Talk:Majdal Shams

message: Please read the preceding discussion before removing flags from this article.  The current text and graphics are, as you can see, the result of some detailed discussion and consensus.
This isn't to say that the consensus can't change.  But the way for that to happen is to discuss it, not to just go ahead and change it.
Thanks, --Ravpapa (talk) 16:02, 20 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I really have no opinion one way or the other.  I added the flag in one of (I am proud to say) the very few successful efforts to peacefully end an escalating and increasingly viscious edit war.  If you want to reopen the debate, we will need to call back in the attack dogs from both sides (actually, they will smell the blood and come on their own).  So you need to decide if the flag icon is worth it.  It's up to you. Regards, --Ravpapa (talk) 05:01, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dear Supreme Deliciousness 

message: Don't you think this edit war is a little idiotic? Both Supreme Deliciousness and Fipplet have violated the 3RR and are candidates for blocks.  Let's just hope an administrator doesn't take a look in this direction.  
And over what? A category. Geez, Fipplet, if there is such a category as the Quneitra district, why shouldn't a reader be allowed to know that?  As absurd as you or I might think such a category, somewhere out there there might be a reader who wants to find the towns in the Syrian Quneitra district, and deleting the category is just doing him a disservice.  And all this flak doesn't make one whit of difference as to who collects the taxes in Majdal Shams. --Ravpapa (talk) 12:04, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Hold on, I never violated 3rr, 1 edit 20, 1 edit 27, 1 edit 30, 1 edit 1. Majdal Shams and all Of Golan falls within the Quneitra Governorate, this is recognized by every country on earth and the UN. Any attempt of removing it is an attempt of removing neutrality from the article. --Supreme Deliciousness (talk) 12:13, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Now I have compromised, both categories are there. And mr Deliciousness since when is an opinion a fact? Fipplet (talk) 12:48, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

text: Not perfect, still feel Districts of Syria should be first considering, WPs rules of majority viewpoints and history, but I will accept it as it is now.--Supreme Deliciousness (talk) 06:44, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Quneitra district edit war 

message: I basically undid the edit by Freegolan which did not follow any consensus. The reason is that at this point the Israeli template should come first is because it is actually relevant to Majdal Shams (contains other same-tier localities), while the Syrian template does not contain same-tier localities and is therefore not directly related. If this is changed in the future, I'll gladly discuss this issue. —Ynhockey (Talk) 16:48, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for fixing my mistake. Either I flipped the order twice, or I never got to it with the rest of my reformatting. I restored the hidden "order" comment, and linked directly to the last rev of the order discussion, in case this page gets a lot more after it.--SarekOfVulcan (talk) 17:03, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Note about navboxes 

message: It shows the town in the middle of the Golan when actually it's in the north most part of it. The problem seems to be with the map's border's coordinateness which I tried to fix but it changed nothing. Would someone who knows how it works please help? TFighterPilot (talk) 18:10, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  The map is completely off 

message: Hi can we get a (please God, I beg you!) decent and objective section on the Syrio-Palestinian border run on "Nakba day" 2011?
here are some links
http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=220641
http://idfspokesperson.com/2011/05/15/rioters-reach-village-of-majdal-shams/  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bennyp (talk • contribs) 02:45, 2 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nakba Day 2011 Infiltration 

message: I think this is the village "Medjel" visited by Burckhardt in 1810 (Travels in Syria, 1822, p45).  Burckhardt says he reached it from Banias in 45 minutes, which is about right (by horseback).  "El-Medjel" is marked on the Zimmerman map of the 1850s in the right place.  The spelling Medjel is not unusual (eg. Medjel esh Shems in PEF-07).  Or is there another nearby place with this name? Zerotalk 15:29, 4 September 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: It looks right to me. The nearest place with a similar name (Majdal, or modern-day Migdal) is on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee and would be at least a day's ride on 1810-quality roads. Ravpapa (talk) 06:09, 6 September 2013 (UTC)
replies: text:  Reading more closely, it is even on the correct road (the road from Banias to Damascus).  So it is the right one for sure.  It is perhaps notable that the few pre-1850s mentions I can find name it without the "Shams".  This supports the theory that the name just means Majdal of Damascus. Zerotalk 10:06, 6 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  1810 mention? 

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