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[edit] Ancient Egypt

Thank you very much for your contributions relating to Ancient Egypt articles. They are very much appreciated.

—-- That Guy, From That Show! (talk) 2006-02-21 13:26Z

[edit] Image:Img 4669.jpg listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:Img 4669.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in its not being deleted. Thank you.

[edit] Talk page archiving

It looks like the archiving on Talk:Ancient Egypt got messed up; the bot put the archives on page 5 rather than page 3. I'm not sure how the bot works, how to fix? Thanks, Jeff Dahl (Talk • contribs) 01:53, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for that - finger trouble. I have changed the links to point at page 5, as it is easier than trying to change the already archive pages. Markh (talk) 18:46, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] You tube external link

Just asking why have you removed an external link to a YouTube video about Ramesses the Great. Egyptzo (talk) 15:06, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

It is an entirely pointless link of dubious legal status - it's clearly ripped off from a documentary. Markh (talk) 21:02, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Battle of Kadesh

Hi there, only to tell you that we might start an "election" of the best battle section, it will be "my" version against "Egyptzo's" version. You might want to see which one is better and vote. Super Knuckles (talk) 00:11, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Add map for Sais

Dear Markh, I notice you added the location coordinates and the map for Saqqara 2 years ago: [1] Can you do the same for Sais? The coordinates are given in the Sais article but no map appears. Regards, Fabian Leoboudv (talk) 05:39, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

PS: If you wish, you can replace the cheap and old photo of Khasekhemwy to this one from egyptarchive which you know is copyright free: [2] Here was another photo from Egypt archive with a fabulous photo of Amenhotep III--[3] Luckily, someone already downloaded that photo to Wikicommons for that king's article. Leoboudv (talk) 10:01, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for adding the map of Sais Markh/Marco. As for Khasekhemwy, you can download the picture of Khasekhemwy from Jon Bodsworth's egyptarchive.co.uk page as I noted. The current photo for Khasekhemwy is really cheap and black and white. I have already used one of his pictures which was on Wikicommons for the pyramid of Neferirkare Kakai and I E-mailed him about it. (as he requested here): [4] Jon replied saying "Thanks for letting me know. It's always good to know that my photos are useful." Have you seen Jon's Egypt archive collection of photos from the Cairo Museum's hidden secrets: [5] There are many wonderful picture here including some jewels from Tutankhamun's tomb that can be placed on Wikicommons. Sadly I have no experience downloading pictures here. Today, its very hard to get any pictures at the Cairo Museum since cameras have been banned there since 2006. They were slowing down the flow of traffic through the museum. Leoboudv (talk) 06:53, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

I have a picture of Khasekhemwy I took in 2004 in Cairo, but it has reflections, etc on it, so it isn't clear enough to go here. I'll see what I can do with the http://www.egyptarchive.co.uk pictures. Markh (talk) 21:56, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
  • Thanks Markh/Marco. Egyptarchive is a virtual treasure trove of free images. Fabian Leoboudv (talk) 00:27, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
That was fine except the image was speedily deleted! Markh (talk) 20:21, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Dear Markh, Can you please tell me how you added the new image of Khasekhemwy? The one with the green copyright free license? I mean...what did you type to generate the green copyrigt free tag. Isn't it placed under licensing? I complained to the person who deleted your first image and he said the image of Khasekhemwy was fine...except that it was downloaded with the wrong license:[6] That's why it was deleted! The deleter also gave one clear fair use justification for it. Secondly, did you download the egyptarchive image as a GNU or GDFL file? I have an account at Wikicommons but have never uploaded a file before. I tried today to download an image and it asked me all these licensing questions which is just confusing. Its all Greek to me because I'm an amateur here. Can you help make a response please..??

Egyptarchive is definitely a good source of photos but the license has to be right. In the first image of Khasekhemwy you downloaded which was deleted, I notice the license said it was educational purposes only. Then I saw the sppedy delete tag on it. I bolded the copyright free note but still it was deleted because the licensing was wrong. Fabian from Canada Leoboudv (talk) 21:40, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
I uploaded the image as the image of Khasekhemwy that was linked to the article was awful! It is from a copyright free collection, and I think I just gave it the wrong licence. I looked in commons, and there was already a decent image of the statue, and so I have linked this to the article, I don't mind that the image was deleted, and am happy that the article is now 'better'. Markh (talk) 21:14, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

I'm waiting for a message from Jeff Dahl about the right CF tag. He's knows everything--all the right license tags to download. He must have downloaded hundreds of pictures already. He is just amazing. Leoboudv (talk) 00:56, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

  • That first image of Khasekhemwy has popped up again. Perhaps you gave it the right 'public domain' license tag. I linked it to Khasekhemwy's article but don't know if it should be in the Pharaohinfobox instead since it is an actual statue, not a statuette. What do you think? Leoboudv (talk) 02:57, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
  • I found out what happened with the first photo. Someone (Stifle) gave it the {{PD-release}} public domain tag: [7] Leoboudv (talk) 03:58, 4 June 2008 (UTC)