User talk:KierraF

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a couple of things
that you may or may not know. Is is considered good form to write a brief summery of your edits - especially when you are removing a chunk of text (even when you added it yourself, as at Sarcophagus) in the field provided for that purpose. Also, if you put something, anything, on your user page, then your name will appear as a blue link rather than as a red one, suggesting, at least to me, that all your edits do not need to be closely monitored. Oh yes, welcome to wikipedia. Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 16:50, 19 June 2013 (UTC)
 * You have a fine user page which falls firmly into a Type 5 User Page. If you click on my name (not my talk link) you'll see what I've done.  Then click on 7 other users and see what they have done.  Finally, sleep on it and either just keep what you have or make changes or just allow it to evolve over time.  The most important thing for me is that your name be a blue link.  I don't like red linked editors and am sometimes mean to them.  That is NOT considered an acceptable wikipedia editing practice, but   .   .  .  .  .  . . . . .................. Carptrash (talk) 22:56, 19 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Offering opinions is what I do best. Carptrash (talk) 14:55, 20 June 2013 (UTC)
 * WOW! You have found some stuff. Carptrash (talk) 16:19, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

You might want to consider
looking at and improving the Architectural sculpture article. As I recall it is short in some of the areas that you might have extra. Carptrash (talk) 17:29, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

Sobek
For the lower quality ratings (B-class or below) assessment is very informal; anyone can do it, although I expect that editors who wrote most of an article are discouraged from rating their own work. My look at the Sobek article yesterday was cursory, but my impression is good. It's probably better than any of the other articles we have on individual Egyptian deities, most of which are woeful. I'd like to look it over more thoroughly and check it against the B-class criteria before changing the rating, and I doubt I'll have time today, but I'll do the assessment in the next couple of days.

I'd also like to invite you to join WikiProject Ancient Egypt. It's a pretty dormant wikiproject, and there are no obligations if you sign up. I'd be happy just to have another knowledgeable editor around and occasionally checking the project talk page (a sort of bulletin board for issues related to ancient Egypt articles). A. Parrot (talk) 19:27, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Caryatid
A caryatid is, by definition, an architectural feature, so please stop inserting a photo of a mirror into the article. Thanks. Beyond My Ken (talk) 15:14, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

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Things I'd like to know more about, if you can help
Hello. In our discussion at Talk:Taweret you mentioned Robert Ritner's Mechanics of Ancient Egyptian Magical Practice, which in my mind marked you as a Serious Student of Egyptian Religion. (Here, because I am speaking half in jest, I feel the impulse to insert an emoticon, but I never use emoticons, so I won't.) So I was wondering what other sources you have access to, and whether you have any sources for some issues that have been bothering me lately.


 * I think Mechanics is a brilliant insight into the workings of Egyptian religion—a sort of grand unified theory that makes the entire system so much more coherent. But I'm not sure how widely accepted Ritner's conclusion is. I'd like to someday do a rewrite of heku (and probably merge it with Heka (god)) to describe the nature of "magic" in ancient Egypt, but in order to do that I'd have to know whether Egyptologists have accepted his arguments, what objections or moifications they may have made, etc. The one source I know of that has addressed the issue since Mechanics came out is La magie en Égypte: Á la recherche d'une définition, published in 2002, edited by Yvan Koenig. Unfortunately, even if I obtained it I wouldn't be able to read it because, unlike you, I don't know French. If you have access to it, or ever gain access to it, I'd appreciate your help in working out what the scholarly consensus is.


 * Ra is one of the articles I would really like to rewrite, and I think I'm nearly prepared to do so. But there are three areas I'd need to know more about. One is Ra's name; I usually get the impression that it just means "sun", but some sources state that it is not the original Egyptian word for "sun" and the word's meaning is uncertain. So do all scholars agree about that? What might the original word for "sun" have been, and what might Ra's name might have meant if it didn't mean "sun"?


 * Another is the state of Ra's official worship after the New Kingdom, which both the Oxford Encyclopedia article and Stephen Quirke's Cult of Ra gloss over. I realize that Ra's cult seems to have suffered as Heliopolis was slowly taken apart to provide monuments for other sites, but I also realize there was still some recognition of Ra's importance, e.g. in the Uniting with the Sun Disk rituals in the Ptolemaic Upper Egyptian temples.


 * And finally, as with Taweret, there's the issue of Ra's presence in popular religion. He apparently wasn't as popular to pray to as, say, Amun, but there are still stelae dedicated to him, and of course there are the magical spells that appeal to him with the threat to stop the sun. If I had some analysis of all that stuff, I think I could make his article a featured article.

Sorry to dump all that text on you. You don't have to do anything particular about it at the moment. I assume you're concentrating on Sobek and Taweret right now, and I've set myself up to write three way-too-big articles that could keep me busy for… far too long. Just know that if sources become available to you that cover any of these subjects, I would very much like you to point them out to me. A. Parrot (talk) 01:20, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Translation of a song into Sumerian

 * Hello,


 * I wondered whether you could translate "Missing" of Evanescence into Sumerian?
 * I've really been asking myself how it'd be in that language, unfortunately I'm not proficient in that ancient language. Generally I find myself to be better in the ancient Indo-European languages, I think it'd take some time before I'd understand Sumerian.
 * I already asked somebody else for a translation of this song, I do this, because I often like to translate songs into other languages, I did translations into French, German, Ancient Greek as well as Latin but I never came to translate a song into such an ancient language.
 * The text would be this (I've already cut off what is repeated):


 * Missing:


 * Please, please forgive me
 * But I won't be home again
 * Maybe someday you'll look up,
 * And, barely conscious, you'll say to no one:
 * Isn't something missing?


 * You won't cry for my absence, I know
 * You forgot me long ago
 * Am I that unimportant?
 * Am I so insignificant?


 * Even though I'm the sacrifice
 * You won't try for me, not now
 * Though I'd die to know you love me
 * I'm all alone
 * Isn't someone missing me?


 * I know what you do to yourself
 * I breathe deep and cry out:


 * And if I bleed, I'll bleed
 * Knowing you don't care
 * And if I sleep just to dream of you
 * I’ll wake without you there


 * I'd be very thankful if you could do this for me, the transliteration would be enough.


 * Greetings HeliosX (talk) 17:07, 9 November 2013 (UTC)

Contests
User:Dr. Blofeld has created WikiProject Africa/Contests. The idea is to run a series of contests/editathons focusing on each region of Africa. He has spoken to Wikimedia about it and $1000-1500 is possible for prize money. As someone who has previously expressed interest in African topics, would you be interested in contributing to one or assisting draw up core article/missing article lists? He says he's thinking of North Africa for an inaugural one in October. If interested please sign up in the participants section of the Contest page, thanks.♦ -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 01:28, 21 July 2016 (UTC)

Women in Red World Contest
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