Talk:Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia

message: Wikitravel gives an alternate name for this province only. It's not clear to me why this might be.
The article names (proposed... they're all red links as I write) in Wikitravel are all of the form Ash Sharqiyah Province. In Wikipedia, on the other hand, articles or stubs exist on each province, but there is no systematic naming convention that I can see. I think we need to have one. Until we do, this proposed move would just complicate things.   
At present there seems to me to be no consensus supporting this move, and there are also some unexplored issues. 
See also :Category:Provinces of Saudi Arabia. Andrewa 19:32, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Where we are

message: Arabian Gulf is ambiguous and only(?) used by arab countries. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 00:38, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Eagle, why do you always revert disambiguation by others? Tobias Conradi (Talk) 11:23, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Persian/Arab Gulf

message: Hi there...It seems that there is no definitive consensus to move the article yet, as such I'm going to remove the move request that is currently pending. Please add the move request again if consensus to move has occurred. Thanks! --HappyCamper 20:48, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, there is a slight ambiguity in the definition of "consensus" on the move page. It states about 60% is consensus. At the top, we have 2 votes to 1, or about 66% consensus. If everyone is comfortable with the move, please leave me a message to expedite the move fix. --HappyCamper 20:56, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I would prefer not to move. It seems this is a larger issue. Somewhere I saw the question whether Rio Negro, Weisse Elster, should be translatd to Black River, White Elster. I prefer: no move until there is a policy. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 03:43, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: There is a proposed guideline under discussion (in which you have already been involved) at Wikipedia:Request for comment/Naming conventions (subnational entities) and other places linked to from the RfC. I agree that this move should not take place while the guideline is at this stage of discussion. Andrewa 15:05, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

text: See also Wikipedia:Naming conventions (subnational entities). Andrewa 01:58, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

text: The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 
The result of the debate was PAGE MOVED per discussion below. -GTBacchus(talk) 20:48, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Moving proposal 

message: Add "* Support" or "* Oppose" followed by a brief explanation, then sign your opinion with ~~~~
*Support as nominator per Wikipedia:Naming conventions (use English). —  AjaxSmack   06:52, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Survey

message: I have added a list of governorates in Eastern Province as officially stated . Brokenlove 22:39, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of governorates  

message: Please do not delete sourced material about the rate of Shia population in the province. Instead, consider provide other sourced material falsifying it. Thanks.Egeymi (talk) 14:35, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Request

message: Nothing about the Shia population which is vastly underrepresented in jobs and surpassed by the government in the Eastern Province.
Why's that? Should there be a "Politics" section or information added to the "Demographics" part explaining more on the sectarian nature of the province?
85.99.240.253 (talk) 20:54, 23 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shia Population? 

message: In Saudi Arabia only the term REGION (منطقة) is used both administratively and colloquially. I do not know where did the term PROVINCE (مقاطعة) come from? عمر خالد 8888 (talk) 22:23, 22 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Region or Province 

message: There's a confusion in the intro paragraph:
"The Eastern Province (Arabic: المنطقة الشرقية al-Mintaqah ash-Sharqīyah), also known as the Eastern Region, and officially the Emirate of the Eastern Province"
The emirate is not synonymous with the province, or an official name of the province. The emirate is the office of the Emir (governor) of the province. It's a specific government institution.
Furthermore, the source provided links to a webpage for the , which has no text at all and does not say that the official name of the province is "Emirate of the Eastern Province".
So I've removed this phrase from the intro paragraph. High surv (talk) 17:28, 19 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clarification on "Emirate of the Eastern Province"