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We should have an article on every pyramid and every nome in Ancient Egypt. I'm sure the rest of us can think of other articles we should have.
Cleanup.
To start with, most of the general history articles badly need attention. And I'm told that at least some of the dynasty articles need work. Any other candidates?
Standardize the Chronology.
A boring task, but the benefit of doing it is that you can set the dates !(e.g., why say Khufu lived 2589-2566? As long as you keep the length of his reign correct, or cite a respected source, you can date it 2590-2567 or 2585-2563)
Stub sorting
Anyone? I consider this probably the most unimportant of tasks on Wikipedia, but if you believe it needs to be done . . .
Data sorting.
This is a project I'd like to take on some day, & could be applied to more of Wikipedia than just Ancient Egypt. Take one of the standard authorities of history or culture -- Herotodus, the Elder Pliny, the writings of Breasted or Kenneth Kitchen, & see if you can't smoothly merge quotations or information into relevant articles. Probably a good exercise for someone who owns one of those impressive texts, yet can't get access to a research library.
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I am reviewing this very old FA as part of WP:URFA/2020, an effort to determine whether old featured articles still meet the featured article criteria. The FAC nominator has not edited in over ten years, and the article doesn't appear well tended. There is uncited text, MOS:SANDWICH of images, haphazard image layout and galleries, unused sources listed in the References section, inconsistency in citation style, and unvetted text as the article has grown considerably since its promotion. Listing at WP:FARGIVEN. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 02:48, 18 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I agree that this article needs serious attention. Over the years, I've periodically cleaned out questionable material that accumulates here, but my last major effort was several years ago.
Wikiuser1314 – Page numbers (or perhaps chapter titles for certain e-books) are needed for the book sources being cited. The citations (specifically cites 198 – 208) also need to be converted to be consistent with the citation format used throughout the article. Mr rnddude (talk) 06:47, 10 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I've gone through and tried to unify citation formatting (I have excluded the DNA section as that will be getting pruned and I don't know what we will be keeping from it)
While doing this I saw that:
Many of the sources for general statements are webpages. These could probably be replaced with citations from books instead such as Ancient Egyptian Materials and Technology by Nicholson and Shaw, (I don't have this one) or similar.
Y Bleiberg (2005) needs a page number
The last two sentences of "Legacy" need a source that better supports them
@Merytat3n, there's a set of sources following Zakrzewski (2007) that don't follow alphabetical order by surname. Many of them also have enormous quotations. Are you intending to retain these sources, or not? In the former case I can sort them into the rest of the source list, but I thought it best to check first. Best, Wham2001 (talk) 15:02, 13 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
They definitely need to be cut if FA status is going to be retained. I don't know or care if there's any particular passage in the MOS about oversized notes—even if parts of the wall of text are shoved down into the notes rather than the body, it's contrary to summary style and common sense to discuss the minutiae of Egyptian genetics in an overview article like this.
I think the quotes were added for verification, because the online versions of the papers have no pages. But they could be copyvio. Hypnôs (talk) 21:45, 14 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
This is an improper use of the edit request template. The template is for proposing specific actionable changes. Access to edit the article is not granted on a request basis because that isn't how page protection works. Beyond that, and with respect, the quality of the writing in this request indicates a command of the language that is well-below the necessary standard to directly contribute to a current FA. If you have an edit you'd like to propose, you can place it within this section and have an experienced editor check over it. Before doing so note that Wikipedia prohibits original research. Any proposed change needs to be backed by a high-quality (i.e. academic) reliable source. There are other policies and guidelines that may need to be taken into consideration, but cross that bridge when you get to it. Mr rnddude (talk) 22:23, 30 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The years in subsection titles within the "History" section contradict with our own articles of these periods. For instance, our article stated that the Middle Kingdom ranges 2134–1690 BC, while various parts of our article on the Middle Kingdom stated that it ranges from "2040 to 1782 BC", or even "c. 2055 BC–c. 1650 BC". Should we at least take a look at these periods and check their accuracy? If we cannot form a consensus on when these periods occured then it might be better to remove years in subsection titles and let the subtopic articles discuss about the nuances of each estimated period in detail. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 15:06, 30 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I'm trying to rework some of the history section, but one of the obstacles is Shaw 2003 (The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt), the most frequently cited source in the article. The citations don't seem to be wrong, but their pagination is slightly off from the edition I have—e.g., the current Citation 17, about the expansion of the Protodynastic state based at Nekhen, is listed as p. 62 but is at 64–65 in my edition, while Citation 65, about Alexandrian mob violence, is listed as p. 410, but I found it on p. 418. Obviously, the article doesn't need to use the same edition that a random editor happens to have, but the Archive.org link given in the template for Shaw 2003 seems to have the same pagination as my edition, meaning the article links to an edition that doesn't actually verify the current citations. A. Parrot (talk) 16:05, 29 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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