User talk:Vanduren

Welcome and introduction
Hi, Vanduren. This is NOT some automated message...it's from a real person. You can talk to me right now. Welcome to Wikipedia! I noticed you've just joined, and wanted to give you a few tips to get you started. If you have any questions, please talk to us. The tips below should help you to get started. Best of luck! @Kate  (parlez)  01:05, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

Old Kingdom queens
Hi,

I've seen your articles on 6th dynasty queens, and just wanted to ask you a few things:


 * Please when copying out ancient Egyptian transcriptions from books like Grajetzki's, copy them exactly as they were written. h and ḥ are two entirely different letters in the Egyptian alphabet, as I'm sure you know. I know it's a pain in the behind to type by copypasting each character, but these texts are short anyway :) Also, z and s might have merged later, and became undistinguishable, but that happened later (circa Middle Kingdom), and we're talking about Old Kingdom persons here, so please don't mix z and s.
 * When you give a book as a source, please include the bibliographical info (like publisher's name, publishing date etc.) and the page number where the info can be found. For Dodson & Hilton's book you can use the template I made, just write and it will insert this:.

I'm adding the transcription alphabet here so you can copypaste the characters when needed. 3 ỉ w ˁ b p m n r f h ḥ ḫ ẖ z s š q k g t ṯ d ḏ

kind regards,

– Alensha   talk  22:46, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

p.s.: you can write hieroglyphs in Wikipedia, see WP:HIERO. – Alensha   talk