Talk:Golan

message: This was originally copy and pasted, and I have now noted that in the beginning of the article. I think it should really be rewritten and resourced as much of the article covers the current archaeology of the site which I'm sure has changed in the last 100 years. I looked for information on Google, but I couldn't find much. I've copyedited the whole article, so it at least looks presentable for now. I also looked for an appropriate tag to give the article, but I couldn't find one. Basar 20:16, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This article is about the ancient city of Golan, whose modern-day location is not known. Please read the article. Jayjg (talk) 20:25, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

text: Please respond to the issues raised above. Jayjg (talk) 17:11, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

text: See the article Land of Israel. In short, yes. The city is clearly mentioned in Deuteronomy 4:43 as being in the Land of Israel. (as mentioned in the article). --Eliyak T·C 18:15, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Part of the issue here is that the vast majority of people will understand Syria as meaning the modern country, by the way. --Eliyak T·C 18:16, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

text: At the time "Golan" existed there was no "Syria", that came over 1000 years later. Jayjg (talk) 01:26, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No states or countries are called "lands." On the other hand, Syria is the name of that country. --Eliyak T·C 22:58, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copy and paste 

message: Hmm, this discussion is very interesting and shows how important it is to try to be dispassionate! It looks like almost everyone has an axe to grind here or is otherwise not exactly "neutral" in their POV!   Clearly, both terms in debate "land of Israel" and "Syria" carry string present day resonance and are both strenuously objected to by large segments of the people in the area, if not world wide.
I went and looked at the Wikipedia entries for the two terms and, interestingly, neither one seems to be correct.  In the Land of Israel entry, there's a map of it and, quite clearly, Golan is not included while the Syria entry concentrates on the current state by that name (though Syria disambiguation gives a broader scope to the term)
I personally think the term "Levant" is about as close to neutral as can be found and I am altering the article to that.Stampcollector 17:22, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Golan is most certainly in the map of Land of Israel. The pink map is an approximation of the map of the United Monarchy of Israel, not the land of Israel. Btw, you have that first sentence on copy-paste? , I see you use it elsewhere :) . Cheers. Amoruso 23:16, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Opting for neutrality 

message: What is the purpose of having a separate Golan and Golan Heights page? As this one is underdeveloped and contains little that is new, I suggest merging the information and getting rid of this one.--Gilabrand 06:46, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  merge this page 

message: Since the area is a part of an Arab country, the Arabic name should be first. --Supreme Deliciousness (talk) 20:10, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: This is a page about the Biblical area, before there was an Arabic language. --Shuki (talk) 20:29, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  Why did you remove Jawlān in your revert? --Supreme Deliciousness (talk) 21:01, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Didn't. It wasn't there in the first place. --Shuki (talk) 21:30, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I had added it:  --Supreme Deliciousness (talk) 21:39, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Arabic belong first be cause this be arabic country and arabic be older than hebrew . Also, during time which Golan of history exist, the hebrew people speak aramaic. Hebrew al ready fall out use by era of Golan city.  Modern "Hebrew" be invent by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, who create it by stealing many word from Arabic and "hebrewize" to make sound like it be relate to biblical hebrew words. So modern arabic word more appropriate for all these reason. Ani medjool (talk) 22:12, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Walla? Titkadem kvar achunah. Breein1007 (talk) 03:01, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Arabic first 

message: in the article so I removed the tag. --Supreme Deliciousness (talk) 12:45, 28 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  there aren't too many quotes 

message: As it is, it's one long confusion. If it were about the biblical town of Golan, it would make sense; but it's mixing up regions, periods, everything that can be mixed up and confused: biblical Golan, Classical Gaulanitis, Golan Heights. It needs reworking from scratch.
Mind: Sahem aj-Jaulan is outside the Golan Heights (east of Wadi ar-Ruqqad). Take it from here, create a chronological skeleton/structure, read AND TRY TO UNDERSTAND the sources, interlink and study related pages, and only then you can go into fighting over ridiculous details (whose orthography should take precedence etc.) Do your basic homework, and nationalism is never part of that. Cheers, ArmindenArminden (talk) 16:33, 23 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Confusing and USELESS