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Cities: Core / Regional capitals

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Egypt Top‑importance

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WikiProject Ancient Egypt to-do list:

Needed articles
- A page with a list of desired articles / wishlist
  - Current: Most nomes, government / administration or alternatively Organization of the ancient Egyptian State if those aren’t separate topics, State development in predynastic Egypt, Predynastic hunting, Kleinkönig (Egypt), Predynastic marine (egypt), and Disability in ancient Egypt
  - Redirects that could be articles: Economy of ancient Egypt
- Could also do with a list of articles that are in urgent need of some TLC
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- Articles needing some TLC
  - Current: Fifth Dynasty of Egypt has a lot of details missing
- Project page could use some work, specifically the aimless links in the header. Whether those get directed to destinations or removed is up for debate
- The Religion work group has a separate To-Do that could always use some love
- All stub and start class articles, always
Misc
- Standardized chronology
  - Currently a difficult task due to the lack of consensus in the greater community over an accurate chronology, but definitely something to keep coming back to
  - In the meanwhile: it’s a good policy to have a survey of dates from sources in articles about time periods; for smaller mentions (ex. at the start of “Atenism under Akhenaten” here: “Amenhotep IV, the son of Amenhotep III, was crowned king c. 1353 BC.”) circa is your best friend
- Discussion
  - Creating a separate article for Predynastic Egypt from Prehistoric Egypt starting with the Badarian culture where many overviews begin
- Data sorting
  - Looking through sources for quotes and data that can be added to relevant articles

Classical Greece and Rome Top‑importance

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Some things to think about

History to present day.

Think the Egyptian Revolution, Suez Crisis (i.e. when did the British leave?) Dunc_Harris|☺ 11:19, 4 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Commons files used on this page or its Wikidata item have been nominated for deletion

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The following Wikimedia Commons files used on this page or its Wikidata item have been nominated for deletion:

Participate in the deletion discussion at the nomination page. —Community Tech bot (talk) 14:11, 1 October 2025 (UTC)Reply

A Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for deletion

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The following Wikimedia Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for deletion:

Alexandria International Airport (Egypt) Terminal 2.jpg

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Couldn't verify the existence of any of the three general citations given

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I deleted one that seemed to reference a non-existent journal Wh1pla5h99 (talk) 18:26, 1 January 2026 (UTC)Reply

Note about recent sock edits

Latest comment: 3 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Heads-up: as I also mentioned at the Cairo talk page, this article has been extensively modified by a sockpuppet account, إبراهيم جبر 1996 (SPI report), since December 2025. In addition to violating their ban, that editor been found to consistently introduce content with misleading citations that are unreliable and/or do not support the material for which they are cited, most likely with LLM assistance (see recent WP:ANI report here or at the ANI archive).

It's not possible to revert everything in one shot without sacrificing other editors' constructive edits. I'll remove what I can, especially sections that appear to have been created wholesale by the sock editor, but please keep an eye out for further poor-quality material. R Prazeres (talk) 18:09, 27 April 2026 (UTC)Reply