Talk:Qanat

message: I would have been disastrous to dump my specific article about a specific place into that huge wandering article on Qanat. I just went through a great deal of trouble to change the whole article (even though right now it is DYK)  and to change the name to prevent such an awful event. Hopefully you can let my little article alone now. It would have been drowned in that messy Qanat article, and the point of it completely lost, as the article which has nothing to do with mine.  --Mattisse 18:22, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Fine, I think you're right that it works well as it is now, though I have added at least a link from the Turfan water system‎ article to qanat. --OpenToppedBus - Talk to the driver 11:32, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: From what I can make out from the qanat article, they are not quite the same systems, although the rambling description of qanat is unclear and the article is a grab bag article with everything but the kitchen sink thrown—it too long to bother to read and try to sort it out—so many inadequate descriptions of other countries thrown in, probably the result of your "merge at all costs" policy.  And most of the qanat references are taken from two books on Iran (Persia) published by the University of Texas, so the qanat article seems POV. Plus why add more mess to the qanat article? Many of the pictures are misrepresentations of Turfan's system as it is. The whole article is misleading.  --Mattisse 12:26, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Fair enough - I'll bow to your greater knowledge of the subject as a whole. Presumably there ought to be a general article on "water systems fed by sloping tunnels from upland aquifers", but I'm certainly in no position to write it, or even to know what title it should go under. I agree that at present this one seems heavily skewed towards Persia. --OpenToppedBus - Talk to the driver 08:59, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article has been rewritten & renamed  

message: Qanat / Qanaah literally means 'channel' in Arabic. This article should be merged with 'irrigation channel'. --212.9.126.1 (talk) 13:41, 20 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  why a separate article? 

message: canal: early 15c., from French canal, chanel "water channel, tube, pipe, gutter" (12c.), from Latin canalis "water pipe, groove, channel," noun use of adjective from canna "reed" (see cane). Originally in English "a pipe for liquid," its sense transferred by 1670s to "artificial waterway." cane: late 14c., from Old French cane "reed, cane, spear" (13c., Modern French canne), from Latin canna "reed, cane," from Greek kanna, perhaps from Assyrian qanu "tube, reed" (cf. Hebrew qaneh, Arabic qanah "reed"), from Sumerian gin "reed." But Tucker finds this borrowing "needless" and proposes a native Indo-European formation from a root meaning "to bind, bend." Sense of "walking stick" in English is 1580s. says: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=canal&searchmode=none Böri (talk) 10:19, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Qanat > Canal ! 

message: I propose that Turpan water system be merged into Qanat. The Turpan water system is karez or kariz, that is already been redirected to Qanat, and its Chinese version zh:坎儿井 is linked to qanat too.Hahahaha哈 (talk) 03:33, 23 September 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't agree; the Turpan water system article is about a specific implementation of the technology (like Aqueduct (bridge) versus Aqueduct of Segovia). Turpan water system is long enough to stand on its own, and this article is incredibly long already and would suffer from a merger. -165.234.252.11 (talk) 20:02, 22 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal 

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thread_title:  External links modified (January 2018) 

message: I'm sorry, reverters, but Tikriti does indeed claim that and the source backs it perfectly. Al Ain's aflaj are precisely of south east Arabian origin and Tikriti does indeed argue as such - and that they are pre-Achaemenid. His paper, quoted in the citation, is TITLED "The south-east Arabian origin of the falaj system" - it can't really get clearer than that, can it? Best Alexandermcnabb (talk) 06:13, 8 December 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I added a further source citing Tikriti's view (shared by Potts and others, BTW). Best Alexandermcnabb (talk) 09:25, 8 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tikriti and Arabia 

message: As  said above, the lead should still be improved. therefore, my proposal is to add this content to the lead, if there is consensus about it :
"Qanats are used in numerous countries, but the value of this system is directly related to the quality, volume, and regularity of the water flow."
I would welcome the eye of every involved editors here. Cheers.---Wikaviani (talk) (contribs) 02:54, 19 December 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: There is no need to call me or the other editors. If your additions follow guidelines, then fee free to add them. The consensus and previous discussions were about Origins and it has ended in my opinion. You like to edit this article, then just edit it. Cheers! --Wario-Man (talk) 12:54, 19 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lead's improvement