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There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:History of the Jews in Abkhazia which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. —RMCD bot 05:14, 5 June 2020 (UTC)

Ashkenazis jews are turks https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/ashkenazi-jews-descended-ancient-turkey-new-research — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.196.188.16 (talk) 22:51, 5 August 2020 (UTC)

Turkish-born Jews in Israel "maintain their Turkish culture."

Regarding Turkish-born Jews in Israel, the article says that "they maintain their Turkish culture."

It would be good to list what elements of Turkish culture Turkish-born Jews in Israel have maintained and whether their descendants maintain them too.S. Valkemirer (talk) 18:24, 22 October 2021 (UTC)

Requested move 21 August 2023

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: not moved. Several of the titling criteria were raised in this discussion. The factor that most swung me towards finding "not moved" rather than "no consensus" was the WP:COMMONNAME argument, as Ngrams were provided that make a strong case for the current title being the COMMONNAME. Most other lines of argument, by either side of the discussion, were more contested. The nomination argued that the current phrasing was "bizarre", an implicit WP:NATURAL argument, but other participants argued that the existing title felt more natural than the proposed one. It was also noted that the proposed title would be more WP:CONCISE, but opponents of the move argued that the difference in title length would be fairly trivial. Opponents of the move also raised WP:CONSISTENT, noting the pattern of other "History of the Jews in Foo" articles, but supporters expressed a desire to change that convention more broadly, so the consistency argument did not hold much weight in my evaluation.

Ultimately, the argument that seems to have been most decisive is WP:COMMONNAME, as it was backed by clear evidence and was not disputed by other participants. This tipped the balance of arguments and led me to find a rough consensus in favor of the current title. (closed by non-admin page mover) ModernDayTrilobite (talk • contribs) 15:26, 6 September 2023 (UTC)

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History of the Jews in Turkey → History of Jews in Turkey – Bizarre phrasing, make it concise. Edward-Woodrow :) _[talk] 20:23, 21 August 2023 (UTC)— Relisting. —usernamekiran (talk) 21:01, 29 August 2023 (UTC)

• Support Rreagan007 (talk) 01:03, 22 August 2023 (UTC)
• Support. Simple reversal of a redirect. Station1 (talk) 01:52, 22 August 2023 (UTC)

  But see below. Station1 (talk) 00:36, 23 August 2023 (UTC)

• Support Parham wiki (talk) 13:19, 22 August 2023 (UTC)
• Oppose for consistency: History of the Jews in Germany, History of the Jews in Namibia, History of the Jews in Russia, History of the Jews in the United States, History of the Jews in Thessaloniki, etc. a455bcd9 (Antoine) (talk) 14:18, 22 August 2023 (UTC)

  Well, those pages also follow this bizarre phrasing. Just because it's widely used doesn't mean it's good. Edward-Woodrow :) _[talk] 14:19, 22 August 2023 (UTC)

  I'm not a native English speaker so I don't know whether this phrasing is bizarre or not. But we cannot just change the name of this page. If we do it, we should do it for all these pages. The discussion can happen here, as long as other pages are notified as well. a455bcd9 (Antoine) (talk) 14:29, 22 August 2023 (UTC)

  That is a very good point. I was unaware of all those other articles when making my original comment above. Although the current title is not bizarre, I do think the proposed title is slightly better, as being more concise if nothing else. However, it does make sense to propose moving all similarly-named articles at once. This proposal could either be closed and recreated as a multi-move request (which I would support), or we can just continue with this proposal, after which, if it's successful, we can then go on to propose moving the other articles too. Station1 (talk) 00:36, 23 August 2023 (UTC)

  This discussion tried that on an even larger scale but was closed as a trainwreck. Edward-Woodrow :) _[talk] 01:10, 23 August 2023 (UTC)

  I see. It does appear that consensus to move all those articles would be difficult to achieve. Station1 (talk) 02:07, 23 August 2023 (UTC)

• Oppose at least for now, as I'd look to usage in sources as a starting point, and I worry about ngrams like history of (the) Jews or history of (the) Jews in (suggesting "the Jews" is more common). I'd be less likely to be persuaded by individual voters' freestanding theorizing/opinions about the grammar or semantics. Unfortunately the 2020 RM opposition seemed to be more about the latter. I also think the conciseness factor is pretty negligible with only a difference of one little word "the". Adumbrativus (talk) 00:58, 26 August 2023 (UTC)

  Oppose unless this article is now more about individual Jews and nuclear Jewish families than it about (as it had been about) the formal or informal Jewish community in Greece. For a very crude analogy, The Lives of Artists differs from The Lives of the Artists (and also from Lives of Artists and Lives of the Artists).

  Were we talking aloud in current English-language idiom, we almost invariably put "the", "a" or "an" in front; i.e. I (a native speaker of current English) wouldn't say aloud, "I want to talk about history of Jews in Greece" or even "I want to talk about history of the Jews in Greece"; we'd say "I want to talk about the history of [the] Jews in Greece" or "I want to talk about a history of the Jews in Greece".

  Works of reference and their indexes generally omit beginning articles (The Earth or A History or An Account) for the very simple reason that they are organised in alphabetical order and when you look for "The Bill of Rights" you don't want to plough through a long string of redundant (and wasteful) "The"s before hitting "Bill". The same reasons don't apply to "the" (or "a" or "an") in the middle of a title.

  ¶ [As an aside, The Bronx (one of the few Wikipedia articles that does begin with "The") had a long-drawn-out debate over whether to entitle it "Bronx" or "The Bronx" and whether to include or capitalise "The" in the middle of a sentence. See Talk:The Bronx#Name and capitalization.]

  Sorry for the length of this; were I less sleepy or (like Voltaire) had I more time, it would have been more concise. —— Shakescene (talk) 02:06, 26 August 2023 (UTC)

  @Shakescene: Hmmm. I, too, am a native English speaker, but the phrasing still sounds bizarre to me. If I wanted to hear about the history of Jewish people in Turkey, I'd say "what's the history of Jews in Turkey?" in the same way I'd say "what's the history of Arabs in Ethiopia?" or "what's the history of Punjabi in Nepal?" Adding the in front of the name of the group of people seems like an odd specifier – as if we're talking about a specific subset of {group} – those {x}s. The {x}s. You know, the family that lives a few blocks down? Yeah, them. As opposed to {x} in the broad sense. Maybe I'm alone in thinking this, but that's my shaky rationale. Edward-Woodrow :) _[talk] 11:36, 26 August 2023 (UTC)

  @Edward-Woodrow I think we're thinking along roughly the same lines, which is why I conditioned my "Oppose" with "at least for now" — are we talking about the Pappases down the road, or about all the Pappases in Salonika, or about the Pappas family or clan within Salonka's Jewish community? My long-ago editorial experience was actually on the History of the Jews in Thessaloniki, so perhaps the emphasis in this article has changed to (or always been) more on individual Greek Jewish individuals or communities (thus dropping "the" from "Jews") than on the Jews as a community. Sorry for the confusion; I'm a little muddled in expressing my thoughts. —— Shakescene (talk) 13:41, 26 August 2023 (UTC)

  For whatever little it might be worth, Josephus wrote what is customarily translated in English as "Antiquities of the Jews".

  (Latin: Antiquitates Iudaicae; Greek: Ἰουδαϊκὴ ἀρχαιολογία, Ioudaikē archaiologia)

  Latin rarely includes definite articles; I don't know about Greek. What seems relevant to me is the customary translation of Josephus's Greek title in English. More recently Lucy Dawidowicz wrote The War Against the Jews, not "The War against Jews". Are we talking about the history of the Jews in Greece, or the history of Jews in Greece? —— Shakescene (talk) 18:28, 26 August 2023 (UTC)

• Oppose This is the common usage in the English language, including in most academic books and articles. But beyond that, the sheer size/length of the list of current articles on WP with the common title "History of the Jews in..." is really mind boggling for me. There are such articles/histories about every possible single little place on earth, it seems to me. That would be impractical, nay really impossible to change. As for this specific case, the "History of the Jews in Turkey" is no small potato, compared to the others. It is a very central and important one, in my view, and it does not need to be changed. It works fine as it is, and we should spend our editing time improving the contents, not discussing a little definite article in the title. Thank you, warshy ^(¥¥) 22:16, 29 August 2023 (UTC)

Note: WikiProject Jewish history has been notified of this discussion. —usernamekiran (talk) 21:00, 29 August 2023 (UTC)

Note: WikiProject Judaism has been notified of this discussion. —usernamekiran (talk) 21:00, 29 August 2023 (UTC)

Note: WikiProject Turkey has been notified of this discussion. —usernamekiran (talk) 21:01, 29 August 2023 (UTC)

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