Talk:Syrian Jewish communities of the United States

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Communities or Synagogues?

Does it seem like the title of this article is a little bit off base or unrelated? The article lists a collection of well known synagogues; not a bunch of different communities. There are other articles on wiki; like for instance, there's one that lists culturally significant mosques; and the title of the article expresses it as such. It says something like "List of Mosques" with a small intro indicating that it is a list of important notable mosques. It doesn't say "muslim communities of the U.S.". Should the title of this article be changed to "Syrian Jewish Synagogues"? After all, all these synagogues are basically integrated within the same Syrian Jewish community. It is not a list of seperate communities. Plowsr 18:54, 18 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Lists of synagogues tend to refer to the synagogues in their capacity as notable buildings. The emphasis of this article is on synagogues as centres of population, and as illustrating the ethnic and religious mix within the wider "Syrian" community. (The use of "communities" in the plural does not indicate one community per synagogue. The meaning is "the Brooklyn community, with these synagogues; the Deal community, with these; the Florida community, with this one; and so on".) At present the article is a skeleton. I would be pleased for it to be fleshed out to give more information about the Brooklyn and other Syrian-Jewish communities in general, so as not to be simply a list of synagogues. Do say if you have any more ideas. --Sir Myles na Gopaleen (the da) (talk) 10:16, 19 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I see....I understand your point. The synagogues in this article are not necessarily what you would consider "Notable" like a building such as the Taj Mahal. Its more about the collection of people that make up the community in general. Indeed, at the moment I think the main problem with this article is the "hollow" content. It definitely needs to be expanded. There are 2 journalistic organizations that exclusively cover issues within the community. They are Community Magazine and Image Magazine. The hard part is trying to integrate their content as references to include in the article. Its something that seems difficult, but will also take a long time to do. Plowsr 18:10, 19 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Shouldn't this be merged with the American Jews article?

No other American Jewish subgrouping has its own article, and all this one does is list synagogues attended or founded by Syrian-Jews. I don't think this article is necessary and should be merged with the broader American Jews page. What does everybody else think? 2601:84:4502:61EA:A149:4194:6674:872D (talk) 10:35, 11 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]