Talk:Index of Egyptian mythology articles

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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.

Category not list

I think this list would be better, and more complete, as a category.

Are there any objections to this? -- —Preceding unsigned comment added by [[User:{{{1}}}|{{{1}}}]] ([[User talk:{{{1}}}|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/{{{1}}}|contribs]])

A. Parrot and I were discussing this when I tried to make a template organizing the gods in a manner other than alphabetically, since I found that confusing and unrepresentative of the cosmology. Parrot raises the excellent point that the Gods changed in name/number/relevant importance over time and that makes categorizing them insanely frustrating. However I still feel that there must be some way to organize all this. Gods representing aspects of the inundation (e.g. Hapi and the Khnum triad) could probably fit in a section to themselves. Gods that are distinctly related to other gods could go together (e.g. Geb and Nut). More obscure gods could go in their own section, if one can figure out an empirical way to define obscurity. Breaking the index up into three indexes for Old, Middle and New Kingdoms would work but it seems extreme and decentralizes the mythology index. This is difficult but I think it would make mythology a lot more orderly. Any ideas?Heilingetorix (talk) 12:37, 17 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]