Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ancient Egypt/Archive 6

message: Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory.  This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you.  B2T2 15:03, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Project directory 

message: Mark Antony is up for a featured article review. Detailed concerns may be found here. Please leave your comments and help us address and maintain this article's featured quality.  Sandy (Talk) 23:58, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This does have little to nothing to do with us. I took a look at it but can't really help you. It's far beyond "Ancient Egypt" Thanatosimii 15:38, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: If this article has nothing to do with this Project, you might want to removed your template from its talk page.  Thank you, Sandy (Talk) 19:50, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Mark Antony]] 

message: As I write I am currently in Berlin, and while here I took myself and my camera over to the Altes Museum, where Germany's world-famous collection of Egyptian antiquities -- many from the Amarna period -- currently resides. It will take me a while to upload everything that may be of interest, but here is a short list of what I have uploaded to Wikipedia Commons. The names are descriptive enough to give you a sense as to how they could be applied to articles within Wikipedia, so please feel free to apply them to relevant articles. 
- http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Hatshepsut01-AltesMuseum-Berlin.png 
- http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Hatshepsut02-AltesMuseum-Berlin.png 
- http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:BaboonDivityBearingNameOfPharaohNarmerOnBase.png 
- http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:KneelingStatueOfSobekhotepV-AltesMuseum-Berlin.png 
- http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:DisputeBetweenAManAndHisBa-Soul_Photomerge-AltesMuseum-Berlin.png 
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http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:PapyrusWestcar_photomerge-AltesMuseum-Berlin.png 
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http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:GuideToTheAfterlife-CustodianForGoddessAmun-AltesMuseum-Berlin.png 
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http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:GuideToTheAfterlife_CustodianForGoddessMut-AltesMuseum-Berlin.png 
More to come, as I process the images. If anyone has requests for anything in priority, please let me know. Other things that may be of interest include the famous "Green Head", the (small!) bust of Queen Tiy as well as her fragmentary coffin lid, reliefs depicting Amenophis III and Tutankhamen, plus many things from the Amarna period, including of course the famous head of Nefertiti. Auf weidersehen from Berlin! Captmondo 23:02, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That Thutmose III and Re-Harakhte stele will come in handy if I ever get around to somthing on Reeve's theory on atenism. I recently read his book, "Egypt's false prophet", and he takes the position that atenism is the culmination of the previous four or five kings trying to switch the patron god away from Amun to some aspect of Re, particularly Re-Harakhte. Not that that's what that has to be, but it would make a good illustration of the god nonetheless. Thanatosimii 17:51, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Glad to be of some help then. The theory you mention sounds interesting, will have to look for the title you mention. Captmondo 13:11, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Illustrative Images from the Altes Museum, Berlin 

message: Concerning the tag that goes on the top of the talk page for all the pages in our "jurisdiction," so to speak, is it possible to add another element that can be included in certain pages?
Specifically, I have discovered that the primary works for several periods are not in english, and I was wondering if there were a way to change the template to include an optional, "The best sources from this period are in xxxx, and the attention of a xxxx speaker would be helpful" or some such flag. After finishing up Thutmose III, I've had this urge to straighten out the first intermediate period, but I was told outrightly in a "suggested reading" list in the back of my Grimal that there has been a lot of recent up to date research which can straighen out this period, in French and German. I don't read german, and I read even less french. Such a flag might help attract one who can do so, or at the very least it will warn people not to collect the english sources and treat them as they are up to date and authoritative. Thanatosimii 17:46, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Its a good idea, but changing the template is not easy (I copied a pre-existing one)! We could use a separate template to flag these specific issues, and perhaps link to a foreign wikipedia ? Markh 12:42, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, I know even less about this tag editing stuff... is there a place for technical questions somewhere? I do agree that a link to a good foreign version (especially the German one, which usually has the best versions of pages we're lacking) would be helpful as well. Thanatosimii 19:36, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  The project tag. 

message: Well, the GA passed with flying colors, and accordingly since Captmondo and I now have the time to adress concerns, we're nominating it for FA. Any help from other members of the project here would be helpful, though. Thanatosimii 01:54, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ahmose I passed! So, since we now have a FA on a Pharaoh, should we make it the Selected Article (which now really can be called "Featured Article" ) for the Portal? No hard feelings against Smenkhkare, but we've finally got a FA now, and we should probably use it. By the way, what's the deal with "today's featured article" on the main main-page do we ever want to suggest that for selected FA? Thanatosimii 17:31, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  I have changed the portal FA, just using the introduction. Not sure what you mean in the second paragraph. Markh 10:36, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, I screwed up some puncuation. How does one go about getting a FA considered for "Today's featured article"? Thanatosimii 02:04, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Go to the Today's featured article/requests section of Wikipedia. Take a look at the required format, and be ready to add a short description at the bottom including the desired date (if any) for it to appear. Hope that helps! Captmondo 03:22, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

text: Congrats all around! This certainly ought to bring more exposure to this group. A minor word of warning, having gone through this previously: monitor the page that day and be ready to do lots of vandalism reverts! Cheers! Captmondo 10:04, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Um, it was going to be FA for this day, it's been changed to somthing about redshift... does anyone know why? Thanatosimii 03:33, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I just took a look at Today's featured article/December 2006 and the article summary is not listed there for today or the rest of the few remaining days for this year. Nor does it appear in the January 2007 list either. Where did you get confirmation that it was accepted onto the front page? I suspect you will need to resubmit. Captmondo 17:15, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's in the history on that page. It was changed because someone wanted the 30th's article changed to someone on their hundreth birthday or some such thing. I asked what's going to happen now, but haven't gotten a response. Thanatosimii 17:59, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, it's going to be rescheduled sometime mid-january. Thanatosimii 20:25, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ahmose I FA 

message: "Ahmose I will appear on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on December 29, 2006." Yippee! Markh 09:35, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Congrats all around! This certainly ought to bring more exposure to this group. A minor word of warning, having gone through this previously: monitor the page that day and be ready to do lots of vandalism reverts! Cheers! Captmondo 10:04, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Um, it was going to be FA for this day, it's been changed to somthing about redshift... does anyone know why? Thanatosimii 03:33, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I just took a look at Today's featured article/December 2006 and the article summary is not listed there for today or the rest of the few remaining days for this year. Nor does it appear in the January 2007 list either. Where did you get confirmation that it was accepted onto the front page? I suspect you will need to resubmit. Captmondo 17:15, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's in the history on that page. It was changed because someone wanted the 30th's article changed to someone on their hundreth birthday or some such thing. I asked what's going to happen now, but haven't gotten a response. Thanatosimii 17:59, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, it's going to be rescheduled sometime mid-january. Thanatosimii 20:25, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: December 29, 2006

message: Just in case people here were not aware of it, Rosetta Stone has been chosen as the weekly article improvement drive collaboration. Obiously, people from the Ancient Egypt project should get involved as they are probably the most competent on the subject. The article so far isn't that bad, but it's quite rudimentary and such a core topic deserves better. Cheers, Pascal.Tesson 19:31, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rosetta Stone: ACID collaboration of the week 

message: Hi, I have just put 2 articles for peer review, Valley of the Kings and Egyptian hieroglyphs. One I have worked on extensively, the other is a nice long article which has been updated bymany people. Can someone swing by these and give them a once over and leave comments, etc. Cheers in advance Markh 10:32, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Peer review 

message: Beginning cross-post.
:See Wikipedia talk:Version 1.0 Editorial Team#Stablepedia. If you wish to comment, please comment there. ★MESSEDROCKER★ 03:03, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stablepedia 

message: I'm not a member of this project, but I was looking at the Pharaoh article recently, and it looks to be in need of some serious clean-up.  Specifically this passage:
Lets make this clear to all, because in the educated community, this is an undebatable fact upon many factors including conquests, languages, history, religions, and most importantly the simple fact of time frame. The Copts ARE the modern descendants of the ancient Egyptians and ARE the living descendants of the Pharaohs. These people were converted to Christianity during the Roman period in Egypt (coptic christians). Which explains the coptic languages derivative and so forth. But important to note - Roman Period is when ancient Egyptians, the Pharaohs, converted to Christianity, specifically known today as Coptic Christian.
http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/EGYPT/PTOLEMY.HTM If you don't beleive this site, you can go to absolutely any scholarly journal, history book, or scholarly website and it will tell you the Roman Period. Be careful of websites where people just give their opinion. http://www.civilization.ca/CIVIL/EGYPT/egctimee.html You will find this: Roman Period 332 B.C. - A.D. 395, and take note that this was the period that the ancient Egyptians were converted to Christianity. The end of the Roman Empire was in A.D. 395, Egypt was controlled from Byzantium until the Arab conquest in A.D. 641
The writing there is obviously Unencyclopedic.  Maybe a project member could fix it? Thanks! MightyAtom 05:15, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pharaoh article 

message: Do we have a page about the office of Haty-a, The term for local prince, count, baron, prince-govenor, etc., and if so, what is it called? Which translation is it. If not, we really ought to have once since it's a fairly important office. But then the question is again what should it be called? There doesn't seem to be any standard translation that everyone uses, and I'm guessing the transliteration of ḥ3ty-` isn't going to go over well with the technical restrictions. Any ideas? Thanatosimii 03:36, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Stephen Quirke's Titles and Bureaux of Egypt 1850-1700 BC translates it as 'Mayor', but in the Shipwrecked Sailor it is usually 'Count'. Both of which are a bit dull!  uses 'governor'. So there doesn't seem to be a good standard translation. HAty-a (upper case 'A') seems to be a directish tranliteration, so perhaps we should use that? Markh 22:18, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Hmm... is it possible to get the transliteration symbol actually in the title, or would technical restrictions get it messsed up? I think the transliteration is supposed to be somthing like , although the two IPA symbols aren't quite accurate. Can that actually be a title under the technical restrictions? Furthermore, on a tangent, does anyone know how to make those symbols turn up right on my screen? it reads somthing like box-box-t-y-box to me right now... Thanatosimii 00:38, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  You may not have the correct font installed. I think that would be a technical restriction for using the IPA symbols, most people probably won't have them. I have a kids book on heiroglyphs somewhere that has the transliterations turned into 'words' (if you see what I mean), so that might do (we should also have TAty - vizier) Markh 10:34, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, I'll put somthing together on HAty-a for now, since I've got that as a red link in a page I'm trying to get to GA. Thanatosimii 14:48, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

text: HAty-a is nomarch according to my notes, usually also translated as governor or mayor. There is already a page for nomarch (mot a great one)...--Cliau 13:55, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Haty-a 

message: There is no also a proposed project dealing with Egypt in general at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals#Egypt. Any parties interested in working on articles related to the more current aspects of Egypt are more than welcome to indicate their interest there, so we can know whether there is sufficient interest to start such a project. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 22:57, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  New proposed Egypt project 

message: I have David Rohl watchlisted for reasons I won't bother sharing at the moment. As I was looking over my watch list, I noticed these edits from an account with a familiar name (the only edits this account have made). Anyone know if this is the David Rohl, Egyptologist? The edits made are mostly noncontroversial (date of birth, status of a book at the press), although one obviously required a  (Kitchen's comment about Rohl's theories), so I haven't bothered to revert them -- although I'd feel more comfortable if I knew these facts were true. -- llywrch 19:30, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd be very skeptical about the nature of what Kitchen actually said, and if it can't be verified, it should probably be taken out. The argument that the Conquest happened in the Middle Bronze (which is probably what he conceded as an outside possibility) is the standard argument for almost any Early Date exodus supporter, and is invariably followed by the argument that the Middle Bronze II C destruction layer is misdated and should be pulled down by a century (i.e. not during the second intermediate period). Whoever this suprisingly named editor is, I believe he's trying to twist Kitchen's comments to mean somthing that Kitchen never meant. Thanatosimii 20:21, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Which is why I added the fact template to this article. At the moment I don't see a pressing need to delete this contribution, & I'm willing to wait for this editor to add the necessary source so readers can verify just what Kitchen did say. If anything, I'm bemused by the possibility that if this editor is Rohl, he has tacitly accepted a biography of himself that one editor in the past claimed was very unfair to him! (Although I'm still puzzled why that person thought so: most of the biographical details were taken directly from Rohl's own webpage.) -- llywrch 21:55, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: If it is Rohl, I guess it's just our luck that he of all people chose to write somthing for wikipedia ;) Too bad we couldn't have gotten Redford or Grimal... heck, I'd settle for Hawass. Thanatosimii 22:12, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  An editor with a surprising name 

message: I propose we need a Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Ancient Egyptian) (paralleling Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Chinese), Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Indic)), in particular addressing transliteration issues. In particular, ȝ vs. 3 (vs. ɹ or what); ỉ vs. j, but in general just guidelines on how to name things. dab (𒁳) 16:21, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. I've had to argue that two pages be moved back to their previous names this month because we lack such a convention to point to. Some general things to include I would think would be:*Avoid greek names (i.e. no Sesostris, Amenemes, Amenophis, or Tuthmosis) but give their greek names in parentheses if common.*Use (mostly) Gardiner's transliteration system, as it is the one I have seen overwhelmingly used in scholarly journals. However, try to find a replacement for that 3 for the aleph. There doesn't seem to be a good symbol for it... I can't seem to think of any places where changes are necesarry to his system right now. *Names should be transliterated somewhere in the article on the so-named person or thing, but the common term should ideally use the common transliteration system- Aleph and Ayin become A's; i becomes I; w stays W or becomes U; all other letters become what they are transliterated into except for the augmented symbols- the four h's become h, h, kh, and kh, the funny t, d, and s become Tj, Dj, and Sh; Both s's stay S, the one that was z in the old kingdom remains a S; ... Am I forgetting any big ones?That was a bit of a ramble on, but those are some places to start from, I suppose. Of course the big rule would be to chuck any and all of these rules if the literature uses a different version overwhemingly more frequently. Thanatosimii 01:52, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I second the motion, as I also recognize the need, (though I would not be able to provide much by way of expertise). What is the process for drafting up a sample template of this type? Captmondo 02:58, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Anyone thought about this ? Can I just create the page with the notes above (and then get them cleaned up)? Markh 16:22, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Transliteration 

message: Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 20:01, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedia Day Awards 

message: You use WP:EGYPT as a shortcut to your project. However, on December 26, 2006 WikiProject Egypt started which is a project that create, improve, and maintain articles related to the nation of Egypt and create guidelines for articles about Egypt. We need to create a shortcut to our project. So, please consider creating another shortcut to your project like: WP:ANEGYPT so that we can make WP:EGYPT redirect to our project. Thank you.
--Meno25 01:57, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: WP:ANEGYPT is a little long. I wouldn't object to somthing like WP:ANEGY or somthing... or perhaps we could do a roundabout soulution and take WP:KMT? Thanatosimii 03:20, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: While I like WP:KMT, there's the potential for conflict with the Kuomintang, which uses KMT as its acronym. WP:KEMET maybe? Captmondo 03:37, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Is it really likely that there's going to be a wikiproject:kuomintang? But yes, I see potential conflict. However, there could be concievable conflict with just about anyone based on whatever we take. Still I suppose WP:KEMET works just as well. Thanatosimii 05:02, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  The shortcut for your project 

message: I've started a world history map series based on The Cassell Atlas of World History by John Haywood et al.
I would like to do a similar series for just Egypt, using the Penguin Atlas of Ancient Egypt. Does anyone have or know where I can find a high-resolution blank map of the region, preferably with the areas of western Libya, Nubia, the Levant, and Cyprus shown, that I could use as a template? Briangotts (Talk) (Contrib) 19:11, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Map series 

message: We could use a seperate page, or at least area, for putting up requests for research that other people might be able to fulfill. Some of us have more access to some books and journals than others. For instance, I can get ahold of the Journal of Near Eastern Studies, but not the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology. If we had a source collaboration page, I could request research be done by someone who did have JEA access, and someone who needed JNES research done could put up somthing and I could go look it up. Additionally, we could each list books we own so that we know who has what.
Specific example: We could use Thutmose III : A New Biography over at Thutmose III, to fill in certain gaps in artistic and domestic development. After we get information from that book, I believe only minor work is required before we peer review then and go for FA. Now, I can get that book in a month or so, but if any of you have access to that book, I could put a request up and you, if you had the time, could do some research and get the work done weeks earlier than I could. (by the way, if anyone does have access to that book, we could use help). This, I believe, would just be a simple way to get the most help to the places of most need. More potential for collaboration is better than less. Thanatosimii 21:21, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Research request area 

message: Today is the day Ahmose I is Today's Featured Article. Thus, be on guard if you have the time to keep watch, since at least one vandal has shown up already. Thanatosimii 01:40, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  One more reminder to be on guard 

message: The Jesus as myth article currently includes an almost entirely unreferenced section on Osiris and Horus. If someone knowledgeable about Egyptian mythology could check the accuracy of its statements in that area and indicate appropriate references, that would be great. EALacey 10:00, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I have left comments on that talk page. I don't think much of those arguments (I am nearly certain that they either directly or indirectly derive from the far out of date works of E. A. Wallace Budge) but given the title of the article, it is perfectly suited to cover such theories therein. However, if a scholar with the necesarry credentials cannot be produced, I would think it only fair to add a "this is not accepted in the disciplines of Egyptology and Second Temple Judaic Studies"  proviso. Thanatosimii 05:34, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request for help: Osiris and Horus 

message: I have done some editing on Amduat, Coffin Texts, and particularly Four sons of Horus becasue I found they were full of personal opinions and interpretations (which were unreferenced).  I found it difficult because I couldn't find any basis for what was being said so I tried to replace it with quotes from texts and so on.  My editing skills are a bit primitive and loading pics takes an age cos I am on dial up.  Is anyone looking at religion specifically? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Apepch7 (talk • contribs) 22:57, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Articles on religion and gods 

message: Hi, I saw this page and you guys didn't have a template so use this.
( Seong0980 07:24, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Template 

message: Hi,
In the article Amunet I found something I have questions about, but it was added by an anonym IP a long time ago and no source was mentioned. The sentence is: "she [Amunet] was said, as representing the air, to have become the lesbian consort of Iabet, the moon itself, and was depicted as such on tombs, coffins, and sarcophaguses." Now as far as I know, Iabet is the personification of the East, and she was depicted with Amentet, the personification of the West. Was Amunet identified with Amentet or was the anonymous editor mistaking one for the other because of the similar names? And was Iabet associated with the moon? (I haven't heard of female Egyptian deities associated with the moon yet.) – Alensha talk 16:10, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Goddess question 

message: This article could be featured with a bit of work, I think. I changed some info on his family background, esp. siblings, and wrote new articles (Henutmire, Nebettawy, Princess Tia.) The "Building activity and monuments" section is way too long, especially considering that all of these merit their own articles (which, in most cases, they have, but those independent articles go into less detail than this long section). The tomb of Nefertari should either have its own articles or be moved to Nefertari's article. Also, the exodus stuff should have its own article and discussed only briefly in the main article. It's long enough to have its own article, also, with all respect to religious readers, I doubt this is serious enough to be discussed in Ramesses' article in full length. – Alensha talk 16:03, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think what you have done so far has been much needed for that article. Shunting people to look at articles that provide more in-depth information elsewhere is certainly called for, especially when it comes to specific monuments and the ever-contentious "Pharaoh of the Exodus?" section. Unfortunately there's still a lot of cleaning up to be done, especially by the contributor who cited works but didn't provide page numbers -- don't expect this to get to Feature Quality status if this isn't taken care of. This particular article has also proved to be a magnet for vandals and for those with definite opinions on the subject, which has made me leery of devoting too much time to this particular article in the past, so expect a running battle trying to keep it together. I would also suggest taking a look at the German and Polish equivalents of this article, as they both became featured articles in their respective languages -- even if you can't read either language directly (I can't) there are some good ideas (and images) that you may be able to reuse in the English version. For what it is worth, I think the mummy section ought to come after or be a sub-section of the area devoted to his tomb. Finally, there are a wide range of images that could be called upon to illustrate various points on WikiMedia; see: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Ramses_II. Keep up the good work! Captmondo 16:09, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The article is clearly shaping up (or perhaps slimming down is better in this case) quite nicely, but I'm afraid the formatting could use some work still. The page is a little picture heavy, both in size and quantity of images. I'm not sure if this is against the rules for style, but perhaps it's a good idea to remove some and put a commonscat notice directly in that section linking to images of ramesseid construction.The 19th dynasty is outside of my area of specialty, but I think I can easilly put together a short section on his dates of reign as well. You also might want to consider cutting out the "Names" section. Those sections were prolific before the pharaoh infoboxes were introduced, which now renders them superfluous and removed in most articles. The only data there which is not very redundant is his names' likely pronunciations, however there's no citation for that, and thus it might be better to just cut it. It's always in the history if a citation can be produced, at which time that could also be put in the infobox. Thanatosimii 19:15, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ramesses II 

message: Hi there, I'm one of the editors involved with the influenza page. We are looking for some academic references or discussion of ancient Egyptian animal agriculture. In particular, any information on if they had pigs and waterfowl/fishfarms. If anybody has information on this, please drop a note on the [talk page]. Thank you. TimVickers 22:11, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request for expert advice 

message: See the [talk page] for the Old Kingdom article for more information. -HawkeyE 10:03, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request for a cleanup/expert advice 

message: I was recently reading an article by Aidan Dodson on the mortuary temple of Amenhotep I. I've run across his name in citations here before, so I supposed he was a reliable source, but I found that this article was hosted at , which has connections with certain... fringe authors. Is this just a case of strange bedfellows, or is Dodson on the fringe too? Thanatosimii 19:06, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it is 'strange bedfellows' see  and . Markh 08:08, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Credentials check. 

message: For the past few months, I've been stumbling over sources with relevant data on Amenhotep I. I've been piecing it together, and I am approaching FA levels of exhaustiveness. I've still got to add a little on the Ebers papyrus, Amduat, and rewrite his building projects stuff, but at least I have the sources I need for that on me. However, Exhaustiveness is not the only thing required for a FA; since most of the text is my own, it all reeks of my style a little to much, I think. So, if anyone wants to take a look at smoothing off some rough edges, it would be helfpul, since I plan on putting this up for FA soon. I have a week and a half away from school now, and since that affords me the best amount of time to respond to FA nomination comments, I do hope to be able to nominate it within that timespan. Thanatosimii 03:24, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, I really didn't expect to wait quite so long before getting around to it... but I finished all my concerns about this article, got some WP:MOS issues ironed out, and am about to nominate it for FA. Thanatosimii 22:09, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Amenhotep I 

message: Someone has moved the above article! Does anyone know how to get it back without losing all of the edit history ? Markh 14:35, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ramesses II moved 

message: Given the recent spate of vandalization from various anonymous IP sources of the Hatshepsut article, I asked for and got that page set to semi-protected status, which means that only registered or long-standing users can edit the page directly (note that this ban is only in place until mid-April -- but it may be long enough to deter some of the more persistent vandals). I know this is an issue on some other pages as well (Ramesses II comes to mind) so for those who might want to ask an Admin to protect a page, here is where to go. Captmondo 17:32, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Protecting [[Hatshepsut]] from vandalizing edits 

message: someone came through wikipedia and deleted just about every last instance of this site from the entire place. I cleaned up a lot of it, but we should be on the lookout for more that I missed. On this note, does anyone really know why that site keeps getting pogromed out? This is not the first time I remember someone going bananas over it... Thanatosimii 03:37, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I didn't like how it was added to the spamlist & ranted about that process on Wikipedia: Village pump (policy). So far the essay has been treated like a troll -- that is, ignored. Comments appreciated. -- llywrch 20:56, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

text: I agree that touregypt has useful material and should not be placed on the spamlist just because somebody does not like it. I would suggest that a person who removes a reference should replace it with an alternative. Just pulling out references is actually a destructive act, judgmental, and can leave an article in a mess. Ekem 02:34, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  If you look at the discussion, there seems to have been a lot of name calling from at least one administratorso I am rather despairing of what we can actually do. It seems that the the wikipedia community is actually no such thing. Markh 22:21, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Markh, if you mean whom I think you do, he appears to be encountering some more problems due to his brusque tone & inflexible stance on the matter; have a look at the relevant thread on WIkipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents. But I'm posting here to ask for a favor from the rest of the folks: can someone post a request for a link to this website at MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist? One request to whitelist a link to touregypt.net seems to have stalled & has been left to wither away. -- llywrch 00:24, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Done. I am more upset by the attitude of this admin, than by the blacklisting of the site. Markh 12:58, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

text: Touregypt has been added to the whitelist, and it doesn't look like it's being objected to by opponents this time, so we can theoretically restore the pages now. However, I was personally told:* Try and use other websites that could convey the same information.* The presence of ads doesn't bother most of us, but some will still feel that Tour Egypt isn't the best authority to use on Wikipedia, since they are mostly a commercial venture.*The rules on external links still aplly.Now, the consensus here seems to be that there never was a spam problem with this page at any point, however in order to be gracious winners, I suggest that restoration of the use of that domain should be done with some consideration (not necesarraly as a project, just us weighing each link personally) as to if each individual page is useful, and not done en masse. Thanatosimii 22:31, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  I agree. Although it's been a while since I've worked in this topic, I made a stab at what I think is how we should proceed with Unas -- as well as pushed this past a stub. Does it work as an example? -- 06:18, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Touregypt 

message: Dear members of WikiProject Ancient Egypt, may I ask for volunteers for keeping an eye at User:Reddis contribution in this area? I'm more than willing to assume his good faith, but nevertheless he may be taken away by his sympathy for non-standard theories. Please see e.g.
* Ancient Egyptian technology
* Dendera_Temple_complex#The_Dendera_light
Pjacobi 18:20, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Please have a look at the [[Wikipedia:Requests for comment/History and geography<article content RFC]] filed regarding Dendera_Temple_complex#The_Dendera_light. --Pjacobi 11:15, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Beware of Ancient Egypt deathrays 

message: I couldn't find anything in the main articles on Ancient Egyptian cuisine so I thought I would start working on one. Does anyone know if we have anything written on the subject?
Peter Isotalo 15:30, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ancient Egyptian cuisine 

message: I don’t know if this is the right place to put this, but there’s evidently a bug in the <hiero> tag, or maybe Mediawiki. Take a look at Ptolemy (name): The tag is in a list, and after the table is closed, a new unordered list is opened although the previous one was never closed. For the meantime, I’ve worked around it by breaking the list in two and taking <hiero> outside of the list.
Also, how can you find out more info about <hiero>-format templates? Are they just a synonym for -style ones?
—Felix the Cassowary 07:30, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bug in &lt;hiero&gt; tag 

message: Have added some new high def pictures to my wikkicommons page http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Merlin-UK if they are any use to you Merlin-UK 19:30, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photo's 

message: Oxyrhynchus has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here.
LuciferMorgan 22:13, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: We can take a look, but to my knowledge noone here has extensive knowledge on the Roman period. Thanatosimii 17:02, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Oxyrhynchus FAR 

message: I have categorized my article on the Egyptian story The Eloquent Peasant as Ancient Egypt and Ancient Egyptian Literature and am wondering how it can be included into the Ancient Egypt Wikiproject. - Zulu, King Of The Dwarf People 16:19, 28 Apr 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Eloquent Peasant 

message: * Anyone want to support page protection of Great Pyramid of Giza‎? Markh 21:09, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Great Pyramid of Giza‎ vandalism 

message: I've created an infobox for Ancient Egyptian monuments at Template:Infobox_Ancient_Egyptian_monument.  I am currently using this infobox in the Temple of Edfu article.  My thought was this could be used to tie together various historical sites.  We currently have infoboxes for Egyptian pyramids (:Template:Infobox Egyptian pyramid) and royal tombs (Template:EgyptianRoyalTombDetail), but nothing that fits temples or the general case all that well.  I tried to make this infobox flexible enough to be used in most monument articles.  Please take a look and let me know what you think. — Meersan 17:21, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ancient Egyptian monument infobox 

message: We have a well-meaning yet oddly thinking Wikipedian who is putting the articles about the various dynasties into a peculiar format. I left a note on his page about it, but I'm the first person to communicate with him in this manner -- despite the fact he's contributed to Wikipedia since 2005. Anyone else want to take a look at these reorganizations & offer their input? -- llywrch 02:25, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dynasty articles/stubs problem 

message: I've started an article on the foods and eating habits of ancient Egypt. Don't hesitate to chip in. Egyptology is not one of my strongest topics.
Peter Isotalo 01:31, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Ancient Egyptian cuisine]] (fer real) 

message: * An anonymous IP address is adding in fringe 'facts' into several articles. Djoser, Akhenaten, Thutmose III amongst them. Any ideas on how to deal with someone who doesn't appear to respond to suggestions? Markh 17:17, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  After a glance at Djoser, if he reverts you a third time (& no, it's not relevant at this point if he waits until the 26th or later), he may get a 24-hour block. Long-time Wikipedians (like me) are tired of this mindless revert-without-discussion routine. Now, if these persons were important to Velikovsky's theories, maybe inclusion of Velikovsky's opinions would be relevant (much as I tried to do with David Rohl's theories) because he is familiar to many people; this would be done by creating a section & stating that "X plays an important part in the theories of Velikovsky, & this is how." However since I haven't read Velikovsky (nor do I care to), until someone explains how these fit in -- or this anon decides to talk to the rest of us -- he can be blocked for short or longer periods of time. -- llywrch 03:15, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Immanuel Velikovsky 

message: This image appears in the article about the pseudoscience of reflexology.  It claims to be adapted from a dead web page.  The image description says:
:It is a wall painting found in the tomb of the highest official after the Pharaoh - Ankhmahor. The tomb is also known as the physicians tomb. Therefore it suggests that what the people in the painting is doing must be somewhat related to health, therefore it is suspected that they are practising the early version of reflexology.
:This wall painting is dated back to 2330 B.C.
I suspect a hoax.  It doesn't look like a wall painting; it looks like papyrus, and a recently made papyrus for that matter.  The hieroglyphs seem badly formatted, and in my cursory acquaintance with the language seem to not make much sense.  Was wondering if anyone here had any thoughts. - Smerdis of Tlön 19:36, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yup ... writing makes no sense to me... --Cliau 13:55, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: In light of these concerns and because it is currently not used by any articles I have nominated it for deletion. -Icewedge 07:51, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[:Image:Akmanthor.jpg]] - hoax? 

message: Members of this project might like to add  and  to their watchlists. There have been numerous attempts to add a fringe theory that the Hebrew word and the Egyptian god are linked. It all sounds like popular pseudo-science, but its proponents push it hard on the talk pages. I'd appreciate any help dealing with this. — Gareth Hughes 18:10, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Amen 

message: On Egyptian biliteral signs I get ı͗w, ı͗b, ... rendered as a vertical stroke in the lower half of character height, followed by a superscripted hollow upright rectangle of character height, then the Latin consonant. Copy/pasting it in an edit window gives something like a small-caps "1" followed by an invisible character followed by the Latin consonant. This is weird; I ought to have Unicode support. The 2 characters in question are rendered as a "j" here. Dysmorodrepanis 00:52, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Font display error? 

message: Wikipedia:WikiProject Egyptian Religion seems to deal almost exclusively with content which also falls within the scope of this project, with the exception of Hermetism, an article which has since been turned into a redirect. As that project seems rather inactive, I think it makes sense to merge it to this project either as a task force of this project or just remove the page entirely. Personally, I would prefer the former however. John Carter 14:11, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merger 

message: I think we are in need of some help in the Battle of Kadesh article. We have one author who is continually adding references that I consider to be copied from another website (they do not seem to understand my concerns), has added a large amount of references that are irrelevant and basically messed up the article. Can anyone help us out and look at this page? Cheers Markh 23:54, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The same user (User:Rktect) has copied more text from the  page into the Nine bows article. Markh 22:23, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Battle of Kadesh 

message: I have been looking at the main entry for the four sons of Horus and the four stub entries for Hapi, Imsety, Duamutef, and Qebehsenuef. It seems to me that the best way to handle these would be to merge the four stubs back with the main entry as there isn't much to say about each individual son. I have already raised this at Talk:Four_sons_of_Horus and have only had one response so far which was positive. I don't mind sorting this out but as it take some time to sort out any double redirects I don't want to start only to have it reverted. So what do people think about my sugestion?
Molybdomancer 21:14, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Four sons of Horus 

message: In keeping with other Wikiprojects that offer graphical icon-like "awards" to outstanding contributors, I can think offhand of three levels of awards that I think would be appropriate: 
Wiki Vulture pectoral: Used as a protective amulet, awarded to those who have made outstanding ongoing contributions to vandal-fighting relating to project pages. (Reference image: here)
Wiki "Gold of Honour": This was a collar of gold that was presented by the pharaoh to trusted officials; this would be given to those who have made outstanding contributions to the field (helping significantly with a Good Article, or long-standing quality contributions to various articles would qualify. (Reference image: here; not the best image I've seen of this, and I am sure I could come up with something suitably iconic).
Wiki "Golden Flies": These were handed out by the pharaoh to those who succeeded/excelled in battle; I think this is wholly appropriate for anyone who has worked on getting an article to Feature Article status. (Reference image: here and here). 
Given our area of interest, there's no lack of possible iconography that can be used here (perhaps a Ushabti or an Eye of Horus for vandal fighters, for example), so if anyone else has suggestions go right ahead! As long as there is a sample image I can work with and would lend itself to being "icon-ized", I'll happily tackle the job in PhotoShop. Cheers! Captmondo 02:02, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Am also thinking of a particular Ancient Egyptian variant of the ubiquitous barnstar awards. Just need some dedicated time with PhotoShop and will present some ideas here when I have something to show. Captmondo 00:15, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikiproject Ancient Egypt Award Proposals 

message: Hi folks--I'd like to request an updated assessment for Abu Mena, which has been significantly rewritten since its original assessment.  Thanks! Dppowell 00:40, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd call this start class. Give me a few minutes and I'll write a short peer review on areas to work on. Jeff Dahl (Talk • contribs) 00:50, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

text: OK, deposited the mini review at the article's talk page. Jeff Dahl (Talk • contribs) 01:21, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requesting updated assessment 

message: DYI User:Jeff Dahl has requested that the portal page Portal:Egyptology be renamed to Portal:Ancient Egypt at WP:RM? 
:- see Portal talk:Egyptology. 132.205.99.122 19:43, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  FYI : requested move : [[Portal:Egyptology]] to [[Portal:Ancient Egypt]] 

message: Hi all, there is an interesting discussion going on at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (Ancient Egyptian), which started as a rename discussion for KV62 (see talk:KV62). It would be great to have everyone's input, whether you are for or against the suggested move. Having a set of conventions would prevent a long discussion each time a name change is suggested. Markh (talk) 23:12, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: If I am the only person that finds the discussion above of any interest (KV62 would be renamed Tomb of Tutankhamun), then I'll stop arguing. Markh (talk) 19:00, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Interesting discussion on naming convention 

message: Which is it to be? The content ought to be merged but I'm not sure which title is best, or perhaps another option? Jeff Dahl (Talk • contribs) 03:24, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Someone suggested it should be Military history of Ancient Egypt becuase other ancient warfare articles are "Military history of...".  There is definitely content from Ancient egyptian warfare that can be merged to Military history of Ancient Egypt, and it could be split up better. --θnce θn this island Speak! 16:44, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Ancient egyptian warfare]] or [[Military history of Ancient Egypt]] 

message: For anybody who knows a lot about hieroglyphics, List of hieroglyphs/german-Gardiner-list-translated could use a LOT of help. --θnce θn this island Speak! 16:46, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  For anybody who knows a lot about hieroglyphics... 

message: It is my sincerest hope that this statement is not taken as being an attempt to subvert this project, take control over it, or any similar thing. However, the :Template:AfricaProject has recently had parameters put into it to allow it to provide separate assessments for all the "Africa" projects, including this one. If in the interests of reducing banner clutter the members of this project were to choose to use that banner, please let me know and I can adjust any categories accordingly to permit it. Thank you. John Carter (talk) 00:18, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I've provided an opinion here, but in a nutshell, I'm against it for tracking purposes. — Zerida 01:46, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Project banner 

message: I noticed that the religion work group no longer has separate article assessments. It would be easy enough for me to adjust the banner to permit it to have assessments which would also feed into the main Ancient Egypt assessments, if you thought there would be any purpose in doing so. John Carter (talk) 21:11, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Egyptian religion work group articles 

message: I came across an article on Heptastadion while working through the backlog. I sourced what I could from a rudimentary google search, but I imagine I'm missing a lot. I hope I wasn't out of line in adding this project banner, as I hope someone more familiar can help expand or fill in missing information. Travellingcari (talk) 17:29, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Heptastadion]] 

message: Alchemy has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here.
(old notice, archived by Jeff Dahl (Talk • contribs) 18:47, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Alchemy]] FAR Review 

message: could someone take a look at this article by a newish user.  I don't think the actual facts are hugely wrong necessarily, but then I know hardly anything about ancient Egypt. Special  Random (Merkinsmum) 00:23, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Topic is legit, but needs cleanup. I'll take a look. Jeff Dahl (Talk • contribs) 00:39, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Sekhem-Scepter]] 

message: Ancient Egypt is currently a featured article candidate. You can comment on the nomination here. Jeff Dahl (Talk • contribs) 03:00, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Ancient Egypt]] a featured article candidate 

message: Hi there, I am part of a group of editors conducting a sweep of GA articles to check whether they meet the criteria. I have just come to the royalty section and have been reviewing the articles on some pharaohs and noticed some problems which this Wikiproject might be able to help with. Basically put, Akhenaten, Hatshepsut and Ramesses II will all require additional sourcing in places to remain as GA. (I have already passed Amenhotep I while Amenhotep III and Thutmose I are, on initial review at least, good enough to remain GA). I would much rather keep these articles than delist them and there is no serious time pressure for delisting as long as someone is willing to take these issues on board in the near future. If there is interest here then I would be happy to give the project advice on how to get these articles back to GA standard, and if not I will give the articles the standard seven day review and delist if no progress is made. Please let me know if anyone is interested in participating in this.--Jackyd101 (talk) 11:57, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Sure, I can start with Ramesses II. If you want to start a section on the talk page with issues that need to be addressed, that would be helpful. I'm sure we can find volunteers to do the other two, or I can get to them if no one jumps on board, so if you can make a list on the talk pages we can take care of any issues with them. Jeff Dahl (Talk • contribs) 14:48, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd be happy to, glad to see there is interest in this, its always a shame to delist something due to disinterest. I will provide a full list of improvements on the talk pages and insert  tags where I think they are necessary. Although the templates I will leave on the talk pages have a seven day time limit I have no problem at all in giving indefinate extensions as long as work is continuing. Regards--Jackyd101 (talk) 15:31, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I thought I'd left a message here earlier, but I must have forgotten to save. I reviewed Thutmose I and was ready to pass it until I read the unsourced attribution in the final paragraph. If someone can sort this out (and it doesn't look like it would take too long), then I'd be happy to pass it.--Jackyd101 (talk) 19:38, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

text: I have decided to keep Amenhotep III as a GA, although it might be worth someone here looking over the prose, sourcing and lead just to tweak them and make them a bit better. I have also provided the first half of a review at Ramesses II. It is a big job but I will come back to it soon, although there is information there to be getting on with. I know he is not a pharoah, but Cyrus the Great apparently comes under the auspices of this project and that article needs serious attention if anyone is interested. If anyone has any questions about GA Sweeps then please get in touch. If anyone wishes to provide their own reassessments based on their superior knowledge of Ancient Egypt then please be my guest based on the instructions at WP:GAR.--Jackyd101 (talk) 18:08, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

text: I have been updating the RII article recently, what needs to bee done to keep the GA rating ? Markh (talk) 18:51, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Well at the very least you need to fill the  tags dotted through the article.--Jackyd101 (talk) 18:54, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  GA Sweeps 

message: Why was this classified as a 'Good' article? When I first looked at it a few weeks ago it was pretty bad in my opinion, with some very dubious external links and some of the body that was supposed to represent main stream thought in fact biassed against it.
It also seems unbalanced. No mention of the Caliph el Ma'mun, John Greaves, Nathaniel Davison, Howard Vyse, etc. I also think that the causeway and temples should be in the article, it wasn't built as an isolate monument but part of a complex. And of course the boats.--Doug Weller (talk) 11:45, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It is classed as a good article because it passed as such nearly two years ago, when the criteria were much less rigorous than they are today. If you leave a list of recommended improvements on the talk page then people may be able to fix it and if nothing is done then you can delist it using the instructions at WP:GAR.--Jackyd101 (talk) 13:19, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Secisek has really worked hard on this and improved it.  It still lacks a bit of the history of its exploration, but other than that it is vastly improved from what it was a few weeks ago.Doug Weller (talk) 20:36, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Great Pyramid of Giza]] 

message: How di I sign up? I can't edit the front page list, so? Thanks.Doug Weller (talk) 10:31, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Joining the Project 

message: Would anyone object to the project banner being altered a bit to include assessments for the Egyptian religion subproject? I ask this because I think that articles related to that subject have a reasonable chance of being edited by some parties, like me, who might be more specifically interested in mythology/religion than in Ancient Egypt per se, and this would allow such editors to be able to more clearly work on such content. John Carter (talk) 22:13, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible adjustments to project banner? 

message: Wouldn't this project sound a lot better if it were called WikiProject Egyptology? It would make the project sound.... much more interesting. And, as alwaysListen to your Princess, dear Wikipedians. (talk) 20:16, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It might, but it would be a very large hastle to rename everyting project related. -Icewedge (talk) 18:55, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I think we had some limited discussion of this point in various ways, for example the name of the associated portal. I think the conclusion is that Egyptology is the study of ancient Egypt, so the project would be interested in archaeological methods/digs, Egyptologists, journals, and the science of how we discover information about ancient Egypt. On the other hand, project Ancient Egypt would be focused on the substance: the biographies, histories, and culture of the society rather than the methods by which we study it. Jeff Dahl (Talk • contribs) 01:05, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Project Name 

message: Greetings from WP:CLEANUP. This article has been listed on the main Cleanup page for at least 18 months, and while it appears to have been substantially improved in the intervening time, some of the text is still a little oddly structured, and it may be that the article would benefit from expansion. However, as the article is no longer a desperate case, I will be removing it from the Cleanup page. Please consider this a polite notification that this is an article that you, as a project, may wish to devote some time to improving. Many thanks! Cricketgirl (talk) 21:42, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Ancient Egyptian burial customs]] 

message: The above stub states that this person was a king during the Sixteenth dynasty of Egypt. I can't find any sources for this. Nk.sheridan   Talk 21:52, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Zaket]] 

message: I am considering setting up an RfC for this article as it is currently (as always) under dispute as to what this article should even be about. Some comments would be appreciated, especially in  this section. Thanks! --Woland (talk) 18:05, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The RfC section is now up. Please consider weighing in. Thanks.--Woland (talk) 18:54, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Race of ancient Egyptians]] RfC 

message: It seems that the creator of this project intended there to be special WikiProject Ancient Egypt awards but the section for awards has remained "TBD" for several months so its about time we actually created one/some. How about just the classic barnstar format with an Egypt related picture, like below. -Icewedge (talk) 
		[what should the title be?]
		
How about the following, which could be given out for people who regularly "watch" ancient Egypt pages and the project watchlist and revert lots of vandalism?
		Eye of Horus Award
		
Jeff Dahl (Talk • contribs) 22:26, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I like it! If no one else objects you should institute that on the WPAE page. -Icewedge (talk) 20:45, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  What about "Gold of hono(u)r" ? See Ay's tomb for a detailed picture Markh (talk) 20:40, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I have added the Eye of Horus Award award to the project page. -IcĕwedgЁ (ťalķ) 00:01, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Project awards 

message: As you may have heard, we at the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial Team recently made some changes to the assessment scale, including the addition of a new level.  The new description is available at WP:ASSESS.
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*A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.  
Each WikiProject should already have a new C-Class category at :Category:C-Class_articles.  If your project elects not to use the new level, you can simply delete your WikiProject's C-Class category and clarify any amendments on your project's assessment/discussion pages.  The bot is already finding and listing C-Class articles. 
Please leave a message with us if you have any queries regarding the introduction of the revised scheme.  This scheme should allow the team to start producing offline selections for your project and the wider community within the next year.  Thanks for using the Wikipedia 1.0 scheme! For the 1.0 Editorial Team, §hepBot (Disable) 22:22, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme 

message: I am not a member of the WikiProject of Ancient Egypt but I have contributed a lot of information for various articles here under my Leoboudv and 24.87.131.31 IP number. I would like to make 2 suggestions to the person who assigns ratings to certain Egyptological articles here. 
* May I suggest that the articles on Ramesses IV, Osorkon II and Takelot I be promoted from B minus to 'Good'?  They are all well sourced and well written articles. I added most of the sourcing. 
* Secondly, the article on Neferneferuaten, a newly discovered female pharaoh who ruled between Akhenaten and Tutankhamun at Amarna has not been rated. She certainly exists (as Dodson & JP Allen wrotes) and is attested by a Year 3 date but her precise identity (whether she was Meritaten, Nefertiti, etc) is unknown. 
Regards, Leoboudv (talk) 22:28, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Neferneferuaten as been assessed as B class. To get an article tagged as a GA please submit them and follow the directions at WP:GAN. Thanks for your work with WP:AnEgy articles, have you considered joining up? -IcĕwedgЁ (ťalķ) 05:27, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article ratings 

message: Just a quick note to let you know that Egyptian pyramids (which is tagged as in the scope of your project) is up for GA reassessment. The concerns are listed on its talk page, and the article will be given one week for improvement. Nikki311 03:58, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Egyptian pyramids]] 

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thread_title:  Articles flagged for cleanup 

message: Hello, as part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles/Project quality task force, I am conducting the GA sweeps for Archaeology articles promoted prior to August 2007. The first article I am looking at is Valley of the Kings. I believe that it is close to meeting the GA criteria, but it is lacking a few sources. I have gone through part of the article (and will continue over the next few days) and done some copyediting and added "citation needed" tags. It would be great if editors from this project could help address these tags and/or discuss them on the article's reassessment page (located here. Best wishes, GaryColemanFan (talk) 00:16, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I have completed my review and placed the reassessment on hold for a week to allow for my concerns to be addressed. GaryColemanFan (talk) 01:30, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Good Article reassessment for [[Valley of the Kings]] 

message: Hello, as part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles/Project quality task force, I have conducted a Good Article reassessment of Great Pyramid of Giza. I have a few minor 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) 14:46, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Unfortunately, I am the only one who has addressed any of the concerns. There are a couple of minor issues (citing a small paragraph and adding a couple of sentences) remaining, so I am extending the hold because I'm really hoping not to have to delist the article. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, GaryColemanFan (talk) 14:31, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Good Article sweeps: [[Great Pyramid of Giza]] 

message: the links on the top of the project page don't work properly!
Can someone sort it out please?hannah (talk) 19:08, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Links 

message: 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)
replies: text: 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)
thread_title:  Merge? 

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thread_title:  Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Ancient Egypt 

message: 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)
replies: text: 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)

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

message: 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)
thread_title:  [[Paut Neteru]] 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Good Article sweeps: [[Mummy]] 

message: 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  where you can find a great part of these drawings. 195.146.225.161 (talk) 16:59, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Drawings of antique monuments in Egypt 

message: These now have Unicode code points. Should we not use them? -- Evertype·✆ 09:50, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Egyptological alef and ayin and yod 

message: The titularies in the Shebitku article has a picture of the cartouche that reads as what is listed for the nomen and the cartouche shown for the nomen reads as what is given as the praenomen. Someone seems to have mixed the pictures. I assume ŠʔBʔTʔKʔ is the nomen, and not ĐdKʔRʕ, but I am uncertain enough that I will abstain from correcting the article myself. 67.177.214.210 (talk) 23:04, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shebitku Titulary 

message: News piece on BBC about two tombs 'recently' discovered - Tombs discovered after 4,000 years.--Alf melmac 16:07, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Saqqara 

message: Can anyone direct me to a free image of hieroglyphics on Wikipedia or Commons of a hieroglyphics resembling modern vehicles? I need them to illustrate Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. If they aren't any already on this site, can I just upload this and say it's a public domain work because the artist has been dead for thousands of years? Alientraveller (talk) 16:10, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hieroglyphics resembling helicopters 

message: Hi folks, can you take a look at Ful medames? Am I correct in assuming that the hieroglyphs can be transcribed as follows:
p [actually: pʰ] + w [actually: u] + y + r [actually: l] + "is a logogram" + "grain" [Gardiner N33] + "plural"
The logogram marker puzzles me - what does it refer to? Otherwise, it would rather plainly translate to "fava bean seeds". Dysmorodrepanis (talk) 21:12, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Transcription help 

message: Amanitore, 2000 years old but look years younger seeks person with knowledge of html to put her name in hieroglyphics. Historic record available on other language versions. Good sense of humour. Victuallers (talk) 15:15, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nubian queen seeks html geek 

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thread_title:  Coordinators' working group 

message: Akhenaten's sculptor needs some wikilinks to his article and a native English speaker to clean up the article after me. Thanks :) – Alensha talk 23:10, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Bek (sculptor)]] 

message: Some of the incoming links to Great Pyramids, such as the one from Giza Necropolis, seem to think the term means the Pyramids at Giza. However, Great Pyramids actually redirects to Egyptian pyramids, which is a general article. Ideally someone needs to decide what we want "Great Pyramids" to mean and fix up the articles appropriately. 86.161.40.162 (talk) 02:29, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Great Pyramids 

message: Apologies for the notice, but this is being posted to every WikiProject to avoid accusations of systemic bias. Hiding T  13:22, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  WP:NOT#PLOT 

message: See question at Talk:Sneferu.--Doug Coldwell talk 19:33, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Praise of the Two Lands 

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thread_title:  GA Reassessment of [[Amenhotep III]] notice 

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thread_title:  GA Sweeps invitation 

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thread_title:  Popular pages 

message: Hi all, I would love some help at lion where there is some material which would be good to add as long as it has a reliable source. Can anyone help here to source two (well, three) sections of removed text at Talk:Lion#Hero_son_of_lioness_goddess? Casliber (talk · contribs) 03:23, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  depictions of lionesses and links to [[Sekhmet]] etc 

message: On the article about Menes it is stated "However, his name does not appear on extant pieces of the Royal Annals (Cairo Stone and Palermo Stone), which is a now-fragmentary king's list that was carved onto a stela sometime during the Fifth dynasty." This is written in the introduction. Yet on the wiki for the Palermo stone it states "The text begins by listing several thousands of years of rulers — presumed by many to be mythical — predating the rise of the god Horus, who, according to the text, conferred the kingship on Menes, the first human ruler listed. The text credits Menes with the unification of Egypt.[1] (Another name for Menes is though to be Narmer, but this could be the name of the next ruler."
Therefore, the two articles have directly contradictory information. I do not claim to know which is correct, but I would be very interested to find out, if someone with the education to provide such a response would please correct the issue.
Thank you,
Jonathan.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.222.49.76 (talk) 06:26, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is Menes on the Palarmo Stone? 

message: An anonymous editor has made a bunch of suspicious edits concerning names of Egyptian hieroglyphs. Please, can someone knowledgeable check whether they are correct? — Emil J. 14:50, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: They weren't correct. Someone changed the Egyptian symbols' phonetic values to be the same as the title of the page. Perhaps that was reasonable to someone uninformed in Egyptology, but it's incorrect. 97.127.34.184 (talk) 21:09, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Needs checking 

message: There are about 6 named Hyksos Kings.
By the text their names are given but what in that text identifies any of them as Hyksos?
Archaic.egypt (talk) 18:51, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hyksos Questions 

message: Wasn't quite certain where to post this question but would it help the project if I drew in plans/blueprints of the Pharaohs tombs and added them to finished Pharaoh pages. I can also add pages on styles of tombs and such
(I'm new to the project and a student Archaeology looking to help out a bit when I can)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cardolan (talk • contribs) 16:06, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Tomb plans would be rather tangential to the articles on the pharaohs, but in the articles on the tombs themselves (KV1, KV2, etc.) they could be quite useful. A. Parrot (talk) 16:31, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request 

message: Besides the fact that we don't normally start articles with 'the', this article was evidently created by an editor who didn't realise it duplicates material in Egyptian pyramid construction techniques. The latter doesn't seem long enough yet to warrant a content fork. I've tagged them both for merger but so far no one has commented on the talk page. Does anyone here have any suggestions as to what to do? Thanks. Dougweller (talk) 19:07, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[The Great Pyramid: Ramp Theories]] 

message: Concern about the above article has been raised at WP:Fringe theories/Noticeboard.  Apparently this article is about a (fringe?) theory that revises the dating of events in Ancient Egypt.  It seems that the proposer of this theory David Rohl is a contributer to the article, and may be pushing his theory.  May I suggest that members of this project check it out with NPOV and WP:FRINGE in mind.  Thanks. Blueboar (talk) 14:47, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Chronology (Rohl) 

message: Merge Egyptian influence in architecture and visual arts into Egyptian mythology in popular culture, discuss at Talk:Egyptian mythology in popular culture. Casliber (talk · contribs) 04:47, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  merger proposal 

message: Newbie here, in the Eye of Horus article there is a large section In arithmetic with not a footnote to be found.  Did someone make this up out of whole cloth on a lazy Saturday morning?
Trudyjh (talk) 01:33, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  No, it's true. A. Parrot (talk) 03:30, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Eye of Horus - arithmetic, where from?? 

message: What do people think of the Fictional Pharaohs section in List of pharaohs. I don't think it belongs on that list. The list is large enough as it is. I removed the section but was reverted. Garion96 (talk) 11:28, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm an inclusionist by inclination, so I would say keep it. There's also precedent in the individual pharaoh bios on WP that mention fictional takes on their lives or interpretations in the movies or TV. Captmondo (talk) 11:59, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Give it its own article. Dougweller (talk) 14:08, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. Also a good alternative. Captmondo (talk) 15:38, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Did some checking and there used to be a List of fictional Pharaohs article but it was merged/redirected. I wouldn't mind of that becomes a list again (although I see little value). At least this way it will be removed from a list which already is too long. Garion96 (talk) 17:34, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Second opinion about Fictional Pharaohs 

message: While working on a couple of Predynastic period cultures' articles I noticed that the category :Category:Pharaonic dynasty templates contains four different templates. I am wondering why can't we just use the main one —. It has a drop down menu which is excellent for usability. I understand the the three other templates highlight the corresponding period but I still don't see that as a good reason to keep them. Some editors may get confused while others may use them inappropriately. -- FayssalF - Wiki me up®  17:50, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Just use the main template everywhere and eliminate the other three. However, looking at the different templates, I decided that I liked the simple header for the "Small" dynasty template better than the one currently used on the main template. May I suggest that the main template be changed to something like this ? A. Parrot (talk) 18:27, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks A.P. I agree with you. Incidentally, I was thinking about the same yesterday. The 'Ankh' symbol seems a bit 'heavy'. Probably better wait for other people's opinions to see what they think? -- FayssalF - Wiki me up®  18:55, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  Hi - a long time ago I pointed all articles at the , so the problem is really one of orphaned templates. I have just reformatted the header of the template to be smaller, so could some check it looks OK? Cheers Markh (talk) 18:02, 31 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, I still prefer the design I linked to above, but it's an unimportant niggling thing, so I won't change it unless someone else agrees with me. The main thing is not to have too bulky a template. A. Parrot (talk) 19:22, 31 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  'Dynasty list' templates 

message: It appears to me that the Colossus of Ramesses II and the Statue of Ramesses II (Mit Rahina) are about the same statue.  I've started a discussion at Talk:Statue of Ramesses II (Mit Rahina)#Merge Colossus of Ramesses II here?. WLU (t) (c) Wikipedia's rules:simple/complex 02:02, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Colossus of Ramesses II duplication 

message: :Nominator's rationale: Redundant to :Category:Egyptian inscriptions and :Category:Ancient Egyptian literature (not a parent of this). There mnight just be a case for a rename to :Category:Ancient Egyptian texts, but I doubt it. The AE project has been notified.  Johnbod (talk) 21:32, 16 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Category deletion nom for [[:Category:Ancient Egyptian scribal works]] 

message: Hello, I have done a list of all the featured and goods articles about the Ancient Egypt of all the wikipedias on this page : meta:Egyptopedia/Translation. We can sew more quickly the articles we can translate ! Thanks for update this list. Tpt2 (talk) 20:31, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  translations 

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thread_title:  WP 1.0 bot announcement 

message: Wikipedia says that the pharaoh Merenptah was "drowned". 
What and where is the proof on this drowning being actually being true?  Lungs and brains are not in the mummy.
I think it should be said that he died, not drowned.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.153.140.156 (talk) 18:32, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I've changed it, it related to a claim that Merneptah was the (almost certainly non-existent) Exodus Pharaoh. Dougweller (talk) 18:42, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Merneptah]] 

message: is creating new AE articles and editing old ones, removing recent citation tags, adding unreferenced claims as though they are fact, etc. I'm not a specialist and don't have the time to deal with all of them (most seem not to have been reverted). Thanks. Dougweller (talk) 19:15, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not much more of a specialist than you, Doug, but while at first glance it appears that she's doing nothing more than translating articles from the Hungarian language Wikipedia to the English one, I find it odd that someone in Croatia pick the Hungarian Wikipedia instead of, say, the Croatian one. Anyway, to prevent a paranoia which might prove embarrassing, I have tagged several with the useful  &  templates. Let's see what happens. -- llywrch (talk) 22:54, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for pointing that out. That explains some of her edits, but not the removal of recent citation tags, changes in cited text so that they no longer reflect the source, changing statements that are tentative to statements that are certain, etc. It's that sort of edits more than the creation of new unsourced ones that I find particularly problematic. Dougweller (talk) 08:05, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  In my review of her edits I didn't see any material removed -- but I limited myself only to her more recent ones. Can you provide a few so I know what you are concerned about? -- llywrch (talk) 22:48, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can someone please look at the edits of this editor? 

message: I can't find any sources for a wife of Hor-Aha called Hent. Khenthap, yes, but not this alternate name (or the claim about her being his sister). I think this may have been translated from the Croation Wiki (like a few other recent creations), and either the name was a mistake made there or a local spelling variation although it's hard to figure out how that could have happened. Dougweller (talk) 20:53, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Dodson and Hilton's Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt mentions a "Khenthap" as a possible wife. Ditto Tyldesley's Chronicle of the Queens of Egypt. No "Hent" in Shaw and Nicholson's Dictionary of Ancient Egypt, nor Baker's Encyclopedia of The Egyptian Pharaohs Volume 1. I was able to find a reference to a princess "Hent-tawy" in an article on JSTOR, but she was a Late Period princess of the pharaoh Pinudjem. I think you can safely remove this article. Captmondo (talk) 02:24, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. I can't delete via Speedy as I don't think it meets the criteria, so see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hent (queen). Dougweller (talk) 07:52, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Hent (queen)]] 

message: Given the reports of a newly discovered burial chamber (see  as a sample) of what seems to be a previously unknown queen of the 6th Dynasty, we really ought to start collecting what info is out there and throwing together a new article on it. 
I've created a stub here.
I also can't help but wonder if the previous discussion on a Queen Hent may have been an early attempt at translating the name. Given the paucity of material in print, this may also prove to be a good test case of what constitutes "good" online source material. Captmondo (talk) 16:26, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Queen Behenu 

message: On the page, Hapy, The page is "Hapy", but the articles starts with "Hapi".  Also, at the very bottom, the setence reads, "The name Hapy can be spelled either Hapi or Hapi,…".  Is this correct?  As it says the name is Hapi or Hapi, but that's the same word.  Thanks, Marasama (talk) 17:58, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I believe it can be rendered either way, and the article text has confused the two spellings. I don't know enough about hieroglyphic transcription to say which would be more accurate or more common among Egyptologists. The article should at least be internally consistent in spelling, so I've changed it. Another source of confusion, though, is Hapy the Nile god versus Hapi the son of Horus. I don't know how to sort that out. A. Parrot (talk) 18:43, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I haven't actually "sorted that out", but have expanded both articles, and added citations from the main book I have in my library on the subject. Captmondo (talk) 20:49, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you, thanks, Marasama (talk) 15:49, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hapi or Hapy? 

message: Pharmacopoeia#History, makes no mention of ancient Egypt.  Ancient Egyptian medicine mentions it.  This is way before Pliny the Elder's birth at 23CE.
*I mentioned this both in Wikipedia:WikiProject Pharmacology & Wikipedia:WikiProject Ancient Egypt.
Thanks, Marasama (talk) 15:59, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Added mention of Egypt, Edwin Smith Papyrus.  Thanks, Marasama (talk) 16:04, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is this accurate? 

message: In an attempt to get a project wide consensus and WP:MOS standard I've started a discussion at Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style_(capital_letters)#Capitalis(z)ation_of_ancient - eg the correct form of "Pottery of A/ancient Egypt". Please contribute if possible.77.86.119.83 (talk) 21:39, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Capitalisation of ancient 

message: I got a copy of The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt (from 2000) from the library yesterday, and got it into my head to do as the to-do list above suggests. Despite the tedium, I went through the articles on dynasties and pharaohs and adjusted their dates to match OHAE's chronological table. In most of those cases the existing articles had no more information than the bare dates (often not even cited), so I felt comfortable replacing them. The articles on the early New Kingdom pharaohs have more detailed and well-cited chronological information that I wasn't comfortable replacing, but their dates were only a year or two off from OHAE's, so I left them alone. Problems came up when I reached the Third Intermediate Period, because for those pharaohs someone added information from the Handbook of Ancient Egyptian Chronology. The information is more recent and more detailed, so I didn't want to remove it, but it clashes with OHAE's dates. I was pretty tired by then, so I quit. (Fortunately the dates after the Third Intermediate Period seem to be firmly dated.)
So, I mostly standardized the dates for periods, dynasties, and pharaohs before the Third Intermediate Period, as well as the major pyramids. I didn't work on the articles for individual centuries and decades, or look at most of the other ancient Egypt articles to see if their dates were inconsistent, because I was worn out. I'm not sure that my big effort has improved things that much. Until historical articles get thorough individual attention (as the early NK pharaohs did), or some crazy person decides to deal with all the Egyptian chronological issues using the most recent sources, I think the inconsistency problems are going to persist. I'm going back to my snail's-pace religion work. A. Parrot (talk) 01:54, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Salutations and kudos for doing this work, I'm not surprised you are tired!  In the best possible of worlds I think consistency would be more important that pin point accuracy (given some dates will be disputed) but what is important to most people (I think) is what cam before what and how long for.  Its unlikely on here, I would have thought, that we will get agreement on one dating system but the more consistent the dates are the better.  Apepch7 (talk) 14:45, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. This has been niggling me for some time. Many thanks. Dougweller (talk) 05:09, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: In this context, this week's carbon dating results (Science 328. no. 5985, pp. 1554 - 1557) are presumably relevant, they seem farily well accepted and tend to go for the earlier end of accepted chronologies. Not my field, but I thought it worth drawing to your attention. Le Deluge (talk) 14:45, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chronology 

message: HEY UM I KNOW ON THIS PAGE YOUR SUPPOSED TO KNOW STUFF BUT I WAS WONDERING IF ANY OF YOU COULD HELP WITH SOME MAJOR RESHERCH ON THE GODESS ISIS. I ABOUSLTLY ADORE HER BUT KNOW NOTHING ABOUT HER SO IF YOU WOULD REPLE THAT WOULD BE A LOT OF HELP THANKS!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.35.171.114 (talk) 18:32, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi! What do you need? Akirn (talk) 09:00, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The original poster might want to read WP:HOMEWORK - this project is about making Wikipedia articles better, not helping individual "with some major resherch". Reading the Isis article might go a long way to helping "know something about her"??? Le Deluge (talk) 14:06, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I wouldn't trust our Egyptian deity articles, as I've found awful errors in them before. I suggested some books for that person to consult, but did no more than that. Let him/her do his/her own research. A. Parrot (talk) 02:32, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  DEAR ISIS 

message: Yesterday I was lucky enough to attend the Backstage Pass event at the British Museum. It was part of a wider project of engagement with Wikipedia (see WP:GLAM/BM) that has seen them take on a temporary Wikipedian In Residence, User:Witty lama. They see Wikipedia as sharing many of their aims, and they want to encourage involvement by Wikipedians with the museum, and vice versa. They have even offered 5 prizes of £100 at the BM shop for featured articles on BM topics - in any language, Arabic included. The Rosetta Stone would be an obvious one for this Project, an article that is already in reasonable shape.
Most Wikipedians probably don't know that the BM has curators dedicated to answering phone/email questions about their specialist areas, and most of their department libraries welcome visitors doing bona fide research - and they now seem to recognise that editing Wikipedia articles, especially about items in the BM's collections, counts for those purposes. I know that the first question most people will have is "Can we have images of all their stuff?" and I'd just ask people to be patient on that front. Let's just say that the museum are well aware of our hopes there, there are staff who see advantages to the museum in doing something, and it's being discussed at the highest level. On the other hand it's a very complex area that needs to be handled diplomatically. Literally in some cases - foreign governments can get very touchy about the dissemination of images of artifacts relating to their cultural history, and the museum needs to respect those concerns. 
So for the moment the focus is on using the BM's huge resources of books, expertise etc to improve article content, and hopefully that will include articles being peer-reviewed by BM staff. Some of them are quite nervous about doing stuff on Wikipedia, a mixture of fear of professional ridicule, nervousness about the technical aspects, stories of rapid reverts of good-faith edits and just general culture shock - it's a very different world to the one they come from. So I'd ask everyone to look after any BM people that you see around the place, Wikipedia can gain a lot from their involvement and it would be a shame if they're discouraged for any reason.
As I mentioned above, WP:GLAM/BM is the clearing house for the BM's involvement with Wikipedia, and I suggest that further questions/comments are directed there. Le Deluge (talk) 14:08, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  The British Museum wants to give you money and help you write articles! 

message: If you look at the table of ancient Egypt articles by quality and importance, you'll notice that there are no B-class articles listed. Instead, it seems that all our B-class articles show up as C-class. Sometime in the past few months, Template:WikiProject Ancient Egypt started registering articles as C-class when their quality rating is entered as B. Even on the discussion pages, the template indicates these articles are C; only if you look at the edit window can you see the original B entry. Has something gone wrong with the template syntax? A. Parrot (talk) 17:32, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm just passing by, I don't "live" here - but I can point you in the right direction.  It sounds like somewhere along the line it's started behaving like the WPMILHIST banner, where an article is only allowed to count as a B if all the B-class checklist items are completed.  The eg  banner is slightly more user-friendly in making this obvious. You need to work out how you're going to treat B class - personally I think the full B-class checklist goes a bit over the top, it makes B class into more of an unreviewed WP:GA, but once you've worked that out you might want to ask over at Template talk:WPBannerMeta for help on the nuts and bolts of changing things. If you edit Talk:Peloponnesian War you'll see a B-class checklist in action. Off-topic, but I'll just remind people that the British Museum action is still going strong over at WP:GLAM/BM. Le Deluge (talk) 14:00, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Malfunctioning quality-rating template 

message: I could use some help on this. An editor has added about a dozen citation needed templates recently, and has also added what I consider far too much on possible biblical/Exodus links. I agree it needs more citations (although I also think the number was over the top and the editor could have done more of the work). He also insists that the article call Breasted the 'Dean of American Egyptologists' which I think is not relevant or even correct as it looks as though he still is. Thanks. Dougweller (talk) 16:14, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Ipuwer Papyrus]] 

message: I've done some editing of these two articles recently, and as I'm not an expert in the subject someone who is might like to take a look - especially, to see if the Disputed tags can be removed. PiCo (talk) 02:14, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Avaris]] and [[Pi-Ramesses]] 

message: Just so people know, I have access to JSTOR for the next nine months or so. If anyone needs a journal article for Wikipedia work (especially Egypt-related, of course), ask on my talk page. JSTOR's main Egypt-related journals are the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, the Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, the Journal of Near Eastern Studies, and Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur. A. Parrot (talk) 05:05, 14 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: My local library system supports access online to JSTOR, so I am on this as well. A terrific resource, especially for primary source content, and it is constantly being added to. Captmondo (talk) 01:48, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  JSTOR access 

message: As I was doing some work on Middle Kingdom of Egypt, I noticed that most of our top-level periods have an importance of "mid," which I thought odd. I'd like to change Predynastic, Early Dynastic, Old Kingdom, First Intermediate, Middle Kingdom, Second Intermediate, New Kingdom, Third Intermediate, and Late Period all to Top importance, since they are the major divisions that Egyptology divide all Egyptian history into, after all. Any objections?
Oh, and speaking of top level articles, congratulations are in order for the editors who brought Rosetta Stone up to FA. Thanatosimii (talk) 17:48, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: One problem is that the Top importance rating on our scale is defined by a "high probability that non-Egyptologists would look this up". That means that some articles whose subjects are extremely important to actual understanding of Egypt, but not very well-known among laymen, might not get a Top rating. Unless we want to change that criterion, I'm not sure that all of those periods should be rated Top; laymen are generally less interested in historical eras than a few well-known individuals (Ramesses, Cleopatra, Hatshepsut, Tut). Still, I think that at least the three kingdoms can safely be rated Top. The other periods you listed might only warrant High status as long as popular interest affects the Top rating. A. Parrot (talk) 19:11, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with A. Parrot on this. (And thanks for the kudos on the Rosetta Stone article). I also note that the Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, New Kingdom and the Protodynastic Period of Egypt all currently rank on the expanded vital articles list which further supports A. Parrot's point (though am not sure that I would include the final listed period with the others). Captmondo (talk) 01:44, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: So top for Old, Middle, and New, and high for the others? Thanatosimii (talk) 02:05, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry nobody answered you, but that did seem to be the consensus when we left off… so I went ahead and changed the ratings myself. A. Parrot (talk) 07:12, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Importance Ratings 

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replies: text: The link doesn't work. The last time I looked at AE articles there, I found quite a bit of nonsense in some. Dougweller (talk) 13:09, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Might want to try again -- sometimes the toolservers are down, presumably when fixes/updates are being made. I can access them without any problem at the moment. Captmondo (talk) 14:22, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, working for me now too. Dougweller (talk) 14:48, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ancient Egypt articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release 

message: An IP has added a claim that he was a 'black African', by which the IP seems to mean Nubian (he's editing various articles from this pov. A quick search didn't turn up any sources stating he was Nubian although he obviously campaigned in Nubia (and according to his article had 5 Nubian wives). Anyone know more about this? Thanks. Dougweller (talk) 13:06, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Safe to say that it is not a verifiable claim, at least not from reputable sources. Not saying that the idea isn't without possible merit, but whenever I have seen this sort of thing it invariably is someone pushing their own unsubstantiated POV. The case is clear-cut for the Nubian pharaohs of the late period, which is well-attested, but that is not the case here. Captmondo (talk) 14:21, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Mentuhotep II]] 

message: The current archive page, number 6, has gotten enormous. If we started a new archive, would MiszaBot II adapt to that, or would we have to adjust it somehow? I know nothing about bots. A. Parrot (talk) 17:22, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Archiving 

message: Any chance of some input by someone else at Talk:Egyptian pyramid construction techniques? Thanks. Dougweller (talk) 13:42, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Just responded there. Not an article I had on my watchlist, so thanks for mentioning it here. Hopefully my suggestion will help. Guess we will see. ;-) Captmondo (talk) 16:27, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Help needed 

message: I noticed the addition of the Category:1st-century BC African rulers. Isn't that a bit of overkill? The pages used to categorized as Category:1st-century BC rulers. I don't see it as a really big deal, but I thought it might be worth looking at. --AnnekeBart (talk) 17:14, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Over-categorization? 

message: This article was created a few months ago, but I've nominated it for deletion because I don't believe its sources are reliable and have seen no corroboration of the article's content from other sources. If anyone has input on the subject, the deletion discussion is here. A. Parrot (talk) 20:27, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Kapi (Egyptian God)]] up for deletion 

message: I have created a new template at :Template:Infobox hieroglyphs based on its German wiki equivalent which enables article titles to be displayed in hieroglyphs and other scripts as desired. In addition there is a temporary one at :Template:Infobox Hieroglyphen to facilitate the copying of existing infoboxes from German Wikipedia with minimum knowledge of German and display them in English Wikipedia. Please check out the infoboxes; if they are felt useful I am happy to fine tune them. --Bermicourt (talk) 18:25, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  That looks very nice! Using this in the articles will take some time. It will be quite a job to incorporate this? But I must admit that I always liked how that looked on the German wiki. --AnnekeBart (talk) 09:45, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: It will also probably need Egyptology experts (not me!) to test and tidy it up. A quick way to enhance articles is to copy and paste the German infobox directly. The temporary template should make this usable, but that also needs testing to ensure it works properly. It did for Aperanat, Imhotep, Khamsin and Nubia. --Bermicourt (talk) 11:12, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

text: I'm only a translator and am not familiar with the various "hiero" codes that generate the pictures. I have played with the template using your names, and can get a display in the pharaoh infobox, but not one that corresponds exactly. But that's probably my ignorance of the subject. I notice that German wiki also has a separate pharaoh infobox. --Bermicourt (talk) 19:13, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  I used the :Template:Infobox hieroglyphs in the Ankhesenamun and Meketaten articles. I did take the liberty to scale the image to a width of 200px. Hope that's ok. --AnnekeBart (talk) 18:19, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Cool! Looks okay to me. --Bermicourt (talk) 19:08, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  New hieroglyph template 

message: I am just doing some work on Book of the Dead and wondered if there was any way of representing hieroglyphic text in Wiki markup - short of trying to draw them out in some software package and upload an image.... The Land (talk) 21:33, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I have found the hiero syntax but don't understand it very well! Is there anyone who can help? The Land (talk) 21:45, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Scratch that as well. If someone with a reasonable knowledge of Middle Egyptian could have a look at Book of the Dead an check whether what I've written means anything like "utterances of coming forth by day" it would be much appreciated... The Land (talk) 22:01, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Isn't the "sun" symbol at the end of the phrase being used as a determinative for "day"? If so, shouldn't it go without the stroke that means it's a logogram? I noticed that error even though I'm no expert on Middle Egyptian. I tend to think that non-experts shouldn't try to write Egyptian phrases unless they have a reliable source that says exactly how that phrase was "spelled" in Egyptian. Maybe you should leave out the hieroglyphs until you know for certain what they were. (On the bright side, though, I can't think of a more harmless factual error to make on Wikipedia than to mis-write a phrase in a dead language that hardly anyone understands!) A. Parrot (talk) 23:59, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I do have a reliable source, which spells out the hierogylphs... or I wouldn't be trying... Allen "Middle Egyptian" definitely renders it with a stroke below the sun! The Land (talk) 23:20, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Hm. I stand corrected. A. Parrot (talk) 07:07, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rendering hieroglyphs 

message: Do we really not have an article that covers this? If we don't, this needs work. Thanks. Dougweller (talk) 18:37, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Judaism and ancient Egyptian religion]] 

message: I thought it ridiculous that this project, which has all kinds of articles on obscure pharaohs and extremely minor gods, didn't have an article on Egyptian temples. So I set about creating one: Egyptian temple. There is more I want to do with it, especially in creating a section on the significance of temples from their abandonment up to modern times. I haven't been able to do that yet, partly because one of the sources I want still hasn't come in at the library and partly because I haven't found any sources for a basic, well-known fact: that tourism is a key part of the Egyptian economy and ancient temples are a key part of the tourist industry. I appreciate any suggestions other project members may have for improving the article, but I would especially appreciate a suggestion about a reliable source to support that fact.
Also, I'd like it if someone else would go on the Egyptian temple talk page and rate the article's importance, both to the Ancient Egypt project as a whole and to the Religion work group. For reasons that the article should make clear, I believe that temples deserve a "top" rating in both cases, but I want to recuse myself from rating my own article's importance.
And one last thing—should it be "Egyptian temple" or "Ancient Egyptian temple"? A. Parrot (talk) 04:19, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Egyptian temple article 

message: To assist a reader get a better idea of who each of the people included on the  List of Ancient Egyptians are (particularly given all the similar names and complex naming issues), I have added brief descriptions for each of the individuals on the list. I have tried to include the relevant dynasty in place at the time each indivdual lived and I have also provided a approximate date that each individual lived (sometimes to the nearest century is the most appropriate). All the information in the summaries (including dynasty and dates) is based on the Wikipedia articles. I would appreciate any comments or suggestions (including any errors or omissions) about my changes. Also, I would be interested in any comments on the concept of providing summaries of all the people on a biographical list such as this one on Ancient Egyptians. Thanks --Chewings72 (talk) 11:34, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I personally like the idea a lot. In some cases it can really help an interested reader find the correct individual. It looks good, but I have not had time to look over all the entries :-). Quite an undertaking! --AnnekeBart (talk) 19:02, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: AnnekeBart -- Thank you for the feedback.  :)  Given your strong interest and numerous contributions to Wikipedia ancient Egyptian biographical articles, when you have the time, any thoughts or suggestions you would like to make to improve the list would be appreciated. --Chewings72 (talk) 00:58, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text:  You're welcome. I made a comment on the talkpage. I was just wondering if a table format would make entering the information a bit easier. It's just a thought. I gave a short example on the talk page of what I was picturing when I think of a table in this case. I was thinking that a quick visual of what the person's main title/position was and the dynasty they lived in (as well as the dates you provided) might be useful. --AnnekeBart (talk) 14:10, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

text: Yes, putting the information in a tabular format does look much neater and easier to read compared to what I have done. The main reason I did not do that from the start was that I was worried that the table might look uneven where a "note" on a particular person was quite lengthy. Nevertheless, I think you are correct to suggest a table. When I get the time I will look at revising the list into a table format. By the way, I note you added Euclid into the list. I was wondering whether I should include in a list of Ancient Egyptians individuals who were of Greek origin/birth but who lived or worked in Ptolemaic Egypt for some, most or all of their lives.--Chewings72 (talk) 06:53, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text:  I was not sure about Euclid, but then I noticed Demetrius the Fair in the list. I added Euclid because even though he is not Egyptian by birth, he is very much associated with the Library in Alexandria and Ptolemy I. I figured I would add him and if others object, then that would be fine :-) Glad you like the table idea btw. I will see if I can help with that over the weekend. --AnnekeBart (talk) 13:47, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Provision of brief descriptions for each individual on the [[List of Ancient Egyptians]] Wikipedia page 

message: Please see this discussion here. Yazan (talk) 19:05, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ancient Near East archaeological sites reorganization (Suggestion)