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Ancient Greece	90
Ancient Rome	43
→Roman Kingdom	22
→Roman Republic	62
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By importance
Top importance	178
High importance	441
Mid importance	3,369
Low importance	18,924
NA importance	5,483
Uncategorised importance	1,281

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FA-Class	88
A-Class	14
GA-Class	344
B-Class	1,126
C-Class	2,671
Start-Class	9,087
Stubs	8,591
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Classics categories	4,225
Classics disambig's	246
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Requests from other members[edit]

The following pages require attention from a project member:

Old Latium needs significant help with MOS (language) and secondary sourcing. Informata ob Iniquitatum (talk) 07:43, 15 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Anthology of Planudes needs expansion
Oikos needs references: my work on this has stalled somewhat. Could still do with more referencing on the subsections on women and children. Caeciliusinhorto (talk) 10:58, 4 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Classical Philology needs expansion
Plutarch needs expansion: incorporate his Parallel Lives article and Moralia article in a more sensible way. Wrap the wiki mind around Plutarch.
Category:Ancient Roman architecture is overlarge and needs emptied into existing and new subcategories
Centrale Montemartini needs rewritten with up to date news, now that the rebuild of the Capitoline Museums main building is complete. Particularly for Wikipedians in Italy.
Amores needs a lot of attention - (I have adopted Ovid's Amores Ninquelosse (talk) 11:12, 18 October 2014 (UTC))[reply]
Education in Ancient Rome may need additional references
The Roman Kingdom and its seven king articles are unreferenced and require clean-up
Zeus, Poseidon, Minerva, Mercury need to be expanded and improved
Fasti, Section Etymology, is unreferenced and so needs editing (starting from a decent source); see this Talk entry for Lewis & Short citn., which includes detail relevant to etymology and rest of article: [1]
Ancient Greek comedy needs full referencing and some tidying-up
Ancient Greek law needs lots of attention. Particularly, any information about the law outside of Athens would be greatly appreciated.
Eclogues of Calpurnius; Eclogues of Nemesianus, Einsiedeln Eclogues. I just wrote them from scratch - any improvements would be very welcome.CHRM2 (talk) 21:09, 25 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Flamen needs a good deal of attention - grammar, better sourcing, removal of informal language and a couple of other things. HalfdanRagnarsson (talk) 16:24, 10 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
The articles on Ancient Athens need attention. Classical Athens is not detailed enough, and a lot of its content is duplicated in Fifth-century Athens, and also History of Athens. There are big gaps on Athens during the Mycenaean, Archaic, Hellenistic, and Roman eras. Please discuss how to organise these articles on the Wikiproject's talk page if you want to (re)write them. T8612 (talk) 21:35, 16 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Cyclops (play) needs some significant attention. Please have a look at Talk:Cyclops (play) for an explanation. I'm focused on another article right now, so any help or expertise you have would be appreciated. Imaginestigers (talk) 15:17, 16 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Ancient pagan writers on Christianity: I have recently looked over the articles Tacitus on Jesus and Pliny the Younger on Christians, and I would like to have an outside view on them. The same holds for Josephus on Jesus and Suetonius on Christians, it's just that I haven't looked at them in detail yet. I am concerned that some of the things they say might be (more or less subtle) POV pushing, either pro-Christian or anti-Christian or more likely a wild mixture of these. I presume you who are reading this are more interested in Classical Greece and Rome than in Christian history, and I think this is exactly what these articles need now. Possible tasks include:
- Identify potential POV and fringe opinions, if present;
- Provide your judgment on what the scholarly consensus is (for example regarding authenticity of these passages);
- Add information on other aspects, such as the role of these passages in the work of the respective writers, their religious background (what do they mean by superstitio?),... --Corneille pensive (talk) 15:07, 15 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
New requested article on A. B. Bosworth, an Australian classicist (d. 2014), who is still one of the most important authors on Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic World. —Brigade Piron (talk) 12:07, 7 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

General backlogs[edit]

The following task queues are backlogged and require the attention of experienced, knowledgeable Wikipedians. Tasks in the queue do not need to be cleared by a project member or somebody with knowledge in Classics, though help is readily available to Wikipedians with expertise that does not extend to Ancient Greece and Rome who require it.

Backlog!Need assessed by quality: 636 articles in total

Backlog!Need assessed by importance: 1,281 articles in total

Backlog!WikiWork Ω rating held under 5.0: Currently rated 5.10

Backlog!Queue of possible new Classics articles: 1 or more articles pending

Classical Greece and Rome articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	7	8	32	41			88
FL	1		1	2			4
A		2	6	6			14
GA	19	35	114	173		3	344
B	59	91	412	469		95	1,126
C	72	169	714	1,572		144	2,671
Start	15	102	1,551	7,181	1	238	9,088
Stub		1	363	8,031	1	195	8,591
List	2	23	96	863	25	25	1,034
Category		1	1	10	4,213		4,225
Disambig			9	43	194		246
File				1	54		55
Portal					4		4
Project					8		8
Template			1	2	327		330
NA		7	65	475	646		1,193
Other				1	6		7
Assessed	175	439	3,365	18,870	5,479	700	29,028
Unassessed	1		3	51	1	580	636
Total	176	439	3,368	18,921	5,480	1,280	29,664
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 111,745			Ω = 5.10

News and alerts[edit]

Today's featured articles

29 May 2024 – Beulé Gate (talk · edit · hist) will be Today's Featured Article; see blurb

Did you know

20 May 2024 – Praetorium of Constantinople (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Alessandro57 (t · c); see discussion
20 May 2024 – Homeric Hymns (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by UndercoverClassicist (t · c); see discussion
14 May 2024 – Polis (board game) (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Piotrus (t · c); see discussion
05 May 2024 – El-Jai cave (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Mariamnei (t · c); see discussion
05 May 2024 – Bar Kokhba refuge caves (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Mariamnei (t · c); see discussion
03 May 2024 – Lycus (river of Constantinople) (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Alessandro57 (t · c); see discussion
17 Apr 2024 – Roman roads in Judaea (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Owenglyndur (t · c); see discussion

Articles for deletion

23 May 2024 – Hellenized Middle East (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Furius (t · c); see discussion (5 participants)
12 May 2024 – Indo-Greek wars (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Cplakidas (t · c) was closed as delete by Mojo Hand (t · c) on 19 May 2024; see discussion (9 participants)

Redirects for discussion

30 Mar 2024 – Colonia Ulpia Traiana (talk · edit · hist) →Xanten was RfDed by Significa liberdade (t · c); see discussion