name of their arch-enemies. Ever since, Philstine or Palastine is the name that is used to describe this land. It has no connection to the modern palestinians. And it does not rull out regions' names such as jodea and samaria.
4 - Jodea and Samaria are 2 terms that were used worldwide even before the roman empire. The Jodean mountains, the Joidan desert and the Samarian mountains are called like this by the entire world. That includes the palestinians. The "west bank" doesn't conflict with the terms Jodea or samaria, they are natural regions inside the west bank. The fact that the names for those areas are driven from hebrew doesn't make it pro-israeli. Like it or not, the israelites are the original owners of those lands, and most places in the west bank, including mountains, regions and cities, are hebrew names.
5 - I assume u haven't spent a day in your life there, and therefore, you are under the impression that all palestinians are filled with blind hatred like yourself, and thats too bad, because you make them look bad. The palestinians do refer to those areas as samaria and jodea, and they don't try to hide that information or say it was names given by israel. Those names were used throughout history by the Israelites, the Babylon empire, the Greeks, the Roman empire, the Arabian empire, the Ottoman empire and the british mandate. Its written in maps everywhere. Therefore, saying that because those areas belong to the palestines since 1993 the names are incurrect, is stupid(to remind you, before the oslo agreements in 1993, that area belonged to Israel only. The west bank was conquered by Jordon in 1948 and was conquered from Jordon by Israel in 1967 in the six days war). Those names were there long before the palestinians and they are used by the palestinians and the rest of the world, including the UN, which shows "Jodea" and "Samaria" in the west bank maps. Like you said, we should write what the world calls it, and not what a minority calls it. Even if the palestinians were to call it diffrently, it should still not be accepable because that term was there before them and is still used and known worldwide. Saying the words "Jodea" and "Samaria" are pro-israeli is like saying the words "Jordon" or "Jerusalem" are pro-israeli since they are hebrew names.
6 - There is no other "Palestinian term" for the jodean mountains and the samarian mountains, only the arabic pronunciation of it. In daily talk palestinians and israelis usually don't say region's names. The region's names are ancient names for those areas, and in daily talk we usually use modern terms . both palestinians and israelis will say "northen west bank". inside israel too, i won't say "upper galilee" i would say "northen israel", i won't say "tsin desert" i would say "southern israel", i won't say "cna'an mountain" i would say "city of tsfat" i won't say "dan" i would say "central israel" and so on and so on. but don't confuse daily talk with official information. using modern areas' names doesn't cancel out any of the real names such as galilee, samaria, jodea,tsin, pa'aran and so on, and it is used often in the news, papers, speeches and maps.
i hope now you relize how senseless your arguments were.
please read about the ancient greek nation the philstines, so you will understand there is no connection between them and the palestinians, there is no historical connection between the modern palestinians and the land of israel or philstine, and that philistine was a coastal land and was not consisted of the jodean and samarian mountains that are the modern west bank.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philistines
How nice, using terms like "bullshit" to make your point. Before making offensive comments like that, as well as your racist revisionism claims, I suggest you read the wikipedia policy and terms pages. You claim that there is no connection between the Palestinains and Philistines, and in a way you're right..the Palestinians are a "mongrel" race, a mixture of Israelite, Canaanite, Philistine, Persian, Arabic etc. However what is certain is that there is no connection between the Israelites and modern "Israelis" who are a European, gentile race.
Furthermore, the name "Filistin" was used by Egyptians, Persians etc long before any of the above-mentioned people appeared. Also, during the Exodus, it mentions the Israelites taking the long way around out of the Sinai Peninsula to avoid making contact with the Philistines. It is also a fact that certain cities, eg Gaza. were founded thousands of years before any "Israelite" appeared. While this does not necessarily mean that it was then a Philistine city, it does prove that the land had like-minded people (ie not Zionist elitists) who already ahd established terms and names for places and regions that has nothing to do with your false claims. The names "Judaea" and "Samaria" are also pointless and rather sad today, because the actual Judaeans and Samarians have long since vanished from the land of Canaan/Israel/Palestine/whatever and thus the name should be named after or by its current inhabitants(ie the Palestinians). - 155.232.250.35 --
Why do you hide behind anonymity? The entire Samaria/West Bank discussion is irrelevant to wikipedia since wikipedia is NPOV meaning that all points of view are supposedly allowed in an article. Plesae go to
NPOV. If you have a problem with the term Samaria, please go to
Samaria and comment there.
-- Shuki 17:43, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
I am not hiding behind anything. Just because I haven't got a wikipedia account doesn't make me any better or worse than someone called "Shuki". And at least I don't swear at other posters and make racist statments. If wikipedia is NPOV then why do you insist on using names that only Jewish colonisers use? Surely that is POV? And if you want to add stuff onto my post again that I didn't type. go ahead, I've lost interest in your zionist supremacist rubbish anyway.
Removing previous comments is a serious vandalism!
- 155.232.250.35 --
- 155.232.250.19 -- from @afrinic.net.
-- Shuki 13:06, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
2nd warning 155.232.250.35, removing previous comments is a serious vandalism!
Registering for a username means responsibility. Not registering means that you can hide behind the anonymous Witwatersrand servers and not be directly penalized. -- Shuki 14:30, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
Who is hiding? And surely calling Palestinians "Arabs" is POV? After all Arabia is to the south of Palestine. Just because somebody speaks Arabic, it doesn't make them an Arab. In much the same way as if someone speaks English it doesn't make them a descendant of the medieval Anglo-Saxons. And "Arab" isn't a religion. If by your ignorance, you mean "Muslim", then you should know that there are many non-Muslim Arabs, and in fact the largest Muslim community in the world is in Indonesia, not the Middle East. The generic "Arab" term to try and sustain the myth that all Middle Eastern people is homogenous, and thus the Palestinians are no different to Syrians, Egyptians, Lebanese, Arabians, Tunisians etc was created by western propagandists to try and convince people that since the Palestinians have no culture of their own, they thus shouldn't be entitled to their own state. Furthermore, it is a fact that I'm sure you would agree with, that prior to the creation Of Israel in 1948, the vast majority of the people living in the state weare Palestinians. While you may not accept that they (or rather their ancestors) have been there since prehistory, you must admit that they had at least for sevral centuries been the vast majority people in the land. Likewise the vast majority of Jewish people who ebcame the "Iraelis" arrived in Israel/Palestine only after the second World War. From this perspective the Palestinians are the indigenous people. Likewise many Sephardic, Fallajah people do not like being referred to as "Jews" since the term "Jew" is widely used and understood to refer exclusively to the white Ashkenazi people who are the post-1945 arrivals, while the darker skinned "Jews" who have lived in the state for at least several centuries mostly spoke Arabic and identified themselves not with the Ashkenazi, but with the Palestinians(Muslim, Christian, and otherwise) before the creation of the state of Israel.......John Miller
I have yet to meet a 'Sephardic' Jew that resists this title. While there is evidence of an Arab majority, even in 1922, there is no evidence that seventy years earlier, this was true. And Arab is the widely used term since many Arabs (not all, and I don't say 'most' either since there is no proof) living in Israel/West Bank are immigrants/descendants of Syrian, Egyptian, and other surrounding areas who flocked to the area when the Jews started arriving in the 19th century. Again, this is not the proper forum for this argument. -- Shuki 22:36, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
It's really quite simple. West Bank is a political term for the area conquered by Israel from Jordan in 1967, while Samaria is a geographic area which name happens to be of Hebrew origin. Do you also object to the terms Jordan or Lebanon, both of Hebrew origin? Not everything has to be related to politics. TFighterPilot ( talk) 14:53, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
i LIVE IN A VILLAGE NEXT TO THE SETTLEMENT OF ARIEL, AND KNOW THAT IT BUILT ON STOLEN LANDS OF PRIVATE PALESTINIAN FARMERS. ARIEL IS ILLEGAL SETTLEMENT CONSTRUCTED ON THE PALESTINIAN OCCUPIED TERRITORIES ON 1967. THE SETTLERS OF ARIEL ATTACKED PALESTINIAN NEARBY VILLAGES IN ORDER TO INFORCE PEOPLE TO LEAVE THE AREA. THEY ARE NOT WELCOMED AND WE ARE KEEN TO SEE THE DAY WHEN THIS SETLLEMENT TO BE DISMANTLE AND RESTORE OUR LANDS AND FARMS. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.106.75.245 ( talk) 08:05, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
As with another place, I have done a Google looking for the first reference in a newspaper to Ariel in a newspaper/journal that is not alligned with Israel/Palestine/the Jewish world/the Arab worlds or leftist groups. The first article was in the New York Times [11]. Just as with my searches for another settlement in the German, French and UK Googles, the first description found was "settlement". WP:DUE makes it clear that we should prioritise the terminology favoured in the majority sources.-- Peter cohen ( talk) 00:01, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
It's time to reach a new consensus on the usage of Israeli settlement.The term has taken negative connotations and its current usage conflicts Wikipedia's Neutral Point of View WP:NPOV. The article uses the term before anything else, this creates the impression and incurs the negative connotations of the term before the facts. This creates undue weight WP:DUE. People might believe the term is justified by its common use, but in this case a common term conflicts with a neutral point of view WP:NPOV. The Israeli government refers to them as 'Israeli cities/towns/villages within Judea/Samaria'. I'm proposing the use of all of them in a more neutral wording. We need to maintain and state the facts. Ariel is a city, it is Israeli, it is within the region of Samaria, located in the West Bank, and is commonly refered to as an Israeli settlement. So, I'm asking what it wrong with
Ariel ( Hebrew: אֲרִיאֵל; Arabic: اريئيل) is an Israeli city, located in the Biblical region of Samaria in the West Bank near the ancient village of Timnat Serah. Established in 1978, its population at the end of 2007 was 16,600, including 7,000 immigrants, who came to Israel after 1990. It is the fifth largest Israeli community in the territories that Israel captured from Jordan of as a result of the Six-Day War in 1967. The Israeli Ministry of the Interior gave the municipality of Ariel the status of a city council in 1998, due to the ongoing debate on the city's legal right to exist , it is commonly referred to by the international community as an Irsaeli settlements.
This use is a lot more neutral WP:NPOV, doesn't create any undue weight WP:DUE and it still makes use of the common term. I know that the arguement can be made that that Israeli settlement is a more specific term, but its still a negative term, a lot of people may cite the media for its use, but since when is the media ever neutral? I'm hoping we can reach a consensus here that will apply to the use of the term throughout wikipedia. AnOicheGhealai ( talk) 06:11, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
I agree with AOG. its also quite sad that we have to argue with an editor who claims that if we don't use the word "settlement" we shouldn't use the word "concentration camp".-- brew crewer (yada, yada) 14:59, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
WP:NPOV also states that we have to "Assert facts, including facts about opinions—but do not assert the opinions themselves." Israeli settlement is a term used to assert an opinion. Which is why "many reporter" use it, they are pushing an opinion, the media is never neutral, they have an agenda. As editors we are to assertain the absolute facts from any source, removing the opinions. AnOicheGhealai ( talk) 12:00, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
(outdent) What term is used first is determined simply by examining what is the term most often used by reliable sources. This is a question of fact, not opinion. So far no evidence has been presented it would be anything except "Israeli settlement". Indeed, I suspect everyone knows this is the term most commonly used so this discussion is in fact (assuming I'm right) unnecessary. Arguing that is "negative" or biased is not only irrelevant but also incorrect as the rightist Israeli PM uses the term. Cheers, -- Dailycare ( talk) 13:24, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
The lead paragraph currently reads:
Several problems here:
It appears that Ariel is within the borders of Salfit Governorate, but this is not mentioned in the article. I don't know how local government works in the West Bank, but I'd guess that at least the Palestinian Authority regards Ariel as within Salfit Governorate, so WP:NPOV would require that we mention that. -- macrakis ( talk) 00:58, 16 January 2010 (UTC)