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Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment[edit]

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 29 October 2018 and 5 December 2018. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Fmoahmed.

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Untitled: Migration of tribes[edit]

Lacking is any mention of the migration of tribes into SE Arabia, such as that of the ruling family in the 16th-18th century. This is the same migration which brought Arab rule to neighbouring eastern Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates. Certainly this is a central point in the regional history. al-Azd0815 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Azd0815 (talk • contribs) 06:49, 20 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Are you referring to the legend of the Azd or the migration of the bedouin tribes in the 16th-18th centuries? The only impact the latter had on omani history is the introduction of the arab bedouins into the country and the ensuing wars between them and the natives Yefa36 (talk) 21:08, 23 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Biggest Cities[edit]

The section on the largest cities in the country is certainly outdated (the website it links to describes Nizwa as having around 72k residents, whereas the corresponding Wikipedia article for the city claims it has a population of around 120k). It should be updated with the most contemporary statistics. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.0.192.14 (talk) 05:41, 27 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Woefully out of date. It is citing geonames, but I am unsure what year that is from at all. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Squire Zo (talk • contribs) 14:06, 14 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Untitled: Etymology of name[edit]

Oman ( etymology ) The word 'oma (n) is derived from the Sanskrit word' Vama ' which means ' the left side.For example ' Vama Hasta ' means 'the left hand '.The ancient Indian geogographers divided the south coast of the Arabian peninsula into two parts - the left half and the rght half. The left part was called ' Vama' - the left, which came to be called as 'Oman'. Thousands of ancient ships from the west coast of India carrying a variety of spices used to pass through these shores on their way to Aden. Aden. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Banda.krishna (talk • contribs) 04:05, 11 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not spread misinformation, the names arent even close Yefa36 (talk) 21:01, 23 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

World map - Yaruba dynasty[edit]

What is the basis for the world map under the Yaruba dynasty subsection? The caption suggests it is from the 18th century. But it doesn’t make sense. For example, the continent of Australia was never subject to a small territory in the south east corner. AtHomeIn神戸 (talk) 02:32, 16 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

It's probably an approximation of the actual extent of the Colony of New South Wales in the late 18th century, as opposed to lands stated in the colony charter that weren't settled. This map does something similar. NSW might have claimed half of Australia, but most Aboriginal Australians didn't hear about that until a bit later.Squire Zo (talk) 16:28, 21 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestion for section on science and technology[edit]

Hi, just a suggestion, many country articles have sections for 'science and technology', this could be a section on this article as well.

Thanks

John Cummings (talk) 09:40, 3 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned references in Oman[edit]

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Oman's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "imf":

From Brazil: "Brazil". International Monetary Fund (IMF). Retrieved 1 April 2016.
From Niger: "Report for Selected Country Groups and Subjects (PPP valuation of country GDP)". IMF. Archived from the original on 9 June 2020. Retrieved 14 November 2018.
From Morocco: "Morocco". IMF.
From List of countries by GDP (PPP) per capita: "World Economic Outlook Database, 2019". IMF.org. International Monetary Fund. Retrieved 2020-02-24.
From India: "World Economic Outlook Database: April 2021". IMF.org. International Monetary Fund. April 2021. Retrieved 6 April 2021.
From Uzbekistan: IMF World Economic Outlook Database Archived 6 October 2014 at the Wayback Machine, October 2007

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 10:21, 19 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Religion[edit]

In religion information, it states percentages of each Islam sec ( Sunny, Ibadi, Shai), but there is no source, and Oman does not ask people to identify nor does it conduct publish such stats.

Where are these numbers coming from? 96.9.141.180 (talk) 01:57, 16 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed, most importantly it seems that theyre either intentionally or unintentionally conflating the foreign presence with the citizens of the country so that there seems to be an unusually higher number of sunnis. It is also contradicting the religious demographic section which claims that most omanis are ibadis Yefa36 (talk) 21:12, 23 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Independence[edit]

In history, it was never stated when the British withdrew and Oman became their own country. On other sources I've found several different answers, so I don't really know for sure. 97.120.23.227 (talk) 17:29, 18 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Participate in the deletion discussion at the nomination page. —Community Tech bot (talk) 15:17, 23 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Map of Oman[edit]

In Administrative Divisions, why is the map in German? Can we get an English Map? MiguelMunoz (talk) 08:29, 7 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]