Talk:Maronite mummies

Maronite mummies was a History good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

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Date	Process	Result
April 18, 2008	Good article nominee	Not listed

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on March 1, 2008.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ...that eight well preserved Maronite mummies dating back to the 13th century were uncovered by speleologists in the Qadisha Valley, Lebanon?

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GAN review[edit]

Importance section and discovery is a word-to-word copy of the source [1]. Thus FAILED.--Redtigerxyz (talk) 14:03, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Copyrighted information[edit]

I have copied the article into Talk:Maronite mummies/Temp. If those two sections could be rewritten and properly cited, an administrator will move the article back into the mainspace. —Rob (talk) 15:56, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I rewrote one section and removed the other. Keegan^talk 02:56, 25 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Massacre?[edit]

Can someone provide a source that refers to these mummies as having been massacred? I've skimmed over the article, and aside from mentioning a siege that took place in the area around the estimated year of death, I can't find any evidence that these mummies were massacred, or even murdered (en mass, or otherwise). Thanks. ← George^[talk] 05:45, 5 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with you, George. There is no evidence of any massacre, neither in Historians writings, nor on the mummies themselves. In the most probable reference to these events (El Douaihy, E., (1984), Tarikh Al Azminah, in the version of the Abbot Boutros Fahd, Publisher Dar Lahd Khater, Beirut – 3rd Edition. pages 261-262), a siege of 7 years was put around the cave by the Mamluk army who eventually took the cave peacefully (we could suppose that some of the cave inhabitants survived the siege and some did not) youcroft (talk) 08:08, 5 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, the article currently mentions this siege, but doesn't say how the mummies died. Did they die naturally during the siege? Were they starved to death? Were they killed outright during the siege? Is there any evidence that they were killed at all, such as weapon entry wounds? I'll wait a few days to see what other editors can come up with before re-removing this category. ← George^[talk] 08:24, 5 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

As nobody has listed any reason to keep this category, I've removed it from the article. ← George^[talk] 22:33, 9 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]