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The result was redirect to Geography of the State of Palestine. The consensus is to delete or redirect. The consensus is clear that as there are no rivers in Palestine, the article as stands is not required, however others have argued that the search term is a valid one, and a rediret to the Geography article for the region would be a valid result to the search PhantomSteve/talk|contribs\ 15:50, 15 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

List of rivers of Palestine[edit]

List of rivers of Palestine (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log · Stats)
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I'm sure someone is going to have a fit about this being a political thing, but the issue with this article is entirely one of terminology. The article claims "inland Palestine has no permanent rivers"; which is correct. The two wadis and one river on this list are all borders. It's also accepted that a wadi is a stream or tributary, not a river. Of the three entries on this list, Wadi al-Far'a and HaBesor Stream ("Wadi Gaza" in Arabic, which makes it clearer in parallel in this particular context) aren't rivers. There's is no encyclopedic reason to have an unexpandable list article with one entry on it. As a matter of comparison, the lists of rivers for Jordan and Israel do list wadis as tributaries of the larger rivers they feed into, but there are simply more rivers and tributaries in and around those countries. MSJapan (talk) 04:58, 6 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. GabeIglesia (talk) 05:12, 6 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Palestine-related deletion discussions. GabeIglesia (talk) 05:12, 6 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Israel-related deletion discussions. Sir Joseph (talk) 19:22, 7 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Environment-related deletion discussions. North America1000 19:36, 7 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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