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Did you know... that the Qurna Queen's tomb may be the only complete royal burial exported in its entirety from Egypt?
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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.
Did you know nomination
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Bruxtontalk 18:29, 24 March 2024 (UTC)reply
... that the Qurna Queen's grave may be the only complete royal burial exported in its entirety from Egypt? Source: Eiland, Murray (March–April 2012). "The fascination of life everlasting". Minerva. pp. 40–43.
ALT1: ... that the name of the Qurna Queen was likely lost due to the placement of a coffin? Source: Manley, Bill; Dodson, Aidan (2010). Life everlasting: National Museums Scotland collection of Ancient Egyptian coffins. Edinburgh: National Museums Scotland. pp. 26–27.
ISBN978-1-905267-17-0.
article is new enough, long enough and within policy. QPQ is short enough and interesting (I prefer ALT0). QPQ is done (nominator has just 10 noms, so only 1 QPQ needed). « Gonzo fan2007(talk) @ 18:58, 18 March 2024 (UTC)reply
A fact from Qurna Queen appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the Did you know column on 30 March 2024 (
check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that the Qurna Queen's tomb may be the only complete royal burial exported in its entirety from Egypt?
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to
join the project and
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Egyptological subjects on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join
the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Ancient EgyptWikipedia:WikiProject Ancient EgyptTemplate:WikiProject Ancient EgyptAncient Egypt 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.
Did you know nomination
The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as
this nomination's talk page,
the article's talk page or
Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by
Bruxtontalk 18:29, 24 March 2024 (UTC)reply
... that the Qurna Queen's grave may be the only complete royal burial exported in its entirety from Egypt? Source: Eiland, Murray (March–April 2012). "The fascination of life everlasting". Minerva. pp. 40–43.
ALT1: ... that the name of the Qurna Queen was likely lost due to the placement of a coffin? Source: Manley, Bill; Dodson, Aidan (2010). Life everlasting: National Museums Scotland collection of Ancient Egyptian coffins. Edinburgh: National Museums Scotland. pp. 26–27.
ISBN978-1-905267-17-0.
article is new enough, long enough and within policy. QPQ is short enough and interesting (I prefer ALT0). QPQ is done (nominator has just 10 noms, so only 1 QPQ needed). « Gonzo fan2007(talk) @ 18:58, 18 March 2024 (UTC)reply