Wikipedia:WikiProject Ancient Near East
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This is a project to better organize information in articles related to the Ancient Near East. This page and its subpages contain suggestions. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page.
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[edit] Title
WikiProject Ancient Near East
[edit] Scope/Goals
in Ancient Near East related articles,
- standardize chronology (short chronology?)
- standardize spellings (Transliterating cuneiform languages))
- unify scattered articles (many {{1911}} articles remain that should be updated and wikified. See Talk:Chronology of the Ancient Orient)
- assign Categories consistently
[edit] Parentage
[edit] Descendant WikiProjects
A (logical, not chronological) descendant of this WikiProject is:
[edit] Related WikiProjects
- Wikipedia:WikiProject_Writing_systems: collaborate for questions of cuneiform /hieroglyphic transliteration
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Ancient Near East task force
[edit] Participants
- dab 18:05, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- Wetman 18:29, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- G Rutter 20:56, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- Ben 16:58, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- SV|t 14:34, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
- Americist 22:31, 9 May 2005 (UTC)
- Yid613 23:59, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
- Enlil Ninlil 00:56, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
- Wootking"Tom 22:22, 21 May 2006 (UTC)"
- NicosT 7 June 2006
- Mhaesen 21:23, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
- --Rob117 23:02, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
- Thanatosimii 15:57, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Structure
[edit] Key articles
- Ancient Near East
- Fertile Crescent
- History of the Middle East
[edit] Maps
- Image:Ancient Orient.png
- Image:Ancient Egypt.png
- Image:Nomes of Ancient Egypt.png
- Image:Mesopotamia.jpg (ugly)
- Image:Elam Map.jpg
- Image:Anatolia composite NASA.png (unlabelled satellite image)
- Image:Hitt Egypt Perseus.png (unfinished)
- Image:CanaanMap.jpg (ugly)
- Image:Ancient Egypt.png
- Image:Minoan Crete.png
- Image:Homeric greece.png
- Image:Troas.png
[edit] Categories
- Category:Ancient Egypt --> Wikipedia:WikiProject Ancient Egypt
- Category:Mesopotamia
- Category:Levant
- Category:Anatolia
- Category:Crete
- Category:Cyprus
- Category:Ancient peoples
- Category:Ancient history
[edit] Templates
{{Template:Ancient Mesopotamia}}: Template:Ancient Mesopotamia
{{Hittite king|predecessor|successor}}: Template:Hittite king
{{WikiProject Ancient Near East}}
The project banner, to be placed on the talk pages of all relevant articles.
[edit] Guidelines/Standards
[edit] "Near East"/"Middle East"/"Orient"
It seems that "Near East" is the preferred name now (googlehits "Ancient NE/ME/Orient": ca. 25:5:1).
The standard should be to use "Near East" in article titles and to create redirects for "Middle East" and "Orient".
[edit] Orthography
(suggestions needed!)
- Spelling of royal names in king lists (and on articles on individual kings)?
- Sumerian king list
- Kings of Assyria
- Kings of Babylonia
- Hittite kings: use the stem form, not the nominative singular, i.e. Hattusili, not Hattusilis.
- other articles that include king lists (excluding Egypt): Lagash, Mitanni, Kingdom of Israel
[edit] Chronology
(suggestions needed!)
Note: the most important thing is that you don't simply copy dates from some book or off the web. pre-1000 BC dating is very complicated, and you should at the very least be aware whether your dates are middle chronology or short chronology. Even then dates should be attributed (where were they taken from), and possibly given together with a justification what evidence they are based on.
- preferred format/chronology of reign date (short chronology)?
[edit] Templates/Categories
- categories/template "King of ... preceded by / succeeded by" (see e.g. Hattusili II, Sennacherib)
