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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.
Honestly, this sounds like it was written by a sixth grader. Can't anyone do better?
I've done my best to clean up the writing on this page(including citations that didn't seem to point to the relevant source). This unfortunately involved removing a lot of stuff, but I believe this was the best course of action.
There were a few sentences that I couldn't verify using the listed sources, and quite a few that sounded like a student trying to write an essay(which the anon person before me was clearly annoyed by). Many of the latter were lifted almost wholesale from their sources(or, more accurately, source - all of the ones I noticed involved the Mike Dowling source). I found my way to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Close_paraphrasing, which suggests that a limited amount of this might be fine, but this case didn't seem very limited to me & was tied up in writing that seemed to have very little to do with the actual Hymn to the Nile.
As short as the article is now, I think it's better to have a short article than the mess it was before.
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