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Article milestones Date Process Result May 22, 2007 Featured article candidate Not promoted May 23, 2007 Peer review Reviewed May 29, 2009 Peer review Reviewed A news item involving this article was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "In the news" column on October 21, 2018. Facts from this article were featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on September 23, 2004, September 23, 2005, September 23, 2006, September 23, 2008, September 23, 2009, September 23, 2010, September 23, 2011, September 23, 2012, September 23, 2013, September 23, 2014, September 23, 2016, September 23, 2017, September 23, 2018, and September 23, 2019. Current status: Former featured article candidate

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Section sizes Section size for Saudi Arabia (45 sections) Section name Byte count Section total (Top) 27,700 27,700 Etymology 3,497 3,497 History 80 54,110 Prehistory 8,632 8,632 Pre-Islamic 8,253 8,253 Middle Ages and rise of Islam 9,179 9,179 Ottoman Hejaz 1,359 1,359 Saud dynasty and unification 8,429 8,429 20th century 9,787 9,787 21st century 8,391 8,391 Politics 10,182 85,116 Monarchy and royal family 9,589 9,589 Al ash-Sheikh and role of the ulema 5,856 5,856 Legal system 4,747 4,747 Foreign relations 14,345 26,612 Allegations of sponsoring global terrorism 12,267 12,267 Military 11,400 11,400 Human rights 16,730 16,730 Geography 7,088 14,805 Biodiversity 7,717 7,717 Administrative divisions 1,127 1,127 Economy 14,617 27,136 Agriculture 4,028 4,028 Water supply and sanitation 5,324 5,324 Tourism 3,167 3,167 Demographics 12,519 47,236 Language 2,304 2,304 Religion 6,539 6,539 Education 9,187 9,187 Health care 7,969 7,969 Foreigners 8,718 8,718 Culture 1,453 44,634 Religion in society 7,581 7,581 Women in society 7,387 7,387 Heritage sites 8,753 8,753 Dress 1,632 1,632 Arts and entertainment 5,533 5,533 Cuisine 1,163 1,163 Sport 7,009 7,009 TV and media 4,123 4,123 See also 149 149 Notes 26 26 References 30 30 Bibliography 3,545 3,545 External links 1,990 1,990 Total 311,101 311,101

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Change Saudi Arabia is a member of BRICS. 2001:9E8:533A:8600:29FD:128C:468E:795C (talk) 08:35, 21 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Not done: Looks like they haven't joined yet - see Reuters report 18 Jan. DeCausa (talk) 09:27, 21 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Remove public execution, it's a myth and has no data backing it up. Don't like seeing myths and accusations on a site that's supposed to be a reliable and true source of information there are no public executions because they are no public ones, all just private in a room JohnGalt245 (talk) 17:18, 15 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

There certainly have been, and I've added a citation to Amnesty International to back it up. I've modified the wording somewhat,since it doesn't necessarily reflect current practice, but it is not a myth. Acroterion (talk) 17:44, 15 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Under "Politics --> Human Rights", there is an error where a reference isn't completed.

"The justice system regularly engages in capital punishment, which has included public executions by beheading.[276]ref>"Rights group condemns Saudi beheadings". Associated Press. 14 October 2008. Retrieved 14 October 2008.</ref>"

An extra "<" is missing at the beginning of the 'ref' I think. 128.255.234.11 (talk) 20:00, 3 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Done Thank you! --TheImaCow (talk) 21:29, 3 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

English Wikipedia generally applies the transliteration and spelling standards developed by English-language scholars and academics. This is certainly the case with historical terms, while current terms may be spelled according to official policy in the respective country. The scholarly norms have evolved over time and are well founded.

The common academic name spelling in English requires the definite article (al, etc.) and "son of" (ibn) to be written small, unless it occurs at the beginning of a sentence. The article must be followed by a hyphen. Examples:

• Omar ibn al-Khattab, not Omar Ibn Al Khattab
• Dumat al-Jandal, not Dumat Al Jandal

I know some perceive it as irreverential, but it's not meant to be and it is the common practice. If administrative units (national governments, regional or municipal authorities) decree a different English spelling as normative, this concerns only the individual names to which the decrees apply, and the modern administrative units, not the historical or archaeological sites.

Thank you. Arminden (talk) 13:56, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The banner used to be in British spelling but I changed it to British Oxford spelling since the majority of words with the ending ize/ise (izing/ising and ization/isation too) were already using the American/Oxford spelling, and I think enforcing the other variant would just lead to an inconsistent article, it also appears that the first version that's not a stub used the spellings "flavour" and "recognized" for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Saudi_Arabia&oldid=1637856 Terbofast (talk) 07:26, 5 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]