Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of writers about Egypt till the 19th century


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The result was   delete. postdlf (talk) 04:25, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

List of writers about Egypt till the 19th century

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This page is an indiscriminate list. It cannot be fixed because it is not about Egyptian writers, nor about books on Egypt, nor even about proto-Egyptology or writings of a specific period or genre, but about any writer or work of any time that talks about Egypt. It is almost entirely composed of general geographical works of antiquity in which Egypt is covered and 17th-/18th-century European travel literature. It entirely neglects any medieval writers or works on Egypt and this cannot be rectified because the scope of the list is too wide. It is not about merely geographical books, nor merely travel guides, nor only European writings, nor early modern works only. It is not even only about works that are primarily or solely about Egypt. The criteria the article presents are:"This is a list of writers who have written extensively about Egypt and their produced accounts, and may be considered essential, the only, highly popular, ground breaking, major or primary sources on various subjects related to Egyptian history."What makes Tacitus' Annales essential? How is Pausanias an extensive writer about Egypt? The "various subjects" is the giveaway. How many of those 16th-century works are essential, unique or ground-breaking? Almost none of these sourcse are primary. Srnec (talk) 23:47, 2 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Vague, arbitrary and overly broad criteria fail WP:SALAT. Clarityfiend (talk) 01:23, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
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 * Delete per nom. "Various" is the epitome of random stuff collected into a list. Bearian (talk) 18:59, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom and WP:INDISCRIMINATE. Ansh666 06:31, 4 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom.  D u s t i *poke* 03:12, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
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