Talk:Syria

message: I noticed that this article and the articles List of cities in Syria, Aleppo and Damascus have conflicting information about relative size of these cities. I realise that it must be difficult to obtain the true figures, but it would be good if someone with a knowledge of the most reliable sources on the topic could update the four articles to reflect the same information, and/or add a footnote about the uncertainty. (I have just removed the reference to size in the introductory section of this article.) Laterthanyouthink (talk) 00:29, 27 November 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: After the start of the civil war in 2011, Damascus has become the largest Syrian city. It is true that Aleppo was the largest, but not any more. George Al-Shami (talk) 00:14, 22 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Relative size of Aleppo and Damascus

message: Moshe Maoz as an Israeli SCholar is to my opinion perhaps the only one with minimum or almost no Zionist Bias about Syria. There is however an article on Mordechai Kedar who is deeply biased.
Moshe Maos deserves an article, and now more than even for working on a summary of the uprising in Syria. The Hebrew Article is not so good and suffers of many problems as well.
84.111.208.168 (talk) 18:21, 30 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  No Article about Moshe Maoz- a world recognized expert on Syria 

message: "The current constitution of Syria, adopted in
2012, effectively transformed the country into a semi-presidential republic due to the constitutional right for the election of individuals who do not form part of the National Progressive Front." This sentence needs a lot more explication to be understandable for outsiders...!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by HilmarHansWerner (talk • contribs) 22:01, 1 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: semi-presidential republic??

message: In the English language page "Syria", in section "Agrarian reform", 2nd paragraph, change "...established collective barging..." to "...established collective bargaining..." Normal-x (talk) 12:58, 27 July 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Done Masum Reza📞 13:15, 27 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 27 July 2019 

message: Syria claims signifigant portions of territory it does not control, the Golan Heights and Turkey's Hatay province, as these areas are visible on the map, they should be shaded light green as territory claimed but not controlled just as similar areas are on the maps of China, India, Venezuela, Ukraine, Georgia, Japan, Moldova, Somalia, Pakistan,ect.XavierGreen (talk) 16:37, 7 February 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: There is a difference between claiming and legally owning. The Hatay is recognized internationally as Turkish (despite how it was actually annexed by Turkey). The Golan, on the other hand, is illegally occupied by Israel and this is the international consensus. In short, Syria does not claim Golan, its Israel that does, and actively illegally occupy it. Therefore, if the map will be changed, then the colours of Golan cannot be the same as those of Hatay.--Attar-Aram syria (talk) 13:13, 12 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Country Map Update 

message: "The Aramaic language has been found as far afield as Hadrians Wall in Ancient Britain, with inscriptions written by Assyrian and Aramean soldiers of the Roman Empire.[53]"
1. The source provided does not call them Assyrian or Aramaean.
2. The fort has nothing to with Syria. Its builders were Iraqi.
EDIT: Nevermind, they were both Syrian and Iraqi.Julia Domna Ba'al (talk) 12:58, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll do that. This article was plagued by Assyrian nationalists who shoved Assyria everywhere.--Attar-Aram syria (talk) 09:35, 24 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fort Arbea near Hadrian's Wall 

message: This is wrong:
"Her great nephews, also Arameans from Syria, would also become Roman Emperors, the first being Elagabalus and the second, his cousin Alexander Severus."
"The matriarch of the family and Empress of Rome as wife of emperor Septimius Severus was Julia Domna, a Syrian from the city of Emesa"
Domna was not Aramaean, she was Arab, from the Emesan Dynasty which academics agree are an Arab family.
This has to be corrected.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Julia Domna Ba'al (talk • contribs) 13:09, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Severan Arab matriarchs 

message: I propose adding a section regarding Arab presence in Syria, from 9th-6th century wars against Assyria, then Achaemenid Arabia, then extensive Arab presence during the Seleucid and early Roman periods. Arab kingdoms like Emesa and Nabataea (which controlled Damascus for a while) are not mentioned.
"According to Strabo, Pliny and Ptolemy, much of the Province of Syria was populated by Arabs" -MCA Macdonald.
Julia Domna Ba'al (talk) 13:12, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: There should be no subsections for ethnicities or peoples, like every other country article on Wikipedia the history subsections should reflect historical periods. You can write the content about the Arabs in the ancient and classical periods if it is sourced. I know little of the history of Syria but I feel that the Arab Nabataeans and the Arabs of Palmyra are underrepresented. Makeandtoss (talk) 15:18, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: It says I can't edit if I have less than 500+ edits. Can I write it here and you add it to the article?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Julia Domna Ba'al (talk • contribs) 15:23, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Of course that's what I meant. Add it here with the sources and I will add it to the article. Makeandtoss (talk) 15:28, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Arab Presence in Syria 

message: added new section regarding the current critical situation and new developing national crisis situation in Syria. --Sm8900 (talk) 19:30, 12 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  new data added  

message: The current text contains a contradiction on the time period Syria had troops in Lebanon:
It says: "In early 1976, Syria entered Lebanon, beginning their thirty-year military presence.[88]"
It also says: "In 2005, Syria ended its military presence in Lebanon.[96][97]"
I am not a mathematician, but fail to see how this adds up to 33 years...  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2003:DF:5F4F:8734:20CC:4325:E81:F97F (talk) 16:12, 11 August 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: You're right, it's 29 years, not 33; I fixed it. George Al-Shami (talk) 23:21, 11 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ba'athist Syria 

message: Wanted to look up the two places called Bani(y)as on the map of Syria, but there is no map where one is expected. Why? Arminden (talk) 12:45, 18 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why is there no map (polit. & geogr.)? 

message: In the lead, please add “a country in the Levant region of Western Asia”.2603:8081:160A:BE2A:51BF:100C:BF87:623D (talk) 08:47, 8 November 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: . First sentence is packed as is. Levant is mentioned in the third paragraph, which I think belongs better. ◢  Ganbaruby!  (Say hi!) 03:18, 10 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request  

message: Add a line about the most recent missile strikes on Syrian land by US president Joe Biden. Edimeme (talk) 13:46, 6 April 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Sincerely, Deauthorized. (talk) 23:55, 6 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 6 April 2021 

message: Under History - French Mandate (2.5), the second paragraph reads:
In 1925, Sultan al-Atrash led a revolt that broke out in the Druze Mountain and spread to engulf the whole of Syria and parts of Lebanon. Al-Atrash won several battles against the French, notably the Battle of al-Kafr on 21 July 1925
The link of Battle of al-Kafr leads to the 1882 Battle of Kafr El Dawwar in Egypt. It should instead lead to the correct Battle of al-Kafr:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_al-Kafr
2001:8F8:1361:7F53:C1B3:A8DA:E792:6E4D (talk) 17:42, 28 October 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Corrected SuperiorGoat (talk) 03:18, 30 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi protected edit request 

message: Please change the hyperlink in Palestine in "In May 1948, Syrian forces invaded Palestine" from Palestine the region to Mandatory Palestine. 188.247.77.83 (talk) 21:04, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Qhnbgjt (talk) 11:45, 9 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 1 July 2022 

message: The largest city in Syria is Aleppo. Not Damascus, which is what is mistakenly written in the introduction of the Wikipedia page of Syria. Not only do many sources prove this https://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/cities/syria
But wikipedia's own "list of cities in Syria" has Aleppo as the largest/most populated city in Syria. 94.205.97.129 (talk) 23:10, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Qhnbgjt (talk) 11:45, 9 July 2022 (UTC)
replies: text:  Undone: This request has been undone.
 Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Source needs to be something like a official government website showing population of cities, or a news article referring to it. This source appears to be mainly a blog Fbifriday (talk) 14:59, 10 July 2022 (UTC)

text: More details (since I happened to look into this a bit further): World Population Review cites one source, GeoNames. GeoNames does in fact have matching population details (Damascus, Aleppo), but looking at the history reveals that both of these statistics have remained unchanged since their import in 2006. It seems plausible that the civil war has significantly changed the relative sizes of the cities, but the website of the Syrian Central Bureau of Statistics seems dead. Vahurzpu (talk) 03:37, 7 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 1 July 2022 (2) 

message: The information on ethnicity in the infobox warrants further discussion. Neither the previous stable source, which was figures from Columbia, nor the recently added input from the CIA World factbook, provide clear data. The Columbia data provided a hybridized snapshot of ethnicity groupings by combining ethnic and religious features; the CIA data is more simplistic, but includes the entirely unexplained groupings "Levantines", which seems to be a vague catch-all term that achieves little except raise questions. Wikipedia does not even have a redirect to somewhere for that term, let alone a page explaining what it might mean in an ethnic context. Ethnicity is complex and deserves better treatment. Iskandar323 (talk) 08:37, 18 August 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: It’s not simply the “Columbia” source. It doesn’t exactly belong to the university but to a person, Mehrdad Izady, who created the map, while working there. In other pages, he was concluded to be unreliable, so I believe he should not be included as a source. I understand your concerns about CIA World Factbook. We can add another source in order to combine with it. I will look for it as time will allow and make appropriate edits, so you can check and let me know if it is okay. And ethnicity is indeed complex. But especially, in such regions like Syria, it is closely related with religion, so it is hard to separate them. Ayıntaplı (talk) 16:32, 18 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Ethnicity breakdown

message: why isn't the golan heights included in the map of Syria? 2001:4479:C801:2B00:C47B:6E45:5BD6:F9FB (talk) 07:18, 14 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Golan heights 

message: Do we have anything on it? 41.58.242.97 (talk) 18:03, 25 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sep 2022 boat disaster  

message: I check pages listed in :Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of :Syria's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
Reference named "MiddleEastEye":
From Syrian civil war: 
From Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria: 
I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 17:02, 31 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Orphaned references in [[:Syria]] 

message: I am inquiring as to why you object to using a map of Syria which includes it's territorial claims in light green? This is the standard for all other country articles with disputed territories such as Ukraine, Japan, North and South Korea, Taiwan (on the third map), Russia, Venezuela, and others. Serafart (talk) (contributions) 00:51, 16 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Map 

message: I wouldn’t call Syria totalitarian. While I’d definitely agree that it’s authoritarian, a certain amount of opposition is tolerated and the government doesn’t have complete control of the people. 2600:4041:453A:B200:9CCD:43A7:6CA2:57C5 (talk) 00:30, 13 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Totalitarian 

message: The following Wikimedia Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for deletion:
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Participate in the deletion discussion at the . —Community Tech bot (talk) 09:37, 22 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  A Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for deletion 

message: :Aramaic is not an official language of the Syrian state and there is no reason to have it included as transliterations in the lede. Makeandtoss (talk) 09:28, 28 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Aramaic transliterations

message: The SAR is one of the multiple rival organizations/governments administrating the Syrian territories. Almost all of these recognised Syrian international boundaries (with the historical exception of IS after ISIS ended in 2014 and they "abolished Syria" in their territories along with the Iraqi-Syrian border) but these are not necessarily (the Rojava claims are complicated, claiming just an autonomy but wanting to do away with the "Arab" thing at once) "officially the Syrian Arab Republic" for the local governments. 5.173.105.14 (talk) 07:30, 15 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not all of Syria is "officially the Syrian Arab Republic" 

message: I edited this page when I should not have.
I was advised on Treehouse to make an edit request to fix my broken citation. GoutComplex (talk) 22:39, 2 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Apologies and an edit request 

message: The statement "The Invasion purpose was to prevent the establishment of the State of Israel." is neither true nor is it upheld by the source given, which only states "The humiliating failure of the Arab intervention in Palestine against the newly created State of Israel in May 1948 brought serious discredit to the governments of the Arab countries involved, but nowhere more than in Syria."
Syria was part of the Arab League and their official statement was that they were intervening in Palestine because of the lawlessness there and the ethnic cleansing: 
"The recent disturbances in Palestine further constitute a serious and direct threat to peace and security within the territories of the Arab States themselves. For these reasons, and considering that the security of Palestine is a sacred trust for them, and out of anxiousness to check the further deterioration of the prevailing conditions and to prevent the spread of disorder and lawlessness into the neighbouring Arab lands, and in order to fill the vacuum created by the termination of the Mandate and the failure to replace it by any legally constituted authority, the Arab Governments find themselves compelled to intervene for the sole purpose of restoring peace and security and establishing law and order in Palestine." (https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Cablegram_from_the_Secretary-General_of_the_League_of_Arab_States_to_the_Secretary-General_of_the_United_Nations)
Mcdruid (talk) 06:53, 3 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Invasion of Palestine 

message: Can anyone add the earthquake that happened in Syria? Flag Creator (talk) 11:25, 27 March 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I think for this page we just write it in history a little then show a link to another page in full detail 2001:1970:55E8:7F00:60F6:D4AD:9672:10DE (talk) 19:46, 14 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Syria-Turkey Earthquake 2023 

message: Syria might've been ruled by the same political party for decades, but that doesn't make it a one-party state; there are other political parties in the country, such as the Communist Party. So I think the best description of Syria would be a unitary Baathist dominant-party semi-presidential republic. 2600:4041:552C:3200:2CE4:498F:CC24:2447 (talk) 21:09, 11 May 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: its a totalionalist dictatorship or however to spell it. 2001:1970:55E8:7F00:60F6:D4AD:9672:10DE (talk) 19:45, 14 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  I'm glad that Syria is no longer described as a "one-party state" in the info box. 

message: Remove the following templates: Non-Aligned Movement (only links to "[MEMBER] and the Non-Aligned Movement" pages like India and the Non-Aligned Movement) and Journeys of Paul the Apostle (template links to Roman Syria). 2600:8800:590E:BB00:ADFC:913B:A194:49 (talk) 23:33, 19 May 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Lightoil (talk) 04:20, 20 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 19 May 2023 

message: Greetings - Today I added 1981 in Syria and am inviting interested editors to expand content.
For the "Births" section, below are entries do not have Wikipedia articles so feel free to write any of these.
* Shady Othman
* Saad al Ghefari
* Hiba Al-Akkad
* Nagham Hodaifa
For the "Deaths", after searching I cannot find any entries so I did not add the secction.
I'm posting this information at both the WikiProject talk and the Syria talk. Regards, JoeNMLC (talk) 19:35, 4 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Years in Syria - 1981 

message: Typo: "Aleppo,Homs" in main section of the article. 2A02:1810:363D:6700:E813:9850:7A8E:2471 (talk) 08:56, 8 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: M.Bitton (talk) 10:49, 8 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 8 September 2023 

message: there are secular and multi religious opposition groups that operate against Assad and this purpurates the Syrian regimes propaganda about the Syrian opposition. This in the Current political situation 2011 to present of the article.  Monochromemelo1 (talk) 13:16, 3 October 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Where does the article say this? Yr Enw (talk) 08:15, 2 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  It is wrong to claim that the only Syrian opposition is ISIS and al-nusra  

message: "As of 2023, Turkey was continuing its support for various militias within Syria, consisting mostly of the YPG/YPJ, which periodically attempted some operations against Kurdish groups."
This sentence makes no sense - the YPG/YPJ are the Kurdish fighting units which Turkey is attacking. One possible correction:
"As of 2023, Turkey was continuing its support for various militias within Syria, which periodically attempted some operations against Kurdish groups consisting mostly of the YPG/YPJ." Rachelwearsshoes (talk) 22:44, 19 October 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, you're right, this makes zero sense. Yr Enw (talk) 08:12, 2 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request - Turkish-backed militias and YPG/YPJ 

message: I do believe that in the government section of the infobox, the "hereditary" should be removed, as pro-Assad sentiment is still high in Syria, and if there were elections under the auspices of the United Nations-led political process and ones that  adhere to standards for free and fair elections would result in a very likely win by Assad, making it in someway inaccurate. 
I'm open to debate this. Smint34 (talk) 00:34, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  infobox government  

message: I would like to request an edit to Syria's Demographic Map.
There is Sunni Muslims in Latakia, Baniyas, Al-Haffah, Jableh and Tartus along with northeast of Latakia rural,
There is a decent percentage (About 40% of all Muslims there).
In Idlib governorate there a minority of Druze in Al-Sammak mountain north of Idlib Governorate.
Christians have a big part of Syrians that are in Lattakia, Northen of Latakia governorate and western of Idlib governorate.
There a majority of Shia Muslims north of Aleppo, Specially in Nubul and Al-Zahraa, along with Kufrayya and Alfoaa in Idlib Governorate. MiladYM (talk) 09:44, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Syria Demographic Map Edit 

message: "Please change Muhammad to Prophet Muhammad" Gvijay23 (talk) 02:24, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: Per MOS:MUHAMMAD, "prophet" is generally not used in articles. Jamedeus (talk) 07:40, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 11 March 2024 

message: English Wikipedia generally applies the transliteration and spelling standards developed by English-language scholars and academics. This is certainly the case with historical terms, while current terms may be spelled according to official policy in the respective country. The scholarly norms have evolved over time and are well founded.
The common academic name spelling in English requires the definite article (al, etc.) and "son of" (ibn) to be written small, unless it occurs at the beginning of a sentence. The article must be followed by a hyphen. Examples:
*Omar ibn al-Khattab, not Omar Ibn Al Khattab
*Dumat al-Jandal, not Dumat Al Jandal
I know some perceive it as irreverential, but it's not meant to be and it is the common practice. If administrative units (national governments, regional or municipal authorities) decree a different English spelling as normative, this concerns only the individual names to which the decrees apply, and the modern administrative units, not the historical or archaeological sites.
Thank you. Arminden (talk) 14:01, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wiki standards