Talk:Hajar Mountains

Villages

I first found these villages listed in Oman's 'Talk' page, placed there by Burmesedays who didn't know in which region they belonged. I've managed to find one on the map, and the others are apparently nearby. However, I don't believe that any of them are of particular interest to the traveler, as there are several dozen of these villages scattered throughout the mountains, and these don't seem to be near any interesting sights, e.g. wadis, petroglyphs, etc.

I've not visited any of these three villages myself though and someone else might know better, so I guess I'll just park them here unless/until another user comes by who might know more about them or have a better idea of what to do with them.

StellarD (talk) 05:21, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

Biladi Shuhoom is a small village with only a few hundreds of people. There is a Juma mosque but Friday prayer is a new thing here as the mosque is of recent origin. Formerly, it was customary to have the noon-time prayer during Fridays as the long trip to the next village of Mokniyath was a difficult exercise. Even now the Zaid bin Al-Kathab senior secondary school, is the only building here showing off the green, red and white national flag. All government establishments have the privilege to carry the national flag.

1 Maqniyat. A little bigger village with one more flag-bearing building, a public clinic. But even there there is no post office or public telephone. For all these higher services, you have to travel another 100 km to Ibri which is the nearest town and the headquarters of the wall who is the district collector here. Ibri itself is 500 km. or so from Muscat hut it is only two hours by car to Dubai across the border. 

Biiadi Shuhoom is a village without roads, telephones and other modern amenities. Electricity is there, but it is a recent development like the Friday prayer. During the annual mountains floods, the village is totally marooned from the outer world and essential food supply is provided by helicopter. The villagae Bedouins are engaged in wheat cultivation, sheep rearing and there are plenty of wheat farms. You need a four-wheel drive vehicle to reach there and you can drive across the mountains in an as-you-please manner. The sheikh provides water pumped from a wadi or mountain steam. Sending letters is a big task here as there is no letterbox to drop them. You have to entrust them with some Omanis going to the Ibri market. Incoming letters end up in the post box of the Ministry in Ibri and the principal brings them during his weekly trips. Some visitors carry their mobile telephones to the village but it is impossible to make or receive calls as the signals are blocked by the mountains surrounding the village.

Syntax

As in the article for Central Coastal Oman, there is an ongoing disagreement about wording, and the same anonymous user has insisted on removing the word 'technical' now three times, resulting in poor syntax; please see this, this, and this.

I believe that the original wording was correct English usage. Does anyone else have an opinion on this matter?

–StellarD (talk) 06:51, 11 March 2016 (UTC)

Technically should be restored. I don't know what this user's problem with the word is. Ikan Kekek (talk) 07:06, 11 March 2016 (UTC)

'Technically' should not be used as there is nothing 'technical'. —The preceding comment was added by 169.53.189.14 (talk • contribs)

Yes there is. Topography is a highly technical science, with highly technical procedures. The word really belongs. Ibaman (talk) 14:36, 11 March 2016 (UTC)

I'd like to note that that IP account and several others that continue to edit war have been blocked, initially for 2 hours, then 1 day and now 3 months for edit warring and block evasion. I'm glad that this IP actually made an argument, but making an argument doesn't give him/her the right to edit war. Ikan Kekek (talk) 15:22, 11 March 2016 (UTC)