Talk:Hezbollah
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GA Reassessment
Hezbollah
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- Article (edit | visual edit | history) · Article talk (edit | history) · Watch • • GAN review not found
- Result: Delisting because consensus has been reached to delist, and discussion has subsided. It is a wonderful world (talk) 18:16, 25 September 2024 (UTC)
This article has several citation needed type tags, violating WP:V. It last went through GAR in 2008, thus making it very likely it is unduly weighted toward that time period. Also were the standards for GA in 2008 lower?
This article is obviously very important right now, so an unwarranted GA status is very bad for the reliability of Wikipedia. It is a wonderful world (talk) 20:50, 21 September 2024 (UTC)
- The article relies too much on newspaper reports and speculation by biased parties, it should be scrapped and rewritten. The lead has it that Hezbollah failed to disarm after the 2006 withdrawal from Lebanon but the Shabaa Farms are still occupied. Keith-264 (talk) 21:49, 21 September 2024 (UTC)
- I know it's probably not my place but small examples like the article is still quoting polled support numbers published in 2006 by The Christian Science Monitor. It listed 80% support for Druze, assuming they weren't polling children, nearly half the current population was not in that 2 decade old poll. Does having sources that may reached some level of obsolescence at least when talking in present terms mean something against verifiability? Regardless article's subject is such a complex entity because of its paramilitary/political party hybridizing, that's the argument that has been made in the UN which keeps it off the consolidated terror groups and individuals list. I can't think of any other examples of non state actor groups that are in the same position. Not withstanding all that, just in the past week, so much has happened that may fundamentally change their structure that a whole new section would need to be added to attempt to give context to an unprimed reader. Even before last week I'm not certain if meets broad coverage with news coverage pushing the bulk of its sources and now just this last week such drastic numbers that can only be estimated at this point, the article might as well have a time date describing the group before that date while refraining from describing them after last week. RCSCott91 (talk) 05:35, 22 September 2024 (UTC)
- I haven't read the entire article, but just from reading the lede, it seems to have had a major expansion in recent years, which has turned it into a rather incoherent and bloated summary. Given the intensity of the past 16 years with regards to Hezbollah, I suspect if there was no organized and centralized effort to keep the content top notch in that period, most expansions were likely made randomly. Makeandtoss (talk) 10:15, 22 September 2024 (UTC)
- Not a GA article imo. Selfstudier (talk) 16:22, 22 September 2024 (UTC)
- Word count according to prosesize (web tool version) is now: 11,513. That puts it at the probably should be split size; still a little short of the definitely split size on word count according to the article size guideline. BUT the prosesize word count does not include tables and lists, which this article has, and may not include long quotations since these are not highlighted as part of the "prosesize" count and the article has several long block quotes. The random increases in the size of the article and its overall size alone would seem to be enough to change the assessment to B class from GA. Donner60 (talk) 07:50, 23 September 2024 (UTC)
Is the antisemitic label outdated?
If you got to Ideology of Hezbollah#Jews and Judaism you'll see that Hezbollah has distinguished between jews and zionists. Given that the current citations for that are before this happened, it should probably be removed. In general, I think that there are too many ideologies listed there, the main ones should be given and then the reader should be pointed to Ideology of Hezbollah (on that topic, that too should have an infobox). User:Easternsaharareview this 01:27, 8 December 2025 (UTC)
- I don't think we should take their propaganda as a reason to remove a label that is inconvenient for them. — Czello (music) 07:51, 8 December 2025 (UTC)
- Its not outdated. They still are antisemitic. --GHcool (talk) 16:59, 8 December 2025 (UTC)
- If the length of the list is an issue, I guess you could do something like below, like in the Mediterranean Sea infobox. Sean.hoyland (talk) 18:21, 8 December 2025 (UTC)
- Its not outdated. They still are antisemitic. --GHcool (talk) 16:59, 8 December 2025 (UTC)
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"Herzbollah" listed at Redirects for discussion
The redirect Herzbollah has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 December 24 § Herzbollah until a consensus is reached. Thepharoah17 (talk) 03:01, 24 December 2025 (UTC)
Add Lebanon to the state opponents of Hezbollah (since 2025 or 2026 depending on the context)
Since Joseph Aoun and Nawaf Salam’s elections, the Lebanese state has been continuously challenging Hezbollah to the point that it has officially recognized it as an illegitimate organization in March 2026. This change should be recognized here. Trustededitors2023 (talk) 12:33, 4 March 2026 (UTC)
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map with wrong info
The countries that have designated Hezbollah a terrorist organization include: the Gulf Cooperation Council,[65] and their members Saudi Arabia,[75] Bahrain,[505] United Arab Emirates,[75] as well as Argentina,[506] Canada,[507] Colombia,[59] Ecuador,[60] Estonia,[61] Germany,[508] Honduras,[59] Israel,[509] Paraguay,[510][511] Kosovo,[512] Lithuania,[513] Serbia,[61] Slovenia,[74] Switzerland,[514] United Kingdom,[515] United States,[516] and Guatemala.[66]
The map of countries who recognize Hezbollah as terrorist includes also Italy. We should change the color of Italy to gray. Giacoro2000 (talk) 05:39, 16 March 2026 (UTC)