Talk:Wadi

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@Alexandermcnabb may i know why are you against the wadi dawan image that i have added? Abo Yemen✉ 10:57, 17 October 2024 (UTC)

I see no reason to replace the header image of the article, which is perfectly sufficient and appropriate. And I see absolutely no reason why a Yemeni wadi would be more appropriate than a Jordanian wadi - and certainly none why an article should have two header images. By all means add the Yemeni wadi to the gallery, but I would seek consensus to replace the header image. Best Alexandermcnabb (talk) 17:12, 17 October 2024 (UTC)

The jordanian wadi isn't notable for it to be the main image of the article. And this isn't about the nationalities of the wadis anyways. Any wadi notable enough to have its own article should be the main image and not just a random wadi in wherever Abo Yemen✉ 09:24, 5 November 2024 (UTC)

Adequacy of the definition

At Oman#Geography, someone just added a section "Rivers & Wadis" with a main article hatnote for List of wadis of Oman and the content

Oman does not possess any rivers, but it possesses many wadis (Arabic term for river valley) that can temporarily fill with water when rain occurs.

It seemed bad form to mention "rivers" in the heading only to say Oman has none, so I renamed the section "Wadis" and revised the content to

Oman possesses many wadis (Arabic term for river valley) that can temporarily fill with water when rain occurs.

But then I noticed the remaining text defines "wadi" as "river valley", which made me wonder how a land can have river valleys without rivers. I wondered whether the definition of "wadi" there was incomplete, so I came here and discovered the same thing.

So: Is a wadi necessarily a river valley? In that case, if Oman has no rivers, how can it have wadis? Or else, if a wadi isn't necessarily a river valley, can someone provide the necessary clarification in the lead? I guess there's a third case, where you can have river valleys without rivers, but I doubt that's the case and would want an explanation of that. Largoplazo (talk) 18:11, 27 January 2025 (UTC)

Permanent wadis and seasonal wadis

{{ping|ASquareDeal}} hello. you reverted my edits saying permanent wadis are false but thats literally just not true. in arabic geography a wadi is any river valley not just dry ones. there are literally hundreds of wadis that flow year round because of natural springs and underground water. look at wadi lajab in saudi arabia or wadi bani khalid in oman, they never dry up. even unesco studies or whatever say wadis can have permanent water flow from groundwater. Stop undoing my edits so it shows the correct definition because saying they never have permanent channels is wrong. ~~~~ ~2026-39387-52 (talk) 10:34, 11 July 2026 (UTC)

Sorry I’m new I didn’t know how to ping @ASquareDeal ~2026-39387-52 (talk) 10:37, 11 July 2026 (UTC)