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[edit] Conventions

• For dates between ca. 2300 – 1000 BC, use (or convert to) short chronology dates (and label the chronology used), for consistency within Wikipedia. See the short chronology timeline for reference.
• When transcribing cuneiform words, hyphenate the word parts, for ease of research (i.e. see cuneiform script#transcribing). e.g. Enmebaragesi > En-me-barage-si
• Transcribe 'š' (sometimes 'c') as 'sh'. e.g. Aššur > Ashur
  • The exception is the Hittite language, where the /s/-sound is traditionally transcribed 'š', and should be rendered a simple 's', e.g. Hattuša > Hattusa. (except where tradition, again, has done differently, e.g. Kadeš > Kadesh)
• Transcribe 'g̃' or 'ĝ' (sometimes 'j') as 'ng', even at the beginning of words. e.g. G̃irsu > Ngirsu

(transcriptions necessarily lose information, i.e. double letters, such as in 'Aššur', can't be destinguished from single, and some distinctions are lost, such as /š/ vs. /s/+/h/, or the /ŋ/ in 'singer' vs. the /ŋ/+/g/ in 'finger'.)

[edit] Templates

• to all ANE article pages:

{{ANE portal}} / {{Ancient Near East portal}}

Ancient Near East Portal

• to the top of all ANE article talk pages:

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• infoboxes to appropriate places in appropriate pages:

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{{Ancient Mesopotamia}}

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• navbars to bottom of appropriate pages:

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• succession boxes to rulers' articles
• to your user page or talk page:

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