Talk:Watermelon (Palestinian symbol)

the controversy section

Notability/relevance? It's like hyper-local New York City congressional district social media twitter editorials. and a large portion of the section is a hot take written by a unrelated(especially to the article) person. I would be interested in knowing what others think . Thanks for reading!:) Soyembika (talk) 09:23, 19 November 2023 (UTC)

The WP:RS is there. That's enough for me. Kire1975 (talk) 14:48, 19 November 2023 (UTC)

this section is for a "controversy" that is less than five days old, and the source is not reliable in my opinion. The National Desk page cited is not neutral and it's mostly embedded tweets. It has very bias language and opinions. I don't think it's notable or warrants a section, WP:UNDUE and npov and notability? Soyembika (talk) 07:27, 21 November 2023 (UTC)

at this point you can simply add a watermelon emoticons and it would pretty much make for a better article. What is this? Wikipedia or Encyclopedia Dramatica? 87.10.53.92 (talk) 01:16, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

Inaccurate. Refers to “Israeli Occupation”

There is no Israeli occupation of Palestine. The West Bank was captured legally in a defensive war according to international law. Please delete the article or rephrase 173.77.234.45 (talk) 12:13, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

Please refer to the main article on this subject: Israeli occupation of the West Bank as well as Israeli-occupied territories. Per sources there, even the Israeli Supreme Court takes the view that the West Bank is under military occupation and not captured territory (though they differ from the International Court of Justice on the status of East Jerusalem). If you feel this issue is in dispute and can provide sufficient sourcing to back it up, I'm happy to edit the article accordingly, however. All the best, Arcendeight (talk) 15:34, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

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Watermelon stereotype

Watermelon stereotype was removed from the WP:SEEALSO by User:XTheBedrockX section because a link to it is already in the main body. That section, including to the link to Watermelon stereotype, was later blanked out by an IP account with only one edit that is now blocked from eight other pages for some reason. The edit summary states that the blocked account thinks that the Hakeem Jeffries controversy section is "incerdibly trivial and tangentially related" to the topic. I disagree, and I don't think consensus was reached, but instead of reinstating the section because of the opposition from commenters on the talk page about I've added Watermelon stereotype to a "not to be confused with" template. My own edit summary is not completely accurate which is one reason I brought it to the talk page. Others might want to add it back to the see also section, but it the page subject is the polar opposite of a racial stereotype so I thought differentiating it into a "not to be confused with" template was more appropriate. Kire1975 (talk) 11:04, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

@Kire1975 I think adding it to the "see also" is probably more appropriate. The text in parentheses already disambiguates it as a search result, and I don't think anyone looking up the watermelon stereotype would confuse this page for that topic. XTheBedrockX (talk) 12:39, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

I was confused by it when I read about it during the Hakeem Jeffries incident, but you may be right. Kire1975 (talk) 12:47, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

Claims from NY Times about "arrests for carrying slices of watermelon" from satirical newspaper

The meme/lie the NY Times perpetuated about "arrests for carrying slices of watermelon" is from a decades old satirical newspaper that went out of business in 1993.

Satirical article about watermelon as a logo

Rsol55a (talk) 16:59, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

״arrested for carrying slices of watermelon” was taken from a satirical article.

there was an Israeli satirical newspaper named “חשדות” but the New York Times didn’t know it was satirical, probably because they didn’t have google translate or a lot of sources to research about the Israeli media

a site that was made by one of the newspapers’ creator explaining about the purpose of it and much more satirical articles they published throughout the years 654nnn (talk) 11:48, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

Removed for WP:ORIGINAL research. As to the question of translation, see WP:RSUEQ. Kire1975 (talk) 14:04, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

Link to "Danish Protest pig"

I think there should be a link to Danish Protest pig under "See Also" as that is another example of creating a national symbol to flout a ban on flags by an occupying country. Flameoguy (talk) 01:04, 25 July 2024 (UTC)

Sounds like a good idea, but it needs more sources on that page. I found some and am adding them soon. Kire1975 (talk) 04:43, 25 July 2024 (UTC)

Requested move 29 October 2024

Watermelon (Palestinian symbol) → Watermelon as a Palestinian symbol – WP:NATURAL disambiguation is generally preferred over parenthetical. The present parenthetical disambiguation could be read as though the Palestinian symbol is different from an actual watermelon, rather than simply being a usage of a watermelon as a symbol. I would also be open to Palestinian watermelon, in line with Kherson watermelon, though it seems as though that may be a slightly more niche usage and could be an ill-advised standard to apply here. estar8806 (talk) ★ 04:27, 29 October 2024 (UTC)

• Support per nom. Rename Watermelon as a Palestinian symbol --MYCETEAE 🍄‍🟫—talk 08:08, 29 October 2024 (UTC)
• Support. This article is about using an image of a watermelon as a Palestinian symbol, not about an actual watermelon that just happens to be a Palestinian symbol. JIP | Talk 13:37, 29 October 2024 (UTC)