Talk:Arthur Weigall

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WikiProject Ancient Egypt to-do list:

Needed articles.

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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The material I posted comes from the summary of 'A passion for Egypt: a biography of Arthur Weigaill' by Julie Hankey. I have her permission to quote this material and wrote the web page from which it comes - I am the author's husband. But thank you for your vigilance. Peri Hankey (I have posted the same material on the temporary subpage as suggested and will fill in some more links later)

Thanks for the clarification on where the material came from. I think the best way to proceed would be to review Wikipedia:Copyright and Wikipedia:Copyright_FAQ for tips on how the GFDL licensing works. The idea is that the content that shows up in the article may be reused elsewhere. If your release of the invormation is for Wikipedia only, it creates problems for downstream content users who won't have your permission. To get around that, you may want to consider changing your copyright of the original content to a GFDL licence on the original website. It makes it OK for people to copy the text, which seems consistent with promoting the work anyway. Nevertheless, I think you will find your answer on those two pages. Once you decide how to proceed, just post the release here (or if you are going to release the content more broadly do it at your website) and then you can remove the copyright violation notice...since there won't be any violation. :-) Tobycat 23:38, 31 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Bear in mind also the requirement that editing be allowed. It currently it isn't in line with Wikipedia biography format, which is to lead with details of the person rather than historical preamble (see, for instance, Daniel Pratt Mannix IV). Tearlach 17:47, 1 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I take your point about specifying a license on the web pages. But I also agree that the format was in any case not right for a biographical entry, so I started from scratch and wrote a new entry - comments welcome. Thanks to all Peri

Thanks likewise: very interesting character. I notice that at least one of his books is online [1]. Is it the same Arthur Weigall who wrote Madeline of the Desert [2] and The Paganism in our Christianity?

Yes to both questions - I hadn't noticed that the treasury of ancient egypt was at gutenberg - thanks. AW was an interesting character, and his letters are very direct and vivid - although his books can sometimes be a bit purple. But my mother Vronwy Hankey (also an archaeologist) always took his guide with him on trips to Egypt during the 1980s, even though in many practical details it was out of date by then. Considering that he died relatively young (53 years) he did a great deal.Peri