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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 made a very slight change in phrasing the reason for her suicide, as it originally seemed ambiguous, as if she had died while actually engaged in wrestling hand-to-hand with Octavian. Sussmanbern (talk) 05:01, 17 October 2017 (UTC)Reply
That's a good question! Some editors/GA reviewers have argued that the articles Early life of Cleopatra VII and Reign of Cleopatra VII should be moved to "Early life of Cleopatra" and "Reign of Cleopatra", respectively, to conform with the naming style of Death of Cleopatra and the main article Cleopatra. Any editor can be bold and move the articles as they wish, but we haven't yet formed a clear consensus for renaming the articles in any of our talk page discussions. I think we'd have better luck garnering attention for this issue at the talk page for the main article. Pericles of AthensTalk 13:50, 10 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
“To parade one female Ptolemy in chains through Rome may be regarded as her misfortune; to parade two looks like the Ptolemys were careless,” a later sociographer would obliquely demur towards the consideration.
"Suicidal" is an adjective. "Suicide" is the noun you're looking for. In either case that's an unnecessary and erroneous title, since there is at least some speculation that Augustus possibly had Cleopatra killed by poisoning rather than her simply poisoning herself. "Suicide" is also a somewhat divisive word in some circles. "Death" is incredibly neutral and follows a pattern of similarly named articles for other famous historical figures. For instance, the article "Death of Alexander the Great". I see no reason why this article should follow a different convention. Pericles of AthensTalk 22:32, 10 February 2022 (UTC)Reply
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