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	Mecca was a Geography and places good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.
Article milestones Date Process Result May 28, 2008 Peer review Reviewed September 6, 2020 Good article nominee Not listed
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To-do list for Mecca: edit · history · watch · refresh · Updated 2024-11-05 Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Cleanup : less about the religous beliefs, more about the city functions; the hajj and the diverse population it brings is mentioned in just about every section some way needs to be found to mention it once and not keep harping on Copyedit : someone likes to stick "also" in every sentence, also quite often, also Expand : explain importance of city in regards to culture, economy, tourism, etc. Basically, how the city functions. This is an article about a very important city, not what muslims believe. Possibly Expand about the bad parts of Islam to not just the mecca Verify : cite sources

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Please add new talk threads at the bottom of this page. mecca is a province. Mecca is not a city a capital and a province.

Semi-protected edit request on 24 June 2025

Discussion started by a block evading sock. R3YBOl (🌲) 22:37, 25 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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This edit request has been answered. Set the |answered= parameter to no to reactivate your request. In the islamic narrative part in the history section it should include this: the ancient Iranians used to visit Mecca for a pilgrimage,[1] they used to bring gifts with them during the pilgrimages.[2] one of them was Sasan who was the grandfather of Ardashir.[3][4][5][2] Tuffmaster (talk) 11:30, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply] References "مشکلات حاجیان از زبان سفرنامه نویسان". تاريخ الخميس فى أحوال أنفس نفيس. p. 111. مروج الذهب ومعادن الجوهر جزء ١. p. 242. زعماء مكة. p. 4. تاريخ الكامل. p. 92.

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Makkah isnt the birthplace of islam, its the birth palce of the prophet Muhammad (pbuh). Islam isnt 1400 years old. The prophet is, the Qur'an is. 103.122.91.105 (talk) 12:06, 14 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. 𐩣𐩫𐩧𐩨 Abo Yemen (𓃵) 12:08, 14 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Abd Mekkat

Quote from the history section of article:

Some Thamudic inscriptions which were discovered in southern Jordan contained names of some individuals such as ʿAbd Mekkat (عَبْد مَكَّة‎, "Servant of Mecca").

If you check the source by Harding, this is not "some" inscriptions, it is one inscription. Specifically, this one. However, you can see in the apparatus for the inscripion,

TIJ: Harding commented: "There seems to be a z [what is now read as ʾ] missing at the beginning to judge from the style of the n (cf. 100). ʿAbd-mekkat is new”. Littmann commented: "If ʿbd mkt is correct it is a very interesting name: ʿAbd Mekkat ‘servant of Mekka’ (The Holy City). But a l might be supplied: ʿAbd Malikat" Milik 1958–1959: 355: ʿbdmkt in Harding 112A [=TIJ 112.1] would be "servant of the (king) Malikat". King GMH 1990: 141, n. 11: "The text is Thamudic D and from a photograph and copy I made in 1986, I would read the text as zn ʿbd mḥ and interpret it as an unfinished love text of the form zn N1 mḥb N2."

I don't have access to King's PhD thesis, but since the database uses his transcription, I think it's clear there's a consensus it says mḥ, not mkt. (My own discretion does not aid me, because the photograph is basically unreadable). Not sure if the sentence in the article should just be removed, or if the other reading should just be appended. Mzrvtfni (talk) 06:23, 20 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]