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Needed articles.

We should have an article on every Pharaoh & every nome in Ancient Egypt. Let's check to see if every important Egyptologist has an article. I'm sure the rest of us can think of other articles we should have.

Cleanup.

To start with, most of the general history articles badly need attention. And I'm told that at least some of the dynasty articles need work. Any other candidates?

Standardize the Chronology.

A boring task, but the benefit of doing it is that you can set the dates !(e.g., why say Khufu lived 2589-2566? As long as you keep the length of his reign correct, or cite a respected source, you can date it 2590-2567 or 2585-2563)

Stub sorting

Anyone? I consider this probably the most unimportant of tasks on Wikipedia, but if you believe it needs to be done . . .

Data sorting.

This is a project I'd like to take on some day, & could be applied to more of Wikipedia than just Ancient Egypt. Take one of the standard authorities of history or culture -- Herotodus, the Elder Pliny, the writings of Breasted or Kenneth Kitchen, & see if you can't smoothly merge quotations or information into relevant articles. Probably a good exercise for someone who owns one of those impressive texts, yet can't get access to a research library.

Fix/reclaim the Great Pyramid of Giza.

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1 Merge?

2 Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Ancient Egypt

3 Dubious edit

4 Paut Neteru

5 Good Article sweeps: Mummy

6 Drawings of antique monuments in Egypt

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Needed articles. We should have an article on every Pharaoh & every nome in Ancient Egypt. Let's check to see if every important Egyptologist has an article. I'm sure the rest of us can think of other articles we should have. Cleanup. To start with, most of the general history articles badly need attention. And I'm told that at least some of the dynasty articles need work. Any other candidates? Standardize the Chronology. A boring task, but the benefit of doing it is that you can set the dates !(e.g., why say Khufu lived 2589-2566? As long as you keep the length of his reign correct, or cite a respected source, you can date it 2590-2567 or 2585-2563) Stub sorting Anyone? I consider this probably the most unimportant of tasks on Wikipedia, but if you believe it needs to be done . . . Data sorting. This is a project I'd like to take on some day, & could be applied to more of Wikipedia than just Ancient Egypt. Take one of the standard authorities of history or culture -- Herotodus, the Elder Pliny, the writings of Breasted or Kenneth Kitchen, & see if you can't smoothly merge quotations or information into relevant articles. Probably a good exercise for someone who owns one of those impressive texts, yet can't get access to a research library. Fix/reclaim the Great Pyramid of Giza.

Merge?

All the Gods and goddesses are all on separate pages and there isn't a page with a link to all and listing all the Gods and Goddesses, should I create one? hannah (talk) 19:15, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

I think that Egyptian pantheon covers this already, although perhaps it should be moved to a more obvious title. - Icewedge (talk) 00:00, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Ancient Egypt

Wikipedia 0.7 is a collection of English Wikipedia articles due to be released on DVD, and available for free download, later this year. The Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team has made an automated selection of articles for Version 0.7.

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Dubious edit

This edit on Merneptah was made by an IP that was used a few hours earlier for vandalism of Potato. I know next to nothing about ancient Egypt, so one of you might like to check it out. Matt's talk 13:00, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

I have checked the edit and the IP's changes seem to be legit: the first change is backed up by this page which states "Sety II was likely the son of King Merenptah and Queen Isetnofret" and the second addition is true by our own article on Amenmesse. - Icewedge (talk) 23:45, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

Thank you. Matt's talk 09:05, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Paut Neteru

This article has been nominated for deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Paut Neteru. I think it could do with some input from this project as it seems to me as a non-expert that this is probably a notable subject but that the current text of the article is about a fringe interpretation. Phil Bridger (talk) 20:22, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Good Article sweeps: Mummy

Hello, as part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles/Project quality task force, I have conducted a Good Article reassessment of Mummy. I have a few concerns that should be addressed if the article is to remain listed as a GA. If anyone is able to help out, the reassessment can be found here. Thanks, GaryColemanFan (talk) 15:40, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Drawings of antique monuments in Egypt

Hello, since a long time ago, I'm working to illustrate a lot of articles in the ancient egypt project of wikipedia.fr (France). Don't hesitate to use them freely. Here's the link to my user page [1] where you can find a great part of these drawings. 195.146.225.161 (talk) 16:59, 28 November 2008 (UTC)