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WikiProject Ancient Egypt to-do list:

Needed articles.

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.

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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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Huh?

How can the Copper Age replace the Stone Age? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.0.233.134 (talk) 21:18, 1 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

That’s weird. I have never heard of the “Copper Age”. Should this be replaced? 2001:569:5657:1000:EC90:F2E8:7CC2:86DE (talk) 22:35, 9 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It's a term used in some periodizations of some regions. Remsense诉 02:24, 10 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This article is forged.

This article has been copied and pasted from an unknown source. This needs fixed. 38.43.22.44 (talk) 19:44, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This seems not to be the case:

The only page as far as I can tell that mirrors much of the page's prose verbatim is this slide deck, which was clearly copying from Wikipedia, and was published after all the edits originally adding to the article.
The page's edit history does not seem nefarious, I don't see any copyvio editing patterns looking through it.

But, that's what I've ascertained from checking known sources. I couldn't say anything about whether it's been copied from an unknown source—no one could say that, oh no! Remsense诉 19:56, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

So this forge was forged from a website that forged wikipedia? 38.43.22.44 (talk) 22:04, 3 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

As far as I know, nothing in this Wikipedia article has been plagiarised from another source. Remsense诉 22:10, 3 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I.e., there's no evidence found to indicate that this article was copied from some other source.

Instead, at least one other article was found that copied from this article. See Wikipedia:Copyright violations#Other websites copying Wikipedia (and see citogenesis, too).

(And what you're describing isn't forgery, it's copyright infringement.) Guy Harris (talk) 07:01, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Forgery is a white-collar crime, plagiarism is for the hoi polloi. Remsense诉 10:04, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ok. I think I know why now. Thanks. 38.43.22.44 (talk) 18:08, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

ok 38.43.22.44 (talk) 18:07, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]