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Feather of Maat

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This article is currently sourced to two youtube videos. The information seems accurate, but upon searching myself, I can find many reliable sources (i.e. reputable organizations) describing Maat and mentioning the feather as an aside, but nothing going into detail about the feather. I'm not sure if this needs its own article -- it seems as if it just describes what "Ma'at" and the ritual are again, even though those are already covered in other articles. Unless there are sources going into more detail on the feather, I'm not sure if it needs a whole article rather than just a mention that Maat's symbol was the feather. Mrfoogles (talk) 15:51, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Mythology and Egypt. Mrfoogles (talk) 15:51, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong about that, though. Mrfoogles (talk) 15:52, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: as per nom. Also, take a look at the creator's talk page - User_talk:علي_بدر_العتيبي#Clarification_of_Contributions_and_Assumption_of_Good_Faith. It looks like they are making random articles and mixing them with articles that might be paid for. Charlie (talk) 16:46, 28 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
To be fair, I can't think of a lot of people who would be willing to pay for an article on a symbol from ancient Egyptian religion. Mrfoogles (talk) 01:35, 30 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Cytherean

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Per WP:NOTDICT, likely fails WP:GNG as well. A significant portion of the article's content is unsourced and likely WP:OR and is of minimal encyclopedic value; the remaining content could easily be merged into the primary Venus article as a brief section about nomenclature. Ark Hyena (they/any) 06:06, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

delete, it's quite a pretty article, but ArkHyena is right; all but one of the sources is a dictionary (not a great sign). The bits that are less dictionary-like are, unfortunately, written in the tone of a lecturer giving a light afternoon public talk, and unsourced (e.g. "...was felt to be unfortunately similar to "aphrodisiac", again evoking sex rather than astronomy"... was felt by whom? where did this come from?). Elemimele (talk) 08:47, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Astronomy-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 11:04, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: perhaps a redirect/partial merge to Kythira#Mythology would serve? Praemonitus (talk) 20:04, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Mythology and Greece. –LaundryPizza03 (d c̄) 04:08, 26 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to Kythira#Mythology Agree with application of WP:NOTDICT. As for whether to redirect to Kythira#Mythology, we lack a high-quality reliable source to supplement that section with discussion of the adjectival shift among astronomers. We could instead have the wikilinks to this article on Venus and List of adjectivals and demonyms of astronomical bodies go the wikitionary entry for "Cytherean" for the reader curious about the relation but lacking an OED subscription. ViridianPenguin🐧 (💬) 14:27, 29 April 2025 (UTC) Andrew's reference to pages 316-317 of Sagan and Shklovsky's 1966 book are enough to include it in that mythology section, which I'll do now. ViridianPenguin🐧 (💬) 13:51, 30 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Merge the verifiable parts; anything that can be verified and seems germane to the use of the term relative to Venus (the planet or the goddess) should be kept, unless it duplicates something already there. I expect that some reliable source will at least have mentioned why some people prefer or once preferred this to Venerean, even if it's not encyclopedically explained here. P Aculeius (talk) 15:14, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This article dates from almost twenty years back and our norms on citing (or on tone...) weren't quite as they are now, unfortunately! Interesting trip down memory lane to salvage this one.

I think it originally came from Sagan & Shklovsky's "Intelligent Life in the Universe" (1966) - I dug that out tonight and confirmed it has a section by Sagan discussing this. He seems to have had fun, describing 'venerean' as "preempted by other areas of human activity", 'venusian' as "a barbarism", 'aphrodisian or aphrodisial' as having "other connotations, which some astronomers, in the interests of clarity and decorousness, prefer to avoid". So "people didn't want to use the terms that were associated with sex" comes straight from Sagan, who I think we can take as a fairly solid source, rather than being original research.

I'm happy for it to be merged elsewhere - no strong preferences on where that might be - but I've given it a going over tonight to remove some of the cruft and cite it a bit more clearly by modern standards, and hopefully that will be useful wherever it ends up. The dictionary refs were added at a later date I think just to source the pronunciations; not sure they're needed but have left them in. Andrew Gray (talk) 20:53, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Domdaniel

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No significant coverage for this fictional place. SL93 (talk) 23:20, 30 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete per nom. Doesn't have enough coverage to pass WP:GNG. WP:BEFORE is hard here, because domdaniel is also a word meaning "a den of inquiry",[1]. There's also a WP:NOTDIC issue here where the article just extracts WP:OR of various times the word has been used. It seems to have been coined in One Thousand and One Nights, so there could be a valid WP:ATD as a search term. Shooterwalker (talk) 13:22, 1 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Merge to List of mythological places as an WP:Alternative to deletion. This is a relevant place in two works of fiction, which reappears in a number of younger works of fiction as can be seen in the number of primary and secondary sources both present in the article and especially those appearing in the WP:BEFORE search. This role and connectivity in my view goes beyond a dictionary definition, so this should have some place on Wikipedia. Presence in Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable indicates that as well. There's a rather extensive discussion in this paper on the Thalaba version. Oriental influences in the English Literature of the early nineteenth century, p. 25, discusses the Arabian Nights - Thalaba connection. Britain and the Muslim World, p. 132 has an interesting one-sentence-comparison to Hogwarts. The secondary sources I've seen in a brief search are short on the Domdaniel beyond the specific work of Thalaba, so I don't think a stand-alone article is warranted so far, but deletion would be a loss. Daranios (talk) 07:40, 2 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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