Template talk:Grenfell and Hunt

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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.

Usefulness of the template[edit]

Just in case anyone is wondering what this is here for. These two gentlemen discovered hundreds of almost 2,000 year old documents in Egypt a little more than 100 years ago. Several of these documents are fascinating and are being written up as articles. Rather than having links to the portraits on every page, this seemed a neat way of tailoring a mini gallery suited to probably a couple of dozen pages. Watch this space! ;)

Let me know if there's anything out of place with doing this. Cheers, alastair. Alastair Haines 19:58, 11 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]