Talk:Star shaft

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WikiProject Ancient Egypt to-do list:

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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Great article

This article still needs expanding. --Themacman4me (talk) 21:23, 30 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks I will try to do some more work on it when I get time. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Teresa di Vicenzo (talk • contribs) 21:46, 30 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Fringe

I have removed the John Gagnon material per WP:FRINGE, which discourages giving significant weight to fringe theories. As best as I can tell, this is an obscure self-published book stocked in only one library in the entire US. Barring sourcing to the contrary, this does not seem to be a theory that is accepted or even noticed in the mainstream. --Nat Gertler (talk) 00:49, 1 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Confusing

Pardon my English, it is from high school level studies only. Maybe the article is totally clear for any native speaker. To me it is confusing: The first sentence of the article states that this is an architectural feature generally used in "Egyptian pyramids and Baalbek". The following sentences is about the shafts from the King's chamber in the Great Pyramide of Ghiza. Also the Queen's chamber have such shafts, at an different angle and height. The second sentence starts out of context that star shafts (all star shafts then, also the ones seen in Baalbek) origins from the King's chamber and exit at the same height. Unclear also at the same height as what? As the origin (King's chamber) or as the exit as the ones in Great Pyramide (that is 72m from the bottom of the pyramide). But not even all "star shafts" in the great Pyramide start and exit at the same height. But the two from the King's chamber does, according to the Swedish Wikipedia-article about such shafts in the Great Pyramide: sv:Cheopspyramidens schakt. According to the Swedish article, such shafts as in the Great Pyramide, are quite unique for that pyramide. I am not confident enough to upfdate the article myself.--LittleGun (talk) 09:04, 1 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]