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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.
A fact from Papyrus Carlsberg Collection appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 21 November 2007. The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that the Carlsberg papyrus is the most complete of the ancient Egyptian medical papyri, containing substantial amounts of artifacts of the original papyrus?
It is requested that a photograph of the Carlsberg papyrus be included in this article to improve its quality.
The external tool WordPress Openverse may be able to locate suitable images on Flickr and other web sites.
Latest comment: 8 years ago4 comments4 people in discussion
Instead of calling this the "Carlsberg papyrus", wouldn't it be more accurate to call it the "Carlsburg papyrus collection"? Or is this the accepted name for this collection of papyrus fragments? -- llywrch (talk) 17:30, 21 November 2007 (UTC)Reply
According to the main source it is called the "Papyrus Carlsberg Collection", and from that source there is no evidence I can see that the collection and the "Carlsberg Papyrus" mentioned in the other source are one and the same. The "Carlsberg Papyrus" mentioned in the second source could be "among" the papyri in the Carlberg collection, but it isn't the collection itself. Andplus (talk) 18:34, 21 November 2007 (UTC)Reply
This article badly needs rewriting by an expert. The first sentence, as written, identifies a single document, using a singular English noun papyrus. The second sentence discusses more than one document, using the plural noun papyri (acually this sentence is so poorly written that I don't understand it). The article jumps back and forth willy-nilly between singular and plural. If you mean to say that there is one medical papyrus in a collection of 600 papyri in Copenhagen, why don't you come out and say it?
It appears that the persons creating the article in 2007 did not understand what they were dealing with and never picked up on the difference. It does appear that there is a single medical papyrus within a much larger collection of papyri. I'll have to look into this further and confirm (with reliable sources). If this is indeed the case, I'll probably spawn a second article for the collection, and keep this for the medical text. Hi-storian (talk) 03:42, 8 January 2016 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 5 months ago2 comments2 people in discussion
FYI, I removed the Languages link to the German article Papyrus Carlsberg 1. The medical papyrus described here is properly known as Papyrus Carlsberg VIII. Papyrus Carlsberg I contains the Book of Nut (known in German as the Nutbuch), which is mentioned in the opening line of the German Papyrus Carlsberg 1 article. There appears to be no German article on this papyrus. All other languages linked to this page appear to be correct. Hi-storian (talk) 22:12, 26 January 2016 (UTC)Reply
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