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Talk:Cretan hieroglyphs

message: I'm deleting the Ancient Egyptian banner, as this article is not part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Ancient Egypt. Evertype 08:20, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The "green jasper seal with Cretan hieroglyphs. 1800 BC" needs a bit more data about it to be added.
The information attached to the photo is:
Description 	
English: ancient seal, original
Deutsch: antike Plombe, original
Date 	2010
Source 	Own work
Author 	Ingo Pini
... and nothing more.  No museum location, excavation information etc.
If it is in fact the real own work of Ingo Pini, then Ingo is to be commended not only for the workmanship of this artefact, but also for valuable contribution to the corpus of recorded human knowledge over the last 3,800 years!
But ... does "Ingo Pini" sound like a Minoan name to you?
101.117.85.4 (talk) 06:51, 27 July 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I looked him up; Ingo Pini is a real person, and he's a published scholar in this area. See :de:Ingo Pini. Y-barton (talk) 16:35, 16 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Illustration

message: '... continued in parallel for most of their history' - the Cretans or their script? Jackiespeel (talk) 10:50, 14 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Ambiguity

message: According to the article Minoan civilization, the Cretan pictographs were influenced by the Egyptian hieroglyphs, and the citation is this book: Hermann Bengtson: Griechische Geschichte, C.H. Beck, München, 2002. 9th Edition. . pp.8–15. I want to ask if the source is strong enough to incorporate this theory into the article. Γαλαδριήλ (talk) 09:18, 27 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origins 

message: If the Minoans were that influenced by Egyptian heiroglyphs, then the cat's head on the left of the seal could be a determinative.  If that is the case, then the glyphs are the name of an establishment of some sort.  Since the cat head has huge eyes, we can then assume that the name translates roughly to the Watching (or Staring) Cat.Glammazon (talk) 00:57, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Watching Cat 

message: Is there a reason the 'green jasper seal' has that horizontal orientation? It looks like it should be rotated by 90º, to put the cat's head at the bottom, the large staring eye in the middle, and the thing that looks like an axe head at the top.2001:8A0:F7FC:DC00:3095:C942:FFC2:E89D (talk) 03:59, 2 October 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Short answer, no. Or, that's what the photographer chose to do. Johnbod (talk) 15:45, 2 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Seal orientation?
Talk:Crocodilopolis

message: Any hint of a period in which it was the center of the cult of Sobek, if not of its founding?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.2.164.102 (talk) 16:58, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date 

message: I'm concerned that the final mention of the current city is pulled directly from an old encyclopaedia and is no longer accurate: "Its trade in rosewater and nitre or saltpeter, is considerable.". The economy of Egypt has changed somewhat over the last century. I could find little information about current industries and have therefore cut it out as I don't think it's essential in an article about a historical city. Comments/criticisms/complaints? If anyone can find a better source... Bobrayner (talk) 13:59, 23 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  The modern city
Talk:Color scheme

message: It seems like the information in the color wheel article about color schemes belongs here (perhaps there as well), and should be expanded at least somewhat.  --jacobolus (t) 21:17, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  merge from color wheel 

message: I removed these sections since color wheel still exists and has evolved into something much better. The articles color theory, color wheel, completmentary color and color scheme are all too related IMHO, they should be covered in one article. The terminology is not defined either. --Ysangkok (talk) 16:52, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed sections copied from color wheel
Talk:Copper (color)

message: The colour shown is not red enough -- just compare it with the image at the top of Copper! 2.25.121.79 (talk) 23:22, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrong colour 

message: An entry in List of colors: A–F contained a link to this page.
The entry is :
* Kenyan copper
I don't see any evidence that this color is discussed in this article and plan to delete it from the list per this discussion: Talk:List_of_colors#New_approach_to_review_of_entries
If someone decides that this color should have a section in this article and it is added, I would appreciate a ping.--S Philbrick(Talk) 17:48, 22 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible removal from list
Talk:Coral (color)

message: Entries in List of colors: A–F contained links to this page.
The entries are :
* Coral red
* Dark coral
I don't see any evidence that these colors are discussed in this article and plan to delete them from the list per this discussion: Talk:List_of_colors#New_approach_to_review_of_entries
If someone decides that these colors should have a section in this article and it is added, I would appreciate a ping.--S Philbrick(Talk) 19:24, 16 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible removal from list
Talk:Corn (color)

message: This isn't the same color as Michigan's "maize", is it? WizardDuck (talk) 18:26, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Don't know. I've never heard of the color 'corn' before. Thmazing (talk) 22:03, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I looked at the shades of yellow on the yellow page and I found a few shades of green e.g olive, lime, green yellow and I found a few shades of brown and orange as well.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.21.225.95 (talk) 17:50, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shades 
Talk:Cornflower blue

message: What happened to the popular culture/usage section? Why was it removed without discussion?  Dtolman (talk) 20:22, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The only thing in it was the unsourced "The color is said to be appear in all of Chuck Palahniuk's books. Possibly propagating from this vogue, the default clear-screen color in Microsoft's XNA is cornflower blue."  So I took it out.  If you have anything sourced, feel free...  Dicklyon (talk) 04:02, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

text: Actually, I see I did an earlier removal of unsupported stuff, too: this diff. Dicklyon (talk) 04:04, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

text: They do mention this color several times in the movie Fight Club (an adaptaion of Palahniuk's book)... BoD (talk) 17:06, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Popular

message: Entries in List of colors: A–F contained links to this page.
The entries are :
* Cornflower
* Dark cornflower blue
* Light cornflower blue (#93CCEA)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sphilbrick (talk • contribs) 14:54, 23 August 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Another editor pointed out that the hexcode #93CCEA is associated with the color name "Cornflower" at this site, and with "light cornflower blue" at this site. In neither case is the single word "cornflower" used alone. I hope someone can help sort out which option makes the most sense for this hexcode.--S Philbrick(Talk) 15:32, 16 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible removal from list 
Talk:Suez inscriptions of Darius the Great

message: Anyone notice the word "adam"? It means "I". Tho the scribes were writing, and inscribing, the Kings, and pharaohs, were dictating.... (ArizonaSonoran DesertMan... -Mmcannis 22:48, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Word "adam"

message: In modern persian, "adam" means "human" and in old persian "adam" also means "human". The word "I" didn't exist in Old Persian so they used "human" insted. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.80.111.190 (talk) 18:41, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  the word "adam"
Talk:David O'Connor (Egyptologist)

message: In O'Connor's oral history he gives a brief history of how the role was established (quite an interesting story involving the endowment of readers digest stock that rapidly grew in value after it was given to New York University). I do not feel this is enough evidence to add this information to the article, or create a new page though. I have searched but can't find any information on the position's creation other than O'Connor's anecdote. If someone knows of a source that backs up O'Connor's claims (found in a video here http://www.ancientegyptarchaeologyfund.com/project/oral-history-project/), or is able to find a source that backs it up then please add a section in the article about the position or post here with the link so someone else can write it. Werty268 (talk) 03:36, 29 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lila Acheson Wallace Professor 

message: Hi David
I attended a lecture of yours when I was 15. I’m now 56. But still remember you telling me who invented the umbrella. 
You inspired me to track that land 120.21.96.147 (talk) 10:26, 13 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Luxor
Talk:Chelsea (band)

message: The song "Right to Work" is not a socialist one, that's actually pretty clear from the title. I assume they could have expressed more typical left-wing views in other songs but if the whole categorization as socialist is based on that song then it should be done away with. The Secretary of Funk 05:08, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: "Right to work" was originally a socialist demand, even though it was later hijacked by the New Right.--Jack Upland 04:20, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's still an anti-union song. Here's proof: http://www.punk77.co.uk/groups/chelseainterview.htm The Secretary of Funk 06:30, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Technical education in Japan

message: I found the article confusing and poorly structured - my edits attempt to make sense of the information. If I got it wrong please correct, reading the linked articles did not particularly help. Paul foord 13:43, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Secondary, further & higher education
Talk:Decree of Canopus

message: Again, why would you claim a Stele, more preserved, than the Rosetta stone, with 2-copies, almost 100 percent each, less important than the Rosetta Stone? History is not done by consensus. If you don't know, if you aren't cognizant that this is this first implementation of Leap year, do you think ignoring it, is gonna make Julius Caesar more valid? This Stele is obviously more valid, in so many ways. (Our societies are lacking in learning, in all parts of the world, (for whatever the reasons). ..(from the ArizDeserts ...-Mmcannis 06:04, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Validity of the [[Leap year]] stela

message: Quoting mos era here:
Do not change the established era style in an article unless there are reasons specific to its content. Seek consensus on the talk page before making the change.
No attempt was made to gain this consensus before changing. The article was originally bc and not bce therefore I'm reverting it.
86.185.23.0 (talk) 20:16, 29 June 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: To be honest, the article was not only originally, but also stable with BCE. For now I'm reverting it as for WP:ERA, if you have any valid reason for changing it to BC, please list them here and look for a consensus. Khruner (talk) 21:36, 29 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Era
Talk:Drive mapping

message: Is this the best way to present the topic? FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 13:28, 26 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think so. As far as I can tell, the second viewpoint is a better description of the same thing as the first viewpoint. PhilKnight (talk) 15:09, 19 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alternative viewpoints? 

message: This article is heavily biased toward Microsoft Windows. Many Linux-based systems use drive mapping, too. Shouldn't they be represented?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.199.14.42 (talk) 02:56, 18 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Bias
Talk:Eggplant (color)

message: This should be Aubergine (colour). As it is this page just emphasises the strong US bias present in this section (and that of the fruit itself). Eggplant (color) would be white or pale green (egg-like) - like the old aubergines from which the name egg-plant was derived. Djp (talk) 07:10, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Wasn't Eggplant an original color for the Mighty Duck of Anaheim?--BigMac1212 (talk) 03:04, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mighty Ducks of Anaheim
Talk:Ecru

message: Ecru is linked from the shades of brown page but the ecru page has shades of yellow. I'm colorblind anyways. :( — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.237.94.135 (talk) 16:16, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It's both, that's why. CKyle22 (talk) 20:25, 13 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: "In many countries it is illegal to use the word 'Ecru' in a friendly game of Scrabble, citing past histories of violence and spilled eggnog following said usages."
This sentence has several problems:
* It probably shouldn't be included.
* The tone is wrong.
* There is no citation.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aughtandzero (talk • contribs) 23:21, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tone 

message: wait what? 2601:1C2:5101:2E30:0:0:0:5BCA (talk) 03:14, 28 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  ecru is stupid
Talk:Deshret

message: Are there any Egyptological sources which identify the red crown with the bee? (I realize they are both symbols of Lower Egypt...but both the American flag and the bald eagle are symbols of the U.S., yet obviously no one would consider a flag to mean "eagle" or vice-versa.) I realize this is the view of many Mormon scholars, but I am unaware of this as a mainstream interpretation.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.164.130.93 (talk) 16:50, 15 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Davy's grey

message: First, I don't think this color is notable. Second the facts appear to be incorrect. The Xona.com Color List got it from a list of Resene Paint colors. See also .  Although I have no sources to back it up it would seem more likely that the name came from the Xanadu cultivar of  Philodendron. See this site for an example. Note where the Xanadu cultivar originates and the location of the Resene paint company. Finally even through the color looks similar to Davy's grey I don't think it belongs on this page. PaleAqua (talk) 11:01, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Only the most basic color names like red, yellow, green, blue, and magenta are abstract names.  Most color names are based on physical objects.  Examples include orange (based on the orange), violet (based on the violet), Purple (originally from the secretion of a mollusk), Indigo, rose (based on the rose), and cerise (based on the cherry--cerise is the French word for cherry). Therefore it is perfectly normal and standard to base the name of a color on a physical object.  Keraunos (talk) 06:12, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Xanadu 

message: As we recently saw at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Thistle (color) and similar recent AfD's, many of these color stubs aren't notable enough to have their own articles, and should instead be redirected/merged into larger articles with lists of these colors. I propose merging this into Variations of gray#Achromatic grays.--Slon02 (talk) 21:19, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge
Talk:Vivant Denon

message: I have just corrected the description of his novel Point de demain from "pornographic" to "erotic". I am familiar with the work in question (in the original), and there is not a single pornographic element in it.
N.B. I am not familiar with the etchings mentioned in the article, but if their description - also "pornographic" - is based on the same dubious parametres as the description of the novel, then I suggest their description be checked and possibly revised, too. (A reference to a place or work where the etchings can be seen, or are discussed, would also be useful.)
***
Point de Lendemain (sic). Point well taken.
For evidence of pornographic etchings, see items 49, 50 and 51 in the catalogue of the huge Denon exhibition held in the Louvre from October 1999 to January 2000.
Item 49, a signed etching of Le Phallus Phenomenal, is illustrated in the catalogue and is one of 23 etchings by Denon published as L'OEuvre Priapique in 1793 or 1794. The originals can be studied by the curious in the Bibliotheque Nationale.
91.106.28.64 (talk) 21:30, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: is the author Denon or Dorat? see page vii of the french edition, apparently translator Sutton dissagrees. Pohick2 (talk) 00:39, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Erotic does not equal "pornographic" 

message: Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that :File:Le représentant du peuple François en fonction2.jpg will be appearing as picture of the day on April 4, 2015. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2015-04-04. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page. Thanks! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:00, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[:File:Le représentant du peuple François en fonction2.jpg]] to appear as POTD
Talk:Tel Dor

message: This is a note that a someone left for me on the Tantura page.
"Oh dear better tell the Dor page to remove their info. And it is part of the Judaism Project, well I never fancy them lying Gilabrand.Ashley kennedy3 (talk) 19:26, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Brilliant observations of a POV editor 

message: :Most often in Hebrew, the word Dor relates to time, i.e. a generation. However, in Biblical Hebrew it can also mean a "habitation" (c.f. Isaiah 38:12, Psalms 49:20). Since Dor was the name of a city, this second meaning would seem to apply better than the first.
:—Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.68.95.65 (talk) 15:33, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Dor" means "generation" in Hebrew, but can also signify a "habitation". 

message: Plenty of mention of who and when have excavated, but there is pretty much no mention of what those excavations have revealed. — al-Shimoni (talk) 20:02, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Excavations 

message: You mention Doric (as in the column) comes from Dor which is wrong! Doric comes from Dorian, a people of uncertain origin who invaded and came to inhabit a number of Greek places such as the Mycenaean domain and... Crete! It is therefore even possible that the name Dor comes from Dorian, following Minoan collonisation. It's always interesting how many people of limited scholarship try to re-interpret and re-define history from their own current (and usually narrow) national/racial/ethnoreligious perspective.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.202.55.168 (talk) 14:19, 15 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dorians 
Talk:Terakoya

message: I changed the importance on this to "low," as it is a fairly limited subject of interest, and not really relevant to Japan as a whole. MightyAtom 17:04, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

message: I'm not exactly sure what this editor wanted to say, but in case it's important and can be rewritten I'll leave it here-
:you just need to remember that it was like old japanese school. there were about 20~30 kids in each TERAKOYA.
--DrHacky 07:24, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cut from the article
Talk:Dotawo

message: I hereby suggest to delete this entry. According to recent reinterpretations, Dotawo was merely the Old Nubian name for Makuria and did not just describe some petty kingdom in Lower Nubia during the late Christian period. 
"Modern scholars have typically considered Dotawo (...) to be subordinate to the kings of Makuria ruling from Dongola (...). Dotawo would thus be a later or alternative name for Nobadia, the once independent smaller kingdom in northern Nubia. These conclusions have been based on reports by Arab historians that the kings at Dongola rulver over many lesser kings. Equally compelling are apparent contradictions between the kings from the Qasr Ibrim protocols, on the one hand, and those known from Arab historians, on the other. However, these contradictions are an illusion based on out-of-date readings of the Old Nubian documents and a misunderstanding of earlier scholarship. The kingdom of Dotawo (..) was another name for the kingdom of Makurial, the kingdom ruled from Dongola at least until it was sacked in the 1360's."
Giovanno Ruffini's: "Medieval Nubia. A social and economic history", p. 9
Roland Werner writes on page 145 in his "Das Christentum in Nubien" ("Christianity in Nubia"), that "since the 12th century at the latest, the name Dotawo refers to the united realm Makuria-Nobadia, and after the shift of the capital to Daw in winter 1365/6 the rest of Christian Nubia" 
This interpretation is also suggested by a graffito from Kordofan, which mentions a king named Siti, who was described as "king of Dotawo" in other sources, one of them discovered in a church near Dongola.(See "A King of Makuria in Kordofan" by Gregorz Ochala)
Therefore, this entry doesn't really have any purpose other than offering information that a) is dated and b) could just be added to the Makuria entry. Perhaps there can be an automatized referral to Makuria when someone is looking for Dotawo?
LeGabrie (talk) 22:23, 13 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Deletion proposal
Talk:Dra' Abu el-Naga'

message: Why does this redirect to Dra Abu el-Naga? Markh 20:53, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Drypetis

message: A portrait that is specifically of Drypetis instead of a group scene would be good in improving the article. --Asarelah (talk) 12:29, 8 October 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed but I haven't any idea if one exists. The current photo could be cropped to focus on Hephaestion & Drypetis but I'm not sure if that's in-line with Wiki policies. --Trosik (talk) 16:41, 16 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Portrait request

message: The article's title uses the spelling 'Drypetis' but most of the text uses the alternative spelling 'Drypteis' it would be best if the spelling were consistent throughout the article and the rest of Wikipedia. Other articles mostly use the 'Drypetis' spelling. If there is a reason to prefer one spelling over the other that should be clarified here before making the changes. --2601:281:8500:cc0:e8e4:b119:76e3:6da3 (talk) 23:55, 1 December 2018‎ (UTC)
:In agreement with this suggestion; changes made. --Trosik (talk) 16:26, 16 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spelling consistency
Talk:Duamutef

message: The article says "Duamutef was originally represented as a man wrapped in mummy bandages. From the New Kingdom onwards, he is shown with the head of a jackal.Duamutef (Tuamutef, Golden Dawn, Thmoomathph) In some cases his appearance is confused or exchanged with that of Qebehsenuef so he has the head of a falcon and Duamutef has the head of a jackal". I'm not sure what that means. If I understand the 'exchange' correctly, it would give Qebehsenuef (whose article describes Him as "seen as a mummy with a falcon head") the head of a jackal and Duamutef the head of a falcon. Did I read that wrong, or conclude the wrong intent? If not, it could be changed or clarified. Nlaylah (talk) 18:48, 7 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Swapping Heads Copyedit (minor)