[OSM-talk] Persian/Arabian Gulf Tagging

[Abdullah Abdulrhman]

Hello Ebrahim

>There were lots of suggested methods in order to reach consensus but
>none has been done or wholely agreed upon. However, the question
>remaining is considering the prior disccusions, facts, and our current
>situation what option do *you* think is suitable?

In short, we are with the current name with the Arabic alphabet for the reasons we mentioned in the previous messages and for the following reasons:
Because it is the approved and official name for the 7 countries surrounding this water body, their population and coasts on this water body is greater than Iran which is the only country that overlooks this water body and adopts its name among the rest.
To solve the problem, the option of the two names A/B may be acceptable to defuse this conflict, but you did not accept this solution and you insist on not recognizing the Arabic name at all. I am surprised by the Your non-acceptance of any of the previous solutions, even though they are widely applied in OSM. For example, Caspian Sea has 5 names in the 'name' tag, and we did not see you insisting on the Iranian name to be the only name on the name tag!!
see:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/3987743

>How are you concluding this? I haven't seen anyone from other Arab
>countries here aside from you and Li Yaqo (lockdownguy).

Attempting to limit this opinion as my personal opinion is wrong. I have conveyed to you and from the sources that in all the Arab countries surrounding this water body we officially adopt the Arabic name, and the fact that your country does not comply with this name does not mean that it is imposed on us. Look here for the email I referred to:
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2021-June/086635.html

Also, I am not the only Arab participating in this discussion, but "Saeed Hubaishan سعيد حبيشان" joined me, and his previous messages can be seen in the archives of previous conversations:
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2021-June/thread.html
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2021-July/thread.html

Also, the Saudi Arabia Telegram group which it's basically the main OSM Arabic group in Telegram since it has members from all around the Arab countries agrees with what I said and they follow this discussion and they are with the Arabic name and do not even accept the Iranian name as the only primary name for this water body, see:
https://t.me/OSMSaudi

Abdullah Abdulrhman
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