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We should have an article on every pyramid and every nome in Ancient Egypt. I'm sure the rest of us can think of other articles we should have.
Cleanup.
To start with, most of the general history articles badly need attention. And I'm told that at least some of the dynasty articles need work. Any other candidates?
Standardize the Chronology.
A boring task, but the benefit of doing it is that you can set the dates !(e.g., why say Khufu lived 2589-2566? As long as you keep the length of his reign correct, or cite a respected source, you can date it 2590-2567 or 2585-2563)
Stub sorting
Anyone? I consider this probably the most unimportant of tasks on Wikipedia, but if you believe it needs to be done . . .
Data sorting.
This is a project I'd like to take on some day, & could be applied to more of Wikipedia than just Ancient Egypt. Take one of the standard authorities of history or culture -- Herotodus, the Elder Pliny, the writings of Breasted or Kenneth Kitchen, & see if you can't smoothly merge quotations or information into relevant articles. Probably a good exercise for someone who owns one of those impressive texts, yet can't get access to a research library.
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Under the section 'Apparent Third Star', a reference is made to "0.09 arcseconds". If someone just hovers over 'mas' and reads what the popup says, they might think mas means 'minute of arc'. In other words, it would be nice if when you hover cursor over mas, the first word you see is 'milliarcseconds'.
162.207.203.26 (talk) 04:47, 11 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
But it is already set up in this way? Ruslik_Zero 21:07, 11 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Not sure set up is the right way to describe it. The {{val}} template wikilinks the unit mas to milliarcsecond, which is a redirect to Minute and second of arc#Symbols and abbreviations. The tooltip for non-logged-in users shows the main image for the linked article and a short piece of the lead. It doesn't respect sections, so in this case it doesn't really say anything about milliarcseconds specifically. I don't see any simple workaround, short of the wiki tooltips getting smarter. {{val}} can be configured to link to something else, but I don't see anything obvious that would help. An article for this relatively obscure unit, just to solve this issue, seems out of step with the relevant policies. Lithopsian (talk) 19:07, 12 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Fate of Sirius B
It has been suggested that the furture fate of Sirius B is to become a type Ia supernova, and although uncited that this is obvious. This is not obvious. Only a small proportion of white dwarfs will ever become a supernova. We still don't fully understand (or understand at all) exactly what type of situation produces a type Ia supernova but it is relatively (relatively, as in extremely) rare compared to the number of white dwarf binaries. Regardless, it would certainly not be obvious to the average non-astronomer that this would be the case, so a reliable source is required before including it in the article. Lithopsian (talk) 16:56, 3 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
How can Sirius A become a white dwarf?
Sirius A has 2 Solar masses. Don't stars from 1.4 Solar masses on go supernova, becoming neutron stars or black holes? Why shall Sirius A share a similar fate like the Sun? 212.186.15.63 (talk) 06:37, 8 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Only stars more massive than 8-10 solar masses go supernova. Ruslik_Zero 12:40, 8 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
They usually say 1.4 solar masses, don't they? Since the Sun is said to lose almost half its mass during its red giant phase, maybe the same happens to Sirius A. Then it matches: it would become a white dwarf. 212.186.15.63 (talk) 16:45, 8 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
You're getting confused with the Chandrasekhar limit, which relates to the mass of the star after it becomes a white dwarf Cas Liber (talk· contribs) 18:26, 8 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you. So since Sirius A loses enough mass when becoming a red giant, and again by a planetary nebula, its remaining mass will be low enough that it will be a white dwarf? 212.186.15.63 (talk) 18:56, 8 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
^R Hanbury Brown and R Q Twiss. Nature. Volume 178. November 1956. pp1046-1048.
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There is a dramatic layout mess and MOS:SANDWICHing throughout ... could someone address this ? SandyGeorgia (Talk) 19:41, 30 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Citations that do not give specific page numbers (mostly journal articles)
Some paragraphs that are very long (paragraph 4 in "Observational history") and some that are only one sentence (and very short)
Would anyone be interested in working on this article to get it ready for TFA? I'm pinging Casliber although any help would be appreciated. Z1720 (talk) 01:16, 7 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
