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The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Jordan (capital Amman pictured) fought against Palestinian fighters and Syria in 1970 during Black September?

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Newly created Syrian invasion of Jordan is a fork that does not cover any new information not covered here nor does it have significant coverage to fulfill WP's notability guidelines. Makeandtoss (talk) 08:17, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I suggest that we expand said article with new info instead of merging it with this one. Mustenboi (talk) 12:06, 17 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Absolutely. AimanAbir18plus (talk) 02:35, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 21 May 2025

It has been proposed in this section that Black September be renamed and moved to Jordanian Civil War.

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Black September → Jordanian Civil War – More common. AimanAbir18plus (talk) 02:46, 21 May 2025 (UTC) This is a contested technical request (permalink). AimanAbir18plus (talk) 02:47, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose: Not quite. Black September has 10,700 results on Google Scholar compared to Jordanian Civil War with 727. Skitash (talk) 11:34, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello. I wanted to ask if you, Could you add or re-add Zia-ul-Haq to the infobox? At least in the "Commanders" section as Zia-ul-Haq. In other word, replace the lack of Zia ul Haq with the addition of Zia-ul-Haq. My sources:

Islam and imperialism https://web.archive.org/web/20071019041521/http://pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk/isj95/ashman.htm

Kiessling, Hein Günter (2016) pp. 35–36. Faith, Unity, Discipline: The Inter-Service-Intelligence (ISI) of Pakistan https://books.google.com/books?id=pIQjDgAAQBAJ

Bruce Riedel 2014, pp. 56–57. What We Won: America's Secret War in Afghanistan, 1979?89 https://books.google.com/books?id=Hb8xAwAAQBAJ

2400:ADC1:187:1A00:4B7:EB66:9561:A7E9 (talk) 12:25, 24 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: See Talk:Black September/Archive 1#Pakistani involvement. Skitash (talk) 12:41, 25 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]