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[edit] Portal created
Started the portal - have tried to choose articles and pictures that I have not substantially editted! Markh 14:51, September 2, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Portal name
Good job Markh and the team. I think that the title of this portal is not relevant as it would be Egyptology. I suggest to change it and redirect Ancient Egypt to it. We are discussing the issue about the criteas of wikiportals and I believe that keeping this title as it is now would not be a good idea. -- Svest 18:19, 14 October 2005 (UTC) Wiki me up™
- Thats a good idea - I think we can just swap the main pages - I will give it a go now! Markh 20:23, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Bata and Bat
I beg your pardon, but you mixed up the male god Bata with the female god Bat, see Bata (goddess). Meanwile I corrected the Article. You only have to move Bata (goddess) to Bat (goddess), because I do not dare it. I am a specialist for the male god Bata, because I studied Egyptology long years ago. Best wishes from --Gudrun Meyer 19:45, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
- I am very disappointed that I got no answer since May 24th 2007 in the Talk: Bata (goddess) and here. Now I’ll move Bata (goddess) to Bat (goddess). She is really written B3t, not Bata (cf. Faulkner, Pyramid Texts, Utterance 506, p. 181). You can find a new article concerning Bata (god), which I started today. Please excuse that it is only a stub, but you will find the best reference in it. Perhaps you are so kind to read that page. With kindest regards --Gudrun Meyer 20:15, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
- Meanwhile I moved it and corrected all internal links (except Category Discussion, where I didn't find it). --Gudrun Meyer 20:42, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Requested move
This portal deals more with Ancient Egypt content than Egyptology content, which is too narrow a focus. Suggest moving to portal:Ancient Egypt. NB there is a redirect there which has more than one edit in its history and a talk page with some content on it, so need admin help if we move. Jeff Dahl (Talk • contribs) 03:16, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
- This was done the other way a couple of years ago: see Portal talk:Ancient Egypt. Do you have any input related to that comment? Dekimasuよ! 07:34, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
- When the portal was moved to Portal:Egyptology a few years ago, there is little indication on the talk page as to why. There are no actual reasons given except that someone thought it would be better. I talked with the portal's creator, markh, who doesn't mind either way. The reason I would move it to Portal:Ancient Egypt is because the portal does not simply focus on the study of ancient Egypt, which includes excavations, archaeologists, publications, and historical theories. Instead the portal talks about ancient Egypt in more general terms, such as pharaoh biographies, pictures of artifacts, customs and society etc. The portal does still talk about some Egyptology content, but is not focused only on that area. Moving to portal:Ancient Egypt will make the portal's content more accurately described and more appealing to readers. If the portal is moved, I would do a minor re-write to the introduction and change the templates which currently link to portal:Egyptology. Jeff Dahl (Talk • contribs) 17:10, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
