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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.
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I think the term "Mideastern" in the heading needs to be replaced. This US abbreviation remains extremely unfamiliar in Britain - worse still, it's liable to be associated with the US term Midwestern and erroneously thought to mean Appalachian.
I agree that "Middle Eastern" is long and vague. Furthermore, the article Near East makes the observation that "Near Eastern" is the standard scholarly term used by archaeologists and historians. I therefore suggest that the heading on this template be altered to "Near Eastern".
To pre-empt the issue coming up, I don't think "Near Eastern" needs to be qualified by "ancient" - the term is practically obsolete in "modern" and "mediaeval" senses.
I didn't see this discussion, but I changed the term to west Asian (link to Southwest Asia). Mideastern, Near Eastern, and Middle Eastern are all socio-political terms invented in the last century and do not accurately describe the region we are listing the deities for (the Levant and Mesopotamia). Note that while Levant is also a more recent term, it is mainly geographical in nature, not sociopolitical. I'm actually going to change the header to Southwest Asia (from West Asia), since it's more accurate and common. — ዮም | (Yom) | Talk • contribs • Ethiopia04:29, 23 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I think there should be no merge now, the templates in questions have become so large and filled with gods and creatures that a merged template would either require a lot of arguments and pretty obfuscated code to be shrinkwrapped for their local article purposes. Instead consider splitting them up in various templates with a common documentation of usage, so that the code becomes readable. If one wishes a major code regulating template like