Talk:Buraq Wall

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== Buraq Wall ==

"A wall connected to the al-Aqsa mosque." We have no criteria for including or excluding placenames, so the question is, what level of granularity is too much granularity? (Hilariously, the larger place, al-Aqsa mosque, is a redlink.) - -sche (discuss) 06:20, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Funny, en-Wikipedia article on al-Aqsa does not mention Buraq Wall, but it is the same wall that the Jews call Wailing Wall, and which is more neutrally known as the . The Arabic name for that particular wall translates word-by-word as "Buraq Wall" into English. Buraq, as we remember, is the name of the heavenly horse-like creature that took prophet Muhammed from Mecca to Jerusalem and back. Muhammed reportedly tied Buraq to this wall during his stay, hence the name. It's undeniably a remarkable place. If we decide to keep it, we might want to create a main entry of "Western Wall" and make "Buraq Wall" and "Wailing Wall" refer to it as its Muslim and Jewish names respectively. --Hekaheka (talk) 08:29, 18 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Abstain. I checked . This is a geographic name. May rather than only at a granularity (physical smallness and the like), I would be also looking at name frequency. --Dan Polansky (talk) 20:42, 20 March 2015 (UTC)
 * I think that it is the wrong analysis to look at this as a place name; it is more like a monument along the lines of the Statue of Liberty or the Arc de Triomphe (which have geographic footprints smaller than most villages). I think that we should add an entry on Western Wall and then indicate that Wailing Wall and Buraq Wall are alternative names for it. bd2412 T 13:46, 16 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Kept: No actual delete votes other than the nominator Pur ple back pack 89  13:42, 15 May 2015 (UTC)