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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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In (2 Kings 1): "When Ahaziah fell through the lattice in his upper chamber which [was] in Samaria, and became ill, he sent messengers to inquire of the god of Ekron, whether I will recover from this sickness." Can anyone familiar with the Hebrew tell us whether the deity of Ekron is given a gender in the Hebrew text that is rendered "god"? --Wetman 00:12, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)

In the Hebrew version of the bible the name of the god is Baal-Zebub, which may be a variant of the known Canaanite god Baal Zabbul. It is refered in the text as a male god. Marom 16:57, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I removed the inaccurate reference to Akron, Ohio. Mormonchess 17:37, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ekron, Kentucky[edit]

How did the town of Ekron, Kentucky get its name?

(anonymous)

...and the city of Akron, Ohio, deleted from the article? --Wetman 01:36, 11 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I added a disambig page to deal with cities named after, or similar to Ekron Brando130 22:16, 14 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

On Eras[edit]

I have not reverted the wholesale changing of BC to BCE on the article [1], but I have removed notices on the article and talk page that seem to be made to ward off other editors from doing so. For one thing, the BC/BCE issue is not yet fully resolved, but the original creation of this article [2] used both conventions (compare 712 BCE / 603BC) and the article did not have a totally consistent convention for almost a year [3] (at which time it went to BC, where it stayed until changed, almost two and a half years later)

Additionally, there is no consensus that the original author's convention must or should be used, most editors in fact dont seem to support this. (See for example [4]) Brando130 22:24, 14 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Misinformed or disingenuous? When I created this page, 27 November 2003, I employed the BCE convention perfectly consistently throughout, as any educatecd person would have done. "BC/AD" is perfectly okay in the context of Christian subjects; it is not used in archaeology. There is in fact a Wikipedia consensus to use whatever convention has been established, on a page-by-page. I am returning the commented-out notice to the top of the page: removing it is a gross discourtesy. --Wetman 00:45, 15 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You really shouldn't phrase it like that ("perfectly consistent.. as any educated person would have done..") in light of the fact that the link you provide clearly uses both conventions (again, compare 712 BCE with 603 BC on that link) - That may be a typo, but it is not clearly established Wikipedia policy that BC be confined to Christian topics, and I have already provided a link demonstrating one example that the original author's convention is not accepted as the standard in all cases. The article's overall 'established' convention is not necessarily the unilateral convention of the original author, and btw, the gross discourtesy, in my opinion, would have been to revert the dates, which I avoided doing. Brando130 18:52, 15 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Also, the wholesale statement that BC is not used in archaeology is false. I can cite archaeological material that uses BC throughout, just with what's sitting right in front of me as an example Price, T. Douglas "Principles of Archaeology" (McGraw-Hill, 2007) Brando130 18:58, 15 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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