Talk:Akko
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- (still predominantly a 1911 text - needs lots of revisions; this land is currently held by Israel in violation of United Nations resolutions.
How come, Akko is well inside the Green Line (242 does not apply), its inhabitants (Jewish and Arab alike) are Israeli citizens, what's the issue here? --Uriyan
Uriyan is right here. There is no question that Acre, a coastal town in the Western Galilee, is within the boundaries of pre-1967 Israel. Danny
I worked through the page and did major copy edits and divided into topics and sub-topics. I also replaced the information about Akko's wall with a correct one and added some links with the history of Akko, as well as the official site of the Old Acre Developmemt Company.
Currently, the part of history is need more works since its laking many details. Also, we need to relate to the modern city of Akko (outside the walls). MathKnight 15:18, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)
City of Acre
A google search on English pages returns:
- about 5,090,000 English pages for City of Acre
- about 23,400 English pages for City of Akko
Restricting the search to Palistine and Israel
- about 27,900 English pages for Akko palestine
- about 27,000 English pages for Akko Israel
- about 739,000 English pages for Acre palestine
- about 413,000 English pages for Acre Israel.
It is not archaic to us it in English eg:
Original Author which was not a stub starts: "Acre, Akka, or St Jean D'Acre",
So why is this article not under "Acre (city)" or some other title? Philip Baird Shearer 11:47, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
- This one is a little sticky, because while there is plenty of precedent for using the "English translation" of a local name, that "English translation" is ambiguous with a very common word. All of the options are unpalatable, "Akko" seems simplest. Google results are not very meaningful, because hard to exclude uses of "acre" the unit of measurement. Stan 19:20, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
Even if the page is not moved, the first name in the introduction should be "Acre" as that is the common English name. It should also be used throughout the rest of the article. Philip Baird Shearer 13:52, 20 May 2005 (UTC)