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RM, Jew → Jewish people, No consensus, 10 July 2007, Discussion
RM, Jew → Jews, Moved, 17 January 2010, Discussion
RM, Jews → Jewish people, Not moved, 10 October 2017, Discussion
RM, Jews → Jewish people, Not moved, 29 April 2018, Discussion

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Len Sander (October 25, 2024). "Bericht: So soll Wikipedia von Anti-Israel-Aktivisten unterwandert worden sein (Report: Wikipedia allegedly infiltrated by anti-Israel activists)". Berliner Zeitung. Retrieved December 5, 2024. Even though most of these changes have been reversed - the English-language version of the article on the subject of Jews, for example, contains the link to the historical Kingdom of Israel - the effect of concerted online campaigns should not be underestimated. [Translation with Google translate]
Debbie Weiss (December 4, 2024). "Wikipedia's Quiet Revolution: How a Coordinated Group of Editors Reshaped the Israeli-Palestinian Narrative". Algemeiner Journal. Retrieved December 5, 2024. In an article on "Jews," for example, an editor removed the phrase "Land of Israel" from a key sentence on the origin of Jewish people. The article's short description (that appears on search results) was changed from "Ethnoreligious group and nation from the Levant" to "Ethnoreligious group and cultural community."

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Jewish Diaspora Population Misreported

At the top of the page where there is a list of countries with significant amounts of Jews living in them, for some strange reason it lists South Korea and it's 1000 Jews, but fails to mention Morocco, Tunisia, Iran and some other countries like China, Turkey and India which have a much larger population of Jews living in them at present.

Is there a particular reason for neglecting to mention the existence of theses communities?

Edit: NATO country, Turkey, was added and South Korea was replaced with Panama, in a bid to avoid mentioning Iran which has 10,000 Jews living in it but not as much as Panama. I suspect political biases based on recent international conflict rather than adherence to facts on the parts of the editors, correct me if I'm wrong.

72.68.179.132 (talk) 02:28, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Lead sentence translations

I made this edit to the lead sentence. In it, I (i) added in idiomatic Hebrew translations of "the Jewish people", namely Am Yehudi and Am Yisrael, the latter of which especially is idiomatic and culturally significant for modern Jews (1, 2, 3 etc.), and (ii) put all translations in the lead sentence (both existing and newly added) into footnotes rather than parentheticals.

The edit was reverted by Remsense without giving much of a reason. He said that it was "fine without footnotes". Footnotes for translation in the lead sentence improve readability and they are standard in many GAs/FAs (e.g., Germany, Japan, Islam, Nauru, Canada). They are suggested in MOS:PRONFN if the translation is distracting, which I think here it is as it takes up a good 30% of the sentence. Furthermore, (i) is kind of dependent on (ii), as if we have parenthetical translations for both "Jews" and "the Jewish people", the lead sentence is definitely too long, and I've provided what I think is a compelling independent argument for (i) above.

I'd like an explanation for this reversion by Remsense, and the input of other editors too. JDiala (talk) 06:53, 26 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

There are a few existing lexical terms, but like I said such footnotes aren't obligatory and this one's fine without it.

The issue comes when adding yet more lexical terms: WP:Wikipedia is not a dictionary, and the lead section especially needs not posture as if it's one. There's literally a dedicated section in the article body (which the lead is meant to summarize, as opposed to new information being grafted directly into the lead) for such material. Remsense 🌈 论 05:33, 28 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

“Though it is not practiced by many ethnic Jews”

(in the lede) A large number of ethnic Jews do practice Judaism. Perhaps it would be better to reword this as “though many ethnic Jews do not practice it.” TheGame121.5 (talk) 23:25, 31 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, that would remove an unfortunate ambiguity. Largoplazo (talk) 00:01, 1 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Absolutely. A very strange and inaccurate line. Ahboas (talk) 12:13, 4 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I've made the change. Largoplazo (talk) 12:52, 4 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]