Talk:Beit Hanina

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Almost all of the history section seems general. Try to produce sources for whatever specific statements you can, and the rest we'll get rid of. In terms of criticism and blame for things like poverty etc., those will need exceptional sourcing due to their controversial nature. Tewfik^Talk 06:32, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

- I read over the history section and it does seem general, I removed one or two useless sentences but it's still pretty much the same. I can't really find what exactly to remove and what to keep, but if you can manage to do that I have no objections. As for the poverty etc. I will look for a source but if I dont its not important to include that part in the article anyway. I realize that the source was good for information about the city but it tended to be from a Palestinian perspective. For the name of the town I used the source in the references section dedicated to the town of Beit Hanina.

On another note I was wondering whether we should make a section called recent history if you think it has enough info. - Al Ameer son

I can't say I would object, but there isn't very much information, and we'll probably end up pruning even more per above, so it might not be a good stylistic choice. Tewfik^Talk 03:13, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Hi again, Regarding the citation requests, I inserted them because the current source, while it might be the best we have now, is not an objectively good source since it seems to just be a personal essay based on oral history etc. I don't expect you to ransack the library looking for information since none of the information is particularly controversial, but perhaps someone else might :-) Tewfik^Talk 23:59, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

Sorry for late response. Thats fine, I thought you made a mistake. I'll try to find some more info online although I doubt I'll find anything. Cheers! --Al Ameer son (talk) 03:56, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Population

The article states the population of Beit Hanina to be 2,800. According to statistics published by the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies, the Israeli-administrated portion alone had a population of 24,745 in 2005 (see [1]).--128.139.104.49 (talk) 11:42, 31 March 2008 (UTC)