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Ancient Egypt: Egyptian religion

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Needed articles.

We should have an article on every pyramid and every nome in Ancient Egypt. I'm sure the rest of us can think of other articles we should have.

Cleanup.

To start with, most of the general history articles badly need attention. And I'm told that at least some of the dynasty articles need work. Any other candidates?

Standardize the Chronology.

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Stub sorting

Anyone? I consider this probably the most unimportant of tasks on Wikipedia, but if you believe it needs to be done . . .

Data sorting.

This is a project I'd like to take on some day, & could be applied to more of Wikipedia than just Ancient Egypt. Take one of the standard authorities of history or culture -- Herotodus, the Elder Pliny, the writings of Breasted or Kenneth Kitchen, & see if you can't smoothly merge quotations or information into relevant articles. Probably a good exercise for someone who owns one of those impressive texts, yet can't get access to a research library.

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The "type" field...

... does not appear to be working properly. At least when used in the Yúcahu article. Is this field case sensitive or are the accents causing issues? El Alternativo (talk) 02:06, 17 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

El Alternativo, the |type= is used to (1) change the colouring of the headers if there is a predefined colour for that particular type, and (2) change some of the label links used for some of the data entries. currently, there is no place where the type explicitly appears. Frietjes (talk) 14:10, 17 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I see. Thanks for the reply. El Alternativo (talk) 16:34, 17 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

More on "mantra"

On Haitian Loa and similar articles where this is being used for non-Hindu deities, the "mantra" field is being used for songs and rhythms. But when you hover over "mantra" it of course shows the Hindu article (as it should). This will muddy things in a number of ways for those unfamiliar with these topics.

Can we have a more neutral version, or alternate version of this template, that has "song" and "rhythm" as options? And that has some way of putting in songs and rhythms? Even Hindu deities who have mantras also have songs. I'm not experienced with editing templates, but am willing to try as this is needed. - CorbieV ^☊ ☼ 22:17, 21 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

More equivalents?

There are missing a lot of popular equivalents like: germanic, nordic(sometimes some figures are confirmed for nordic peoples only), celtic, baltic. Could also add finnic, hungarian and armenian. It is impossible to compare europan gods in roman/greek/slavic/baltic/celtic/germanic at once now. Sławobóg (talk) 13:37, 18 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Slavic color

Slavic infobox should use red color (I propose #ce1720). Red color is imporant in slavic culture: rushnyk, slavic priests used white and red clothes, look https://rodnovery.ru/, folk costumes used a lot of red color, there was red paint on Zbruch Idol, etc. Sławobóg (talk) 13:43, 18 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]