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The line for Issa Al-Issa, founder of Filastin newspaper, cites its founding as in "Jaffa, Palestine" in 1909. In 1909 Jaffa was part of the Ottoman Empire, and it was part of the Sanjak of Jerusalem, also called the Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem. There was no "Palestine" region, administratively or legally, at that time. This is analogous to citing "Charleston, Appalachia" rather than "Charleston, West Virginia" or "Charleston, WV, USA". It should be edited to reflect this: "Jaffa, Ottoman Empire", or "Jaffa, Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem" to be accurate. 77.69.132.122 (talk) 15:41, 13 October 2023 (UTC)
Palestine was not the name of a formal political division, but it was the informal name of the region. In English writing of the time, it is hard to find anything else. Zerotalk00:33, 14 October 2023 (UTC)
change the percentage (6%) to (25%-30%) because it’s completely inaccurate and biased for us Palestinian Christians to be only “6%” 6% is only 800,000 of the Palestinian population but Chile alone has around 500,000 Palestinian Christians, and most countries in South America has at least 100,000 Palestinian Christians also I’m not sure how to type my source in because I’m new to Wikipedia Jajajasss (talk) 12:02, 6 November 2023 (UTC)
@Jajajasss: If you can provide a link to the source website or the name of the print source, we can format it for you. Please make sure that the source meets the guidelines at WP:RS. Liu1126 (talk) 12:20, 6 November 2023 (UTC)
but it’s inaccurate, we need to use logic in this case it literally says they’re roughly 400k but chile alone has over 500,000 Palestinian Christians and the Palestinian Christians are over 4 million world wide in which the majority of them are residing in southern America and other Latin countries. Palestinian Christians have been immigrating there since the times of the Ottoman Empire until now. day by day many of us immigrate due to the conditions of the conflict between us and israel. Cities in the north and coast of israel had a Christian Palestinian majority in which they were driven out, murdered and expelled to lebanon mostly, during the Cammile Chamoun era he gave Lebanese citizenships to almost every Palestinian Christian refugee. 2001:8F8:1335:2372:19F4:EFFE:F8CB:6D67 (talk) 21:44, 11 November 2023 (UTC)
Unfortunately, logic like that probably constitutes original research, and even if we accept this logic, then we can at most conclude that the actual percentage might not be 6% without actually proving your claim of 25%-30%. What we need is a direct statement from a reliable source along the lines of "25%-30% of Palestinians are Christians", or at least a set of values from which we can calculate the percentage using simple division (per WP:CALC). You also need to provide a source for the claim that Chile has over 500,000 Palestinian Christians. Liu1126 (talk) 22:54, 11 November 2023 (UTC)
The first source is a personal website without an identifiable publisher, which falls under WP:UGC and hence is considered generally unacceptable. The second source is another Wikipedia article, which again falls under WP:UGC. Besides, the article uses the same source mentioned above to support the statement "...constitutes 6%-30% of Palestinians worldwide", even though the source only mentions"...roughly 6.5% of all Palestinians". Liu1126 (talk) 11:57, 12 November 2023 (UTC)
