Talk:List of necropoleis

message: The article states that the term is primarily used to refer to ancient burial sites, rather than to contemporary sites; well and good.
In the list of necropolises by nation, however, the largest entry is that of Australia! Which lists contemporary cemeteries!
If the list is to include contemporary cemeteries, there are some notablly absent countries - for an example, the United States - which have urban cemeteries that are centuries older than anything to be found in Australia. 
The Aussie entries seem anomalous compared to the ancient sites listed under the other nations of the list. As far as I can tell, no other entry is listing active modern cemeteries. Moreover, there is a seperate article, cemetery, as well as a List of cemeteries that includes these cemeteries.
It seems that large cemeteries are called necropolises in Australia today, and this is likely the source of these anomalous entries. But the fact that Australians may call their cemeteries necropolises doesn't mean that they should be in this list - it's clearly intended as a list of ancient sites, not of contemporary sites.
These entries should be removed. nitus  1:22am, Oct 17, 2006 (MT)
:You're right, and I'm going to go ahead and remove them. Someone will probably revert it, but what the hey. This article is clearly not intended to be about modern cemeteries. 75.153.202.25 15:53, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It seems that some of the UK necropolises listed here may also be too modern to really belong here, but I don't want to go hog wild. 75.153.202.25 15:58, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

text: I agree, these should be removed and I will help out with this if more work is required. To the anonymous user who replied above me, I don't think it's likely others will simply revert it now that we have reached consensus on the talk page here. --AlexanderVanLoon (talk) 16:01, 9 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Mention of modern cemeteries in this article

message: Tuhovishta's Village Necropolis (Satovcha). Where exactly is this in terms of longitude/latitude? Thanks --98.232.182.66 (talk) 05:54, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Bulgaria site?

message: I was wonderingif anyone could clarify the definitions of necropolis' with regards to tumuli.  Apparently barrows belong in the category of grave fields - the equivelant to necropolis but without above ground markers.  It would seem to me that barrows are fairly obvious above ground grave markers though.  Can anyone clarify this?  Cheers Psychostevouk (talk) 21:07, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Read the article necropolis I just created. There the Etruscan necropolis of Banditaccia is discussed, which includes tumuli covering subterranean tombs. So yes, if you ask me tumuli definitely qualify as structures above the ground. --AlexanderVanLoon (talk) 16:01, 9 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Barrows 

message: What on earth is the relevance of the Fengdu hotel picture?
Agricmarketing (talk)  —Preceding undated comment was added at 14:35, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fengdu 

message: RE: The word comes from the Greek νεκρόπολις - nekropolis, literally meaning "city of the dead"
Nekropolis literally means "death city". Would it be more accurate to say "city of the dead" is a transliteration of the greek word?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gorba (talk • contribs) 17:31, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Translation

message: I was annoyed by the fact that "necropolis" redirected to this article, unlike all the other versions of Wikipedia in different languages which have a separate article for "necropolis". So I went ahead and wrote a full article at the page necropolis, removing the redirect to this page. Some of the pages which still link to this page probably need to have their links adjusted to the new page. --AlexanderVanLoon (talk) 16:01, 9 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: New article

message: I think we have to agree on a criterium for notability of the necropoleis we include in this list. Mine is that the necropoleis must have its own article, as a rule of thumb that makes it notable. On the other hand we don't have an article yet for the Banditaccia necropolis near Cerveteri even though it's very notable, so this doesn't always work.
On the other hand, Stara Novalja which is currently included in the list under Croatia doesn't have any indication of notability: the article just mentions a necropolis is in the proximity of the village. That's not the way to go, because then we might just as well mention every ancient provincial backwater with a necropolis such as Idebessos and Kitanaura. And that would make the list way too long.--AlexanderVanLoon (talk) 20:03, 9 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notability of necropoleis to be included in the list 

message: I think the images used here, especially the two very wide images, disrupt the article. Many other "list of" articles don't have images either, images of necropoleis in general are already supplied in the article necropolis and are used in the wikilinked articles here themselves. I suggest we remove all images here, do others agree with me? --AlexanderVanLoon (talk) 21:17, 9 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposal to remove images from this article 

message: I've been thinking, wouldn't it be a better idea to remove this article altogether and make a subcategory in :Category:Cemeteries instead? After all, this article doesn't do more than present a list of articles. I wonder what Wikipedia's policy on this matter is? And what do others think? --AlexanderVanLoon (talk) 20:48, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Remove this article altogether and make a category instead?