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Edit request 7 December 2025 link to Palestine page in the opening

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Description of suggested change: Please link to Palestine in the opening - Bethlehem[a] is a city in the West Bank, Palestine. the West Bank is linked but not Palestine

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Miyagi165 (talk) 18:10, 7 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

Not done: per MOS:GEOLINK. Day Creature (talk) 03:19, 8 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

Also, it's already linked in the infobox. Sean.hoyland (talk) 04:51, 8 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

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Description of suggested change: In the "Education" section, the word "by" is missing in the following passage:

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Change Bethlehem is a city in West Bank Palestine to Bethlehem is a city in West Bank, situated^[1] on Judean Hills. ~2026-84837 (talk) 01:48, 5 January 2026 (UTC)Reply

Not done: That doesn't really make sense. Bethlehem is in Palestine. The ISO 3166-2 code for the governorate containing the city is PS-BTH, where PS is the code for Palestine. Sean.hoyland (talk) 06:58, 5 January 2026 (UTC)Reply

Edit request 9 January 2026 In the section "Twin towns - sister cities", from the line "See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in the State of Palestine", DELETE "and sister cities in the State of Palestine", - Because NONE are listed.

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Not done: I am not sure what you mean by "none are listed." That is the title of another Wikipedia article, so it obviously should not be altered here. Day Creature (talk) 18:06, 9 January 2026 (UTC)Reply

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Edit request 7 December 2025 link to Palestine page in the opening

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Edit request 9 January 2026 In the section "Twin towns - sister cities", from the line "See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in the State of Palestine", DELETE "and sister cities in the State of Palestine", - Because NONE are listed.

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