Talk:Buraq Wall

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==Buraq Wall==

"A wall connected to the al-Aqsa mosque." We have no criteria for including or excluding placenames, so the question is, what level of granularity is too much granularity? (Hilariously, the larger place, al-Aqsa mosque, is a redlink.) - -sche (discuss) 06:20, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

Funny, en-Wikipedia article on al-Aqsa does not mention Buraq Wall, but it is the same wall that the Jews call Wailing Wall, and which is more neutrally known as the Western Wall. The Arabic name for that particular wall translates word-by-word as "Buraq Wall" into English. Buraq, as we remember, is the name of the heavenly horse-like creature that took prophet Muhammed from Mecca to Jerusalem and back. Muhammed reportedly tied Buraq to this wall during his stay, hence the name. It's undeniably a remarkable place. If we decide to keep it, we might want to create a main entry of "Western Wall" and make "Buraq Wall" and "Wailing Wall" refer to it as its Muslim and Jewish names respectively. --Hekaheka (talk) 08:29, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

• Abstain. I checked Buraq Wall, Buraq wall, (Jerusalem*0.001),al-Aqsa mosque,(Western Wall*0.1),(Wailing Wall*0.1) at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.. This is a geographic name. May rather than only at a granularity (physical smallness and the like), I would be also looking at name frequency. --Dan Polansky (talk) 20:42, 20 March 2015 (UTC)
• I think that it is the wrong analysis to look at this as a place name; it is more like a monument along the lines of the Statue of Liberty or the Arc de Triomphe (which have geographic footprints smaller than most villages). I think that we should add an entry on Western Wall and then indicate that Wailing Wall and Buraq Wall are alternative names for it. bd2412 T 13:46, 16 April 2015 (UTC)
• Kept: No actual delete votes other than the nominator Purplebackpack89 13:42, 15 May 2015 (UTC)