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| text = '''Are you from United Arab Emirates?''' A Wikipedia [[WP:MEETUP|meetup]] is taking place in November, 2009 in [[Dubai]]. If you are interested in coming or would like more information, see the [[Wikipedia:Meetup/Dubai|first Dubai Meetup page]].
| text = '''Are you from United Arab Emirates?''' A Wikipedia [[WP:MEETUP|meetup]] is taking place in November, 2009 in [[Dubai]]. If you are interested in coming or would like more information, see the [[Wikipedia:Meetup/Dubai|first Dubai Meetup page]].
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== New montage needed? ==
The Dubai Picture montage is heavily outdated, plus it doesn't shows the most important landmarks of the city. Please update it.

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Archiving

Unless anyone has any objections, I'd like to go ahead and archive these discussions, since the talk page has become difficult to navigate. If there are active discussions, please let me know, and I'll hold off archiving until the discussions are complete. I plan to start archiving this page on 7/18. Thanks AreJay (talk) 05:41, 12 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

GDP

Dubai's gross domestic product needs to be updated, Dubai's GDP in 2005 was 37 billion or something like it, so why we shoudnt update it ???


Nabil rais2008 (talk) 08:54, 19 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I suppose what's preventing us at present is a reference. I had a quick look just now, but the sources I found all spoke about percentages. Could you try and find a recent reference? I'd suggest it should be from a respected newspaper or magazine (or their website, naturally!) For what it's worth, I had a quick look at Khaleej Times and Arabian Business: the former had figures for 2004 (and projections for 2009, but we should avoid those), and the latter only dealt with percentage growth.
Cheers, TFOWRThis flag once was red 09:29, 19 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I've tried before to find updated figures, but i found nothing. I think the latest figure was the 2005 figure. Mainly all i found were estimates for the 2010 figure, which is when their will be a nation wide UAE census. --MoHasanie  Talk  19:54, 20 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Well i have found the figures but they are in Dirhams as well as it is an expected figure for 2010.

Nabil rais2008 (talk) 10:58, 29 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Dirhams is fine, but we need actuals, not projections - so 2008 would be fine, but not 2010. We could add the 2010 projections to the current actuals, however. Something like "Dubai's GDP in 2001 was X; it is expected to be Y in 2010".
Getting back to Dirhams, I'd argue that that's the best currency to use - but we should also convert to US dollars (and/or Euros?), using the exchange rate applicable at the time of the survey - e.g. for 2001 GDP we'd use 2001's Dirham/Dollar exchange rate.
Cheers, TFOWRThis flag once was red 15:05, 29 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
It doesn't quite work that way with many Middle Eastern economies. Currency is usually "pegged" against the US dollar at a set rate, which doesn't change. In the UAE's case, 1 US$ is approximately 3.675 AED. Adjusting historic financial data for inflation is a different issue though. As far as projections are concerned, I'm fine, pending validation of the source of the projections. I agree that the sentence should be structured along the lines suggested by TFOWR ("As of 2008, the GDP was...and is projected to be...in 2010."). AreJay (talk) 17:31, 29 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Panorama

The pannorama is outdated, there should be an updated panorama of Dubai, as of now Burj Dubai is close to its completion and is fully claded as well and some other skyscrapers which have to date risen above are not present in this panorama. The heading wont work wiht out content regarding it !

Nabil rais2008 (talk) 19:06, 31 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wrong Flag

The picture of UAE flag is wrong. Please correct it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.225.111.1 (talk) 11:32, 5 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

That's the Dubai flag, not the UAE flag. It is correct. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.96.194.146 (talk) 11:38, 11 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Collapse of dubai's economy?

There was an article in NYT and a photography feature in Fast Company.. read this:

I completely defer to the judgment of this article's contributors and won't be making any edits to the article proper, but I would like to see this mentioned more prominently - at least in the Developments page. Obviously those articles are rather one-sided and the whole world has been hit by the recession, but Dubai's fall seems particularly spectacular. It would be great if people inside the country could offer their perspectives here on the talk page to gauge whether this story has merit. .froth. (talk) 00:55, 13 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Reassesment?

I think this article deserves a reassesment. It is certainly not a C-class article. --MoHasanie  Talk  15:45, 15 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

C sounds about right to me. Read Wikipedia:WikiProject_Dubai/Assessment#Quality_scale .froth. (talk) 19:46, 16 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Dubai Panorama

I found this panorama of Dubai Creek, and i think that its gives a good view of the city.

A panoramic view of Dubai Creek

someone has entered "dog" word in the article

Some one has added DOG word at several places in the article. Can some one please confirm so that we can remove it.

Thanks, Piyush —Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.184.76.10 (talk) 13:33, 9 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

 Done I've restored to last good version, and warned the user who vandalised article. Marek.69 talk 13:45, 9 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Dubai Foreign Policy index

Could someone please add this sentence into the article. I'm not sure where to put it.

Dubai is ranked 27th among global cities by Foreign Policy's 2008 Global Cities Index.[1]

Dubai Meetup

New montage needed?

The Dubai Picture montage is heavily outdated, plus it doesn't shows the most important landmarks of the city. Please update it.

  1. ^ Kearney, Inc., A.T. "The 2008 Global Cities Index". Foreign Policy.