Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ancient Egypt/Religion work group

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Tutthoth-Ankhre (talk) 23:20, 10 May 2008 (UTC)Hi K.V.,

Was looking at your contribs and noticed this. Looks like a good idea but there is a problem with many of the article titles and headings, etc. Just wanted to make you aware of WP's article and heading capitalization rules. The rule says that only the first word and proper nouns should be capitalized. Thus, no article should be titled Egyptian Religion but rather Egyptian religion, as religion is not a proper noun. This applies to ALL titles and headings. So you'll want to decap many of your headings and consider moving the project to Wikipedia:WikiProject Egyptian religion - the latter is not so important as it is in project space, but be sure to observe policy in article space... —Hanuman Das 13:23, 27 July 2006 (UTC)


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[edit] tasks and short-term goals

Shouldn't the "short-term goals" be in the tasks section? Bibliomaniac15 00:55, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Religious leaders

The current organization there is abit muddled, and needs some discussing how to deal with. A general proposal for cleaning it up is posted at Category talk:Religious leaders#Organization proposal, and more input would be great. It doesn't address the issue of Religious leaders/religious workers/religious figures, but that is another issue that exists. Badbilltucker 22:04, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Assessment

I have noted that this project does not yet engage in assessment. I am a member of WikiProject Religion, which does engage in assessments. I was wondering if this project would have any objections to the Religion project setting up its banner in a way similar to WikiProject Australia, WikiProject Military history, and others, which have the "parent" banner on top with the assessment criteria and a section below indicating which particular projects have specific interest in the article. I could set up the Religion banner in a way to accomplish this. However, given the complexity involved, I would not want to do so and have things changed back later. Please inform me if this arrangement would be to your satisfaction or not, so I can know how to proceed. Thank you. Badbilltucker 14:57, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Banner

There is now a project banner at Template:AncientEgyptBanner available for inclusion on the talk pages of the various articles which this project works with.

[edit] Egypt Project

Also, there is now a peripherally-related new proposed proejct at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals#Egypt which has the intention to try to help with all the articles related to Egypt, past and present, and to provide assistance on those same articles. As the proposer of the project, I want to make it clear that it is envisioned as specifically only dealing with those articles which do not already fall within the scope of any other project, though. Anyone interested in taking part in such a project should indicate as much there. Badbilltucker 18:57, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia Day Awards

Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 18:18, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject Religion

The group indicated above was recently revitalized for, among other things, the purpose of working on those articles whose content is such that the article does not fall within the scope of any particular denomination. To most effectively do this, however, we would benefit greatly if there were at least one member from this Project working on those articles. On that basis, I would encourage and welcome any member of this Project willing to work on those articles to join the Religion WikiProject. Thank you. Badbilltucker 22:42, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] New project proposal

There is a new WikiProject task force proposal at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals#Inter-religious content that is being proposed to deal specifically with articles whose content relates to several religious traditions. Any editors interested in joining such a group would be more than welcome to indicate their interest there. John Carter 15:09, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Related project

Any reason you folks haven't linked yourselves to Wikipedia:WikiProject Ancient Egypt? -- llywrch 17:42, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

Define what you mean by "linked", please. John Carter 17:41, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject Egyptian Religion/Articles

I've tried to add recreate the article page above to conform to the scope of this project. If any of you believe that an article is included that shouldn't be or isn't included that should be, please either remove it yourself or make a comment on the talk page of the article list. Thank you. John Carter 17:41, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Hermeticism

The main article for this cat is linked to on the project page. I have taken the liberty of adding the categories and their contents to the articles list. Please let me know if the other members of this project think that the articles within this category which do not assert linkage to ancient Egypt should be within the scope of this project or not. Thank you. John Carter 20:15, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed merger

For the purposes of centralized discussion, please see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ancient Egypt#Proposed merger. Thank you. John Carter 14:09, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] New Catagory: Egyptian Myths/Legends

There should be a Catagorie for this. I would make it but I don't know how to. Tutthoth-Ankhre (talk) 23:12, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Do you mean something like Category:Egyptian mythology? John Carter (talk) 23:17, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

No. What I mean is a catgorie that's just has pages that are tellings of myths. Tutthoth-Ankhre (talk) 21:42, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

There would be no reason to create such a category without having at least probably 10 articles which are nothing but retelling of myths. I don't think we have such articles, because there is a question how "encyclopedic" those myths would be as stand-alone entities. In general practice, they can be included in the article on the main figure in the myth. John Carter (talk) 22:19, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Horus versus Seth

In the Horus arcticle, it has something called "The conflict of Horus and Seth". But only one event in the myth is described, and a lot is is missing. Like the reason Horus was fighting Seth (Seth killed his father, Osiris). Also, the bit where Horus is about to kill Seth but Isis, his mother and Seth's sister stops him. Oh, and after the only event in the section, Horus and Seth have a boat race. Horus makes his out of wood, and Seth makes is out of stone. Seth's boat sinks, so Horus becomes Pharaoh. So someone should fix this, as it is seriously lacking. I think it should be added to the to-do list. Tutthoth-Ankhre (talk) 21:45, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Part of that may be due to the fact that the information you're curious about may be included elsewhere, and we have a guideline that we don't duplicate information in multiple articles. Perhaps the information is included elsewhere, like the Osiris article. Also, we have a policy, WP:PLOT, which I think has been in general applied to myths as well, indicating that we do not retell any stories or myths in great detail. I would think the best place to place a note to determine in what circumstances such retellings would be permissable would be on the talk page of the WP:PLOT policy page. John Carter (talk) 22:19, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

No, what I meant (I fixed it) was that only a certain scene was described. It was like writing a summary for Harry Potter 1 with only "Harry gets a wand" Tutthoth-Ankhre (talk) 13:09, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] The Queen of Heaven article

The Queen of Heaven article, which is tagged as a "WikiProject Catholicism" article, has been having some POV issues lately.
As that appellation seems at least as applicable to Isis (among others) as it is to Mary, I wonder if anyone here might have any useful suggestions re. the recent controversy and/or suggestions for improving the article itself?
Please note my comment on the talk page, as well as this one made previously by someone else.
Thanks! —Wikiscient— 03:55, 18 May 2008 (UTC)