Talk:Oasis

message: If the disambiguation page can be the first "goto" page for all forms of Oasis, then I think its serve everyone's interests equally. This way, there would not be a need to have a disambiguation pointer on the current Oasis wikipedia page. Furthermore, this venue should not be driven by a popularity contest where the largest viewed page using the same search term becomes the gateway for the rest of the uses for Oasis. If anyone knows how to delink this page from the general search term oasis, I'd appreciate the advice about how to do. Thank you.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tgrebinski (talk • contribs) 07:01, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Disambiguation

message: What's the evidence for the bold claim that those who suggest the word comes from Egyptian through Coptic are wrong? The American Heritage Dictionary supports that etymological origin. I remove the claim until evidence proving them wrong is provided. Uaxuctum 10:05, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Etymology

message: The photo in Tozeur, Tunisia is not showing an oasis. That's just a swimming pool.
:Any reference to back up your statement? Bonzostar (talk) 19:19, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Not an Oasis

message: The geographical Oasis is the PRIMARY TOPIC for the word oasis. If you do not believe that it is, fine. Then take it to WP:RM. I'm an admin who has disambiguated literally hundreds of thousands of pages. I know what I'm talking about here. Here is more on the idea of a primary topic. --User:Woohookitty Disamming fool! 09:16, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  This page 

message: Parth is my best friend. He thinks he is sachin tendulkar in cricket.And he is. He is playing with his friends  :- Vibhor bhaia, Mohit, Mousam, Aamir.
Thank you  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.54.50.138 (talk) 09:57, 14 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Parth 

message: Douglas Harper's excellent dictionary is misinformed. There is a similar word that means 'dwelling', but it has nothing to do with 'oasis'. In fact the pictographic form of the word has a determinative (taxonomic) sign that indicates a region outside Egypt, probably a desert area. The similar word for 'dwelling' is not written with this sign. The Ancient Egyptian word (Middle Egyptian) sounded like 'ouahat'. It went into Greek as 'oasis'. Because the oases did not disappear and Egyptians kept visiting them, the word survived into the later stage of the language known as Demotic and from there to the even later stage known as Coptic and from there to the language that eventually became the dominant language of Egypt, Arabic, as something like 'wah'. All of these transliterations are approximations. There is only one to write a language properly and that is to use the graphemic system appropriate to it (Pamour (talk) 23:34, 26 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  etymology 

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message: I was just browsing to this article, but the dynamic list "List of places called oases" is extremely long and takes up most of the space in the article with a table full of non-existent articles. Could it be pared down or split to its own page? I would try to do it myself but I am fairly new with Wikipedia editing Equationsmith (talk) 14:06, 28 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Split list of places to its own article?