Talk:Thamphthis

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German Wikipedia

There's a quite thorough article dealing with this "shadowy figure" in the German Wikipedia: de:Thamphthis. Maybe something from there could be used to expand the article here. Gestumblindi (talk) 22:06, 3 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Chaos

Howdy! Naw, there was a pretty good reason to revert. In NO literaric publication an Shepseskare = Thamphthis-theory is mentioned, for we can´t just go there and implicate one. Shepseskare´s chronological position is very unsure, just likely to Thamphthis. But as I said sooner, there´s NO equalizing of the both rulers!

The best way to resolve this, would be to write an articel extra for Shepseskare. I hope I´m not misunderstood, I don´t wanna dictate anything here, but it´s absolute no-no to put Shepseskare into an Thamphthis-article like this! Greetz; --Nephiliskos (talk) 11:54, 22 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure about that, but we'd need a source calling him a phantom pharaoh to call him that. Dougweller (talk) 21:54, 22 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Here: [de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schepseskare |german article] ´bout Shepseskare. ;-) --Nephiliskos (talk) 02:12, 23 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Shepseskare Isi is our article. Dougweller (talk) 05:54, 23 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Nephiliskos and Doug Weller,

If you wish to re-edit and shorten my admittedly long (but fully sourced) contribution on Thampthis and reduce the references to Shepseskare (who was not related to Thampthis), please feel free to do so. I have no strong feelings here. I just mentioned the evidence of Khau-Ptah's stela to show that an Old Kingdom king's omission from an official's records doesn't prove he didn't exist. That was the idea behind my edit. But for Thampthis, there is no seals for him which makes me doubt he ever existed. Why? Because it is quite easy to destroy most or all traces of an usurper's pyramid, statues or temples but almost impossible to destroy each and every seal or sealing that features the name of a king who is now proscribed...since these are very small items to locate. With best Regards, --Leoboudv (talk) 06:29, 23 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm out all day on a fish cooking course, will look at this tomorrow night. Thanks again for your hard work here. Dougweller (talk) 08:21, 23 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Just as I said sooner. I never ever wanna diss or rule anyone here. But: I got loads of german literature online and at home (for I´m german ye know), so I can counterproof german literature of egyptologists. Especially to counterproof most books is something I learned first, for many websites are talking shit. So I´d like to offer you the service of translating german literature of egyptology into english language. Best regards;--Nephiliskos (talk) 08:25, 23 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Our Egyptian chronology site might benefit from some translation from the German site (only where it is reliably sourced though, please). Dougweller (talk) 11:37, 26 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

History merge

In case anyone's confused about the history of this article, I've just imported 219 revisions from the German Wikipedia's article of the same name to provide an attribution path for the translation recently done from that article. Due to the way the history merge works, the German revisions are now interspersed with the English revisions, which can cause a bit of a mess (apologies). If you have any questions about this, please contact myself or User talk:Nephiliskos. Thanks. Hersfold ^(t/a/c) 03:27, 2 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]