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Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 11 April 2018
Request to delete the following statement because it has no evidence and is a mere incorrect allegation : (....Saudi leaders' historical tendency to artificially inflate census results....) 185.150.106.19 (talk) 10:17, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
- Not done: the statement is reliably cited, so I can't find a reason to remove the content. L293D (☎ • ✎) 01:02, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 13 April 2018
Please update section 3.6 Military, where the budget figures in 3rd para are more than ten years out of date. Newer figures (with citations) can be found in the article List of countries by military expenditures. Thanks! DoubleGrazing (talk) 08:12, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
- Done Diff of change. OhKayeSierra (talk) 07:06, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 20 April 2018
They are working our land here in Philippines. We call seek for help were sorrond of soldiers and thier relatives. Myth sister failure to killed them they number of counts died our family. They are organized but not to much engaged. As of now wanted to get our land. I dont enough to perform my titlle as of King here. Thank you! Sethfifth (talk) 14:08, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. ♪♫Alucard 16♫♪ 09:16, 22 April 2018 (UTC)
Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 30 April 2018
The "Legislature" section on the page currently lists both the Council of Ministers of Saudi Arabia and the Consultative Assembly of Saudi Arabia (but only after stating that Saudi Arabia has no legislature at all, which makes the whole section a bit clunky-looking). However, judging by the content of these pages, the Council of Ministers is simply a normal executive government, and has no more powers to propose laws by themselves than the Cabinet of the United States or the Government of France. I think the Consultative Assembly is much closer to the legislative branch, and should be listed as Saudi Arabia's only legislature (with the explanation in brackets that it is only a consultative body with no actual power). After all, there are precedents of describing powerless advisory bodies as "legislatures" for historical states (like the State Duma of the Russian Empire), so why not for a modern state that is somewhat anachronistic in its political system? TheImperios (talk) 09:14, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
- Question: Do you have reliable sources to confirm this? We can't rely on the content of other Wikipedia pages to make these changes. Iffy★Chat -- 11:21, 2 May 2018 (UTC)
- The Council of Minister decrees and royal decrees issued by the king are the principal sources of legislation. See, for example, https://www.lw.com/upload/pubContent/_pdf/pub3507_1.pdf. The Consultative Assembly is not a source of legislation at all, therefore it is not a legislature. DeCausa (talk) 21:42, 2 May 2018 (UTC)
- Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 19:29, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
Translation of the motto(the shahadah)
I think it should be: "There is no God but Allah; Muhammad is the messenger of Allah" I have read the references made. But firstly, Allah being a contraction of 'al' and 'ilah' is just a theory which is accepted by many. There is no definite proof of that. Based on just a theory Allah should not be translated the god. Secondly, even if Allah is translated as 'the god' the translation should be: there is no god but THE god. the translation doesn't include THE Which makes it completely wrong. What actually does 'there is no god but god' means?: 'there is no god without god' ?? that doesn't make sense as a sentence. and that isn't what the motto or the shahadah is actually meaning. I think that the translation should be changed as: "There is no God but Allah; Muhammad is the messenger of Allah" — Preceding unsigned comment added by Touhid3.1416 (talk • contribs) 07:11, 7 May 2018 (UTC)
No god except allah Navafnnc (talk) 18:45, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
- There is a difference in meaning in the English language between ‘god’ and ‘God’. The correct translation of Allah into English is ‘God’ not ‘god’. We don’t use the word ‘Allah’ because it is not English. However, the point you are trying to make is dealt with by the word ‘God’ with a capitalised initial letter. This is as agreed across Wikipedia - see MOS:ALLAH. DeCausa (talk) 19:13, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
IMF New Data ( Administrators )
Current 2016 IMF Databese
New 2018 IMF Database
(2017 Figuers)
Saudi Arabia nom gdp 683.827
Saudi Arabia ppp gdp 1,773.551
Saudi Arabia nom per gdp 21,120.481
Saudi Arabia ppp per gdp 54,777.376
Please update old database. Thank you. Bunny2090 (talk) 23:21, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
Edit warring
@Jibran1998: @Alssa1: you’re both edit warring and both on the verge of 3rr. I suggest you discuss the issue here rather than continuing to revert. I would add that that the article should be reverted to the position prior to Alssa1’s edit while consensus is ascertained. On the other hand, Jibran1998 is clearly wrong: there are multiple reliable sources to justify the statement that Wahhabism is “dominant” and is “state sponsored” and the “official” form of Islam. These sources can be found in this article, in Wahabbism and in Legal system of Saudi Arabia. Further sources are easily found in Google books. DeCausa (talk) 19:24, 29 May 2018 (UTC)
- @DeCausa:, I did realise that and stopped. Apologies for any disruption. Alssa1 (talk) 19:25, 29 May 2018 (UTC)
Population
The population sounds too good to be true. What are the chances of the population being 33,000,000 exact? There's no way it would be possible. VibeScepter (talk) (contributions) 21:52, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
Page Protection
Per a rough consensus at these ([1] and [2]) discussions I have removed the 30/500 page protection from this article as I no longer believe it is supported by community consensus. If there is a disagreement on this point I would encourage opening a discussion at WP:AN where a consensus more specific to this article can be sought. -Ad Orientem (talk) 14:22, 13 June 2018 (UTC)
- Courtesy Ping TonyBallioni. -Ad Orientem (talk) 14:24, 13 June 2018 (UTC)