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Ancient Egypt: Egyptian religion Top‑importance

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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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semi protected edit request on 15 october 2024

the sun disk link lead to the page for aten, who is a completely different god and is in no way the sun disk 139.28.196.179 (talk) 18:20, 15 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: as you have not requested a specific change in the form "Please replace XXX with YYY" or "Please add ZZZ between PPP and QQQ".
More importantly, you have not cited reliable sources to back up your request, without which no information should be added to, or changed in, any article. - Arjayay (talk) 18:48, 15 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

semi protected edit request on 16 october 2024

the sun disk link lead to the page for aten, who is a completely different god and is in no way the sun disk

my attempt to fulfill arjayay's requests: PPPZZZQQQ, reliable sources to back up my claim that aten is not ra's sun disk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aten 139.28.196.179 (talk) 14:24, 16 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I do not think that @Arjayay is disputing (or agreeing with) your statement. I think the questions are, 'Where in the page should a change be made?' and 'What should this be change to?' Where is the link that is a problem (or links if the error is widespread), and where should that link point instead? Without that info, no one can verify the problem, and no one can make the change you are requesting. Cheers, Last1in (talk) 13:25, 17 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

in that case my updated request: the text "Sun Disk" right of symbol should be a link to the page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_symbol#Solar_disk source: read the page 139.28.196.179 (talk) 14:06, 17 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done on page, but I can't do the closure of this request at the moment. Cheers, Last1in (talk) 17:26, 17 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]