Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Khaybat


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The result was   delete. J04n(talk page) 00:31, 11 April 2013 (UTC)

Khaybat

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Only one source in the article, the Angelfire site, actually mentions Khaybat as a goddess, and it isn't an RS. None of the sources I have on hand—which include everything in the "works cited" section of the article on ancient Egyptian deities—mention such a deity. I've consulted other members of WikiProject Ancient Egypt (see the project talk page), and we've concluded it's almost certainly a fabrication. And even if we're wrong, Khaybat must surely be too obscure to pass notability guidelines. A. Parrot (talk) 23:38, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete - Subject seems to be the mythical wife of Anubis, but at least one reliable reference book on the subject of Egyptian mythology explicitly states that the wife of Anubis was never named. And, so far as I can tell, there do not seem to be any particular myths relating to the wife of Anubis, or data on her, which could not easily fit in other articles, like the one on Anubis himself. That being the case, I cannot see any reason for this separate article to continue to exist. John Carter (talk) 00:14, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
 * To be fair, the sources that say "Anubis' wife is never named" are referring to the "Tale of Two Brothers", in which a human named Anubis is one of the characters. The god Anubis did have at least one mythological consort, Anput, whose name is simply the feminine form of Anubis' name. There's nothing to exclude the possibility that Anubis had more than one goddess as a wife (Amun may have had as many as three over time) but there is simply no evidence for the existence of this wife of Anubis. A. Parrot (talk) 00:20, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
 * So I screwed up. Honestly, that probably isn't really news around here. Thanks for catching the error. The point of lack of clear notability of this name apparently still remains. Now, for all I know, there may be somewhere some sort of neopagan revival of old Egyptian mythology which has such a named character, but there doesn't seem to be any evidence on the page that this might be referring to such a revival of old Egyptian mythology, so I think we have to take it as a given that this is referring to the older stories about Egyptian mythology. John Carter (talk) 00:33, 5 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Delete No reliable sources. Petrie does say on the references page 92 "The khaybet was the shadow of a man..." (got the book free at Amazon.com's Kindle bookstore). Dougweller (talk) 13:41, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Egypt-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 14:54, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Religion-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 14:54, 5 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Delete - The only reliable source appears to be misrepresenting what is stated in that source. Appears to be a modern made-up goddess being retroactively added to existing Egyptian mythology. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 15:55, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete - Partially impudent fake: the mentioned sources, that were used to alledgedly proof the texts, reveal that Egyptologists explain the lemma in a contradicting way. The other sources are far away from credible, one of them even is a private essay of a fictious person! More impudence isn't possible. Regards;--Nephiliskos (talk) 16:03, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete on the grounds that (1) the Egyptian myths have been known for three thousand years, and we should not mess with them without good reasons (i.e. clearly documented reasons, like finding a new wall of hieroglyphs that redefines who was who in the pantheon). (2) It is reasonable to defer to the judgment of WikiProject Ancient Egypt, and (3) I don't want to give the impression that I always want to keep everything :)  Listmeister (talk) 18:59, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.