User talk:Captmondo/Archives/2006/December

Valley of the Kings
Cheers for all your help, do you think that if we get the last few things sorted out, we should go for GA? What could we add that would make a bit difference in quality? Markh 10:33, 26 November 2006 (UTC)


 * I'm going to go for GAC first as you said, and as there are no more peer review comments, other than yours. I will put this on the article today and see what happens. Cheers for all your help and suggestions. Markh 08:04, 29 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Cheers for the feedback. I may take a rest on the article for now (I can think of at least 2 other articles that need a good bashing), and get someone to copyedit it after a quick review. Thanks again Markh 22:53, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Missing picture
Someone deleted the main picture for Pepi II. Do you know where to get another one? Thanatosimii 17:24, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Oh, you get to go to all the good photo-opps. I would be like a kid in a candyshop in that museum. Anyhow, the deaths in my family were of distant relations, and it's just been hectic with my grandmother living at home when I go back from college. But she's been much happier since the preacher spoke at my uncle's funeral, so I expect to remove that notice soon after I finish attending funeral engagements for my other relative, and everything should be back to normal. Thanatosimii 21:14, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Egypt
Hi!

Thanks for cleaning up the categories in Commons.

I've just read the latest few entries in your blog – I especially enjoyed the part about your visit to Berlin. Last time I was there the Wall was still standing and I saw only the Eastern part of it :) It's nice of you that you uploaded the Egypt-related photos to Commons; I've been looking looking for a good picture of Khaemwaset for a long time.

Anyway, I've been planning to join the Egyptology wikiproject here (and now it seems at last I have time to work on Egypt-related articles...) Can I just sign my name among the participants or is there some entry exam? :) I wrote only minor Egypt-related articles here but in Hungarian Wikipedia I've written Ramesses II's article, recently finished Nefertiti, wrote what I believe are the longest Wikipedia articles about the six Amarna princesses (linked from Nefertiti's) and working on Akhenaten's article as well. I'm planning to expand many of these articles here too now that most of the info is collected there.

Also, I'm dying to know how do those hieroglyph templates work? I mean the one where one writes ra-wsr-mAat-ra*stp:n and the hieroglyphs just appear in the article. Is there some page where I could learn how to write these? It's a much better solution than drawing all the glyphs in Paint and then uploading them as an image file...

cheers,

– Alensha   talk  20:37, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the detailed answer! I'll try to use the hiero template in articles, though it still seems a bit difficult for me :) Have a very happy New Year! – Alensha   talk  23:22, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Ryholt, Neferefre, etc
Dear Captmondo, I'll see what I can do about the Kamose article and try to reduce the use of quoates like Ryholt says except when absolutely necessary as in my recent edits on Intef VIII. You are correct about my comments on Ryholt/Redford but they aren't really 'duelling' scholars just as Aidan Dodson and Ryholt are not rivals in my Antef VIII post. I try to present the evidence from both scholars and then follow the interpretation which makes the most sense. These scholars are professionals who don't despise each other in the mold of Kitchen vs. Rohl. I believe they truly respect each others' scholarship. On Kamose, I'm afraid his coffin is a stock (ie: non-royal coffin). Kamose must have died unexpectedly--presumably shortly after returning home from his second campaign against the Kushites. Aidan Dodson in a GM 120 (1991) article on the internal chronology of the 17th Dynasty specifically notes that the coffins of Intef VIII and Kamose "appear to be non-royal [which was] adapted to receive king's mummies." (GM 120, pp.33-38) Hence, they were coffins which the Theban priests held in "stock" in cases of emergencies where they had to to quickly bury the king if the latter died without preparing his own royal coffin in time. Also, a poster on king Intef VIII--not me--observes that this king's coffin lacks even a royal uraeus.

Anyway, I'm contacting you on another matter here. On the discussion/editing of 5th Dynasty article on Neferefre below, I notice an image you personally added from Wikipedia Commons for this ruler has been deleted by a later user. Isn't Wikipedia Commons a site where images can be downloaded without copyright difficulties. The picture must have been in the public domain for some time. Personally, I think your image of Neferefre SHOULD be posted on Wikipedia...unless there are copyright objections. However, the poster who deleted the image didn't mention that at all. The photo you uploaded was first rate, in my view. Here is the link: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Neferefre&action=history

PS: Thank You for your excellent edits BTW, Can I ask you a personal question? Do you think Sanger's Citizendium project will get anywhere? I am suspicious that it an elitist project with professors' views having the final say which may be a problem since Professor A might have a different interpretation than Professor B. I prefer Wikipedia which allows differing interpretations of the facts as long as the conversation don't disintegrate into aliens created the pyramids or Egyptian chronology must be shifted by 300 years to suite someone's untenable ideas. Egyptology sometimes attracts many crackpots. Leoboudv 01:10, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Dear Captmondo, Its a pity that that we have no images of the funerary statue of Neferefre. That was an excellent photo of one of the most poorly known 5th Dynasty statues of this short-lived king! On Citizendium, I understand that Mr. Sanger is trying to recruit frustrated Wikipedaian who have been worn out by endless wars of revisions or by the occurence of nonsensical (ie: crackpot) ideas on Wikipedia. But, there are many monitors such as yourself to get rid of this stuff. Somehow, I feel Citizendium will be a bit of a closed shop--like Encylopaedia Brittanica(EB). I like EB but unlike Wikipedia, you cannot view corrections to its articles until their next CD comes out--and that is if their reviewer catches them in the first place. At least with Wikipedia, there are thousands of eyes watching out for mistakes, rather than a small editorial committee or board who can't be expected to monitor everything. I don't know what the fee is to subscribe to EB's resources but it makes no sense (to me) to pay for it when I can visit my local Library to read its latest paper editions. With kind regards Leoboudv