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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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This deleted text, while unreferenced, looks quite sensible to me. Is there a copyright violation or something?--Wetman (talk) 06:11, 23 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
No, Faience is not "more correctly defined as Egyptian faience." This article needs an opening statement of what Egyptian faience actually is, and an explanation of how the term faience has been extended to cover it. Without such a head, the article is running about like a chicken at the poultry shop. The former statement was
"Egyptian faience is an extension of the term faience. Faience describes Islamic and European tin-glazed earthenware, and has been extended to describe the ceramic faience of pre-Dynastic (cf. the Badarian and Naqada periods) and Pharaonic Egypt, Crete and sites in the Indus Valley civilization."
That seemsed sensible, did it not? --Wetman (talk) 21:17, 23 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Is Egyptian faience still made today? One can easily buy any quantity of lustrous glazed blue beads, in many shapes including scarabs, from Egyptian handcraft dealers. Are these Egyptian faience, or not?
If they are, surely it would be possible for researchers to examine the modern methods of manufacture and compare them to all their many hypotheses. Doing so might shed some light on the ancient artefacts and materials.
If not, it would be useful information for anybody trying to learn more about the antique material to know exactly:
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