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Shlama/Shlomo/ܫܠܡܐ, and welcome to WikiProject Assyria, a WikiProject designed to expand, cleanup and wikify, better organize, and neutralize the point of view on articles related to Assyria and the Assyrian people. This page and its subpages contain the suggestions of Wikipedians who are interested in or have made substantial contributions to articles related to Assyrians; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page. For further information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProjects and Wikipedia:WikiProject best practices. Anyone is free to edit any of the pages listed here, including this page as well. For example, if you see a new Assyrian-related article, then add it to the "New Articles Notifications" on this page.
Scope
WikiProject Assyria was introduced on October 29, 2006 in order to collaborate with others in a more organized and effective way on articles pertaining to topics related to the Assyrian ethnic group, composed of people who identify as Assyrian, Chaldean, Syriac, and Aramean.
Please feel free to add your name here. Note that you will be placed into the list of inactive members if you haven't made any edits in at least a year.
New article notifications
In this section, new articles related to Assyrians will be listed. The reason they are listed here is that so others can check them and try to expand or clean the article. A robot automatically lists the new Assyrian-related pages:
This list was generated from these rules. Questions and feedback are always welcome! The search is being run daily with the most recent ~14 days of results. Note: Some articles may not be relevant to this project.
The whole goal of this project is to try to get as many articles to the status of Good articles or A-Class status, and then eventually become a featured article.
There are currently 9 "B-Status" Assyrian articles. If you would like to adopt one of the following pages and work it to "Good article" or "A-Class article" status, then please notify us here. Here is the list:
If you would like to adopt one of these pages, then please sign your name next to the article.
Articles to be created
All people, places and historical/cultural names found on this list relate to Assyrian people, but currently do not have a Wikipedia article. You can help by making one.
Aramaic is a Semitic language with a 3,000-year history. It has been the language of administration of empires and the language of divine worship. It is the original language of a large section of the biblical books of Daniel and Ezra. It was probably the language of Jesus, it is the main language of the Talmud, and it is still spoken today as a first language by numerous small communities. Aramaic belongs to the Afro-Asiaticlanguage family. Within this diverse family, Aramaic belongs to the Semitic subfamily. Aramaic is a part of the Northwest Semitic group of languages, which also includes the Canaanite languages (including Hebrew).
Sargon of Akkad, also known as Sargon the Great (AkkadianŠarru-kinu, cuneiform ŠAR.RU.KI.IN, meaning "the true king" or "the king is legitimate"), was an Akkadian king famous for his conquest of the Sumerian city-states in the 24th and 23rd centuries BC. The founder of the Dynasty of Akkad, Sargon reigned for 56 years, c. 2333 – 2279 BC (short chronology). He became a prominent member of the royal court of Kish, ultimately overthrowing its king before embarking on the conquest of Mesopotamia. Sargon's vast empire is known to have extended from Elam to the Mediterranean sea, including Mesopotamia, parts of modern-day Iran and Syria, and possibly parts of Anatolia and the Arabian peninsula. He ruled from a new capital, Akkad (Agade), which the Sumerian king list claims he built, on the left bank of the Euphrates. Sargon is regarded as one of the first individuals in recorded history to create a multiethnic, centrally ruled empire, and his dynasty controlled Mesopotamia for around a century.
The following is a list of pages that have been featured in Wikipedia's front page under the "Did you know" section. To nominate other Assyrian related pages for a "Did you know" feature, please see Template talk:Did you know.
...that Munir Bashir, known for his mastery of the maqam scale system, was a famous musician in the Middle East during the 20th century? — DYK on January 26, 2007
...that labor leader Victor Kamber created playing cards with public figures in 1968 and the "Rappin' Ronnie" music video depicting a rapping Ronald Reagan in 1984? — DYK on January 27, 2007
...that in the Islamic tradition, Bahira (pictured) was an Assyrian Christian monk who foretold to the adolescent Muhammad his future prophetic career? - DYK on July 11, 2007
Disputes surrounding the topic of proper names of Assyrians/Chaldeans/Syriacs erupt regularly. All such issues should be discussed centrally, at Wikipedia:Assyrian-Syriac Wikipedia cooperation board. Project participants interested in contributing to the resolution of these dispute should put the cooperation board page on their watchlists.
Barnstars
There are several barnstars that can be awarded in association with the scope of this project. Among them are:
Barnstar
usage
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{{subst:Barnstar of Assyria|your text.}}
Awarded to those working tirelessly on articles covered by the scope of this project.
{{subst:Barnstar of Mor Ephrem|your text.}}
Awarded to users who contributed to Syriac linguistic and religious articles.
{{subst:Barnstar of Shamash|your text.}}
Awarded to those who contributed to ancient Assyrian topics
Just copy and replace your text with your reason to award the user.
Invite new members
The following template can be copied to the talk page of other users to invite them to the Assyria WikiProject: {{subst:WPAP-Invitation}}