Talk:Syria/Archive 1

message: Notice how the text resembles this web site http://www.nationmaster.com/country/sy/Economy
Syria's predominantly statist economy etc. is the very same.  Who borrowed from who?
Kstailey 14:27, 31 Jul 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Copyright

message: About the recently added "SYRIA" link pointing to http://www.sptechs.com/ : I don't read Arabic, but I have a strong feeling that it's the home page of a web design company, and - therefore - link-spam. Any Arabic-speaking(+reading) person around? TroelsArvin 13:11, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, it's spam. removed it and several more links. --Ayman 12:04, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Spam?

message: I wonder why syriaonline.com ,syriagate.com are still in the External links .while other several usefull links , is considered spam !! .
: I'm sick of the fight over external links here, and the number of hosting companies links, to end this, we in more info about Syria. No need for hosting companies links, or local newspapers in Arabic, is everyone happy now? -Ayman 01:12, 25 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links 

message: I was wondering, if I was to travel to Syria (Damascus in particular), do I need any vaccinations. sick. So what kind of vaccinations should I take if I were to travel to Syria?--Gramaic 05:45, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Proof of vaccinations is not required to enter Syria. As a general rule, it is always best to make . Fruit and vegetables sold in Syria, especially those sold in street markets, often are sprayed with a light disinfectant: it's best to wash fruit and veg before eating or cooking. Otherwise, don't worry too much about it: if you get sick, you get sick. -- Gareth Hughes 14:01, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Make sure your meningococcal booster is up to date as well.  Last time i went, all my boosters were up to date, i only drank bottled water, and i still got sick.  It's hard to avoid sometimes, but it was only a stomach sickness that lasted about a day.Yuber 16:15, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vaccinations? 

message: "Major cities include the capital Damascus in the southwest, Aleppo in the north, and Homs."
As everyone can see, we all know that Damascus is located in the southwest of Syria, and Aleppo is in the north. Yet, this statement does not say were the city of Homs is located. I used to think that Homs was located in central Syria, after looking at the Syrian map, it seems that Homs is near the Lebanese border. So does anyone know how to classify the region of where Homs is located?--Gramaic 06:41, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I think central Syria is best avoided; I know what you mean by it, but it equally mean the middle of the Syrian Desert. It is about halfway between Damascus and Halab, at the foot of the northern end of the Anti-Lebanon mountains. Perhaps it would be POV to say "This is the least interesting city in Syria". --Gareth Hughes 11:40, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Homs 

message: I added the English version home page for Souria.com in the External links section. There is an Arabic version for this website, but my reading in Arabic is not that good. Since this is an English encyclopedia, I think it's best just to have the English version. Anyway, if any of you fluent Arabic readers want to see the Arabic version of Souria.com, go ahead.--Gramaic 06:15, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, that's a good site.  However, the discussion forums tend to get pretty heated, right now on the english forums there's a lebanese invasion and topics full of profanity.Yuber 06:17, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Souria.com 

message: In the "External links" section, we have some sites that are linked to Looksmart, and Yahoo. Those sites are search engines, which means that anybody can go to these sites and search for articles that's related to Syria. I personally think, that we need to eliminate the Yahoo and Looksmart sites. What does everyone think?--Gramaic 04:22, 6 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Links 

message: This line doesn't make sense: "Ethnic Syrians are a mix of Semitic and Indo-European peoples that have occupied the region over time."
Semitic and Indo-European aren't ethnicities but language groups, so what does it have to do with anything?
"Ethnic Syrians" are just Arabised Phoenicians, Assyrians, Babylonians, and so on, not non-existing Semitic and Indo-European ethnicities. 
- Habibo
:I agree, I've said the same in Lebanese demograpy article. Fist of all there's no 'ethnic Syrian'. You have a big Arab group, and smaller Armenian/Kurdish/Jewish/Syriac group. Syrian identity is not/racial it's an ethnic§ one, it's a cultural one. This is typically an American bias to try to classify group according to 'ethnic difference'. In middle East, identity is related to other things: language, and/or religion. 
--equitor 00:42, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Syrian ethnicity 

message: The article claims that the UN Security Council took the view that Syria was responsible for this. I don't believe that this is the case, and the link pointed to certainly doesn't confirm it. Would someone care to either fix this or provide a source? Palmiro | Talk 18:32, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: No, you're right. I fixed it. Arre 22:36, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hariri assassination 

message: About a recent edit: I don't think there's any consensus on which city is older, Damascus or Aleppo. Also, Jericho and possibly some other still-existing cities in the area claim the title. Arre 01:25, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Oldest city

message: * I've cut down on external links in line with WP:EL. Most were spam in any case. Astrotrain 14:53, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: External links

message: I propose merging the economy section of this article with Economy of Syria.
I don't have any opinion regarding in which direction this should take place. At this time, the Economy section of Syria is better fleshed out than Economy of Syria, although the latter is an older article.
Ideally, either the entire material should be under Syria, or there should just be a very short introduction to the economy under Syria and the bulk of material should be under Economy of Syria.
Please discuss as to how this should be handled. --Splitpeasoup 00:12, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: These articles should definitely not be completely merged - every other country as far as I know (I have reviewed over 100 of these) has a short Economy section in the country article, linked to a main article called "Economy of XXXX".  What needs to be done is to move most of the content from the Syria page onto the more specialised page, and rewrite a summary of this in about three paragraphs for section on the Syria page. Walkerma 03:40, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge economy section with 'Economy of Syria' 

message: Someone has inserted huge spaces and stuck in a bunch of "his, but I have no idea how to set it back to the original. ByrdMeln 01:45, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Vandalism