Talk:Jeddah

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I found the page a good beginning stub and substantially added to it (Jan. 2006), editing but not deleting any information. I took the liberty of removing one picture of "downtown Jeddah" because it looked totally unlikely (more a US downtown), and a check of the image itself showed it to be from Cambrige (MA?)! What would really be great is a photo (at least one!) of the beautiful Old City with its characteristic Red Sea architecure.

A lot more could be done with the HISTORY section, and the various universities could be mentioned, as well.

Sundberg, former resident of Jeddah, 1995

There is a lot of work to be done here: Too many images (mostly irrelevant/low quality), and I think you already took care of the cleaning/grammar part. Regarding the picture, it is indeed taken in Cambridge, the reason is that it was named Downtown.JPG (how unique!), and someone uploaded this image you see now over the previous one (which can still be seen by checking the history, it's not that remarkable anyway). - Eagle^amn 06:36, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Cleaned up!

I belive that this page is nice now, compaired to this version in nov-05 (closest to sep-05 where the article was tagged) right here http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jeddah&oldid=29392439

anyways, I finished up the infobox and wikified the gellery lol

so I am removing the cleanup tag, thanks!

moving on to other saudi cities ;) --Muhaidib 06:28, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

US consulate

Is this factoid relevant ? It will be removed unless others vote to list all other nations consulates in Jeddah (making it's mention no more relevant, but less US-centric a factoid)

i agree with you , but its the english section of wikipedia which means most of users here are american , but remove it anywaysAmmar 20:01, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

US Consulate is more significant than others as it was the site of a terrorist attack. Mrhawley 12:34, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

the section of consulates has been corrected anyways :) Ammar 16:06, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

Hayatt Regency

mr user:Bil1 , Hayatt Regency hotel in jeddah have been sold for Radison sas.Ammar 19:20, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

College for Tourism and Business

sorry but "Prince Sultan College for Tourism and Business" is located in Abha not Jeddah , so i guess i had to delete it. 213.210.199.3 10:00, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

King Fahd's fountain

I think the section for the fountain is way too long for an article that is ostensibly about the city in general. Plus it seems more or less copied from a news article. I would move for its wholesale deletion--perhaps a new a new entry can be created about the fountain exclusively.

Do you think making new special article for that is better ? Ammar 14:41, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

I did it anyways :D Ammar 13:18, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

Images

A lot of the images in this article (the majority I think) are missing critical source information or are replaceable fair use images (or both) and have been flagged for deletion (can't be bothered to add a notice to all the captions, pluss that doesn't work in galleries so I'm droping this note instead). If any of you are in, or have friends in, this area you may want to start looking into creating some new, free licensed, photos to fill the gaps. Thanks, and sorry for the inconvenice, but we need to keep the image use within the rules. --Sherool (talk) 16:21, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

let's discuss this on private messages :) Ammar 22:59, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

i think you should add a lot of images for Jeddah, because it's a sister city of dubai, and when someone goes on the article Dubai then they go on Jeddah where there are no pictures, they wont be very impressed ^{UNSIGNED -- Unites 12:09, 14 June 2007}

What does this sentence mean?

Also Jeddah is known to be the lightest city in the world.--Filll 22:49, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

theres a picture of a (relatively) luxurious house below which it says something like 'an average house in jeddah'. i've lived there and thats not true!

Jiddah

Take a look at this thats what it means

I'm going to add this image onto Jeddah article, with permission by Ammar Shaker, the Jeddan expert!

Because i think it shows how amazing Jeddah looks, and the Skyline at night. Masha Allah. --^{UNSIGNED Unites 19:49, 11 July 2007}

This is a Non-free image and you have upload it by fake license . soon someone will delete it . Please do not upload images from search engines and say its an Own work , we spent too much time rewriting the article to clean up the big mess so Please stop editing it . stop editing any other article before you READ the wikipedia's pillars (Wikipedia:Introduction,Wikipedia:Five pillars,Wikipedia:How to edit a page,Wikipedia:Article development,Wikipedia:Manual of Style,Help:Contents,Wikipedia:Tutorial)carefully. AND Please sign your comments with the four tildes Ammar (^Talk - ^{Don't Talk}) 23:29, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

HDI

Can anyone tell me what is the HDI (Human Development Index) of Jeddah? Unites

HDI

Assalamu Alaikum, I'm quite new on Wikipedia, but I'm not so sure what the HDI of Jeddah really is. But I think it might be around 0.8 which is quite high. --Jiddah Saudi 18:26, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

Jeddah Article

The article doesn't look that good now, where have all the cool images gone?????? the Shopping Malls, the Hotel Pictures??????????????? the Towers??????? only 2 rubbish images for the towers and they are shown at night time! how rubbish is that??? where are the Lamar Tower pictures gone? that was probably the best one!!!!!!! the traffic photo looks more like India than Saudi Arabia I wish someone counld change the images!!! a bit better please. I'm going to change the fountain one at the top, but that should be near "King Fahds Fountain" !!!!!!!

Well Done

Well done Ammar you have put some good effort into this article. --Faisal Saddiq 18:58, 19 July 2007 (UTC)