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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.
Since the identification of Tel es Safi as Gath of the Philistines is no longer in qdoubt, I have moved all the material formely on the Tell Es Safi page onto the Gath page.Historicist (talk) 03:44, 6 November 2008 (UTC)Historicist[reply]
I've fixed the cut-and-paste merger. -- Avi (talk) 04:42, 6 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Only someone forgot to merge any Palestinian Arab village details onto gath. so to correct that I've demerged.Ashley kennedy3 (talk) 23:22, 5 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
(moved from talk page) Hi Sreifa! I have noticed that you proposed merging Gath into Tel as-Safi. The previous proposal was to merge Tel as-Safi into Gath instead, and I agree with that reasoning. What is the rationale for your proposal? Cheers, Ynhockey(Talk) 16:21, 23 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
hi - my rationale-
The same rationale used by the excavation directors.
There are a few "Gats" mentioned in the bible, this keeps things simple.
I'm pretty sure that the identification has been made by "ruling out", not by definitive evidence. --Sreifa (talk) 05:13, 25 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
There are other Gaths, but Gath of the Philistines is the big deal Gath. And we usually give priority to te famous one, even when lesser places share the name. The stuff Aren Maeir and hos team are finding is amazing. And I understand that there are plans to set up an archaeological park to enable visitors to understand the dig.AMuseo (talk) 21:38, 9 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Merge into Gath (city) and rename Gath. Gath of the Philistines was a significant place and, because it figures so largely in the Bible, it is a place people continue to be interested in. The dig, moreover, is a major effort. Tell se Safi is one of the world's many former inhabited places. No one has live there for decades. And very little that is significant happened in this small farming village when it was inhabited. A single article is the standard solution.AMuseo (talk) 18:56, 6 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Shouldn't be merged, because the places are in fact separate and should not be confused. Very different contexts and levels of importance. As other users have specified, Gath itself was of primary importance as a royal city, however the town of Tel es Safi itself was of little import on its own. However, should the decision to merge come about, Tel es Safi should be merged into Gath's page and not Gath into Tel es Safi's. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 164.214.1.54 (talk) 15:15, 2 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
There is still no support provided for Ramla being "a prevalent view amongst other scholars today". No support means that the claim cannot be made. Zerotalk 18:04, 11 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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