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Adel Abdul Rahman[edit]

This article is being discussed for deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Adel Abdul Rahman. --Vejvančický (talk | contribs) 09:24, 15 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Mabrouk - (Congratulations)[edit]

I want to congratulate every Egyptian on revolution. We still have a long way to go but we are getting there -- The Egyptian Liberal (talk) 16:37, 1 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Translation request[edit]

The Perfect Host[edit]

It’s funny how many articles and news come out on a weekly basis. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.217.234.236 (talk) 23:55, 25 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Featured article review for Yom Kippur War[edit]

I have nominated Yom Kippur War for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Brad (talk) 13:59, 28 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Perth requested-move notification[edit]

A requested move survey was started at Talk:Perth_(disambiguation)#Requested_move, which proposes to move:

Background: There was a previous requested-move survey which ran from late May to mid June. There was a great deal of controversy surrounding the closure and subsequent events, which involved a number of reverts and re-reverts which are the subject of an ongoing arbitration case. There was a move review process, which was closed with a finding that the original requested-move closure was endorsed; however, the move review process is relatively new and untried. — P.T. Aufrette (talk) 03:27, 26 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Template:PharaohFull[edit]

Template:PharaohFull has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. DH85868993 (talk) 10:14, 5 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Merge proposal for Nakoula Basseley Nakoula[edit]

A discussion has begun here to decide if the article Nakoula Basseley Nakoula should be merged to Innocence of Muslims. An AFD was recently closed as "Keep" with the suggestion that the article could be proposed for merger. Please help collaborate on a consensus. Thank you.--Amadscientist (talk) 19:41, 14 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

RFC: TFD: Merge Template:Coptic Popes into Template:Patriarchs of Alexandria[edit]

On December 21, I proposed merging Template:Coptic Popes into Template:Patriarchs of Alexandria, because upon close examination the latter is a perfect superset of the former. I respectfully suggest that members of this WikiProject should comment on that Merge Discussion. The Mysterious El Willstro (talk) 18:24, 26 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

FAR[edit]

I have nominated Kingdom of Makuria for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Dana boomer (talk) 15:18, 17 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

== dezinsectie si deratizare 

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We are a group of volunteers and opening a new scheme in our community. Your web site provided us with valuable details to function on. You've done an impressive job and our whole community will likely be grateful to you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.121.15.223 (talk) 12:49, 12 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

One of your project's articles has been featured[edit]

Hello,
Please note that Library of Alexandria, which is within this project's scope, has been selected as one of Today's articles for improvement. The article was scheduled to appear on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Today's articles for improvement" section for one week, beginning today. Everyone is encouraged to collaborate to improve the article. Thanks, and happy editing!
Delivered by Theo's Little Bot at 07:19, 5 July 2013 (UTC) on behalf of the TAFI team[reply]

Airsinai cut.jpg[edit]

image:Airsinai cut.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 04:54, 1 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

One of your project's articles has been featured[edit]

Hello,
Please note that Assassination of Anwar Sadat, which is within this project's scope, has been selected as one of Today's articles for improvement. The article was scheduled to appear on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Today's articles for improvement" section for one week, beginning today. Everyone is encouraged to collaborate to improve the article. Thanks, and happy editing!
Delivered by Theo's Little Bot at 00:07, 12 August 2013 (UTC) on behalf of the TAFI team[reply]

{{Countries of North Africa}}[edit]

Template:Countries of North Africa (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 05:28, 27 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

{{Countries and territories of North Africa}}[edit]

Template:Countries and territories of North Africa (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 10:21, 30 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

{{Countries and territories of the Mediterranean Sea}}[edit]

Template:Countries and territories of the Mediterranean Sea (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 10:44, 30 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

{{Countries bordering the Red Sea}}[edit]

Template:Countries bordering the Red Sea (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 10:58, 30 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

{{Countries and territories bordering the Indian Ocean}}[edit]

Template:Countries and territories bordering the Indian Ocean (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 11:17, 30 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

GAR[edit]

Akhenaten, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for an individual good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Dana boomer (talk) 17:06, 16 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

AfC submission - 04/03[edit]

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Judge Dr. Mohamed Ismail. FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 14:05, 4 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Hamdy Dardiri Ahmed Omran[edit]

Dear Egypt experts: This old Afc submission will soon be deleted as a stale draft. Is this a notable Egyptian, and should the page be kept and improved instead? —Anne Delong (talk) 12:35, 16 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

AfC submission - 27/05[edit]

Draft:Eco-Architecture in Egypt. FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 13:15, 27 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

"In The News": Egyptian presidential election, 2014[edit]

Balaenoptera musculus (talk) 11:54, 29 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

AfC submission - 29/05[edit]

Draft:Rawdat Al-Azhar City. FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 19:21, 29 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

AfD: Expulsion of Egyptian Jews (1956)[edit]

Please comment at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Expulsion of Egyptian Jews (1956). Oncenawhile (talk) 07:32, 2 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki Loves Pride 2014[edit]

You are invited to participate in Wiki Loves Pride 2014, a campaign to create and improve LGBT-related content at Wikipedia and its sister projects. The campaign will take place throughout the month of June, culminating with a multinational edit-a-thon on June 21. Meetups are being held in some cities, or you can participate remotely. All constructive edits are welcome in order to contribute to Wikipedia's mission of providing quality, accurate information. Articles within Category:LGBT in Africa may be of particular interest. You can also upload LGBT-related images by participating in Wikimedia Commons' LGBT-related photo challenge. You are encouraged to share the results of your work here. Happy editing! --Another Believer (Talk) 02:01, 5 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

AfC submission - 10/06[edit]

Draft:Abbassia Metro Station. FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 12:32, 10 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Leaflet For Wikiproject Egypt At Wikimania 2014[edit]

Hi all,

My name is Adi Khajuria and I am helping out with Wikimania 2014 in London.

One of our initiatives is to create leaflets to increase the discoverability of various wikimedia projects, and showcase the breadth of activity within wikimedia. Any kind of project can have a physical paper leaflet designed - for free - as a tool to help recruit new contributors. These leaflets will be printed at Wikimania 2014, and the designs can be re-used in the future at other events and locations.

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Adikhajuria (talk) 14:51, 13 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Statistics on Egyptian tourism[edit]

I am looking for information about the Egyptian tourist industry—specifically, how many people visit specific tourist sites. I've tried searching on Google and Amazon.com but haven't found what I'm looking for. If anyone can suggest reliable sources that might provide that information (in English), please let me know. Thank you. A. Parrot (talk) 07:26, 3 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

White Stork[edit]

Do you think this article should be covered by your project? See relevant discussion at Talk:White_Stork#Wikiprojects. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 17:36, 12 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Portal:Egypt/Egypt news[edit]

Portal:Egypt/Egypt news was last updated in June 2010. Would someone like to summarise the last eight months (or eight hours, perhaps)? -- John of Reading (talk) 18:56, 11 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Egyptian Revolution of 1952[edit]

Egyptian Revolution of 1952 is a rather large, but mostly unsourced article. As there may be increased interest in topic related to Egypt right now, this may be a good opportunity to improve the article.  Cs32en Talk to me  01:33, 12 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Mohamed Said Mahfouz can you help?[edit]

The article on "...Egyptian writer and filmmaker..." Mohamed Said Mahfouz is a long-term unreferenced biography of a living person (tagged since June 2009). I have tried, and failed, to find any reliable sources to support the text. I'm posting here in the hope that someone with an interest (and/or a knowledge of Arabic) might like to take an interest. If the article remains unsourced much longer it will probably be nominated for deletion.--CharlieDelta (talk) 22:09, 2 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Article needs update in light of the 2011 Egyptian revolution[edit]

The Outline of Egypt needs attention from someone familiar with Egypt and its recent events. The Transhumanist 00:51, 7 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Translation Request[edit]

Article: http://www.masrawy.com/ketabat/ArticlesDetails.aspx?AID=52899

I would very much appreciate if someone could translate this re-posted article, or a portion of it, by Ayman Nour. It is currently part of a non-free content discussion, and WP:NONENG has been raised as an objection. Any help would be great, even if it's just the title, first, and last paragraph, author, image caption, and identifying essentials. Note: there is a picture of Khaled Saeed on the page which is very graphic. Please let me know if you have any question, and thanks very much...

If you can help, please just leave a note here, since I cross-posted this at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Arab world and don't want anyone to do unnecessary work. Ocaasi (talk) 15:55, 19 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Umm Kulthum[edit]

Seriously lads. This particular article is rated "high" on the priority list for this project, yet the article is an abomination! It's barely even English it has been written so poorly. If wiki stands for "what I know is..." then clearly the wikiproject on Egypt doesn't know much. 203.15.226.132 (talk) 08:19, 18 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ashashyou would like to join the project with flexibilty[edit]

I am happy to join the project. I had the honor to add Egypt in some pages as:

I had the honor of doing a significant editing to trhe following web pages:

I would like to be involved on flexible basis. --Ashashyou (talk) 16:30, 30 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

articles on Nasser, Sadat, and Mubarak eras=[edit]

In case anyone is interested I plan to create articles -- namely Nasser era, Sadat Era and Mubarak era -- to spin off from the republic of egypt article. (So far I just have a Nasser era article.)

Why do I think this is a good way to break down the history? All three ruled for a good chunk of time; all had great power, and so great influence over Egypt during their "eras." My plan is to distinguish the articles from the articles on the individual presidents by including information on the the Egyptian economy, education, human rights during their reigns, and of course to exclude personal information on families, early life, etc.. --BoogaLouie (talk) 17:02, 22 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]


2011 southern Israel cross-border attacks[edit]

Israeli sock puppets trying to add pictures of destroyed Israeli cars in a seperate country, not caused by Egyptians, onto the '2011 southern Israel cross-border attacks' article to garner a POV bias in relation to justification for the attacks on Egyptians. Effectivelly trying to make the incident un-related to Egypt look sympathetic on an article related to their attacks on Egyptians to make it seem as if their attack was justified. They have already merged the other incidents article with faux "support" consensus but including these pictures in directly against Wikipedias rules as they are POV, already covered in detail in text and multiple sources and pointlessly cluttering a sub-section not related to the main article when the main article itself has no pictures to represent anything. 124.148.207.15 (talk) 14:43, 12 September 2011 (UTC) Sutter Cane[reply]

Experienced editors with specialist regional knowledge urgently wanted[edit]

The Arbitration Committee is seeking to appoint additional people to the CheckUser and Oversight teams, in particular people with specialist knowledge.

Because of increasing activity in the South Asian, Southeast Asian, or Middle Eastern regions, CheckUser applications are particularly sought from people who not only meet our general requirements but also are familiar with the ISPs and typical editing patterns of any of these regions.

Successful candidates are likely to be regularly available and already familiar with local and global processes, policies, and guidelines especially those concerning CheckUser and Oversight. CheckUser candidates are expected to be technically proficient, and previous experience with OTRS is beneficial for Oversight candidates. All candidates must at least 18 years of age; have attained legal majority in their jurisdiction of residence; and be willing to identify to the Wikimedia Foundation prior to receiving permissions. If you think you may be suitably qualified, please see the appointments page for further information. The application period is scheduled to close 18 September 2011.  Roger Davies talk 15:47, 16 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ring Road (Cairo) and Ring road (Cairo)[edit]

This article is in the middle of a lot of confusion, since it's not clear if it's about the ring road around Cairo or a particular road named Ring Road; from maps, these appear to be only partly the same. User:Enric Naval has recently made a content split to try to separate these, but it seems unlikely to me that they can both be notable, so this is bogus. Anyone familiar enough to help? Dicklyon (talk) 03:23, 21 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yasser Abdel Rahman[edit]

The article Yasser Abdel Rahman is being discussed for deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Yasser Abdel Rahman. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 11:20, 19 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Elections and referendums[edit]

I'm currently creating a series of articles on elections and referendums in Egypt. I've seen a source that states there have been 13 referendums in the country, but so far I've only found mention of 11 in sources (see {{Egyptian elections}}). I'm also not very confident about the pre-1987 presidential election/referendums - I've only found passing mention to votes in 1965, 1970 and 1981 - were there any others (early 1960s or mid-1970s?). Parliamentary elections between 1957 and 1969 are also missing. If anyone could provide any sources, that would be great. Cheers, Number 57 00:04, 3 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Could I please bring to someone's attention that the "Kingdom of Egypt" is NOT a "former country"! Nor is it a former state. It should be classified as a FORMER REGIME instead. If this article is to be kept, it should be listed among FORMER STATES AND REGIMES. Egypt did not become a new country when kingship was abolished. It did not even become a new state (notice that it didn't have to apply for membership in the UN when the regime changed, and I will not bother with more evidence of this). This is called the principle of continuity of states in international law. The Hijaz is a former state, although some people would still call it a country that lost its independence and became part of Saudi Arabia. Please correct this egregious terminology. Sorry to seem arrogant. If I were not a teacher of international law and political science as well as Middle East politics, I might have made a similar mistake. 50.121.45.188 (talk) 23:10, 3 December 2011 (UTC) 50.121.45.188 (talk) 23:12, 3 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Source about Cairo ghost towns[edit]

WhisperToMe (talk) 22:08, 9 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

New Egyptian Cabinet[edit]

Hi, I'm just a grad student who was looking for info about Egypt's new cabinet appointed this week. I was surprised to see that no one has made any updates to related pages, so I wanted to put it out there that it would be very helpful to some of us :)

I made a terrible stub about the new minister of interior Mohamed Youssef Ibrahim but since I actually have to write final research papers right now, I can't contribute much myself at the moment.

Kmac1986 (talk) 15:43, 10 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

how out-of date are these pages now? Dsp13 (talk) 18:37, 19 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

SCAF & Adel Emara[edit]

Today news reports (e.g.) describe Major General Adel Emara as Deputy Defence Minister and member of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces. He isn't listed on SCAF's page - is that out of date at the moment? Dsp13 (talk) 18:37, 19 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

population by Governorates[edit]

Where I get population of copts by Governorates of Egypet?--Kaiyr (talk) 11:56, 23 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Transliteration/info on Zummarah-bi-soan (Egyptian bagpipes)?[edit]

Greetings, if anyone can provide a transcription on the Arabic spelling of the zummarah-bi-soan bagpipes, or can add any info from Reliable Sources in Arabic to this article, your assistance on that article would be greatly appreciated! MatthewVanitas (talk) 22:09, 25 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

hajib ?= hijab[edit]

Hajib says "hajib" does not mean the same as "hijab", but http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hajib and http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hijab say they mean the same thing. --Espoo (talk) 21:49, 28 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Red Alert[edit]

It looks like Izbat Al Burj is the 4 millionth article on English Wikipedia. It's about to get a lot of media exposure. Unfortunately, it's going to be difficult for non-Arabic speakers to expand the article, so any help is appreciated! Thanks! Kaldari (talk) 17:11, 13 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Help with womens football[edit]

I have created Women's football in Egypt and Sahar El Hawari so any help would be appreciated.Dwanyewest (talk) 18:23, 31 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Help needed in expanding Yasser Ali, spokesman for president Morsi[edit]

Help needed in expanding this article: Yasser Ali, spokesman for president Morsi --Midrashah (talk) 19:18, 26 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Help needed in expanding AG Abdel Meguid Mahmoud, and Yasser Ali - spokesman for Morsi.[edit]

Help needed on expanding AG Abdel Meguid Mahmoud, and Yasser Ali - spokesman for Morsi. both are stubs. Thank you. --Midrashah (talk) 17:17, 13 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Beautiful pictures of Nubia[edit]

Hi, just a quick note about this category on Commons containing photos related to Nubia which could really use inclusion in Wikipedia articles, beside an improved categorization. Thanks for your help! --Elitre (talk) 13:12, 5 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

2012 Egyptian Protests[edit]

Timeline section, various simple spelling errors that are unable to be corrected because the page allowing edits does not link to the page that it represents. I've yet to determine if someone has updated the page and Wikipedia is just being slow on the application of the changes or if this is an actual error. Regardless, thought I'd bring this to attention since it makes it impossible for edits. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 38.123.27.52 (talk) 20:55, 7 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Updated, high traffic to the page has slowed down edits and revisions to the page. If one is being made it may not take immediate effect as it seems to be several minutes behind. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 38.123.27.52 (talk) 20:59, 7 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I think this page need revision by an Egyptologist[edit]

I think the Ancient Egyptian solar ships page need revision by an Egyptologist. To fill in the gaps in the table and to complete any missing data and to improve references.----Ashashyou (talk) 19:16, 26 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

2012 Arab Republic of Egypt Constition[edit]

As an Amererican, and having read the Federalist Papers in full (the premise for our own constitution) - after examining the Egyptian Constitution, the article by Wikipedia bearing the name as the subject of this post; I feel that it is a very good beginning.

Local legislatures are established. Of particular note is that the Minister of Defense is not a political office, as it is in th US. This seems very important for the future success of Egypt because had the military not conducted themselves, maturely - we would not be having this conversation. The protection from descrimination does not specifically denote any particular grouping (IE. women). However, it is successfully worded when considered that women and children are afforded free services by the state. Gay marriage seems to be banned. The article on Sharia law seems somewhat dubious. However, when all articles are taken together - there seems no override of minority rights by any majority. The religious protections are for Islam, Christianity, and Judaism - only.

I did not intend to summarise, only to state my reason for the impression that this is a very good beginning. As an American I must acknowledge that our initial constitution was plagued by the need of many Ammendments in order to get to the point where we are at present.

Egyptians have my profound admiration for being able to set forth such an agenda, considering the current state of our "One World" society - for Egypt. This is no small feat. Unfortunayely, this agenda shall also be plagued by individuals not working on behalf of the Egyptian society. A necessary evil in that evil shall persist as long as mankind; choose wisely. Teop Versant (talk) 12:27, 27 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Egyptian Protests 2013[edit]

There are significant protests across Egypt and I think we should help with expanding the article! The new article is at 2013 Egyptian Protests. All help is needed :) --Diaa abdelmoneim (talk) 02:07, 2 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Help needed to expand Adly Mansour article[edit]

come and expand Adly Mansour article --Midrashah (talk) 19:25, 3 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Egyptian Revolution Task Force[edit]

I recommend doing a task force that manages, updates and creates all articles relevant to the 2011 Egyptian revolution that is still not over yet. Please sign your name if you wanna participate in the task force below so that we create it if enough participants are willing and active.--Diaa abdelmoneim (talk) 11:32, 6 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Participants[edit]

Figures Involved[edit]

Please note here the figures involved so that we create or expand the articles:

Help sought disambiguating Mohamed Ibrahim[edit]

There's more than one MI in the current interim cabinet, and I'm getting a bit confused... I've left a query at Talk:Mohamed Youssef Ibrahim as to whether the current Minister of the Interior is a previous one of that name (for whom we have the page Mohamed Youssef Ibrahim) or someone else. Dsp13 (talk) 11:41, 17 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Help neede on expanding Brotherhood Without Violence article[edit]

Help neede on expanding Brotherhood Without Violence article --Midrashah (talk) 08:27, 2 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Uri Sebag[edit]

A couple of IPs have recently added text to this article claiming that Sebag (an Israeli politician) is the uncle of General Sisi. It's referenced to two sites which Google translate seems to suggest do say that. However, I'm not sure how reliable they are. I can't find anything in the English language press - can anyone clarify whether the additions are true. Thanks, Number 57 15:06, 27 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Fix cities and neighborhoods articles[edit]

Always put titles like this Cairo, Egypt - Garden City, Cairo - Bolak Dakror, Giza , because wiki makes pages on face book with the same names so people on facebook can use these pages in profiles ,check ins and tags, always make pages in cities shape articles and always write its lengths — Preceding unsigned comment added by Colyz93 (talk • contribs) 17:00, 8 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Help needed in expanding colonel Ahmed Mohammed Ali, spokesperson of Egyptian army[edit]

Help needed in expanding colonel Ahmed Mohammed Ali, spokesperson of Egyptian army --Midrashah (talk) 20:15, 17 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Mohamad Said Raslan[edit]

The new article Mohamad Said Raslan needs attention and additional references to demonstrate his notability more solidly. Or, if he is not notable, the article should be deleted. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 23:39, 26 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

An editor with a conflict of interest is now editing. Help for accuracy and grammar is badly needed. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 22:35, 27 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

English exonyms for place names[edit]

English_exonyms#Egypt. Can someone check this please. See also article Talk. Many thanks. In ictu oculi (talk) 04:11, 3 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Article about rapper Mayam Mahmoud?[edit]

Does anyone have an article about Mayam Mahmoud, a rapper?

WhisperToMe (talk) 12:56, 28 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Does Egyptian puppet Abla Fahita have an article?[edit]

I found: "Puppet ad draws terror accusations in Egypt." Al Jazeera. 2 January 2004.

So is there an article on the Abla Fahita Egyptian puppet? WhisperToMe (talk) 18:39, 5 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Egyptian identity[edit]

Here is a Guardian article on Egyptian identity:

WhisperToMe (talk) 19:21, 6 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Egyptian revolution of 2013[edit]

I hope many users could join this discussion about creating a separate article about the 4 days of mass protests that took place just before the 2013 Egyptian coup d'état on July 3. This would help end the debate about whether what happened in Egypt was only a coup or both a coup and a revolution. Fitzcarmalan (talk) 11:45, 2 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Firstly the mass demonstrations where reported on the night of June 30,and lasted for 12 hours,the coup technically began on July 1 after Sisi's announcement threatening to impose a road map on both sides if the crisis isn't resolved,and the coup has occured on July 3,and we have never heard of a revolution that was 12 hours long,so best thing is calling the June 30 demonstrations .Alhanuty (talk) 23:41, 1 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

User:Alhanuty - It didn't last for 12 hours, it lasted for 4 days and even if it did, it is undeniable there was a revolution no matter how short it was. Even if this "revolution" did last 12 hours like you say, it doesn't mean you can rely on history all the time since history is being made everyday as we speak and why wouldn't this be the first case (that's of course IF it lasted that long). In fact, i've heard about a war lasting only 40 minutes → Anglo-Zanzibar War. The coup "technically" began and ended on the night of July 3, while the preparations for the coup that started on July 1 as you say (or even months before) had nothing to do with the eventual move. The people's demand wasn't military involvement, since many people that joined the protests back then are now opposing el-Sisi. It was simply the resignation of Mohamed Morsi.
I can simply copy/paste this entry on other discussions if you want because it seems you are opening this debate everywhere now. Or you could simply choose one appropriate page to discuss this and spare me the time wasted in other places. If you will keep the discussion here you should invite other users to join since entries here by other users are rare. But this would be pointless since this section was created before the article itself to discuss whether the latter should be created or not, so now since the article was created you should pick a more suitable location to have this debate. Fitzcarmalan (talk) 14:45, 2 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Popular pages tool update[edit]

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Vandalism on the Nile Cataracts page[edit]

Like to inform someone, this seems the most direct way, that the last section of the Nile Cataracts page seems vandalized with mentions of "pirates of the Caribbean" and "boner." Someone body more qualified than I needs to fix this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.199.110.193 (talk) 03:26, 8 March 2014 (UTC) Fixed. Thanks for reporting that.--Diaa abdelmoneim (talk) 09:07, 8 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Help with sources?[edit]

Hey, just sending out a request for help looking for sources on Nelly Karim. It's currently up for AfD and her films seem to be non-English ones, so odds are high that coverage won't be in English. Anyone up for helping? Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 10:54, 26 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

  • I found several sources, but my Google Translate is coming up with the usual problems when it comes to translating pages. It's either a word salad or it refuses to translate. Looks like it'd be a fairly easy save though- I saw where several hits came up with her name in Arabic. Can one of you come in and confirm the sourcing? As far as foreign language sources go, I'm more familiar with Indian and Spanish language sites than Arabic. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 11:47, 26 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Foreign language sources?[edit]

Someone has created October 6 University (O6U), which has been deleted in the past for copyvio. It's been re-created without it, but there's still a lack of overall coverage to show notability. Since it's located in Egypt, FLS might exist- can anyone perform a search to ensure that we've looked for coverage in all possible areas and languages? Thanks! Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 06:38, 15 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Come help expand Shut up your mouse, Obama[edit]

help in eexpanding needed: Shut up your mouse, Obama --Midrashah (talk) 16:11, 4 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Living people on EN wiki who are dead on other wikis[edit]

The following individuals who are in the scope of this project are showing to be alive on the English wiki, but deceased on another language wiki:

  1. Ahmed Hegazi: ar:وفيات 2002
  2. Ayman al-Zawahiri: fa:عبدالله عزام
  3. Hamdeen Sabahi: ar:ناصريون
  4. Mahmoud Badr: ar:ناصريون
  5. Muhammad Sa'id al-'Ashmawi: ar:وفيات 2013

Please help to find reliable sources to confirm if these individuals are alive or dead, or correct any mis-categorization on the relevant foreign-language article(s). Please see WP:LIVINGDEAD for more info and raise any issues on the talkpage. Thanks. Lugnuts Dick Laurent is dead 18:07, 14 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

New Minister of State for Antiquities[edit]

I've had Mamdouh Eldamaty imported from Simple.wiki - I've added some categories and a talk page, but it has no sources, doesn't mention his new position. Anyone want to work on it? Dougweller (talk) 14:05, 17 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Questions about Abd Al-Hakim Qasim novellas: were they published separately in Egypt?[edit]

There are two Abd Al-Hakim Qasim novellas that were published as one book in the USA: User:WhisperToMe/Rites of Assent includes "Good News from the Afterlife" (what is the Arabic text of the title "Turaf min khabar al-âkhira"?) and "Al-Mahdi". In Egypt, were they published in the same book? Or only separately? WhisperToMe (talk) 19:46, 24 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Where are these villages (Hamradoum and Nagaa Hammadi in Upper Egypt)[edit]

Where are Hamradoum, Abu-Hizam, and Nagaa Hammadi in Upper Egypt? Which municipality/commune/city is it in?

I found about it from here:

WhisperToMe (talk) 09:27, 4 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! I am not sure if Roads & Kingdoms is to be thought of as an RS, but if it is the info from the article can be helpful WhisperToMe (talk) 01:33, 5 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

English Translations of Naguib Mahfouz[edit]

the list of Mahfouz works on the English Wikipedia page is not accurate. Some of the titles are the name of films based on the novels. Some are short stories in collections and some are the names of short story collections. Some titles are missing. A full list of all translations can be found at (pp 31-52) http://www.aucpress.com/images/Mahfouz_brochure_2011__LowRes.pdf But in the meantime here are some clarifications I have noted on the Naguib Mahfouz page: Whisper of Madness is a short story 3 Stories of Ancient Egypt is the collected title of three novels Mockery of the Fates Translated into English under the name Khufu's Wisdom (1st of 3 Stories of Ancient Egypt Rhadopis of Nubia (2nd of 3 Stories of Ancient Egypt The Struggle of Thebes aka War at Thebes (3rd of 3 Stories of Ancient Egypt) God's World is a collection of short stories. Zaabalawi is a short story Tharthara Fawq Al-Nīl is A Film based on Adrift on the Nile The Pub of the Black Cat is short story The Honeymoon is a Collection of short stories The Hunger is a film based on The Harafish I think Fountain and Tomb is the English translation listed as Stories from Our Neighbourhood What is listed as Dreams of the rehabilitation period is either two volumes or a combination of the two in one volume called Dreams and Dreams of Departure


Mahfouz Reader (talk) 14:27, 17 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Archived stuff here: http://www.webcitation.org/6QpSPIQN4 WhisperToMe (talk) 01:57, 5 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Egypt presentation at WikiIndaba 2014 is now online[edit]

The WikiIndaba 2014 sessions are now online at YouTube. This includes a presentation, Challenges and Successes in Africa - Egypt. Informative and recommended. -- Djembayz (talk) 18:12, 6 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Help with an article?[edit]

I was wondering if anyone could help search for sources for the article The City of Pleasure. It's a novel by Ezzat el Kamhawi and it looks like almost all sourcing will be in Arabic. I've tried looking for sources with Google Translate, but it's not really accomplishing much because of the inherent flaws with searching with a computer translation. Can anyone help out? It'd be much appreciated and I'd hate for this to get deleted without any Arabic speakers/readers searching for sourcing. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 13:32, 11 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Languages in censuses and Race and ethnicity in censuses[edit]

Pleas add information about this country to this articles.--Kaiyr (talk) 20:50, 29 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Help on expanding Entissar Amer (wife of Al-Sisi)[edit]

Help needed on Expanding and editing Entissar Amer (wife of al Sisi) --Midrashah (talk) 11:26, 23 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Dalia (Egyptian singer)[edit]

The Rotana website is down, has this singer had any further career after her start with Rotana? In ictu oculi (talk) 01:29, 4 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal[edit]

Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej (talk) 22:47, 1 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Bishops of Egypt[edit]

FYI Category:Bishops of Egypt has been requested to be renamed -- 67.70.35.44 (talk) 11:59, 2 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject X is live![edit]

Hello everyone!

You may have received a message from me earlier asking you to comment on my WikiProject X proposal. The good news is that WikiProject X is now live! In our first phase, we are focusing on research. At this time, we are looking for people to share their experiences with WikiProjects: good, bad, or neutral. We are also looking for WikiProjects that may be interested in trying out new tools and layouts that will make participating easier and projects easier to maintain. If you or your WikiProject are interested, check us out! Note that this is an opt-in program; no WikiProject will be required to change anything against its wishes. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you!

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Egypt Economic Development Conference and Proposed new capital of Egypt[edit]

I nominated these article for DYK, but the primary editors of these articles haven't worked hard on revamping or copy editing them. I need your help on improving them to help the DYK nomination survive. --George Ho (talk) 06:23, 17 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Egyptian Center for Economic and Social Rights (ECESR)[edit]

I've done some work (re)establishing an ECESR stub article and would like to invite editors with an interest in such topics to help expand upon it. --Kevjonesin (talk) 06:59, 24 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

October War/Yom Kippur War[edit]

Hello. I have decided to write on this page because I would like a clear, non-biased explanation of the outcome of the war. Egypt claims it won so does Israel. However, Wikipedia's article claims Israel won. Due note the majority of editors there are Israeli. Please no government propaganda, I would like to see the settlement of the dispute about the result. The Yom Kippur War Talk is full of arguments to this. Since you are Egyptians I thought it would be nice to hear your side of the war. Thank You Infor4fun (talk) 08:23, 25 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Please REPLY to this and engage in the Yom Kippur Talk article so that the article resembles both sides of the war not just Israeli or Egyptian. Please avoid any means of bias/POV Thank You — Preceding unsigned comment added by Infor4fun (talk • contribs) 01:58, 27 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

LGBT in Egypt[edit]

See:

Is anyone interested in exploring this subject further? WhisperToMe (talk) 04:46, 29 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

There is a specific article on LGBT rights in Egypt which already details the subject. Just see if it needs updates. Dimadick (talk) 07:31, 1 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Gods of Egypt[edit]

The usage and primary topic of "Gods of Egypt" is under discussion, see talk:Gods of Egypt (film) -- 65.94.43.89 (talk) 04:40, 17 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Featured list removal candidates/List of birds of Egypt/archive1[edit]

I have nominated List of birds of Egypt for featured list removal here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured list criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks; editors may declare to "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Harrias talk 14:49, 17 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki Loves Pride![edit]

You are invited to participate in Wiki Loves Pride!

  • What? Wiki Loves Pride, a campaign to document and photograph LGBT culture and history, including pride events
  • When? June 2015
  • How can you help?
    1.) Create or improve LGBT-related articles and showcase the results of your work here
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    3.) Contribute to an LGBT-related task force at another Wikimedia project (Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikivoyage, etc.)

Or, view or update the current list of Tasks. This campaign is supported by the Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group, an officially recognized affiliate of the Wikimedia Foundation. Visit the group's page at Meta-Wiki for more information, or follow Wikimedia LGBT+ on Facebook. Remember, Wiki Loves Pride is about creating and improving LGBT-related content at Wikimedia projects, and content should have a neutral point of view. One does not need to identify as LGBT or any other gender or sexual minority to participate. This campaign is about adding accurate, reliable information to Wikipedia, plain and simple, and all are welcome!

If you have any questions, please leave a message on the campaign's main talk page.


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Nomination of Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed for deletion[edit]

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. — Cirt (talk) 03:28, 24 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Help with a page?[edit]

Can anyone help with the article for Hassan Hosny? He's been in a lot and it looks like he should be notable (which is why I declined the speedy), but I'm not bringing much up in English. I'm going to assume that most of the coverage is likely in another language - can anyone help look? Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 07:12, 8 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Chinese people in Egypt[edit]

I found an article written by Peter Hessler about Chinese people in Egypt:

It may be useful if anyone wants to start an article about Chinese people in Egypt or something like that WhisperToMe (talk) 10:00, 5 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The Herodotus Machine[edit]

Just stumbled upon this and removed a claim that Greek city-states were trading with Egypt in 3000 BCE. I started to look for sources and can find only a handful of sources for anything with this name, and some of them are fringe. We do have Egyptian pyramid construction techniques#The writings of Herodotus and Diodorus Siculus which discusses Herodotus's ideas on how the pyramids were built. I'm not sure what to do about this article. Doug Weller (talk) 11:42, 15 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Doug Weller - I copied the 3000 BCE from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_trade#Maritime_trade, it's ref 35 at the end of para 2. I was rather scratching around for any references at all, and that seemed one I might be able to use. (Of course, it's to a book which I don't have.) Of course I should have thought of when Greek city states existed - d'oh! I put it in to support the idea that Herodotus could definitely have travelled to Egypt - the version I started with was full of equivocation about just about everything. Quite happy to leave it out.
On the article itself....it's thin. There's not a lot to say and it seems not a lot to support it. Although lurking for a while, I am very early in my actually-editing career and didn't want to send it to AfD - I thought I'd try to improve the text and add some references and see what anybody said! I saw the Egyptian pyramid construction techniques page which has what looks like the same quote from Herodotus. Given that that seems the extent of what is known perhaps AfD is the right thing? I did think the DaVinci link was a bit cool though. Perhaps put that in to the Egyptian pyramid construction techniques#The writings of Herodotus and Diodorus Siculus section? I can't find the link at the moment, but I did come across a site which claims that it will be publishing the Codex Matrix in the near future so it might be worth waiting for that. Does any of that sound sensible?
ghytred talk 15:15, 15 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Hi User:Ghytred. No problem. The other possibility if others agree is to redirect it. Everyone, a number of the references at Ancient Egyptian trade are other Wikipedia articles, which if course we can't use. Sp that article means fixing. As for the Codex Matrix, are you referring to this site - that's probably going to be self-published by soneone who belongs to a religious sect so small it doesn't even have an article! Doug Weller (talk) 15:50, 15 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
User:Doug Weller - Ha! Given them 10x their usual traffic now. Where did I get Matrix from? Codex Madrid is what I meant! ghytred talk 16:11, 15 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, that makes more sense! I should have guessed. Doug Weller (talk) 16:27, 15 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Nile languages[edit]

There's a request at Talk:Nile#Semi-protected edit request on 13 August 2015 to add a language to the several already listed in the lede of Nile. Could someone with knowledge of the languages from this area take a look? Cheers. Ivanvector 🍁 (talk) 15:54, 19 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

RFC: Is the One Million Plan relevant to the Jewish exodus from Arab and Muslim countries?[edit]

See the RFC at:

Talk:Jewish_exodus_from_Arab_and_Muslim_countries#RFC:_Is_the_One_Million_Plan_relevant_to_the_topic_of_this_article?.

Oncenawhile (talk) 15:19, 11 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Mayam Mahmoud[edit]

Hello, doing something completely different, I found this article at Wikipedia:Mayam Mahmoud. As it seems to be about a notable topic, I moved it into regular article space, and cleaned it up a bit. However, it would be great if someone more knowledgeable about music in Egypt could have a second look. Best regards. GermanJoe (talk) 16:51, 8 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

"Republic of Egypt"[edit]

The usage and primary topic of Republic of Egypt is under discussion, see Talk:Republic of Egypt (1953–58) -- 70.51.44.60 (talk) 06:39, 14 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Coptic-speaking people[edit]

Category:Coptic-speaking people has been nominated for deletion -- 70.51.44.60 (talk) 07:45, 15 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Republic of Egypt listed at Redirects for discussion[edit]

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Republic of Egypt. Please participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. -- 70.51.44.60 (talk) 04:44, 17 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

2015 Cairo restaurant fire[edit]

Created new article. --Harizotoh9 (talk) 09:20, 4 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Soher Al Bably[edit]

Hi all, the article on Soher Al Bably could use some help. I can't tell if she meets the notability criteria for actors and the article is very poorly written so it's at risk of being deleted. If anyone knows who she is, a few indications of major notable roles and a few extra refs would be very helpful. Thanks! Cyphoidbomb (talk) 21:02, 5 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The article is notable, there are many google news and Google Books hits. I'll fix up the prose a little. --Cerebellum (talk) 03:47, 7 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Forgive me if this is in the wrong place, I do not know my way around Wikipedia and its protocols at all. I am alerting you to the fact that an article of interest to you (and you are marked as this article being relevant to you) is currently being debated for removal/merging. It is being argued (I believe wrongly) that the article is irrelevant and has no place in having its own page, so I do think someone from your group should keep an eye on the discussion on the talk page. They already merged the article today into another article without any discussion but I managed to get an admin to move it back again. Conversation has now started on the talk page and I think it is definitely something you will want to keep an eye on. Talk page here; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Semitic_people Taurusthecat (talk) 14:17, 15 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Merger Discussion RfC[edit]

Formal request has been received to merge: Suez Canal Area Development Project into New Suez Canal; dated November 26, 2015; >>>Please Discuss here<<<. GenQuest "Talk to Me" 14:49, 31 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

An Egyptian Arabic pronunciation[edit]

Hello, I wondered on Talk:Taharrush gamea#Renaming whether جماعي jamāʿī can be pronounced in Egypt as gameʿa or gamaʿe (g for j is OK but there must be some vowel changes for اعي and Egyptian Arabic phonology#Vowels is too complicated for me to understand) : could someone with knowledge of Egyptian Arabic please comment on that talk page? Thank you in advance. Oliv0 (talk) 12:28, 18 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

An answer has been given on the talk page. Oliv0 (talk) 07:41, 20 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Begin a counterbias organization related to post-Morsi Egyptian events[edit]

I propose the Organization for Countering Bias in Wikipedia's Coverage of Current Egyptian Politics, abbreviated to OCBWPCCEP, an organization composed of Wikipedians who feel that Wikipedia's coverage of current (2013—present) political events is increasingly biased against the Egyptian government, the Egyptian Armed Forces, and especially the President of Egypt, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. OCBWPCCEP strives to remove all such bias in accordance with the NPOV policy and numerous other policies of the wiki. Express your support for the organization and its goals. Zakawer (talk) 21:06, 4 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move[edit]

There is a requested move that may interest people here at Talk:Taharrush jamai#Requested move 1 February 2016. SarahSV (talk) 22:16, 4 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Egyptian military history[edit]

I started this initiative on the MILHIST Incubator that aims to improve and better organize Wikipedia's coverage of Egyptian military history, from ancient times up to the present day. Anyone is welcome to join. Fitzcarmalan (talk) 19:56, 23 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I've written a new essay on removing Islamist bias from certain articles about Egyptian politics from 2013 till now[edit]

The quick redirect to it is at WP:COUP. The purpose is to ensure that members of WikiProject Egypt can remove all that stupid Islamist bias and peacock words praising those stupid MB idiots and clean up where people in 2013 didn't. Zakawer (talk) 11:09, 11 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Contests[edit]

User:Dr. Blofeld has created Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/Contests. The idea is to run a series of contests/editathons focusing on each region of Africa. He has spoken to Wikimedia about it and $1000-1500 is possible for prize money. Would anybody here be interested in contributing to one or assisting draw up core article/missing article lists? He says he's thinking of North Africa for an inaugural one in October. If interested please sign up in the participants section of the Contest page, thanks.♦ --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 20:02, 20 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion on the 1948 Arab–Israel war in WikiProject Israel[edit]

Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Israel#1948_war_articles--Bolter21 (talk to me) 17:56, 15 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Safiya Abdel-Rahman[edit]

Can someone help provide the Arabic scripts, or important life dates? Thank you!--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 15:16, 11 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Turnopoems: Thank you! This next one is more difficult, because he is Greek Egyptian-John M. Lioufis-can you work your magic? Thanks!--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 10:30, 19 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I gotcha! I noticed that the Greek translation says Ioannes, rather than John. Is that his actual name? I wrote John. Turnopoems (talk) 15:27, 19 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Aziz Osman Bakir[edit]

I'm having difficulty finding good sources for Aziz Osman Bakir in English, can anyone help in Arabic? Thanks!--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 10:10, 20 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Members list[edit]

FYI, I will update the WikiProject Egypt Members' page based on activity on Egypt pages. Level C (talk) 15:53, 2 November 2016 (UTC) checkY[reply]

Requesting ideas on Governorates Template[edit]

If anyone has time, look at this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Governorates_of_Egypt#Option_.231 Level C (talk) 02:25, 5 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Uniform romanization of Egyptian names[edit]

I would like to suggest a uniform romanization of Egyptian names on Wikipedia to avoid awkward and confusing situations where the same name appears with various spellings in the same article, I've actually being working quite actively in the past few days to achieve just that. What would be the best way to go about proposing a set of guidelines for romanizing Egyptian Arabic, and most importantly what do other members of WikiProject Egypt think of such an initiative? I believe similar guidelines exist for Moroccan Arabic and Literary Arabic, and it certainly makes it look more professional and organized. Turnopoems (talk) 13:41, 17 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, please. This is a perfect solution to the naming problem and I apologize that in my haste I've not been careful (or knowledgeable about this). Level C (talk) 13:49, 2 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I'm curious, please let me know (from the lists below) Which one is the "romanization" version, for example: of Sohag or Asyut? I think it's great to be uniform in the naming. 

from Statoids.com ...

"*Spelling notes: Place names are officially written in Arabic script. Some names may be translated, but most are transliterated or transcribed into the Roman alphabet. There are many possible methods of transliteration. Some of this variety is shown in the table of variant names. The initial elements Ad, Al, As, Ash, At, and Az are articles. Sometimes, especially in older sources, they are spelled Ed, El, Es, and so on. Sometimes they are connected to the following word with hyphens. Some sources omit them entirely. I have not attempted to reproduce the "dot below" diacritical mark that modifies some h's, s's, and t's. The ayn is shown as a back apostrophe (`), and the hamza as an apostrophe (').

  • Ad Daqahlīyah: Dacahlia, Dagahlia, Dakahlieh, Dakahliya, Dakalieh, Daqahlīya (variant); Dakahlia, Dekahlia (Anglicized)

...

  • Al Buhayrah: Beheira, Behera (Anglicized); El Buhayra (variant); Béhéra (French)
  • Al Fayyūm: El Faiyum, el Fayoum, Faium, Faiyūm, Fayum (variant); Fayoum, Fayyum (Anglicized)
  • Al Gharbīyah: al-Garbīyah, Al Gharbya, El Gharbiya, Garbia, Gharbieh, Gharbīya (variant); Gharbia (Anglicized)

...

  • Al Minūfīyah: Menoufieh, Menufia, Menūfīya, Minūfīya, Munufia (variant); Menoufia, Minufia, Monofiya (Anglicized)
  • Al Minyā: Minia, Minieh (variant); Menia, Minya (Anglicized)
  • Al Qāhirah: Cairo (English, Portuguese); El Cairo (Spanish); El Qahira (variant); Il Cairo (Italian); Kairo (Danish, German, Norwegian, Swedish); Le Caire (French); Каир (Russian)
  • Al Qalyūbīyah: Caliubia, Kalioubieh, Kalioubiya, Qaliyubia, Qalyubiya (variant); Kalyobiya, Kalyoubia, Kalyubia (Anglicized)
  • Al Wādī al Jadīd: El-Wadi El-Gidid (variant); New Valley (Anglicized); Novo Vale (Portuguese); Ouādi El Guedīd (French); Southern Desert (obsolete)
  • Ash Sharqīyah: Charkieh, Sharqia, Sharqīya, Sharquia (variant); Sharkia, Sharqeia (Anglicized)

...

  • Asyūt: Assiout (French); Assiut, Assyut (variant); Asyout, Asyut (Anglicized)

...

  • Dumyāt: Damietta (Anglicized, Italian); Damiette (French); Dumiāt (variant)
  • Matrūh: Marsā Matrūh, Mersa Matruh, Western Desert (obsolete); Matrouh (Anglicized, French)

...

  • Sūhāj: Girga, Girgeh (obsolete); Sawhāj, Sohag (variant); Suhag (Anglicized)"


The issue is that it's impossible to find a uniform spelling of Egyptian cities, unless there's a common transcription like Cairo, Hurghada, Luxor, Aswan or Alexandria. Even if you look at Google Maps you'll notice that there is no clear rule as to how the names should be transliterated. And I disagree with using the Arabic Wiki-rules for transliteration on the basis of widely differing pronunciations between MSA and Egyptian Arabic. For example, Egyptians pronounce "al" as "el", "j" as "g", "q" as "ʔ (glottal stop)" etc. I simply chose to uniformly transliterate the definite article "ال‎‎" as "El" with a capital "E", regardless of the presence of sun or moon letters (the pronunciation can be clarified with IPA in the article). If the name or word has the definite article "ال" it should be directly transliterated as "El" when Romanized, in my opinion. Even if there is no "correct" way of transliterating it's important that we are consistent, to avoid confusion and to make linking various articles easier. Turnopoems (talk) 22:04, 2 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I agree. Level C (talk) 03:26, 3 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I say go for it. Level C (talk) 02:27, 5 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Egyptian wine[edit]

Hello! I've been working quite arduously on the Egyptian wine article in the past few days and I'm looking for good sources on grape varieties used and existing vineyards. If anyone could pitch in with a good source I'd really appreciate it. Turnopoems (talk) 15:30, 8 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

TO ALL USERS READING THIS:[edit]

PLEASE VOTE HERE: Talk:2013 Egyptian coup d'état#Reaching a consensus Zakawer (talk) 14:30, 14 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Extensive list of URL's to journals on Egypt[edit]

Egyptology Forum Digital Journals Level C (talk) 01:42, 25 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Cannabis in Egypt needs improvement[edit]

I started Cannabis in Egypt about a year ago, but it could really use improvement and expansion, especially from anyone who can read Arabic sources. With a little polishing, it'd also be really useful to make a translated version for Arabic Wikipedia since it's a topic of increasing interesting these days. Goonsquad LCpl Mulvaney (talk) 04:10, 6 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Asma el bakry for deletion[edit]

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Asma el bakry is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Asma el bakry until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Hack (talk) 08:57, 6 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

2016 Community Wishlist Survey Proposal to Revive Popular Pages[edit]

Greetings WikiProject Egypt/Archive 7 Members!

This is a one-time-only message to inform you about a technical proposal to revive your Popular Pages list in the 2016 Community Wishlist Survey that I think you may be interested in reviewing and perhaps even voting for:

If the above proposal gets in the Top 10 based on the votes, there is a high likelihood of this bot being restored so your project will again see monthly updates of popular pages.

Further, there are over 260 proposals in all to review and vote for, across many aspects of wikis.

Thank you for your consideration. Please note that voting for proposals continues through December 12, 2016.

Best regards, Stevietheman — Delivered: 17:59, 7 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Upcoming "420 collaboration"[edit]

You are invited to participate in the upcoming

"420 collaboration",

which is being held from Saturday, April 15 to Sunday, April 30, and especially on April 20, 2017!

The purpose of the collaboration, which is being organized by WikiProject Cannabis, is to create and improve cannabis-related content at Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects in a variety of fields, including: culture, health, hemp, history, medicine, politics, and religion.

WikiProject Egypt participants may be particularly interested in the following: Cannabis in Egypt.

For more information about this campaign, and to learn how you can help improve Wikipedia, please visit the "420 collaboration" page.

---Another Believer (Talk) 21:48, 10 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Order of the Virtues (Egypt) has been nominated for discussion[edit]

Category:Order of the Virtues (Egypt), which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has been nominated for deletion. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you.RevelationDirect (talk) 03:33, 6 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Popular pages report[edit]

We – Community Tech – are happy to announce that the Popular pages bot is back up-and-running (after a one year hiatus)! You're receiving this message because your WikiProject or task force is signed up to receive the popular pages report. Every month, Community Tech bot will post at Wikipedia:WikiProject Egypt/Archive 7/Popular pages with a list of the most-viewed pages over the previous month that are within the scope of WikiProject Egypt.

We've made some enhancements to the original report. Here's what's new:

  • The pageview data includes both desktop and mobile data.
  • The report will include a link to the pageviews tool for each article, to dig deeper into any surprises or anomalies.
  • The report will include the total pageviews for the entire project (including redirects).

We're grateful to Mr.Z-man for his original Mr.Z-bot, and we wish his bot a happy robot retirement. Just as before, we hope the popular pages reports will aid you in understanding the reach of WikiProject Egypt, and what articles may be deserving of more attention. If you have any questions or concerns please contact us at m:User talk:Community Tech bot.

Warm regards, the Community Tech Team 17:16, 17 May 2017 (UTC)

Infobox on Egyptian national anthem is broken[edit]

In the article on the national anthem of Egypt, Bilady, Bilady, Bilady, the infobox is not functioning properly for some reason. When clicking on the edit window, the infobox seems fine, but in the article itself, it is nothing but a giant red link to a nonexistent template. How do I fix this?

Thanks, DraconicDark (talk) 18:21, 16 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Never mind, someone else fixed it. DraconicDark (talk) 21:13, 22 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Disambiguation links on pages tagged by this wikiproject[edit]

Wikipedia has many thousands of wikilinks which point to disambiguation pages. It would be useful to readers if these links directed them to the specific pages of interest, rather than making them search through a list. Members of WikiProject Disambiguation have been working on this and the total number is now below 20,000 for the first time. Some of these links require specialist knowledge of the topics concerned and therefore it would be great if you could help in your area of expertise.

A list of the relevant links on pages which fall within the remit of this wikiproject can be found at http://69.142.160.183/~dispenser/cgi-bin/topic_points.py?banner=WikiProject_Egypt

Please take a few minutes to help make these more useful to our readers.— Rod talk 15:19, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject[edit]

The reason I am contacting you is because there are one or more portals that fall under this subject, and the Portals WikiProject is currently undertaking a major drive to automate portals that may affect them.

Portals are being redesigned.

The new design features are being applied to existing portals.

At present, we are gearing up for a maintenance pass of portals in which the introduction section will be upgraded to no longer need a subpage. In place of static copied and pasted excerpts will be self-updating excerpts displayed through selective transclusion, using the template {{Transclude lead excerpt}}.

The discussion about this can be found here.

Maintainers of specific portals are encouraged to sign up as project members here, noting the portals they maintain, so that those portals are skipped by the maintenance pass. Currently, we are interested in upgrading neglected and abandoned portals. There will be opportunity for maintained portals to opt-in later, or the portal maintainers can handle upgrading (the portals they maintain) personally at any time.

Background[edit]

On April 8th, 2018, an RfC ("Request for comment") proposal was made to eliminate all portals and the portal namespace. On April 17th, the Portals WikiProject was rebooted to handle the revitalization of the portal system. On May 12th, the RfC was closed with the result to keep portals, by a margin of about 2 to 1 in favor of keeping portals.

There's an article in the current edition of the Signpost interviewing project members about the RfC and the Portals WikiProject.

Since the reboot, the Portals WikiProject has been busy building tools and components to upgrade portals.

So far, 84 editors have joined.

If you would like to keep abreast of what is happening with portals, see the newsletter archive.

If you have any questions about what is happening with portals or the Portals WikiProject, please post them on the WikiProject's talk page.

Thank you.    — The Transhumanist   07:35, 30 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

AfroCine: Join us for the Months of African Cinema in October![edit]

Greetings!

You are receiving this message because your portal is related to Africa, the Carribean, Cinema or theatre.

This is to introduce you to a new Wikiproject called AfroCine. This new project is dedicated to improving the Wikipedia coverage of the history, works, people, places, events, etc, that are associated with the cinema, theatre and arts of Africa, African countries, the carribbean, and the diaspora. If you would love to be part of this or you're already contributing in this area, kindly list your name as a participant on the project page here.

Furthermore, In the months of October and November, the WikiProject is organizing a global on-wiki contest and edit-a-thon tagged: The Months of African Cinema. If you would love to join us for this exciting event, also list your username as a participant for this event here. In preparation for the contest, please do suggest relevant articles that need to be created or expanded in different countries, during this event!

If you have any questions, complaints, suggestions, etc., please reach out to me personally on my talkpage! Cheers!--Jamie Tubers (talk) 20:50, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to the Months of African Cinema![edit]

Greetings!

The AfroCine Project welcomes you to October, the first out of the two months which has been dedicated to improving contents that centre around the cinema of Africa, the Caribbean, and the diaspora.

This is a global online edit-a-thon, which is happening in at least 5 language editions of Wikipedia, including the English Wikipedia! Join us in this exciting venture, by helping to create or expand articles which are connected to this scope. Also remember to list your name under the participants section, if you haven't done so already.

On English Wikipedia, we would be recognizing Users who are able to achieve the following:

  • Overall winner (1st, 2nd, 3rd places)
  • Country Winners
  • Diversity winner
  • High quality contributors
  • Gender-gap fillers
  • Page improvers
  • Wikidata Translators

For further information about the contest, the recognition categories and how to participate, please visit the contest page here. For further inquiries, please leave comments on the contest talkpage or on the main project talkpage. See you around :).--Jamie Tubers (talk) 22:50, 03 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

RfC on election/referendum naming format[edit]

An RfC on moving the year from the end to the start of article titles (e.g. South African general election, 2019 to 2019 South African general election) has been reopened for further comment, including on whether a bot could be used move the articles if it closed in favour of the change: Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (government and legislation)#Proposed change to election/referendum naming format. Cheers, Number 57 15:36, 20 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

A new newsletter directory is out![edit]

A new Newsletter directory has been created to replace the old, out-of-date one. If your WikiProject and its taskforces have newsletters (even inactive ones), or if you know of a missing newsletter (including from sister projects like WikiSpecies), please include it in the directory! The template can be a bit tricky, so if you need help, just post the newsletter on the template's talk page and someone will add it for you.

– Sent on behalf of Headbomb. 03:11, 11 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Mohamed Mahmoud Graffiti[edit]

I want to add a section on the topic of political censorship in Egypt. Followed by a section on contemporary art and art activism and how they were able to face the challenge of censorship. I will also add informative facts from reliable sources on the current content. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Al.ostouraa (talk • contribs) 13:48, 26 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

What do these drawings depict?[edit]

‘Jebel Aboofayda (sic) on the Nile’ and ‘Howadga (sic) on the Nile’. Inscribed and dated, ‘11th December, 1879’
‘Negadsh’ (sic) and ‘Karnak Hills’. Inscribed and dated ‘14th Dec 1879’ and ‘15th Dec 1879’

Can anyone identify the subjects of these two artworks, by an anonymous artist, which are described as shown, please? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:56, 7 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Kemetic Orthodoxy article considered for deletion[edit]

The article Kemetic Orthodoxy is currently being considered for deletion. If you want to voice your perspective on why this should or should not be deleted, please share that here. --- FULBERT (talk) 17:52, 19 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Portal:Egypt[edit]

Proposal to delete all portals

The discussion is at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Proposal to delete Portal space. Voceditenore (talk) 07:35, 23 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

AfroCine: Join the Months of African Cinema this October![edit]

Greetings!

After a successful first iteration of the “Months of African Cinema” last year, we are happy to announce that it will be happening again this year, starting from October 1! In the 2018 edition of the contest, about 600 Wikipedia articles were created in at least 8 languages. There were also contributions to Wikidata and Wikimedia commons, which brought the total number of wikimedia pages created during the contest to over 1,000.

The AfroCine Project welcomes you to October, the first out of the two months which have been dedicated to creating and improving content that centre around the cinema of Africa, the Caribbean, and the diaspora. Join us in this global edit-a-thon, by helping to create or expand articles which are connected to this scope. Also remember to list your name under the participants section.

On English Wikipedia, we would be recognizing participants in the following manner:

  • Overall winner (1st, 2nd, 3rd places)
  • Diversity winner
  • Gender-gap fillers

For further information about the contest, the recognition categories and how to participate, please visit the contest page here. For further inquiries, please leave comments on the contest talkpage or on the main project talkpage. See you around :).--Jamie Tubers (talk) 00:50, 30 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Dana Gas draft for review[edit]

Hello, I'm Fatima! I am the External Affairs Manager & Investor Relations Officer for Dana Gas, a Sharjah-based natural gas company with operations in Egypt. As I've noted at Talk:Dana Gas and on my profile page, I've made a Wikipedia account to represent the company and propose improvements on the company article's discussion page.

I've saved a draft article here for editors to consider. I've outlined issues with the live article and explained my work at Talk:Dana Gas, but so far no editors have updated the page. Thanks in advance to any WikiProject Egypt editors willing to help review my request and draft. Fatima at Dana Gas (talk) 04:39, 15 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Request for information on WP1.0 web tool[edit]

Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.

We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma (talk) 04:24, 27 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

URL in reference is wrong though probably relevant[edit]

[This is a copy of my note at Talk:Qasr El Nil Bridge § Wrong URL in reference.]

The reference in Qasr El Nil Bridge § 2011 Egyptian Revolution has the URL of a different article on the same subject. The ref is

BBC News: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12312330 "Egypt protests: curfew defied in Cairo and other cities" 29 January 2011. accessed 2011.01.29.

But the article at that URL is titled "Egyptians losing fear of confrontation with regime" and is dated 28 January 2011, one day before the date given.

--Thnidu (talk) 03:54, 29 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Requested article: 1812 Ottoman Empire plague epidemic[edit]

In 1812 there seems to have been a significant plague outbreak in the Ottoman Empire, which seems to have begun in Constantinople and traveled to other parts of the empire including Egypt, and later also spread outside of the empire's borders.

It seems to have had a massive impact, but it is barely covered on Wikipedia. There's an article about Caragea's plague which hit Wallachia (then an Ottoman vassal) in 1813–14, and I am currently in the process of writing an article on the 1813–14 Malta plague epidemic. Both seem to have derived from the 1812 Constantinople outbreak (it arrived in Malta via Egypt).

I think it would be useful if there would be an article covering the entire outbreak - would any members of this WikiProject be willing to help out? A source about the outbreak in Odessa can be found here.

Probably, the plague in Egypt itself deserves a separate article from a more general article about the outbreak in the Ottoman Empire.

I am also making this request on other WikiProjects including WP History, WP Turkey and WP Medicine.

Xwejnusgozo (talk) 15:24, 14 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I created a stub at 1812–19 Ottoman plague epidemic. Any further expansion is very welcome! Xwejnusgozo (talk) 18:57, 15 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Can someone find sourcing for Sahib ul-Makam al-Rafi?[edit]

(moved here after overshooting by 5000 years...)

The article is currently up for deletion, which I think is justified in absence of sources; but those might just be hard to find for non-Arabic speakers. Would someone from the project care to give it a go? --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 21:30, 5 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The Months of African Cinema Contest Continues in November![edit]

Greetings,

Thank you very much for participating in the Months of African Cinema global contest/edit-a-thon, and thank you for your contributions so far.

It is already the middle of the contest and a lot have been achieved already! We have been able to get over 1,500 articles created in over fifteen (15) languages! This would not have been possible without your support and we want to thank you. If you have not yet listed your name as a participant in the contest page please do so.

Please make sure to list the articles you have created or improved in the article achievements' section of the contest page, so that they can be easily tracked. To be able to claim prizes, please also ensure to list your articles on the users by articles page. We would be awarding prizes to different categories of winners:

  • Overall winner
    • 1st - $500
    • 2nd - $200
    • 3rd - $100
  • Diversity winner - $100
  • Gender-gap filler - $100
  • Language Winners - up to $100*

We are very excited about what has been achieved so far, but your contributions are still needed to further exceed all expectations! Let’s create more articles before the end of this contest, which is this November!!!

Thank you once again for being part of this global event! --Jamie Tubers (talk) 10:30, 06 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

You can opt-out of this annual reminder from The Afrocine Project by removing your username from this list

Arab Republic of Egypt (1953–1958)[edit]

Hello. As you can see, the article in question needs a lot of work (including adding of now non-existent references). —Sundostund (talk) 11:07, 5 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Women in Africa contest[edit]

March is the third and final month of Women in Red's focus on biographies of African women in our Women in Africa contest. Up to now, around a hundred articles have been contributed but with your collaboration, we hope to have many more.--Ipigott (talk) 11:59, 3 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Requesting help in merging two articles in the ARZ Wikipedia[edit]

I am wondering if someone might be able to help merge two articles in the Egyptian Arabic language Wikipedia. They both deal with the exact same lake in Ontario, Canada, and I suspect were bot generated from a geographic names database: one article is based on the French name and one on the English name. I am trying to consolidate the two Wikidata entries into one, but cannot as long as there are two articles, and I do not speak any form of Arabic. The article I'd like to keep is w:arz:بحيره_كاسجراين and the article to be merged is w:arz:بحيره لاك كاسجراين. I think just redirecting the latter to the former is sufficient as the general information in the two articles — based on a crude translation using Google Translate — appears to be the same. Many thanks. PS If the article pair was generated by a bot, there are probably other duplicated articles. --papageno (talk) 22:59, 2 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

 Done Matter was resolved independently of this forum by User HitomiAkane (User talk). --papageno (talk) 03:04, 21 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Political parties[edit]

Many of the various articles about political parties in Egypt are out of date and/or feature contradictory information. This ought to be addressed. Charles Essie (talk) 20:15, 22 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

New Page Patrol[edit]

New Page Patrol needs experienced volunteers
  • New Page Patrol is currently struggling to keep up with the influx of new articles, including Egypt related articles. We could use a few extra hands on deck if you think you can help.
  • Reviewing/patrolling a page doesn't take much time but it requires a good understanding of Wikipedia policies and guidelines; Wikipedia needs experienced users to perform this task and there are precious few with the appropriate skills. Even a couple reviews a day can make a huge difference.
  • If you would like to join the project and help out, please see the granting conditions and review our instructions page. You can apply for the user-right HERE. --John B123 (talk) 12:13, 23 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move at Talk:Shaykh al-Mahmudi#Requested move 26 June 2021[edit]

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Shaykh al-Mahmudi#Requested move 26 June 2021 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Melmann 19:57, 5 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Rape in Egypt[edit]

A new enthusiastic editor who doesn't yet understand how we work has heavily edited this. I made a couple of changes but it's a mess. Doug Weller talk 13:43, 6 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Egypt–Yugoslavia relations[edit]

Hello everyone! I just wanted to see if there is anyone interested in XX century history who can consult some Arabic language sources (if the topic attracted any attention) on Egypt–Yugoslavia relations? I created the article but right now it is quite...how to say..."Yugo-centric" in references, and unfortunately I don't know Arabic.--MirkoS18 (talk) 13:10, 12 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki Indaba 2021 is here![edit]

Hosted by the Wikimedia Community User Group Uganda, the first ever virtual Wiki Indaba conference is taking place online from the 5th to the 7th of November 2021 under the theme Rethink + Reset : Visions of the future.

Wiki Indaba 2021 is a unique opportunity to come together to build the capacity of African Wikimedians both within the continent and the diaspora to foster the growth of the coverage and our involvement in Wikimedia projects.

The call for submissions is open, please submit your session proposal either as a presentation, panel discussion, lightning talk, or workshop before September 24th 2021.

Most importantly, we would like to have you at the conference, please register here to get your free ticket and spread the word to your community members.

Looking forward to seeing you and hearing you speak at the conference.

Geoffrey Kateregga (talk) 23:45, 16 September 2021 (UTC) - On behalf of the Wiki Indaba 2021 Local Organizing Committee[reply]

The Months of African Cinema Contest Continues in November![edit]

Greetings,

It is already past the middle of the contest and we are really excited about the Months of African Contest 2021 achievements so far! We want to extend our sincere gratitude for the time and energy you have invested. If you have not yet participated in the contest, it is not too late to do it. Please list your username as a participant on the contest’s main page.

Please remember to list the articles you have improved or created on the article achievements' section of the contest page so they can be tracked. In order to win prizes, be sure to also list your article in the users by articles. Please note that your articles must be present in both the article achievement section on the main contest page, as well as on the Users By Articles page for you to qualify for a prize.

We would be awarding prizes to different categories of winners:

  • Overall winner
    • 1st - $500
    • 2nd - $200
    • 3rd - $100
  • Diversity winner - $100
  • Gender-gap filler - $100
  • Language Winners - up to $100*

Thank you once again for your valued participation! --Jamie Tubers (talk) 18:50, 11 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

You can opt-out of this annual reminder from The Afrocine Project by removing your username from this list

User script to detect unreliable sources[edit]

Main page: User:Headbomb/unreliable

I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like

  • John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14. (John Smith "[https://www.deprecated.com/article Article of things]" ''Deprecated.com''. Accessed 2020-02-14.)

and turns it into something like

It will work on a variety of links, including those from {{cite web}}, {{cite journal}} and {{doi}}.

The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.

Do note that this is not a script to be mindlessly used, and several caveats apply. Details and instructions are available at User:Headbomb/unreliable. Questions, comments and requests can be made at User talk:Headbomb/unreliable.

- Headbomb {t · c · p · b}

This is a one time notice and can't be unsubscribed from. Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:01, 29 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Need a review of this edit[edit]

[1] Thanks. Doug Weller talk 17:53, 27 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

1st 30th q[edit]

💕 24.114.90.57 (talk) 16:47, 9 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

2011 Egyptian protest movement[edit]

There's an uncontentious proposal to merge 2011 Egyptian protest movement into Timeline of the Egyptian Crisis under the SCAF given the overlap of scope (and content). If anyone can help do this that would be great. Klbrain (talk) 01:53, 31 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Are these edits ok?[edit]

[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nubians&diff=1128854784&oldid=1127945244] Doug Weller talk 11:08, 22 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Project-independent quality assessments[edit]

Quality assessments by Wikipedia editors rate articles in terms of completeness, organization, prose quality, sourcing, etc. Most wikiprojects follow the general guidelines at Wikipedia:Content assessment, but some have specialized assessment guidelines. A recent Village pump proposal was approved and has been implemented to add a |class= parameter to {{WikiProject banner shell}}, which can display a general quality assessment for an article, and to let project banner templates "inherit" this assessment.

No action is required if your wikiproject follows the standard assessment approach. Over time, quality assessments will be migrated up to {{WikiProject banner shell}}, and your project banner will automatically "inherit" any changes to the general assessments for the purpose of assigning categories.

However, if your project has decided to "opt out" and follow a non-standard quality assessment approach, all you have to do is modify your wikiproject banner template to pass {{WPBannerMeta}} a new |QUALITY_CRITERIA=custom parameter. If this is done, changes to the general quality assessment will be ignored, and your project-level assessment will be displayed and used to create categories, as at present. Aymatth2 (talk) 19:42, 10 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

African Queens (docu-series)[edit]

Jada Pinkett Smith produced series, with many Egyptians taking issue to the portrayal of Cleopatra in it. Would like more eyes and help expanding it while covering the controversy section in a fair and neutral manner. Harizotoh9 (talk) 05:20, 21 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move at Talk:Egyptian Super Cup#Requested move 6 April 2023[edit]

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Egyptian Super Cup#Requested move 6 April 2023 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. – MaterialWorks 12:19, 21 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move of Ptolemaic Kingdom[edit]

Please see Talk:Ptolemaic Kingdom#Requested move 30 May 2023, re: a top priority page. Iskandar323 (talk) 09:11, 1 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]


Good article reassessment for Arab–Byzantine wars[edit]

Arab–Byzantine wars has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Onegreatjoke (talk) 16:22, 19 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Women in Green's 5th Edit-a-thon[edit]

Hello WikiProject Egypt:

WikiProject Women in Green is holding a month-long Good Article Edit-a-thon event in October 2023!

Running from October 1 to 31, 2023, WikiProject Women in Green (WiG) is hosting a Good Article (GA) edit-a-thon event with the theme Around the World in 31 Days! All experience levels welcome. Never worked on a GA project before? We'll teach you how to get started. Or maybe you're an old hand at GAs – we'd love to have you involved! Participants are invited to work on nominating and/or reviewing GA submissions related to women and women's works (e.g., books, films) during the event period. We hope to collectively cover article subjects from at least 31 countries (or broader international articles) by month's end. GA resources and one-on-one support will be provided by experienced GA editors, and participants will have the opportunity to earn a special WiG barnstar for their efforts.

We hope to see you there!

Grnrchst (talk) 12:58, 21 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move at Talk:Egypt Eyalet#Requested move 29 September 2023[edit]

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Egypt Eyalet#Requested move 29 September 2023 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. ModernDayTrilobite (talk • contribs) 14:59, 9 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Byzantine Empire Featured article review[edit]

I have nominated Byzantine Empire for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:05, 30 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hospitals[edit]

What are the top best cardiologist and hospitals in this part of your world? 173.80.132.128 (talk) 07:35, 16 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Egypt or Mamluk[edit]

When discussing historical events, do we refer to events that took place during the Mamluk Sultanate as Mamluk or Egyptian? I am specifically looking at the page Siege of Rumkale - was this an Egyptian victory or a Mamluk victory? Annwfwn (talk) 21:05, 25 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move at Talk:Philadelphi Route#Requested move 14 January 2024[edit]

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Philadelphi Route#Requested move 14 January 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 16:22, 14 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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