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Edited information that is unsubstantial and could mislead children studying Egypt forever, you should not put up one idea that is completely unfounded to be true as of today and not put them all up. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.18.81.243 ( talk) 00:56, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: moved as proposed by nominator. (Pages moved by Anarchyte.) I'm closing my own request because Anarchyte already moved it as proposed, but after moving the page, left the move request open with a vote of a different opinion (which leaves this active move request malformed since the page has already been moved.) If the title needs to be moved again, at this point, that can probably be best accomplished with a new move request. Steel1943 ( talk) 15:45, 18 June 2016 (UTC)
– Since "was" is a very commonly used word in English, I fail to see how the current situation is not a WP:SURPRISE. Steel1943 ( talk) 19:03, 11 June 2016 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: moved. Although was a suggestion of using "staff", there is a clear consensus in favour of "sceptre". The hyphenation (or lack thereof) was largely undiscussed expect to say it was difficult to know which is more common, so we'll go with the nom on this. No prejudice against a new RM on that issue. Jenks24 ( talk) 08:14, 27 June 2016 (UTC)
Was (sceptre) →
Was-sceptre – All sources I have reviewed, including both used for the article, and including the article text itself, refer to the subject either with a two-word name "was sceptre" or more often hyphenated "was-sceptre". This title is superior both in terms of
WP:NAMINGCRITERIA Recognizability and Naturalness, and is natural disambiguation (parenthetical disambiguation should be avoided).
SmokeyJoe (
talk) 01:44, 19 June 2016 (UTC)
Editor TheLateDentarthurdent, with these edits suggests that the Egyptian spelling of was uses a numeral '3' in place of an aleph (ꜣ). Editor points to Allen in support of this claim. Note the search term: 'w3s' and compare that with the actual text in Allen where the character used is clearly not the Latin numeral '3'. The search discrepancy is likely due to the limitations of OCR scanning of the original book. Repeating the search with an aleph in place of the '3' fails.
Similarly, Editor TheLateDentarthurdent changes the parenthetical: '(called waset in Egyptian)' to '(called w3st in Egyptian)' again with the numeral '3' in place of the aleph. Except for styling and punctuation, that parenthetical was word-for-word the same as the source cited before these changes were made. Allen does support the wꜣst spelling with an aleph but not with the numeral '3'; see page 516.
Really? A numeral '3' character in place of an alef character?
— Trappist the monk ( talk) 17:44, 16 March 2017 (UTC)
I'm wondering if there has been speculation that 'was' scepter was actually a useful implement too. I can think of a few off the top of my head. ˥ Ǝ Ʉ H Ɔ I Ɯ ( talk) 01:27, 11 November 2018 (UTC)
The article's opening calls it a symbol, which is misleading and makes it sound as if the physical items don't exist, but a cursory search online reveals several physical was scepters have been found in tombs etc.
47.50.104.82 ( talk) 02:25, 21 August 2022 (UTC)
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Edited information that is unsubstantial and could mislead children studying Egypt forever, you should not put up one idea that is completely unfounded to be true as of today and not put them all up. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.18.81.243 ( talk) 00:56, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: moved as proposed by nominator. (Pages moved by Anarchyte.) I'm closing my own request because Anarchyte already moved it as proposed, but after moving the page, left the move request open with a vote of a different opinion (which leaves this active move request malformed since the page has already been moved.) If the title needs to be moved again, at this point, that can probably be best accomplished with a new move request. Steel1943 ( talk) 15:45, 18 June 2016 (UTC)
– Since "was" is a very commonly used word in English, I fail to see how the current situation is not a WP:SURPRISE. Steel1943 ( talk) 19:03, 11 June 2016 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: moved. Although was a suggestion of using "staff", there is a clear consensus in favour of "sceptre". The hyphenation (or lack thereof) was largely undiscussed expect to say it was difficult to know which is more common, so we'll go with the nom on this. No prejudice against a new RM on that issue. Jenks24 ( talk) 08:14, 27 June 2016 (UTC)
Was (sceptre) →
Was-sceptre – All sources I have reviewed, including both used for the article, and including the article text itself, refer to the subject either with a two-word name "was sceptre" or more often hyphenated "was-sceptre". This title is superior both in terms of
WP:NAMINGCRITERIA Recognizability and Naturalness, and is natural disambiguation (parenthetical disambiguation should be avoided).
SmokeyJoe (
talk) 01:44, 19 June 2016 (UTC)
Editor TheLateDentarthurdent, with these edits suggests that the Egyptian spelling of was uses a numeral '3' in place of an aleph (ꜣ). Editor points to Allen in support of this claim. Note the search term: 'w3s' and compare that with the actual text in Allen where the character used is clearly not the Latin numeral '3'. The search discrepancy is likely due to the limitations of OCR scanning of the original book. Repeating the search with an aleph in place of the '3' fails.
Similarly, Editor TheLateDentarthurdent changes the parenthetical: '(called waset in Egyptian)' to '(called w3st in Egyptian)' again with the numeral '3' in place of the aleph. Except for styling and punctuation, that parenthetical was word-for-word the same as the source cited before these changes were made. Allen does support the wꜣst spelling with an aleph but not with the numeral '3'; see page 516.
Really? A numeral '3' character in place of an alef character?
— Trappist the monk ( talk) 17:44, 16 March 2017 (UTC)
I'm wondering if there has been speculation that 'was' scepter was actually a useful implement too. I can think of a few off the top of my head. ˥ Ǝ Ʉ H Ɔ I Ɯ ( talk) 01:27, 11 November 2018 (UTC)
The article's opening calls it a symbol, which is misleading and makes it sound as if the physical items don't exist, but a cursory search online reveals several physical was scepters have been found in tombs etc.
47.50.104.82 ( talk) 02:25, 21 August 2022 (UTC)