Talk:Mining industry of Egypt

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Did you know... that the goddess Hathor (pictured) was worshipped by miners in ancient Egypt?

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WikiProject Ancient Egypt to-do list:

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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.

A boring task, but the benefit of doing it is that you can set the dates !(e.g., why say Khufu lived 2589-2566? As long as you keep the length of his reign correct, or cite a respected source, you can date it 2590-2567 or 2585-2563)

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 new layout I have used is much better when you can see the Turin map, which is highly relevant to the article. The picture of the goddess is surely of much lesser importance. Peterlewis (talk) 21:50, 27 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I agree but it was really an extreme size. Please see WP:MOS#Images. --BorgQueen (talk) 21:59, 27 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Besides, when the reader clicks on the map, they can see it in its full size anyway. --BorgQueen (talk) 22:01, 27 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The thumbnail is quite obscure at its present size, blurred and indistinct. It should be larger.Peterlewis (talk) 06:30, 28 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You see, whether an image is the right size or not also depends on various factors, such as the user's screen resolution, window configuration, font size and browser. I've been told by some users that even 250px images are overwhelmingly large in their configuration - which is why this guideline encourages that we use the default image size, because the user can adjust the image size here themselves without editing them in articles. However, since the map image has a sort of exceptional aspect ratio, I think we can allow 350px in this case. --BorgQueen (talk) 09:13, 28 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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