Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ancient Near East/Archive 1

Suggestions
This looks like a great project! One thing I wondered whether it would be worth putting in the guidelines- standardise the use of "Orient" and "Middle East" to "Near East", wherever possible. There seems to be some move towards that already and almost all the people who work in the field now call it Near East rather than the alternatives. --G Rutter 21:00, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)


 * true! see also Talk:Chronology of the Ancient Orient. There should be redirects though. I am inserting this into the guidelines. dab 13:34, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Thanks. Do people think it's worth creating a Near Eastern archaeology category as a sub-cat of Archaeology? Another thing I thought this project could usefully do would be to have a "most wanted articles" section - we could transfer them across to the Wikipedia most wanted page as well. If people think this is a good idea I'll start us off with: American Schools of Oriental Research. --G Rutter 16:55, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)

good idea. I'm creating Category:Ancient Near East, so far consisting only of sub- and super-categories. And, by all means, create a Todo-list, and a most-wanted-list! [[User:Dbachmann|dab ( T ) ]] 17:12, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I don't have any suggestions at the moment, but I'd like to help with this project. --Americist 19:21, 2005 May 3 (UTC)

I would like to help with this project, if someone could contact me about it, that would be great!--Moosh88 19:50, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

It would certainly be interesting to add some articles on archaeological sites of the ANE (I can offer some). Also, what about the problem of chronology? Cynsanity 18:45, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

I would also like to be of help for the project, but I would also like to suggest using the term "Southwest Asia" as opposed to Near East, Middle East, or orient. These terms hearken back to a colonial age, as they are all termed with respect to the location of Britain. ClockSpire (talk) 20:14, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

Spelling
Standardizing spelling really shouldn't look to Transliterating Cuneiform Languages for a model. Outside of actual quotations of disputed texts, we should probably be using the standard terms, whether they be transcriptions or Greek/Hebrew forms. Ben 17:32, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)