Wikipedia:WikiProject Ancient Near East
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This WikiProject, WikiProject Ancient Near East, aims to organize an effort to expand and improve Wikipedia's coverage of the history of the ancient Near East and related topics. This page and its subpages contain suggestions and guidelines to help editors. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page. New members are always welcome; you can join at the recruitment page.
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Categories for discussion
- 27 May 2023 – Category:8th-century BC Kings of Syria (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion
- 27 May 2023 – Category:9th-century BC Kings of Syria (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion
- 27 May 2023 – Category:10th-century BC Kings of Syria (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion
- 26 May 2023 – Category:5th-century BC Babylonian kings (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion
- 26 May 2023 – Category:4th-century BC Babylonian kings (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion
- 26 May 2023 – Category:3rd-century BC Babylonian kings (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion
- 26 May 2023 – Category:2nd-century BC Babylonian kings (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion
- 25 May 2023 – Category:4th-century BC Seleucid monarchs (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion
- 01 May 2023 – Category:Works attributed to David (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Iskandar323 (t · c); see discussion
- 21 Mar 2023 – Category:Portrayals of Moses in film (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Qwerfjkl (t · c); see discussion
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Redirects for discussion
- 08 May 2023 – Old Bible (talk · edit · hist) →Old Testament was RfDed by Mattdaviesfsic (t · c); see discussion
Requested moves
- 30 May 2023 – Ptolemaic Kingdom (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Ptolemaic Empire by Iskandar323 (t · c); see discussion
Articles to be merged
- 15 May 2023 – Hieroglyphic Luwian (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Anatolian hieroglyphs by Onceinawhile (t · c); see discussion
Articles for creation
- 11 May 2023 – Draft:Archaeological diving (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Canvas03 (t · c)
- 12 Apr 2023 – Draft:Adapa and the South Wind (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Qwerfjkl (bot) (t · c)
- 10 Mar 2023 – Draft:Farroxmard i Wahramad (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Defiant Tiger (t · c)
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Participants[edit]
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Recognized content[edit]
Popular pages[edit]
Tasks and areas of attention[edit]
Topics and areas in need of improvement[edit]
Members of the project are welcome to add topics, articles or general areas relating to the ancient Near East to the list below if they consider them in need of more attention from the project at large. Please provide a motivation and the date in which you added a topic/article/area if you add to the list.
- The chronology used in articles needs to be standardized to the middle chronology where applicable (or use the most commonly cited dates). Conflicting dates in other chronologies should also be provided, preferrably in a note or something to that effect to avoid clutter. Ichthyovenator (talk) 12:59, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
Tertiary Sources[edit]
- A number of the early/prominent ANE articles were largely cribbed from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. We have been weeding that out over the years but there are still a few articles that are heavily infested. To my knowledge the main offenders are Babylon, Ur, Nippur, and Lagash, though there may be non-site articles equally problematic that I am unaware of. If someone felt inspired a good task would be to rewrite/reref the bad parts of one.Ploversegg (talk) 12:51, 31 March 2023 (UTC)
- We are starting to see the overuse of Tertiary Sources like "World History Encyclopedia" and "Encyclopedia Iranica". Tertiary Sources should always be a last resort. They are third hand information. Always strive for primary or even secondary sources first.Ploversegg (talk) 12:51, 31 March 2023 (UTC)
Oriental Institute links[edit]
It appears that when the Oriental Institute recently changed its name (I know) their web site changeover broke some OI paper links. Some are ok, some are not. Oriental Institute Publication series appears to be all bad while Oriental Institute Communications work. I actually powered up and emailed them. Consider this a heads up about possible broken links and maybe having to do a ugly link fixing thing, hopefully not. Bonus - if you go to the new doc location [1] the download there just wedges.Ploversegg (talk) 17:59, 28 April 2023 (UTC)
Article expansion[edit]
If you you are interested in getting an article off the starting blocks, here you can find all our "stub" articles:
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Vandal fighting[edit]
As with all other projects, articles within the scope of Wikiproject:Ancient Near East experience problems with vandalism of articles (see vandalism and clean up for further information). Here is a quick guide for vandal fighters of this project:
- Revert edits.
- Leave a message on the user's talk page. See template messages and warning category for which templates to use.
- Report persistant vandals to administrator intervention against vandalism.
Templates and resources[edit]
Templates[edit]
WikiProject[edit]
- {{WikiProject Ancient Near East}} – project banner, to be placed on the talk pages of all relevant articles
- {{User WikiProject Ancient Near East}}: – userbox for use on userpages
For use in articles[edit]
- {{Ancient Mesopotamia}} – navbox template on topics relating to ancient Mesopotamia
- {{Ancient Mesopotamian royal titles}} – navbox template for common Mesopotamian royal titles
- {{Ancient Near East}} – timeline of the ancient Near East
- {{Ancient Syria and Mesopotamia}} – chronology of empires and dynasties in ancient Syria and Mesopotamia
- {{Assyrian kings}} – navbox template for the kings of Assyria
- {{Babylonian kings}} – navbox template for the kings of Babylon
- {{History of Anatolia}} – timeline of Anatolian history
- {{Hittite kings}} – navbox template for the kings of the Hittites
- {{Hittite tree}} – family tree of the Hittites during the New Kingdom
- {{Near East Neolithic}} – timeline of the Neolithic in the ancient Near East
- {{Rulers of the Ancient Near East}} – chronology of empires and rulers in the ancient Near East
- {{Sumerian King List}} – navbox template version of the Sumerian King List
Categories[edit]
- Category:Ancient Egypt --> Wikipedia:WikiProject Ancient Egypt
- Category:Mesopotamia
- Category:Levant
- Category:Anatolia
- Category:Crete
- Category:Cyprus
Related WikiProjects[edit]
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Archaeology
- Wikipedia:WikiProject History
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Ancient Egypt
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Middle Eastern military history task force
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Assyria
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Iraq
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Iran
- Wikipedia:WikiProject_Writing_systems – collaborate for questions on cuneiform and hieroglyphic transliterations
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