Talk:Israelis in Armenia

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HᴇʀᴘᴇᴛᴏGᴇɴᴇꜱɪꜱ (talk) 03:43, 30 December 2023 (UTC)

Israeli-owned restaurants

In the first version of this page, I mentioned two Israeli-owned and Israel-themed restaurants in Yerevan as important community gathering places where Jewish and Israeli events are routinely held and have been mentioned in the press. @Bari' bin Farangi has removed this paragraph claiming it was encyclopedically irrelevant advertising. I think the restaurants are relevant because they highlight the cultural activities of an otherwise small and barely noticeable community. When there are just two of them in the entire country, they're worth a mention. For now, I added them back to the article, but also added other community meeting points, made the paragraph shorter and rephrased it to make it less advertisement-like. I don't want to start an edit war over this, so please tell me if you think it's better now. If not, maybe we could remove the names of the restaurants but keep a link to one of the articles mentioning their histories/activities? --Tadusj (talk) 16:10, 31 December 2023 (UTC)

I looked at the sources and I still have my issues with the section. A I don't really see the encyclopaedic relevance of two restaurants compared to a community centre etc. given the inherently commercial nature of such an enterprise and the high likelihood of closing without press coverage ie the restaurant surviving longer in this article than in real life and B the article is about Israeli Armenians and in the source about Shingarev it never even mentions him being Israeli just half-Jewish, so I think that claim is uncited. Similar story for Julia, the Haaretz piece doesn't exactly say Julia Kislev is Israeli just that she moved to Israel from Simferopol and now moves on though her living that long in Israel it might be a more likely assumption to claim she is Israeli. And though both may hold Israeli citizenship I think it's wrong to claim they do based on merely being Jewish. Bari' bin Farangi (talk) 18:20, 31 December 2023 (UTC)

+ I am also on the fence regarding the encyclopaedic relevance of Borian in this and would prefer a non primary source on her, but that's a minor issue to me. Bari' bin Farangi (talk) 18:25, 31 December 2023 (UTC)