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Infobox Pharaoh

User23242343 has updated the Infobox Pharaoh template in order to accommodate Pharaohs who also held other titles (specifically the Ptolemies, but the new arrangement might be extendable to Kushite Pharaohs etc, perhaps). I think the new arrangement is acceptable, but I thought it would be good to invite wider contributions, given the importance of the template for this project. The discussion is at Talk:Ptolemy II Philadelphus. Furius (talk) 16:41, 29 March 2023 (UTC)

Project-independent quality assessments

Quality assessments are used by Wikipedia editors to rate the quality of articles in terms of completeness, organization, prose quality, sourcing, etc. Most wikiprojects follow the general guidelines at Wikipedia:Content assessment, but some have specialized assessment guidelines. A recent Village pump proposal was approved and has been implemented to add a |class= parameter to {{WikiProject banner shell}}, which can display a general quality assessment for an article, and to let project banner templates "inherit" this assessment.

No action is required if your wikiproject follows the standard assessment approach. Over time, quality assessments will be migrated up to {{WikiProject banner shell}}, and your project banner will automatically "inherit" any changes to the general assessments for the purpose of assigning categories.

However, if your project decides to "opt out" and follow a non-standard quality assessment approach, all you have to do is modify your wikiproject banner template to pass {{WPBannerMeta}} a new |QUALITY_CRITERIA=custom parameter. If this is done, changes to the general quality assessment will be ignored, and your project-level assessment will be displayed and used to create categories, as at present. Aymatth2 (talk) 13:55, 9 April 2023 (UTC)

New images for the "Crowns of Egypt" article.

I recently drew some new images of all 6 of the crowns that appear in the article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowns_of_Egypt. Hedjet, Deshret, Pschent, Atef, Khepresh and Cap. Also I know it's not a crown by the technical definition, but I also drew the Nemes headdress. I would be more than glad if these images get accepted. Also I'd be willing to draw other Egyptian Headdresses to complete the collection, and also make corrections if necessary. If you go to Wikimedia commons and search for any of these Crowns, my drawing will likely be the second image there. Eternal Space (talk) 01:58, 27 April 2023 (UTC)

Coffin of Nedjemankh

QUOTE: Unfortunately, this is not an uncommon occurrence in the art world. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, referred to as UNESCO, put out an estimate that the illegal smuggling and trading of antiquities is a $2.2 billion USD market (this number may even be made higher through the contribution of black-market trade).

Wikipedia should not be a place for misinformation. Therefore, this sentence should be deleted.

I have checked the references, the article of Colin Campbell and the UNESCO publication (International Flows Of Selected Cultural Goods And Services, 1994-2003). Neither Campbell nor UNESCO pretends that the illegal antiquities market is worth $2.2 billion annually. Campbell writes: UNESCO estimates the antiquities trade to be worth US$2.2 billion annually; however, the financial scope of the illicit trade is ultimately unknowable as black market statistics are notoriously difficult to ascertain.

However, the UNESCO report describes the market for cultural goods in general, not the market for antiques:

3.5.1. Heritage goods

The category heritage goods corresponds to ‘collections and collector pieces’ and ‘antiques of an age exceeding 100 years’. These two items are not likely to be fully representative of heritage goods, hence a shorter analysis is presented in this section. Since this category is not fully covered, this could also explain the relative marginal role of heritage goods within the trade of cultural goods with a 3.7% share and value of US$ 2.2 billion in 2002. For imports and exports, high-income economies dominated the market with a share of over 98% in 2002. This share remained at the same level between 1994 and 2002.

The UNESCO publication doesn’t tell anything about the illicit antiquities market at all. Therefore, these sentences are incorrect and should be deleted without replacement. MeCorbeau (talk) 07:24, 24 May 2023 (UTC)

Done. Thanks for pointing this out, MeCorbeau. A. Parrot (talk) 14:00, 24 May 2023 (UTC)

That was quick. Thank you A.Parrot! MeCorbeau (talk) 15:23, 24 May 2023 (UTC)

Requested move of Ptolemaic Kingdom

Please see Talk:Ptolemaic Kingdom#Requested move 30 May 2023, re: a top priority page. Iskandar323 (talk) 09:11, 1 June 2023 (UTC)