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Please restore link to word “Palestine” in first sentence

The lead had the word “Palestine”as a link in the first sentence, as is usually the case in all Wikipedia articles when mentioning a country for the first time in an article, but here somebody removed it, could you please re-add it? Also, second sentence used to say “Bethlehem Governorate of the State of Palestine”, but there too somebody removed “State of Palestine”. 189.40.72.80 (talk) 13:53, 28 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Edit request 7 December 2025 link to Palestine page in the opening

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Description of suggested change: Please link to Palestine in the opening - Bethlehem[a] is a city in the West Bank, Palestine. the West Bank is linked but not Palestine

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'''Bethlehem''' is a city in the [[West Bank]], Palestine

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'''Bethlehem''' is a city in the [[West Bank]], [[Palestine]]

Miyagi165 (talk) 18:10, 7 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Not done: per MOS:GEOLINK. Day Creature (talk) 03:19, 8 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Also, it's already linked in the infobox. Sean.hoyland (talk) 04:51, 8 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Edit request 9 December 2025

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Description of suggested change: In the "Education" section, the word "by" is missing in the following passage:

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100 run the Education Ministry of the Palestinian National Authority,

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100 run by the Education Ministry of the Palestinian National Authority,

Izzy Grosof (talk) 02:28, 9 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Done IsCat (talk) 02:31, 9 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Change Bethlehem is a city in West Bank Palestine to Bethlehem is a city in West Bank, situated^[1] on Judean Hills. ~2026-84837 (talk) 01:48, 5 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

 Not done: That doesn't really make sense. Bethlehem is in Palestine. The ISO 3166-2 code for the governorate containing the city is PS-BTH, where PS is the code for Palestine. Sean.hoyland (talk) 06:58, 5 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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1. https://www.britannica.com/place/Bethlehem