[WikiEN-l] Re: Break

Sun Sep 21 20:56:54 UTC 2003

Delirium wrote:
> Steve Vertigum wrote:
> 
>>> 69 municipalities, 141 local councils, and 53
>>> regional councils, for a total of 263 articles. The local councils and
>>> regional councils contain smaller towns within them, but I don't have 
>>> data on
>>> them, so at present any information about them will have to be added
>>> manually.
>>>   
>>
>>
>> I see-- and what treatment are you giving to towns
>> which exist in violation of the various UN and
>> US-Israel agreements over the years?
>> Its only been the past couple months that Israel has
>> bent to international pressure to dismantle a
>> settlement -- how are you treating these? Are these
>> registered as non-existent?  Are you adding the former
>> Arabic names of towns, recently  and not-so recently
>> incorporated into Israel?  
>>
> First of all, he's already mentioned that data on the territories (West 
> Bank, Gaza Strip) is not included, which is where most of these issues 
> would arise.  The remaining disputed areas are the Golan Heights and 
> East Jerusalem; in both cases the issues could be solved simply by 
> linking to those two articles, which explain the disputed situation.

Just to clarify, and to give Steve more ammunition to attack the data 
:-), there's no data on *Palestinians* in the territories, but there is 
data on Israeli settlements. (That is, it's data on citizens of Israel, 
so it includes data on Druze in the Golan and Arabs in East Jerusalem.) 
For the settlements in the territories, the fact that they're in the 
territories is noted in the article.

If anyone has data on Ramallah, Nablus, etc., please add it. It's just 
that the Israeli government doesn't collect it.

-- Adam Raizen