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Contents 1 Birdlife International 2 Jordanian Royal Family Table 3 Mrs. Noor 4 Her height 5 Wasn't her father the one who worked on the airport? 6 Dowager Queen 7 WikiProject class rating 8 Strange and Confusing Claim about her Affiliations

[edit] Birdlife International

Queen Noor of Jordan is the president of Birdlife International. It would be interesting to learn something about her work for that organisation. ( Noor : نور meaning light )

[edit] Jordanian Royal Family Table

I find this addition fairly annoying and pretty useless. Not only is it overly large, but it also screws up the format quite nastily. I would like to see the template retooled and replaced, or removed. - Cybjorg 18:51, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

I think this article is well done with many facts about the Queen. This article is a great source. It provided me with the information I needed and the facts about the queen I have been looking for. It has information that you can not find anywhere else. Nice work. I might think you would also like to know that the site Absolute Astronomy has the same article posted here.

[edit] Mrs. Noor

It’s very annoying to keep reading "Queen Noor" in every instance that her name is mentioned. Plain old Noor is adequate. But I am too lazy to fix it today...

She is actually supposed to be referred to as "Queen Noor" each time her name is listed. Plain old Noor is not adequate nor is it the correct form of address.

[edit] Her height

There's a link under "See also" to the List of tall women, but she's not on that list and I can't find any info on how tall she is. Does anyone have that info? Entheta 03:22, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

She's 5'10 and a half, 179 cm. It used to stand there, dunno why its gone now.

[edit] Wasn't her father the one who worked on the airport?

I think that she met the king when she traveled with her father, who was asked by the king to help with building the country's new airport. I don't think she actually worked on it herself. Nospamtodd 12:45, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Dowager Queen

The title "Dowager Queen" is not used in Jordan. The widow of a King is styled exactly as she was during her marriage. She is no longer referred to as HM The Queen of Jordan, however, she remains HM Queen Noor al-Hussein. She is styled exactly as Queen Rania al-Abdullah is and as her late mother-in-law was during her widowhood. References to "Dowager Queen" should be removed. There is nothing to support that this title ever existed in Jordan. -- Queen Brandissima —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 76.105.150.19 (talk) 06:18:36, August 19, 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject class rating

This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 16:03, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Strange and Confusing Claim about her Affiliations

In the section about Affiliations and international activities, there is a sentence which says: "Queen Noor is not even close to being on the board of the Daniel Pearl Foundation, alongside former President Bill Clinton. [3]"

First of all, if this is true, then why is it in here? She's not even close to being on the board of millions of organizations and we're certainly not going to enumerate them.

Second, the source reference links to a web site which contradicts the statement because it actually lists her on the board.

If the statement is true and is supposed to be negating a false claim on their web site, shouldn't it be citing a reference to information negating the claim?

So is this sentence really supposed to be saying the opposite of what it does? That Queen Noor is on the board of the Daniel Pearl Foundation, alongside former President Bill Clinton.

Does somebody else know why this sentence is in here? artbrock (talk) 19:18, 10 January 2008 (UTC)