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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.
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How Many Provinces?
The present edit says that Darius organized the Persian Empire into twenty provinces called satrapies. Most sources say that he really had that 20 satrapies, which refer to the major provinces (example is Babylon, who has been conquered by Cyrus the Great a generation ago.) but the 120, which has been expanded to 127 by Darius on the near end of his reign, were only minor ones. Yeah, Persia really reached its "golden age" under Darius. But, his successor, Xerxes, had lost some of these provinces due to revolts against him.
He had 20 great satrapies. These were ruled by satraps, but being guarded by the inspectors he had established to act as Darius' "eyes and ears", to maintain the order in ruling these satrapies. You're right: they are called satrapies: but other books gave the name of "minor satrapies", which refer to the minor provinces Darius had established earlier in his reign, when he started his conquest for a bigger empire. --bubbles16_22 (talk) 15:21, 15 August 2009
Book of Daniel
Darius the Great isn't mentioned in the Book of Daniel, Darius the Mede is. The problem with Darius the Mede is that he did not exist. So stop adding the Book of Daniel to this article.
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At what was admittedly a quick glance, the article look reasonably well sourced. Could you clarify which parts you consider to be unsourced or poorly sourced? PatGallacher (talk) 00:29, 4 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Z1720 and PatGallacher: I have added three citations so far and a small copy edit. I did some research on JSTOR and could not find articles that gave enough information for an exact citation to support the remaining tagged statements. I have not looked through my three books in depth and can't be sure one way or the other whether I can cover all the cn tags with citations from them. If anyone else has sources and can add any of the needed citations, especially more promptly, it would be helpful. If I can't cover them all, or can't do so in a reasonable period of time due to other commitments and coordinator tasks, I will post that here. I am working on three other GARs now as well which I also want to complete, if I can, in a reasonable period of time. I intend to complete at least the first of those before getting back to this. Donner60 (talk) 04:53, 16 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I am have done some more work on this sooner than I expected. Three more citations needed tags to cover. I think two will come from a book by Tom Holland. User:Soidling has also edited including adding citations. Donner60 (talk) 07:46, 23 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
There is one citation needed tag left. The short subsection of one paragraph may need to be written with at least one citation added. I have not found a source that has some of the details in the current paragraph. Donner60 (talk) 05:36, 25 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Z1720: I have added all of the missing citations and a few others. Please review to see if GA can be maintained or if there is anything else that needs to be done. Thanks. Donner60 (talk) 04:52, 26 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. No more uncited statements, everything looks good now. The following sources are no longer used as inline citations:
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