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Misleading title=

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Surely 'Forced displacement' would be more accurate? Ériugena (talk) 10:45, 9 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Technically, displacement is what happens to people but depopulation is what happens to places. Anyway, even though "forced displacement" is the background in the great majority of cases, using it in the title would open individual places to argument about whether they belong. I think it is more useful to list all the cases of displacement here and leave the details for the respective articles. Zerotalk 11:56, 9 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

what's about jewish villages ?

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to be neutral this article should also mark the jewish villages depopulated during the war Anticonstitutionnelist (talk) 20:32, 18 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Cities?

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Jaffa and Haifa were cities for example, should the title reflect that? Makeandtoss (talk) 08:47, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Also I think the map should reflect that as well with a larger dot and a tag. Thoughts @Selfstudier: @Zero0000:? Makeandtoss (talk) 12:13, 13 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 18 September 2024

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The Palestinian villages were not just 'depopulated' they were evicted and more, here's an Israeli article to prove that:

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2022-05-05/ty-article/.premium/after-two-decades-israeli-court-approves-eviction-of-eight-palestinian-villages/00000180-9e4e-d1e3-a190-fecfc3c20000 Peace 4 all humans (talk) 17:42, 18 September 2024 (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. Bunnypranav (talk) 14:00, 19 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Biased title

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Depopulated is the passive voice, i.e. "a place lost population." This does not reflect that it was done at gunpoint. Displaced, dispossessed, annexed, expropriated, etc. are all more accurate and less biased GalacticEncyclopedist (talk) 20:08, 19 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"Annexed" and "expropriated" are legal terms that don't necessarily apply to each place. "Displaced" and "dispossessed" apply to people, not places. I can agree that "depopulated" is not perfect but I don't think any of those are better. In this time period, the main events were expulsion by force, and evacuation out of fear, in both cases cemented by refusal to allow return. Zerotalk 01:07, 20 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]