Talk:Motza

A fact from Motza appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 26 July 2007. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Motza (pictured), founded in 1859, was the first modern village established near Jerusalem?

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There is quite a lot on the early history of Motza in Kark and Oren-Nordheim, Jerusalem and its Environs, Magnes Press 2001. Zero^talk 14:20, 8 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Motza is a village[edit]

Rather than a neighborhood. It’s definitely not suburban as it isn’t a part of any city. It’s council is “Mate Yehuda” (Judea district) rather than the Jerusalem municipality, also in charge of other rural settlements in the region. Perhaps a rural settlement will be a better definition. Especially concerning Motza Illit (upper motza) where all the original houses had 1.5 dunams (about half an acre) of land. 79.183.0.213 (talk) 21:10, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I believe you are mistaken, but clearly this article needs more details. According to the Hebrew wiki, Motza was added to Jerusalem in 1993. Also, the Israeli CBS does not list Motza separately from Jerusalem in its population statistics. Motza Illit, on the other hand, is listed separately which indicates it is not within Jerusalem. Zero^talk 04:02, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

To editor Number 57: can probably help with a source. Zero^talk 04:03, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Mateh Yehuda has a map of settlements covered by the council, and if you zoom in on that map, it actually shows the border of Mateh Yehuda and Jerusalem municipalities, and you can see Motza is on the Jerusalem side (the border is at the end of Ramat Motza street in Motza, and it shows a small number of buildings in Motza Illit as sitting on the border itself). Cheers, Number 5 7 11:21, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

https://www.govmap.gov.il/?c=215783.24,633568.86&z=7&lay=REGIONAL_AUTHORITIES - this is the map that shows that Motza Illit is a part of Mateh Yehuda, while the original Moshava, now called Ramat Motza, is a neighborhood of Jerusalem. Motza Illit was never a part of Motza. Agmonsnir (talk) 11:32, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

NPOV history section[edit]

I've split material on the nearby archaeological site of Tel Motza to its own article following our usual convention of treating archaeological sites and modern settlements separately (e.g. Jericho and Tell es-Sultan; Megiddo, Israel and Tel Megiddo). We can keep #Antiquity as a summary-style precis of that article.

In doing so I noticed that #History is really POV. We currently have:

Nothing on pre-Iron Age settlement
One and a half sections on the Iron Age Israelite settlement
Almost nothing on period 73 CE to 1854; that's all shunted to Qalunya (why is this a separate article?)
A section on the Ottoman period, but focusing only on the village's Jewish inhabitants
A section on the Mandate period, but focusing only on the village's Jewish inhabitants

It's not hard to spot which historical episodes are being given undue weight... – Joe (talk) 09:57, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I notice a confusion the location of various places. "Motza" as founded in 1933 was in the place now called Motza Illit, as shown on multiple maps from 1934 to 1948. Motza moved about 600m to the east some time between 1948 and 1961, then to its present location another 600m to the east by 1970. The latter two moves were facilitated by the depopulation of Qaluniya. The 1933 location was named Motza Illit by 1950. Zero^talk 13:03, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

User:Joe Roe, User:Zero0000; Yeah, this article is really a mess. To start cleaning up: is there any reason everything under "Antiquity" and "Second Temple period" isn't in the Tel Motza-article (and only there; not copied into this article as well)? Huldra (talk) 22:15, 11 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]