This is a project to better organize information in articles related to the Ancient Near East. This page and its subpages contain suggestions. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page.
Title
WikiProject on Ancient Near East
Scope/Goals
in Ancient Near East related articles,
- standardize chronology (short chronology?)
- standardize spellings (Transliterating cuneiform languages))
- unify scattered articles (many {{1911}} articles remain that should be updated and wikified. See Talk:Chronology of the Ancient Orient)
- assign Categories consistently
Parentage
Descendant WikiProjects
A (logical, not chronological) descendant of this WikiProject is:
Related WikiProjects
- Wikipedia:WikiProject_Writing_systems: collaborate for questions of cuneiform /hieroglyphic transliteration
Participants
Structure
Key articles
- Ancient Near East
- Fertile Crescent
- History of the Middle East
Maps
- Image:Ancient Orient.png
- Image:Ancient Egypt.png
- Image:Nomes of Ancient Egypt.png
- Image:Mesopotamia.jpg (ugly)
- Image:Anatolia composite NASA.png (unlabelled satellite image)
- Image:Hitt Egypt Perseus.png (unfinished)
- Image:CanaanMap.jpg (ugly)
- Image:Ancient Egypt.png
- Image:Minoan Crete.png
- Image:Homeric greece.png
- Image:Troas.png
Categories
- Category:Ancient Egypt --> Wikipedia:WikiProject Ancient Egypt
- Category:Mesopotamia
- Category:Sumer
- Category:Sumerian mythology (should maybe be renamed to Chaldean mythology, as it is pointless to have "Assyrian" or "Akkadian mythology" as different from Sumerian mythology.
- Category:Babylonia
- Category:Assyria
- Category:Levant
- Category:Anatolia
- Category:Crete
- Category:Cyprus
- Category:Ancient peoples
- Category:Ancient history
Templates
{{Template:Ancient Mesopotamia}}: Template:Ancient Mesopotamia
{{Hittite king|predecessor|successor}}: Template:Hittite king
{{Assyrian king|predecessor|successor}}: Template:Assyrian king
Guidelines/Standards
"Near East"/"Middle East"/"Orient"
It seems that "Near East" is the preferred name now (googlehits "Ancient NE/ME/Orient": ca. 25:5:1).
The standard should be to use "Near East" in article titles and to create redirects for "Middle East" and "Orient".
Orthography
(suggestions needed!)
- Spelling of royal names in king lists (and on articles on individual kings)?
- other articles that include king lists (excluding Egypt): Lagash, Mitanni, Kingdom of Israel
Chronology
(suggestions needed!)
- format/chronology of reign date (short chronology)?
Templates/Categories
- categories/template "King of ... preceded by / succeeded by" (see e.g. Hattusili II, Sennacherib)